【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Arrests in Louvre Heist Show Power of DNA Databases in Solving Crimes 正文:1.It took less than a week for the police to track down two of the suspects who they say broke into the Louvre and made off with eight of France’s historic crown jewels. A third person, a suspected accomplice, was tracked down on Wednesday. 2.In all three cases, DNA was an essential part of the search. 3.The chief prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, said the DNA of the two men who broke into the museu...
Nov 05, 2025•8 min•Ep. 181
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Sí, oui, ja! You can learn a language late in life Don’t be put off by age or the myth of perfectionism 正文:Almost every day, Michael Bloomberg spends an hour and a half doing something that has nothing to do with his financial information empire, his work with the UN, or his philanthropic foundation. He has a Spanish lesson at his office with a private instructor, sometimes in person but mostly on a video call, especially if travelling. Convinced that the day you ...
Nov 04, 2025•11 min•Ep. 182
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Porsche’s warning lights are flashing The carmaker’s new CEO will confront three big challenges 正文:Porsche is synonymous with high performance. And for many years the financial performance of the German maker of sports cars was as pleasantly exhilarating as a ride in one of its vehicles. That makes its declining roadworthiness all the more shocking. It has issued three profit warnings so far this year, and on October 24th unveiled an operating loss in the third qu...
Nov 03, 2025•8 min•Ep. 183
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:This city has some of the world’s most expensive rents. Some live in ‘haunted’ houses to cut a deal 正文:In land-starved Hong Kong a tiny, no-frills apartment far from the city center can eat up half of a monthly salary. But for bold renters there’s one sure way to get a discount: choose a property haunted by a murder or unnatural death 知识点:land-starved adj. /ˈlænd stɑːrvd/ having very little available land. 土地稀缺的 e.g. The land-starved island nation has to import mo...
Nov 02, 2025•8 min•Ep. 184
笔记: hijack/ˈhaɪdʒæk/ v. 抢劫,劫持 Yesterday they tried to hijack some of our trucks. 昨天他们试图劫持我们的货车。 The hijack took place just after the plane had taken off. 劫持是飞机刚起飞后发生的。 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!
Nov 01, 2025•10 min•Ep. 185
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:What Amazon’s 14,000 job cuts say about a new era of corporate downsizing Executives have echoed Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s talking points, tying their job cuts to expected gains from AI and the need for more nimble operations. 正文:Amazon is culling roughly 14,000 positions from its corporate workforce. 知识点:cull v. /kʌl/ to reduce the number of something by selectively removing some members. 精简;剔除 e.g. The editor had to cull several chapters from the manuscript to mee...
Oct 31, 2025•8 min•Ep. 186
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Can AI make the poor world richer? It promises a level playing field. So have past technologies 正文:Elly Ntonde was revising for his chemistry exams in Budondo, Uganda. The village has unpaved roads, no running water and flickering electricity. Yet when the 18-year-old was struggling with how metals react to acid, the world’s most advanced tutor was only a few taps away. He walked to a shop, bought 100mb of data and loaded it onto his phone. In seconds, ChatGPT had...
Oct 30, 2025•9 min•Ep. 187
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Why Tech Bros Are Getting Face-Lifts Now 正文:Tech is a young person’s game. In a 2024 talk, Keith Rabois recounted advice his fellow investor Peter Thiel once gave him: “You can’t hire anyone over 30.” It’s unsurprising, then, that men in tech are increasingly spending thousands of dollars on procedures such as “mini face-lifts,” neck lifts and eyelid lifts to beat the signs of aging, according to plastic surgeons. Yes, the latest addition to the tech-bro look is a...
Oct 29, 2025•8 min•Ep. 188
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Iceland Announces an Unfortunate First: Mosquitoes Iceland was one of the only mosquito-free places in the world, at least according to its records. Not anymore. 正文:Iceland lost the distinction this month of being one of the last places in the world without a confirmed sighting of wild mosquitoes. And their presence was discovered only because of a rope in a garden doused in sugary red wine. 知识点:distinction n. /dɪˈstɪŋkʃn/ a special achievement, honor, or quality ...
Oct 28, 2025•8 min•Ep. 189
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:America’s Most Successful Restaurant Chain Feeds a Dumpling Frenzy Din Tai Fung’s large restaurants, rapid service and hand-folded soup dumplings make it chain with highest average sales in U.S. 正文:Din Tai Fung’s 16 restaurants in the U.S. generated an average of $27 million in annual sales last year. Every Saturday, Taiwanese restaurant chain Din Tai Fung plates as many as 20,000 of its delicate, steamy dumplings. And that is just in Times Square. 知识点:hand folded...
