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英伟达董事会调查黄仁勋间谍传闻
Nvidia Board Investigates Reports CEO Jensen Huang Was Target of Chinese Espionage; Trump Backs Him, Congress Demands Briefing
About this story
HSK 1: Nvidia's board probes reports CEO Jensen Huang was a Chinese spying target after his affair with executive Alice Huang; he apologizes to staff.
This is an HSK 2 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 12 key vocabulary words such as 公司、电脑、东西 and walks through 6 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
The boss of a very big company said to everyone in the company: I did something wrong.
This boss is called Jensen Huang.
He said: I am sorry to my wife.
He said: There is no reason, I did something wrong.
This company is called Nvidia.
Nvidia makes a small thing inside computers.
Many computers have this small thing.
Nvidia is very big and worth a lot and a lot of money.
On the same day, a few people who manage things in the company said they want to investigate something; they are called the board of directors.
Some people say people from other countries want to take Nvidia's things.
The board said: We think Nvidia's things are still there.
The board said: We believe him.
There is another person in this matter; she is called Alice.
She is Chinese, and she and he are not family.
She works at a Singaporean company and manages many people.
This Singaporean company has worked with Nvidia.
Some people in the US say she told things to the Chinese government.
The Chinese government said: There is no such thing.
The US has been investigating this Singaporean company for more than a year.
People in Singapore and Taiwan are also not at ease with her.
In 2024, she went to China.
After she went to China, someone has been watching her.
Now, the board has invited people from outside to investigate this matter together.
The people on the board are investigating by themselves, not together with him.
They want to find out clearly whether this matter is true or false.
They will also continue to investigate.
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇HSK 1. Common noun for company; appears as 一家公司 (a company).
HSK 1. Common word for computer.
HSK 1. Used for a physical object or an abstract thing.
HSK 1. Appears in 值很多钱 (worth a lot of money).
HSK 1. Used in 查一件事 (investigate a matter).
HSK 1. Used to express an opinion: 我们觉得... (we think...).
HSK 3. Used in 我们相信他 (we believe him).
HSK 4. Used as 接着查 (continue investigating).
HSK 1. Informal word for boss or business owner.
HSK 1. 做 (do) + 错 (wrong); used in 我做错了一件事 (I did something wrong).
HSK 1. Used before nouns to mean 'many'.
HSK 1. 同 (same) + 一天 (one day).
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What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法对 + Person + 说 + Clause
Used to indicate who is being spoken to: 'said to [someone] that...'.
对全公司的人说：我做错了一件事。
是 + Noun + 的
Emphatic construction identifying or specifying something.
是我做错了。
有 + Noun + 里 + 都 + 有
Expressing existence: 'in many computers there is...'.
很多电脑里都有这个小东西。
和 + Noun + 一起 + Verb
Means 'together with [someone/something] do something'.
和英伟达一起做过事。
已经 + Verb + 了 + Duration
Indicates an action that has been continuing for a duration.
已经查了一年多。
是 + A + 还是 + B
Alternative question: 'whether it is A or B'.
这件事是真的还是假的。
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