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Learning Chinese: A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K. Wheatley, MIT 第四課 Dì-sì kè Lesson 4 論天下大勢，分久必合，合久必分。 Lùn tiānxià dàshì, fēn jiŭ bì hé, hé jiŭ bì fēn. speak+of sky-beneath great-power, divide long must join, join long must divide ‘They say the momentum of history was ever thus: the empire long divided, must unite; long united, must divide.’ The opening lines of Sānguó yǎnyì [三國演義], a title that is traditionally translated as The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a popular historical narrative attributed to Luó Guànzhōng [14th century]. It deals with a period more than 1000 years before the author lived, after the collapse of the Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD), when kingdom competed against kingdom and the heroes Liú Bèi, Guān Yŭand Zhāng Fēi swore brotherhood in a peach garden behind Zhāng Fēi’s farm (supposedly, on the outskirts of modern-day Chéngdū). Part of their vow reads: 不求同年同月同日生，但願同年同月同日死. Bù qiú tóngnián tóngyuè tóngrì shēng, dàn yuàn tóngnián tóngyuè tóngrì sǐ. Not choose same year, month day born, but desire same year, month day die. ‘We could not help our separate births, but on the self-same day we mean to die!’ [Translations from Moss Roberts, Three Kingdoms: China’s Epic Drama by Lo Kuan-chung, New York, Pantheon Books, 1976.] 4.0 Review a) Fántǐzì (see below for new words) 李小山是 南京大學的學生 。她 生在 南京 ，也長在 南京 。南京在江蘇 ， 在 中國東部 ，在長江邊上 ，離上海不遠 。那個地方很好 ，人 口四五百 萬 ，不大也不小。那兒的天氣還可以。七月到九月非常熱，常常下 雨 ，可是一月到三月不怎麽冷 ，很舒服 。李小山還沒去過外國，也沒 上過英文課，可是她英文說得非常好 ，看英文書報也可以。那怎麽會 這樣呢