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假蜂蜜、假驼奶、减肥糖和“幽灵外卖”：最高法公布网络食品安全犯罪典型案例
Fake Honey, Fake Camel Milk, Diet Sweets and 'Ghost Takeout': China's Top Court Publishes Typical Online Food-Safety Crimes
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Syrup sold as imported linden honey at six yuan a jin, 1,200 orders a day; fake camel milk powder aimed at the elderly; diet sweets laced with a diuretic; 3,961 forged licences behind 'ghost' delivery restaurants. China's Supreme People's Court and Procuratorate published these typical online food-safety cases and the sentences, up to 15 years. Chinese listening practice at four levels. HSK 2 Chinese listening practice.
This is an HSK 2 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 12 key vocabulary words such as 便宜、药、真 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
Do you often buy food online?
Buying things online is convenient, and cheap too.
But is the food sold online always real?
Recently, China's Supreme People's Court described several cases of fake food sold online.
The first case is about fake honey.
Someone surnamed Huang in Henan made honey at home.
But this honey was fake; it was made from sugar water.
This person stuck foreign-language labels on the bottles and said it was good imported honey.
The fake honey was sold very cheaply, only about six yuan a jin.
The listing said: buy one bottle, get five.
There were about twelve hundred orders a day.
One kind of fake honey sold more than 34,000 orders in two months.
Altogether, this person sold more than two million yuan's worth.
Tests found that there was nothing from real honey in it at all.
The court sentenced this person to fifteen years in prison and a fine of 1.2 million yuan.
The second case is about fake camel milk powder.
Camel milk powder is made from camel's milk, and lots of older people and students like drinking it.
Three people took cheap milk powder, put foreign labels on it, and said it was imported camel milk powder.
They also said drinking it would make you healthier.
But tests found that the things that should be in the powder were far too low.
They sold four hundred thousand yuan's worth, and all of them ended up in prison.
The third case is about diet sweets.
Someone sold diet sweets on a livestream, saying they would make you beautiful.
But these sweets contained a drug.
Some people felt dizzy and weak after eating them.
The seller said: that's because you're taking them the wrong way.
In the end, two people were sentenced to prison.
The fourth case is about restaurants online.
To open a restaurant online, you need a licence.
Someone made more than 3,900 fake licences on a computer and sold each one for fifty to three hundred yuan.
Some people bought fake licences and opened restaurants on food-delivery apps.
Where these restaurants were and who cooked the food, nobody knew.
Restaurants like these have a name: "ghost takeout."
The person who made the fake licences was sentenced to six years.
The court said: bad food sold online spreads its harm faster and further than food sold in shops.
Next time you buy food online, what will you check first?
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇HSK 2. 假蜂蜜卖得非常便宜.
HSK 2. 这种糖里有药.
HSK 2. 网上卖的吃的东西，都是真的吗？
HSK 2. 两百多万元 = over two million yuan.
HSK 1. 用电脑做了三千九百多张假许可证.
HSK 1. 在外卖网站上开了饭馆.
外国进口的好蜂蜜.
HSK 3. 检查以后发现.
HSK 3. 在网上买东西很方便.
被判了六年 = sentenced to six years.
坐 (sit) + 牢 (jail).
幽灵外卖 = "ghost takeout".
* beyond level超纲词
What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法……，还要……
…and on top of that, must also…
法院判这个人坐十五年牢，还要交一百二十万元。
差不多 + number
About, nearly.
一天，差不多有一千二百个订单。
A 比 B，更……
Compared with B, A is more…
法院说：在网上卖不好的食品，比在店里卖，影响更快，也更大。
Proper Nouns
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