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It's the 26th of April of 2025. Before 14:00, a sunny blue-sky afternoon, I went to my neighbourhood's cul-de-sac to meditatively walk around and around there. I admired the gardens. They reminded me of Daoism: how the microcosm reflects the macrocosm: The puffs of sakura would be a nebula afar. One need not really travel too far. Barb my white neighbour was at her driveway. She and her husband Ken would be going out to buy eggs. They eat many eggs.

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2022 年 2 月 27 日早上，我正要离开卢卢岛的家，却碰见了邻居——红头髮的俄罗斯门诺派血统的罗谢尔，以及来自蒙特利尔英语区、留着灰白小鬍子的阿尔；阿尔好几代都是加拿大人。他说他住在蒙特娄的时候不懂法语。我在披萨店吃了一块香蒜起司披萨。小贩来自孟买。透过窗户，我看到一个棕金色头髮的年轻男子，穿着深灰色连帽夹克和蓝色短裤，看起来像个「大男孩」。咖啡馆外面坐着十个不到 30 岁的人，其中一个看起来像个英俊的犹太人。裡面有一桌五、六个 30 岁以上的人，其中一个穿着深绿色夹克和军绿色裤子，是个英俊的假小子。我喝着冰红茶。走出咖啡馆，我看到那个「大男孩」在树林茂密的公园抽菸。我绕了很长一段路回家，穿过散落着鹅粪的校园草坪，北边白雪皑皑的山脉被云雾笼罩，一派泛灵论佛教的景象，彷彿置身于另一个星球。我家附近，奥莉维亚和丹尼尔停放一辆卡车。奥莉维亚正在学习生物化学。卡车后座坐着一隻全身黑色的德国牧羊犬。

In the morning of the 27th of February of 2022, on my way out of my Lulu Island house, I saw my neighbours the redhead Rochelle of Russian-Mennonite ancestry and the grey-haired moustached Al from the Anglophone section of Montreal; he was from many generations of Canadians. He said that he did not know French, when he lived in Montreal. I ate a slice of pesto cheese pizza at the pizzeria. The vendor was from Mumbai. Through the window, I could see a young brown-blond-haired man in a dark-grey hooded jacket and blue shorts, which made him look like a "big boy." At the cafe, there was an under-age-30 crowd of ten outside, of whom one looked like a handsome Jew. Inside was a table of five or six over-age-30 people, of whom one was a handsome tomboy in a dark-green jacket and army-green pants. I drank my iced black tea. Heading out of the cafe, I saw the "big boy" smoking in the wooded park. I took the long route home, through the grassy school field littered with goose poop, the northern snowcapped mountains obscured by clouds, an Animistic-Buddhistic view seemingly of a different planet. Near my house, parked in a truck were Olivia and Daniel. Olivia was studying Biochemistry. In the back seat of the truck was a fully black German Shepherd.

Source: Tatoeba

Entry Composition

正

zhèng

straight
upright
proper
main
principal
to correct
to rectify
exactly
just (at that time)
right (in that place)
(math.) positive

要

yào

to want; to need; to ask for
will; shall; about to
need to; should
if (same as 要是 yàoshi)
(bound form) important

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gāngyī

to be just about to
to have just started to