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第3201期:World's oldest shipwreck

1 min

The ancient wreck was found off the coast of Kekova Island, with artefactsscattered across an underwater slope. 这艘古代沉船位于凯考瓦岛附近海域,船上的文物散落在一处水下斜坡上。 Divers discovered three large stone anchors and more than 30 ceramic storage pots, which are called amphorae. 潜水员发现了三个大型石锚以及 30 多个陶制储物罐。这些储物罐被叫作 “双耳细颈瓶”。 The distinctive shape of these ceramics – the pots have two handles, a ridge around the middle and a flat bottom – have been used to date the ship to between 4,400 and 4,700 years old, which was the Early Bronze Age.  这些陶器具有独特的外形——储物罐带有两个把手,中部环绕着一道凸棱,底部平坦。考古学家正是根据这些特征推断,这艘沉船距今约 4400 年到 4700 年,可追溯至青铜时代早期。

第3200期:Enjoying fashion without costing the planet

2 min

Social media brings influencer and celebrity culture to our phone screens, making it hard to resist the temptation of jumping on all the latest fashion trends. But when the fashion industry is responsible for up to 10% of global emissions, according to the UN, more than the aviation and shipping industry combined, we could all make an effort to make more conscious clothing decisions. 社交媒体将影响者和名人文化带入我们的手机屏幕,让我们难以抗拒追随所有最新时尚潮流的诱惑。 但根据联合国的数据,当时装业排放量占全球排放量的 10%,超过航空业和航运业的总和时,我们都可以努力做出更明智的着装决定。 Most of the environmental impact comes from the use of raw materials – a huge amount of oil is needed to produce synthetic materials like polyester, for example. According to the waste charity Wrap, making a pair of jeans requires 10,000 litres of water! Many clothing companies have launched "eco" collections, using organic or recycled materials, but critic say this does not address the biggest problem – overconsumption. One rubbish truck of textiles is thrown away every second globally, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. So, how can we have fun with fashion without costing the planet? 大部分环境影响来自原材料的使用——例如,生产聚酯等合成材料需要大量石油。 据垃圾慈善机构 Wrap 称,制作一条牛仔裤需要 10,000 升水! 许多服装公司推出了“生态”系列,使用有机或回收材料,但评论家表示,这并没有解决最大的问题——过度消费。 据艾伦·麦克阿瑟基金会称,全球每秒就有一车纺织品垃圾被扔掉。 那么,我们怎样才能在不以牺牲地球为代价的情况下享受时尚的乐趣呢? An answer usually given is to buy second hand. High quality items that might usually cost an arm and a leg at retail price can cost you a fraction. Though buying second-hand clothing is more sustainable than buying new, it often doesn't replace fast fashion habits, rather it supplements them. One of the things we can do instead, writes professor of consumer psychology Cathrine Jansson-Boyd, is 'shopping your closet'. Creating new looks with exist...

第3199期:How is coffee culture evolving?

3 min

Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the world. In Italy, espresso is often enjoyed quickly like a shot, whereas Scandinavian coffee culture places more emphasis on taking time to enjoy coffee socially. In Ethiopia, which is often considered the birthplace of coffee, they take their coffee culture very seriously, and drinking coffee can last several hours. Freshly roasted beans are ground by hand, then brewed in a special clay pot before being served in small cups and enjoyed in three rounds, each round symbolising deeper community connection and blessing. The way people drink coffee is rooted in tradition, but it's also changing. According to a BBC News article with the headline Coffee Price Surges to Highest on Record, coffee is the world's second most traded commodity by volume, and its popularity is increasing, perhaps because of new drinking cultures.   咖啡是世界上最受欢迎的饮料之一。 在意大利,人们通常会像一杯咖啡一样快速享用浓缩咖啡,而斯堪的纳维亚咖啡文化则更注重在社交场合花时间享用咖啡。 在通常被认为是咖啡发源地的埃塞俄比亚,他们非常重视自己的咖啡文化,喝咖啡可以持续几个小时。 新鲜烘焙的豆子由手工研磨,然后在特殊的陶罐中酿造,然后装在小杯子中,分三轮享用,每一轮都象征着更深层次的社区联系和祝福。 人们喝咖啡的方式根植于传统,但也在发生变化。 根据 BBC 新闻标题为“咖啡价格飙升至历史最高水平”的文章,按交易量计算,咖啡是世界上第二大贸易商品,并且其受欢迎程度正在增加,这可能是由于新的饮用文化。   Drinking coffee doesn't just give you a boost of energy. It's been known to have some health benefits too. According to BMJ, a peer-reviewed medical journal, an analysis of nearly 220 studies found that coffee drinkers may enjoy more overall health benefits, such as a lower risk of specific cancers and neurological, metabolic, and liver conditions.Some young adults are also becoming more interested in coffee with additional health benefits. Hardtank's research into Gen Z coffee trends suggests that young consumers are becoming more interested in health-conscious co...

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第3201期:World's oldest shipwreck

1 min

The ancient wreck was found off the coast of Kekova Island, with artefactsscattered across an underwater slope. 这艘古代沉船位于凯考瓦岛附近海域,船上的文物散落在一处水下斜坡上。 Divers discovered three large stone anchors and more than 30 ceramic storage pots, which are called amphorae. 潜水员发现了三个大型石锚以及 30 多个陶制储物罐。这些储物罐被叫作 “双耳细颈瓶”。 The distinctive shape of these ceramics – the pots have two handles, a ridge around the middle and a flat bottom – have been used to date the ship to between 4,400 and 4,700 years old, which was the Early Bronze Age.  这些陶器具有独特的外形——储物罐带有两个把手,中部环绕着一道凸棱,底部平坦。考古学家正是根据这些特征推断,这艘沉船距今约 4400 年到 4700 年,可追溯至青铜时代早期。

第3200期:Enjoying fashion without costing the planet

2 min

Social media brings influencer and celebrity culture to our phone screens, making it hard to resist the temptation of jumping on all the latest fashion trends. But when the fashion industry is responsible for up to 10% of global emissions, according to the UN, more than the aviation and shipping industry combined, we could all make an effort to make more conscious clothing decisions. 社交媒体将影响者和名人文化带入我们的手机屏幕,让我们难以抗拒追随所有最新时尚潮流的诱惑。 但根据联合国的数据,当时装业排放量占全球排放量的 10%,超过航空业和航运业的总和时,我们都可以努力做出更明智的着装决定。 Most of the environmental impact comes from the use of raw materials – a huge amount of oil is needed to produce synthetic materials like polyester, for example. According to the waste charity Wrap, making a pair of jeans requires 10,000 litres of water! Many clothing companies have launched "eco" collections, using organic or recycled materials, but critic say this does not address the biggest problem – overconsumption. One rubbish truck of textiles is thrown away every second globally, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. So, how can we have fun with fashion without costing the planet? 大部分环境影响来自原材料的使用——例如,生产聚酯等合成材料需要大量石油。 据垃圾慈善机构 Wrap 称,制作一条牛仔裤需要 10,000 升水! 许多服装公司推出了“生态”系列,使用有机或回收材料,但评论家表示,这并没有解决最大的问题——过度消费。 据艾伦·麦克阿瑟基金会称,全球每秒就有一车纺织品垃圾被扔掉。 那么,我们怎样才能在不以牺牲地球为代价的情况下享受时尚的乐趣呢? An answer usually given is to buy second hand. High quality items that might usually cost an arm and a leg at retail price can cost you a fraction. Though buying second-hand clothing is more sustainable than buying new, it often doesn't replace fast fashion habits, rather it supplements them. One of the things we can do instead, writes professor of consumer psychology Cathrine Jansson-Boyd, is 'shopping your closet'. Creating new looks with exist...

第3199期:How is coffee culture evolving?

3 min

Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the world. In Italy, espresso is often enjoyed quickly like a shot, whereas Scandinavian coffee culture places more emphasis on taking time to enjoy coffee socially. In Ethiopia, which is often considered the birthplace of coffee, they take their coffee culture very seriously, and drinking coffee can last several hours. Freshly roasted beans are ground by hand, then brewed in a special clay pot before being served in small cups and enjoyed in three rounds, each round symbolising deeper community connection and blessing. The way people drink coffee is rooted in tradition, but it's also changing. According to a BBC News article with the headline Coffee Price Surges to Highest on Record, coffee is the world's second most traded commodity by volume, and its popularity is increasing, perhaps because of new drinking cultures.   咖啡是世界上最受欢迎的饮料之一。 在意大利,人们通常会像一杯咖啡一样快速享用浓缩咖啡,而斯堪的纳维亚咖啡文化则更注重在社交场合花时间享用咖啡。 在通常被认为是咖啡发源地的埃塞俄比亚,他们非常重视自己的咖啡文化,喝咖啡可以持续几个小时。 新鲜烘焙的豆子由手工研磨,然后在特殊的陶罐中酿造,然后装在小杯子中,分三轮享用,每一轮都象征着更深层次的社区联系和祝福。 人们喝咖啡的方式根植于传统,但也在发生变化。 根据 BBC 新闻标题为“咖啡价格飙升至历史最高水平”的文章,按交易量计算,咖啡是世界上第二大贸易商品,并且其受欢迎程度正在增加,这可能是由于新的饮用文化。   Drinking coffee doesn't just give you a boost of energy. It's been known to have some health benefits too. According to BMJ, a peer-reviewed medical journal, an analysis of nearly 220 studies found that coffee drinkers may enjoy more overall health benefits, such as a lower risk of specific cancers and neurological, metabolic, and liver conditions.Some young adults are also becoming more interested in coffee with additional health benefits. Hardtank's research into Gen Z coffee trends suggests that young consumers are becoming more interested in health-conscious co...

第3198期:Why it is so hard to start exercising

3 min

Exercise. We know it's great, both for our physical and mental health, and it's one of the easiest ways to feel better. The recommendation for most adults is to do 150 minutes of moderate exercise a week. However, the UN has estimated that 1.8 billion people across the world don't manage to do this. So, what's stopping us? 锻炼。 我们知道这对我们的身心健康都有好处,而且是让我们感觉更好的最简单的方法之一。 对于大多数成年人的建议是每周进行 150 分钟的适度运动。 然而,联合国估计全世界有 18 亿人无法做到这一点。 那么,是什么阻止了我们? We may have evolved to avoid exercise. According to evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman, because early humans needed energy for hunting, we developed an instinct not to waste this energy on seemingly pointless exercises. Of course, now our lifestyles have changed dramatically, but this instinct remains to some degree, pulling us towards our sofas. We naturally like to relax.  我们可能已经进化到避免锻炼。 根据进化生物学家丹尼尔·利伯曼的说法,由于早期人类需要能量来狩猎,因此我们形成了一种本能,不会将这些能量浪费在看似毫无意义的锻炼上。 当然,现在我们的生活方式已经发生了巨大的变化,但这种本能在某种程度上仍然存在,将我们拉向沙发。 我们自然喜欢放松。  Often we have to fight against our habits. Many of us will have developed a habit of inactivity and changing this is hard. Psychologist Brad Stennerson tells us that some research shows it can take at least six weeks to make an exercise routine habitual. The good news is that once we make exercise a habit, it's a lot easier to keep going. It may be that what we need to focus on are the cues that lead us to start exercising. This could be the time of day, or the start or finish of another activity. Psychology professor Alison Phillips calls this the instigation habit, and her research suggests that is key to develop an exercise routine. If you decide that you will do exercise as soon as you finish work, this may make it easier to stick to. 我们常常必须与自己的习惯作斗争。 我们中的许多人都养成了...

