Lesson 121HSK 6

知青 Zhīqīng — Sent-Down Youth

第三年 · Third Year

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Alex
吴阿姨，听老陈说，您年轻的时候去过黑龙江，一去就是十二年。那是哪一年的事，您当时多大？我们想先从那一年讲起。
Wú āyí, tīng Lǎo Chén shuō, nín niánqīng de shíhou qù guo Hēilóngjiāng, yí qù jiù shì shí'èr nián. Nà shì nǎ yì nián de shì, nín dāngshí duō dà? Wǒmen xiǎng xiān cóng nà yì nián jiǎngqǐ.
Auntie Wu, Old Chen tells me you went to Heilongjiang when you were young and were gone twelve years. What year was that, and how old were you? We'd like to start from that year.
吴阿姨
一九六九年，我十七岁，初中刚毕业。那时候上山下乡，弄堂里一半的年轻人都走了。我是坐火车走的，走了三天三夜，到了北大荒，零下三十多度。
Yī jiǔ liù jiǔ nián, wǒ shíqī suì, chūzhōng gāng bìyè. Nà shíhou shàng shān xià xiāng, lòngtáng li yíbàn de niánqīngrén dōu zǒu le. Wǒ shì zuò huǒchē zǒu de, zǒu le sān tiān sān yè, dào le Běidàhuāng, língxià sānshí duō dù.
1969. I was seventeen and had just finished junior high. That was the time of going up to the mountains and down to the countryside, and half the young people in the lane left. I went by train — three days and three nights — to the Great Northern Wilderness, more than thirty below.