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Fluentide True Crime · Season 1故事
Ten Years at the Temple Door
A true story, told in English with Chinese woven in. Finish the season knowing 150 words.
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She had been preparing for this 上午 for ten 年.
年
nián
year (duration only; for age use 岁 introduced later)
The story故事
On a November morning in 1935, a woman named Shi Jianqiao walked into a Buddhist temple in Tianjin with a pistol hidden under her coat. The man praying a few rows ahead had ordered her father executed and his severed head displayed in public. She had waited ten years for this.
She shot him, then calmly handed out leaflets explaining why. The trial that followed gripped the whole country and ended in a pardon. You'll live through all of it across the season — and come out the other side reading your first Chinese.