Chapter 6 of The Open Sea is here in full — 814 sentences across 163 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter VI
Chapter 6 of The Open Sea is here in full — 814 sentences across 163 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
HIP LUNG _ON_ YUAN CHANG You like store? You like Chinese tea? You like me? You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist? All light Lee, You Chinaman, maybe.
Chapter 6 of The Open Sea is here in full — 814 sentences across 163 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/162 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai
From this reading “HIP LUNG _ON_ YUAN CHANG You like store?”
a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings
From this reading “You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?”
strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)
From this reading “You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?”
either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh
From this reading “HIP LUNG _ON_ YUAN CHANG You like store?”
a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite
From this reading “You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?”
either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood
From this reading “HIP LUNG _ON_ YUAN CHANG You like store?”
a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel
From this reading “You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?”
the basic unit of money in China
From this reading “HIP LUNG _ON_ YUAN CHANG You like store?”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading All light Lee, You Chinaman, maybe.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?
a seat for one person, with a support for the back
From this reading You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?
the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai
From this reading HIP LUNG _ON_ YUAN CHANG You like store?
(ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent
From this reading All light Lee, You Chinaman, maybe.
any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system
From this reading You like Chinese tea?
a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings
From this reading You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?
strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher)
From this reading You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?
either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh
From this reading HIP LUNG _ON_ YUAN CHANG You like store?
a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite
From this reading You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?
United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)
From this reading All light Lee, You Chinaman, maybe.
of comparatively little physical weight or density
From this reading All light Lee, You Chinaman, maybe.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading HIP LUNG _ON_ YUAN CHANG You like store?
either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates; serves to remove carbon dioxide and provide oxygen to the blood
From this reading HIP LUNG _ON_ YUAN CHANG You like store?
by chance
From this reading All light Lee, You Chinaman, maybe.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading You like me?
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading HIP LUNG _ON_ YUAN CHANG You like store?
a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel
From this reading You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?
a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
From this reading You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?
a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing
From this reading You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?
a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae
From this reading You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?
a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
From this reading HIP LUNG _ON_ YUAN CHANG You like store?
a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
From this reading You like Chinese tea?
leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion
From this reading You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading You like silk, fan, screen, dragon, pearl chair, jade; You like Chinese tobacco, picture, Budda too, Well, as Geesu Klist?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading HIP LUNG _ON_ YUAN CHANG You like store?
the basic unit of money in China
From this reading HIP LUNG _ON_ YUAN CHANG You like store?
Chapter 6 of The Open Sea by Edgar Lee Masters holds 814 sentences, grouped into 163 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 6 holds 814 sentences of The Open Sea, unabridged, divided into 163 reading sections.
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