【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：China’s Small Workshops Are Hurting. Trump’s Tariffs Are Only One Reason. The U.S.-Chinese cease-fire left exporters with crippling tariffs, worsening a slowdown for light industry factories caused by China’s shift to advanced manufacturing. 正文：It was 96 degrees in the shade with high humidity and no wind on a Tuesday afternoon in a Guangzhou factory district, the heart of China’s garment manufacturing. Operating sewing workshops were sweltering, but roughly half ...
Aug 07, 2025•18 min•Ep. 271
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：If women don’t want children, will cash fix it? 正文：1.To get a sense of China’s demographic problem, consider the generations of my family. My great-grandmother had nine children. My grandmother had three by the age of 27. My mother had only one by the same age. I’m now a few years older than that milestone, and I still don’t want kids yet. You can imagine the anxious conversations my grandma and mum have with me. But they know that I’m hardly an exception, in the ...
Aug 06, 2025•17 min•Ep. 272
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The Tragedy Unfolding in Gaza 正文：If any place had experience seeing civilians through war, it was the Gaza Strip. It’s much of why the place exists. That stretch of Mediterranean coast was only even named while being demarcated as a refuge for Palestinians driven off their land by Jewish forces in the 1948 war that created Israel. Gaza’s permanent status, like the fate of the Palestinians, was never decided, however. And as the decades churned on, so did the confl...
Aug 05, 2025•12 min•Ep. 273
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Americans Are Obsessed With Watching Short Video Dramas From China How did steamy, short soap operas that originated in China become the hottest thing in Hollywood, seemingly overnight? 正文：My partner recently confessed something to me about his screen-time habits: When he’s giggling at his phone, he’s often watching short English-language soap operas that have begun showing up on his social feeds. The plots are basic, the acting is exaggerated, and the performers ...
Aug 04, 2025•14 min•Ep. 274
【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...
Aug 03, 2025•10 min•Ep. 275
【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...
Aug 02, 2025•8 min•Ep. 276
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：First Came Tea. Then Came the Male Rage. The app was meant to make dating safer for women. Data breaches exposing its users show why it was so popular in the first place. 正文：Until last Thursday, the team behind the app Tea Dating Advice was having an extraordinary week. They claimed to have amassed more than 2 million new users, making Tea the most popular free app in Apple’s App Store, after it stirred discussion on TikTok and Reddit. Women were using Tea, whose ...
Aug 01, 2025•14 min•Ep. 277
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Kraft Heinz is not the only food giant in trouble 正文：When Warren Buffett, a venerable investor, and 3G Capital, a private-equity firm, merged Kraft and Heinz in 2015 to create a packaged-food heavyweight, consumers’ appetite for its colourful condiments, sugary snacks and processed cheeses seemed insatiable. The deal now looks to have been a big fat flop. Kraft Heinz’s market value, at $32bn, is down by three fifths since the tie-up. The company expects its operat...
Jul 31, 2025•14 min•Ep. 278
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：China’s Problem With Competition: There’s Too Much of It 正文：1.It’s the circle of life in China’s business world 2.A promising technology or product emerges. Chinese manufacturers, by the dozens or sometimes the hundreds, storm into that nascent sector. They ramp up production and drive down costs. As the overall market grows, the competition becomes increasingly cutthroat, with rival companies undercutting one another and enduring razor-thin profit margins or even...
Jul 30, 2025•10 min•Ep. 279
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Money, Lust and Kung Fu: Shaolin’s ‘C.E.O. Monk’ Is Under Fire 正文：Incense drifting through ancient cedars. Saffron-robed monks, limbs a blur of movement, making quick work of imagined enemies. The boing of a giant bronze bell calling the faithful to prayer. This is the scene at the fabled Shaolin Temple, a cradle of kung fu and Zen Buddhism nestled in the forests of the central Chinese province of Henan, where legend has it monks have trained in martial arts for c...
Jul 29, 2025•18 min•Ep. 280
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Meta Unveils Wristband for Controlling Computers With Hand Gestures When you write your name in the air, you can see the letters appear on your smartphone. 正文：The prototype looks like a giant rectangular wristwatch. But it doesn’t tell the time: It lets you control a computer from across the room simply by moving your hand. With a gentle turn of the wrist, you can push a cursor across your laptop screen. If you tap your thumb against your forefinger, you can open ...
