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C. Using rán 然

7. Someone asked me, “Why did you go away?”
“The king wanted to kill me.”
“Well then, why didn’t you assassinate him?”

8. If I climbed that tree I could see the one I long for. Although that is so, my
strength is inadequate.

Supplementary Exercise Vocabulary

落 lùo (V) to fall

秋 qiu (N) autumn

走 zǒu (V) to run, to leave, to go

止 zhǐ (V) to stop

夫 fu *(N) a husband

久 jǐu (Adv) for a long time, (SV) to be of long duration

婦 fù (N) a wife

妾 qìe (N) a concubine; (Pronoun) I (humble, used by married women)

息 xí (V) to rest

夫婦 fu-fù (N) a married couple; [R+R] the state of marriage