笔记：crystal clear 浅显易懂的；显而易见的 The message is crystal clear – if you lose weight, you will have a happier, healthier, better life. 这意思很清楚–如果你减肥的话，你会过上更快乐、更健康、更美好的生活。 I want to make my meaning crystal clear. 我想把我的意思解释得清清楚楚。 获取节目完整音频、笔记和片尾的歌曲名，请关注微信公众号「早安英文」，回复“笔记”即可。更多有意思的英语干货等着你！
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The matcha shortage traces back to a Japanese warlord Demand for the popular green tea is soaring, but not enough farms in Japan are producing it. 正文：The next time you order a matcha in one of its many forms now so wildly popular—a matcha latte with white chocolate syrup, for example—take a moment to remember the Zen master who started it all, and the warlord and conqueror who ordered him to cut open his belly. And then make sure to really enjoy it, because suppli...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Digital resurrection: fascination and fear over the rise of the deathbot Harriet Sherwood Ozzy Osbourne appeared as an AIg enerated image at a recent Rod Ste wart concert, prompting questions about how the ghoulish phenomeno n will affect grieving. 正文：1.Rod Stewart had a few surprise guests at a recent concert in Charlotte, North Carolina. His friend Ozzy Osbourne, the lead singer of Black Sabbath who died last month, was apparently beamed in from some kind of roc...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The middle-aged are no longer the most miserable 正文：FOR DECADES, surveys have suggested that middle age is the low point of life. While young and old generally reported high levels of life satisfaction, those in mid-life endured a slump. This “U-bend of happiness” or “hump of despair”, depending on your perspective, has been documented hundreds of times across many countries. The age of peak misery varied—the Swiss were saddest at 35, Ukrainians in their 60s—but t...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Online Shopping May Never Be the Same Buying goods from international sellers has been cheap and easy—until now. 正文：A few years ago, I found the perfect rug for my daughter’s room. It had pink unicorns and flowers. But I scoffed at the price tag on Anthropologie’s website: more than $1,000, plus an additional fee for “white glove delivery.” Then I fired up Etsy. I found a similar product made by a workshop in India that shipped directly from there. It took weeks t...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题： Scientists Perform First Pig-to-Human Lung Transplant Researchers in China placed a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead man, with mixed results. 正文：Scientists have dreamed for centuries about using animal organs to treat ailing humans. In recent years, those efforts have begun to bear fruit : Researchers have begun transplanting the hearts and kidneys of genetically modified pigs into patients, with varying degrees of success. But lungs are not...
【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...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Knowing what your colleagues earn The pros and cons of greater pay transparenc 正文：How much do your colleagues get paid? In a few countries, such as Norway, you can take a good guess by looking at public records on individuals’ overall tax payments and income. But in most places, finding out people’s salaries means asking them what they earn. And that is about as socially acceptable as saying “What an ugly baby.” 知识点：overall n. /ˈəʊvərɔːlz/ adj. & adv. /ˌəʊvərˈ...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Call Me a Sucker, but I’m Happy for Taylor and Travis 正文：1. By now you’ve probably heard the news, or maybe just the joyful squeals emanating from TikTok or Swifties in your neighborhood: On Tuesday, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, the Kansas City Chiefs football star and the multiplatinum pop princess (or, as the happy couple refer to themselves, “your English teacher and your gym teacher”) announced their engagement. 知识点：squeal n. /skwiːl/ a long, high-pitched cr...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：'Ne Zha II' Review: A Captivating Demon Hero This ambitious sequel serves as a testament to the level of artistry in the Chinese animation industry right now. 正文：In an age of locally sourced six-packed superheroes and generically charming Disney-animated protagonists, Ne Zha, the unruly, uncompromising, raccoon-eyed star of an internationally acclaimed Chinese film franchise, stands out. In part because this hero is a toddler. And also a demon. 知识点：locally sourced...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Britain leads the world in a new global business—a criminal one 正文：WALK DOWN the street in London and you might notice two things. First, although many pedestrians are glued to their phones, a few will periodically look over their shoulder, scanning for an assailant arriving at high speed. Second, some of the fancy cars, particularly SUVs, will have a steering lock. This does not mean that Britain is “lawless”, as the government’s critics complain. But both are si...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The Insidious Creep of POTUS’s Speaking Style 正文：1. “Many such cases.” “Many people are saying this.” You may recognize these phrases as“Trumpisms”—linguistic coinages of POTUS—but they’ve also become ingrained in our collective vocabulary. Since they became popular as memes during his first presidential campaign, we have begun using them, first sardonically, and then out of habit. 知识点：linguistic adj. /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/ relating to language or linguistics. 语言的；语言学的 e.g...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：A 400-year-old Chinese cough syrup is winning over Westerners Young shoppers in particular are going gaga for Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa 正文：The recipe for Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa has not changed since it was first concocted in the 1600s. Yet the sweet Chinese cough syrup, which has the colour and consistency of mud, is enjoying a renewed surge in popularity. 知识点：recipe /ˈresəpi/，n. a set of instructions for preparing a particular dish, including a list of the ingredients req...
