【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The Cardboard-Carrying Opposition Arrives The “Hands Off” protest in Washington, D.C., drew thousands of people with a lot of feelings—but as-yet-inchoate anger at the T. administration. 正文：The opposition arrived in a flurry of painted cardboard. Until this week, the 11th of D.T.’s second presidency, the resistance has not exactly been upper-case R. Any show of dissent by Democratic leadership has been virtually nonexistent, and protests against T’s policies have ...
Apr 08, 2025•19 min•Ep. 391
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The Slow Journey to High-Speed Rail in America True high-speed rail has not yet made it to the U.S., but that will change soon. Here are the projects currently being developed. 正文：In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a law — the High-Speed Ground Transportation Act — that seemed to pave the way for a national high-speed rail system in the United States. “An astronaut can orbit the earth faster than a man on the ground can get from New York to Washington,” h...
Apr 07, 2025•12 min•Ep. 392
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Why Monday is the most misunderstood day What’s wrong with the start of the workweek? 正文：When the Boomtown Rats, an Irish band, released “I Don’t Like Mondays” in 1979, the song became an instant hit. The inspiration behind it was the Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego that year. The 16-year-old perpetrator listed “not liking Mondays” as her main reason for firing 36 shots, killing two adults and injuring eight children and a police officer. This is...
Apr 06, 2025•11 min•Ep. 393
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Japanese people are starting to quit their jobs After decades of inertia, workers are now on the move. Why? 正文：Kawata Yasutoshi was never cut out for traditional Japanese corporate life. As a former guitarist in a heavy-metal band, he found working at a large electronics firm frustrating: particularly the rigid hierarchy, where youngsters did whatever their seniors said. A lot of the work was inefficient, and many hours slipped away either at his desk or at obliga...
Apr 05, 2025•19 min•Ep. 394
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Myanmar's earthquake piles misery on civil war Where will aid come from ,and how will the junta use it? 正文：It will take some days for the full toll of the powerful earthquake that struck Myanmar on March 28th to become clear. The epicenter lay just outside Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, which has a population of about 1.5m people. 知识点：1.Ravaged by conflict 2.rattled much of Southeast 获取外刊的完整原文以及精讲笔记，请关注微信公众号「早安英文」，回复“外刊”即可。更多有意思的英语干货等着你！ 【节目介绍】 《早安英文-每日外...
Apr 04, 2025•11 min•Ep. 395
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：How hospitals inflate America’s giant health-care bill Non-profit institutions are no help 正文：Who is to blame for America’s enormous health-care costs? The sector accounts for almost a fifth of the country’s GDP, twice the average for wealthy countries, yet outcomes are no better. Americans under 70 are almost twice as likely as their counterparts in similarly affluent nations to die of cardiovascular diseases. Death rates due to other conditions like diabetes and...
Apr 03, 2025•19 min•Ep. 396
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：When Life Gives You Tangerines ending explained: 5 burning questions finally answered in IU and Park Bo Gum’s story finale The finale of When Life Gives You Tangerines was a bittersweet farewell, tying up Oh Ae Sun and Gwan Sik’s love story with warmth, sacrifice, and a touch of fate. 正文：When Life Gives You Tangerines, the Netflix chart-topping K-drama starring IU and Park Bo Gum, finally bid farewell after dominating the non-English TV show category for consecuti...
Apr 02, 2025•17 min•Ep. 397
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Viewing T’s Trade War From the World’s Shopping Mall in China 正文：Christmas comes early to Yiwu, a bustling entrepôt just a couple hours by train from China’s coastal megacity of Shanghai. 知识点：bustling adj. /ˈbʌstlɪŋ/ Full of energetic and noisy activity; lively and busy. 忙碌的；熙熙攘攘的； • The bustling market was filled with people shopping for fresh produce. 热闹的市场挤满了购物新鲜农产品的人们 。 获取外刊的完整原文以及精讲笔记，请关注微信公众号「早安英文」，回复“外刊”即可。更多有意思的英语干货等着你！ 【节目介绍】 《早安英文-每日外刊精读》，带你精读最新外刊，了解国际最热...
Apr 01, 2025•9 min•Ep. 398
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Move over Elon Musk: our electric cars at BYD are overtaking Tesla 正文：Stella Li, vice-president and global face of the Chinese EV giant BYD, joined the carmaker in 1996. Now it’s wooing buyers all over the world – apart from the US. 知识点：Woo v. /wuː/ To try to gain the love of someone, especially in order to marry them; to try to persuade someone to do something or to support you. 求爱；追求；争取……的支持 • He wooed her with flowers and expensive gifts. 他用鲜花和昂贵的礼物向她求爱。 • The ...
Mar 31, 2025•9 min•Ep. 399
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：How to enhance humans Finding ways to live much longer—and better—shouldn’t be left to the cranks 正文：BRYAN JOHNSON wants to live for ever. The American businessman pops a hundred pills a day, never eats after 11am, and obsessively monitors dozens of his body’s “biomarkers”. The goal, as he will tell anyone who asks, is not merely to live a few years longer. It is to vanquish death entirely. 知识点：pop v. /pɒp/ to take pills or medicine frequently or in large amounts....
