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- Dialogue and Translation for Exercise U
- A father (B) and son (A) talk in Beijing.
- - A: Bàba! Xiànzài zěnme you zenme
- duō rén xiāngxìn zǒngjiào le, zhēn qíguài!
- - B: Nǐ kànjian shénme shi le?
- - A: Zài lùkǒurshang nèige jiàotāng,
- jǐntiǎn yōu hěn duō rén zài ner zuò lǐbài, yě yōu niánqīngde rén!
- - B: Wōmende fǎlū shuō Zhōngguo rén
- kéyi yōu zǒngjiào zìyou, zhèi méiyou shénme qíguài ma!
- - A: Wō jìde bàoshang shuō, zài Nan
- Měide yíge guojiā yōu yìzhōng shénme zōngjiào yōu hěn duō rén xiāngxìn,
- zhèixiē rén bǎ zìjǐde qián dōu gěile zhèige zōngjiào-de tour, kěshi
- zhèige tour shi ge huàirén, xīdú, shā rén, shénme luānqǐbāzāode shir dōu
- zuò. Suóyi wō juéde zōngjiào zìyou yě bù yídìng hǎo.
- - B: Zōngjiào bú shi yíjiàn Jiǎndān-
- de shi. Zōngjiào hé fàn zuì méiyou yídìngde guānxi. Zōngjiào yōu tāde
- dúlìxìng, yōude shihou hé zhèngzhi, wénhuà yōu guānxi, yōude shihou
- méiyou. Děng dào nǐ zhǎngdàle yǐhòu, rúguǒ n? yōu xìngqu kéyi yánjiū
- yanjiu.
- Dad, how come there are so many people who believe in religion now? It’s
- so strange!
- Why, what have you seen?
- In that church on the corner, today there were a lot of people
- worshiping. There were young people there too.
- Our law does give the Chinese people freedom of religion. There’s
- nothing strange about that!
- I remember it said in the newspaper that there was some religion in
- South America a lot of people believed in, and the people gave all their
- money to the head of this religion, but he was a bad person who took
- drugs and killed people and did all sorts of crazy things. So I don’t
- think that freedom of religion is necessarily good.
- Religion isn’t a simple thing. It doesn’t have a definite relationship
- to crime. Religion has its independent character; sometimes it’s related
- to politics and culture, and sometimes it isn’t. When you grow up, if
- you’re interested, you can study it.
- “yìzhōng shénme zōngjiào, some religion Shénme here acts as an
- indefinite pronoun modifying zōngjiào and means that the speaker does
- not know how to describe or specify the religion precisely.
- - A: Wǒ tingshuǒ shìjièshang you hěn
- duō bù tóngde zōngjiào, yě you hěn duō you yìside zōngjiào gùshi, zài
- zhèixiě gùshili you xiě shi ràng rén xué hǎo, shi duì rén you hǎochùde.
- - B: Zhèi shi zhēnde. Yánjiū zōng-
- Jiào xūyào hěn duōde zhishi, tèbié shi lìshǐ zhishi, shi hěn you yìside.
- Hǎo le, zhèige wèn-tí women yǐhòu zài tan. Nǐde gōngkè zuòwánle meiyou?
- - A: Hái you yidiǎnr, wǒ mǎshàng
- jiù qù zuò.
- - B: Hǎo, kuài qù ba! Zuòwánle
- gōngkè zài tan.
- A: Hǎo!
- I hear that there are many different religions in the world and that
- there are a lot of interesting religious stories. Some of the stories
- have the purpose of teaching people from good examples, so they’re good
- for people.
- That’s true. To study religion, you need a lot of knowledge, especially
- a knowledge of history. It’s very interesting. All right, we’ll talk
- about this question later. Is your homework done?
- I still have a little. I’ll go do it right away.
- Okay, hurry up! When you’ve finished your homework, we’ll talk some
- more.
- Okay!
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