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    B. By being a definite or specific event. (There is elaborately detailed information about the object. In other words, the object must be modified by an attributive clause or other elaborate modifiers.)
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<br/><span class="pinyin">Wǒ kàn-<span class="rouge">le</span> <span class="vert">zuótiān wǎnshang de guójì</span> xīnwén.</span><br/><span class="hanzi">我看了昨天晚上的国际新闻。</span><br/> I watched last night's international news.</li>

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<br/><span class="pinyin">Wáng tàitai gěi wǒ kàn-<span class="rouge">le</span> <span class="vert">tā zài Rìběn mǎi de nèi běn xīn chūbǎn de Rì-Hàn</span> zìdiǎn.</span><br/><span class="hanzi">王太太给我看了她在日本买的那本新出版的日汉字典。</span><br/>Mrs. Wang showed me the newly published Japanese-Chinese dictionary that she had bought in Japan.<br/><br/> 

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      In examples 1 and 2, much detailed information is given about the objects <span class="pinyin">xīnwén</span> <span class="hanzi">新闻</span> and <span class="pinyin">zìdiǎn</span> <span class="hanzi">字典</span>, which makes them very specific. The news is not any news; it is the yesterday-evening-international news. The dictionary is not any dictionary out there in the world; it is the she-bought-in-Japan-that-copy-of-newly-published-Japanese-Chinese dictionary.
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