Leaving their fields unplanted and
overgrown with weeds, some farmers have gone afar making a living.

田園荒蕪主不顧，逺走他鄕謀生路。It is a pity that they can hardly benefit
from farming on account of the dear seeds and fertilizer and the cheap harvest.

種肥昂貴谷物賎，哀哉稼穡難敷出。

The buyer of the house sold at half price at Hohhot
City must be a fresh graduate or one within three years finishing the full- time undergraduate courses, who is married and has the local residence
registration. Moreover, the purchased house is banned from trading in the first five years.

若想半价购买呼和浩特本地住宅，须满足应届或3年内的往届全日制本科生、具有呼市户籍、“已婚大学毕业生”等条件，且所购住宅5年内不得上市交易。

It took me about two hours to push back the trike load of the recyclable step by step.
Had to conduct five periods today. In fact, I couldn’t give any lessons to the students because either no textbooks are available or the class advisers had assigned work for the pupils. So my task is to keep order in the classes. The students needn’t take examinations in the subjects I teach. They are Comprehensive Practice, Information, Nationality and Training for Success. Putting out these books causes a large waste of materials and labor every year. This phenomenon should be eradicated as soon as possible.

The unseen insects are chirping incessantly
in the green autumn fields.

秋虫鳴不絶，田野猶碧色。I wonder before the thick grasses and crops
why you have been lamenting so ceaselessly.

敢問紗帳裏，何故久歎嗟?We can see a blue sky at last after so long
a period of rainy weather. I’m pedaling in the deep shade of green trees.

久雨放晴空，踏車緑䕃中。The front leaves of my unbuttoned shirt are
just like fluttering wings. And passing by my ears is the whistling wind.

敞襟飄若翼，耳際聞風聲。

As the year comes to a close soon, both the property management fee and the CATV fee for the coming year have to be paid immediately.
Meanwhile the first three days next week I’ll be sent to X school in Changchun with some of my colleagues invigilating the final exams of this term.
The warm weather continues. The fallen snow on slanting roof of the southern half has melted away. This winter we had no snow until the night before last. Yesterday was the only day I cycled to and from school on snow-covered road.
I’m still annoyed by toothache occasionally.

Liao Junbo came from a common family and made
outstanding contributions to the development of an alien land; such a man of
great talent could go all out for major undertakings owing to the current well-ordered administration. The mountains and rivers contain a
healthy atmosphere which can nurture a principled character; the spotless snow
and the bright moon may exert a favorable influence on people’s ability and wisdom and vision in the same way.

2、廖俊波：芳兰生贵里，片玉立清朝；山河澄正气，雪月助宏才。

As an official, I’m granted exemption from
taxes, hard labor and military service, and my family still suffer from poverty,
let alone the hardship of the civilians.

生常免租税，名不隶征伐。
撫跡猶酸辛，平人固騒屑。As for the landless peasants and the garrison soldiers at the
far frontiers, they share the same fate. My anxieties about our country and
compatriots are boundless and unceasing.
默思失業徒，因念逺戌卒。
憂端齊終南，澒洞不可掇。

In Nepal, a girl can marry thrice and have
several husbands simultaneously. The custom
results from the country’s backward economy and the shortage of its land resources. If
each of the lads of a family took a wife of his own, it would be a large
expense. But if they shared the same wife, this would greatly reduce the
expenditure. Of course, a girl must be married to the brothers of the same
family. And this can avoid the antagonism among the husbands. However, the girl
might feel a little humiliated. Therefore, this polyandry is disrespectful to
the female for her subordinate status.

He had been depending on others for a
living without getting an official position. How could he go back to face his
old country folks under such embarrassed circumstances？So he would rather spend his
final years in the boat on the southern waters than realize his home-coming. He was
really a great master of poetry but a failed husband and father. He insisted on
writing enthusiastically in spite of hardship. His achievement derives from his
great learning，insight, versatility, extensive travelling, experience of
frustrations and social intercourse. Thanks to his one thousand odd poems that remain,
his reputation will not perish as long as Chinese people exist on the earth.

From time to time a volunteer propagandist would come to our school giving us teachers a lecture on safety or health. This afternoon before knocking off, we were called to gather in the classroom of Grade Five hearing another lecture on how to prevent fire and quell an unexpected fire. The lecturer was a tall, middle-aged man, who had been a firefighter for eight years. His voice was extremely loud and clear without showing any hoarseness and exhaustion. I think he must be a practitioner of abdominal breathing as a singer. His speech was very humorous and attractive. Finally he advertised a fire extinguisher for sale, which looked like a flashlight, very convenient for use in a private car or at the kitchen.