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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 Came Home From Ukraine to a Plastic Surgeon’s DM Offering to "Fix That Little Spot" on Her Nose.
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Denmark’s PM Came Home From Ukraine to a Plastic Surgeon’s DM Offering to "Fix That Little Spot" on Her Nose. 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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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?
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Try it without the transcript and notice what sounds clearer.
What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇The person who sent the message.
医生写:…… — the doctor wrote…
我五十岁了 — I am fifty years old. The line the whole episode rests on.
首 head, 相 minister.
What the message was about.
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Sources
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