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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...

【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 cos...

【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 messag...

【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....

【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 try...

【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...

【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...

【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 d...

【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...

【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...