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【vol.110】花式英语｜温带可以种植寒带植物吗

【vol.109】Special Edition:Flying Times

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【vol.108】Special Edition

【vol.107】花式英语｜朋友聚会不妨自带酒水

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【vol.106】花式英语｜日本可食“水泥”

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【vol.104】花式英语｜教师争辩持枪能否保护学校

【vol.105】花式英语｜说说“束线”这个小零件

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【vol.103】花式英语｜0526学校发生枪案

【vol.102】花式英语｜世界卫生工作开始

【vol.101】花式英语｜0519日本将开放小范围旅行测试

【vol.99】花式英语｜0517如何种植太阳花

【vol.98】花式英语｜0516重回面部识别

【vol.97】花式英语｜0118 Inauguration Ceremony

【vol.96】花式英语0804|顾好孩子还是管好工作？

Managing Your Work, Your Child's Work OnlineThe coronavirus pandemic has changed many things about everyday life. One big change is childcare – or the lack of it.As many childcare providers closed as part of public safety measures, so did schools, offices and businesses. Social restrictions also tightened. This meant many older adults were unable to help watch or care for their grandchildren.This left working parents with a sudden, unexpected problem -- working from home with children who also had schoolwork to do.Many parents struggled to meet work demands while watching over their child's online studies at the same time. Even companies whose job it is to prepare for a pandemic were caught off guard – or unprepared.The British drug-maker AstraZeneca spent years preparing for a health crisis. However, when it happened, the company was not prepared to help its employees work effectively at home with their children. The company asked its 8,300 employees about childcare and found that at least 1,100 needed help.Fiona Cicconi heads the company's human resources office. She noted that some employees said they were feeling worried about the work they had to do and about not getting it done.Several of those working parents are also responsible for trying to produce a vaccine for the disease COVID-19.So, AstraZeneca did many things to help its employees by helping their children. The company found about 80 teachers and paid them to organize classes online. It developed a computer software program to make planning the lessons easy. And it also found tutors for children needing one-on-one instruction.新闻来源：Reuter’s

【vol.95】花式英语0803|孤独几何

How to Be AloneSo, back in early April, when we were still only a few weeks into lockdown in New York, a friend of mine asked me what things were like on Planet Bim. It was a joke, but it was one of those accurate jokes. Because living alone right now is probably not that dissimilar to being a far away, solitary planet.New York was one of the first places to lock down. And in a way, I'm still living like it's March. I work from home. I leave for groceries. I attend almost no social functions.And it's not that I don't know how to be alone. Being alone, even in a crowd, is not new to me. We moved continents when I was very young, living between the UK and Nigeria. I went off to boarding school when I was 10 years old. I left home for university when I was 19, and I never really moved back home again.I've lived in London, Lagos, Berlin, and now New York. I chose to live in those last two places, to move far away from family and home. But there's something different about the aloneness of right now.COVID-19 has taken away that element of choice. Like a 9-year-old being sent up to her room as punishment, versus sitting in her room, quietly reading anyway. The activities are the same, but the issue is control. So many of us have been dealing with this enforced aloneness a lot more since the pandemic began.Sometimes I feel like I'm floating through space, a sort of dwarf planet in a galaxy that seems to be populated by planets with people attached-- children, a partner, other family members, maybe even housemates or a pet. I have none of those things at the moment. My family, my parents, my siblings, their partners, they're all in London, about three and a half thousand miles and a full ocean away.新闻来源：This American Life

【vol.94】花式英语0730|NASA继续探测火星

NASA to Launch Newest Mars Explorer to Seek Signs of LifeThe United States is preparing to return to the planet Mars. The U.S. space agency NASA plans to have a spacecraft, called Perseverance, deploy a rover on the planet's surface. The vehicle has been called the brainiest Martian rover yet. NASA officials say its mission will be to search for signs of life on the Red Planet.This will be the space agency's fifth rover to explore Mars. The first, named Sojourner, was sent in 1997. Then came Spirit and Opportunity, which landed in 2004. The fourth rover, Curiosity, has been exploring the planet since 2012.The missions have resulted in valuable information. The vehicles helped gather data showing Mars was not always the cold and empty place it is today. Experiments provided evidence that at one time, the planet held several chemical elements that may have supported life. These included running water, organic molecules, and a more favorable climate.新闻来源：VOA

