misunderstanding

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Horse Riding | 骑马游戏

A child misunderstands his parents' intimacy as a horse-riding game and makes a revealing comment...

adult-themes dialogue family
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He Is Really Somebody | 他真是个大人物

A child boasts that his uncle has a thousand subordinates, leading a man to assume he is an impor...

beginner dialogue humor
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Souls and Nuts | 墓地里的灵魂与坚果

A boy misinterprets two children dividing nuts in a cemetery as a supernatural division of souls,...

english-reading folklore humorous
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A Misunderstood Politician | 被误解的政客

A boy writes to God for money; his letter reaches the President, who sends $5. The boy thanks God...

anecdote humor misunderstanding
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Hand Off | 请勿触摸

A child at a museum literally interprets a "Hand off" sign on the Venus de Milo statue, humorousl...

child-perspective humor language-play
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What's Sex? | 性别是什么?

A boy asks his mother about sex, prompting a detailed modern explanation, only to reveal he was r...

dialogue education humor
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What Are You In For? | 手术室外的对话

Two children in a hospital compare their upcoming surgeries with humorous childhood logic and mis...

children dialogue humor
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Synonym or Bad Language? | 同义词还是脏话?

A child misunderstands the definition of a synonym after his mother uses harsh, synonymous words ...

education humor language-learning
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The Mortgage Burden | 房贷的负担

A boy misunderstands his parents' private conversation about "pulling out" as them abandoning the...

dialogue family-life humor
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Needles Are Not Nice | 打针一点也不好玩

Two boys at a clinic misunderstand medical procedures. Bill cries because his finger was pricked ...

beginner dialogue health
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What Does Your Daddy Do? | 你爸爸是做什么的?

A teacher is shocked when a student describes his father's job as involving crime and drinking. A...

beginner dialogue humor
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A Period | 一个句号

A kindergartener's literal interpretation of a "period" leads to a darkly humorous misunderstandi...

dark-humor double-meaning innocence
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Climb the Walls | 心急如焚

A little boy misunderstands his father's idiom "climb the walls" as a literal trick, eagerly anti...

beginner dialogue family
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Name That Animal | 猜动物游戏

A first-grade class plays a guessing game where a student's literal interpretation of a hint abou...

children classroom dialogue
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The Special Trick | 特别的把戏

A boy excitedly tells his visiting grandmother that his father might now perform a long-promised ...

beginner dialogue family
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Whose 50 Cents? | 谁的50分

A humorous dialogue where Tommy insists a found 50 cents is his, even after learning it's two qua...

beginner dialogue humorous
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The Bug in the Alcohol | 酒精中的虫子

A teacher's demonstration of alcohol's lethality to a bug is humorously misinterpreted by a stude...

alcohol beginner education
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The Boy and the Tickets | 男孩与电影票

A boy repeatedly buys cinema tickets because an usher keeps tearing them up, misunderstanding tha...

anecdote beginner-english dialogue
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Making Others Glad | 让他人高兴

A Sunday school teacher asks her students about making others happy. A boy shares that he made hi...

dialogue family humor
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Hitting the Bottle | 砸瓶子

A mother struggling with a ketchup bottle has her young daughter answer the phone, leading to a h...

anecdote beginner family
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