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巴厘岛"安宁日"全岛停摆，一个瑞士游客照样出门，拍了视频发上网。他被判了一年。
Swiss Tourist Jailed for Breaking Bali's Silence Day
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Swiss Tourist Jailed for Breaking Bali's Silence Day. HSK 1 Chinese listening practice.
This is an HSK 1 Chinese listening episode that runs about 2 minutes. The full Mandarin script is shown with tap-for-pinyin and a line-by-line English translation, so you can listen and read at once — comprehensible input in the sense of Stephen Krashen's i+1 theory. It teaches 6 key vocabulary words such as 电视、飞机、知道 and walks through 2 grammar patterns, each explained in English with examples. The same news story is retold at 4 difficulty levels — use the level selector above to find the version that is challenging but still understandable for you.
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English transcript reference
Bali is an island.
A lot of people go to Bali.
One day a year in Bali, you cannot go out.
That day is called Nyepi.
On Nyepi, everybody stays at home.
No going out, no television on, no phone calls.
No planes come in, and no planes go out.
For one day, a whole island is very quiet.
This year, one person did not listen.
He went out.
He filmed a video and posted it to Instagram.
He said: this is terrible.
The people of Bali saw it.
The people of Bali were very unhappy.
They said: this day is a big thing to us.
In August, a court in Bali spoke.
The court said: you will be here for one year.
One year, and you cannot go home.
He said: I am sorry.
He said: that day I wanted to eat, I did not know.
But he did know.
Before he went out, the people at the house told him: today you cannot go out.
One island, a great many people, one day, nobody goes out.
One person went out — and he filmed it, and he posted it.
Think about it:
When you go to a new island, do you want to know what they do there?
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇不开电视 — no television on.
On that day, none come and none go.
The turn of the story: he said he did not 知道 — but he did.
The single word the whole episode turns on. 不出门 = stay in.
What a whole island becomes for one day.
Bali is one. 一个岛 — one island, all quiet.
* beyond level超纲词
What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法不 + verb，不 + verb
Stacks prohibitions in a row — a plain, forceful way to list what you may not do.
不出门，不开电视，不打电话。 — No going out, no TV, no phone calls.
……的时候
When / at the time that. The clause comes before 的时候.
他出门的时候，家里的人对他说…… — When he went out, the people at the house said to him…
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