An ordinary villager and his 400 "children"

时间：2007-08-21 07:00:31

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Chinanews, Beijing, Aug. 21 – Zheng Chengren, a 60-year-old bachelor1 that never married, has adopted 400 children. Most of these children call Zheng “father”.

 

Zheng, who lives in a village in Jinan, Shandong Province, has become prematurely2 old from a lifetime3 of hard work. In the past 20 years he has adopted 400 children, and local officials claimed what he has done prove his love and responsibility4 for the young.

 

Zheng wouldn’t keep his past secret from our reporter. He told this reporter that he once committed5 a crime6 and served prison a sentence behind the bar. He adopted his first child near Jinan Railway Station in summer 1987, and this child has lived with Zheng for 3 months. Zheng later sent the child back to his parents, and thought he had done a good thing.

 

From then on, he started to adopted children on the streets, and for this his life become more and more difficult. Sometimes he had to collect rags-and-bones in order to keep all these children alive. Local government also supports these children and sent them to school.

 

Zheng told this reporter that some of these children had become managers, and some had gone to study in college.

 
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1 bachelor Ou0z8     
n.单身汉，未婚者；学士学位
参考例句：
  • She was a bachelor woman.她是一个独立生活的未婚女子。
  • I graduated from Qinghua University and got a Bachelor Degree.我毕业于清华大学，获得学士学位.
2 prematurely nlMzW4     
adv.过早地，贸然地
参考例句：
  • She was born prematurely with poorly developed lungs. 她早产，肺部未发育健全。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • His hair was prematurely white, but his busy eyebrows were still jet-black. 他的头发已经白了，不过两道浓眉还是乌黑乌黑的。 来自辞典例句
3 lifetime A1zxS     
n.一生，终身，寿命，使用期限
参考例句：
  • He wrote many books during his lifetime.他一生著作甚多。
  • During his lifetime his work was never published.他的作品在他的有生之年从未出版过。
4 responsibility sWtx7     
n.责任，职责
参考例句：
  • The safety of the ship is the captain's responsibility.确保船的安全是船长的责任。
  • The matter is outside my area of the responsibility.此事超出我的责任范围。
5 committed zwOzXR     
a.坚定的，献身的，忠诚的
参考例句：
  • They called for assurances that the government is committed to its education policy. 他们要求保证政府切实执行其教育方针。
  • He committed the cardinal sin of criticizing his teammates. 他犯了指责队友的大错。
6 crime SzkxN     
n.犯罪，罪行，罪恶
参考例句：
  • You'll have to pay for your crime.你得为你的罪行付出代价。
  • Crime in our big cities is on the increase.在我们大城市里犯罪率正在增长。

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