第3197期:Bluefin tuna conservation success in the UK

1 min

Bluefin tuna are one of the ocean's top predators. These warm-blooded fish can weigh as much as a grand piano. Ten years ago, sightings were very rare. Now they come to the UK in their thousands in the late summer and autumn. 蓝鳍金枪鱼是海洋中的顶级掠食者之一。这种温血鱼类的体重最高可达一架三角钢琴的重量。十年前,人们很少在英国海域发现蓝鳍金枪鱼。如今,每逢夏末秋初,便有数以千计的蓝鳍金枪鱼洄游到英国海域。 WWF says the turnaround proves targeted conservation efforts can work. It points to the recovery of tigers, green turtles and African elephants as other examples of success. But these are the exceptions, the charity warns. It estimates the thousands of wildlife populations it monitors around the world have fallen by an average of 73% since 1970. 世界自然基金会表示,这一积极转变证明,有针对性的保护工作能够取得成效。报告指出,老虎、绿海龟和非洲象的种群恢复同样是保护工作的成功案例。但该慈善机构警告称,这类成功案例仍属少数例外。该组织估计,自 1970 年以来,其在全球范围内监测的数千个野生动物种群数量平均下降了 73%。

第3196期:"Disastrous" year of ice loss for Swiss glaciers

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The notable finding here is not so much that Swiss glaciers are shrinking, which is to be expected in our warming climate. What is extraordinary is the sheer pace of melting. Researchers estimate that Swiss glaciers released more than two trillion litres of water between July and September. 瑞士冰川正在不断萎缩本身并不是这项研究最引人关注的发现,因为在气候变暖的背景下,出现这种情况已在意料之中。真正不同寻常的是这些冰川消融的惊人速度。研究人员估计,瑞士冰川在 7 月至 9 月期间释放了超过两万亿升融水。 This ice lost to summer melting is far outpacing any gains from winter snowfall. Scientists say the sobering truth is that the climate is now too warm for many Alpine glaciers to survive. 夏季融化造成的冰量流失远远超过冬季降雪带来的增量。科学家表示,一个令人警醒的现实是,如今的气候已经过于温暖,许多阿尔卑斯山的冰川无法存续。  But researchers stress that sharp cuts to carbon emissions can still save much of the planet's glacier ice. They say this is crucial for the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who rely on the water from glaciers for farming, hydropower or drinking, as well as to limit sea level rise. 不过,研究人员强调,如果能够大幅削减碳排放,仍能保住地球上大部分冰川冰量。他们表示,这一点至关重要,因为全球有数亿人依靠冰川融水进行农业生产、水力发电和获取饮用水;同时对限制海平面上升也具有重要意义。

第3195期:Japan launches rocket carrying Mars moon probe

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Rocketing to the red planet, Japan's deep space mission takes flight: a daring five-year round trip to explore the mysterious moons of Mars. 伴随着飞向红色星球,日本的深空任务正式开启:这是一项大胆的太空探索计划,整个往返任务历时五年,旨在探索火星神秘的卫星。 The unmanned mission aims to be the first to bring back samples from the Martian system. 这项无人探测任务的目标是成为首个从火星系统带回样本的任务。 It'll take the spacecraft about a year to get there. 飞船大约需要一年的时间才能抵达那里。 It'll spend three years studying Phobos -- the larger of the two potato-shaped moons -- before landing, 它将花三年时间研究火卫一--火星两颗形似土豆的卫星中较大的一颗--随后着陆, Collecting dust and rock samples, and then returning to Earth, landing at Woomera in South Australia in 2031. 采集尘埃和岩石样本,然后返回地球,并于2031年在南澳大利亚的伍默拉着陆。 "Those samples will offer a unique window into the history of Mars and the early solar system." “这些样本将为我们了解火星的历史以及太阳系早期的历史提供一个独特的窗口。” Scientists hope the unique mission will help explain some of space's enduring questions: how did the moons form, and what are they made of? 科学家们希望,这项独特的任务能够帮助解答一些长期困扰人类的太空谜题:火星的卫星是如何形成、由什么构成的? "By understanding the Mars system, we can better understand our place in the universe." “通过了解火星系统,我们能够更好地认识自己在宇宙中的位置。” Paradigm-shifting science as NASA prepares to send the first humans to Mars. 随着美国国家航空航天局准备将首批人类送往火星,这项科学探索有望带来颠覆性的科学突破。 Japan isn't the only nation racing towards the red planet. China aims to launch in 2028. 日本并非唯一一个竞相奔赴这颗红色星球的国家。中国也计划于2028年发射探测任务。

第3194期:The French government plans to deploy the military

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French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has announced a major police presence will be deployed on the country's streets this weekend amid further expected protests. 法国总理塞巴斯蒂安·勒科尔尼日前宣布,鉴于预计本周末还将发生更多抗议活动,法国街头将部署大批警力。 France has seen weeks of unrest and a show of anger against grievances including rising cost of living and conditions of France's education system. 最近几周以来,法国持续发生社会动荡,人们对生活成本不断上升、法国教育体系的现状等不满问题表达了愤怒。 Last weekend, demonstrations escalated into violence as marches were hijacked by groups of masked rioters who started fires, smashed storefronts and looted shops. 上周末,抗议活动升级为暴力事件,一些游行活动遭到蒙面暴徒团伙的干扰,他们纵火、砸毁商店的临街橱窗,并洗劫商店。 French authorities announced partial curfews on Monday, banning public gatherings in some areas of Paris and other cities after 9 p.m. 周一,法国当局宣布实施部分宵禁措施,禁止巴黎及其他城市部分地区在晚上9点后举行公众集会。 French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said some military forces would be deployed on static guarding duties to free up police for the expected demonstrations. 法国内政部长洛朗·努内兹表示,部分军队将被部署到固定地点执行警戒任务,以便腾出警力应对预计发生的抗议活动。 He added that he was also considering banning demonstrations that have not been declared and could lead to public disorder. 他还补充说,他正在考虑禁止那些未经申报、可能引发公共秩序混乱的示威活动。 In a country with strong protest culture, rioting is not uncommon and is often sparked as a response to police violence, some experts say. 一些专家表示,在一个抗议传统深厚的国家,骚乱并不少见,而且往往是对警察暴力行为作出的反应。 Government critics and human rights campaigners have alleged that police tactics in the last month have been unnecessarily violent. 政府批评人士和人权活动人士指称,过去一个月里,警方采取的执法手段存在不必要的暴力行为。 Much of the criticism focuses on rubber bullet launchers, known in France as LB...

第3193期:The New China-North Korea Yalu River Bridge officially opens

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On the Chinese bank of the Yalu River, excited crowds take photos of the latest attraction: a new three-kilometre bridge linking them to North Korea across the water. 在位于中国一侧的鸭绿江江岸上,兴奋的人群正在拍摄最新景点--一座横跨江水、连接朝鲜的新建的三公里长桥。 "As Dandong locals, we've been curious about the opening for a very long time." “作为丹东本地人,我们一直对这座桥的开放非常关注。” "Now that the new bridge officially opens, I'm sure many more people from all over the place will travel to Dandong, bringing benefits to the city, particularly through tourism." “既然新桥正式开通,我相信会有更多来自各地的人前往丹东,给这座城市带来好处,尤其是通过旅游业。” Lined with Chinese flags and trucks making their first crossing, the massive four-lane bridge finally opened despite being finished in 2014, delayed by a lack of North Korean roads and customs infrastructure on the other side. 这座宏伟的四车道大桥两侧悬挂着中国国旗,卡车也首次驶过;尽管该大桥早在2014年就已建成,但由于朝鲜一侧缺乏配套公路和海关设施,直到如今才终于正式通车。 North Korea has a centrally planned economy and favours domestic production, meaning it barely trades with anyone except for China, which accounts for roughly 95% of its total trade. 朝鲜实行中央计划经济,并偏好国内生产,这意味着它除中国外几乎不与任何国家贸易,而中国约占其总贸易额的95%。 The Chinese government expects the bridge to boost economic and trade cooperation between the two neighbours. 中国政府期望这座桥促进这两个邻国之间的经贸合作。 North Korea has yet to resume tourist visas for Chinese citizens, who once made up the bulk of its overseas visitors. 朝鲜方面目前尚未恢复向中国公民发放旅游签证,而中国游客曾经是赴朝外国游客的主要来源。 The bridge opening also comes just one month after Pyongyang celebrated a new road link with Russia as a sign of deepening ties. 这座大桥开通之际,也恰在平壤庆祝与俄罗斯建立新公路连接、并将其视为两国关系深化迹象的一个月之后。

第3192期:French President Macron condemns violence in the country

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The French president has given a national address to discuss the rioting and violence that have been gripping the nation. 法国总统于日前发表了全国电视讲话,谈论了近期席卷法国各地的骚乱和暴力事件。 Speaking for a little over eight minutes, Emmanuel Macron acknowledged that hundreds of thousands of people have legitimate grievances, but that they should not be conflated with rioters and looters that have been joining in the protests. 在这场持续了八分多钟的讲话中,埃马纽埃尔·马克龙总统承认,数十万人确实有合理的不满和诉求,但不应将他们与参与抗议活动的暴乱者和趁乱打劫者混为一谈。 He asked opposition parties and trade unions to join him in condemning the violence and vowed to come down firm on those taking part in it, with investigations ongoing. 他呼吁反对党和工会与他一道谴责暴力行为,并誓言对参与暴力事件的人采取严厉措施,目前相关调查仍在进行中。 Macron said he is going to wait for solutions to come from the government, with the prime minister overseeing a crisis unit from this Monday, 马克龙表示,他将等待政府拿出解决方案,从本周一开始,法国总理将负责领导一个危机应对小组, and that local governments will be taking steps to protect their areas, including banning some gatherings. 地方政府也将采取措施维护各自辖区的安全,其中包括禁止某些集会活动。 The French president is setting off on a three-day tour of the Gulf this Monday, with stops in Kuwait, the UAE, Bahrain and Qatar, 本周一,这位法国总统将启程前往海湾地区展开为期三天的访问,行程包括科威特、阿联酋、巴林和卡塔尔, where he will address concerns about fuel costs he says have been raised by a war France has not taken part in. 马克龙还将回应外界对燃油价格上涨的担忧,他表示,这些担忧源于一场法国并未参与的战争。 Emmanuel Macron has just six months remaining of his second five-year term and says France deserves peaceful elections when they begin in April. 埃马纽埃尔·马克龙的第二个五年总统任期仅剩六个月,他表示,法国理应迎来和平有序的选举,而新一轮选举将于四月开始。

第3191期:South Koreans pack park just to catch a glimpse of a trapped shark

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A shark has appeared in Busan. But instead of running away, people are rushing to see it. 近日,一条鲨鱼出现在了釜山。但人们非但没有逃离,反而纷纷赶来一睹它的身影。 A park in Busan has been packed with people eager to catch a glimpse of the shark. 釜山的一座公园挤满了人,大家都迫不及待地想看一眼这条鲨鱼。 Visitors line the waterway, all staring into the water. 游客们沿着水道排开,目光全都投向水中。 Because the waterfront park is a popular spot for strolling and fishing, news of the shark's appearance quickly spread. 由于这座滨水公园是散步和钓鱼的热门地点,鲨鱼出现的消息很快就传开了。 More than 8,000 people visited over the weekend alone. 仅周末两天,就有超过8000人前来参观。 With no glass walls separating them, visitors can see the shark up close. Some are calling the site a natural aquarium. 由于没有玻璃墙将人与鲨鱼隔开,游客可以近距离观赏这条鲨鱼。一些人称这里为“天然水族馆”。 The shark entered the waterway at Busan's North Port Waterfront Park on Friday and has remained there for three days. 这条鲨鱼于周五进入釜山北港滨水公园的水道,并在那里已经停留了三天的时间。 For now, the Korea Coast Guard has suspended efforts to drive the shark away, following expert advice to let it return to the open sea on its own. 在听取专家建议后,韩国海岸警卫队目前已暂停驱赶鲨鱼的行动,决定让它自行返回外海。 Experts note that even relatively docile sharks can attack if provoked, making it safer to let the animal leave naturally rather than attempt a capture. 专家指出,即使是性情相对温顺的鲨鱼,在受到挑衅时也可能发起攻击,因此,与其尝试捕捉它,不如让它自然离开,这样更安全。 However, authorities remain concerned that the large crowds could lead to safety accidents. 不过,当局仍然担心,大量人群聚集可能引发安全事故。 Amid the influx of visitors, park officials urged caution, kept viewing times at 30 minutes and closed the nearby marine pedestrian bridge.  随着游客大量涌入,公园管理人员提醒游客注意安全,将每次观赏时间限制在30分钟,并关闭了附近的海上人行桥。

