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Chinese Characters: 它是从那边，那边那个拦过来的。
Pinyin: Tā shì cóng nàbiān, nàbiān nàge lán guòlái de.
English Translation (Sentence by Sentence): It comes from over there, blocked off and redirected from that side.
Word-by-Word Translation:
它 (tā) = It
是 (shì) = is
从 (cóng) = from
那边 (nàbiān) = over there
那个 (nàge) = that one
拦 (lán) = block / dam / intercept
过来 (guòlái) = over / come over
的 (de) = [structural particle emphasizing the action]
Chinese Characters: 它鱼只要从这边经过，就会顺流而下。
Pinyin: Tā yú zhǐyào cóng zhèbiān jīngguò, jiù huì shùnliú ér xià.
English Translation (Sentence by Sentence): As long as the fish pass through here, they will swim down along the current.
Word-by-Word Translation:
它 (tā) = It [here used as a filler or referring to the system]
鱼 (yú) = fish
只要 (zhǐyào) = as long as / if only
从 (cóng) = from
这边 (zhèbiān) = this side / here
经过 (jīngguò) = pass through / pass by
就会 (jiù huì) = then will
顺流 (shùnliú) = along the current / downstream
而下 (ér xià) = and go down
Chinese Characters: 流到这儿来，他们我们直接捡就可以了。
Pinyin: Liú dào zhè'er lái, tāmen wǒmen zhíjiē jiǎn jiù kěyǐ le.
English Translation (Sentence by Sentence): Once they flow right down to this spot, we can just pick them up directly.
Word-by-Word Translation:
流到 (liú dào) = flow to
这儿 (zhè'er) = here / this place
来 (lái) = come
他们 (tāmen) = they
我们 (wǒmen) = we
直接 (zhíjiē) = directly
捡 (jiǎn) = pick up / gather
就 (jiù) = then
可以了 (kěyǐ le) = is okay / will do
Chinese Characters: 看，早上炊烟袅袅，那是的一股，那是，那是炊烟不是云雾。我们去上游看一看啊。
Pinyin: Kàn, zǎoshang chuīyān niǎoniǎo, nà shì de yī gǔ, nà shì, nà shì chuīyān bùshì yúnwù. Wǒmen qù shàngyóu kàn yī kàn a.
English Translation (Sentence by Sentence): Look, cooking smoke is curling up in the morning. That’s a plume of... that’s... that’s cooking smoke, not mountain mist. Let's go check out upstream.
Word-by-Word Translation:
看 (kàn) = Look
早上 (zǎoshang) = morning
炊烟袅袅 (chuīyān niǎoniǎo) = smoke from kitchen chimneys curling upwards [a classic Chinese idiom for peaceful village life]
那是 (nà shì) = that is
一股 (yī gǔ) = a plume of / a puff of
炊烟 (chuīyān) = cooking smoke
不是 (bùshì) = is not
云雾 (yúnwù) = cloud and mist
我们 (wǒmen) = we
去 (qù) = go to
上游 (shàngyóu) = upstream
看看 (kàn kàn) = take a look
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