"Chen Taiqiu and Your Journey" is a work by the Southern Dynasty writer Liu Yiqing. It is also written as "Chen Taiqiu and Your Journey", which comes from "Shishuoxinyu".
Full text translation: Chen Taiqiu and his friends met for a trip at noon. Before noon, Chen Taiciu left without waiting. Friends arrived after I left. Yuan Fang was seven years old at the time and was playing outside the door. A friend asked Yuan Fang: "Is your father here?" (Yuan Fang) replied: "I have been waiting for you for a long time but you haven't arrived yet. Now you have left." The friend said angrily: "You are really not a gentleman!" Yuan Fang said: "You made an appointment with my father at noon and you didn't show up. This is a sign of dishonesty. It's rude to scold a child's father." "My friend felt ashamed and got out of the car to pull Yuan Fang away. Yuan Fang walked into the door without looking back.
The original text is as follows: Chen Taiqiu and his friends were on a scheduled trip. On the scheduled date, they failed to arrive, so Taiqiu left. Even after leaving. Yuan Fang was seven years old and started playing outside his home. The guest asked Yuan Fang, "Is your Majesty here?" He replied, "I haven't seen you for a long time, and you have already left." The friend then said angrily, "You are not a human being! You will go as expected and leave by agreement." Yuan Fang said. : "You and your family are expecting each other at noon. If you don't arrive at noon, you have no faith; if you scold your father at your son, you are rude." The friend was ashamed and got out of the car to lead him, but Yuan Fang ignored him at the door.
Full text appreciation:
The full text of "Chen Taiqiu and Youqi" has only 103 words, but it tells a complete story (a debate about trustworthiness and untrustworthiness) , depicts three characters with distinctive personalities, and illustrates the principle of being polite and trustworthy when dealing with others. Such a limited text contains such rich content, which is really concise and comprehensive. It would be very difficult to do this if you are not highly accomplished in refining language.
The refined language of "Chen Taiqiu and Youqi" is reflected throughout the article. At the beginning, the article uses several key words such as "expected line", "expected date", "not arrived", "give up", "even", etc. to clearly explain the things, time, and causes. Moreover, in these In the explanation, two different characters (one trustworthy and one untrustworthy) are thrust in front of the readers at once.
Although there are only a few words at the end of the article, each word is brilliant. The three verbs "shame", "xia" and "yin" vividly portray the friend's mentality and behavior of knowing his mistakes and wanting to correct them. Yuan Fang's stubbornness in despising "unbelief" is vividly described with the four words "getting started, regardless of it". In the second level (Zi cuo friends), which best embodies the central idea of ??the article, although the author uses much more pen and ink than at the beginning and end, the text is still very concise. As far as the narrative sentences are concerned, when describing the friend's question about Yuan Fang, the emotion changes drastically from "asking" to "anger", which fully reflects the friend's rude and rude character. When narrating Yuan Fang's rebuttal of his friends, he uses words such as "answer" and "said" in a calm tone. This plays an excellent role in expressing Yuan Fang's character of not being afraid of his friends' censure, being well-educated, and good at coping. role.