第3190期:Targeting the European Market: Chinese Auto Brands Debut in Paris

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Under bright lights on the shiny showroom floor, Chinese carmakers are making their presence felt in Paris. 在灯光明亮、展厅地面闪闪发亮的巴黎车展上,中国汽车制造商正逐渐展现出自己的影响力。 Hybrids are already part of the push, but a new EU-China deal is looking to curb those imports. 混合动力汽车已经成为中国车企进军欧洲市场的一部分,但一项新的中欧协议旨在限制这类汽车的进口。 With the details still unclear, brands are pressing ahead. 尽管协议的具体细节尚不明确,各汽车品牌仍在继续推进自己的计划。 Among them is Li Auto, which is preparing for its European debut. 其中,理想汽车正为首次进军欧洲市场做着准备。 "Definitely, we will bring the car products to more countries step by step once we have the sales and service network ready." “当然,一旦我们的销售和服务网络准备就绪,就会逐步将我们的汽车产品推广到更多国家。” To win buyers over, technology has become front and centre in their push for Europe. 为了赢得消费者的青睐,技术已成为中国车企进军欧洲市场的核心竞争力之一。 Xpeng wants to launch its autonomous driving system here, subject to regulatory approval. 小鹏汽车希望在欧洲推出其自动驾驶系统,但这有待监管部门批准。 "We are ready. We have this technology already in China and also for global. Our capacity is ready, the car is ready. “我们已经准备好了。这项技术在中国已经投入使用,在全球市场方面,我们也已经做好了准备。我们的能力已经具备,车辆也已经准备就绪。 But as long as the regulation is released and we will apply that to Europe, we are expecting to do that beginning of next year." 只要相关法规出台,并且我们能够将这项技术应用于欧洲市场,我们预计在明年年初实现这一目标。” Hybrids offer another way to win over European drivers. 混合动力汽车为赢得欧洲消费者的青睐提供了另一条途径。 The challenge now is how far Chinese brands can take that opportunity as new trade limits take shape.  如今,随着新的贸易限制措施逐渐成形,中国汽车品牌能在多大程度上把握这一机遇仍是一大挑战。

第3189期:California, USA Hit by Powerful Winds

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Thousands of firefighters continued to battle blazes in and around Los Angeles County on Wednesday making gains in some areas, 周三,数千名消防员继续在洛杉矶县及其周边地区扑灭大火,一些地区取得了进展, but officials were on high alert for the eruption of new fires as powerful winds were forecast. 但官员们对新火灾的爆发保持高度警惕,因为预计会有强风。 The Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire have consumed an area the size of Washington, D.C. and have left entire neighborhoods leveled. At least two dozen people have died. 帕利塞兹大火和伊顿大火吞噬了相当于华盛顿特区面积的地区,使整个街区夷为平地。至少有二十多人死亡。 Aaron Lubeley, who lost his Altadena home in the Eaton Fire, set up a table with water, food and necessary supplies for anyone who needs it. 在伊顿大火中失去阿尔塔迪纳家园的Aaron Lubeley摆了一张桌子,上面放着水、食物和必需品,供任何需要的人使用。 "I had to find some meaning in why this happened." Several schools in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood were seriously damaged in the fires. “我必须找到发生这种情况的原因。”太平洋帕利塞兹社区的几所学校在火灾中严重受损。 On Wednesday, students and teachers displaced from a Palisades elementary school were welcomed for classes at a school in Brentwood. 周三,从帕利塞兹小学撤离的师生被布伦特伍德的一所学校接纳回校上课。 Reuters correspondent Jillian Kitchener. AP correspondent Julie Walker has more. 路透社记者Jillian Kitchener报道。美联社记者朱莉·沃克(Julie Walker)报道更多。 With thousands left homeless from the devastating California wildfires still raging and more than two dozen deaths, officials are left defending last week's response. 加州野火肆虐,数千人无家可归,20多人死亡,官员们只能为上周的应对措施辩护。 LA City Fire Chief Kristin Crowley: "We followed the system. We searched where we could search." 洛杉矶市消防局局长Kristin Crowley说:“我们遵循了系统。我们搜索了我们能搜索的地方。” Crowley under fire for not doubling the number of firefighters on duty last Tuesday as the winds picked up and having only five o...

第3188期:Arrest warrant issued for former Bolivian president

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U.S. President Joe Biden called the Equal Rights Amendment "the law of the land" on Friday, backing an effort to enshrine the change into the U.S. Constitution more than a century after the guarantee of gender equality was first proposed. 美国总统乔·拜登周五称平等权利修正案是“国法”,支持将这一变化纳入美国宪法,这一努力是在性别平等保障首次提出一个多世纪之后做出的。 "Today, Iaffirmthe Equal Rights Amendment to have cleared all the necessary hurdles to be added to the U.S. Constitution now. “今天,我确认平等权利修正案已经扫清了现在加入美国宪法的所有必要障碍。 The Equal Rights Amendment is the law of the land now. It's the 28th amendment to the Constitution now." 平等权利修正案现在是国法。它现在是第28条宪法修正案。” It was unclear what practical impact Biden's comments might have. The White House issued his statement just three days before he leaves office, handing off to President-elect Donald Trump on Monday. 目前尚不清楚拜登的言论可能产生什么实际影响。白宫在他离任前三天发表了声明,周一将权力移交给候任总统唐纳德·特朗普。 The ERA declares that "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." 平等权利修正案宣称“美国或任何州不得因性别而否认或剥夺法律规定的平等权利。” Its supporters say that it is needed to protect against sexual discrimination and would help achieve equal pay, 支持者表示,该修正案有助于防止性别歧视,并有助于实现同工同酬, while opponents argue that the original timetable to have it become part of the Constitution has passed and that the amendment is no longer needed. 而反对者则认为,将其纳入宪法的原定时间表已经过去,该修正案不再需要。 Mexico has agreed to expand support to other Latin American and Caribbean nations as part of a regional migratory response. 墨西哥已同意扩大对其他拉丁美洲和加勒比国家的支持,作为区域移民应对措施的一部分。 The announcement Friday comes days before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office with a promise to carry out mass deportations. 周五宣布这一...

第3187期:Trump plans to detain illegal immigrants who commit crimes

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The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to require the detainment of unauthorized migrants accused of theft and violent crimes. 美国众议院周三通过一项法案,要求拘留被指控犯有盗窃和暴力罪行的非法移民。 It marks the first legislation that President Donald Trump can sign as Congress, with some bipartisan support, swiftly moved in line with his plans to crack down on illegal immigration. 这是唐纳德·特朗普总统可以签署的第一项立法,因为国会在两党的支持下迅速按照他的计划打击非法移民。 The Laken Riley Act is named after a nursing student who was murdered last year by a Venezuelan man. 《莱肯·莱利法案》以去年被一名委内瑞拉男子谋杀的一名护理专业学生的名字命名。 The bill requires a massive ramp-up in U.S. immigration and customs enforcement's capabilities but does not include any new funding. 该法案要求大幅提高美国移民和海关执法能力,但不包括任何新资金。 Meanwhile, the new president has launched a slew of executive orders intended to seal off the border with Mexico to immigration and ultimately deport millions of migrants without permanent legal status in the U.S. 与此同时,新总统推出了一系列行政命令,旨在封锁与墨西哥的边境,阻止移民入境,并最终驱逐数百万在美国没有永久合法身份的移民。 Trump has also canceled refugee resettlement, and his administration has signaled intentions to prosecute local law enforcement officials who do not enforce his new immigration policies. 特朗普还取消了难民安置,他的政府已表示有意起诉不执行新移民政策的地方执法官员。 The Pentagon said Wednesday it has begun deploying U.S. active duty troops to help secure the southern border. AP correspondent Sagar Meghani reports. 五角大楼周三表示,已开始部署美国现役部队,以帮助保卫南部边境。美联社记者萨加尔·梅加尼(Sagar Meghani)报道。 There are no active duty forces working along the border right now. Officials say up to 1,500 may be sent there to join the roughly 2,500 National Guard and Reserve forces who are there. 目前没有现役部队在边境工作。官员们说,可能会有多达1500人被派往边境,加入...

第3186期:The 'Proud Boys' was pardoned and released from prison

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An extremist group leader who orchestrated part of the assault on the U.S. Capitol four years ago defended his role in the attack as he returned to the scene of the crime on Wednesday. AP correspondent Haya Panjwani reports. 四年前策划了部分袭击美国国会大厦事件的极端组织头目周三返回犯罪现场时为自己在袭击中的角色辩护。美联社记者哈亚·潘杰瓦尼(Haya Panjwani)报道。 Oath Keepers' founder Stuart Rhodes, the far-right extremist group leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in the January 6th, 2021 attack, has visited Capitol Hill after President Trump commuted his 18-year prison sentence. 誓言守卫者创始人斯图尔特·罗德斯是2021年1月6日袭击事件中因煽动阴谋罪被定罪的极右翼极端组织头目,在特朗普总统赦免其18年监禁后,他访问了国会山。 Rhodes was convicted in one of the most serious cases brought by the Justice Department over the riot that left more than a hundred police officers injured. 罗德斯因这场骚乱被定罪,这是司法部提起诉讼的最严重案件之一,骚乱导致一百多名警察受伤。 Rhodes's appearance came the day after he was released from prison as a result of Trump's order of clemency benefiting the more than 1,500 people charged with federal crimes in the January 6 attack. 罗德斯出庭的第二天,他因特朗普下令赦免1月6日袭击事件中被指控犯有联邦罪行的1500多人而出狱。 Meanwhile, the Proud Boys' former top leader, Enrique Tarrio, and three of his lieutenants were also convicted of seditious conspiracy in the attack. 与此同时,骄傲男孩的前最高领导人恩里克·塔里奥(Enrique Tarrio)及其三名副手也因煽动叛乱罪被判刑。 Tarrio was serving a 22-year prison sentence, the longest of any Capitol riot case, before Trump pardoned him. 在特朗普赦免塔里奥之前,他正在服22年的刑期,这是国会骚乱案中服刑时间最长的一个案件。 He came home to cheers when he landed at a Miami airport. Haya Panjwani, Washington. 当他降落在迈阿密机场时,他受到了欢呼。记者哈亚·潘杰瓦尼在华盛顿报道。 Experts say the extraordinary reversal for rioters who committed both violent and nonviolent crimes four years ago will only embolden...

第3185期:Trump urges Egypt and Jordan to accept refugees

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested displaced Palestinians in Gaza be permanently resettled outside the war-torn territory. 美国总统唐纳德·特朗普周二建议将流离失所的加沙巴勒斯坦人永久安置在这片饱受战争蹂躏的领土之外。 "You can't live in Gaza right now and I think we need another location. I think it should be a location that's gonna make people happy. “现在你不能住在加沙,我认为我们需要另一个地方。我认为那应该是一个能让人们快乐的地方。 You look over the decades, it's all death in Gaza. This has been happening for years, it's all death. 回顾过去几十年,加沙充斥着死亡。这种情况已经持续多年,全是死亡。 If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people, permanently, in nice homes where they can be happy and not be shot, not be killed, not be knifed to death like what's happening in Gaza." 如果我们能找到一个美丽的地方,永久地安置人们,让他们住在舒适的家中,在那里他们可以快乐,不会像在加沙那样被枪杀、被杀害、被刀刺死。” Trump made the comments at the start of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu where the two leaders were expected to discuss the fragile cease-fire and hostage deal in the Israeli-Hamas conflict. 特朗普在会见以色列总理本杰明·内塔尼亚胡的开始时发表了上述言论,预计两位领导人将讨论哈以冲突中脆弱的停火协议和人质协议。 The president has previously called on Egypt and Jordan to resettle Gazans. Both countries have flatly rejected such proposals. 总统此前曾呼吁埃及和约旦重新安置加沙人。两国都断然拒绝了这样的提议。 The first U.S. military flight to deport migrants from the United States to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, departed on Tuesday. AP correspondent Julie Walker reports. 美军第一架飞机于周二起飞,将美国移民遣送到古巴关塔那摩湾。美联社记者朱莉·沃克(Julie Walker)报道。 The flight from the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay is the first step in what's expected to be a surge in the number of migrants held at the Navy base in Cuba, which was primarily used to detain foreigners associated with the 9/11 attacks. 从美国飞往关塔那摩湾的航班是古巴海军基...

第3184期:Trump bans transgender athletes from competing in women's sports

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USAID workers abroad are scrambling to pack up households after the Trump administration abruptly pulled almost all agency staffers off the job and out of the field. AP correspondent Donna Warder reports. 特朗普政府突然将几乎所有美国国际开发署工作人员从工作岗位上撤离后,海外工作人员正忙着收拾家当。美联社记者唐娜·沃德(Donna Warder)报道。 One USAID contractor working in an often violent region in the Middle East speaks of waking up one morning earlier this week and being blocked from access to government email and other systems. 一名在中东一个频发暴力事件的地区工作的美国国际开发署承包商说,本周早些时候的一天早上醒来,他被禁止访问政府电子邮件和其他系统。 And the person says an emergency panic button app on their smartphone had been wiped off, putting the contractor and family in danger because they weren't able to reach the U.S. government for help if needed. 这个人说,他智能手机上的紧急按钮应用程序被删除了,承包商和家人处于危险之中,因为他们无法在需要时联系美国政府寻求帮助。 The Trump administration had assured that the U.S. government would bring agency workers home safely within 30 days, but some fear being stranded in the field and left to make their own way back. Donna Warder, Washington. 特朗普政府曾保证,美国政府将在30天内将该机构工作人员安全带回国,但有些人担心被困在外地,只能自己想办法回去。记者唐娜·沃德在华盛顿报道。 A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday ordered a second nationwide pause on President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for anyone born in the United States to someone in the country illegally. 周三,一名美国联邦法官下令在全国范围内第二次暂停特朗普总统的行政命令,该命令旨在终止在美国出生的非法移民的公民权。 U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman said "no court in the country has endorsed" the Trump administration's interpretation of the 14th Amendment. "This court will not be the first." 美国地区法官黛博拉·博德曼(Deborah Boardman)表示,“全国没有任何法院认可”特朗普政府对第十四修正案的解释。“这个法院不会是第一个。” Trump's...

