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大家晚上好啊，我是丹霞。您现在收听的是中文台词频道，这一集的台词出自电视剧《传闻中的陈芊芊》，由赵露思和丁禹兮主演。

“风，吹水撩拨有纹，翻山越岭无痕。”( fēnɡ, chuī shuǐ liáo bō yǒu wén , fān shān yuè lǐnɡ wú hén) When the wind blows over the water surface, there will be ripples, but there is no trace of the wind over the mountains.

“花，从无百日红，转瞬即成空。”( huā, cónɡ wú bǎi rì hónɡ, zhuǎn shùn jí chénɡ kōnɡ ) Flowers, never a hundred days red, and vanishes in an instant.

                                                          -----电视剧《传闻中的陈芊芊》/ <The Romance of Tiger and Rose>

    
撩拨liáobō stir
纹wén  ripples, wrinkles 
翻山越岭fān shān yuè lǐng  tramp over mountains and through ravines
痕hén  mark, trace, imprint
转瞬zhuǎn shùn  in a wink; in the twinkle of an eye; in a flash

Chinese Lines 中文台词

04.《传闻中的陈芊芊》/ <The Romance of Tiger and Rose>

Un podcast donde exploramos sueños y realidades: historias, reflexiones y preguntas que invitan a pensar en lo posible y lo imposible, conectando la imaginación con la vida cotidiana.

Spanish adventures

みなさん、こんにちは。
9月10日は中秋（ちゅうしゅう）の名月でしたね。お月見しましたか。
久ぶりに私の家からもとてもきれいな満月（まんげつ）が見えました。今年は、お天気に恵（めぐ）まれて、お月見日和（つきみびより）だったみたいです。
ところで、みなさん、お月見団子は食べましたか。私は二種類（にしゅるい）も食べてしまいました。お月見団子というだけあって、見た目が「お月様（つきさま）」なんです。少し黄色（きいろ）っぽいお団子（だんご）もあります。
私が食べたお団子は、中に小豆（あずき）が入っていて、その上から甘くない黄な粉（きなこ）を少しかけて食べます。とても美味しいんです。この時期にしか食べられないものです。
もうひとつは、何の味もないシンプルな丸いお団子です。味がほとんどないので、砂糖醤油（さとうじょうゆ）をつけて食べました。黄な粉でも良かったのですが、砂糖醤油をつけて、みたらし団子風に食べました。
「お月見」ということで、街中（まちなか）には、「お月見」商品がたくさんあるんです。
例えば、マック（マクドナルド）の月見バーガー。中に目玉焼きが挟（はさ）んでいて、この時期にしか食べられないバーガーです。マックはそのほかにも、「月見パイ」「月見マックフルーリー」「月見マックシェイク」など、色んな商品（しょうひん）が出ていました。娘は、「月見パイ」がお気に入りのようです。中におもちと小豆（あずき）が入っているようです。
みなさんも、お月見に関連する物を食べましたか。お月見に関連する食べ物は、結構あるんですよ。
ぜひ、探してみてください。

【N3　文法項目】
お月見日和（つきみびより）だったみたいです。（～みたい）
少し黄色（きいろ）っぽいお団子（だんご）もあります。（～っぽい）
砂糖醤油をつけて、みたらし団子風に食べました。（～をつけて）
この時期にしか食べられないものです。（～にしか）
味がほとんどない。（ほとんどない）


「のぞみ」の日記

お月見

Intermediate Chinese Listening

Intermediate Chinese Listening：年龄歧视 Age Discrimination

Parlo della ottava tappa del Viaggio sulla West Coast Americana, la citta di San Diego, i diversi tipi di spiagge che abbiamo visitato e anche i posti culturali da vedere. Tempi verbali: presente, passato: passato prossimo, passato remoto.

Vivendo tra due lingue

Ottava tappa Viaggio sulla West Coast USA, San Diego

Meet Cyrus Davis, who has spent all his working life in journalism. He's been a news reporter, sports reporter, and headline writer. Now, he works for The Evening Star, a local daily paper published in Birmingham, and he is the editor of the paper's online version. "The Star covers current affair, sport, crime, and so on, and there is always at least one item about a cultural subject. But the sad truth is that newspaper sales are falling fast, and newspapers could disappear forever if the industry cannot make money from online sales."

English Mini Lessons

Newspapers

With many teens spending almost all of their time online, parents are concerned that social media is exposing them to harmful content. Faced with growing pressure to stop online harm, Instagram has introduced a major new update to protect young people and give parents more control.

Under 18s now signing up for Instagram in the US, UK, Canada and Australia will be automatically enrolled into a restricted teen account. Existing accounts will be transferred by mid-November.

The European Union will get teen accounts later this year, and the rest of the world in January. Other Meta services like Facebook will get teen accounts next year.

What limits will teen accounts have?
Instagram already prohibits anyone under 13 from signing up.

Now, teen accounts will automatically be set to private, so they'll have to accept or reject new follower requests. Other users won't be able to see their posts or tag the account.

Teens will also only receive direct messages from people they're following or who follow them.

Teens won't be shown content involving sensitive topics and an anti-bullying feature will screen out offensive words in comments and message requests.

To reduce their screen time, teens will get a notification to stop using the app after it's been open for over an hour — which they can ignore.

Sleep mode between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. will mute notifications and send auto-replies to direct messages. However, they can still use Instagram and answer messages if they want to.

Are there workarounds?
These limits will be turned on automatically for all teens, but 16 and 17-year-olds can turn them off. Kids under 16 will need permission to do so and parents can make changes and approve or deny any requests.

However, if parents want to use teen controls, they'll need an Instagram account.

New controls for parents