Mar 30, 2025•11 min•Ep. 400
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 正文：BYD’s 5-minute charge: is time running out for electric-vehicle rivals? Chinese carmaker’s second shock announcement of the year could put others out of business, say analysts. 获取外刊的完整原文以及精讲笔记，请关注微信公众号「早安英文」，回复“外刊”即可。更多有意思的英语干货等着你！ 【节目介绍】 《早安英文-每日外刊精读》，带你精读最新外刊，了解国际最热事件：分析语法结构，拆解长难句，最接地气的翻译，还有重点词汇讲解。 所有选题均来自于《经济学人》《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》《华盛顿邮报》《大西洋月刊》《科学杂志》《国家地理》等国际一线外刊。 【适合谁听】 1、关注时事热点新闻，想要学习最新最潮流英文表达的英文学习者 2、任何想通过地道英文提高听、说、读、写能力的英文学习者 3、想快速掌握表达，有出国学习和旅游计划的英语爱好者 4、参加各类英语考试...
Mar 29, 2025•6 min•Ep. 401
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Intelligence Officials Face a Fresh Round of Questions About Signal Leak Democrats on a House committee appeared in lock step as they confronted one of the most notable blunders of the T administration. 正文：Members of President T’s cabinet insisted at a House committee hearing on Wednesday that there was nothing wrong with using a consumer messaging app to discuss U.S. military plans to strike Houthi targets in Yemen. On Tuesday, the spy chiefs told the Senate that...
Mar 28, 2025•19 min•Ep. 402
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Musk Inc is under serious threat The world’s richest man has lost focus. His competitors are taking advantage 正文：UNTIL RECENTLY Elon Musk had little need to look over his shoulder. He once described competition for Tesla, his electric - vehicle (EV) company, as “the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories every day”, rather than the “small trickle” of other EV - makers. SpaceX, his rocket firm, had so undercut and outwitted the bloated...
Mar 27, 2025•18 min•Ep. 403
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：A leak reveals Team T’s carelessness, and contempt for allies How a magazine editor was accidentally added to a top-secret chat group 正文：Many know the mortification of sending the wrong text message to the wrong person. But when the fat thumb is that of America’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, the message is a detailed military plan to bomb Yemen and the recipient is a prominent journalist, the error is not just a cause of shame but potentially a serious b...
Mar 26, 2025•11 min•Ep. 404
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：MAGA is already rewiring American education The Department of Education is being dismantled; universities are being brought to heel 正文：WHEN American presidents announce education policies, they are inevitably flanked by a phalanx of pupils. The executive order signed by President D.T. on March 20th was no exception—the children even held up their own mock executive orders after practising their autograph (one managed only to do a large letter “P”). Except that thi...
Mar 25, 2025•16 min•Ep. 405
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Americans Are Unhappier Than Ever. Solo Dining May Be a Sign. 正文：The United States slipped to its lowest ranking ever in the World Happiness Report, in part because more Americans are eating alone. Once again, the Finns came out on top. 知识点 ：Solo n./adj./adv./ˈsəʊləʊ/ Having or doing something alone; a performance by one person. 单独的（地）；单人的（地）；独唱（曲），独奏（曲） • The singer gave a solo performance on the stage. 这位歌手在舞台上进行了独唱表演。 获取外刊的完整原文以及精讲笔记，请关注微信公众号「早安英文」，回复“外刊”即可。更多有...
Mar 24, 2025•10 min•Ep. 406
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Have humans passed peak brain power? Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning 正文：What is intelligence? This may sound like a straightforward question with a straightforward answer — the Oxford English Dictionary defines it as “a capacity to understand” — but that definition itself raises an increasingly relevant question in the modern world. What happens if the extent to which we can prac...
Mar 23, 2025•15 min•Ep. 407
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:With Manus, AI experimentation has burst into the open The old ways of ensuring safety are becoming increasingly irrelevant 正文：Watching the automatic hand of the Manus AI agent scroll through a dozen browser windows is unsettling. Give it a task that can be accomplished online, such as building up a promotional network of social-media accounts, researching and writing a strategy document, or booking tickets and hotels for a conference, and Manus will write a detai...
Mar 22, 2025•18 min•Ep. 408
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Why rents are rising too fast Rich-world tenants are angry, and have reason to be 正文：Across advanced economies, the rental market is undergoing a profound change. In the years before covid-19 struck, rents were high but not growing fast: the cost of leasing a home rose by about 2% a year, according to official data. During the pandemic, rental inflation slowed and, in some cities, rents fell as landlords desperately looked for tenants. 知识点 ：advanced economies n. /...
