Bilingual reading of Pinocchio on day 17

poor little blackbird! if he had only kept his words to himself! in the twinkling of an eyelid, the cat leaped on him, and ate him, feathers and all.

Poor thrush! Why would he tell Pinocchio all this! As soon as he finished speaking, the cat jumped up, grabbed the thrush, and swallowed the thrush alive with the fur.

after eating the bird, he cleaned his whiskers, closed his eyes, and became blind once more.

After eating the thrush, the cat wiped its mouth clean, closed its eyes, and pretended to be blind again.

"poor blackbird!" said pinocchio to the cat. "why did you kill him?"

"Poor birds! Pinocchio said to the cat. "Why did you eat it?"

"i killed him to teach him a lesson. he talks too much. next time he will keep his words to himself."

"I ate him to teach him a lesson. He talks too much, and next time he won't be nosy.

by this time the three companions had walked a long distance. suddenly, the fox stopped in his tracks and, turning to the marionette, said to him:

By this time, three people with similar smells had come a long way. Suddenly, the fox stopped, turned to the puppet and said:

"do you want to double your gold pieces?"

"Do you want your coins to become more?"

"what do you mean?"

"What are you trying to say?"

"do you want one hundred, a thousand, two thousand gold pieces for your miserable five?"

"Do you want your poor five gold coins to turn into 100, 1,000, or even 2,000?"

"yes, but how?"

"Of course I want to, but what to do?"

"the way is very easy. instead of returning home, come with us."

"That's easy. The premise is that you can't go home first, you have to come with us. "

"and where will you take me?"

"Then where are you going to take me?"

"to the city of simple simons."

"Go to the city of naïve Simmons."

pinocchio thought a while and then said firmly:

Pinocchio thought for a moment, then said firmly:

"no, i don't want to go. home is near, and i'm going where father is waiting for me. how unhappy he must be that i have not yet returned! i have been a bad son, and the talking cricket was right when he said that a disobedient boy cannot be happy in this world. i have learned this at my own expense. even last night in the theater, when fire eater. . . brrrr! ! ! ! ! . . . the shivers run up and down my back at the mere thought of it."

"No, I'm not going. My house is nearby, and my dad is still waiting for me at home. Yesterday I didn't go back, he must have been in a hurry! I was such an ignorant child. Talking crickets are right: in this world, naughty children are not happy. I have been duly punished for what I have done. Just last night, in the fire-eater's kitchen, I almost died!!!!!。 I'm trembling when I think about it now.

"well, then," said the fox, "if you really want to go home, go ahead, but you'll be sorry."

"Well, then," said the fox, "if you really want to go home, it's okay, but you'll regret it." "

"you'll be sorry," repeated the cat.

"You'll regret it." The cat chimed in.

"think well, pinocchio, you are turning your back on dame fortune."

"Think about it, Pinocchio, don't miss an opportunity."

"on dame fortune," repeated the cat.

"Missed opportunity," the cat repeated.

"tomorrow your five gold pieces will be two thousand!"

"Tomorrow your five gold coins will become two thousand!"

"two thousand!" repeated the cat.

"2000！" The cat repeated it again.

"but how can they possibly become so many?" asked pinocchio wonderingly.

"But how could they have become so many?" Pinocchio asked in amazement.

"i'll explain," said the fox. "you must know that, just outside the city of simple simons, there is a blessed field called the field of wonders. in this field you dig a hole and in the hole you bury a gold piece. after covering up the hole with earth you water it well, sprinkle a bit of salt on it, and go to bed. during the night, the gold piece sprouts, grows, blossoms, and next morning you find a beautiful tree, that is loaded with gold pieces."

"So tell you," said the fox. "You must know that outside the city of naïve Simmons, there is a magical land, and people call it the Land of Miracles. All you have to do is dig a small hole in the field and put a gold coin in it. Cover with soil, water and sprinkle a little salt. Then go to sleep with peace of mind. Just as you sleep, the nugget begins to sprout, grow, and then blossom. When you wake up the next morning, you will find a beautiful tree full of gold coins.

"so that if i were to bury my five gold pieces," cried pinocchio with growing wonder, "next morning i should find — how many?"

"Then, if I buried five gold coins," cried Pinocchio more and more in amazement, "I have—how many gold coins will I have the next morning?"

"it is very simple to figure out," answered the fox. "why, you can figure it on your fingers! granted that each piece gives you five hundred, multiply five hundred by five. next morning you will find twenty-five hundred new, sparkling gold pieces."

"That's easy to figure out," replied the fox. "Oops, you break your finger and it's out!" Suppose each piece of gold can grow 500, multiplying 500 by 5. That means you'll find 2,500 brand new sparkling gold coins the next morning.

"fine! fine!" cried pinocchio, dancing about with joy. "and as soon as i have them, i shall keep two thousand for myself and the other five hundred i'll give to you two."

"Great, great! Pinocchio shouted, dancing with excitement. "When I have harvested these gold coins, I will keep two thousand for myself, and the other five hundred for both of you."

"a gift for us?" cried the fox, pretending to be insulted. "why, of course not!"

"of course not!" repeated the cat.

"Give it to us?" The fox pretended to be insulted and shouted. "Ah, of course not!"

"Of course not! The cat repeated.

"we do not work for gain," answered the fox. "we work only to enrich others."

"to enrich others!" repeated the cat.

The fox replied, "We didn't do that for that." "Our only purpose in doing this is to make others rich first."

"Let others get rich first!" Cats and foxes always sing together.

"what good people," thought pinocchio to himself. and forgetting his father, the new coat, the a-b-c book, and all his good resolutions, he said to the fox and to the cat:

"let us go. i am with you."

"What a nice man!" Pinocchio thought to himself. He had thrown his father, that new coat, that literacy textbook, and all his good wishes out of the clouds. He said to the fox and the cat:

"Then let's go, and I'll go with you."

Words, phrases applied

Today I will talk to you about the expression of English numbers. In English, the whole hundred and thousand are followed by no plurals, such as 500 (five hundred), 5000 (five thousand), but add "s" to the nouns after it, such as: two thousand gold pieces. But add "s" when representing the general, for example: hundreds of, thousands of.

hundreds of people were killed or wounded in the earthquake. (There were hundreds of casualties in the quake.) )

Integer reads: 23,576 is pronounced twenty-three thousand five hundred (and) seventy-six

7,405,235,169读作seven billion four hundred (and) five million two hundred (and)

thirty-five thousand one hundred (and) sixty-nine

As can be seen from the above set of numbers, the number of digits is one comma every 3 digits from right to left, and the first comma is pronounced as thurdand;

The second comma is pronounced million; The third comma is pronounced billion; The fourth comma is pronounced trillion. For example, when you arrive

Twenty thousand and eight write 20 "and eight" meaning that the latter group has only one bit, that is, 008, and this number is complete

The whole land is written down in 2008. Another example is if you hear "six million twenty thousand four hundred and."

twenty-six", the first step is to write 6,020, and then write the last set of 426 after the first comma. The full number is

6020426. With the help of the law of three commas, it is also possible to distinguish between "ty" and "teen", and no matter how big the number is, I am not afraid.