第3183期:Trump freezes all foreign aid for 90 days

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Some South African organizations that assist people with HIV are in limbo after the United States put a 90-day freeze on most foreign aid. 在美国对大部分外援实施为期90天的冻结后,一些帮助艾滋病毒感染者的南非组织陷入了困境。 U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said he wants to bring the agency's activities in line with the new government's "America First" agenda. Kate Bartlett reports from Johannesburg. 美国国务卿马尔科·鲁比奥(Marco Rubio)表示,他希望该机构的活动符合新政府的“美国优先”议程。凯特·巴特利特(Kate Bartlett)在约翰内斯堡报道。 South Africa has the highest number of HIV-positive people in the world, about 8 million, but has also been a huge success story in terms of treatment and preventing new infections. 南非是世界上艾滋病毒感染者最多的国家,约800万人,但在治疗和预防新感染方面也取得了巨大的成功。 That's largely due to the money poured into expert HIV care here, some 17 percent of which comes from a U.S. program called the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR. 这在很大程度上要归功于南非投入到专业艾滋病毒治疗的资金,其中约17%来自美国的一项名为“总统防治艾滋病紧急救援计划”(PEPFAR)的计划。 But a 90-day foreign aid funding freeze is in effect, following an executive order by President Trump last month, while the State Department has issued a waiver to continue paying for "life-saving" services. 但根据特朗普总统上个月的一项行政命令,为期90天的外援资金冻结已经生效,而美国国务院已发布豁免,继续支付“救命”服务的费用。 What that includes remains unclear to many South African organizations that receive funding from PEPFAR. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this week that the waiver was clear. 对于许多接受PEPFAR资助的南非组织来说,这包括哪些内容仍不清楚。美国国务卿马尔科·鲁比奥本周表示,豁免条款很明确。 "If it saves lives, if it's emergency life-saving aid - food, medicine, whatever - they have a waiver. I don't know how much clearer we can be." “如果它能挽救生命,如果它是紧急救生援助——食品、药品,无论什么——他们都有豁免。我不知道我们还能...

第3182期:US Birthright Citizenship Abolition Order Halted Again

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Hi, I'm VOA's Alexis Strope with your worldwide news update. 大家好,我是美国之音新闻记者Alexis Strope,为您带来全球新闻更新。 President Donald Trump has signed an executive order formalizing his announcement earlier this week that he'll freeze assistance to South Africa for a law aiming to address some of the wrongs of South Africa's racist apartheid era. 本周早些时候,唐纳德·特朗普总统签署了一项行政命令,正式宣布他将冻结对南非的援助,以支持一项旨在修正南非种族隔离时代一些错误的法律。 The White House says the law amounts to discrimination against the country's white minority. 白宫表示,这项法律相当于对该国白人少数群体的歧视。 As long as South Africa continues to support bad actors on the world stage and allows violent attacks on innocent, disfavored minority farmers, the United States will stop aid and assistance to the country, the White House said in a summary of the order. 白宫在行政命令摘要中表示,只要南非继续支持世界舞台上的坏人,并允许对无辜、不受青睐的少数族裔农民进行暴力袭击,美国就会停止对该国的援助。 The White House said Trump is also going to announce a program to resettle white South African farmers and their families as refugees. 白宫表示,特朗普还将宣布一项计划,将南非白人农民及其家人作为难民重新安置。 The order also references South Africa's role in bringing accusations of genocide against Israel before the International Court of Justice. 该命令还提到了南非在将以色列种族灭绝指控提交国际法院方面所起的作用。 President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship faces another legal challenge. AP correspondent Haya Panjwani reports. 唐纳德·特朗普总统关于出生公民权的行政命令面临另一项法律挑战。美联社记者Haya Panjwani报道。 A federal judge in Boston will consider a request from 18 states to block President Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the United States illegally. 波士顿的一名联邦法官将考虑18个州提出的阻止唐纳德·特朗普总统的行政命令的请求,该命令终止非法移民子女的出生公民权...

第3181期:US lab paves the way for quantum internet

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When news spread late last year that the Fermilab National AcceleratorLaboratoryin suburban Chicago was part of a project achieving quantum teleportation, it conjured up scenes from the classic science fiction franchise Star Trek in which the show's characters could beam from one location to another. 去年年底,当有消息传出芝加哥郊外的费米国家加速器实验室参与了一个实现量子隐形传态的项目时,这不禁让人联想到经典科幻系列《星际迷航》中的场景——剧中角色可以从一个地点瞬间传送到另一个地点。 That's not what we're doing here. What we're doing here actually is we're moving information without even physically moving the qubit that contains information. 这并非我们在这里的目的。我们在这里实际做的是,无需物理移动承载信息的量子比特,就能传输信息。 Fermilab scientist Panagiotis Spentzouris is one of the co-authors of a study documenting the advancement of sending or teleporting information or qubit, a unit of quantum computing code. 费米实验室的科学家Panagiotis Spentzouris是这项研究的合著者之一,该研究记录了发送或传送信息或量子比特(量子计算代码的单位)的进展。 Over 40 kilometers through fiber cables, it brings developers one step closer to building a sustainable and widely used quantum internet, which would allow a lot of information to be shared faster and more securely. 它通过光纤电缆跨越四十多公里,让开发者距离构建可持续且被广泛使用的量子互联网更近一步,这种量子互联网能够让大量信息以更快、更安全的方式共享。 Quantum communication has very appealing attributes. I mean, you cannot eavesdrop in a way that will not be detected. 量子通信具有非常吸引人的特性。你无法在不被发现的情况下进行窃听。 What we achieved here with the systems is that we have produced systems that they can continually operate and perform quantum measurements at all times as a system, not just as a single experiment. 我们借助这些系统所达成的成果是,我们制造出了能够持续运行并随时作为系统进行量子测量的系统,而不仅仅是单次实验。 Physicist Maria Spiropulu, based at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Cal...

第3180期:Invisible touchscreen

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What if you could control your car, turn on your oven, or sign your name by touching an invisible screen? 要是你能通过触摸一块看不见的屏幕操控汽车、打开烤箱、或是签名,会怎么样? Ultraleap, a British and California firm, uses ultrasound waves to create the sensation of touch mid-air. A camera tracks hand motions. 英国与美国加州合资的公司Ultraleap利用超声波在空中制造触感。摄像头追踪手部动作。 You can keep your eyes on the road. You can feel the button go click. 你可以让眼睛一直盯着路面。你可以感觉到按钮发出咔嗒一声。 Ultraleap works with museums, car manufacturers, and other industries to create invisible screens in mid-air, and with augmented reality headsets to bring more information to people's experiences. Ultraleap与博物馆、汽车制造商及其他行业合作,在空中打造隐形屏幕,并借助增强现实头显丰富人们的体验感受。 With the pandemic, Ultraleap turned its technology toward touch screens in restaurants and stores, touch screens that some people no longer want to touch. 疫情期间,Ultraleap公司将其技术转向了餐厅和商店中的触摸屏,因为有些人不再愿意触碰这类传统的触摸屏。 People are becoming so much more conscious of what they're touching, particularly in an out of home environment, where they don't have so much control over what they're touching, and what may have touched it before. 人们对自己触摸到的东西越来越在意,尤其是在户外环境中,因为他们对自己触摸的对象以及此前可能接触过它的事物,并没有太多掌控力。 The technology may take a little getting used to. In a car to control music, temperature or the map, there are two gestures to learn. 这项技术可能需要一点时间来适应。在车内控制音乐、温度或地图,有两个手势需要学习。 One is a pinch gesture which is used for selection, and then the other one is what we call the drop the mic gesture, where you just release your hand like that. 一种是用于选择的捏合手势,另一种是我们所说的“扔麦”手势,你只需像那样松开手。 The driver can feel vibrations with the gesture as if you are physically touching something. 司机可以通过手势感受到振动,仿佛真...

第3179期:The US commemorates the 35th anniversary

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January 28th, 1986, before a television audience, seven passengers aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger took flight from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 1986年1月28日,在电视观众面前,挑战者号航天飞机上的七名乘客从佛罗里达州的肯尼迪航天中心起飞。 Among them was Christa McAuliffe, who was selected in a nationwide search for a teacher to be NASA's first citizen passenger in space. 其中一位是克里斯塔·麦考利芙,她是在全国范围内选拔出来的教师,将成为NASA首位进入太空的普通公民乘客。 I don't think any teacher has ever been more ready to have two lessons in my life. 我认为在我的教学生涯中,从来没有哪位老师像我这样准备好上两节课。 I've been preparing these in September, and I just hope everybody tunes in on day 4 now to watch the teacher teaching from space. 我一直在九月份准备这些内容,现在只希望大家都能在第四天收看老师从太空授课。 Just 73 seconds after takeoff disaster after a rubber seal in one of the shuttle's twin booster rockets failed, triggering an explosion that doomed all on board. 起飞后仅73秒,灾难降临——航天飞机的两枚助推火箭之一的橡胶密封圈失效,引发爆炸,致使机上所有人员全部遇难。 Then president Ronald Reagan eulogized the crew and called them heroes. 随后,罗纳德·里根总统悼念了机组人员,并称他们为英雄。 And while the flight exposed failures in NASA management who ignored safety warnings from scientists, it's widely regarded as planting the seed for shuttle development in today's commercial space flights. 尽管这次飞行暴露了NASA管理层忽视科学家安全警告的失误,但人们普遍认为,它为当今商业太空飞行中的航天飞机发展播下了种子。 Companies like SpaceX have even flown missions to the International Space Station, where on Wednesday astronauts Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover spacewalk to finish installing a European science platform and complete long-term battery upgrades. 像SpaceX这样的公司甚至已经执行了前往国际空间站的任务,周三,宇航员迈克尔·霍普金斯和维克多·格洛弗在那里进行太空行走,以完成欧洲科学平台的安装,并完成长期电池升级任务。 The advancements can further r...

第3178期:Developing El Niño becomes strongest on record week

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Scientists say the developing El Niño is already the strongest ever recorded, with sea temperatures in a key region of the Pacific more than three degrees above average, and this event is not expected to peak until later this year. 科学家表示,目前正在形成的厄尔尼诺现象已达到有记录以来最强水平,太平洋一个关键海域的海水温度比平均水平高出三度以上,而此次厄尔尼诺预计要到今年晚些时候才会达到峰值。 El Niño is a natural climate phenomenon that occurs when unusually warm water develops across the tropical Pacific, disrupting weather patterns around the world. 厄尔尼诺是一种自然气候现象,当热带太平洋出现大范围异常偏暖的海水时便会发生,扰乱全球各地的天气模式。 The Met Office says its impacts are already being felt, with wildfires in Indonesia and low water levels in the Panama Canal restricting international shipping. As it develops, it's expected to bring droughts and wildfires to parts of Australia, South America and southern Africa, while coastal Peru and Ecuador face the threat of torrential rain and flooding. 英国气象局表示,厄尔尼诺现象的影响已开始显现:印度尼西亚发生野火,巴拿马运河水位偏低,使国际航运受到限制。随着厄尔尼诺的进一步发展,预计澳大利亚、南美洲和南部非洲的部分地区将遭遇干旱和野火。与此同时,秘鲁和厄瓜多尔沿海地区面临暴雨和洪水的威胁。

第3177期:Return of the sleeper train in Europe

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The Sun has set, and you're headed to a train station in Stockholm with your overnight bag. You board the sleeper train, change into your comfortable clothes, enjoy the scenery through the window for a while before laying your head down to rest. Snoring from the other passengers in your shared cabin delays your bedtime, but the gentle motion and white noise eventually send you to sleep. The next morning, just over 12 hours later, you wake up in Germany's second largest city, Hamburg. "It still sounds like a long time, but you go to sleep, and it's such a nice atmosphere on the train," says Julia Senninger, a fan of sleeper trains. 太阳已经落山,您带着过夜行李前往斯德哥尔摩的火车站。 登上卧铺列车,换上舒适的衣服,欣赏一下窗外的风景,然后就低头休息。 共用客舱内其他乘客的鼾声会延迟您的就寝时间,但轻柔的动作和白噪音最终会让您入睡。 第二天早上,12 个多小时后,您在德国第二大城市汉堡醒来。 “听起来还是很长一段时间,但你很快就睡着了,火车上的气氛真好,”卧铺火车的粉丝朱莉娅·森宁格 (Julia Senninger) 说道。 Before budget airlines made flights across Europe so quick and cheap, sleeper trains were a popular way to cover large distances without wasting daylight or paying for a place to stay. After a period of decline, sleeper trains in Europe are making a comeback.Belgian-Dutch company European Sleeper launched the Brussels to Milan route in September 2026 and has announced a new route connecting Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden, scheduled to open in 2028. Other train companies Trenitalia and Nightjet have also announced plans for new international routes. Companies are rushing to meet high demand. 在廉价航空公司提供如此快捷、便宜的穿越欧洲的航班之前,卧铺火车是一种流行的长途旅行方式,无需浪费日光或支付住宿费用。 经过一段时间的衰退后,欧洲的卧铺列车正在卷土重来。比利时-荷兰公司European Sleeper于2026年9月推出了布鲁塞尔至米兰的航线,并宣布了一条连接比利时、荷兰和瑞典的新航线,计划于2028年开通。其他火车公司Trenitalia和Nightjet也宣布了新的国际航线的计划。 公司正在争先恐后地满足高需...

