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1.—Firewood. Coal and charcoal. 2.—Rice and flour. White sugar. Fowl’s eggs. Cow’s milk. Fruit. 3.—Lamp oil. 4.—Coarse salt. Fine salt. 5.—To cook food. To put food on the table. To clear away, remove (as food).
6.—To eat one’s meals. To drink soup. 7.—I bought yesterday 300 catties of coal, 50 catties of charcoal, 80 catties of firewood, four piculs of rice, and two hundred catties of flour.
8.—Lamp oil is made from the bean. Sweet oil is made from sesame. Lamp oil costs less than sweet oil. 9.—Tiao t’u means to light a fire.
10.—When the weather is cold, the consumption of coal and charcoal is larger.
11.—In a stove one uses coal. In a chafing dish charcoal. A chafing dish is for use in a room. One cannot cook food or heat water with it.
12.—Food is either raw or cooked. When prepared over a fire it is cooked. It is raw when it can be eaten in the natural state.
13.—You go and buy me a small chicken, and three or four eggs. Do you want any milk as well? I should like some catties of milk if it is cheap. In this part of the world we do not buy milk by the catty, but by the cup or bottle. Fruit is not bought by the catty either, but by the piece.
14.—Do you prefer flour or rice? Neither. I like soup. What soup? Either meat soup or chicken soup suits me.
15.—Go and get the food ready directly. As soon as it is ready put it on the table.
16.—What does hsiou mean? The removal of the things when you have done eating.
1.—T’u. Mai t’ai. 2.—Ka pai. Hsia tang or Tang ‘hlou. Keh kei. Voh lia. Chiang. 3.—Tiang tai. 4.—Sa hsieh. Moung hsieh. 5.—Hao ngau. Shu ngau. Hsiou nioh.
6.—Nêng ka. ‘Hou ch’ia. 7.—Vai tai nung mai pieh pa chiang mai; Chia chiu chiang t’ai; ya chiu chiang t’u; ‘Hlao tan sai; au pa chiang ka pai.
8.—Tiang tai tiao tou ai. Ou yu tiao yu mi ai. Tiang tai pi ou yu chien i. 9.—Tiao t’u tiao tiao t’u.
10.—Tai si pieh shih ‘hou hsia mai t’ai nao.
11.—Keh sao tiao mai. Hu pai tiao t’ai. Hu pai tiu chieh tiao. A pang hao ka hao ou.
12.—Ngau mai niu mai hsieh. Niang t’u keh vai hao tou tiao ngau hsieh. Ngau niu tiao ka ta lai ta ku i nêng tao.
13.—Moung moung tou vai mai yi tai kei niu; Pieh chia lai keh kei. Niang ou voh lia a ou. Voh lia chien i vai ku i ou hsiu chiang pieh ha nung mai voh lia a lai chiang chiang, tou tiao lai ti lai to. Mai chiang si a lai chiang chiang, tou tiao lai ka lai.
14.—Moung ā kêng ka pai ā nêng ka. Au tiu tou a ā. Vai ā ‘hou ch’ia. Ā ‘hou kai shi ch’ia. Ngi ch’ia kei ch’ia tou ghou.
15.—Moung hang hao ka moung. Ka hsieh hsiu ta.
16.—Kai shi tiao hsiou. Moung nêng chiu ka tou tieh ngah moung tou tiao hsiou yeh.