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尼日利亚新人 Oba Femi 在铁笼比赛中打败 WWE"野兽"Brock Lesnar
Nigerian Newcomer Oba Femi Defeated WWE's "Beast" Brock Lesnar in a Cage Match
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Nigerian Newcomer Oba Femi Defeated WWE's "Beast" Brock Lesnar in a Cage Match. HSK 2 Chinese listening practice.
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 10 key vocabulary words such as 喜欢、年轻、累 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.
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English transcript reference
Today we're talking about a very famous kind of match, called WWE.
In America, huge numbers of people love watching WWE.
WWE is two very big people fighting together, putting on a fight for everyone to watch.
Here there's a man named Brock; everyone calls him “the Beast.”
Brock is enormous, and extremely strong.
For many, many years, no one could beat him, and everyone feared him.
Now, a young man has arrived, named Oba.
Oba came from far away; he's huge, and very strong too.
But Oba is young — he's a newcomer.
Many wondered: can someone this young beat “the Beast”?
In this summer's biggest match, Oba and Brock started to fight.
Both were big, both were strong, and they fought with all their might.
And in the end, the young Oba won!
The huge, famous “Beast” Brock lost.
No one could believe it: someone this young beat Brock!
From that day on, huge numbers of people remembered the name Oba.
Brock has fought for many years; now he's old, and tired.
But Oba is young — his time is only just beginning.
Before, when people watched WWE, they all wanted to watch Brock.
Now, when people watch WWE, they all want to watch Oba.
And you?
Do you like watching matches like WWE?
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇很多人都喜欢看 WWE.
现在老了，也累了 — now he's old and tired.
他的时候，才刚刚开始 — his time is only just beginning.
大家看 WWE，都想看 Oba — watching WWE, everyone wants to watch Oba.
大家都不敢相信 — no one could believe it.
这么年轻的 Oba — Oba, this young.
Oba 和 Brock 打了起来.
大家都叫他"野兽" — everyone calls him "the Beast."
非常有力气 — extremely strong.
这个夏天最大的比赛 — the summer's biggest match.
* beyond level超纲词
What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法打得过 / 打不过
"can / cannot beat (in a fight)".
没有人打得过他。
从……开始
"starting from ...".
从这一天开始，很多人都记住了 Oba。
这么 + Adj
"this / so ...".
这么年轻的一个人，赢了 Brock！
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