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《每日邮报》说找到了隐居十七年的 Meg White，发了十几张跟拍照片。照片上的人不是她。
The Daily Mail Said It Found Meg White After 17 Years and Ran a Dozen Photos. The Woman in Them Wasn’t Her.
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The Daily Mail Said It Found Meg White After 17 Years and Ran a Dozen Photos. The Woman in Them Wasn’t Her. HSK 1 Chinese listening practice.
This is an HSK 1 Chinese listening episode that runs about 1 minute. 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 看见、知道、朋友 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
There was a person called Meg White.
She played drums, and a lot of people knew who she was.
Now, she does not play the drums.
She does not come out, and other people cannot see her.
For seventeen years, nobody saw her.
In August, a newspaper said: we have found her.
In the newspaper there were photos — a lot of photos.
More than ten photos, all of them taken.
The newspaper said: seventeen years, and there were none.
The person taking the photos saw someone.
He said to that person: are you Meg White?
That person laughed.
She said: you are wrong, I am not.
She said it, and the newspaper published it anyway.
Afterwards, someone who knows Meg White saw the photos.
She said: the person in the photos is not Meg White.
It is a friend of Meg White’s.
The newspaper stopped running the photos.
But the newspaper did not say: I am sorry.
Meg White does not want people to see her; for seventeen years she has not come out.
And now the newspaper has published photos of somebody else.
Think about it:
A person does not want to be seen by others — and that is very hard.
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇The word the whole episode turns on: for seventeen years nobody 看见 her.
很多人都知道她 — a lot of people knew who she was.
The woman in the photos was a 朋友 of hers, not her.
报 to report, 纸 paper.
十几张照片 — more than ten photographs.
你错了 — you are wrong. What she told him, to his face.
* beyond level超纲词
What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法没有人 + verb
Nobody does something. 没有人 is the subject.
十七年，没有人看见她。 — For seventeen years, nobody saw her.
没有人知道。 — Nobody knows.
不想 + 别人 + verb
Does not want other people to do something.
她不想别人看见她。 — She does not want other people to see her.
Proper Nouns
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