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美国大公司 T-Mobile 的电话，突然都不好了
A Big American Company, T-Mobile, Suddenly Had Its Phones Go Down
A simple beginner Chinese listening story about the day T-Mobile's phone service went down across America, and how much everyone relies on their phones.
This is an HSK 1 Chinese listening episode that runs about 1 minute. 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 8 key vocabulary words such as 电话、高兴、想 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.
T-Mobile，是一个很大的美国公司。
T-Mobile is a very big American company.
T-Mobile 是做电话的。
T-Mobile does phones.
在美国，很多很多人，都用 T-Mobile。
In America, a great many people use T-Mobile.
有一天，很多人的电话，都不好了。
One day, many people's phones stopped working.
很多人，不能打电话了。
Many people couldn't make calls.
大家都很不高兴。
Everyone was upset.
电话不好，很多人都不知道是什么。
The phones were down, and many people didn't know what was going on.
几个小时，电话又好了。
After a few hours, the phones worked again.
大家都说：我们不能没有电话。
Everyone said: we can't do without our phones.
没有电话，很多人都不知道要做什么。
Without phones, many people didn't know what to do.
现在，电话好了。
Now, the phones are fine.
很多人都很高兴。
And many people are happy.
不能打电话 = can't make calls.
大家都很不高兴 = everyone was upset.
很多人都想 = many people thought.
不知道要做什么 = didn't know what to do.
电话又好了 = the phones were fine again.
不知道是什么 = didn't know what it was.
一个很大的美国公司 = a very big American company.
很多人都用 T-Mobile = many people use T-Mobile.
* beyond level超纲词
是做……的
是做 X 的 = "is in the business of X / does X for a living".
T-Mobile 是做电话的。
不能……了
不能 + verb + 了 = "can no longer …".
很多人，不能打电话了。
不能没有……
不能没有 X = "cannot do without X".
我们不能没有电话。
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