Mother came from our home village.She stayed with us for ten days.When she was 1 to leave, she wanted to buy us something 2 a present.
“You've got 3 ,”she said,“but you seem to have got 4 .The TV set is yours, but the people who walk back and forth in it are all 5 , even murderers, corrupt officials and thieves come in and 6 it from time to time.”The radio cassette player is yours, but it's all others who 7 in it.The books on the shelf are yours, but they are all 8 by others.The fridge is yours, but all the year round it's 9 frost that comes from God knows where. 10 they make your life easy and comfortable, 11 of them BELONGS to you in the real sense of the word.
12 the day she was to leave for home, she got up early in the morning and 13 back a pickle(泡菜)pot from the market.
“ 14 some pickle in it,”she said,“and have something 15 suits your own taste.”
Since then pickles of our own 16 had been added to our diet.When we had guests, we often had pickles 17 wine.Slightly intoxicated(excited greatly), everyone would say,“A country flavor, not bad, Not bad, a country flavor(特别的风味)”.
18 we had something to our own taste.When we looked at the 19 , it was standing quietly at the corner.Amid the hustle and bustle of our 20 life and in the apartment of reinforced concrete, the pot stood there by itself, brewing an old and simple flavor.
It was our second day in Tokyo.And we were 1 in the large underground station and did not know which train to take to get back to our hotel.My friend, Haima, and I stood 2 the faces of the Japanese walking 3 us in the busy station.We finally zeroed in on a young girl who looked 4 .Though she stopped, it was 5 she could not understand a word of English.
Seeing our faces fall in 6 , she expressed herself by gestures, asking us to wait.We watched curiously as she stopped several people and talked with them in Japanese 7 she found one who could speak and understand English.This person asked us in poor English 8 we wanted to go and then spoke in rapid-fire Japanese to the girl.
She was 9 her head and saying “Hai! Hai!”.He 10 on after telling us we were in the wrong station. 11 the girl, mot only did she stay on, 12 .Thanking her for her 13 , we rushed off to buy 14 .
I have never seen 15 go out of their way to help a lost person in Delhi, usually just 16 to give directions and moving on.Little did we realize 17 there were going to be many more such 18 in the following days that would totally change our preconceived(怀有偏见的)ideas about the Japanese.
However by the end of this of this 19 , few of my old opinions about the Japanese being poker-faced, serious, 20 , formal and so on existed.