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积压的案子
Trump's EPA Lets Pollution Lawsuits Pile Up — A Simple Look at the Case Backlog
HSK 1 Chinese listening practice. A simple story about Trump's EPA letting pollution lawsuits pile up as fewer workers manage the dirty cases.
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 10 key vocabulary words such as 积压、案子、污染 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.
To pile up or accumulate. Used here to describe cases that are not finished.
A noun referring to a law case or a specific file to be handled. Measure word: 个 (gè).
Contamination of the environment. Can be a noun or a verb.
A legal battle or court case. Often used with '打' (dǎ) meaning 'to force a lawsuit'.
The group of people with the authority to govern a country or state.
A business organization. Measure word: 家 (jiā).
Adjective describing something not clean.
Verb meaning to look after, take care of, or enforce rules upon.
A person who does manual labor or works for a company.
Adjective describing a small quantity. Opposite of 多 (duō - many).
Simple description of a noun. '很' (hěn) is often used as a linker, not always meaning 'very'.
水很脏
官司很少
人很少
A pattern used in this script to define new terms in English for the listener.
污染 means pollution
积压 means backlog