2 Two friends meet at school on the first day of term.2

两个朋友于新学期的第一天在学校见面。

Do you have to feed plants like you feed chickens? Or do they grow up by themselves?

你得要像喂小鸡那样去喂幼苗吗？还是它们自己长大呢？

Can you try to get them to bring down the price?

你能让他们降点价吗？

You don't need anything special.

你不需要什么特别的东西。

In that case, you wouldn't have a pan on fire. You'd have a house on fire!

如果是那样的话，你就不仅仅是使一个油锅起火，而是把整座房子点着了。

No. The next development was to carve the characters on a piece of wood.

是的，不象。下一步的发展是将汉字刻在一片木板上。