Jul 28, 2025•15 min•Ep. 281
【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...
Jul 27, 2025•18 min•Ep. 282
【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...
Jul 26, 2025•20 min•Ep. 283
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Monks behaving badly: the sex scandal rocking Thailand’s Buddhist clergy Stories of monks behaving badly are not uncommon in Thailand, but the scale of a recent scandal has sparked questions about wealth and privilege 正文：The disappearance of a respected monk from his Buddhist temple in central Bangkok has revealed a sex scandal that has rocked Thailand, with allegations of blackmail, lavish gifts and a string of dismissals raising questions about the money and pow...
Jul 25, 2025•16 min•Ep. 284
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Mental health: Time for T If their reputation can be improved, hormones could be mental health drugs,too 正文：POOR MENTAL health is a scourge. Prescriptions for anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medicines have soared in rich countries in recent decades. Yet they do not work for everyone. Perhaps a third of people with serious depression, for instance, report that drugs seem to have little effect. Doctors are therefore beginning to look further afield. 知识点：scourge /s...
Jul 24, 2025•14 min•Ep. 285
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：‘Who Killed Love?’ A Video Game Plays to Male Resentment in China. 正文：1.A deliveryman falls for a female livestreamer. She seduces him, drains his savings, then vanishes. Heartbroken, he reinvents himself as a successful businessman seeking revenge on women like her. 2.This is the plot of Revenge on Gold Diggers, one of the most popular and contentious video games in China. 3.The interactive game, which debuted in June to enormous success, temporarily topped the c...
Jul 23, 2025•15 min•Ep. 286
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Coldplay, a Viral Kiss Cam Moment—and a CEO’s Abrupt Resignation Schadenfreude played no small part in turning a video of two Astronome executives caught in a romantic moment into an online obsession 正文：Astronomer CEO Andy Byron is far from the only executive to step down after questionable public behavior. But he may be the first because of a viral “kiss-cam” moment at a Coldplay concert. Days after a video of Byron canoodling with the company’s HR chief nearly b...
Jul 22, 2025•16 min•Ep. 287
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题： In China, the master’s degree is the new bachelor’s degree College graduates are returning to school just to have a chance in a job market marred by China’s shaky post-pandemic recovery. 正文：As an undergraduate at Peking University, one of China’s most prestigious universities, Crystal knew she wanted to end up working at one of the country’s top tech or finance conglomerate s. Throughout college, Crystal, who spoke on the condition that only her first name be use...
Jul 21, 2025•20 min•Ep. 288
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：What POTUS’s ‘Good English’Remark Really Reflects 正文：POTUS has yet to visit Africa as President. But he’s certainly left an impression. In his first term, POTUS angered the continent’s leaders and public when he reportedly referred to Haiti and African nations as “sh-thole countries.” Amid blowback, POTUS denied using the specific phrase, while Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, who was present in the closed-door meeting where the remark was supposedly ut...
Jul 20, 2025•13 min•Ep. 289
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Freeze your brain if you want, but you won’t be you...even if they can ( thaw ) it out The chances of successfully cheating death by having your head cryogenically frozen remain ( sub-zero ) 正文：Perhaps inevitably in such ( turbulent ), uncertain times, there’s a renewed interest in cryonics: the freezing and storing of human ( remains ) so that they can be ( resurrected ) in the future when medical technology is ( sufficiently ) advanced. 知识点：250712-01 cryonics “起...
Jul 19, 2025•12 min•Ep. 290
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：How Long Can China Keep Propping Up Its Consumers With Subsidies? Shoppers are taking advantage of a $42 billion government trade-in program aimed at boosting spending. But in recent weeks, some cities have started to cut back on the subsidies. 正文：Browsing through the selection of Apple iPhones in an electronics store in Tianjin in eastern China, Zhan Demi rattled off the reasons she needed to upgrade her device. Photos and videos of her toddler were quickly eatin...
