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What pets do you like? Look here!

What pets do you like? Look here! muTu Note - Learn Chinese with Chinese Girl Nowadays, many people would like to keep pets as their companions. There are so many pet shops, pet foods, and even pet clinics around us. 现在,很多人喜欢喂养宠物作为自己的伙伴。我们周围有许多宠物店、宠物食品甚至宠物医院。对于那些宠物的饲养者来说,宠物是他们最好的朋友并且能给他们带来无尽的乐趣。 然而,宠物也会给他人带来麻烦。有些人抱怨他们的生活被如此多的狗吠声所骚扰;小猫小狗还很可能伤及孩子,许多人认为喂养宠物应该受到限制。 就我而言,宠物是我们的朋友,我们应该善待他们,然而我们也应估计他人的感受。我希望在我们享受宠物给我们带来的快乐的同时,他人仍然能够拥有宁静祥和的生活。 Nowadays, many people would like to keep pets as their companions. There are so many pet shops, pet foods, and even pet clinics around us. For pet owners, pets are their favorite friends and can bring them countless pleasures. However, pets can bring problems to others as well. Some people complain that their lives are disturbed by so many dogs’ barking; some children even get hurt by the dogs or cats. Many people think that pet-keeping should be limited. As far as I am concerned, pets are our friends so we should treat them kindly. Yet we shou

Choice Chengyu: Idioms That Go Boom

Choice Chengyu: Idioms That Go Boom muTu Note - Learn Chinese with Chinese Girl Gunpowder, one of China’s “Four Great Inventions,” was probably an accident: Historians believe that alchemists were trying to make the pill of immortality when the ingredients in the cauldron (sulfur, nitrates, and honey, according to a ninth-century recipe) went boom. Choice Chengyu: Idioms That Go Boom Whether or not gunpowder has made a positive impact on the world in the 1,200 years since it was invented, however, is up to debate—and, judging by idioms that have to do with the explosion, even ancient people were themselves far from sure. While a great force was sometimes admired, or at least feared and respected, as a driver of progress and change, its destructive potential was considered troubling, as shown by many of the sayings below: 血肉横飞 Xuě ròu héng fēi Blood and flesh flying horizontally What could make blood and flesh fly horizontally? A powerful force like an explosion, of course. Th