Finance and economics Earning power Winning the generation game 财经版块 赚钱能力 赢得代际游戏 The world economy has been kind to today's youngsters. 世界经济对如今的年轻人很友好。 Generation Z is taking over. In the rich world there are at least 250m people born between 1997 and 2012. About half are now in a job. In the average American workplace, the number of Gen Z-ers (sometimes also known as "Zoomers") working full-time is about to surpass the number of full-time baby-boomers, those born from 1945 to 1964, whose careers are winding down. Z世代正在接手。在富裕国家，1997至2012年间出生的Z世代至少有2.5亿人。大约一半的人现在参加工作了。在普通的美国职场，全职工作的Z世代(有时也被称为Zoomers)的人数即将超过全职婴儿潮一代（出生于1945年至1964年）的人数，后者的职业生涯正在收尾。 America now has more than 6,000 Zoomer chief executives and 1,000 Zoomer politicians. As the generation becomes more influential, companies, governments and investors need to understand it. Pundits produce a lot of fluff about the cohort. Recent "research" from Frito-Lay, a crisp-maker, finds that Gen Z-ers have a strong preference for "snacks that leave remnants on their fingers", such as cheese dust. 美国现在有6000多名Z世代首席执行官和1000多名Z世代政客。随着这一代人变得更有影响力，公司、政府和投资者需要了解他们。专家对这个群体做了很多娱乐性的研究。薯片制造商菲多利最近的一项“研究”发现，Z世代的人非常喜欢“吃完后手指上有残留物的零食”，比如奶酪丝。 Yet different generations also display deeper differences, in part shaped by the economic context in which they grow up. Germans who reached adulthood during the high-inflation 1920s came to detest rising prices. Americans who lived through the Depression tended to avoid investing in the stockmarket. 然而，不同的世代也表现出更深刻的差异，这在一定程度上是由他们成长的经济背景决定的。在20世纪20年代高通胀时期成年的德国人变得厌恶不断上涨的物价。经历过大萧条的美国人倾向于避免投资股市。 Many argue that Gen Z is defined by its anxiety. Such worriers include Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at New York University, whose new book,"The Anxious Generation", is making waves. In some ways, Gen Z-ers are unusual. In some ways, Gen Z-ers are unusual. Young people today are less likely to form relationships than those of yesteryear. They are more likely to be depressed or say they were assigned the wrong sex at birth. They are less likely to drink, have sex, be in a relationship-indeed to do anything exciting. Americans aged between 15 and 24 spend just 38 minutes a day socialising in person on average, down from almost an hour in the 2000s, according to official data. Mr Haidt lays the blame on smartphones, and the social media they enable. His book has provoked an enormous reaction. On April 10th Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the governor of Arkansas, echoed Mr Haidt's arguments as she outlined plans to regulate children's use of smartphones and social media. Britain's government is considering similar measures. But not everyone agrees with Mr Haidt's thesis. And the pushing and shoving over Gen Z's anxiety has obscured another way in which the cohort is distinct. In financial terms, Gen Z is doing extraordinarily well. This, in turn, is changing its relationship with work. Consider the group that preceded Gen Z: millennials, many entered the workforce at a time when the world was reeling from the global financial crisis of 2007-09, during which young people suffered disproportionately. In 2012-14 more than half of Spanish youngsters who wanted a job could not find one. Greece's youth-unemployment rate was even higher. Britney Spears's "Work Bitch", a popular song released in 2013, had an uncompromising message for young millennials: if you want good things, you have to slog. Gen Z-ers who have left education face very different circumstances. Youth unemployment across the rich world-at about 13%-has not been this low since 1991. Greece's youth-unemployment rate has fallen by half from its peak. Hoteliers in Kalamata, a tourist destination, complain about a labour