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buyong keqi = you’re welcomeda = bigfangzi = housegaoxing = happyhuai = meanjiao = footnuhaizi = girlpiaoliang = prettyqizi = wife
qunzi = dressshangxin = sadwangzi = princewuye = midnightwuhui = partyxiezi = shoexiexie ni = thank youyingjun = handsomezaijian = goodbye
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nuhaizi
piaoliang
fangzi
nce upon a time, there lived a poor girl
named Cinderella who was very pretty . The
nuhaizi piaoliang, who was very , lived in
a small house with her stepmother and two
(漂亮)
(房子)
(女孩子)
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stepsisters. At times it was difficult for the
poor to live in such a smallnuhaizi
fangzi with her stepmother and two
stepsisters. Why? Because they were
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jealous that she was so which piaoliang
is why her stepmother was extra mean
to her. But the poor never nuhaizi
complained about living in a small
huai(坏)
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fangzi with her stepmother, who was
very , and two stepsisters, evenhuai
though they forced her to do all the work
in the entire day in and day out!fangzi
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One day, a royal invitation arrived at the
fangzi nuhaiziof the poor . The king was
throwing a party for the prince. And the
wuhui wuhuiwas going to be big . The
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wuhui
da(大)
(舞會)
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was going to be very ! The prince was da
handsome , not only , but also kind. yingjun
Every in the land was invited to the nuhaizi
wuhui, so that he could choose a wife . qizi
yingjun(英俊)
(妻子)
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The king and queen also hoped the prince
would find a who was truly qizi piaoliang
both inside and out. The was wangzi
very excited about his royal ! wuhui
wangzi (王子)
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The night of the for thewuhui wangzi
arrived but Cinderella was very sad . Her
stepmother was so , she wouldn’t let huai
her leave the to go to the .fanzi wuhui
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shangxin (傷心)
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