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Transcript
wǒ shì yí gè Guǎngdōngrén, xiànzài zhù zài Guǎngzhōu
Guǎngzhōu shì yí gè hěn dà de chéngshì
dàn wǒ xiǎo de shíhou zhù zài Guǎngdōng de yí gè xiǎo nóngcūn
wǒ xiànzài qīshí duō suì
dànshì wǒ hái néng jìde wǒmen xiǎo shíhou de shēnghuó
nèige shíhou gēn xiànzài hěn bù yíyàng
xiǎo shíhou wǒmen hěn qióng
nóngcūn de rén dōu méiyǒu qián, shēnghuó hěn pǔtōng
yǒu shíhou wǒmen méiyǒu fàn chī
ér xiànzài wǒmen xiǎng chī shénme jiù kěyǐ chī shénme
wǒ jìde wǒmen nèige shíhou de fángzi hěn lǎo
fángzi lǐ yě méiyǒu shénme dōngxi
dànshì, wǒ hé wǒ de péngyou dōu wánr de hěn hǎo
wǒmen méiyǒu shénme yālì
xiànzài de háizi yālì hěn dà
měitiān yìzhí zài xuéxí, hěn shǎo kěyǐ hé péngyou wánr
wǒmen nà shíhou yě yào shàngxué, dànshì yālì bú dà
wǒ jiā lí xuéxiào fēicháng jìn, zǎoshàng hěn kuài jiù kěyǐ dào
nèige shíhou wǒmen dōu shuō Guǎngdōnghuà, bú huì shuō Pǔtōnghuà
ér xiànzài de háizi zài xuéxiào lǐ dōu shuō Pǔtōnghuà
zài Guǎngdōng de dà chéngshì, hěn duō háizi yǐjīng bú huì shuō Guǎngdōnghuà le
hái yǒu, wǒmen xiǎo de shíhou yìzhí dōu zài nóngcūn lǐ
wǒmen méi zuòguò huǒchē, méi qùguò qítā dìfang
jīntiān, qù qítā chéngshì shì zuì pǔtōng de shìqing
hěn duō rén yě kěyǐ zuò fēijī qù qítā guójiā
liùshí nián qián de Zhōngguó gēn jīntiān de Zhōngguó fēicháng bù yíyàng
wǒ juéde wǒ xiǎo de shíhou tǐng kuàilè de
dànshì yídìng yào shuō, xiànzài bǐ nèige shíhou hǎo hěn duō
我是一个广东人，现在住在广州
广州是一个很大的城市
但我小的时候住在广东的一个小农村
我现在七十多岁
但是我还能记得我们小时候的生活
那个时候跟现在很不一样
小时候我们很穷
农村的人都没有钱，生活很普通
有时候我们没有饭吃
而现在我们想吃什么就可以吃什么
我记得我们那个时候的房子很老
房子里也没有什么东西
但是，我和我的朋友都玩儿得很好
我们没有什么压力
现在的孩子压力很大
每天一直在学习，很少可以和朋友玩儿
我们那时候也要上学，但是压力不大
我家离学校非常近，早上很快就可以到
那个时候我们都说广东话，不会说普通话
而现在的孩子在 学校里都说普通话
在广东的大城市，很多孩子已经不会说广东话了
还有，我们小的时候一直都在农村里
我们没坐过火车，没去过其他地方
今天，去其他城市是最普通的事情
很多人也可以坐飞机去其他国家
六十年前的中国跟今天的中国非常不一样
我觉得我小的时候挺快乐的
但是一定要说，现在比那个时候好很多
I am a Cantonese person currently living in Guangzhou
Guangzhou is a very big city
But when I was young I lived in a small village in Guangdong
I am now more than 70 years old
However, I can still remember our life when we were young
That time was very different from now
When we were young we were very poor
The villagers were all poor and lived a very ordinary life
Sometimes we didn't have anything to eat
But now we can eat whatever we want
I remember the houses we had at that time were very old
We also had very few things in the house
However, my friends and I always had lots of fun
We didn’t have any stress
Children today have a lot of pressure
Every day they're studying the whole time and very rarely can play with their friends
At that time we also had to go to school, but there wasn't much pressure
My home was very near to the school, in the morning I could get there very quickly
At that time we all spoke Cantonese and couldn't speak Mandarin
But today's children all speak Mandarin in school
In the big cities in Guangdong lots of children can't speak Cantonese anymore
Also, when we were young we were always in the village
We had never been on a train and had never been to other places
Nowadays, going to other cities is the most ordinary of things
Lots of people are also able to fly to other countries by plane
The China of 60 years ago is very different from the China of today
I think I was pretty happy when I was young
But I have to say, now is much better than then
7 авг 2024