shortage, something unthinkable just a few years ago. Popular songs reflect the zeitgeist. In 2022 the protagonist in a Beyonce song boasted,"I just quit my job". Olivia Rodrigo, a 21-year-old singer popular with American Gen Z-ers, complains that a former love interest's "career is really taking off". Many have chosen to study subjects that help them find work. In Britain and America Gen Z-ers are avoiding the humanities, and are going instead for more obviously useful things like economics and engineering. Vocational qualifications are also increasingly popular. Young people then go on to benefit from tight labour markets. Like Beyonce's protagonist, they can quit their job and find another one if they want more money. In America hourly pay growth among 16- to 24-year-olds recently hit 13% year on year, compared with 6% for workers aged 25 to 54. This was the highest "young person premium" since reliable data began. In Britain, where youth pay is measured differently, the average hourly pay of people aged 18-21 rose by an astonishing 15% last year, outstripping pay rises among other age groups by an unusually wide margin. In New Zealand the average hourly pay of people aged 20-24 increased by 10%, compared with an average of 6%. ✔更多内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，可进入【打卡交流群】

Do you love to boogie on down, strut your stuff and throw shapes, Beth? What I mean is: do you like dancing? Yes! I love to dance, just listening to the music and letting it move my body. What about you, Neil, do you often hit the dance floor? Sometimes, but I'm not a great dancer. To be honest, I get a bit embarrassed. But maybe I shouldn't, because it's been proved that dancing has many physical and mental health benefits, including releasing stress, boosting your mood, or just enjoying a fun night out. In this programme, we'll be hearing how dancing can benefit our brains and emotions at every stage of life. And, as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well. Of course, another great thing about dance is that there are so many different styles, from ballet and ballroom dancing to tap, hip hop and jazz. But my question is about a very unusual style, a traditional English folk dance where performers wearing black hats and colourful waistcoats hit sticks together while moving in patterns. But do you know the name of this unusual dance, Beth? Is it: a) The Highland fling? b) Flamenco? or, c) Morris dancing? I think the answer is Morris dancing. OK, we'll find out later in the programme. Besides Beth, someone else wholoves to dance is Julia Ravey, presenter of BBC Radio programme, Mental Muscle. Here, Julia tells us exactly why she loves dancing so much: I love nothing more than a night or a day out where I can just dance like no one's business. To me, it's just such a release and it's something that I definitely rely on to get the stress out of my body. And I now absolutely love to move. Any chance I get, I'll dance. Now, I know everyone is not a fan,'cause some people can find dancing to be awkward or uncomfortable... and I've seen people who just avoid the dance floor at all costs, but dancing is so good for us and potentially our brains. Julia can dance like nobody's business, an idiom meaning very well, or very quickly. For her, dancing is a release, a way of freeing emotions, feelings on tension from her body. Not everyone is the same as Julia though, and if, like me, the thought of dancing makes you uncomfortable, you might avoid the dance floor at all costs, no matter what happens. That's a pity, Neil, because the benefits of dancing are huge -just ask Dr Peter Lovatt, also known as, Dr Dance. Over four decades he's studied how dancing helps improve brain function