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天台上的生死一刻，和秋千上的告白
A Rooftop Rescue, and the Confession on the Swing
HSK 1-3 Chinese listening practice. In Never-Ending Summer, a rooftop rescue, Lu Xixiao's hidden past, and a late confession on a swing as the summer ends and he prepares to go abroad.
This is an HSK 3-4 Chinese listening episode that runs about 3 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 13 key vocabulary words such as 信任、手术、压力 and walks through 4 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.
上次说到，陆西骁把信任毫无保留地交给了周挽，可周挽心里，还压着那个不敢说破的秘密。
Last time, Lu Xixiao handed his trust to Zhou Wan without holding back, yet in her heart she still pressed down that secret she didn't dare reveal.
今天，接着往下说。
Today, let's keep going.
奶奶的手术费还差着一大截，周挽甚至已经打算去借高利贷。
Grandma's surgery fee was still far short, and Zhou Wan had even planned to borrow from a loan shark.
就在这时，妈妈又找上陆西骁，开出了一个条件：只要他答应出国，这笔救命钱就由她来出。
Right then, her mother came to Lu Xixiao again and laid out a condition: as long as he agreed to go abroad, she would pay that life-saving money.
陆西骁几乎没有犹豫，为了周挽，一口就应了下来——哪怕代价是一个人远走他乡。
Lu Xixiao barely hesitated; for Zhou Wan, he agreed at once — even if the price was going far from home, alone.
可这个夏天，还有一道更险的坎。
But this summer still held a more dangerous hurdle.
学校里，一个叫薛西的女生，被失恋和压力逼到了绝境，一个人爬上了高高的楼顶。
At school, a girl named Xue Xi, driven to the edge by heartbreak and pressure, climbed alone onto a high rooftop.
陆西骁和周挽赶了上去，一个用自己的痛，一个用自己的苦，一句一句把她往回劝。
Lu Xixiao and Zhou Wan rushed up, one with their own pain, one with their own sorrow, coaxing her back line by line.
最后关头，陆西骁一把将她拽了上来，自己却脚下一空，眼看就要坠下去。
At the last instant, Lu Xixiao yanked her up, but his own foot slipped, and he was about to plunge down.
周挽死死抓住他的胳膊，两个人一起悬在了半空。
Zhou Wan seized his arm and held on for dear life; the two of them hung there in mid-air together.
幸好楼下早有消防员撑开的安全网，两个人才有惊无险。
Luckily the firefighters below had spread a safety net, and both came through the scare unharmed.
也正是这一次，陆西骁说出了一段他从不对人提起的往事。
It was in that very moment that Lu Xixiao spoke of a past he'd never told anyone.
很多年前，他的妈妈因为承受不住生活的重压，得了很重的病，一个人走上了楼顶，再也没有回来。
Years ago, his mother, unable to bear the weight of life, fell gravely ill, walked up onto a rooftop alone, and never came back.
从那以后，他就一个人长大，把所有的孤单，都藏进了那副满不在乎的样子里。
From then on he grew up by himself, hiding all his loneliness behind that careless air of his.
他说，是周挽的出现，才让他第一次觉得，身边总算有了一个人。
It was Zhou Wan's arrival, he said, that first made him feel someone was finally by his side.
夏天说结束就结束了，高考一考完，陆西骁真的要走了。
The summer ended as fast as it came; the moment the exams were over, Lu Xixiao really was leaving.
临走前的那个晚上，两个人并排坐在秋千上，一起抬头看星星。
On the night before he left, the two of them sat side by side on a swing, looking up at the stars.
陆西骁轻声说：以前我一个人守着这个地方，冷清得很。
Lu Xixiao said softly: before, I guarded this place alone, and it was so very quiet.
这句话说完，他顿了顿，又补了一句：现在有你在，这儿才有了点家的味道。
When he'd said that, he paused, then added: now that you're here, this place finally has a bit of the feeling of a home.
周挽忍不住问他：你到底为什么，非要一个人出国？
Zhou Wan couldn't help asking: why on earth do you insist on going abroad alone?
陆西骁没有正面回答，只是定定地看着她，看了很久很久。
Lu Xixiao didn't answer head-on; he only gazed at her, for a long, long time.
然后，他忽然轻轻开口，问了一句：你想不想，谈恋爱？
Then, all at once, he softly opened his mouth and asked: do you want to fall in love?
夏天要落幕了，他也要走了，可偏偏在这个时候，他把憋了整整一个夏天的话，说了出来。
The summer was drawing to a close, and he was leaving too, yet at exactly this moment he said the words he'd held in all summer.
这一句迟来的告白，周挽会怎么接？
This confession that came so late — how will Zhou Wan take it?
他们两个人的夏天，其实才刚要迎来最难的一段。
Their summer, in truth, is only about to meet its hardest stretch.
如果一个人陪你走过了最苦的日子，却在最后要转身离开，你舍得让他走吗？
If someone walked with you through your bitterest days, then had to turn and leave in the end, could you bear to let him go?
HSK 4 (taught here). 把信任毫无保留地交给了周挽 = handed his trust to her completely.
HSK 4 (taught). 奶奶的手术费还差一大截 = grandma's surgery fee is far short.
HSK 4. 被失恋和压力逼到了绝境 = driven to the edge by heartbreak and pressure.
HSK 4. 把所有的孤单都藏起来 = hiding all his loneliness.
HSK 4. 几乎没有犹豫 = barely hesitated.
Beyond HSK 3. 打算去借高利贷 = planned to borrow from a loan shark.
Beyond HSK 3. 只要他答应出国 = as long as he agrees to go abroad.
Beyond HSK 3. 高考一考完 = as soon as the college exam was over.
Beyond HSK 3. 并排坐在秋千上 = sitting side by side on a swing.
Beyond HSK 3. 消防员撑开的安全网 = the safety net the firefighters spread.
Beyond HSK 3. 这一句迟来的告白 = this confession that came late.
Beyond HSK 3. 你想不想谈恋爱？ = do you want to fall in love?
Beyond HSK 3. 那个不敢说破的秘密 = the secret she doesn't dare reveal.
* beyond level超纲词
哪怕 + 代价
哪怕 X = even if / even at the cost of X — concession.
为了周挽，一口就应了下来——哪怕代价是一个人远走他乡。
说 A 就 A
说 X 就 X = X happens the instant it's mentioned — abruptly, without warning.
夏天说结束就结束了。
非…不可 / 非要
非要 (…不可) = insist on / absolutely must (do).
你到底为什么，非要一个人出国？
偏偏 (at just this moment)
偏偏 = precisely / as luck would have it (often at an inconvenient time).
可偏偏在这个时候，他把话说了出来。
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