Mar 21, 2025•12 min•Ep. 409
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:China’s super-smart Tesla-killers Carmakers are pushing for autonomous driving’s “ChatGPT moment” 正文：Sitting in his spacious office in the southern city of Guangzhou, He Xiaopeng is in an expansive mood. The boss of Xpeng, a Chinese electric-vehicle (ev) maker that is one of the frontrunners in the self-driving tech race, says that autonomous driving is on the cusp of a “Chatgpt moment”. He points to the instant at the end of 2022 when, after years of development,...
Mar 20, 2025•13 min•Ep. 410
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Job Seekers Hit Wall of Salary Deflation The salary bump that people who switch jobs used to command has vanished 正文： It used to pay to switch jobs. Now it doesn’t. The salary difference between those who stay in their roles and those who change jobs has collapsed to its lowest level in 10 years, according to the latest federal data. 知识点 ：it pays to do /ɪt peɪz tə duː/ it is beneficial or advantageous to do something. 做某事是有好处的。 e.g. It pays to invest in your educa...
Mar 19, 2025•12 min•Ep. 411
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:China’s AI boom is reaching astonishing proportions What might derail it? 正文：JUST hours after the launch on March 6th of Manus, a Chinese artificial-intelligence (AI) bot, a flood of visitors caused its registration site to crash. Butterfly Effect, the company behind the bot, claims its technology outperforms that of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT. It is now granting previews by invitation only as it struggles to handle the traffic. Touts are said to be selling registra...
Mar 18, 2025•15 min•Ep. 412
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Can Young People Afford to Not Go to College? Piggy bank with graduation cap 正文：Is college really worth it? It’s a fair question, especially when directed at university presidents like me. Rising tuition, the crushing burden of student loans, and the inauspicious job offers some students receive upon graduation prompt the question, for good reasons, and fuel the arguments among those who think that forgoing college is the smarter financial decision. According to t...
Mar 17, 2025•20 min•Ep. 413
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The best places to be a working woman in 2025 Our glass-ceiling index measures the role and influence of women in the workforce 正文：Each year, to mark International Women’s Day on March 8th, The Economist publishes the glass-ceiling index. It compares working conditions for women across the OECD, a club of 29 countries. The index is based on ten measures—from labour-force participation and salaries to paid parental leave and political representation. The charts bel...
Mar 16, 2025•17 min•Ep. 414
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk Simmering anger at the billionaire’s unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable Cabinet Room meeting. The president quickly moved to rein in Mr. Musk. 正文：Marco Rubio was incensed. Here he was in the Cabinet Room of the White House, the secretary of state, seated beside the president and listening to a litany of attacks from the richest man in the world. Seated diagonally opposite, across th...
Mar 15, 2025•18 min•Ep. 415
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Elon Musk’s antics are not the only problem for Tesla The carmaker’s sales are sinking for other reasons too 正文：Friends help each other out. Tesla’s boss, Elon Musk, may well have been grateful when D.T. said he would buy one of its electric vehicles (EVs) on March 11th. Yet that was the least the president could do for his bureaucracy-basher-in-chief. The day before, Mr. T had helped bring on a fall of over 15% in Tesla’s share price, amid a wider sell-off sparke...
Mar 14, 2025•23 min•Ep. 416
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Do We Age Steadily, or in Bursts? 正文：For many people, aging feels like it happens in stops and starts. After a period of smooth sailing, one day, seemingly out of the blue, you have achy knees. “You wake up in the morning and you suddenly feel old,” said Dr. Steve Hoffmann, a computational biology professor at the Leibniz Institute on Aging in Jena, Germany. “That’s sort of the takeaway.” It turns out there may be a scientific basis for this experience. By analyzi...
Mar 13, 2025•17 min•Ep. 417
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:How T provoked a stock market sell-off Will the president win back investors? Does he even want to? 正文：The sell-off shows no sign of stopping. America’s S&P 500 index dropped by another 3% on March 10th, leaving the world’s most watched stock market down by almost 9% since its peak last month. The NASDAQ, dominated by tech firms, has fallen by 13%. It is not quite the bold new era of American growth that President D.T. had in mind. 知识点 :peak n. [piːk] the high...
Mar 12, 2025•12 min•Ep. 418
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Banker Mark Carney Wins Race to Lead Liberal Party, and Canada The prominent central banker and investor was chosen in a crucial leadership race amid threats from President Trump. He is expected to quickly call a federal election. 正文：Amid a generational crisis in Canada’s relationship with the United States, the Liberal Party of Canada on Sunday chose an unelected technocrat with deep experience in financial markets to replace Justin Trudeau as party leader and th...
Mar 11, 2025•17 min•Ep. 419
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：In just five days, Trump has set the country back nearly 100 years. The president’s new slogan might as well be "We were better off 95 years ago than we are today." 正文：President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol on Tuesday.Mr Trump’s plans to respond to the upstart model-maker may have been as much on Mr Huang’s mind as DeepSeek itself. With a modesty we have come to expect of him, President Donald Trump informed Congress on Tuesday...
Mar 10, 2025•14 min•Ep. 420