【vol.93】花式英语0715|三国计划发射火星

 Three Countries Send Spacecraft to MarsChina, the United Arab Emirates and the United States plan to launch unpiloted spaceships in the next few weeks to fly to Mars. The operations are aimed at searching for signs of ancient, microscopic life. Each country hopes the research will help them learn if astronauts could someday visit the red planet.The spaceships are expected to reach Mars in February after traveling about 485 million kilometers. Scientists want to find out what Mars was like billions of years ago, when it had rivers, lakes, and oceans.Ken Farley is a professor at California Institute of Technology and a project scientist for Perseverance, the U.S. rover that will go to Mars. He noted how hard it is to confirm that life existed on another planet. There is "a very big burden of proof," he said.It is not by chance that the three launches are taking place soon. Mars and Earth are currently in positions that favor such travel, permitting shorter travel time and less fuel use. The positioning happens about every two years.新闻来源：AP

【vol.92】花式英语0714|多所学校和州政府为支持留学生发起的诉讼

More Colleges, States Back Legal Action over Foreign Student RuleMore colleges and state officials are taking legal action against the Trump administration's new restrictions on international students. They say the new policy harms students' safety and forces schools to reconsider their plans for the fall.Sixteen states and Washington, D.C. joined Massachusetts in a legal action brought last week in federal court in Boston against the rule.Lawsuits were also brought by Johns Hopkins University and the state of California. The University of California system has said it also plans to take legal action.The efforts support Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the legal case against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). More than 200 universities have signed legal briefs supporting the case against ICE.Under the new ICE rule, international students must take at least some of their college classes in person, transfer to U.S-based schools with in-person classes or leave the country. They will have to leave the U.S. even if a health emergency forces their classes online later in the school year. And the government will reject visa requests from international students at colleges or universities that only offer classes online.A judge is set to begin hearing arguments in the case Tuesday. If the judge does not suspend the rule, colleges across the U.S. will have until Wednesday to notify ICE if they plan to be fully online this fall.新闻来源：AP

【vol.91】花式英语0709|哈佛麻省状告移民局

Harvard, MIT Test New US Visa Rule for International StudentsHarvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) took legal action Wednesday against the United States government. The schools are seeking to overturn the Trump administration's new rule on international student visas.Under the rule, international students must take at least some of their college classes in person, transfer to U.S-based schools with in-person classes or leave the country. They will have to leave even if a health emergency forces their classes online later in the school year.FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2019, file photo, pedestrians walk through the gates of Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a federal lawsuit challenging the new international visa rule. The government will reject visa requests from international students at colleges or universities that only offer classes online.Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal law enforcement agency, announced the rule on Monday. The same day, many colleges, including Harvard, said all their classes later this year would be online.MIT joined Harvard to file the legal challenge Wednesday morning in Boston. They asked a federal court to bar ICE from enforcing the new rule. They called for the return of the March 13, 2020 "exemption," which permitted international students to attend classes online while retaining their visa during the health emergency.新闻来源：Reuters

【vol.90】花式英语0707|蒙娜丽莎再微笑

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【vol.89】花式英语0706|研究:'一孕傻三年'非事实

'Mommy brain' does not last"Mommy brain" is a long-held perception that mothers are more forgetful and less attentive."妈咪脑"是一种根深蒂固的看法，即女性当了妈妈后更健忘，注意力更差。"In most studies, however, attention and memory tests are given to mothers very early postpartum," said Valerie Tucker Miller, a PhD student in Purdue University's Department of Anthropology.美国珀杜大学人类学系博士生瓦莱丽•塔克•米勒称："然而，在大多数研究中，注意力和记忆力测试的对象是那些处于产后极早阶段的女性。""There are a few issues with that," she added. "When you first have a child, you have a cascade of hormones and sleep deprivation that might be affecting attention and memory processes in the brain."她还说："这没什么问题。当你刚有孩子时，会遇到一连串的激素和睡眠缺乏问题，这可能会影响大脑中的注意力和记忆过程。"In a new study, Miller compared reaction times among 60 mothers, all of whom were at least one year postpartum, and 70 non-mothers.在一项新研究中，米勒对60名母亲(均处于产后一年以上)和70名非母亲的反应时间进行比较。The results show that mothers performed equally as well or better compared with women who had never been pregnant or had children.研究结果显示，与从未怀孕或从未生育的女性相比，妈妈们表现得同样出色甚至更好。"We wanted to see the long-term effects of maternity," Miller said. "Overall, moms did not have significantly different attention than non-mothers, so we did not find evidence to support 'mommy brain' as our culture understands it. It's possible, if anything, that maternity is related to improved, rather than diminished, attentiveness."她说："我们希望看到为人母的长期影响。总的来说，母亲与非母亲的注意力没有太大差别，因此我们发现没有证据支持人们所谓的'妈咪脑'。如果说有的话，那么为人母可能与注意力的增强而不是减弱有关。"新闻来源：China Daily欢迎关注微信公众平台“花式英语”，解锁更多内容！

