[Level 5] 215:  🈶  田忌賽馬 – Tian Ji's Horse Race – 1/5

• Overview
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• 🈶 alternate version in Standard Written Chinese

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Tian Ji horse racing

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Tian Ji Betting on Horse racing

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two thousand several years before (linker) China have one (measure) Qi country king King Wei of Qi very like horse racing he all the time with he ’s minister Tian Ji compete and Tian Ji every time all, also lose why (particle)

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Over two thousand years ago in China, there was a state of Qi, and King Qi Wei liked horse racing. He always competed with his minister Tian Ji, and Tian Ji lost every time. Why?

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it turns out they will take oneself ’s horse divide into three level respectively is upper-rank horse middle-rank horse and lower-rank horse then hold three (measure) competition

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It turned out that they would divide their horses into three classes, the upper class, the middle horse, and the lower class, and then hold three races.

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and King Wei of Qi ’s upper-rank horse every time all, also run (suffix) fast than Tian Ji ’s upper-rank horse a bit middle-rank horse and lower-rank horse all, also the same therefore Tian Ji every time all, also lose

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And King Qi Wei's upper-class horse ran a little faster than Tian Ji's upper-class horse every time, and the same was true for middle-class horses and lower-class horses, so Tian Ji lost every time.

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• 🈶 alternate version in Standard Written Chinese
• ↪ [Lvl 5] 215:  🈶  田忌賽馬 – Tian Ji's Horse Race – 2/5
• ↩ [Lvl 5] 203:  🤖  飲茶 – Drinking Tea – 6/6
• 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:《田忌賽馬》Tian Ji's Horse Race
• Presentation: Dennis Amelunxen, chinvocab.com