in everyone from children and adults to older people living with diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Dr Lovatt's dance therapy involves spontaneous movements, closing your eyes and letting the music move you. It promotes divergent thinking leading to happier, more creative brains. So how can we get more people dancing? That's exactly what Julia Ravey asked Dr Lovatt for BBC Radio programme, Mental Muscle: What would you say to the person listening who maybe doesn't dance at all right now, maybe would like to dance a bit more, maybe for them they're still a little bit on the fence about whether they want to dance? How can everyone get a little bit more movement into their daily life? OK, so the very first thing to do, I would suggest, is to lay on your bed with your eyes closed, and to find a piece of music that you like... close your eyes and then just hear the beat and feel the rhythm, so think about where in your body do you feel a twitch? Julia mentions people who are sitting on the fence, who still haven't decided if they will do something or not, in this case, dance. Dr Lovatt's advice is simple - get comfortable, close your eyes and listen to some music. Soon, you'll feel a twitch, a small sudden and involuntary movement somewhere in your body. From there, it's only a few steps to dancing! It seems a dance a day keeps the doctor away! So what do you reckon, Neil, are you ready to give it a go. Hmm, maybe after I've revealed the answer to my question. Right. You asked for the name of the traditional English folk dance where dancers wear colourful waistcoats and hit sticks, and I guessed it was Morris dancing... Well, that was... the correct answer, Beth! Morris dancing is the name of the unusual English folk dance, not flamenco which of course is Spanish, or the Highland fling which comes from Scotland. OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned starting with boogie, strut your stuff, throw shapes and hit the dance floor, all modern idioms meaning to dance. If you do something like nobody's business, you do it very well, or very quickly. A release is the act of freeing emotions, feelings or tension from the body. If something must be done at all costs, it must be done whatever happens, even if it involves a lot of difficulty, time or effort. Someone who sits on the fence, delays making a decision or choosing one course of action over another. And finally, a twitch is a sudden jerky movement or spasm in your body, often involuntary. ✔更多内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，可进入【打卡交流群】

Taylor Swift joins world's richest on billionaire list 泰勒·斯威夫特登上全球亿万富豪榜  福布斯发布了最新的全球亿万富豪榜，美国创作歌手泰勒·斯威夫特已加入埃隆·马斯克等人之列，正式登上了该榜单。 It's been quite a 12 months for Taylor Swift. She's in the middle of a record-breaking tour and stole the show at this year's Grammy Awards. 对泰勒·斯威夫特来说，过去的12个月可谓异彩纷呈。除了举办破记录的全球巡回演唱会外，她还在今年的格莱美奖颁奖典礼上抢尽风头，大放光彩。 Now she's entered the Forbes World's Billionaires List for the first time with an estimated worth of $1.1bn, ranking among the likes of the tech tycoons Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman, who created the AI chatbot, ChatGPT. 现在，泰勒·斯威夫特以11亿美元的财富估值首次登上福布斯全球亿万富豪榜，加入了科技大亨杰夫·贝索斯和人工智能聊天机器人 ChatGPT （聊天生成型预训练变换模型）创始人萨姆·奥尔特曼等人之列。 The French luxury goods titan Bernard Arnault and his family topped the chart with an estimated worth of $233bn, followed by Elon Musk, who owns X, formerly Twitter, with $195bn. 法国奢侈品巨头伯纳德·阿尔诺及家族以2330亿美元的财富估值位居榜首，排名第二的是埃隆·马斯克，个人财富约为1950亿美元，他是社交媒体平台 “X”（前身为推特）的所有者。 词汇表 in the middle of 正忙于 record-breaking 破纪录的 stole the show 大放异彩，抢尽风头 Grammy Awards 格莱美奖 estimated worth 财富估值 ranking （在榜上）排在… the likes of …之类 tech tycoons 科技大亨 AI chatbot 人工智能聊天机器人 topped the chart 位居榜首，排名第一 formerly 以前 ✔更多内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，可进入【打卡交流群】

