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From [livejournal.com profile] featheredfrog:

BOOKWORM:

  1. Grab the nearest book.
  2. Open the book to page 123.
  3. Find the fifth sentence.
  4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
  5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.

OK, using the first book that caught my eye (which happened to be a dictionary, so I'm substituting "entry" for "sentence"):

follower n. 信徒 syìntú; seuntòuH;
弟子 dìdž daiHjí
following a.
-succeeding 下列 syàlyè; haHliHt;
-next 第二 dìer daiHyiH
folly n.
-foolish act 愚行 yúsyíng; yùHhàHng;
-lewdness 淫亂 yínlwàn yàHmlyuHn
fond a.
-pleased 喜歡 syǐhwan; héifùn;
-tender 憐愛 lyánài lìHnoi
font n.
-batismal [sic] 聖洗缸 shèngsyǐgāng singsáigōng;
-fountain chywàn chyùHn

--Janey Chen, A Practical English-Chinese Pronouncing Dictionary (ISBN 0-8048-0663-2). Rutland, VT, and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1970.

(BTW, all the Chinese characters have their pronunciation indicated in bopomofo ruby, which I didn't bother reproducing. The third column is Mandarin, and the fourth is Cantonese; both use the Yale romanization.)

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