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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 2 Chinese listening practice.
This is an HSK 2 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 电脑、水、热 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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原文Read the complete story in Chinese. Reveal pinyin and English only when you need them.
English transcript reference
A computer, used for long enough, gets hot.
Artificial intelligence uses a great many computers.
A big building full of computers, running day after day.
This kind of building is called a data centre.
The computers run day after day, so they are hot day after day.
Too hot, and a computer breaks.
So a data centre has to use water.
Water runs past the computers and carries the heat away.
One data centre uses a great deal of water in a year.
People nearby say: that water, we want to drink it too.
This August, a man in America talked about a data centre’s water.
His name is Kelce, and he is very famous in America.
He made an advert.
In the advert, he holds up a jar and sings to everyone:
Give us your pee.
Let us all pee on the computers.
At the end of the advert there is a line of small print: this is a joke, do not really do it.
Is it funny?
Very funny.
But when you have finished laughing, what you remember is that one line:
A data centre drinks water.
A data centre drinks water day after day, year after year.
Think about it:
If a data centre were going to be built next to your house, would you say yes, or no?
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Try it without the transcript and notice what sounds clearer.
What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇A building full of 电脑, running day after day.
The real subject under the joke.
电脑一开，就发热。
Too hot and a computer 坏 — it stops working.
带走 = to carry away. Water 把热带走.
记 is to note, 住 makes it stick. What you 记住 after laughing is the point.
* beyond level超纲词
What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法把 + object + verb 走
The 把 construction with 走 means to carry the object away.
水从电脑边上走，把热带走。 — Water runs past the computers and carries the heat away.
他把书带走了。 — He took the book away.
可是……
But — reverses the direction of what was just said.
好笑吗？很好笑。可是笑完，你记住的是那一句。 — Funny? Very. But once you have laughed, what you remember is that one line.
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