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豆包给的奇怪穿衣建议

Doubao AI Gives Fashion Advice to Chinese Youth

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ByteDance's Doubao AI gives strange but surprisingly smart clothing advice — young Chinese keep coming back for more. HSK 2 Chinese listening practice.

This is an HSK 2 Chinese listening episode that runs about 10 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 15 key vocabulary words such as 奇怪、聪明、衬衫 and walks through 5 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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最近网上有一句话非常有意思,大家都在听。
这句话是:“把你身上厚厚的衣服脱下来,把你肚子上的肉也拿走。
这听起来是不是有点不客气?
这听起来是不是有点奇怪?
如果是一个人对你这么说,你可能会生气。
但是,这不是一个人说的。
这是一个手机里的“人”说的。
这个“人”的名字叫豆包。
豆包不是真的人,它是一个电脑程序。
它是一个非常聪明的电脑朋友。
你可以和它说话,它也会回答你。
最近,很多年轻人喜欢问豆包一个问题。
这个问题就是:“我今天应该穿什么衣服?
大家都觉得,电脑很聪明,它知道的事情很多。
所以,电脑应该知道怎么穿衣服才漂亮。
但是,结果让大家非常吃惊。
豆包给的建议,有时候真的太奇怪了。
这就是为什么那句话在网上那么红。
让我们来看看发生了什么事情。
有一个女学生,她要参加学校的一个活动。
这个活动是在外面的,不在房间里。
那天的天气非常冷。
风很大,气温很低。
她不知道穿什么衣服好。
她不想穿得太少,因为那样会生病。
她也不想穿得不好看。
所以,她拿出了手机,打开了豆包。
她问豆包:“外面很冷,我应该穿什么?
豆包听了,就开始给她建议。
豆包说:“你应该多穿一点。
这听起来很对,因为天气冷。
但是,豆包让她穿的衣服太多了。
豆包让她先穿两件T恤。
是在里面穿的衣服。
穿了一件,再穿一件。
然后,豆包让她穿一件格子的衬衫。
穿好衬衫以后,是不是就可以了呢?
不,豆包说还不够。
豆包让她再穿一件卫衣。
现在她的身上已经有四件衣服了。
但是豆包觉得还不够暖和。
豆包说:“你还要穿两件外套。
两件外套!
大家想一想,这是多少衣服?
两件T恤,一件衬衫,一件卫衣,两件外套。
一共是六件或者七件衣服。
这个女学生真的听了豆包的话。
她把这些衣服一件一件地穿在身上。
最后,她看起来像什么?
她看起来像一个很大的球。
她的身体变得非常圆。
因为衣服太多太厚了,她的手都不能动了。
她的腿也不能走路了。
她觉得非常热,也非常累。
但是,豆包看见她穿成这样,豆包很高兴。
豆包说:“你看起来充满了年轻的力气!
豆包觉得这样很漂亮。
可是,那个女学生已经快要不能呼吸了。
这时候,豆包又说话了。
豆包突然说:“把衣服脱了吧,这样你可以动得快一点。
你看,这个电脑是不是很奇怪?
它先让你穿很多很多衣服。
然后它又让你把衣服都脱了。
