[Level 7] 236: 愚公移山・賣油翁 – The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains and the Old Oil Merchant – 1/6

• Overview
• ↩ [Lvl 7] 240:  🤖  小明嘅夢想魔毯 – The Modern Magic Carpet – 8/8
• ↪ [Lvl 7] 236: 愚公移山・賣油翁 – The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains and the Old Oil Merchant – 2/6

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The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains Old Oil Merchant

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Where there's a will, there's a way.

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legends tell have one (measure) old man he is called Foolish Old Man he already ninety something year-old

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Legend has it there was an old man named Yu Gong, who was in his nineties.

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Foolish Old Man keep on since all, also have (measure) worry

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Yu Gong has always had a trouble:

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he live at two (measure) mountain (linker) North this two (measure) mountain add togather radius seven hundred kilometre tall seven eight thousand meters

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He lived on the north side of two mountains, which together were seven hundred kilometers in circumference and seven or eight kilometers high.

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because this two (measure) mountain block -ing make Foolish Old Man go South very not convenient every time all, also have to take indirect routes to walk

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Because these two mountains were in the way, it was very inconvenient for the Foolish Old Man to go to the south, he had to take a detour every time.

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finally one day Foolish Old Man really cannot stand it (particle)

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Finally, one day, the Foolish Old Man really couldn't stand it!

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he call all family members to come over with they discuss

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He called over all his family and discussed with them:

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we let's join forces flatten -en this two (measure) mountain again build one (measure) road (measure) road keep on pass to South you (plural) say good or not

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"How about we work together to level these two mountains flat and build a road straight to the south, what do you all say?"

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• ↪ [Lvl 7] 236: 愚公移山・賣油翁 – The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains and the Old Oil Merchant – 2/6
• ↩ [Lvl 7] 240:  🤖  小明嘅夢想魔毯 – The Modern Magic Carpet – 8/8
• 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 7)
• Source: Hambaanglaang:《愚公移山・賣油翁》The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains and the Old Oil Merchant
• Presentation: Dennis Amelunxen, chinvocab.com