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Jason Kelce 让球迷把尿寄给 AI 数据中心。他真正想说的，是水。
Jason Kelce's Pee Ad Spotlights AI Water Use
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Jason Kelce's Pee Ad Spotlights AI Water Use. HSK 1 Chinese listening practice.
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 6 key vocabulary words such as 热、冷、水 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
Your computer, after you use it for a while, gets hot.
AI has a great many computers, and very big ones.
These computers work, so they get hot.
Too hot, and a computer cannot work.
So what do you do?
You use water.
Water is cold.
Water brings the computers back down cool.
How much water does that take in a day?
A lot. A great deal of water.
How much water does one person drink in a day?
Not much.
And AI's computers — how much water do they use in a day?
A great deal, far too much.
In America there is a man called Jason Kelce.
A lot of people know who he is.
This year, he made an advert.
In the advert, he says to everyone:
Please, give me your pee.
I want to give all this pee to AI's computers to use.
Everyone laughed.
This is not real. Do not actually do it.
But the thing he wants to say is real:
AI's computers drink a great deal of water every day.
Think about it:
How much water did you drink today?
And AI's computers?
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇The whole episode starts here: computers work, so they get 热.
The opposite of 热. Water is 冷, so it brings the computers back down.
The real subject of the episode, under the joke.
People 喝水; the episode says the computers 喝水 too.
A short film made to sell something. He made a 广告.
The joke of the advert. It is about ninety-five percent water.
* beyond level超纲词
What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法太……了
Too much of something — often with the sense that it is a problem.
太热了，电脑就不能工作。 — Too hot, and the computer cannot work.
太多了。 — That is too much.
让 + somebody/something + verb
To make or let something do something.
水让电脑冷下来。 — Water makes the computers cool down.
让我看看。 — Let me have a look.
Proper nouns
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