我身后的眼睛 The Eyes Behind Me [11] (Elementary)

I’ve been thinking about writing a colloquial Chinese short story on Beginner level for a while, but it turns out that it’ll be much easier to tell a complete story on Elementary level instead of Beginner’s. To check out how reading levels are rated, please click here. My dear readers, I’ll also need your feedback to help me understand the difficulty level of my writing.

I’ve always been thinking that Chinese language could be more approachable to the world if enough reading materials on different levels could be available for learners to read, especially for adult learners. That is also the main goal I’m trying to reach in this “Learn Chinese online Short Stories” session.

Before you begin to read this 4500-character Elementary level short story, I’d suggest that you run through the vocab table first to get familiar with the new words. That way your actual reading process might be much smoother. At the end of each part, there will be a short quiz to test your comprehension.

我身后的眼睛 [11]
 

那天晚上我回到家, 女儿还没睡, 她扑到我的怀里, 吵着要听故事.

累了一天的老公看我回来就呼呼大睡了.

我搂着熟睡的女儿, 想到他明天一早就要飞回南方.

我在心里默默地祷告, 祷告他的婚后生活也能美满,也能在不久的将来, 拥有一个长得象他的健康可爱的孩子.

 

现在每每在人海中行走, 我都会想起我身后的那双眼睛.那眼里的温存和忧郁, 总是不断地提醒我，让我更加珍惜生活, 珍惜身边的人, 让我更努力地去爱, 去宽容。

 

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[vocab table]

Simplified Chinese    Traditional Chinese    Mandarin Pinyin    English Definition
呼呼大睡    呼呼大睡    hu1 hu1 da4 shui4    sound asleep
熟睡    熟睡    shu2 shui4    asleep; sleeping soundly;
祷告    禱告    dao3 gao4    to pray; prayer
美满    美滿    mei3 man3    happy; blissful;
健康    健康    jian4 kang1    healthy;
每每    每每    mei3 mei3    each time
不断    不斷    bu4 duan4    continuous
提醒    提醒    ti2 xing3    to remind
珍惜    珍惜    zhen1 xi1    to cherish;
宽容    寬容    kuan1 rong2    forgiving
 

[pinyin]

wǒ shēnhòu de yǎnjing [11]
 

nàtiān wǎnshang wǒ huídào jiā, nǚ’ér hái méi shuì, tā pū dào wǒ de huái lǐ, chǎo zhe yào tīng gùshi.

lèi le yī tiān de lǎogong kàn wǒ huílai jiù hūhū dà shuì le.

wǒ lǒu zhe shúshuì de nǚ’ér, xiǎngdào tā míngtiān yīzǎo jiùyào fēi huí nánfāng.

wǒ zài xīn lǐ mòmò dì dǎogào, dǎogào tā de hūn hòu shēnghuó yě néng měimǎn, yě néng zài bùjiǔ de jiānglái, yōngyǒu yī gè zhǎngde xiàng tā de jiànkāng kě’ài de háizi.

 

xiànzài měiměi zài rénhǎi zhōng xíngzǒu, wǒ dūhuì xiǎngqǐ wǒ shēnhòu de nà shuāng yǎnjing. yǎn lǐ de wēncún hé yōuyù, zǒngshì bùduàn dì tíxǐng wǒ， ràng wǒ gèngjiā zhēnxī shēnghuó, zhēnxī shēnbiān de rén, ràng wǒ gèng nǔlì dì qù ài, qù kuānróng。

 

- quánwén wán -

[traditional Chinese]

我身後的眼睛[11]
 

那天晚上我回到家, 女兒還沒睡, 她撲到我的懷裏, 吵著要聽故事.

累了一天的老公看我回來就呼呼大睡了.

我摟著熟睡的女兒, 想到他明天一早就要飛回南方.

我在心裏默默地禱告, 禱告他的婚後生活也能美滿,也能在不久的將來, 擁有一個長得象他的健康可愛的孩子.

 

現在每每在人海中行走, 我都會想起我身後的那雙眼睛.那眼裏的溫存和憂鬱, 總是不斷地提醒我，讓我更加珍惜生活, 珍惜身邊的人, 讓我更努力地去愛, 去寬容。

 

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[English Translation]
Special thanks to John Collett for diligently proofreading my English translation!!

 

The Eyes Behind Me [11]

 

When I came back home that night, my daughter was still awake.

The moment she saw me back, she ran into my arms and asked for stories.

My husband was exhausted after a very long day, the time he saw me he fell asleep right away.

While my daughter slept soundly in my arms, I thought about him, the man who would fly back to the south the next morning.

I quietly made a wish in my heart. I wished him to have a happy and loving marriage. I wished someday soon he would be able to have a bouncing baby of his own that looked just like him.

Every now and then, while I walk in the crowd, I will think of those eyes behind me. The gentleness and sensation in them will keep reminding me to appreciate the life that I have, the people that are around me. They will remind me to become more loving and forgiving.

 

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