笔记：conform to 顺从，顺应 词组的意思是 to behave and think in the same way as most other people in a group or society. Though some might want marriage or children, the risks of having to conform to traditional gender roles outweigh any benefits. 尽管有些人可能想要结婚或生孩子，但遵守传统性别角色的风险大于任何好处。 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！
笔记：go-to adj. 首选的，必去的 这是个口语中很常见的表达，表示一定会去的，第一时间能想到的，比如说学英语，我必去的平台就是早安英文，就可以用到这个词组 Morning English is my go-to choice. It is the go-to brand for the type of high-school girls who spend hours on TikTok. 对于那些在 TikTok 上花费数小时的高中女生来说，这是一个首选品牌。 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！
笔记：shake-up n. 改变，重组 shake 表示摇晃，那么 shake up 剧烈的摇晃之后，事物都要重组，调整，所以 shake-up 就当一个名词，meaning an important change or series of changes. It’s part of a larger New York City nightlife shake-up. 这是纽约市夜生活大变革的一部分。 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！
笔记：exorbitant /ɪɡˈzɔːrbətənt/ adj. 天价的，贵得离谱的 东西特别贵，除了用 extremely expensive，还可以用这个比较正式的形容词，比如说租金过高就是 exorbitant rent，那天价药就可以说 exorbitant medicine. That seaside hotel charges exorbitant prices during the summer holidays.那家海滨旅馆在暑假漫天要价。 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：Single Retirees Face New Challenges. Here Are Ways to Cope. The population of seniors living alone is rising amid mounting concerns about their nest eggs, Social Security, and Medicaid. Here’s how they’re getting by. 正文：Challenges are mounting for retirees as the government safety net is in flux and costs mount for health services and long-term care. It can be even tougher for single retirees, whether it’s managing household finances, dealing with health issues, o...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：POTUS Fell for the White House Janitor: 72 Hours to Go Viral, 72 Hours to Get Debunked Drama in the World of Vertical Drama, is This the New Way to Hype a Show? 正文：Something curious has been circulating during the past two days. Friends who know that I spend my days developing vertical dramas all messaged me at once: Have you seen that POTUS mini-series story? 知识点：curious adj. /ˈkjʊriəs/ eager to know or learn something. 好奇的 e.g. The child was curious about how th...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Xiaomi Turns Worst China Tech Stock on Smartphone, EV Doubts 正文：Xiaomi Corp. has gone from market darling to the worst-performing Chinese technology stock in just a few short months, and a quick comeback looks challenging amid headwinds in the smartphone and electric vehicle markets. 知识点：darling n. /ˈdɑːlɪŋ/ a person or thing that is very popular or highly regarded. 宠儿；受欢迎的人（或事物） e.g. The new indie band quickly became the darling of the music critics. 这支新独立乐队迅速成为了...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：How did Hong Kong’s massive housing estate fire turn so deadly? 正文：. A deadly inferno has torn through a massive housing complex in Hong Kong, killing at least 44 people with more than 270 others still missing, in what is shaping up to be the city’s worst disaster in decades. Firefighters were still trying to get parts of the fire under control on Thursday morning with rescue officials saying extremely high temperatures inside the buildings were hampering their ab...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：China’s growing global fan club Our new poll shows global opinion is swinging its way 正文：CHINA APPEARS “increasingly cool,” declared Lin Jian, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry, earlier this year. To make his case he pointed to consumer-product sensations and cutting-edge technology. After all, this year China has celebrated the success of the “ugly-cute” Labubu toy and DeepSeek, and experimented with flying cars. 知识点：spokesperson /ˈspəʊkspɜːsən/ (noun) ...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：China has too many university grads and too few jobs for them It wants to push youngsters towards vocational colleges instead 正文：ON THE BANKS of the Fuchun river in Zhejiang, an eastern province, the youngsters who will power China’s future are at work. At Hangzhou Technician Institute, more than 6,000 students aged between 14 and 20 are learning how to operate drones, manufacture rare-earth magnets, and maintain electric vehicles and industrial robots. 知识点：bank n...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Americans Have Lost Billions to Online Scams. How Is That Possible? 正文：1.The Treasury Department says Americans have lost more than $16.6 billion to an online scam industry largely based in Southeast Asia that targets victims around the world. 