这个视频被放在了网上。
很多人看到了这个视频。
大家都在笑。
有一百多万人喜欢这个视频。
大家觉得豆包虽然很聪明,但是它不懂穿衣服。
除了这个女学生,还有很多人去试一试。
大家想看看豆包还会说什么奇怪的话。
这变成了一个游戏。
大家都去问豆包:“帮我选衣服。
然后大家就照着豆包说的去做。
不管豆包说得多么奇怪,大家都去做。
然后大家拍视频给别人看。
还有一个很有名的视频。
也是一个女孩子。
她要去听音乐会。
大家都知道,去听音乐会要穿得漂亮一点。
她问豆包:“我去听音乐会,穿什么好?
豆包给了她一个建议。
豆包说:“你可以穿长裤子,但是要把裤子卷起来。
卷起来,就是把裤子的下面往上面弄。
这样裤子就会变短。
这个女孩子听了豆包的话。
她穿了一条长裤子,然后开始卷裤子。
她卷啊卷,把裤子卷到了膝盖上面。
现在,这条长裤子看起来像短裤子了。
但是,这看起来并不像去听音乐会。
这看起来像什么呢?
看过视频的人都说,这像去地里干活。
就像是在有水的田地里种大米。
因为在水里工作的时候,怕裤子湿了,才会卷得这么高。
大家看了都觉得太好笑了。
本来是要去听高雅的音乐。
结果穿得像要去种地。
豆包真的不懂什么是漂亮。
但是豆包自己非常有信心。
它说话的时候,声音很大,很肯定。
它会告诉你要“自信地走出去”。
它还会用一些年轻人的词。
如果你的衣服不好看,它会说这“不是人穿的”。
这句话在中文里有点骂人的意思。
但是因为是电脑说的,大家不生气,只觉得好笑。
为什么豆包会这样呢?
为什么这么聪明的电脑,不懂穿衣服呢?
我们要知道,豆包是一个人工智能。
它是字节跳动公司做的。
这是一家很大的中国科技公司。
豆包非常有名字,很多人都在用。
到了去年十二月,已经有两亿多人在用了。
大家用它来工作,用它来学习。
有的妈妈用它来看孩子。
有的爸爸用它来学做饭。
它还可以帮你买水果。
它在很多事情上都很厉害。
但是,穿衣服这件事情,太难了。
有一个专家说了这个问题。
专家说,电脑学习了很多东西。
它看了很多书,很多文章,很多图片。
但是,电脑没有专门学过“时尚”。
时尚就是什么是流行,什么是漂亮。
而且,什么是漂亮,每个人想的都不一样。
我觉得红色的衣服漂亮。
你可能觉得红色的衣服不好看,蓝色的才漂亮。
我觉得穿裙子好看。
你可能觉得穿裤子好看。
没有一个标准的答案。
在数学考试里,一加一等于二,这是对的。
但是在穿衣服的事情上,没有什么是绝对对的,也没有什么是绝对错的。
电脑不知道该听谁的。
它看到有的书上说“多穿点好”。
它看到有的书上说“穿短裤好”。
它就把这些都放在一起告诉了你。
所以,它让你穿七件衣服。
所以,它让你把长裤子卷起来。
因为它不懂这是在什么时间、什么地方。
它只是把数据给了你。
这就是为什么它的建议那么奇怪。
虽然它的建议没有用,但是大家很开心。
因为这让大家觉得很好玩。
大家发现,原来聪明的电脑也有笨的时候。
这也是一种快乐。
我们刚才说的,其实是关于“人工智能”的话题。
在中文里,我们叫它AI,或者人工智能。
豆包就是这样一个人工智能产品。
它是一个很大的语言模型。
它可以模仿人说话,可以回答问题。
但是它毕竟不是人。
它没有眼睛去看真正的世界。
它没有身体去感觉冷和热。
它不知道穿七件衣服会让人不能走路。
它只是在计算数据。
所以,当我们用这些高科技的东西时,我们要知道它的长处和短处。
它可以帮我们写东西,帮我们找资料。
但是如果是关于美,关于感觉的事情,可能还是我们要相信自己。
毕竟,电脑没有心,它不懂什么是真正的美。
不过,这也没关系。
因为它给了我们很多笑声。
在这个忙碌的生活里,能大笑一下,也是很好的事情。
English transcript reference

