he family was too poor to buy him a Chinese brush and paper

问题描述:

he family was too poor to buy him a Chinese brush and paper
to buy him a Chinese是什么?怎么翻译

too...to...是固定搭配:太...而不能...
a Chinese brush是“毛笔”,paper在这儿的意思是“宣纸”
全句的意思是:他们家穷得连毛笔和宣纸都买不起.