A new sport for Paris 2024 2024巴黎奥运会新项目：霹雳舞 Have you heard of these dance moves? The lego leg? A clock blender? Helicopter? Don't worry. By the end of the summer, you may know all these words! Paris is preparing to host the Olympic and Paralympic games, and a new sport will be making its debut. Breaking is also known as breakdancing. The dance sport is characterised by stylised footwork, acrobatic movements and freezing, where the B-boy or B-girl stops all movement, often upside down and balancing on one hand. From power moves like windmills and head spins, breakdancers really push the limits of physicality and creativity. It was in the streets of the Bronx, New York, in the 1970s that breaking emerged as a revolutionary dance form, deeply rooted in hip-hop culture. It's come a long way from there to the world stage in Paris. Athletes from around the world will showcase their skills in one-on-one battles, where each dancer has 60 seconds to impress the judges with their improvisation and proficiency in six criteria: creativity, versatility, performance skills, personality, technique and musicality. However, as breaking moves from a lifestyle to a competitive sport, some fear it risks losing its spontaneity and creativity. Thorsten Sufke, President of the Berlin Dance Sport Association, emphasises that breaking is an expression of urban culture, representing the raw energy of the streets, while B-Boy Carl Ferdinand Beccard expresses concerns that the Olympic format may suppress the artistic freedom of breaking, reducing it to a checklist of predefined moves. Whichever way you look at it, you can expect thrilling dance performances never before seen at an Olympics this summer 词汇表 breaking 霹雳舞 stylised 风格化的 acrobatic 杂技般的 freezing 定格动作 B-boy 男霹雳舞者 B-girl 女霹雳舞者 windmill “风车”动作 head spin 头转动作 push the limit 突破极限 root 在...扎根 hip-hop 嘻哈 showcase 展示 battle 对抗赛 improvisation 即兴表演 proficiency 水平，能力 versatility 多样性 musicality 音乐性 spontaneity 自发性 predefined 预先明确的，预先设定的 move 动作 ✔更多内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，可进入【打卡交流群】

Business 商业版块 Bartleby 巴托比专栏 Productivity gurus, old and new 过去的和现在的效率导师 Comparing the time management advice of Arnold Bennett and James Clear. 比较阿诺德·本涅特和詹姆斯·克里尔的时间管理建议。 The most-read non-fiction book in America, measured by views on Kindle and listens on Audible, an audio-book service, is "Atomic Habits" by James Clear. Published in 2018, it has now been on the bestseller list for 277 weeks. Mr Clear's book, which pulls off the impressive trick of being both ludicrous and helpful, argues that small changes of routine can compound into big improvements, whether your goal is to be more productive at work, to eat more healthily or to develop new skills. 以Kindle上的浏览量和有声读物服务Audible上的收听量衡量，美国阅读量最高的非小说类书籍是詹姆斯·克里尔的《原子习惯》。这本书出版于2018年，现已登上畅销书排行榜277周。克里尔的书令人惊叹地成功做到了既荒唐又有用，他认为，无论你的目标是提高工作效率、饮食更健康，还是发展新技能，日常惯例的小变化都可以复合成巨大的进步。 A manual on time management and self-improvement might sound modern. But these were also the themes of a bestseller from the early years of the 20th century. "How to Live on 24 Hours a Day", first published in 1908, is a short self-help book written by Arnold Bennett, a prolific English writer. 关于时间管理和自我完善的指导书可能听起来很有现代感。但这些也是20世纪初的一本畅销书的主题。《悠游度过一天的24小时》是英国多产作家阿诺德·本涅特于1908年首次出版的一本篇幅较短的自助书。 