Shopkeeper: Anything you like?
店家:有什么喜歡的嗎?
Ben: I'm interested in Chinese antiques.
本:我對中國古董感興趣。
Shopkeeper: We have a great variety of Chinese antiques. We have landscape paintings, figure paintings and flower-and-bird paintings.
店家:我們有各種各樣的中國古董。我們有山水畫、人物畫和花鳥畫。
Ben: I'd like a flower-and-bird painting.
本:我想要一幅花鳥畫。
Shopkeeper: How about this picture of cranes with pine trees? It was painted by a famous Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty. And what is more, in traditional Chinese thinking, cranes and pine trees symbolize longevity.
店家:您看這幅松鶴畫如何?這是中國清代的一位著名畫家畫的。還有,按照中國的傳統(tǒng)觀念,仙鶴與松樹都是長壽的象征。
Ben: Oh, they look just like live cranes. How much is it?
本:哦,這些仙鶴看上去就像真的一樣。多少錢?
Shopkeeper: It's 5,000 yuan.
店家:5000元。
Ben: I'll think about it.
本:我再考慮考慮。