Oct 27, 2025•8 min•Ep. 190
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:America and Britain target Asia’s sprawling scam industry That alone will not halt the rise of online fraud 正文:The haul was staggering: approximately $15bn in cryptocurrency, the most America has ever seized. 知识点:haul n. /hɔːl/ the amount of something gained or acquired, especially illegally. (尤指非法)获得的数量 e.g. The police displayed the haul of stolen goods recovered from the thieves. 警方展示了从窃贼那里追回的大量赃物。 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...
Oct 26, 2025•8 min•Ep. 191
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Never mind your children’s screen time. Worry about your parents’ A new generation of pensioners are glued to their smartphones 正文:Few things delight children, or irritate their minders, as much as screen time. Parents nag their offspring to put down their digital devices and pick up a book or a football. 知识点:offspring n. /ˈɒfsprɪŋ/ a person’s child or children. 子女;后代 e.g. The lioness protected her offspring from predators. 母狮保护她的幼崽免受捕食者伤害。 获取外刊的完整原文以及精讲笔记,请关注微信公众...
Oct 25, 2025•11 min•Ep. 192
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:How POTUS’s Use of AI Videos Is Changing His Political Playbook 正文:POTUS is turning artificial intelligence into one of his most potent political tools, using it to amplify his message and sharpen his online persona in ways experts say are proving strikingly effective. Over the weekend, he posted a highly produced AI-generated video on Truth Social depicting himself wearing a crown, piloting a fighter jet labeled “King T***p,” and dropping what appeared to be excr...
Oct 24, 2025•10 min•Ep. 193
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Why the ultra-rich are giving up on luxury assets Forget fine wine, great art and glitzy mansions. There are finer things in life 正文:A BOTTLE OF Château d’Yquem 2010 is a fine thing. Apricot, toasted almond, citrus zest, juicy lemon, white truffles: it is all there. Until recently, the cost of the world’s finest sweet wine rose steadily. By 2023 a given bottle from the producer went for 60% more than in the mid-2010s. At the time, all forms of opulence grew pricie...
Oct 23, 2025•9 min•Ep. 194
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Chen Ning Yang, Chinese Nobel Laureate in Physics, Dies at 103 正文:1.Chen Ning Yang, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who gave up his US citizenship to become a citizen of China in 2015 and helped persuade other scientists to do the same, passed away. He was 103. 2.Yang died of illness on Saturday in Beijing, according to a statement posted on the Tsinghua University website. 3.The Nobel Prize Committee in 1957 recognized Yang and fellow physicist Tsung-Dao Lee, bot...
Oct 22, 2025•9 min•Ep. 195
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Brazen Heist at Louvre Museum Snatches Priceless Royal Jewels Thieves used a truck-mounted furniture elevator to reach the gallery housing the artifacts and then sped away on motorcycles, officials say 正文:Tourists were streaming into the world’s most visited museum on Sunday when a group of thieves burst in through a window of a gilded gallery on the second floor—and made off with a set of priceless royal jewels. It was broad daylight, roughly 9:30 a.m. local time...
Oct 21, 2025•9 min•Ep. 196
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Most of gen Z watch TV with the subtitles on – and I understand why 正文:Thanks to social media, we’re now living in a subtitled world - even when that means divided attentions and error-strewn captions. I used to think there were two types of people: the ones who only use subtitles when necessary, and the unappreciative philistines who use them for no good reason. I was willing to die on this hill, arguing that they distracted from the purity of the audiovisual exp...
Oct 20, 2025•10 min•Ep. 197
笔记:spooky /ˈspuːki/ adj. 怪异吓人的;阴森可怖的 *这个单词的比较级和最高级既可以用spookier和spookiest,也可用more spooky和most spooky。 读音上注意,两个字母O在这里发长元音 /uː/ ,spooky,听听音频4min36s处是怎么读的吧~ 短语补充:a spooky old house 阴森森的老房子 I was just thinking about her when she phoned. Spooky! 我正在想她,她就来电话了。怪吓人的! The whole place has a slightly spooky atmosphere. 整个地方有点令人毛骨悚然的气氛。 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!
Oct 19, 2025•10 min•Ep. 198
笔记:please /pliːz/ v. 想;选择;喜欢 这里的 please 是个动词,常常放在 as, what, where 后面表示想要、喜欢做某事。 You may stay as long as you please. 你想呆多久就呆多久。 She always does exactly as she pleases. 她总是我行我素。 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!
Oct 18, 2025•10 min•Ep. 199
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Searching for Meaning in the Gold Rally The price of gold often rises during periods of economic turmoil. This time around, bond markets are stable and stocks are at record highs. So what gives? 正文:. Gold prices are behaving like we’re on the brink of a financial crisis. The safe haven asset hit $4,000 an ounce for the first time this week, recording its largest rally since the late 1970s. Investors from retail to pension funds spent $9.3 billion on exchange trade...