【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...
【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 c...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：How Rajinikanth, a 74-year-old actor, drives fans into a frenzy Indian crowds greet his new film with prayer, confetti and milk 正文：For fans of Rajinikanth, or Rajini, it is not enough to simply buy a ticket to one of his films and turn up at the right time and place. No: preparations begin days in advance. Ahead of his latest release, “Coolie”, on August 14th, some fans prostrated themselves in front of shrines, seeking a divine blessing for the Indian actor. Othe...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Should you trust that five-star rating on Airbnb? How to make sense of online customer reviews 正文：It’s summer in the northern hemisphere. And as holidaymakers travel to unfamiliar places, that means demand for online customer reviews. Want to find a restaurant that won’t give everyone food poisoning, or the perfect accommodation for a city break, or a mosquito repellent that actually works? Whether you are looking on Tripadvisor, Airbnb or Amazon, you will almost ...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 正文：1.Growing up near Silicon Valley, Manasi Mishra remembers seeing tech executives on social media urging students to study computer programming. 2.“The rhetoric was, if you just learned to code, work hard and get a computer science degree, you can get six figures for your starting salary,” Ms. Mishra, now 21, recalls hearing as she grew up in San Ramon, Calif. 3.Those golden industry promises hel...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Box, run, crash: China’s humanoid robot games show advances and limitations Beijing is keen to showcase country’s prowess in robotics, say observers –but some are sceptical about real world use 正文：A quick left hook, a front kick to the chest, a few criss-cross jabs, and the crowd CHEERS. But it is not kickboxing prowess that concludes the match. It is an attempted roundhouse kick that squarely misses its target, sending the kickboxer from a top university team tum...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Delhi’s million stray dogs—and the dilemma of what to do with them A third of the world’s rabies deaths are in India and the supreme court has ordered a mass round-up of strays. Cue days of protests hailing four-legged national heroes 正文：It’s hard to run in heels. The other night, further away from home than I would have liked, a pack of five street dogs came into view. It was hard, too, to say whether their intentions were as malign as their snarls suggested, but...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：It’s Not Just a Feeling: Data Shows Boys and Young Men Are Falling Behind 正文：Boys’ educational achievement, mental health and transitions to adulthood indicate that many are not thriving. 知识点：transition /trænˈzɪʃn/（英 /trænˈzɪʃn/；美 /trænˈzɪʃn/；n.） a change from one form, state, style, or place to another 过渡；转变；变迁 • The transition from childhood to adulthood can be challenging.（从童年到成年的过渡可能颇具挑战。 ） 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...
【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. ...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Starbucks Struggles to Find a New Identity in Cutthroat China 正文：When a group of private equity investors and Chinese technology companies were asked for ideas on how they would revive Starbucks Corp.’s fortunes in the world’s second-largest economy, the most common advice was: Be a lot more like the local competition that beat you. Starbucks, they argued, should have smaller stores, employ fewer people and cut prices, according to people familiar with the sale pr...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Hearty quarterly results conceal a dual challenge for the burger behemoth 正文：The success of the Golden Arches rests on three simple, sturdy foundations: a menu of reliably decent grub, at a decent price, shored up by catchy marketing. Ever since it went public in 1965, McDonald’s has done best whenever it stuck to this original blueprint. When one or more of these pillars crumbles, the fast-food fortress looks shaky. A quarter of a century ago this led to a near-c...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The New ChatGPT Resets the AI Race 正文：1.Yesterday evening, Sam Altman shared an image of the Death Star on X. There was no caption on the picture, which showed the world-destroying Star Wars space station rising over an Earth-like planet, but his audience understood the context. In fewer than 24 hours, OpenAI would release an AI model intended to wipe out all the rest. 2.That model, GPT-5, launched earlier today with all the requisite fanfare. In an announcement v...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Up on the Roof, POTUS Surveys the Home He’s Making His Own White House reporters looked up from the driveway to see a familiar figure in a most unfamiliar location. 正文：POTUS was on the roof. As a confused group of reporters assembled below him on Tuesday morning, POTUS strolled around on top of the White House, stopping somewhere above the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room —now only occasionally a venue for taking questions—to tell his audience that he was “takin...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Indian firms aim to gorge on weight-loss drugs Domestic demand is surging. And Indian generics could make slimming cheaper worldwide 正文：Until recently, Indians had few safe ways of joining the global craze for weight-loss drugs. Some smuggled them into the country when returning home from abroad; others chanced it with bootlegged versions from Dubai. But in March Mounjaro, a weight-loss drug from Eli Lilly, an American pharmaceutical giant, became legally availabl...
【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...
【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...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：At the Tesla Diner, the Future Looks Mid The new Los Angeles restaurant from the electric car giant is a smash burger and content machine, drawing Elon Musk’s fans and protesters. 正文：When Elon Musk announced that he was building the Tesla Diner in 2018, it was sold as a wholesome, Americana-flavored vision of the future in Hollywood—electric cars charging around a communal big screen while drivers fueled up on re-imagined fast food. 知识点：be sold as phr. /bi səʊld æ...
