Chinese Vocabulary
自动
automatic
zìdòng
Usage
Automatic. The whole episode interrogates this word — and argues that today's '自动驾驶' is not yet really automatic.
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自动 appears in 5 podcast episodes at natural native speed, with full Chinese script, pinyin, and line-by-line English translation.
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