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个人癌症疫苗：让癌症更不容易回来
A Personalized Melanoma Vaccine Makes Cancer Less Likely to Return
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A new personalized vaccine made cancer less likely to come back after surgery, in a large trial reported on August 19. HSK 1 Chinese listening practice.
This is an HSK 1 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 医生、高兴、看见 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
A new vaccine may make cancer less likely to return.
On August 19, a large trial reported this encouraging result.
Many patients took part in the trial.
Cancer was less likely to return in patients who received the new vaccine.
Doctors were pleased to hear the result.
All of these patients had cancer.
The patients had surgery.
After surgery, doctors could no longer see the cancer.
The patients could go home.
But the cancer can return.
Patients do not want the cancer to return.
Doctors do not want it to return either.
The trial had two groups of patients.
One group received medicine.
The other group received medicine and the new vaccine.
Doctors later checked the patients again.
Cancer was less likely to return in those who received the vaccine.
That was a good result.
This vaccine is unusual.
Each patient receives a different vaccine.
Doctors first examine one patient’s cancer.
After that, a vaccine is made for that patient.
The next patient receives another vaccine.
The trial also used an existing medicine.
Many doctors worked together on the trial.
Patients cannot receive this vaccine yet.
More results must be released and examined by doctors.
Would you want a vaccine made for you in the future?
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇HSK 1. 医生听了这个结果，很高兴。
HSK 1. 医生听了这个结果，很高兴。
HSK 1. 手术以后，医生没有看见癌症。
HSK 1. 病人可以回家了。
HSK 1. 打了一个新疫苗，癌症不容易回来。
HSK 1. 这个结果很好。
HSK 1. 医生先看一个病人的癌症。
HSK 1. 他们为这个病人做一支疫苗。
A shot that teaches the body. Here each patient gets a different one.
The illness this trial is trying to keep from coming back.
病人做了手术。手术以后，医生没有看见癌症。
这个试验里有很多病人。
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What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法不容易 + Verb
Hard to do; less likely to happen. The trial result in one phrase: cancer does not come back easily.
打了一个新疫苗，癌症不容易回来。
打了新疫苗的病人，癌症不容易回来。
一组……一组……
Two groups, set side by side. One group gets the old medicine; the other gets the medicine plus the new vaccine.
一组病人有药。
一组病人有药，也打了新疫苗。
以后
After that. Marks what comes next: after surgery, after looking at the cancer, and in the future.
手术以后，医生没有看见癌症。
看完以后，他们为这个病人做一支疫苗。
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