[Level 5] 214:  🈶  曹沖稱象 – Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant – 6/6

• Overview
• ↩ [Lvl 5] 214:  🈶  曹沖稱象 – Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant – 5/6
• ↪ [Lvl 5] 202:  🤖 🈶  豬仔藏寶圖 – The Treasure Map – 1/9
• 🈶 alternate version in Standard Written Chinese

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Cao Chong continue to say after then pull back (measure) elephant out again bit by bit bit by bit put log go on until (measure) ship go back before (linker) water level then stop

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Cao Chong continued: "Then, pull the elephant back out and then load logs on the boat little by little, until the boat sinks back down to that water level.

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finally take back those log out separate weigh a bit how heavy add together then know (measure) elephant how heavy (particle)

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Finally, take back the logs and weigh them. Add them all up and that'll be how heavy the elephant is!"

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one multitude minister now then suddenly realize they very ashamed because they being adult (particle) all, also not as good as one (measure) five six years old (linker) kid intelligent

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The crowd of ministers have only now suddenly realized! They were very ashamed because they weren't even as smart as a five, six-year-old child.

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from ancient times, heroes have come from youngsters therefore being adult (particle) definitely don't look down on kid

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Since ancient times, heroes have been emerging as youngsters. So, as an adult, absolutely do not underestimate children!

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being young (particle) all, also do not look down on oneself sometimes little kid see thing compare to adult even more thorough (particle)

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As kids, don't underestimate yourselves- sometimes kids see things more clearly than adults!

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• 🈶 alternate version in Standard Written Chinese
• ↪ [Lvl 5] 202:  🤖 🈶  豬仔藏寶圖 – The Treasure Map – 1/9
• ↩ [Lvl 5] 214:  🈶  曹沖稱象 – Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant – 5/6
• Overview

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• written by Philip Wong
• illustrated by Wendy Yu
• published by HamBaangLaang (© HamBaangLaang, 2022)
• Series: Hambaanglaang Graded Readers 冚唪唥粵文讀本 (Level 5)
• Source: Hambaanglaang:《曹沖稱象》Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant
• Presentation: Dennis Amelunxen, chinvocab.com