About Chinese Language

gū niáng zhǎo dào méi rén，shuō ：“nǐ qī piàn le wǒ 。tā de yī zhī yǎn
姑娘　找　到　媒人，说　：“你欺　骗　了我。他的一只　眼　

shì jiǎ yǎn ，nǐ yǐ qián wèi shén me bù gào sù wǒ ？”
是　假　眼，你以　前　为　什　么不告诉我？”

“zěn me méi gào sù nǐ ？”méi rén yě bù gān shì ruò ，
“怎　么没　告　诉你？”媒人也不甘　示　弱，

“nǐ men dì yī huí jiàn miàn hòu ，wǒ jiù shuō ，
“你们　第一回　见　面　后　，我就　说，

tā yī yǎn jiù kàn zhòng nǐ le 。”
他一眼就看中　你了。”　

The girl found the matchmaker and said, "You cheated me ! One of his eyes

is not true. Why didn't you tell me that before ?"

"I have told you. " said the matchmaker with justice on his side, When you

met first, I told you that he settled on you with one eye.

Yeah, maybe you are confused now, what is the joke make sense of ? To

understand the humorous point in this story, you should know the word “一

眼（yi yan）”. The phrase has two meanings, one is with one eye, the

other is at the first sight.

This story told us that the matchmaker introduced a man to a girl .The

girl finally found that one eye of the man was not true. She went to asked

the matchmaker why he didn’t tell her about this before.The matchmaker

answer: 你们　第一回　见　面　后，他一眼就看中　你了。There are

two meanings of this sentences. One means that When you met first he

settled on you with the first sight. The other one is that When you met

first he settled on you with one eye. In fact the matchmaker did cheat the

girl, but the girl can’t complain the matchmaker any more. And how can we

use this phrase? For example, if you like something so much at the first

sight when shoping , you can tell your friend: 我一眼就看中它了！（wǒ yī

yǎn jiù kàn zhòng tā le！）