第3176期:US and Canada Join Forces to Combat Drug Smuggling

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Protesters continue to gather outside the U.S. Agency for International Development on Monday after Elon Musk and President Trump made moves to dismantle the agency charged with delivering humanitarian assistance overseas. 周一,在埃隆·马斯克和特朗普总统采取行动解散负责向海外提供人道主义援助的美国国际开发署后,抗议者继续聚集在美国国际开发署外。 AP correspondent Haya Panjwani reports. William Whelan, a retired USAID employee, says that he worked for the agency to help starving people worldwide. 美联社记者哈亚·潘杰瓦尼(Haya Panjwani)报道。美国国际开发署退休员工威廉·惠兰(William Whelan)表示,他为该机构工作是为了帮助全世界的饥饿人民。 "This program helped people not only who faced starvation, but it helped Americans. So I find it hard to believe that Americans wouldn't understand the mutual benefit." “这个项目不仅帮助了面临饥饿的人们,也帮助了美国人。所以我很难相信美国人不会理解这种互惠互利。” A federal judge dealt Trump and Musk their first big setback in their dismantling of the agency, ordering a temporary halt on plans to pull thousands of agency staffers off the job. Haya Panjwani, Washington. 一名联邦法官给特朗普和马斯克在解散该机构的过程中带来了第一个重大挫折,下令暂时停止将数千名机构工作人员从工作岗位上撤下的计划。记者哈亚·潘杰瓦尼在华盛顿报道。 A U.S. district judge found Monday that the Trump administration hasn't fully followed his order to unfreeze federal spending and told the White House to release billions of dollars in funding. AP correspondent Sagar Meghani reports. 一名美国地区法官周一裁定,特朗普政府没有完全遵守他的命令解冻联邦支出,并要求白宫释放数十亿美元的资金。美联社记者萨加尔·梅加尼(Sagar Meghani)报道。 The judge says the White House has violated his order from late last month, noting continued struggles to get federal money for things like early childhood education and HIV research. 法官表示,白宫违反了他上个月底的命令,指出联邦政府继续努力争取资金用于早期儿童教育和艾滋病研究等项目。 He says a broad, categorical and sweeping federal fundin...

第3175期:US and Canada Join Forces to Combat Drug Smuggling

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Trump's ultimatum to Hamas received a mixed reaction from Israelis for whom the release of the hostages remains top priority. VOA's Jeff Caster reports. 特朗普向哈马斯发出的最后通牒在以色列人中引起了褒贬不一的反应,以色列人认为释放人质仍然是当务之急。美国之音记者杰夫·卡斯特(Jeff Caster)报道。 Hamas's spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said Tuesday Trump needs to remember there is an agreement which must be respected by both parties. 哈马斯发言人萨米·阿布·祖赫里周二表示,特朗普需要记住双方必须尊重一项协议。 Jerusalem resident Hagit Herman told the Reuters news agency she thought Trump's intentions may have been good, but the message was wrong. 耶路撒冷居民哈吉特·赫尔曼(Hagit Herman)告诉路透社,她认为特朗普的意图可能是好的,但传递的信息是错误的。 "I think Trump has good meanings, but I think now he's not on it. I think he must go in another way. “我认为特朗普的意图是好的,但现在他已经不同意了。我认为他必须换一种方式。 I think the most important thing is to get back our people to Israel and not push it and not threaten the Hamas because that's not the way." 我认为最重要的是让我们的人民回到以色列,不要强迫他们,不要威胁哈马斯,因为这不是办法。” Trump did say that Israel might want to override him regarding his suggestion the cease-fire be cancelled and said he might speak to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the issue. Jeff Caster, VOA News. 特朗普确实表示,以色列可能想推翻他取消停火的建议,并表示他可能会就此问题与以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡交谈。美国之音新闻记者杰夫·卡斯特报道。 Canada has named a former deputy commissioner with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the country's new fentanyl czar. 加拿大任命了一位前加拿大皇家骑警副局长,担任该国新的芬太尼沙皇。 Officials hope to show the U.S. it is working to prevent production and distribution of the synthetic opioid. 官员们希望向美国表明,他们正在努力防止这种合成阿片类药物的产销。 Kevin Brosseau has served as an RCMP deputy commissioner and the senior Mountie in the province of Manitoba. More recently, he was de...

第3174期:Tulsi Gabbard sworn in as Director of National Intelligence

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Tulsi Gabbard, a former U.S. representative with little intelligence experience, was sworn on Wednesday as the top U.S. spy. Reuters correspondent Freddie Joyner reports. 美国前众议员图尔西·加巴德在情报方面经验不多,周三宣誓就任美国最高间谍。路透社记者弗雷迪·乔伊纳(Freddie Joyner)报道。 Gabbard now will oversee the 18-agency intelligence community, including the CIA, and act as President Donald Trump's top adviser on intelligence issues. 加巴德现在将负责监督包括中央情报局在内的18个机构的情报界,并担任唐纳德·特朗普总统的情报问题高级顾问。 With little experience in this area, she was considered to be one of Trump's most controversial picks. 由于在这方面经验不足,她被认为是特朗普最具争议的选择之一。 Yet every Republican besides Senator Mitch McConnell, the party's former leader in the chamber, lined up behind the nominee. 然而,除了共和党参议院前领袖米奇·麦康奈尔参议员之外,所有共和党人都支持这位提名人。 White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about this at her briefing Wednesday. 白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特(Karoline Leavitt)在周三的简报会上被问及此事。 "We're greatly disappointed in any Republican who chooseswillfullyto vote against the president's exceptionally qualified cabinet nominees and picks to lead his America First administration." “我们对任何共和党人故意选择投票反对总统提名的非常合格的内阁候选人和领导美国优先政府的人选感到非常失望。” By comparison, no Democrats or independents voted in favor of Gabbard. 相比之下,没有民主党人或独立人士投票支持加巴德。 Gabbard, a 43-year-old former Democrat, had faced bipartisan questions about past statements seen as supporting U.S. adversaries and lack of experience that would have prepared her to manage a $100 billion budget. 43岁的前民主党人加巴德曾面临两党质疑,她过去发表的言论被视为支持美国对手,而且缺乏管理1000亿美元预算的经验。 That was Reuters correspondent Freddie Joyner. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is hosting Alice Weidel, the Alternative for Germany party's candidate for chancellor, a ra...

第3173期:Is social media still 'social'?

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For many people, social media is a normal part of everyday life. It's used to keep in touch, entertain and follow what's happening in the world. But numbers from DataReportal indicate that the average use of social media is around two hours 21 minutes a day. That's nearly 15 hours per week or about 32 days a year! The same report also mentions that people are using social media more passively. This means they're spending a lot of time scrolling on their feed, sending memes and reacting to things with emojis instead of sending messages. Could it be that social media platforms are negatively impacting the way we interact with people, and are they taking time away from us actually being social? 对于许多人来说,社交媒体是日常生活的正常组成部分。 它用于保持联系、娱乐和关注世界上发生的事情。 但 DataReportal 的数据显示,社交媒体的平均使用时间每天约为 2 小时 21 分钟。 这相当于每周近 15 小时或每年约 32 天! 同一份报告还提到,人们使用社交媒体的方式更加被动。 这意味着他们花费大量时间滚动浏览动态、发送模因以及使用表情符号对事物做出反应,而不是发送消息。 社交媒体平台是否会对我们与人互动的方式产生负面影响,并且它们是否会占用我们实际社交的时间? One study looked at what happened when social media was deliberately limited. In The effect of self-monitoring limited social media use on psychological well-being, researchers in the United States studied 230 university students. One group was asked to limit social media use to 30 minutes a day, while the other continued without a limit. After two weeks, the group limiting its use reported lower levels of loneliness, depression, anxiety and FOMO. 一项研究着眼于故意限制社交媒体时会发生什么。 在《自我监控限制社交媒体使用对心理健康的影响》一书中,美国研究人员对 230 名大学生进行了研究。 一组被要求将社交媒体的使用时间限制在每天 30 分钟,而另一组则继续无限制。 两周后,限制其使用的小组报告称,孤独、抑郁、焦虑和 FOMO 水平较低。 Sleep is another part of the picture. For many people, scrolling through social media has become part of their bedtime r...

第3172期:Pope Francis hospitalized with respiratory infection

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French President Emmanuel Macron will host European leaders Monday for an emergency summit on the Ukraine war after U.S. officials suggested Europe would have no role in any talks on ending the conflict. 在美国官员暗示欧洲没份参与结束冲突的任何谈判后,法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙将于周一召集欧洲领导人就乌克兰战争举行紧急峰会。 Reuters correspondent Emma Jehle reports. Leaders from Germany, Poland, Italy, as well as NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte and Ursula von der Leyen and António Costa from the European Union are expected to be at the summit. 路透社记者Emma Jehle报道。德国、波兰、意大利领导人以及北约秘书长马克·吕特、欧盟秘书长乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩和安东尼奥·科斯塔预计将出席峰会。 President Trump stunned European allies last week when he announced he had a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin and would start a peace process. 特朗普总统上周宣布与俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京通话并将启动和平进程,令欧洲盟友震惊。 Trump's Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellogg, said on Saturday that Europe would not have a seat at the table for Ukraine peace talks. 特朗普的乌克兰特使基思·凯洛格周六表示,欧洲没份参与乌克兰和平谈判。 Washington had sent a questionnaire to European capitals last week asking what they could contribute to security guarantees for Kyiv and what the size of any European-led force might be, according to a document seen by Reuters. 据路透社看到的一份文件显示,华盛顿上周向欧洲各国首都发送了一份调查问卷,询问他们可以为基辅的安全保障做出什么贡献,以及欧洲领导的部队规模可能有多大。 U.S. officials have insisted they will only settle for a durable peace deal and that Ukraine will be at the table. 美国官员坚称,他们只会接受持久的和平协议,乌克兰也将参与其中。 It was revealed later on Saturday that the U.S. and Russian officials will meet in Saudi Arabia in the coming days to start Ukraine peace talks. Reuters correspondent Emma Jehle. 周六晚些时候,路透社记者Emma Jehle报道,美国和俄罗斯官员将在未来几天在沙特阿拉伯会面,开始乌克兰和平谈判。 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy...

