A beggar and his unusual life

时间：2007-11-14 08:53:00

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Chinanews, Chongqing, Nov. 13 – Recently, a young man spotted1 a beggar2 at the Jiaochangkou Street in Yuzhong District of Chongqing in southwest China.

 

“Oh, it's you! I know you. Come here and let me take a picture of you,” the young man said, producing a mobile3 phone from his pocket to take a snapshot of the beggar. After that, the young man put a ten-yuan note into the beggar's pocket, the Chongqing Evening News reported.

 

The beggar is named Xia Haibo, who was born in Meihe Village,Tuozhen Town, Tianmen City of Hubei Province. Being 25 years old, he is quite a special beggar in some ways – he doesn't beg on his knees, as other beggars4 do when begging. Rather, he often stands in a crowded street, either reading a book or pondering5 over something. As a beggar, he has opened his blog on the Internet and his blog has been clicked more than 500,000 times now. He likes reading – he has read a lot of poems written by Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. He has also read many classical Chinese poems. He has kept writing and recently, he planned to publicize his writings.

 

As a beggar, he is so special that many people call him "the greatest beggar in history." However, he himself doesn't think so. In one of the articles he wrote on his blog, he says: "I am only a beggar. No matter how great I seem to be, I'm still a beggar, begging for alms."

 

In 1998, Xia was enrolled6 by Tianmen Middle School as the best student in town. However, a year before he took the national college entrance exam, he came down with a high fever and was later diagnosed7 as having rheumatoid arthritis8. In order to cure his disease9, his father borrowed 60,000 yuan from relatives and friends. However, with this money, he didn’t recover from the disease. He did not want to become a burden for his family any more. So in July, last year, he left his hometown and went to Wuhan making a living by begging.

 

“On my first begging day, I stood in front of a supermarket for a long time before I could hang out the wooden board,” Xia recalled10. On that day, he earned 40 yuan.

 

From then on, the young man, who had never travelled far away from home, had been to Beijing, Guangzhou, Haikou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Changsha and Kunming, where he earned about 20,000 yuan through begging.

 

“Begging has become a job to me now. I earn about 2,000 yuan every month,” Xia said.

 

However, he doesn't plan to go on living like this. “By July 24 next year, when I have been begging for two years, I will stop my begging life. I promise,” he said.

 

It was his plan that by using the money he “earned”, he could rent a small shop in his hometown and kept on writing in his spare time.

 

Right now, he is trying to finish a book of his own. The book, called "Love Is with Me", recorded a lot of people that once helped him during his begging life: the Internet caféboss who gave him some clothes to wear, the young lady who tried to find a job for him when he was in Hainan, and the kind woman who invited him to eat at a four-star hotel, etc.

 

Right now, he has written more than 60,000 words for the book. He has also managed to find a publisher who is willing to publish his book, Xia said.

 

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1 spotted 7FEyj     
adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的
参考例句：
  • The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
2 beggar HQVye     
n.乞丐，穷人，募捐者
参考例句：
  • The beggar begged from the rich but they refused.那个乞丐向富人们乞讨，但遭到了拒绝。
  • He is so rich and lives like a beggar.他非常有钱可是生活得象个乞丐。
3 mobile l6dzu     
adj.可移动的，易变的，机动的；n.运动物体
参考例句：
  • The old lady sits on a mobile chair every morning.那位老妇人每天上午坐在一把可携带使用的椅子上。
  • She's much more mobile now that she's bought a car.自从她买了汽车后，活动量就大多了。
4 beggars b9dea7a1583a4d33a436ad1b618c32df     
乞丐( beggar的名词复数 )； 家伙
参考例句：
  • The rubbish left behind by the Cup Final crowd beggars description. 观看决赛的观众们丢下的垃圾实非笔墨所能描述。
  • To give money to beggars sometimes amounts to encouraging begging. 给乞丐钱，有时就等于鼓励行乞。
5 pondering 7abc8b0f5dbea20ffa7b5849af845e61     
考虑( ponder的现在分词 )； 深思熟虑； 沉思； 琢磨
参考例句：
  • The young captain is pondering over a thorny problem. 年轻的上尉正在思考一个棘手的问题。
  • The young couple are pondering moving their house. 这对年轻夫妇正在考虑把自己的家搬走。
6 enrolled ff7af27948b380bff5d583359796d3c8     
adj.入学登记了的v.[亦作enrol]( enroll的过去式和过去分词 )；登记，招收，使入伍（或入会、入学等），参加，成为成员；记入名册；卷起，包起
参考例句：
  • They have been studying hard from the moment they enrolled. 从入学时起，他们就一直努力学习。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He enrolled with an employment agency for a teaching position. 他在职业介绍所登了记以谋求一个教师的职位。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 diagnosed 615a2f5168d9dcfef319c67955d91496     
诊断( diagnose的过去式和过去分词 )
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  • Some foetal malformations cannot be diagnosed until late in pregnancy. 有些胎儿的畸形部位得等到妊娠后期才能诊断出来。
  • He diagnosed the trouble that caused the engine to knock. 他找出了引擎咔咔响的毛病所在。
8 arthritis XeyyE     
n.关节炎
参考例句：
  • Rheumatoid arthritis has also been linked with the virus.风湿性关节炎也与这种病毒有关。
  • He spent three months in the hospital with acute rheumatic arthritis.他患急性风湿性关节炎，在医院住了三个月。
9 disease etMxx     
n.疾病，弊端
参考例句：
  • The doctors are trying to stamp out the disease.医生正在尽力消灭这种疾病。
  • He fought against the disease for a long time.他同疾病做了长时间的斗争。
10 recalled 14a1dad1f060e2cfc44ed538f81fab64     
回忆起( recall的过去式和过去分词 )； 使想起； 使想到； 勾起
参考例句：
  • I recalled that he had mentioned the problem once. 我回忆起他曾经有一次提到过这个问题。
  • The sight recalled the days of childhood to me. 那情景使我回忆起童年。

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