2.Scam centers rely on forced labor, and they proliferated during the pandemic. By some estimates they take in at least $64 billion a year. 知识点：scam n. /skæm/ a dishonest scheme; a fraud 骗局；诈骗 • He was caught running an onli...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Tesla Wants to Build a Robot Army And so does the rest of the auto industry 正文：Elon Musk, already the world’s richest man, is now on the path to becoming its first trillionaire. Tesla’s shareholders recently approved a massive pay package for the CEO, including some $1 trillion in stock options. But the payout will happen only if certain targets are met—including Musk’s successful deployment of 1 million Optimus robots. 知识点：on the path to /ɒn ðə pɑːθ tuː/ (phrase)...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：How do you replace a CEO like Tim Cook or Warren Buffett? Some shoes seem just too big to fill 正文：TIM COOK seems like a nice problem for Apple’s board to have. Since he took over from Steve Jobs in 2011, the iPhone-maker’s boss has lifted annual sales from $108bn to $416bn, operating profit from $34bn to $133bn and market capitalisation from around $350bn to $4trn, equivalent to roughly $700m for every day of his 14-year tenure. Only Jensen Huang of Nvidia has cre...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Tech billionaires want to make gene-edited babies Widespread bans don’t seem to be a hindrance 正文：MOST STORIES about gene-edited children begin with He Jiankui, a rogue Chinese scientist who, in 2018, announced that he had created the world’s first such babies in secret. 知识点：gene-edited adj. /dʒiːn-ˈedɪtɪd/ (of an organism) having had its genetic material altered by scientific methods. 基因编辑的 e.g. The supermarket now sells gene-edited tomatoes that have a longer sh...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Collins’ Word of the Year 2025: AI meets authenticity as society shifts 正文：Tired of wrestling with syntax? Just go with the vibes. That’s the essence of vibe coding, Collins’ Word of the Year 2025, a term that captures something fundamental about our evolving relationship with technology. Coined by AI pioneer Andrej Karpathy, vibe coding refers to the use of artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to write computer code. Basically, telling a machine w...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Tom Standage’s ten trends to watch in 2026 A letter from the editor of The World Ahead Share 正文：This is T’s world—we’re all just living in it. The disruptor-in-chief was the biggest factor shaping global affairs in 2025, and that will be the case for as long as he remains in the White House. His norm-shattering approach has caused turmoil in some areas (as in trade) but has also delivered diplomatic results (as in Gaza) and forced necessary change (as with Europea...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：What a hit memoir reveals about work in China 正文：NO COUNTRY ON Earth is as mad for online shopping as China. In 2024 consumers there bought 15.5trn yuan ($2.2trn)-worth of goods online—more than anywhere else in the world. Chinese e-commerce is ubiquitous, quick and easy. But that convenience comes at an onerous cost, as Hu Anyan details in his memoir “I Deliver Parcels in Beijing”, a bestseller in China recently translated into English. 知识点：ubiquitous adj /juˈbɪk...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：A rats to riches story: Larry the Downing Street cat finds place in TV spotlight Popularity of Britain’s top mouser – ‘the guy to meet in No 10’ – to feature in documentary series 正文：He’s on his sixth prime minister, has watched presidents and princes walk through the black door of No 10, and will soon become the longest continuous resident of Downing Street since Pitt the Younger. The landscape of British politics has changed a lot in the past 15 years, but Larry...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Farewell: ‘I’m Going Quiet’ 正文：In one of his final missives as the company’s leader, Mr. Buffett said he would accelerate his plans to disburse his fortune to his children’s foundations. 知识点：farewell /ˌfeəˈwel/ (noun / interjection) An expression of good wishes when someone is leaving; the act of saying goodbye告别；道别；再见（用于某人离开时表达美好祝愿） • Warren Buffett’s letter included a heartfelt farewell to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.（沃伦·巴...
