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丹麦首相刚从乌克兰回来,收到整形医生的私信:"我可以帮你把鼻子上那块弄掉。"

Denmark's PM Gets Unsolicited Nose-Fix Offer

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Denmark's PM Gets Unsolicited Nose-Fix Offer. 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 医生、写、岁 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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原文

Read the complete story in Chinese. Reveal pinyin and English only when you need them.

丹麦有一个首相,是一个五十岁的人。
这个星期,她去了乌克兰。
乌克兰那里,很不好。
她在乌克兰的时候,听到了很大的声音。
声音一来,大家都要下去。
上面不好,下面好。
她在那里几天,听到了几次那个声音。
后来,她回丹麦了。
到家,她看电话。
电话上,有人给她写了字。
写字的人,是一个医生。
医生写:你的鼻子上,有一个小东西。
医生写:我可以给你弄好。
她看了,心里很生气。
在乌克兰,是那个大声音。
在家里,是这句话。
她说:这样的话,我看了很多年。
有人说她的牙不好看。
有人说她的头发太少。
有人说她的鼻子不好看。
有人说:你去弄一弄,会好看。
这样的话,太多,太多了。
这一次,她说话了。
她说:我五十岁了。
她说:我五十岁,我就是这样。
她说:我的身体,我很喜欢。
她说:我的身体,我说了算。
我的身体,很好。
她还做了一个很好的事。
她把医生写的字,给大家看了。
可是,她没有说医生的名字。
她没有说他叫什么。
她说了她要说的话。
她没有这样对那个医生。
你想一想:
有人说你的身体不好看,你会说话吗?
English transcript reference

Denmark has a prime minister. She is fifty years old.

This week, she went to Ukraine.

Things in Ukraine are very bad.

While she was in Ukraine, she heard a very loud sound.

When the sound comes, everybody has to go down.

Up above is not safe. Down below is.

She was there a few days, and heard that sound several times.

Then she went back to Denmark.

She got home and looked at her phone.

On the phone, someone had written to her.

The person who wrote was a doctor.

The doctor wrote: on your nose, there is a little something.

The doctor wrote: I can fix it for you.

She read it, and inside she was very angry.

In Ukraine, it was that loud sound.

At home, it was this sentence.

She said: I have been reading messages like this for many years.

Some people say her teeth are not nice.

Some people say her hair is too thin.

Some people say her nose is not nice.

Some people say: go and get it done, you will look better.

Messages like this — far, far too many.

This time, she spoke.

She said: I am fifty years old.

She said: I am fifty, and this is how I am.

She said: my body — I like it very much.

She said: my body — I decide.

My body is fine.

And she did one more thing, which I like very much.

She showed everyone what the doctor had written.

But she did not say the doctor’s name.

She did not say what he was called.

She said what she wanted to say.

But she did not do this to him.

Think about it:

If someone says your body is not nice, will you speak?

Listen again

Try it without the transcript and notice what sounds clearer.

What vocabulary does this episode teach?

词汇
yīshēngdoctor

The person who sent the message.

xiěto write

医生写:…… — the doctor wrote…

suìyears of age

我五十岁了 — I am fifty years old. The line the whole episode rests on.

shǒuxiàngprime minister

首 head, 相 minister.

bízinose

What the message was about.

shēntǐbody

我的身体,我说了算 — my body, I decide.

* beyond level超纲词

What grammar patterns appear in this episode?

语法

……的时候

When / while. The clause comes before 的时候.

她在乌克兰的时候,听到了很大的声音。

我说了算

I am the one who decides. A fixed, forceful phrase.

我的身体,我说了算。 — My body, I decide.

Proper nouns

专有名词
丹麦DānmàiDenmark乌克兰WūkèlánUkraine

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