第3171期:US passenger plane flips over while landing in Canada

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Israel's military says its forces will remain in five strategic locations in southern Lebanon after Tuesday's deadline for their withdrawal under a cease-fire with the Hezbollah militant group. 以色列军方表示,根据与真主党武装组织达成的停火协议,在周二的撤军期限之后,其军队将留在黎巴嫩南部的五个战略要地。 Lebanon's government has expressed frustration over another delay. A separate cease-fire in Gaza is also in doubt as the region marks 500 days of Israel's war with Hamas. 黎巴嫩政府对又一次拖延表示沮丧。加沙地区的单独停火协议也充满不确定性,此时正值以色列与哈马斯交战持续500天之际。 Talks are yet to start on the cease-fire's second phase, which would release more hostages and cede the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the territory. 停火的第二阶段谈判尚未开始,该阶段将释放更多人质并让以色列军队撤出该地区。 An Israeli official says four bodies are expected to be returned to Israel on Thursday. 一名以色列官员表示,预计周四将有四具尸体返回以色列。 A Delta Airlines plane flipped while landing at Toronto's Pearson Airport and ended up on its roof on Monday, injuring 19 people. AP correspondent Mike Hempen reports. 周一,达美航空的一架飞机在多伦多皮尔逊机场降落时翻倒,机顶着地,造成19人受伤。美联社记者迈克·汉彭(Mike Hempen)报道。 The airport says an incident occurred on a Delta flight from Minneapolis and that all 80 passengers and crew members have been accounted for. Paramedics say three people are critically injured. 机场称,一架从明尼阿波利斯起飞的达美航空航班发生了一起事故,所有80名乘客和机组人员都已找到。医护人员说,三人伤势严重。 Video shows the plane upside down on a snowytarmacas emergency workers hose it down. 视频显示,飞机在积雪的停机坪上翻倒,紧急救援人员用水管冲洗。 It's too early to say what caused the plane to flip, but weather may have been a factor. 现在说飞机翻倒的原因还为时过早,但天气可能是其中一个因素。 The Meteorological Service of Canada says the airport was experiencing blowing snow and wind gusts. 加拿大气象局表示,机场当时正遭遇风雪和阵风。 It...

第3170期:Italian government websites hit by pro-Russian cyberattacks

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Top U.S. and Russian officials met on Tuesday for landmark talks aimed in part at ending the Ukraine war. AP correspondent Sagar Meghani reports. 美俄高级官员周二举行了具有里程碑意义的会谈,旨在结束乌克兰战争。美联社记者萨加尔·梅加尼(Sagar Meghani)报道。 It was the most extensive contact since before Moscow's invasion nearly three years ago, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, his Russian counterpart and others meeting in Riyadh. No one from Ukraine was invited. 这是自莫斯科入侵以来近三年来最广泛的接触,美国国务卿马尔科·卢比奥、俄罗斯外长和其他人在利雅得举行会谈。没有乌克兰人受到邀请。 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has now postponed his own Saudi trip this week, suggesting he did not want his visit being linked to the talks. 泽连斯基总统本周推迟了对沙特的访问,暗示他不希望他的访问与会谈联系在一起。 Rubio says it will be a long process and Ukraine will play a role. "But ultimately, the Russian side will be indispensable to this effort." 卢比奥说这将是一个漫长的过程,乌克兰将发挥作用。“但最终,俄罗斯方面对这一努力是不可或缺的。” European security expert Nigel Gould-Davies says that much is clear, since the negotiations are basically being conducted on Russia's terms. 欧洲安全专家奈杰尔·古尔德-戴维斯(Nigel Gould-Davies)说,这一点很清楚,因为谈判基本上是按照俄罗斯的条件进行的。 "America hasn't even tried to challenge that" by already suggesting Ukraine will have to give up land and will not join NATO. Sagar Meghani, Washington. “美国甚至没有试图挑战这一点”,已经暗示乌克兰必须放弃土地,不会加入北约。记者萨加尔·梅加尼在华盛顿报道。 A pro-Russian hacker group attacked Italian government websites on Tuesday and what it said was a reaction to a speech by Italian President Sergio Mattarella that compared Russia's invasion of Ukraine to the Nazi's wars of conquest. 一个亲俄黑客组织周二袭击了意大利政府网站,并声称这是对意大利总统塞尔焦·马塔雷拉的讲话做出的回应,马塔雷拉将俄罗斯入侵乌克兰与纳粹的征服战争进行了比较。 AP correspondent Lawrence Brooks reports. The NoName057 ha...

第3169期:Tulsa Remote

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I first heard about Tulsa Remote, I felt like it was kismet. I was thinking about leaving the Bay area where I was living in San Francisco. 我第一次听说塔尔萨远程搬家计划时,觉得这简直是天意。我当时正考虑离开我居住的旧金山湾区。 And so, I was searching around for, you know, different locations like researching where, you know, what's the cost of living like? What is the quality of life like in different cities? 我四处在找新城市,研究那个城市的生活成本是怎么样的? 不同城市的生活质量有什么差异? And I looked at all the, kind of, obvious things that I think people migrate from California to, which were Portland, Austin, Seattle. 我研究了所有那种我觉得人们从加州搬去的热门目的地,也就是波特兰,奥斯汀,西雅图。 And, you know, I just kept coming up with the fact that those cities have, kind of, been overplayed at this point. 我越来越发现,有些时候这些城市的好处其实被夸大了。 And when I was doing this research, an article for Tulsa Remote popped up in my news feed, and I thought, like, that's super interesting. 在我进行这项研究时,一篇关于塔尔萨远程搬家计划的文章出现在我的新闻推送中,我想这真是太有趣了。 Ten thousand dollars to move somewhere. But then I was also, had to, like, take a step back and go "Where is Tulsa, Oklahoma?" 一万美元就能搬到别的地方。但随后我也得退一步想:“俄克拉何马州塔尔萨市到底在哪儿?” Tulsa Remote is an innovative program which seeks to bring remote workers from across the country with various diverse skill sets in order for them to have an opportunity to join our community. 塔尔萨远程搬家计划是一项创新项目,旨在吸引来自全国各地、拥有各类不同技能的远程工作者,让他们有机会加入我们的社区。 The program was created as it's truly an additive talent program which brings people with jobs to Tulsa in order to see a better life for themselves and their families. 该项目之所以被创立,是因为它确实是一个增益型人才项目,旨在吸引有工作的人来到塔尔萨,以便为自己和家人创造更好的生活。 I made this list and I said, you know "What do I need? Do I need 700 restaurants?...

第3168期:Black magician

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When it comes to magic, there's no logical solution why did that coin vanish from your hand? Then, the next things is, do it again or do something else miraculous. 魔术是无法用逻辑来解释的,比如为什么那枚硬币会从你手里凭空消失?接下来要做的就是,要么再变一次,要么表演点别的神奇的魔术。 Is magic real or is magic an illusion? I'd like to show you what comes to mind just as an example. And we're just going to use these three half-dollars right here. 魔术是真的,还是只是障眼法?我想向你们展示一下我脑海中浮现的想法,仅作为例子。我手上有三个50美分的硬币, Focus on this first one. Three coins, two hands, no sleeves, no bracelets. 先看第一个,三个硬币,两只手,没有袖子,没有手饰。 So, you think of things happening that's impossible, but you're making the impossible possible and you're also creating astonishment. 你想到的是不可能发生的事,但你正在把不可能变成可能,你也在创造奇迹。 So, when you think about magic, you have to think about creativity and most importantly, making the impossible possible. 当你谈到魔术的时候,你会想到创造力,最重要的是,把不可能变成可能。 What is real? So, I got started in magic, not when I was young like most people. 什么是真实的?跟大多数魔术师不同,我不是很小就开始学魔术的。 I got started in magic when I was in graduate school at Penn State studying health education research. 我是在宾州州立大学研究生院学习健康教育研究期间开始学习魔术的。 It was just a hobby for me, something to do to just to pass the time, card tricks. 扑克牌魔术对我来说只是个爱好,是用来打发时间的消遣罢了。 Me and a group of friends, we used to get together and do card tricks. 我和一群朋友经常聚在一起玩扑克牌魔术。 So, I just took a leap of faith and I just said I'm going to give myself one year. 我就鼓起勇气放手一试,给自己一年的时间。 If it doesn't work out in one year, I'll just go back to school, get a job and just continue on with life. 如果一年后还没成功,我就回学校,找个班上,继续过日子。 Well, one year ended up being 16 years and I haven't looked back yet. So, that's wh...

第3167期:Let growth go beyond skin color

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We were at the Union at the university. That's basically a place where people come and relax and you check your emails and your class schedules. 我们是在大学学生会认识的。 那基本上是个大家来放松的地方,还能查收邮件,查看课程表。 And I just happened to see this head of curly hair and I had to get closer to her. 我突然看到了一名卷发靓女,就想走近去看看。 And the closer I got, the better she looked. And I had to introduce myself. So, here we are 20 years later. 离得越近,她看起来就越美。我就开始介绍我自己。到现在我们在一起已经20年了。 I have three kiddos. Isaac is our oldest. Ian is our middle child. Isabella is our youngest. 我们有三个孩子,艾萨克是老大,伊恩是老二,伊莎贝拉是最小的。 She's seven-and-a-half. We homeschool them. We have for the last five-and-a-half years. 伊莎贝拉现在七岁半。我们在家教育他们。过去五年半我们一直如此。 Our children, they do have the best of both worlds in having a Black father and a white mother. In life, they don't have to think about choosing a side. 我们的孩子有黑人父亲和白人母亲,确实能从两种文化中受益良多。在生活中,他们不必考虑要站在哪一边。 I'm originally from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines which is in the eastern Caribbean. 我来自加勒比海东部的圣文森特和格林纳丁斯。 I was evacuated due to a volcano in 1979. I was seven years old at that time, came to United States, lived in New York City for a few years. 我在1979年因火山爆发而被疏散。那时我七岁,来到美国,在纽约市住了几年。 And I also was in the military myself. The only questions that the kids have asked us about race is, "Dad, why is your skin darker than Mom's?" 我也曾在军队服役。孩子们问过的唯一关于种族的问题是:“爸爸,为什么你的皮肤比妈妈的深?” And, so, I went ahead and took a DNA test and I explained all that to them. Daddy is 50 percent Nigerian. Daddy is 25 percent from Sierra Leone. 然后我就会拿出DNA检测报告,跟他们一一解释。我说,爸爸有50%的尼日利亚血统,25%的塞拉利昂血统。 Daddy is 11 percent Scottish. Daddy has four percent Native American. Daddy has three percent...

第3166期:Why we like collecting things

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People collect all sorts of things. I collect fridge magnets, so my fridge has slowly become a colourful map of everywhere I've been. I also have fond memories of collecting rocks and shells from the beach with my mum when we’d visit the coast in summer. It’s true that some people collect natural objects such as fossils and interesting stones, while others bring home souvenirs from their travels. There are also people collecting miniature versions of real commercial products and tiny replicas of familiar objects, for example scaled-down retro toys, classic board games and action figures. In this way, collectables can be both decorative and functional, giving us something nostalgic to look at or fiddle with when bored. 人们收集各种各样的东西。 我收集冰箱贴,所以我的冰箱慢慢地变成了一张彩色地图,上面写着我去过的任何地方。 当我们夏天去海岸时,我也有和妈妈一起从海滩收集岩石和贝壳的美好回忆。 确实,有些人收集化石和有趣的石头等自然物品,而另一些人则将旅行中的纪念品带回家。 还有人收集真实商业产品的微型版本和熟悉物品的微型复制品,例如缩小版复古玩具、经典棋盘游戏和动作玩偶。 这样,收藏品就可以兼具装饰性和功能性,让我们在无聊时可以看看或摆弄一些怀旧的东西。 But why do people have such a strong desire to collect things? One explanation is that collecting gives us a sense of order and achievement. Happiful, a mental health and wellbeing magazine, wrote that adding to a collection creates a sense of progress and accomplishment. According to an article published in the Journal of Consumer Research, titled Seeking Structure in Collections: Desire for Control Motivates Engagement in Collecting, collecting can help people feel more in control. It explains that collections can become an extension of our identity. The things we collect reflect our hobbies, interests and loyalties. 但为什么人们有如此强烈的收藏欲望呢? 一种解释是,收藏给我们一种秩序感和成就感。 《幸福》是一本心理健康和幸福杂志,它写道,添加收藏可以带来进步和成就感。 根据发表在《消费者研究杂志》上的一篇题为《寻求收藏中的...

第3165期:Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough

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While mice with partly-human brains might sound a Kafkaesque experiment, the scientists say that these are not mice that think like humans, rather they're animals that are altered so that some of their brain tissue is human. 虽然拥有部分人类脑组织的小鼠听起来像是一场 “卡夫卡式” 的实验,但科学家表示,这些小鼠并不会像人类一样思考。更准确地说,它们只是经过改造的动物,其部分脑组织来源于人类。 The researchers engineered mice to develop almost none of their own cerebralcortex, that's the outer layer that's sometimes referred to as grey matter. It handles higher-level thinking, memory and senses. They then used skin cells taken from humans, reprogrammed them and grew them into pieces of brain-like tissue called organoids – collections of connected living brain cells. When these organoids were implanted into the mice, they formed connections with the rest of the brain and the spinal cord, functioning like brain tissue. 通过基因工程手段,研究人员让这些小鼠几乎不发育自身的大脑皮层。大脑皮层就是大脑的外层,有时也被称为 “灰质”,负责高级思维活动、记忆和感觉处理。随后,研究人员用取自人类的皮肤细胞,将其重新编程,培育成名为 “类器官” 的类脑组织。类器官由相互连接的活体脑细胞组成。这些类器官被植入小鼠后,与大脑的其它区域和脊髓建立了连接,并发挥与脑组织相似的功能。  Having working human brain cells inside a living animal, the scientists say, gives them a new way to understand the biological causes and develop treatments for brain disorders, including dementia, epilepsy and cerebral palsy. The study raises questions about what it means to change the brain of an animal and exactly how theselaboratorymice will experience the world. So, there'll be ongoing discussions weighing the scientific value of these mice against these ethical challenges.  科学家表示,在活体动物的大脑中植入能正常发挥功能的人类脑细胞,为他们理解脑部疾病的生物学成因、开发新疗法提供了新途径,这些疾病包括痴呆、癫痫和脑瘫。该研究也引发了一些质疑,例如改变动物的大脑意味着什么,以及这些实验小鼠究竟会如何感知和体验世界。因...

