一只鹅不小心踩了青蛙一脚，青蛙认为是鹅故意踩了自己，就生气地大叫起来。小草在一旁看到了，就很温和地说：“你应该对待别人宽宏大量一点，别让人说你是个小气鬼”。
A goose accidentally stepped on a frog’s foot, and the frog yelled angrily, thinking that the goose had stepped on itself on purpose. Little grass saw it on the side, and said mildly: “You should treat others with magnanimity, don’t let people call you a petty person”.
反语是指正话反说或反话正说，又称“反讽”、“反说”、“反辞”等，即通常所说的“说反话”，运用跟本意相反的词语来表达此意，却含有否定、讽刺以及嘲弄的意思，是一种带有强烈感情色彩的修辞方法。不论是正话反说,还是反话正说，比起直白的表达来都更为有力,语气更为强烈,情感更为充沛,给人的印象也更加鲜明。辞表和辞里的极端偏离,使言外之意、弦外之音更为深刻。
例句 Example sentence：
nǐ zhēn cōng ming ! zhè me róng yì de tí mù yě huì zuò cuò ?
你真聪明！这么容易的题目也会做错？
You are so smart! How did you make a mistake for such an easy question?
直观的主语-动词-宾语词顺序
在最基本的层面上，汉语的句子结构与英语惊人地相似。和英语一样，许多基本的汉语句子都使用主语-动词或主语-动词-宾语结构。比如说
Straightforward subject-verb-object word order
At the most basic level, Chinese sentence structure is surprisingly similar to English. As in English, many basic Chinese sentences use a subject-verb or subject-verb-object structure. For example:
