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亡羊补牢──保护视力

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ID: 4202 Upper Intermediate
在生活中，我们有时会说“不要为打翻的牛奶哭泣”。有些事情确实做过以后就没有办法挽回，但是在有些情况下我们可以“亡羊补牢”来减轻不好的后果。通过关于小孩子假性近视的讨论，我们一起来学习一下这个成语吧！ This lesson discusses a phenomenon across the globe - that children are diagnosed with myopia at an early age. Learn how to use the Chinese idiom 亡羊补牢 to refer to remedial actions only after things happened.
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
广告 guǎnggào to advertise; a commercial; advertisement
保护 bǎohù to protect; to defend; to safeguard
视力 shìlì vision
操心 cāoxīn to worry about
啧啧啧刚刚在外面看到广告说保护视力要从六岁开始太夸张了吧
zé 啧zé 啧zé 啧gānggang 刚刚zài 在wàimiàn 外面kàndào 看到guǎnggào 广告shuō 说bǎohù 保护shìlì 视力yào 要cóng 从liù 六suì 岁kāishǐ 开始tài 太kuāzhāng 夸张le 了ba 吧
Hey, I just saw an advertisement outside, stating to protect one’s eyesight from the age of six. This is an exaggeration.
只有你这个不操心的爸爸才不重视孩子的视力呢现在多少孩子还没上小学就戴着眼镜一副小学究的样子
zhǐ 只yǒu 有nǐ 你zhège 这个bù 不cāoxīn 操心de 的bàba 爸爸cái 才bù 不zhòngshì 重视háizi 孩子de 的shìlì 视力ne 呢xiànzài 现在duōshao 多少háizi 孩子huán 还méi 没shàng 上xiǎoxué 小学jiù 就dài 戴zhe 着yǎnjìng 眼镜yī 一fù 副xiǎo 小xuéjiū 学究de 的yàngzi 样子
Only you, as the father is not worried and doesn’t pay attention to the child's vision. Nowadays many children are wearing glasses before going to elementary school. They look like elementary school scholars.
紧张什么呀我们家孩子随我遗传了我的好视力
jǐnzhāng 紧张shénme 什么ya 呀wǒmen 我们jiā 家háizi 孩子suí 随wǒ 我yíchuán 遗传le 了wǒ 我de 的hǎo 好shìlì 视力
What’s the worry, our children inherited my good eyesight.
你知道什么呀上次学校体检已经被查出来假性近视了
nǐ 你zhīdào 知道shénme 什么ya 呀shàngcì 上次xuéxiào 学校tǐjiǎn 体检yǐjīng 已经bèi 被chá 查chūlái 出来jiǎxìngjìnshì 假性近视le 了
What do you know, a school medical examination already confirmed our child has signs of myopia.
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