第3164期:Slum church

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For 14 years, we do it every Friday around this time. We come out and we feed people, right? 14年来,我们每周五差不多这个时候都会做这件事。我们出来给人们分发食物,对吧? We feed them first the spiritual word of God, we call it and then, we give them physical food. 我们先给他们“精神食粮”,然后再给他们提供物质食物。 We let them know that "Hey, you don't have to come to listen to the word of God in order for us to give you food. 我们让他们知道:“你们不必为了让我们给你们食物而来听上帝的教诲。 If you just want to come when we're serving, you can come when we're serving. 如果你只想在我们供应餐点的时候来,那你可以直接来。 You don't have to listen to me. I'm nothing special. I don't have nothing great to say to you except for what's in the word of God." 你不必听我的。我没什么特别的。除了上帝箴言外,我没什么溢美之语要对你说。” The hardest hit place in Los Angeles, still praising God, still giving him the glory, still coming out on Friday nights. 在洛杉矶疫情最严重的地方,人们仍在赞美上帝,仍在颂扬他的荣耀,仍在周五晚上外出。 And what I've started to notice is happening is that more and more people are coming back every week. 我开始注意到,每周都有越来越多的人出来加入我们。 There are all kinds of people who come here. There are people who are housed. 来这里的人形形色色。有的人就住在这里。 There are about 9,000 people who are housed right here in Los Angeles. 洛杉矶大约有9000人都住在这里。 And what's in Skid Row, what's called Single Residency Occupancies, right there are little small apartments, kind of like the size of a jail cell, a small jail cell. 在贫民区里,所谓的单人居住单元是什么样的呢?那些公寓可能就跟监狱的单间一样小。 There's a lot of good people down here, but it's like the has-beens, the ex-gang members, the ex-pimps or prostitutes, ex-parolees, ex-probation or their family just forgot about them. 这里有很多好人,但是这里也是很多“过气人”的收容所,前帮派成员、前皮条客、前妓女、刑满释放人员、缓刑期满人员,或者是那些被家人遗忘的人。 So, they end up coming down here....

Very hot drinks may increase cancer risk, study says

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The Oxford University team behind the study says any drink at or above 65C is "very hot" and poses a potential risk. Compared with people who drank "warm" beverages, those who consumed "very hot" ones had around a three times higher risk of squamouscell oesophageal cancer. 开展这项研究的牛津大学团队表示,任何温度达到或超过 65 摄氏度的饮品都 “非常烫”,可能带来潜在风险。与饮用 “温热” 饮品的人相比,饮用 “非常烫” 饮品的人患食管鳞状细胞癌的风险约为其三倍多。 There are several thousand cases each year in the UK, but experts stress the overall chance of getting this cancer of the gullet is still low. Smoking and drinking alcohol are far bigger established risk factors, although waiting a few minutes for your hot drink to cool a bit is advisable. 英国每年有数千例食管癌病例,但专家强调,就普通人群而言,患上这种食管癌的总体风险仍然较低。吸烟和饮酒是已被证实、影响更大的风险因素。不过,等上几分钟,让热饮稍微冷却后再喝仍是明智之举。

第3163期:Dolphin research is dedicated to animal conservation.

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Dolphins are what we call charismatic megafauna, which means that people view them as charismatic. 海豚被我们称作是魅力大型动物,因为它们真的很有魅力。 People get excited about some animals more than they get excited about others. 人们有时候更偏爱某一类动物。 But that's okay, because then we can use that to get them to conserve in general. 但没关系,因为我们可以利用人们的偏爱去保护更多动物。 So, if they're conserving the dolphins that means we're conserving their habitat, which means we are conserving all the animals that live in that habitat as well. 如果人们保护海豚,就会保护它们的栖息地,这也意味着我们同时也在保护生活在那个栖息地的所有动物。 Hi, guys. My name is Dr. Kelly Jaakkola. I am a cognitive researcher, right now work with dolphins. 我是凯利·贾科拉博士,从事认知研究,现在主要研究海豚。 You want to do a high five? No? This one? You can't really reach. I know it is hard to reach up here. 想击个掌吗?不想?这个呢?你其实够不到。我知道这个高度你够不到。 For other people, they might get inspired by the dolphin's beauty or their athleticism etc. 其他人可能对海豚美丽的外形或是运动天赋更感兴趣。 I know. Very nice. I know. Oh, you want to come play too? What do you think? 我知道。非常好。我知道。你也想来玩吗?你觉得呢? For me it was watching them think. Wow, now it's yourturn? Now it's yourturn? 我喜欢看着它们思考。现在轮到你了? So, Dolphin Research Center is a non-profit research and education facility in the Florida Keys. 海豚研究中心是佛罗里达群岛的一个非营利性研究和教育机构。 And there are a number of questions that you can't answer in the wild. 在自然界里有许多问题你无法找到答案。 You'll see situations where they seem to be cooperating. They seem to be doing the same thing at the same time. 有时候你会看到海豚似乎在合作。也有可能它们只是恰好在同一时间做着同样的事情。 But you can't tell from just looking at that whether or not they're understanding cooperation or if they're just doing something at the same time. 但你仅凭观察无法判断他们是在理解合作,还是只是同...

第3162期:Service Dogs and Surfing

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Ricochet was trained as a service dog but she was not placed because she likes to chase little animals, critters, squirrels. 跳跳曾被训练为服务犬,但她还没有正式上岗,因为她喜欢追逐小动物,例如小松鼠。 She would not make it as a service dog, but she also surfs. So, she surfs with people who have disabilities. So now I call her 'a surface dog'. 她无法成为服务犬,但她会冲浪。她会与残疾人士一同冲浪。现在我叫她“冲浪犬”。 She was eight weeks old. I had her in a kiddie pool and there was a boogie board and I kind of tapped it to invite her on it and she climbed on and had really good balance. 她当时才八周大。我把她放在一个儿童泳池里,泳池里有一块冲浪板,我轻轻拍了拍冲浪板,示意她爬上去,她就爬了上去,而且平衡感非常好。 So, from that I just continued playing around with it. I lay on the board and she stands behind me. 从此以后我就一直跟她这么玩儿。我躺在趴板上,跳跳站在我身后, There's a pusher, you know, another individual that will push them into the wave and Ricochet is really good at balancing the board for Hunter and in the beginning of his surfing that he needed that. I'm the only one who surfs in the family. 趴板后面有一个推手,他会把他们推到浪中,跳跳真的很擅长给亨特保持平衡,他初次冲浪真的很需要这样的帮助。我是家里唯一会冲浪的人。 There's a lot of trust that goes on with it, a lot of empowerment, especially kids with autism that don't get to really do anything on their own. 这其中蕴含着大量的信任和极大的自主空间,尤其是对自闭症儿童而言,他们通常无法真正独立完成任何事情。 There's usually supervision, but when they're in the water with Ricochet, they feel in control. 通常都会有监督员,但是在水里和跳跳在一起,他们会觉得自己完全能掌控。 And I always say to them, "Thank you for teaching my dog how to surf." 我总是对他们说:“谢谢你们教会我的狗狗冲浪。” So, they feel like they're the ones helping the dog instead. And it's just such an empowering feeling for the child. 他们反而觉得自己是在帮助狗狗。这对于孩子来说是一个赋能的过程。 I'm Staff Sergeant Persons Griffith and I...

第3161期:The UK's favourite type of humour

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Over two thirds of Brits agree that being able to laugh at yourself, or what we call 'self-deprecating humour', is a defining part of British culture, according to a recent survey by the charity Comic Relief. British comedian Sir Lenny Henry says it's not about putting yourself down, it's about bringing people together. After years of doing stand-up comedy, Lenny says that laughing at yourself is "one of the quickest ways to feel connected to a room full of strangers". But when is it good, and when is it bad, to make fun of yourself? Can it be taken too far? 根据慈善机构 Comic Relief 最近的一项调查,超过三分之二的英国人认为,能够嘲笑自己,或者我们所说的“自嘲式幽默”,是英国文化的一个决定性组成部分。 英国喜剧演员伦尼·亨利爵士表示,这不是为了贬低自己,而是为了让人们团结在一起。 经过多年的单口喜剧表演,莱尼表示,嘲笑自己是“与一个充满陌生人的房间建立联系的最快方式之一”。 但是,什么时候取笑自己是好事,什么时候是坏事呢? 会不会太过分了? When a person points out their own flaws in a light-hearted way, it can make them seem more human and make others feel comfortable. A 2025 study called 'When Laughter Hurts and Helps' linked the joy of being laughed at with higher social connectedness, in other words, a greater sense of belonging to a group. Conversely, the trait 'gelotophobe', or someone who fears being laughed at, has been linked to greater friendship avoidance and lower life satisfaction. Even leaders might benefit from self-deprecating humour. Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business Naomi Bagdonas says that for today's leaders, 'Humour is an elixir for trust and an antidote to arrogance'. 当一个人以轻松的方式指出自己的缺点时,可以让他们看起来更有人情味,也让别人感到舒服。 2025 年一项名为“当笑声伤害和帮助时”的研究将被嘲笑的快乐与更高的社会联系联系起来,换句话说,就是对一个群体有更强的归属感。 相反,“害怕被嘲笑”的特质,或害怕被嘲笑的人,与更大程度的回避友谊和较低的生活满意度有关。 即使是领导者也可能从自嘲式幽默中受益。 斯坦福大学商学院讲师内奥米·巴格多纳斯 (Naom...

第3160期:Series of bus explosions hit Israel

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The Israeli military said on Friday that one of the bodies released by Hamas did not belong to any of the hostages held in Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating an already shaky cease-fire. 以色列军方周五表示,哈马斯释放的一具尸体不属于任何被关押在加沙的人质,指责哈马斯违反了本已摇摇欲坠的停火协议。 The military said two of the bodies were identified as infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel, 军方表示,其中两具尸体被确认为婴儿Kfir Bibas和他四岁的哥哥Ariel, while a third body that was supposed to be their mother Shiri was found not to match with any hostage and remain unidentified. 而第三具尸体,本应是他们的母亲Shiri,但发现与任何人质都不匹配,因此身份不明。 The military said in a statement, "This is a violation of utmost severity by the Hamas terrorist organization, which is obliged under the agreement to return four deceased hostages." 军方在一份声明中表示:“这是哈马斯恐怖组织极其严重的违反行为,根据协议,哈马斯有义务归还四名已故人质。” The family of hostage Oded Lifshitz said in a statement that his body had been formally identified. 人质Oded Lifshitz的家人在一份声明中表示,他的尸体已经正式确认身份。 Palestinianmilitants handed over four black coffins in a carefully orchestrated public display as a crowd ofPalestinians and dozens of armed Hamas militants watched. 在一群巴勒斯坦人和数十名武装哈马斯武装分子的注视下,巴勒斯坦武装分子在精心策划的公开展示中交出了四具黑色棺材。 The purported remains of the boys, their mother, and Lifshitz were handed over under the Gaza cease-fire agreement reached last month with the backing of the U.S. and themediationof Qatar and Egypt. 根据上个月在美国支持、卡塔尔和埃及调解下达成的加沙停火协议,两名男孩、他们的母亲和Lifshitz的遗体被移交给以色列。 A series of explosions Thursday on three parked buses has rattled central Israel in what authorities suspected was a militant attack. No injuries were reported. 星期四,三辆停放的公共汽车发生连环爆炸,以色列中部地区一片混乱,当局怀疑这是一起武装袭击。没有人员伤亡报告。 AP corres...

