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@ 40483 Chinese Geography
A: 我最近看了好多地理方面的資料。現在，我對我們國家的地理情況一清二楚！
wǒ zuìjìn kàn le hǎo duō dìlǐ fāngmiàn de zīliào. xiànzài, wǒ duì wǒmen guójiā de dìlǐ qíngkuàng yīqīngèrchǔ!
Lately I've read a lot of material about geography. Now, I am very clear about our country's geography!
B: 真的還是假的？
zhēn de háishi jiǎ de?
Is that really true, or are you making it up?
A: 不信我說給你聽呀！我們國家有四大高原、四大平原和三大盆地。
bù xìn wǒ shuō gěi nǐ tīng yā! wǒmen guójiā yǒu sì dà gāoyuán、 sì dà píngyuán hé sān dà péndì.
If you don't believe me then I'll tell you about it. Our country has four main plateaus, four main plains, and three main basins.
B: 等會兒、等會兒。第一句話就不對！應該是四大高原、三大平原和四大盆地。
děnghuìr5、 děnghuìr5. dìyī jù huà jiù bù duì! yīnggāi shì sì dà gāoyuán、 sān dà píngyuán hé sì dà péndi.
Wait a second, wait a second. The first thing you said is already wrong. It should be four main plateaus, three main plains and four main basins.
A: 你確定？
nǐ quèdìng?
Are you sure?
B: 當然咯。高考的時候，背這個就像背順口溜。
dāngrán lo. gāokǎo de shíhou, bèi zhège jiù xiàng bēi shùnkǒuliū.
Of course. When I was taking my university entrance exams, I memorized this just as if I was memorizing a jingle.
A: 啊呀，反正三和四都差不多。你再聽我說，中國是個多山的國家。青藏高原是世界上海拔最高的高原，平均海拔在8000米以上。
āyā, fǎnzhèng sān hé sì dōu chà bu duō. nǐ zài tīng wǒ shuō, Zhōngguó shì ge duō shān de guójiā. Qīngzàng gāoyuán shì shìjiè shàng hǎibá zuìgāo de gāoyuán, píngjūn hǎibá zài bāqiān mǐ yǐshàng.
Oh my, well anyways, three or four, it's more or less the same. Listen, I'll tell you more: China is a mountainous country. The Tibetan plateau is the plateau with the highest elevation in the world, with an average elevation of more than 8,000 meters.
B: 什麼？你聽聽，又錯了。那是珠穆朗瑪峰！去年國家重新測量了珠峰的高度，是8800多米。而青藏高原的平均海拔是4000米。
shénme? nǐ tīngting, yòu cuò le. nà shì Zhūmùlǎngmǎ fēng! qùnián guójiā chóngxīn cèliáng le Zhū fēng de gāodù, shì bāqiān bābǎi duō mǐ. ér Qīngzàng gāoyuán de píngjūn hǎibá shì sīqiān mǐ.
What? Listen, you're wrong again. That is Mount Everest! Last year the government measured the altitude of Mount Everest again--it's over 8,800 meters. Furthermore, the average elevation of the Tibetan plateau is 4,000 meters.
A: 是嗎？你怎麼樣樣都知道？
shì ma? nǐ zěnme yàngyàng dōu zhīdào?
Is it? How do you know all of this?
B: 去年青藏鐵路通車，媒體上天天都是這些消息。
qùnián Qīngzàng tiělù tōngchē, méitǐ shàng tiāntiān dōu shì zhèxiē xiāoxi.
Last year when the Tibetan Railway opened for service, this kind of information was in the media every day.
A: 你哪來那麼多閒工夫看報紙？哎，你再聽我說下一句。這句話絕對沒錯：新疆是沙漠最集中的地區。
nǐ nǎ lái nàme duō xián gōngfu kàn bàozhǐ? āi, nǐ zài tīng wǒ shuō xià yī jù. zhè jù huà juéduì méicuò： Xīnjiāng shì shāmò zuì jízhōng de dìqū.
How do you find so much free time to read the newspaper? Hey, listen to something else I can tell you. This is definitely not incorrect: Xinjiang is the region with the most desert.
B: 嗯，這句倒是沒什麼問題。
ng4, zhè jù dàoshì méi shénme wèntí.
Uh-huh. There is nothing wrong with that statement.
A: 還有，黃河是中國最長的河流。中國......。
háiyǒu, Huánghé shì Zhōngguó zuìcháng de héliú. Zhōngguó.......
Also, the Yellow River is China's longest river. China...
B: 停！最長的應該是長江吧。你怎麼連這個都說錯？
tíng! zuìcháng de yīnggāi shì Chángjiāng ba. nǐ zěnme lián zhège dōu shuō cuò?
Stop! The longest must be the Yangtze River. How can you even get that wrong?
A: 哎，我這是口誤。你別老插嘴，行不行？中國東部沿海的人口比較多。上海、北京、重慶和廣州是擁有千萬人口的超大型城市，其中上海的人口最多......。
āi, wǒ zhè shì kǒuwù. nǐ bié lǎo chāzuǐ, xíng bu xíng? Zhōngguó dōngbù yánhǎi de rénkǒu bǐjiào duō. Shànghǎi、 Běijīng、 Chóngqìng hé Guǎngzhōu shì yōngyǒu qiānwàn rénkǒu de chāo dàxíng chéngshì, qízhōng Shànghǎi de rénkǒu zuìduō.......
Hey, that was a slip of the tongue. Don't keep on interrupting me, all right? The population of the eastern coast of China is comparatively higher. Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing and Guangzhou are super-sized cities with populations in the tens of millions. Amongst them, Shanghai's population is the largest...
B: 重慶最多。行了、行了，一大堆錯誤。你看的是什麼資料？
Chóngqìng zuìduō. xíng le、 xíng le, yīdàduī cuòwù. nǐ kàn de shì shénme zīliào?
Chongqing is the largest. All right already! A huge pile of mistakes. What material did you look at?
A: 都是網上找的。這網絡還真是坑人，害得我臉都丟大了！
dōu shì wǎngshàng zhǎo de. zhè wǎngluò hái zhēnshì kēngrén, hài de wǒ liǎn dōu diū dà le!
I found it all on the internet. The internet is really misleading. It's made me lose a lot of face!
Key Vocabulary
一清二楚 yīqīngèrchǔ
順口溜 shùnkǒuliū
海拔 hǎibá
通車 tōngchē
口誤 kǒuwù
插嘴 chāzuǐ
坑人 kēngrén
Supplementary Vocabulary
丘陵 qiūlíng
沼澤 zhǎozé
熱帶雨林 rèdàiyǔlín
植被 zhíbèi
島嶼 dǎoyǔ
海岸線 hǎi'ànxiàn
國界 guójiè
熱帶 rèdài
亞熱帶 yàrèdài
溫帶 wēndài
寒帶 hándài
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