Oct 17, 2025•9 min•Ep. 200
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:What rich Indians fear And what should really scare them 正文:IT IS NOT just naive tourists who ask the question. It is common, too, among highly educated Indians who live in nice homes and employ maids, cooks and drivers. It goes something like this: how, in a country so transparently unequal, does social peace largely prevail? Why are India’s cities—where the gulf between rich and poor is most readily visible—not more like Rio de Janeiro or Johannesburg? Manu Jose...
Oct 16, 2025•9 min•Ep. 201
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The Prize in Economic Sciences 2025 正文:The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Joel Mokyr Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and the other half j...
Oct 15, 2025•11 min•Ep. 202
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:The U.S.-China trade war is back on Like a couple headed for divorce but still cohabitating, what could go wrong? 正文:The United States and China, inveterate rivals yet inextricably interlinked, are once again barreling into a trade war nobody wants. Tit-for-tat tariffs and export controls, coming after a few months respite, once again threaten to damage the economies of both countries and derail global growth. 知识点:inveterate adj. /ɪnˈvetərət/ (of a habit or feelin...
Oct 14, 2025•12 min•Ep. 203
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:Luxury goods are out, but luxury travel is in Can hospitality firms avoid the mistakes fashion firms made? 正文:Outside Brown’s Hotel in London, a doorman in a smart coat and top hat escorts guests to their taxis. Inside, the fanciest suite goes for over £6,000 ($8,100) per night. The bar serves delicious cocktails for £26. Judging by the crowded lobby, there is no shortage of visitors happy to pay for that sort of pampering. 知识点:hospitality /ˌhɒspɪˈtæləti/(英式)/ˌhɑː...
Oct 13, 2025•11 min•Ep. 204
笔记:masseur /mæˈsɜːr/ n. 按摩师 按摩的英文是 massage /məˈsɑːʒ/, 注意不是真的按照中文读马杀鸡,听老师在音频中讲解发音。表示人,按摩师这个单词不是用到常见的-er, -or, -ist 的后缀,而是用到的-eur 这个后缀,因为这个词是法语来源,类似的词还有:amateur (业余爱好者)。 To make a living, he started working as a masseur three years ago. 为了谋生,他三年前开始做按摩师。 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!
Oct 12, 2025•11 min•Ep. 205
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:POTUS looms large overNobel Peace Prize US president pressures Norwegian government and independent committee to select him on Friday 正文:Nobody has campaigned for a Nobel Peace Prize quite like POTUS. The US president has been brazen and unrelenting in his quest for one of the world’s most prestigious honours, saying it would be a “big insult” were he not to receive it. 知识点:campaign n. /kæmˈpeɪn/ a series of organized actions intended to achieve a particular goal....
Oct 11, 2025•11 min•Ep. 206
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:AI video: more than just “slop” 正文:SCROLLING THROUGH the feed on Sora, a new video app from chatbot developer OpenAI, is a hallucinatory experience. A woman in a judo jacket bows to an elephant before flipping it over her shoulder. A young figure-skater races across the rings of Saturn. 知识点:scroll v /skrɒl/ to move text or images up or down or across a screen by sliding your fingers or using a mouse 滚动(屏幕上的文字或图像) • He scrolled through the news feed on his phone. 他...
Oct 10, 2025•8 min•Ep. 207
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:China's new K visa beckons foreign tech talent as US hikes H-1B fee 正文:BEIJING, Sept 29 (Reuters) - China's new visa programme aimed at attracting foreign tech talent kicks off this week. 知识点:kick off /ˈkɪk ɒf/(英式)/ˈkɪk ɔːf/(美式),v. 1. (of a football match) to start;(足球比赛)开球 2. to start an event or activity;开始(活动、事件) • The final match will kick off at 8 p.m. tonight.(决赛将于今晚8点开始。) • The meeting kicked off with a speech from the director.(会议以主任的发言拉开序幕。) 获取外刊的完整原文以及精讲...
Oct 09, 2025•8 min•Ep. 208
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:A Nobel prize in physiology for immune tolerance The search to understand how the body keeps immunity in check 正文:The Nobel-prize season always kicks off with the award for physiology or medicine, which highlights work in fields such as genetics, cell biology and evolution. 知识点:kick off phr. /kɪk ɒf/ to start or cause something to start. 开始 e.g. The festival will kick off with a fireworks display. 节日将以一场烟花表演开始。 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...
Oct 08, 2025•9 min•Ep. 209
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30,准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题:When A.I. Came for Hollywood 正文:In the immortal words of Emily Blunt, “Good Lord, we’re screwed.”She was on a podcast with Variety Monday when she was handed a headline about cinema’s latest sensation, Tilly Norwood. Agents are circling the hot property, a fresh-faced young British brunette actress who is attracting global attention. Norwood is A.I., and Blunt is P.O.’d. In fact, she says, she’s terrified. 知识点:immortal adj. /ɪˈmɔːrtl/ famous and likely to be remem...
Oct 07, 2025•11 min•Ep. 210