A : Mr Parker, tomorrow morning is your final meeting and then you’re done. Before you leave Taiwan, is there anything you’d like to see?
B : I heard that Taiwanese hot springs are famous.
A : OK, why don’t I take you to the hot springs in Beitou tomorrow?
A : Mr Parker您剩下明天上午最後一個會議，所有行程就結束了。離台前，想去哪裡看看呢？
B : 聽說台灣的溫泉很有名。
A : 好，明天我帶您去北投泡溫泉，如何？
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A: Some toys were cool, some were badly conceived and some were toxic. B: Toxic? What do you mean? A: I had a collection of cartoon figurines. They were part of a promotion from a gas station. It turns out there was lead in the paint used on them. They had to be withdrawn. Lead paint is toxic. B: I remember those. They later reintroduced them with non-toxic paint, didn’t they? And the ones with the safe paint had a little blue spot on the base of the foot to distinguish them from the poisonous ones. A: That’s right.
The toys we had when we were young (5/5) 我們小時候玩的玩具（五） A: And then later, when we were teenagers, we put away the toys and played with games consoles instead. B: Ah yes, simplistic game scenarios and block graphics, with low quality audio and visual effects. A: That’s right. And they came on tapes that wore out after a couple of months because we played the games every night after school. B: They’re not a fraction of the quality or sophistication of the current generation of computer games, but I used to love playing those. A: It was just the generation we were in, I guess. B: That’s
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