【vol.87】花式英语0701|冷酷的冥王星也曾有一颗“温暖的心”

Pluto May Have Started Out Very HotPluto is a cold little world far from us in the outer reaches of our solar system. But researchers believe Pluto may have been born as a much warmer place. They say it may even have sheltered a subsurface or underground ocean – one that still exists today.A report on Pluto appeared earlier this month in the scientific journal Nature Geosciences. The lead author was Carver Bierson, a planetary scientist at the University of California Santa Cruz.In the report, researchers pointed to evidence for a "hot start" situation at Pluto's beginning, some 4.5 billion years ago. Their study was based on images of the dwarf planet's surface as well as computer models of the subsurface."When Pluto was forming, new material would have been coming in and impacting its surface," Bierson said. "Each impact is like an explosion that would warm the nearby area."新闻来源：VOA欢迎关注微信公众平台“花式英语”，解锁更多内容！

【vol.86】花式英语0630|英国成中国留学生首选目的地

UK top destination for study英国成首选留学目的地For the first time, the UK has overtaken the US as the preferred overseas study destination for Chinese students, a report released Sunday showed. 6月28日发布的一份报告显示，英国首次超越美国成为中国留学人群的首选目的国。In the survey for the annual Report on Chinese Students' Overseas Study, the UK was preferred by 42% of respondents, up by 1 percentage point from last year. 在这份关于中国留学生海外学习的年度报告中，42%的受访者更青睐英国，占比较去年上升1个百分点；Study in the US was preferred by 37% of respondents, down by 6 percentage points. 37%的受访者更青睐赴美国留学，占比下降了6个百分点。Australia and Canada, both at 16%, tied as the third most popular destinations for overseas study, followed by Japan, Germany and Singapore. 澳大利亚、加拿大在最受青睐的海外留学目的地排行中并列第三，16%的受访人群选择了这两个国家。The report attributed the shift in students' preferences from the US to the UK to tense Sino-US relations in the past two years and the UK's advantages, such as the reopening of the Post Study Work Visa and quicker graduation requirements.日本、德国和新加坡紧随其后。报告认为，留学首选目的地从美国变为英国，原因在于过去两年里紧张的中美关系，以及英国再度放开毕业生工作签证、更快的毕业要求等优势。新闻来源：China Daily欢迎关注微信公众平台“花式英语”，解锁更多内容！

【vol.85】花式英语0629|学生复学与小镇经济

With No Students, Small College Town Worries over FutureMany colleges and universities in the United States are in small towns around America. When the coronavirus struck in March, students went home, leaving the towns empty.So, what will happen to those communities in the near future? The New York town of Ithaca is about to find out.In Ithaca, most of the 24,000 students at Cornell University and 6,200 from Ithaca College have left. Now, locals who run businesses that depend on students' money are wondering if things will ever return to normal."It's going to be hard. I mean, normally we have about seven months that the colleges are here," said Gregar Brous. He runs several restaurants in Ithaca. He has brought about 100 of his usual 330 employees back to work.Brous added that one of the biggest problems for small businesses is that there are "so many unknowns."Ithaca College says its students will return to the school in the autumn. But they will do so in October, several weeks later than usual. Cornell – one of America's so-called Ivy League Schools –says it plans to bring students back this fall. But they also will arrive weeks later than usual.Many people expect that even if students do return, they will mostly stay on campus and not go out to restaurants and bars. Locals also worry that returning students will bring COVID-19 into their community.欢迎关注微信公众平台“花式英语”，解锁更多内容！

【vol.83】花式英语0623|开着车就能听的音乐会

New ‘Drive-In’ Concert Series to Include US Music StarsThe world's largest organizer of live music events has announced its first ever "drive-in" concert series in the United States.International promoterLive Nation says its "Live from the Drive-In" series will offer nine shows in three cities next month.Award-winning stars Brad Paisley and Nelly will be among the performers.The drive-in events aim to bring live concerts back after months of social distancing and stay-at-home orders because of the coronavirus health crisis.Paisley, a Grammy-winning country artist, will perform in all three cities. They are Saint Louis, Missouri; Nashville, Tennessee; and Indianapolis, Indiana. The concerts will take place on July 10, 11 and 12.新闻来源：VOA欢迎关注微信公众平台“花式英语”，解锁更多内容！

