Shopkeeper: Anything you like?
店家:有什么喜欢的吗?
Ben: I'm interested in Chinese antiques.
本:我对中国古董感兴趣。
Shopkeeper: We have a great variety of Chinese antiques. We have landscape paintings, figure paintings and flower-and-bird paintings.
店家:我们有各种各样的中国古董。我们有山水画、人物画和花鸟画。
Ben: I'd like a flower-and-bird painting.
本:我想要一幅花鸟画。
Shopkeeper: How about this picture of cranes with pine trees? It was painted by a famous Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty. And what is more, in traditional Chinese thinking, cranes and pine trees symbolize longevity.
店家:您看这幅松鹤画如何?这是中国清代的一位著名画家画的。还有,按照中国的传统观念,仙鹤与松树都是长寿的象征。
Ben: Oh, they look just like live cranes. How much is it?
本:哦,这些仙鹤看上去就像真的一样。多少钱?
Shopkeeper: It's 5,000 yuan.
店家:5000元。
Ben: I'll think about it.
本:我再考虑考虑。