Bennet's book was meant to salve the "feeling that you are every day leaving undone something which you would like to do, and which, indeed, you are always hoping to do when you have 'more time'". He wrote, in other words, for the same aspirational market as Mr Clear does today. (Another of today's productivity Yodas, Cal Newport, cites Bennett in "Deep Work", a book on how to focus.) Comparing Bennett's book with Mr Clear's yields instructive likenesses and dissimilarities. One obvious difference is tone. Bennett is wry about human foibles. If you think that "ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper" will be enough to solve your problems, he writes, then "lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence." He warns against fetishising a programme of selif-improvement, lest "one may come to exist as in a prison and one's life may cease to be one's own." Mr Clear is more earnest. He clothes his advice in capital letters: the Plateau of Latent Potential, the Four Laws of Behaviour Change. He thinks in terms of winners and losers. He says truly bizarre things like:"If you can get 1% better each day for one year you'll end up 37 times better by the time you're done. Conversely, if you get 1% worse each day for one year you'll decline nearly down to zero." This is known as the Misuse of Mathematics. The two are separated by social and technological gulfs, too. Bennet's world is one in which women stay at home, tea is made by servants and people entertain themselves by playing cards and "pottering". He tells readers who enjoy nature to go to the nearest gas lamp with a butterfly net. In Mr Clear's world, people spend hours working on their biceps at the gym, make time to be grateful and stop themselves from watching too much TV by taking batteries out of the remote. Perhaps the biggest point of difference concerns work itself. Bennetts audience was the new army of white-collar types taking the train in and out of work each day. He presupposed that the time they spent in the office was unfulfiling. A majority puts "as little of themselves as they conscientiously can into the earning of a livelihood", he wrote. Work was an eight-hour sentence bordered at each end by a commute. As a result, Bennett's tips focus exclusively on the other 16 hours of the day. These were the times when people could carve out the space to develop an expertise in anything from music to architecture. Mr Clear makes the modern assumption that work is as likely to provide purpose and identity as other parts of your life. And it leaves no obvious ocean of time to fill-his tips are about optimising already-busy days by weaving new routines into them. He is a proponent of "stacking habits" so that one ritual follows another: after a morning cup of coffee, for example, meditate for a minute. Bennett thinks in terms of hours, Mr Clear in terms of seconds. If the differences between the two mavens are great, the similarities are striking. Both authors espouse the importance of discipline, ritual and habit in managing time more productively. Both stress the need to start small when developing new routines; Mr Clear gets out his capitals again and calls this the Two-Minute Rule. Above all, it is plain that humans are largely and exasperatingly unchanged. At one point Bennett writes about the difficulty of sustaining concentration in a way that is shamefully recognisable to modern readers: "You will have not gone ten yards before your mind has skipped away under your very eyes and is larking around the corner with another subject." Unless humanity itself gets an upgrade, the market for a 22nd-century version of Bennett and Mr Clear is assured. ✔更多内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，可进入【打卡交流群】

