OnceI was in Beijing, I went shopping in the Front Gate Walking Street, for Iwanted to buy some souvenirs¹ for my friends.

有一次我在北京，我去步行街购物，因为我想买些纪念品给我的朋友。

Therewere so many things on sale that I didn't know what to buy. Suddenly, I saw twostatues which looked so beautiful. I decided² to buy them. So I asked the price.“It’s twenty yuan each," said the boss. I tried to make a bargain withhim. He refused at first, but when I was going to leave, he stopped me andsaid," OK, you can have both of them at ten yuan." Therefore, Ibought both of them home at last.

卖有很多东西，我不知道要买什么了。突然，我看到两个雕像，看起来非常漂亮。我决定买它们。所以我问价格。“每个二十元，”老板说。我试图与他讲价。一开始的时候他拒绝了，但是当我要离开时，他拦住了我，说，“好吧，两个十元。因此，我最后买了两人回家。

Iwas very happy on that day, because it was the first time that I had made abargain with a businessman so successfully³.

那天我很开心，因为那是第一次我与商人讲价结果是如此成功的。