笔记： underbelly n. 薄弱环节 这个词字面意思是下腹部，belly 就是肚子的意思，那这里就是指薄弱环节，脆弱点。在例句中表示黑暗面。 The documentary revisited the complex case that revealed a dark underbelly of the K-pop industry in South Korea, garnering widespread attention. 这部纪录片重新审视了这一复杂案件，揭露了韩国 K-pop 行业的黑暗面，引起了广泛关注。 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：Government Reopens as POTUS Signs Bill to End Nation’s Longest Shutdown POTUS signed the bill ending the shutdown after 43 days, after the House approved it, largely on party lines 正文：The federal government began reopening Wednesday night after POTUS signed into law a spending package that narrowly passed the House, ending the longest shutdown in the nation’s history. 知识点：narrowly adv. /ˈnærəʊli/ only by a small margin; barely. 勉强地；以微弱优势 e.g. The home team narrowl...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：How the exasperating, indispensable BBC must change Its latest crisis needs to spur reforms to bolster its news division 正文：Most of POTUS’s broadsides against the news media are ridiculous. But his anger over a BBC documentary about him that aired last year is justified. An episode of “Panorama”, a venerablecurrent-affairs show. 知识点：exasperating adj. /ɪɡˈzæspəreɪtɪŋ/ causing strong feelings of annoyance or frustration. 令人恼怒的 e.g. The exasperating traffic jam made ...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Why human-shaped robots loom large in Musk's Tesla plans 正文：.It has appeared in Tesla showrooms, on its factory floors and has even posed with Kim Kardashian. But Elon Musk's vision for his human-like robot Optimus is much grander than that. Since first unveiling it at a Tesla showcase in 2022, the tech billionaire has suggested his company's droid could play a huge role in the homes and lives of people all over the world. 知识点：loom large /luːm lɑːdʒ/ (phrasal verb...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Xpeng Debuts 'Most Human-Like' Iron Robot, Details VLT Brain and 2026 Production Goal 正文：1.Xpeng's AI Day 2025 event, themed "Emergence," delivered its most anticipated reveal: the next-generation 'Iron' humanoid robot. In a demonstration designed to showcase its progress, a robot with a distinctly human-like, female form walked across the stage with a gentle, fluid gait. 2. The demonstration was effective—CEO He Xiaopeng noted that during rehearsal, some colleagu...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Tesla plans to pay Musk $1tn - do they really need him that much? 正文：A great leader is a huge asset for a company, of course, but can anyone be worth $1 trillion? That is the pay packet Tesla shareholders have approved for Elon Musk, as long as he meets the targets they have set over the next 10 years. In the meantime, he won't collect a salary, but will presumably throw himself into his work with renewed vigour. 知识点：asset n. /ˈæset/ a useful or valuable thing or ...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Single mothers in China find a new kind of partner – other single mothers 正文：As divorce rates rise and the cost of living bites, single mothers in China are searching for a new kind of partner: each other. Across social media are posts from harried mothers seeking like-minded parents to share a home and child-rearing responsibilities. 知识点：like-minded /ˈlaɪk maɪndɪd/ (adj.) adj. having similar opinions, interests, or attitudes; 志同道合的；观点相似的 • She joined a club for l...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：How pig-organ transplants might soon save lives After a man lives nearly nine months with a pig kidney, two American firms are preparing clinical trials 正文：FOR YEARS Tim Andrews, a pensioner from New Hampshire, suffered with failing kidneys. Dialysis could not stop a steady decline in his health. “Most likely I was going to pass away before I got to the point where I would be able to get a human transplant,” Mr. Andrews says. 知识点：pensioner n. /ˈpenʃənə(r)/ a perso...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：The Numbers Six and Seven Are Making Life Hell for Math Teachers ‘Six seven’ sends teens into a frenzy that schools have been powerless to stop. ‘It’s like throwing catnip at cats.’ 正文：The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six Seven. Math teacher Cara Bearden braces herself for any equation that yields the two numbers, knowing her students will immediately scream them right back at her. 知识点：obnoxious adj. /əbˈnɒkʃəs/ extremely unpleasant, offensive, or...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：Starbucks once seemed unstoppable in China. Its US owner is now giving up control 正文：Nearly three decades ago, Starbucks opened its first outlet in China with much fanfare, involving a troupe performing a traditional “golden lion” dance and eager customers trying cappuccinos made with steaming espresso machines. The entry of the American brand helped spur the rise of a thriving coffee culture among the burgeoning middle class of a country that traditionally drank ...
【欢迎订阅】 每天早上5:30，准时更新。 【阅读原文】 标题：You Don’t Need to Swipe Right. A.I. Is Transforming Dating Apps 正文：1.Meet your artificial intelligence matchmakers. These A.I. tools are changing dating apps, so users don’t have to swipe through an endless scroll of profiles. 2.After swiping aimlessly for years on dating apps like Hinge and Tinder, Emma Inge, a 25-year-old project manager in San Francisco, decided to try something different. In September, she followed an ad to Known, a start-up, and spent 20 minu...