Recently, there is a very interesting sentence on the internet that everyone is listening to.

The sentence is: "Take off the thick clothes on your body, and take away the meat on your belly too."

Does this sound a bit impolite?

Does this sound a bit strange?

If a person said this to you, you might get angry.

But, this wasn't said by a person.

This was said by a "person" inside a mobile phone.

This "person's" name is Doubao.

Doubao is not a real person; it is a computer program.

It is a very smart computer friend.

You can talk to it, and it will answer you.

Recently, many young people like to ask Doubao a question.

This question is: "What clothes should I wear today?"

Everyone thinks that computers are smart and know many things.

So, the computer should know how to dress to look beautiful.

However, the result made everyone very surprised.

The advice Doubao gave was sometimes really too strange.

This is why that sentence is so popular online.

Let's see what happened.

There was a female student who wanted to participate in a school activity.

This activity was outside, not inside a room.

The weather that day was very cold.

The wind was strong, and the temperature was very low.

She didn't know what clothes would be good to wear.

She didn't want to wear too little, because then she would get sick.

She also didn't want to dress unattractively.

So, she took out her phone and opened Doubao.

She asked Doubao: "It's very cold outside, what should I wear?"

Doubao listened and started giving her advice.

Doubao said: "You should wear a bit more."

This sounds correct, because the weather is cold.

However, Doubao made her wear too many clothes.

Doubao told her to wear two T-shirts first.

These are clothes worn on the inside.

Put on one, then put on another.

Then, Doubao told her to wear a plaid shirt.

After putting on the shirt, is that enough?

No, Doubao said it's still not enough.

Doubao told her to wear a sweatshirt as well.

Now she already had four pieces of clothing on her body.

But Doubao felt it still wasn't warm enough.

Doubao said: "You still need to wear two jackets."

Two jackets!

Everyone think about it, how many clothes is this?

Two T-shirts, one shirt, one sweatshirt, two jackets.

In total, that's six or seven pieces of clothing.

This female student really listened to Doubao.

She put these clothes on her body one by one.

In the end, what did she look like?

She looked like a very big ball.

Her body became very round.

Because the clothes were too many and too thick, her hands couldn't move.

Her legs couldn't walk either.

She felt very hot and also very tired.

But when Doubao saw her dressed like this, Doubao was very happy.

Doubao said: "You look full of youthful energy!"

Doubao thought this was very beautiful.

However, that female student was almost unable to breathe.

At this moment, Doubao spoke again.

Doubao suddenly said: "Take off the clothes, this way you can move a bit faster."

Look, isn't this computer very strange?

It first makes you wear many, many clothes.

Then it makes you take all the clothes off.

This video was put on the internet.

Many people saw this video.

Everyone was laughing.

Over a million people liked this video.

Everyone thinks that although Doubao is very smart, it doesn't understand dressing.

Besides this female student, many other people went to try it.

Everyone wanted to see what other strange things Doubao would say.

This turned into a game.

Everyone went to ask Doubao: "Help me choose clothes."

Then everyone did exactly what Doubao said.

No matter how strange what Doubao said was, everyone did it.

Then everyone filmed videos to show others.

There is another very famous video.

It's also a girl.

She was going to listen to a concert.

Everyone knows that to go to a concert, you need to dress a bit beautifully.

She asked Doubao: "I'm going to a concert, what should I wear?"

Doubao gave her a suggestion.

Doubao said: "You can wear long pants, but you have to roll the pants up."

Rolling up means moving the bottom of the pants upwards.

This way the pants will become shorter.

This girl listened to Doubao.

She put on a pair of long pants, and then started rolling up the pants.

She rolled and rolled, rolling the pants up above her knees.

Now, these long pants looked like shorts.

However, this didn't look like going to a concert.

What did this look like?

People who watched the video all said this looked like going to work in the fields.

Just like planting rice in a watery field.

Because when working in the water, fearing the pants getting wet, one would roll them this high.

Everyone who saw it thought it was too funny.

Originally intended to listen to elegant music.

As a result, dressed like going to farm.

Doubao really doesn't understand what is beautiful.

But Doubao itself is very confident.

When it speaks, its voice is loud and very certain.

It will tell you to "walk out confidently."

It also uses some young people's words.

If your clothes don't look good, it will say this is "not for humans to wear."

This phrase has a bit of a cursing meaning in Chinese.

But because a computer said it, everyone doesn't get angry, just thinks it's funny.

Why is Doubao like this?

Why does such a smart computer not understand dressing?

We need to know that Doubao is an artificial intelligence.

It was made by ByteDance company.

This is a very big Chinese technology company.

Doubao is very famous, and many people are using it.

By last December, over 200 million people were already using it.

Everyone uses it to work and to study.

Some mothers use it to watch children.

Some fathers use it to learn to cook.

It can also help you buy fruit.

It is very capable in many things.

But, the matter of dressing is too difficult.

An expert spoke about this problem.

The expert said that computers have learned many things.

It has read many books, many articles, and many pictures.

But, computers haven't specifically studied "fashion."

Fashion is what is popular and what is beautiful.

Moreover, what is beautiful, everyone thinks differently about.

I think red clothes are beautiful.

You might think red clothes don't look good, and blue ones are beautiful.