第3159期:Pope Francis is in critical condition

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In a video statement, Chen Kugel, the chief of the Israeli National Institute of Forensic Medicine, confirmed on Saturday Shiri Bibas' body shows no evidence of injuries caused by bombing. 以色列国家法医研究所所长Chen Kugel在视频声明中证实,Shiri Bibas的尸体上没有爆炸伤证据。 "We have identified the remains of Shiri Bibas two days after identifying her children, Ariel and Kfir. Our examination found no evidence of injuries caused by bombing." “我们在确认Shiri Bibas的孩子Ariel和Kfir身份两天后确认了她的遗体身份。我们的检查没有发现爆炸造成的伤害证据。” Hamas, a U.S.-designated terror organization, said in November, 2023 that the children and their mother had been killed in an Israeli airstrike. 被美国认定为恐怖组织的哈马斯于2023年11月表示,这些孩子及其母亲在以色列空袭中丧生。 Ismail Al-Thawabta, director of the Hamas-run Gaza Government media office, said Netanyahu "bears full responsibility for killing her and her children." 哈马斯控制的加沙政府媒体办公室主任伊斯梅尔·萨瓦布塔(Ismail Al-Thawabta)表示,内塔尼亚胡“对杀害她及其孩子负有全部责任”。 But the Israeli military said intelligence assessments and forensic analysis of the bodies of the Bibas children indicated that they were deliberately killed by their captors. 但以色列军方表示,对两名儿童尸体的情报评估和法医分析表明,他们是被绑架者故意杀害的。 Chief military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said the boys were killed by the terrorists with their bare hands, but gave no details. 首席军事发言人丹尼尔·哈加里(Daniel Hagari)表示,这些男孩是被恐怖分子徒手杀害的,但没有透露细节。 Meanwhile, on Sunday, Israel said the release of hundreds ofPalestinianprisoners is delayed 与此同时,以色列周日表示,数百名巴勒斯坦囚犯的释放将推迟, until the release of the next hostages has been assured and without the humiliating ceremonies at handovers of Israeli captives in Gaza. 直到下一批人质得到释放,并且不会在加沙举行以色列俘虏交接仪式时受到羞辱。 The statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office came early Sunday as vehicles...

第3158期:Vance criticizes Germany's free speech laws

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Israel would make Hamas pay for failing to release the body of hostage Shiri Bibas as agreed in the latest potential threat to the month-old cease-fire. 以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡周五表示,哈马斯未能按照协议归还人质希里·比巴斯(Shiri Bibas)的遗体,以色列将让其为此付出代价,这是对一个月前停火协议的最新潜在威胁。 Reuters correspondent Fiona Jones reports. Hamas said Bibas' remains appeared to have been mixed with others after an Israeli airstrike hit the place she was being held, later adding that it was investigating the possible error. 路透社记者菲奥娜·琼斯(Fiona Jones)报道。哈马斯表示,以色列空袭袭击了比巴斯被关押的地方后,她的遗体似乎与其他遗体混在一起,后来又补充说,正在调查可能的失误。 Netanyahu gave no details on a possible Israeli response, but the incident highlights the fragility of the month-old cease-fire deal reached with U.S. backing and help from Qatar and Egypt. 内塔尼亚胡没有透露以色列可能做出的反应,但这一事件凸显了在美国支持以及卡塔尔和埃及帮助下达成的一个月前停火协议的脆弱性。 The failure to return Bebas' body during this staged public handover caused outrage in Israel. 在这次分阶段的公开移交中,以色列未能归还比巴斯的遗体,引起了以色列的愤怒。 "It's like they make a joke of us and the mother just sent the body and it's so painful, so the family has to go and bury them and to make sort of a closure and now the mother is missing and it's so frustrating." “他们好像在拿我们开玩笑,母亲刚刚把尸体送来,这太令人痛苦了,所以家人必须去埋葬他们,做一个了结,现在母亲失踪了,这太令人沮丧了。 ” Hamas is due to release six living hostages on Saturday, with the start of the negotiations for the cease-fire's second phase expected in the coming days. That was Reuters correspondent Fiona Jones. 哈马斯定于周六释放六名活着的人质,预计未来几天将开始停火第二阶段的谈判。路透社记者菲奥娜·琼斯报道。 U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance has criticized Germany's free speech laws during an appearance at a conservativ...

第3157期:Musk slashes Tesla's regulatory compliance team

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Germans are electing a new parliament Sunday after a campaign focused on the state of Europe's biggest economy and calls to curb migration. 德国人将于周日选举新一届议会,此前竞选活动聚焦欧洲最大经济体的状况,呼吁遏制移民。 Uncertainty has grown rapidly about the future of Ukraine and the strength of Europe's alliance with the United States. VOA's Cristina Menenti has more. 乌克兰的未来以及欧洲与美国的联盟实力的不确定性迅速增加。美国之音新闻记者克里斯蒂娜·梅内蒂(Cristina Menenti)将为您带来更多报道。 The opposition leader and frontrunner Friedrich Merz vowed Saturday to revive thestagnanteconomy and defend Europe's interests in the face of a confrontational U.S. administration. 反对党领袖、领跑者弗里德里希·默茨周六誓言要重振停滞不前的经济,并在美国政府对抗的情况下捍卫欧洲的利益。 Meanwhile, hundreds protested for and against far-right Alternative for Germany's leader Alice Weidel in her Swiss town of residence. 与此同时,数百人在德国极右翼选择党领导人艾丽丝·魏德尔的居住地瑞士小镇举行了支持和反对她的抗议活动。 "We're really concerned about what's going on everywhere in Europe, about the rise of far-right movements." “我们非常担心欧洲各地发生的事情,担心极右翼运动的崛起。” Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left Social Democrats have shown little sign of coming back from a large poll deficit after the chancellor's three-party coalition collapsed in November. 在总理奥拉夫·朔尔茨的三党联盟于11月破裂后,中左翼社会民主党几乎没有迹象表明会从巨大的民调失利中恢复过来。 That led to the election being held seven months ahead of schedule. Cristina Menenti, VOA News. 这导致选举比原计划提前了七个月举行。美国之音新闻记者克里斯蒂娜·梅内蒂报道。 A federal judge has largely blocked sweeping executive orders from President Donald Trump that sought to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. 一名联邦法官基本阻止了唐纳德·特朗普总统的全面行政命令,该命令旨在终止政府对促进多样性、公平和包容性计划的支持。 Judge Adam Abelson in Baltimore found that they li...

第3156期:Virginia cellist goes viral

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Meet Andrew Savoia, a 24-year-old Northern Virginia cello player who is a social media sensation. 认识一下安德鲁·沙瓦亚,一位24岁的北弗吉尼亚大提琴手,他在社交媒体上很有名。 He created his TikTok account savoiboi in July and in just a few months he already had millions of likes or views. 他在7月创建了自己的TikTok账号savoiboi,短短几个月内就已经获得了数百万的点赞或浏览量。 There were some very catchy songs on the app and songs that you're just watching a video and it makes you want to get up and dance. 这个应用程序上有一些非常动听的歌曲,而且当你观看视频时 ,里面的歌曲会让你忍不住起身跳舞。 And there was only like a quick little segment of that I would see and I was like, okay, I could try to recreate this on the cello, so I did that. 我当时只能看到一小段快速闪过的内容,我就想,好吧,我可以试着用大提琴把这个重新演绎出来,于是我就这么做了。 I had one of my buddies record it and it was so fascinating because of the positive reaction that it received. I did not think that it would be received as well as it did. 我有一个朋友帮我录了下来,结果反响非常热烈,这让我觉得特别有意思。我没想到它会受到这么好的评价。 It was a stream of unhappy events that led Savoia to his social media success: a painful breakup, failing to get into medical school, depression. 一连串不幸的事件促使沙瓦亚在社交媒体上获得了成功:痛苦的分手、医学院入学考试失利以及抑郁情绪。 In a strange way all this contributed to his achievements. 奇怪的是,这一切都促成了他的成就。 Music for me has been a way for me to like, I said, process emotion, experiences, memories that I've had. 对我来说,音乐是一种处理我所经历的情感、体验和记忆的方式。 But it has an ability to heal because it can do the same thing for other people and it's very unifying. 但它具有治愈的能力,因为它也能为他人带来同样的作用,而且非常具有凝聚力。 His process is simple: Find the song he likes and play it on the cello. 他的做法很简单:找到他喜欢的歌曲,然后用大提琴演奏。 I listen to lots of different kinds of music. I listen to hip hop. I listen to...

第3155期:World's first patient to undergo live AI-assisted brain surgery

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The patient's tumour was benign but dangerously close to important bloodvessels and nerves, leaving him at risk of going blind. 这位患者的肿瘤虽为良性,但极度靠近重要血管和神经,使其面临失明的风险。 The team trained the AI tool on hundreds of videos of previous operations. They then used the AI tool in real time to help highlight sometimes hidden vessels and nerves, and to mark up the safest place to remove the tumour. 该医疗团队利用数百段过往手术视频对人工智能工具进行了训练。随后,他们在手术过程中实时使用该人工智能工具,协助凸显一些隐蔽的血管和神经,并标注出切除肿瘤最安全的位置。 Researchers hope that with larger trials, using AI in this way will help surgery become both safer and faster. 研究人员希望随着更大规模试验的开展,以这种方式使用人工智能将有助于让手术变得更加安全和高效。

第3154期:Workplace accent discrimination in the UK

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This polling suggests that 5% of people in Britain believe their accent has cost them a promotion, pay rise or senior role. Those from Birmingham were the most likely to feel this - the figure rose to 13% among people with a Brummie accent. 这项民调显示,5%的英国人认为,自己的口音曾导致他们错失晋升、加薪或担任高级职位的机会。来自伯明翰的受访者最有可能持这种看法,因为在有伯明翰地方口音的人群中,这一比例上升至了 13%。 More than 3,300 people in England, Scotland and Wales were questioned. People from the West Country were most likely to report being mocked or criticised by colleagues for the way they spoke, at 15%, closely followed by those with a Geordie or Mancunian accent. 这项调查访问了英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士的 3300 多名受访者。调查显示,来自英格兰西南部地区的受访者最有可能表示,自己曾因说话方式而遭到同事嘲笑或批评,这一比例为 15%;紧随其后的是有纽卡斯尔地区口音和曼彻斯特地区口音的受访者。 Softening an accent is a common occurrence, the study suggests, with 13% of Britons polled admitting to changing the way they spoke in order to sound more professional. This rose to 23% of those with an East London Cockney accent, and 20% of those with a Scottish accent. 研究显示,刻意淡化口音是一种较为普遍的现象。13%的英国受访者承认,为了让自己听起来更专业,他们曾有意改变自己的说话方式。在有伦敦东区考克尼口音的受访者中,这一比例升至 23%;在有苏格兰口音的受访者中,这一比例为 20%。

第3153期:Daydreaming: a distraction or a vehicle for ideas?

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Daydreaming has a bad reputation – we say things like "he's away with the fairies" or "she has herhead in the clouds" implying these people are inattentive, easily distracted, maybe even lazy. Is this reputation justified? Or is a trip to la-la land actually something that might benefit us? 白日梦的名声很差——我们说“他和仙女在一起了”或“她的头在云端”,暗示这些人注意力不集中、容易分心,甚至可能很懒。 这种声誉是否合理? 或者说去la-la land旅行实际上可能对我们有益? First, it's important to differentiate daydreaming from mind wandering. Mind wandering happens when you're busy with a task and your mind disengages from it, whereas daydreaming happens when you're doing nothing and spontaneous thoughts unrelated to your surroundings pop up. In a review of research called 'The costs and benefits of mind-wandering', the authors found mind wandering negatively impacted reading comprehension, attention, memory and intelligence. None of that sounds great, so are there any benefits at all? 首先,区分白日梦和走神很重要。 当你忙于一项任务而你的思绪脱离它时,就会发生走神,而当你无所事事并且与周围环境无关的自发想法突然出现时,就会发生白日梦。 在一项名为“走神的成本和好处”的研究综述中,作者发现走神会对阅读理解、注意力、记忆力和智力产生负面影响。 这些听起来都不太好,那么有什么好处吗? Activities that allow your mind to wander, like having a bath or meditating can lead to the 'aha' moment that you've been waiting for, which is why people often say they have their best ideas in the shower. This might work in the workplace too. In a 2021 study called 'Zoning out or breaking through? Linking daydreaming to creativity in the workplace', the authors concluded that "daydreaming carries noteworthy benefits for creativity". In other words, daydreaming at work may help you to come up with solutions to your problems.  It's also suggested that daydreaming can provide a sort of mental escape, both from the difficulty of the task, but also from the stresses of everyday life. 让你的思绪飘逸的活动,比如...

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