Buy the box, but return the pearls.

original text

Some Chu people sold their pearls to Zheng, Mulan's cabinet, decorated with cinnamon and pepper, pearls and jade, roses, feathers and jade. Zheng Guoren bought the jewelry box and returned the pearls. This can be said to be a best seller, but it is not a good pearl. -"everything is done, foreign reserves say left"

translate

There was a businessman in the State of Chu who sold jewelry in the State of Zheng. He carved a pearl box with precious Mulan, smoked it with spices made of cinnamon pepper, decorated it with precious stones and jewels, decorated it with beautiful jade, and joined it with jade. A man of Zheng bought a box, but returned the beads in the box to him. It can be said that this jeweler is good at selling boxes, but not at selling jewelry.

To annotate ...

1. Chu people: Chu people.

2. Its: pronoun, his (referring to Chu people).

3. Beads: pearls.

4. Yu: Item, right.

5. Zheng: Ah.

6. people: people. ....

7. in favor: do it, do it.

8. Mulan: a kind of fine-grained fragrant wood.

9. Yes.

10. Cabinet: box.

1 1. Xun: vanilla; Here as a verb, fumigate with spices.

12. Use.

13. Gui: Guimu.

14. Pepper: Zanthoxylum bungeanum and spices.

15. Mosaic: ornament, decoration.

16. Zhuyu: Beads and Baoyu.

17. Decoration: Decoration.

18. Rose: This refers to a beautiful jade.

19. Series: associated with "Ji".

20. Feather Cui: The feather of kingfisher.

2 1. Raffles: Box.

22. and: but.

23. also: return.

24. This refers to the behavior of Chu people (the cabinet of Mulan, scented with cinnamon, decorated with pearls and jade, decorated with roses and decorated with feather breastplates).

25. Yes, yes.

26. say: say, think.

27. good: good at it, good at it.

28. no: no.

29. (Yu): sell.