【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The strange success of snooker Immigration, agglomeration and amorality keep the sport going 正文：Snooker has been dying for decades. “It just feels boring, ” said Ronnie O’Sullivan, the most talented man to play the game, in 2009—the equivalent of Roger Federer opening a press conference with “Tennis sucks.” The days of the 1980s, when one in three Britons would watch the final of its world championship, are gone. By the 2000s a cottage industry lamenting its demis...
May 08, 2025•19 min•Ep. 361
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：DeepSeek. Temu. TikTok. China Tech Is Starting to Pull Ahead. 正文：China’s top leaders did not appear to fully grasp the power of artificial intelligence in July 2023, when one of us, Eric, and Henry Kissinger met them. Economic malaise hung in the air. But when the other of us, Selina, returned to China just 19 months later, the optimism was palpable. 知识点：grasp v. /ɡrɑːsp/ to understand something, especially something difficult 理解，领会 • He failed to grasp the basic ...
May 07, 2025•10 min•Ep. 362
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：From selling gum to licking Wall Street: Warren Buffett’s incredible journey 副标题：He made his first investment at 11, his first million at 32, and was briefly the richest man in the world. Now the world’s most famous investor will finally enjoy a well-earned retirement 正文：Walking past the dusty shelves of the Omaha Public Library, a seven-year-old Warren Buffett read a book that would change his life forever. Titled One Thousand Ways to Make $1000, the book inspire...
May 06, 2025•16 min•Ep. 363
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：A Global Flourishing Study Finds That Young Adults, Well, Aren’t 副标题：New data collected from more than 200,000 people across the world shows that young people aren’t as happy as they used to be. 正文：The happiness curve is collapsing. For decades, research showed that the way people experienced happiness across their lifetimes looked like a U-shaped curve. Happiness tended to be high when they were young, then dipped in midlife, only to rise again as they grew old. ...
May 05, 2025•14 min•Ep. 364
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Fake news, real losses: Viral disaster rumor dents Japan tourism industry 正文：Unfounded rumors of a Japan disaster are going viral, triggering anxiety and keeping visitors away. The country's tourism industry is already feeling the pinch from a digital scare with real-world consequences. 知识点：founded 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...
May 04, 2025•11 min•Ep. 365
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：In Fight With Bezos, White House Calls Amazon Showing Tariff Costs a ‘Hostile’ Act 正文：POTUS and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos are feuding again. The White House lashed out at Amazon on Tuesday for reportedly planning to display how much of a product’s cost comes from POTUS’s tariffs. Doing so would emphasize to consumers that U.S. tariffs are not paid by overseas companies, but by the American companies importing the goods, and then largely passed on to customers. 知识点...
May 03, 2025•16 min•Ep. 366
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：JD.com's billionaire founder delivers food in publicity stunt to challenge Meituan 副标题：The move reflects the e-commerce giant's commitment to expanding its recently launched food delivery business, analysts say 正文： Richard Liu Qiangdong, the founder of JD.com, who has an estimated net worth of US$6.5 billion, donned a uniform to transport meal orders on an electric bike in Beijing on Monday, highlighting the company’s resolve to challenge rival Meituan’s dominance...
May 02, 2025•21 min•Ep. 367
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Young Women Are Starting to Recession-Proof Their Lives 副标题：America’s biggest consumer spenders are skipping manicures and Ubers, as worries about the economy increase 正文：Call it a new recession indicator: Young women who not long ago ( splashed out ) on self care, tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras tour and “Barbie”are ( pulling back on ) their spending. 知识点：recession indicator n. /rɪˈseʃən ˈɪndɪˌkeɪtər/ a sign or measure that suggests an economic recession is approa...
May 01, 2025•16 min•Ep. 368
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Chinese Manufacturers Make Appeals to Americans: Buy Direct 副标题：Videos on the social media app, filmed at factories in China, urge viewers to buy luxury goods directly, as tariffs drive up prices. Americans are receptive. 正文：Chinese manufacturers are flooding TikTok and other social media apps with direct appeals to American shoppers, urging people to buy luxury items straight from their factories. And amid the threats of sky-high tariffs on Chinese exports, Ameri...
Apr 30, 2025•17 min•Ep. 369
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：How These Little Elves Turned Into a Global Sensation 副标题：Online and in person, people are clamoring to get their hands on Labubus, which are dolls that are “well-intentioned” but somewhat mischievous. 正文：There was a line of hundreds of people in front of the Pop Mart store in Los Angeles at 4:45 a.m. on Friday. Korin Reese arrived thinking she was somewhat early and was stunned to find customers already waiting. Some brought stools and foldable chairs to sit on, ...