【vol.82】花式英语0622|时装行业恢复有期

Fashion Industry Clears Its Calendar, Looks to Other ChangesFrom Armani to Gucci, top fashion houses are slowing the rate at which they hold fashion shows and launch new lines of clothing.The move comes as the coronavirus health crisis forces the fashion industry to re-think the way it operates.High-end designers are reducing the number of collections they show at fashion weeks throughout the year in London, Paris, Milan, and New York City.It has been more than two months since health officials around the world announced stay-at-home orders to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Since then, many stores have been closed, and fashion houses have suspended work at factories that manufacture their products. Bain & Company, a business advisory service, estimates the $310 billion luxury goods industry will report a drop in sales this year of up to 35 percent.新闻来源：VOA欢迎关注微信公众平台“花式英语”，解锁更多内容！

【vol.81】花式英语0618|远程“不学习”

Many Students Not Taking Part in Distance LearningAs the school year ends in the United States, educators have been trying to get large numbers of students moving forward in their studies again.The concern is that students who were behind on their schoolwork before the COVID-19 crisis will drop back even further when classes re-start in the fall.n this Friday, June 5, 2020 photo, Titilaya Thompson and her son Nehemiah talk with Dr. Tayarisha Batchelor, right, and Community School Director for The Village for Families and Children Trisila Tirado, left, in Hartford, Conn. One of those educators is Tayarisha Batchelor, principal of Rowson Elementary School in Hartford, Connecticut. She recently visited students at their homes.Jamie-Lee is a third grader at Rowson. Batchelor held her arms out as if she were giving him a big hug when she visited his home. She told him how much she had missed him since the pandemic closed the school.The boy's eyes stayed on his smartphone as they spoke. Batchelor asked him what he was doing. Playing video games was his answer."I like playing games," Batchelor told the boy as his parents looked on. She then suggested he spend more time on his daily schoolwork. "I want to make sure you are still learning," she said.Almost one-third of Batchelor's students have not taken part in the school's online learning program.新闻来源：VOA欢迎关注微信公众平台“花式英语”，解锁更多内容！

【vol.80】花式英语0617|英国民众希望拆除塑像

Britain Struggles with Debate Over HistoryAcross Britain, statues of famous people are at the center of a public debate.Activists say statues honoring some political or business leaders from the past should be removed from public places. But other people say these monuments should be kept, not destroyed, for the lessons they teach.Many statues were put up during the years of the British Empire, between 1830 and 1914. Now, some of them are at the center of angry debates over culture and history. These arguments have turned violent and destructive in some cases.Some monuments are being guarded to prevent damage from activists. For example, a statue of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill in London's Parliament Square has been covered up to protect against damage.新闻来源：VOA欢迎关注微信公众平台“花式英语”，解锁更多内容！

【vol.79】花式英语0615|美国越战老兵的电影

Spike Lee’s Vietnam Film Is the Movie for Right NowAmerican film director Spike Lee's "Da 5 Bloods" has just been released on the streaming service Netflix. It is a film about four African American Vietnam War veterans who return to Vietnam years later.Lee says there was not enough money in his Netflix budget for costly special effects. But critics say the film's extraordinary creativity and powerful sense of purpose can be seen as special effects, too.As a filmmaker, Lee is known for having good timing. That may be clearer than ever with the release of "Da 5 Bloods." It comes during a growing national movement demanding racial justice and an end to police brutality."Da 5 Bloods" shows powerful images of the political and social events of the 1960s. The film begins with historical clips from the Vietnam War and shows the experience of African American soldiers in the war.新闻来源：VOA欢迎关注微信公众平台“花式英语”，解锁更多内容！

【vol.78】花式英语0611|IBM停止人脸识别技术

IBM Ends Facial Recognition, Questions Police Use of TechnologyAmerica's IBM has ended its facial recognition business and raised concerns about how police forces might be using the technology.IBM and other major technology companies have been developing facial recognition systems using machine learning methods and artificial intelligence, or AI.Facial recognition systems are designed to identify individuals in photo databases or from video surveillance.Facial recognition accuracy has greatly improved in recent years. The technology is used by police in several major cities and by some U.S. government agencies. Privacy groups and civil rights activists have criticized such use of the technology.Several studies have shown the technology can have difficulties correctly guessing a person's race or sex. Critics say such failures could violate a person's civil rights. Activists have also warned that facial recognition systems could be used for mass surveillance of citizens.新闻来源：VOA欢迎关注微信公众平台“花式英语”，解锁更多内容！