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东野圭吾走了：让全亚洲熬夜的推理之王，留下最后一部《永远的记忆》
Keigo Higashino Is Gone: The Man Who Kept Asia Up at Night Leaves One Last Novel, The Eternal Memory
An intermediate Chinese listening story on Keigo Higashino: the prolific mystery master who turned crime into stories of love and sacrifice died of colon cancer at 68, leaving a final Detective Galileo novel out August 5.
This is an HSK 5-6 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 11 key vocabulary words such as 作品、世界、离开 and walks through 3 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.
如果要在推理小说这一行里，找一个"让全亚洲都熬夜"的名字，那多半就是东野圭吾。
If you had to name one person in mystery fiction who "kept all of Asia up at night," it would most likely be Keigo Higashino.
过去几十年，他写了一百多部作品，高产得惊人，却几乎本本都好看。
Over the past few decades he wrote more than a hundred works — astonishingly prolific, yet nearly every one of them was good.
他厉害的地方，是把冷冰冰的案件，写成了一个个关于爱、牺牲和人性的故事。
His gift was taking cold, hard criminal cases and turning them into stories about love, sacrifice, and human nature.
《白夜行》《嫌疑人X的献身》《解忧杂货店》，这些名字，对很多中国读者来说，几乎就是青春的一部分。
Journey Under the Midnight Sun, The Devotion of Suspect X, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store — for many Chinese readers, these titles are almost a part of their youth.
无数人都有过同样的夜晚：本想睡前翻几页，结果一口气读到天亮，合上书还久久缓不过来。
Countless people share the same kind of night: you mean to flip a few pages before bed, end up reading straight through to dawn, and long after closing the book you still can't quite come back to yourself.
正因为好看，他的小说被一次次搬上大银幕，中国、日本、韩国都在拍。
Because they were so good, his novels were brought to the big screen again and again — in China, Japan, and Korea.
可就在这个月，噩耗传来。
But just this month, the terrible news came.
七月二十三号，东野圭吾因结肠癌去世，享年六十八岁。
On July 23rd, Keigo Higashino died of colon cancer, at the age of sixty-eight.
对全世界的读者来说，这就像突然失去了一位陪伴多年的老朋友。
For readers all over the world, it felt like suddenly losing an old friend of many years.
但他还是留了一个温柔的告别。
Yet he still left a gentle goodbye.
他生前写完的最后一部长篇，也就是伽利略系列的《永远的记忆》，将在八月五号出版。
The last full-length novel he finished before his death — The Eternal Memory, part of his Detective Galileo series — will be published on August 5th.
也就是说，就在他离开两周之后，读者还能等到一本全新的东野圭吾。
In other words, just two weeks after he left, readers can still look forward to one brand-new Higashino.
有人说，《永远的记忆》这个书名，几乎就是他留给世界的最后一句话。
Some say the title, The Eternal Memory, reads almost like his final words to the world.
故事会结束，作家会离开，但那些让人熬夜、让人流泪的夜晚，会被永远记住。
Stories end, and authors leave, but those nights he gave us — the ones that kept us up, the ones that made us cry — will be remembered forever.
写了一百多部作品 = wrote more than a hundred works.
对全世界的读者来说 = for readers all over the world.
就在他离开两周之后 = just two weeks after he left.
突然失去了一位老朋友 = suddenly losing an old friend.
关于爱、牺牲和人性的故事 = stories about love, sacrifice, and human nature.
一位陪伴多年的老朋友 = an old friend of many years.
推理小说这一行 = the field of mystery fiction.
因结肠癌去世 = died of colon cancer.
东野圭吾因结肠癌去世 = Higashino died of colon cancer.
享年六十八岁 = died at the age of sixty-eight.
最后一部长篇 = his last full-length novel.
* beyond level超纲词
把 A 写成 B
把 A 写成 B = "turn A into B (through writing)".
把冷冰冰的案件，写成了一个个关于爱、牺牲和人性的故事。
正因为……
正因为 X = "precisely because X".
正因为好看，他的小说被一次次搬上大银幕。
就在……之后
就在 … 之后 = "just after …".
就在他离开两周之后，读者还能等到一本全新的东野圭吾。
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