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尼日利亚大块头 Oba Femi，在铁笼里打倒了 WWE 的野兽 Brock Lesnar
A 28-Year-Old Nigerian Giant Beat WWE's Feared 'Beast,' Brock Lesnar, in a Steel Cage
This is an HSK 3-4 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 年轻、害怕、觉得 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.
Read the complete story in Chinese. Reveal pinyin and English only when you need them.
These past few days, wrestling fans around the world have all been talking about the same thing.
In America, there's a very famous wrestling show called WWE.
It's called “fighting,” but it's really more of a fierce, entertaining performance.
In WWE, there's a figure who's almost like a god, named Brock Lesnar.
Everyone calls him “the Beast,” because he's tall and powerfully built, with terrifying strength.
For twenty years, he beat almost everyone; many wrestlers were scared just seeing him.
But recently, a young man made “the Beast” taste losing for the first time.
This young man is Oba Femi, from Nigeria, only 28 years old.
He used to train in sports; later he joined WWE, blew up within a few years, and people call him “the Ruler.”
This summer's biggest match is called SummerSlam.
In this match, the two were locked inside a big steel cage, and no one could get out.
Even crueler: the match took place in Brock's own hometown.
Everyone assumed “the Beast,” at home, was sure to win.
But the result no one expected: the young Oba beat Brock once again.
In fact, a few months earlier, he'd already beaten Brock once.
This time, it amounted to knocking “the Beast” completely off his pedestal.
Many say Brock is old, and might really be about to retire.
And Oba is only 28; the era that belongs to him is only just beginning.
A young man, on the biggest stage, took down the person everyone feared most.
That's exactly why so many people love watching wrestling.
What do you think?
Would you enjoy watching a match like this?
Try it without the transcript and notice what sounds clearer.
很多摔跤手一看到他就害怕.
你觉得呢？— what do you think?
属于他的时代，才刚刚开始.
这个夏天最大的一场比赛.
更像是一场好看的表演.
一个年轻人，让"野兽"尝到了输的感觉.
全世界喜欢摔跤的人.
大家都叫他"野兽".
大家叫他"统治者".
可能真的要退休了.
* beyond level超纲词
又……又……
"both ... and ...".
他又高又壮。
又激烈又好看。
一……就……
"as soon as ..., then ...".
很多摔跤手一看到他就害怕。
等于……
"amounts to / is as good as ...".
这一次，等于是把"野兽"彻底打下了神坛。
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