Jul 18, 2025•20 min•Ep. 291
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：China’s ecommerce giants battle for instant delivery crown JD.com and Alibaba are luring shoppers with discounts in a push to grab market share from rival Meituan 正文：Chinese ecommerce giants JD.com and Alibaba have ignited a battle for the country’s fast growing instant retail market, luring shoppers with huge discounts in a push to grab market share amid weak consumer spending. The two groups have launched rapid delivery offerings in recent months, supplying food...
Jul 17, 2025•17 min•Ep. 292
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题： Are You Experiencing Posting Ennui? 正文：The breakfast photo is the ur-text of the narcissistic internet, a bit of content that no one else is necessarily interested in but which the poster feels the need, or even the responsibility, to make public for anyone online to see. Posting a picture of what you ate on a given morning was something we did during the early years of Twitter and Instagram, and at the time it felt novel : suddenly, you could share the most mund...
Jul 16, 2025•16 min•Ep. 293
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Britain is cheap, and should learn to love it Workers and assets are on sale to the rest of the world for bargain-basement prices 正文：Panic is never far off. After Britain’s government capitulated to a backbench rebellion over welfare benefits earlier this month, bond vigilantes bared their teeth and the prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, had to scramble to assure markets that he would not swap his chancellor for someone more spendy. Fears over the public finances h...
Jul 15, 2025•17 min•Ep. 294
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：‘Playing the Man’: Global Diplomacy in the Trump Era Is All About Flattery 正文：Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel handed a letter to President Trump nominating him for the Nobel Peace Prize. But it’s not clear whether stroking the president’s ego has long-lasting effects. The flattery was as obvious as it was seemingly effective. Seated at a dinner table in the Blue Room of the White House on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu handed President Trump...
Jul 14, 2025•19 min•Ep. 295
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Jeff Bezos 2.0: new wife, newish job, old vision The Amazon founder’s semi-retirement plan 正文：Jeff Bezos lives by a simple precept: limit the number of things you would wish you had done differently when you are 80. He calls it, with habitual nerdiness, the “regret-minimisation framework”. In 1994 it led him to forsake cushy work at a hedge fund to start Amazon. It is behind the big bets, from the Prime subscription service to AWS cloud computing, that have made t...
Jul 13, 2025•17 min•Ep. 296
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Skin Cancer is (Trickier) Than You Think The disease can show up in unexpected ways on your body. Here’s what to (look for) 正文：“CAN I SHOW you one more thing?”I was at the dermatologist’s office for my semiannual skin check, and he’d just finished the exam. But something was still gnawing at me. But something was still gnawing at me.“I have this tiny (rough) spot on the bridge of my nose. If I scrub it off, it bleeds,” I said. 2.He looked at it under the magnifyin...
Jul 12, 2025•12 min•Ep. 297
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Is Thailand heading for another coup? The generals would be mad to try 正文：Gridlock in Thai politics tends to end one way. Thailand is the only middle-income country in which the armed forces regularly seize power. There have been a dozen coups since the end of absolute monarchy in 1932, two of them in the past 20 years 知识点：gridlock n. /ˈɡrɪdlɒk/ a situation where no progress can be made, especially in politics. 僵局 e.g. The negotiations reached a gridlock due to co...
Jul 11, 2025•10 min•Ep. 298
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：How America’s economy is dodging disaster It is astonishingly dynamic, even under the weight of tariffs 正文： Economic doom beckoned after President T announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs on April 2nd. Stocks crashed; forecasters predicted a recession within the year. Three months on, the mood is rather more relaxed. Prices in shops are not noticeably higher, unemployment is flat and the S&P 500 index is resurgent, back at all-time highs. Mr T’s 90-day pause f...
Jul 10, 2025•21 min•Ep. 299
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：POTUS Wants the World to Squeeze Out China. He’s Starting With Vietnam. An initial trade deal with Vietnam offers a glimpse of how POTUS is pushing countries to cut back on trade with China. 正文：In his first term, POTUS forced companies to kick their dependence on China. Now he is pressing countries to squeeze China out of their supply chains. A preliminary trade pact between Vietnam and the United States announced on Wednesday is the most significant step so far t...
Jul 08, 2025•13 min•Ep. 300