Apr 29, 2025•15 min•Ep. 370
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The Real Reason Why Students Are Using AI to Avoid Learning 正文：“I feel like I'm getting dumber.” The confession hung in the air between us, startling in its honesty. My sister—a college senior at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and one of the most hard-working people I know—wasn’t joking. We were sitting at the kitchen table late one night, sipping tea, when she said it. She stared into her mug. "AI is replacing mycritical thinking skills,"she admitted quietly...
Apr 28, 2025•15 min•Ep. 371
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：'I've had 100 operations and will never stop' - inside China's cosmetic surgery boom 正文：（1）Abby Wu was just 14 when she had cosmetic surgery for the first time. After receiving hormone treatment for an illness, Abby's weight increased from 42kg (6 stone 8lbs) to 62kg (9 stone 11lbs) in two months. (2) The change hadn't gone unnoticed by her drama teacher."My teacher said, 'You were our star but now you're too fat. Either give up or lose weight fast,'" recalls Abby...
Apr 27, 2025•19 min•Ep. 372
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：If you’re having Elon Musk’s baby, this is what to expect 副标题：D.T.’s right-hand man has at least 14 children and apparently wants ‘a legion’ of them. He has a Mr. Fixit to handle the mothers of his children 正文：It may be useful at this point to issue a guide: What to Expect if You’re Expecting Elon Musk’s Child. It may not have universal appeal , but since he has at least 14 children with at least four women, and is committed to his pro-natalist mission to carry on...
Apr 26, 2025•17 min•Ep. 373
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Tesla’s Remarkably Bad Quarter Is Even Worse Than It Looks 副标题：Reality is catching up with Elon Musk. 正文：It’s a rare thing to shoot yourself in the foot and win a marathon. For years, Elon Musk has managed to do something like that with Tesla, achieving monumental success in spite of a series of self-inflicted disasters. There was the time he heavily promoted the company’s automated factory, only to later admit that its “crazy, complex network of conveyor belts” h...
Apr 25, 2025•25 min•Ep. 374
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Go Bezos! It’s your special day! And now all weddings are absurd 正文：The wedding of Jeff Bezos, the world’s second-richest man, to Lauren Sanchez takes place in June in Venice and, at last, details of the nuptials are starting to leak out. 知识点：absurd adj. /əbˈsɜːd/ unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate 荒谬的；不合理的 •It's absurd to think that we can finish this huge project in just one day.（认为我们能在一天内完成这个庞大的项目，这太荒谬了。） 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...
Apr 24, 2025•10 min•Ep. 375
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：It would be so much easier if we said what we thought 正文：On a recent morning commute on the London Tube, the train ground to a halt and a disembodied voice told us all to get off. Being British we trooped on to the crowded platform and waited silently, the only indication of annoyance being a few people tutting and looking at their watches. 知识点：commute n. /kəˈmjuːt/ the journey that a person makes when they travel to work 上下班路程；通勤 •I have a long commute to work. 我...
Apr 23, 2025•8 min•Ep. 376
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Man Versus Machine as China Shows Off Humanoid Robots in Half Marathon 副标题：A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race between human runners and 21 robot models—and showed how far robots still are from mimicking people. 正文：Metal met asphalt in a half-marathon that featured thousands of human runners—and 21 Chinese humanoid robot models. Saturday’s road race involving human runners and a score of robots in Beijing has been billed as a showcase of China’s cuttin...
Apr 22, 2025•15 min•Ep. 377
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet 副标题：Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light - years away, is inhabited, or even habitable. 正文：The search for life beyond Earth has led scientists to explore many suggestive mysteries, from plumes of methane on Mars to clouds of phosphine gas on Venus. But as far as we can tell, Earth’s inhabitants remain alone in the cosmos. 知识点：plumes n. /pluːmz/ a la...
Apr 21, 2025•18 min•Ep. 378
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：U.S. and China Headed for‘Monumental’ Split, Putting World Economy on Edge 副标题：A deepening trade war could further weaken ties between the superpowers. The effects will reverberate everywhere. 正文：A dizzying escalation of tariffs has unraveled a trade relationship between the United States and China forged over decades, jeopardizing the fate of two superpowers and threatening to drag down the world economy. The brinkmanship displayed by the two countries has alread...
Apr 20, 2025•22 min•Ep. 379
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Too many adults are absolutely clueless 副标题：Need to change a tyre or file your taxes? In America, “adulting” courses can help 正文：The teacher starts with the basics: how to thread a needle. Then, over the course of the next 30 minutes, she shows the students a few different stitches, along with how to mend a torn shirt and beautify a frayed hem . 知识点：How could someone be so clueless? I'm clueless ? You don't even know your son is gay. 怎么会有⼈这么糊涂，我糊涂，你连⾃⼰的⼉⼦是基佬都不知道 获...