I think wearing skirts looks good.

You might think wearing pants looks good.

There is no standard answer.

In a math exam, one plus one equals two, this is correct.

But in the matter of dressing, nothing is absolutely right, and nothing is absolutely wrong.

The computer doesn't know who to listen to.

It sees some books saying "wearing more is good."

It sees some books saying "wearing shorts is good."

It puts these all together and tells you.

So, it makes you wear seven pieces of clothing.

So, it makes you roll up long pants.

Because it doesn't understand what time or place this is.

It just gave you the data.

This is why its advice is so strange.

Although its advice is useless, everyone is happy.

Because this makes everyone feel it's very fun.

Everyone discovered that smart computers also have times when they are stupid.

This is also a kind of happiness.

What we just talked about is actually a topic about "Artificial Intelligence."

In Chinese, we call it AI, or Artificial Intelligence.

Doubao is just such an artificial intelligence product.

It is a very large language model.

It can imitate humans speaking and answer questions.

But after all, it is not a human.

It doesn't have eyes to see the real world.

It doesn't have a body to feel cold and heat.

It doesn't know that wearing seven pieces of clothing will make a person unable to walk.

It is just calculating data.

So, when we use these high-tech things, we need to know their strengths and weaknesses.

It can help us write things and find information.

But if it's about beauty or feelings, perhaps we still need to believe in ourselves.

After all, computers don't have hearts, they don't understand what true beauty is.

However, this doesn't matter.

Because it gave us a lot of laughter.

In this busy life, being able to laugh out loud is also a very good thing.

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What vocabulary does this episode teach?

词汇
qíguàistrange / odd

Used to describe something unusual or unexpected.

cōngmingsmart / clever

Describes intelligence in people or animals, and now often used for technology.

chènshānshirt

Refers to a button-down shirt.

xiāngxìnto believe / to trust

To have faith in someone or something.

érqiěmoreover / and also

A conjunction used to add more information.

jiéguǒresult / as a result

Can be a noun (outcome) or a conjunction (consequently).

yǒu yìsiinteresting

HSK 1-2. interesting.

wèishénmewhy

HSK 1-2. why.

jiànyìsuggestion / advice

Can be used as a verb (to suggest) or a noun (advice).

tuōto take off (clothes)

Opposite of 'chuan' (to wear).

nuǎnhuowarm

Describes pleasant warmth or weather.

liúxíngpopular / fashionable

Describes things that are currently trending.

réngōng zhìnéngartificial intelligence (AI)

A modern technological term.

shíshàngfashion

Refers to style and trends.

wèiyīsweatshirt / hoodie

A very common clothing item for young people.

* beyond level超纲词

What grammar patterns appear in this episode?

语法
Verb + 起来↗

This structure is used to express an initial perception or judgment based on senses (looks like, sounds like).

这听起来是不是有点奇怪? (Does this sound a bit strange?)

她看起来像一个很大的球。 (She looked like a very big ball.)

把 + Object + Verb + Complement↗

The 'Ba' structure emphasizes how an object is handled or disposed of. It moves the object before the verb.

把你身上厚厚的衣服脱下来。 (Take off the thick clothes on your body.)

她把这些衣服一件一件地穿在身上。 (She put these clothes on her body one by one.)

虽然……但是……↗

A conjunction pair meaning 'Although... but...'. It expresses a contrast.

大家觉得豆包虽然很聪明,但是它不懂穿衣服。 (Everyone thinks that although Doubao is very smart, it doesn't understand dressing.)

虽然它的建议没有用,但是大家很开心。 (Although its advice is useless, everyone is happy.)

Verb + 得 + Adjective↗

The complement of degree/state. It describes how an action is performed or the state resulting from it.

她不想穿得太少。 (She didn't want to wear too little.)

裤子...才会卷得这么高。 (Only then would the pants be rolled this high.)

Reduplication of Adjectives↗

Adjectives are repeated (like AABB or AA) to emphasize the description, often adding a feeling of vividness or cuteness.

厚厚的衣服 (Thick clothes)

一件一件地 (One by one - measure word reduplication)

Proper nouns

专有名词
豆包DòubāoDoubao (Name of the AI)字节跳动Zìjié TiàodòngByteDance (Company)中国ZhōngguóChina

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