The stinky smell stopping children from playing outside I Newsround Pee, ew. What's that smell? Eww. This is a landill site, a place that dumps rubbish that can't be recycled. Now usually they can be smelly, however this one here is stirring up quite the stench that can be smelt from miles around. These students who go to a nearby school have been telling me all about it. 尿，恶心。那是什么味道？恶心。这是一个垃圾填埋场，一个倾倒无法回收的垃圾的地方。现在通常它们可能会很臭，但是这里的这个却激起了相当大的恶臭，可以在几英里之外闻到。这些在附近学校上学的学生一直告诉我这一切。 Can you describe to me the smell? It's like you made a cereal out of expired milk, raw meat and dead rats. It's a mix of rotten eggs, poo and just rotten things. Does that get quite annoying? Yeah, because then we have to tell the teacher to close the windows. Then we didn't want to go out to play. And what do you want to see change? Definitely a better smell. Whatever it's causing, the smell, then I think it needs to be stopped and somebody needs to speak up or do something. 你能给我描述一下气味吗？这就像你用过期的牛奶、生肉和死老鼠做了麦片一样。它是臭鸡蛋、粪便和腐烂东西的混合物。这很烦人吗？是的，因为那时我们必须告诉老师关上窗户。然后我们就不想出去玩了。您希望看到什么变化？绝对是更好的气味。不管它是什么原因造成的，气味，然后我认为它需要被阻止，需要有人大声说出来或做点什么。 The Environment Agency, that's in charge of protecting people and nature from health risks, say the problem has been caused by the top of the landfill being pulled back so the smells can escape. Valencia Waste, the company that runs the site, has apologised to residents and said it's doing everything it can to stop the odours from getting out. 负责保护人类和自然免受健康风险的环境署表示，问题是由于垃圾填埋场顶部被拉开以使气味逸出而造成的。运营该垃圾场的巴伦西亚垃圾处理公司已向居民道歉，并表示正在尽一切努力阻止气味散发。 The good news is a group of people living in the area have stepped in. Local councillor Angela Brown has been telling me how they've called for action to be taken to put a stop to the stench. So in January, February, it was really bad. People from four miles all around the site were being impacted and smelling it in their homes.So all these residents got together. 好消息是居住在该地区的一群人已经介入。当地议员安吉拉·布朗一直告诉我，他们如何呼吁采取行动制止恶臭。所以在一月、二月的时候,情况真的很糟糕。来自现场周围四英里的人们都受到了影响，并在家中闻到了它的味道。于是，所有这些居民都聚集在一起。 Since then Valencia have started doing some of the things that they're supposed to be doing. You can see there that they've started covering the site in plastic and mud and that's really suppressed some of the odours. We're still getting it and we don't know how long term it's going to be but it is much better now and that's all because of residents coming together and saying enough is enough. 从那时起，瓦伦西亚就开始做一些他们应该做的事情。你可以看到他们已经开始用塑料和泥土覆盖这个地方，这确实抑制了一些气味。我们仍在得到它，我们不知道它会持续多久，但现在好多了，这都是因为居民聚集在一起并说够了。 Since the Environment Agency stepped in, 90,000 square metres of waste, that's around nine times the size of a football pitch, has been covered up. More equipment has also been put in place to capture the gas released by the rubbish. So hopefully it's not too long until people living nearby can say smell you later to this pong. 自从环境局介入以来，90,000平方米的废物，大约是足球场大小的九倍，已被掩盖。还安装了更多设备来捕获垃圾释放的气体。所以希望不久之后，住在附近的人们就能对这个乒乓球说“闻到你的味道”。 ✔更多内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，可进入【打卡交流群】

What's going on with the weather?|Newsround First to Dubai, where the weather normally looks like this. But instead, this is what the city looks like after a record-breaking storm this week. The UAE, a country in the Middle East, had a year's worth of rain in just one day, flooding roads and buildings, including Dubai's airport, which is the second busiest in the world. Eight-year-old Iris lives in the city with her family and told us what it's been like. 首先到迪拜，那里的天气通常是这样的。但相反，这是这座城市在本周破纪录的风暴之后的样子。中东国家阿联酋仅仅一天就下了一年的降雨量，导致道路和建筑物被淹，其中包括世界第二繁忙的迪拜机场。八岁的艾里斯和她的家人住在城里，她向我们讲述了这座城市的感受。 Hi everyone, my name is Iris, I live in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai is normally so hot that I get to go to the pool, I get to go to the beach, I get to go camping in the deserts and mountains. 大家好，我叫艾里斯。我住在阿拉伯联合酋长国迪拜。迪拜通常很热，我可以去游泳池，可以去海滩，可以去沙漠和山区露营。 