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FOREWORD:
 On the flight from Sydney to Hong Kong, a beautiful stewardess sent everyone a little envelope and hope us to donate some change to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). After putting 100 RMB into the envelope, I asked her to give me another one. I was interested in how they translated the English on the envelope into Chinese.
Now, I would like to show you how to read some of the Chinese characters on the envelope and hope to be some help with you to learn Chinese.
THE NEW SENTENCES ABOUT THE DONATION:
Follow Shirley to Read the Sentences & the Chinese Characters
Please hit any Chinese character to open the Vocabulary Board and to see the Chinese pinyin, meaning, pronunciation and follow me to read it..
No. 0204: -- 筝筝絨鎞隋絽鐚絽紊уぇ(絽)
-- A small change can make a big difference.
No. 0205: -- 筝臂 - 箴篋蘂絨翠沙合
-- US$1 - Provides 5 doses of vaccine against polio.
No.0206: -- 篋臂 - 箴膃膸箙膂膸睡
-- US$5 - Provides 10 children with a pencil and an exercise book.
CHINESE GRAMMAR:
The three sentences are all declarative sentences. Their sentence structures are:
subject + verb + object
Usually, there are one or two or more attributes to modify the subject and the object. There is one or two or more adverbs to modify the verb.
For example, in No. 0204:
筝筝 絨鎞 隋絽鐚 絽 紊уぇ
attribute attribute subject adverb verb attribute object
筝筝 -- a, attribute
絨鎞 -- small, attribute
隋絽 -- change, coin, noun as subject.
both of the attributes to modify the subject "隋絽" change or coin.
-- can, adverb, as adverbial modifier
絽 -- bring, verb, as predicate
紊уぇ -- big, adjective. as attribut
-- change, noun as object
Here, you have to pay more attention to something below:
NOTE:
The meaning of 隋絽 is coin or change in English. It is same in Chinese. But, it is made of two Chinese characters. The character 隋, means something hard, stiff, tough or strong, the character 絽, just  means money. The character 隋 modifies the character 絽. Both of them together, mean the money that is made of metal, the coins, to distinguish it from the 膾後 -- "paper money".
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please write to shirley@ebridge.cn . You are also welcome to publish your opinions in Message Board. :-)
--Shirley Zhang
Written and Recorded On Feb 26, 2011
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