Apr 19, 2025•10 min•Ep. 380
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：D.T.’s approval rating is dropping 副标题：He is beating his own record for rapidly annoying American voters 正文：EVEN when D.T. does something well, he exaggerates. He won the popular vote last November for the first time in three tries, by a 1.5-point margin. “The mandate was massive,” he told Time. In fact, it was the slimmest margin since 2000, but it was an improvement on Mr. T.’s two previous popular-vote losses, by 2.1 points in 2016 and 4.5 points in 2020. (He w...
Apr 18, 2025•16 min•Ep. 381
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：A flight from the dollar could wreck America’s budget 副标题：The currency’s dominance enables very high debts and deficits,meaning a plunge might spell disaster 正文：In 1990s Japan the worst days of a market crisis brought about a “triple yasu” loss: a fall in stockmarkets, a rise in bond yields and a declining currency. It is now America that must stomach this noxious combination. Although President Donald Trump’s tariff pause provided a brief respite, the triple yasu...
Apr 17, 2025•23 min•Ep. 382
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：T’s Trade War With China Could Be Good for India. But Is It Ready? 副标题：While India dreams of becoming a new factory to the world, it manufacturers are struggling to find skilled workers, secure components and overcome red tape. 正文：Even when India was staring down the barrel of a 27 percent tariff on most of its exports to the United States, business executives and government officials saw an upside. India’s biggest economic rival, China, and its smaller competitor...
Apr 16, 2025•17 min•Ep. 383
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Breaking the Gender Barrier May Be New for Space Tourism—but Not for NASA Missions 正文：Nobody will be giving out any medals when Blue Origin’s eleventcrewed space flight leaves the ground. The brief suborbital sojourn has a planned April 14 liftoff time of 8:30 a.m. CDT and will land just 11 minutes later. There will not likely be the kind of global audience and saturation coverage that has attended other crewed space launches. 知识点：give out phr.v. /ɡɪv aʊt/ to dist...
Apr 15, 2025•14 min•Ep. 384
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：China has a weapon that could hurt America: rare-earth exports 副标题：It has only just begun to use it 正文：To win a game of Scrabble, start at the bottom of the periodic table. The 17 “rare earths” that reside there have longish names, such as dysprosium and praseodymium, which are replete with point-worthy letters. They share other traits, too. All are produced and used in minuscule amounts, yet are crucial to a range of high-tech goods, from batteries and renewables...
Apr 14, 2025•19 min•Ep. 385
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty for Mangione, Bondi Says The attorney general said the decision to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who is accused of murdering an insurance executive, was in keeping with an executive order by President T. 正文：Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Tuesday that she would seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who was charged with murdering a UnitedHealthcare executive in Manhattan last year, part of a push to revive the ...
Apr 13, 2025•20 min•Ep. 386
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：iShowSpeed livestreams show the world an unfiltered China 正文：When Darren Watkins Jr, the 20-year-old US internet celebrity better known to his 37 million YouTube followers and those on other platforms as iShowSpeed, embarked on a marathon livestreaming tour across China, broadcasting for six uninterrupted hours on the first day alone, he vaporized the meticulously constructed "China threat theory" peddled by some in the West. 知识点：platform n. /ˈplætfɔːrm/ a technol...
Apr 12, 2025•18 min•Ep. 387
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：T Reverses Course on Global Tariffs, Announcing 90-Day Pause The president further raised already steep tariffs on China, saying that Beijing should not have retaliated against his earlier trade actions. 正文：President T. on Wednesday abruptly reversed course on steep global tariffs that have roiled markets, upset members of his own party and raised fears of a recession. Just hours after he put punishing levies into place on nearly 60 countries, the president said h...
Apr 11, 2025•24 min•Ep. 388
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Buy or Wait? Americans Wrestle With How Tariffs Will Affect Their Shopping 正文：In the first weekend since President T unveiled broad tariffs, many shoppers sought to get ahead of expected price hikes, while others showed patience. 知识点：unveil v. /ʌnˈveɪl/ reveal or make known (something new or previously secret); remove a veil or covering from (a statue, memorial, etc.) to officially present it；揭露；公布；揭开（某物）的面纱（幕布等）；为……揭幕 •The company will unveil its new products at ...
Apr 10, 2025•7 min•Ep. 389
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题： OPINION GUEST ESSAY Why Are So Many Young Adults Getting Cancer? By Daniela J.Lamas 正文：When I started working in the intensive care unit of a cancer hospital, I didn’t know what to make of the horror stories of patients in their 30s and 40s. There was a young father with colon cancer. A recent college graduate with an aggressive malignancy that had destroyed her jaw and airway . An aspiring journalist with breast cancer that had spread to her lungs. 知识点：intensive...
Apr 09, 2025•12 min•Ep. 390