Dubai has seen the worst rain over 75 years. Hail stones the size of tennis balls. People's houses have been flooded, their cars have been washed away, including my house. The rain leaks through my window but luckily we managed to mop it away with towels. Today the weather is sunny and warm again but lots of people are affected. Roads are closed and people can't get around. It's likely school will be closed for the rest of the week, I just hope the people badly affected are okay. 迪拜遭遇75年来最严重的降雨。网球大小的冰雹。人们的房子被淹没了，他们的汽车被冲走了，包括我的房子。雨水从我的窗户漏进来，但幸运的是我们设法用毛巾把它擦掉。今天天气再次晴朗温暖，但很多人受到影响。道路被封闭，人们无法出行。学校可能会在本周剩余时间关闭。我只希望那些受到严重影响的人们都没事。 Thanks, Iris. Well, as we know, the weather has been a bit unusual here in the UK too. Someone whose job it is to predict unpredictable conditions this week is BBC weather reporter, Abby Dewhurst, who centres this. 谢谢，艾丽丝。嗯，据我们所知，英国的天气也有点不寻常。英国广播公司(BBC)气象记者艾比·杜赫斯特(Abby Dewhurst)的工作就是预测本周不可预测的天气状况，她就是这一主题的焦点。 Our weather this week has been all over the place, hasn't it? Typical for spring. One minute it's been dry, it's been sunny, it's been quite warm, and the next it's been wet, it's been windy, and we've even seen some hailstones. But what's been causing it? Well, actually, our weather's been quite unusual for the last 18 months. 我们这周的天气一直很不稳定，不是吗？典型的春天。前一分钟还很干燥，天气晴朗，相当温暖，下一分钟就变得潮湿，刮风，我们甚至还看到了一些冰雹。但是什么原因造成的呢？事实上，过去 18 个月我们的天气很不寻常。 It's been England's wettest 18 months on record, and it's all due to the jet stream. Now, the jet stream is a fast-flowing stream of air that sits around five to seven miles above the Earth's surface, and that drives the bulk of our weather, This time of year, it would normally be sat a little bit further north, but because it's been so far south, it's been driving lots of low pressure in from the southwest, and that's what's been bringing very wet and quite windy weather our way. 这是英格兰有记录以来最潮湿的18个月，这都是由于急流造成的。现在，急流是一种快速流动的空气流，位于距地球表面约五到七英里的地方，它驱动着我们的大部分天气。每年的这个时候，它通常会位于偏北一点的地方，但由于它距离南方太远，它从西南方向带来大量低压，这就是给我们带来非常潮湿和多风的天气的原因。 Now, at the beginning part of this week, we saw an area of low pressure and that brought a very active weather front. So lots of energy, some very heavy showers and some strong, what's called squally winds. Now, we could have seen a tornado in some parts of the UK, but because we don't have any camera footage of that, it's difficult to confirm. But we certainly saw strong winds, strong enough to cause some damage. 现在，在本周初，我们看到了一个低压区域，这带来了非常活跃的锋面。能量如此之大，有些阵雨非常猛烈，有些则称为狂风。现在，我们可能在英国的某些地区看到了龙卷风，但由于我们没有任何摄像机镜头，因此很难确认。但我们确实看到了强风，其强度足以造成一些损害。 Around the middle part of the week, things settling down a little bit. A classic case of April showers where we'll see some sunshine one minute and the next it'll be absolutely chucking it down. But what we need in order for things to really settle down is some high pressure. And there is some arriving this weekend. So Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the UK should see drier and more settled conditions, not necessarily waterable sunshine. There will be a little bit of cloud around at times, but whenever we do see the sunshine, it should feel a little bit warmer. 本周中期左右，事情会稍微稳定下来。这是四月阵雨的一个典型例子，前一分钟我们还看到阳光，下一分钟就彻底消失了。但是，为了让事情真正安定下来，我们需要的是一些高压。还有一些将于本周末抵达。因此，周五、周六和周日，英国应该会看到更干燥、更稳定的天气，不一定是可浇水的阳光。有时周围会有一点云，但每当我们看到阳光时，应该会感觉温暖一点。 ✔更多内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，可进入【打卡交流群】

The secrets of the deep ocean | BBC Ideas The ocean covers over 70% of our planet. And yet, what we know about it barely scratches the surface. Beneath its swell is a largely unexplored universe, until recently, beyond the gaze of human eyes. So why do we know so little about the ocean? 海洋占地球面积的 70%以上。然而，我们对海洋的了解还仅仅停留在表面。在其涌动的波涛之下，是一个基本未被探索的宇宙，直到最近，人类的目光还无法触及。那么，为什么我们对海洋知之甚少呢？ For a start, immense pressure presents huge challenges for divers and equipment alike. In many ways, it's easier to send a mission to space. But with new technology, such as submarine robots, this hidden realm is starting to reveal its secrets, 首先，巨大的压力给潜水员和设备都带来了巨大的挑战。