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Chapter 9 Two female landscapes

city ​​life 张爱玲 971Words 2018-03-18
Yanying Quotations My friend Yan Ying said: "Every butterfly is the ghost of a flower from the past, coming back to find itself." Yanying was small and plump, and she was always in danger of getting fat, but she never worried about it, and said very optimistically: "Two full breasts are better than no breasts." "Barely translated. Her original words were: (Two armful sis better than no armful") Regarding Canada's five children, Yanying said: "One plus one equals two, but in Canada, one plus one equals five." Yan Ying described a woman's hair as "very, very black, that black is the black of a blind man."

Yanying browsed through the pictorials at the newsstand, and after searching through them all, she didn't buy any.The newspaper vendor said sarcastically: "Thank you!" Yanying replied: "You're welcome." Someone said: "I originally planned to travel around the world, especially the Sahara Desert, but now there is a war." Yanying said: " It doesn't matter until they're done fighting. The Sahara probably won't be blown up. I'm optimistic." When Yanying buys things, she always wipes off some change when paying the bill, even in Hongkou, a Jewish shop, she does the same.She took out the contents of the purse and said, "Look, it's gone, really, it's all here. There's an extra twenty yuan, and we're going to have tea. It's just for tea. I didn’t expect to buy something, but later I saw that your goods are really good..." The Jewish woman protested weakly: "Twenty yuan is not enough for you to eat tea..."

But the shop owner was moved by Yanying's childishness—maybe he had such a brown-skinned first love, or a younger sister who died young.He smiled miserably and relented. "That's all. Otherwise it wouldn't do, but for tea's sake..." He told her that the cakes were the best in a nearby tearoom. Yanying said: "The moon screams, calling out the joy of life, and a small star is its shy echo." The Chinese have this saying: "Three cobblers make one Zhuge Liang." There is a similar proverb in the West: "Two heads are better than one." Yanying said: "Two heads are better than one—in On the pillow." She wrote this sentence in the composition, and the professor who read the paper was the priest of the church.Her boldness is beyond the reach of any bold and famous writer.

Yanying also has the meaning of being a writer, and is actively studying Chinese.Walking on the road, as soon as she saw a shop sign and a large advertisement, she stopped to study it, and then read out aloud: "Big what is Chang. What is old. I recognize 'Wiao', I recognize 'Fly'—— You say 'ming' is a bird singing: but what does 'biaofeiming' mean? What does 'coffee' in 'coffee' mean?" Chinese characters are read from right to left, she knows.But modern Chinese is sometimes from left to right.Whenever she reads from left to right, she happens to read from right to left.Chinese characters are infinitely intriguing, so we have to wait for some time to wait for this literati who can tell witty words and has other surprising ideas besides witty words to write to us.

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