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【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 t...

【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-...

【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 p...

【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-sh...

【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 a...

【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...

【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 wh...

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...

【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 pass...

【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 vene...

【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...

【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 huma...

【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....

【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...

【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...

【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...

【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...

【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, Emm...

【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 dow...

【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...

【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...

【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...

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！

【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 workforc...

【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 reac...