从很多方面来说，到太空执行要更容易一些。但是，随着水下机器人等新技术的出现，这个隐秘的领域开始揭晓它的秘密。 So, what's down there? Well, there's water. Lots of it. 1, 419,120, 000 cubic kilometres, to be about as precise as you can be. And in that water, there's fish - the main source of protein for around three billion people. 那么，下面到底有什么呢？嗯，有水。有很多水。14亿1912 万立方公里，这是尽可能精确的数字。水里有鱼，是大约 30 亿人的主要蛋白质来源。 But there's a lot more than just fish down there, Extraordinary, otherworldly creatures dwell in the depths, with new ones discovered all the time, Many are gelatinous - jellyfish that disintegrate if you try to catch them in a net. 但下面可不仅仅只有鱼。深海里栖息着非凡的、超凡脱俗的生物，而且不断有新的生物被发现。许多是胶状水母，如果你试图用网捕捉它们，它们就会解体。 In 2020, scientists found the giant Siphonophore Apolemia, an organism made up of millions of interconnected clones, its thin twisting body reminiscent of a long piece of string. And the ocean floor is far from being the flat and featureless seabed you might imagine. If you were to drain the ocean, a landscape would emerge just as spectacular as anything on land -boasting some of the highest peaks, deepest canyons and longest river channels on the planet. 2020 年，科学家发现了巨大的管水母，这种生物由数百万个相互连接的克隆体组成，其细长扭曲的身体让人联想到一根长长的绳子。海底远非你想象的那样平坦无奇。如果把海洋的水抽干，就会出现和陆地上一样壮观的景观——拥有地球上最高的山峰、最深的峡谷和最长的河道。 There are even waterfalls under the sea - the largest being the Denmark Strait cataract, Here, the cold waters of the Greenland Sea meet the warmer waters of the Irminger. As the cooler water is forced down, it creates a giant three and a half thousand metre drop, undetectable to anyone who might be bobbing about on the surface. And that's nothing compared to the chilling 11, 000 metre drop to the bottom of the Mariana Trench - the deepest place on Earth. 海底甚至还有瀑布——最大的瀑布是丹麦海峡的大瀑布。在这里，格陵兰海寒冷的海水与伊尔明厄海温暖的海水交汇。当较冷的海水被迫下降时，就形成了高达 3500 米的巨大落差，任何在海面上晃动的人都无法察觉。而这与地球上最深的地方——马里亚纳海沟令人不寒而栗的 11000 米落差相比，简直是小巫见大巫。 It was here that, in 2020, scientists made an alarming discovery. At a depth of around 7, 000 metres, in one of the most remote and inaccessible crevices on Earth, they came across a new species of crustacean. And it had plastic in its stomach. 2020 年，科学家们在这里有了惊人的发现。在大约 7000 米深处，在地球上最偏远、最难以接近的裂缝中，他们发现了一种新的甲壳类动物。它的胃里有塑料。 They called it Eurythenes plasticus - a living reminder that, even though we've barely begun to explore the ocean, our impact on it is already being keenly felt. In fact, by 2050, it's estimated there could be more plastic in the sea than fish. 他们称这种甲壳动物为“塑胶钩虾”——这个活生生的例子在提醒我们，尽管我们才刚刚开始探索海洋，但我们对海洋的影响已经深入海底。事实上，据估计，到 2050 年，海洋中的塑料可能比鱼类还要多。 But it's not just plastic that's a problem. There are also "dead zones", areas with insufficient oxygen to support marine life. These are becoming more common thanks to pollution. The sad truth is, when it comes to the ocean, the reach of human activity goes far beyond the reach of our knowledge. 但问题不仅仅在于塑料。海洋中还存在“死亡区”，即氧气不足以支持海洋生物生存的区域。由于污染，这些区域正变得越来越普遍。令人痛心的是，在海洋问题上，人类活动的影响范围远远超出了我们的认知范围。 It's easy to feel detached from the ocean - particularly if you live inland. And this might explain why we've treated it as a dumping ground. But the more we explore, the more we find it has to offer. 我们很容易感到与海洋疏远——尤其是如果你生活在内陆。这也许可以解释为什么我们把它当成垃圾场。但我们探索得越多，就越能发现它给予我们的东西很多。 For example, the gene pool of deep ocean life, such as sponges and microorganisms, could hold the key to solving the urgent problem of antibiotic resistance. More importantly, the ocean is key to almost all life on the planet. Half the oxygen we breathe comes from marine photosynthesizers such as phytoplankton and seaweed. The ocean also regulates our climate, mediating temperature by distributing solar heat around the planet. 例如，海绵和微生物等深海生物的基因库可能是解决抗生素耐药性这一紧迫问题的关键。更重要的是，海洋是地球上几乎所有生命的关键所在。我们呼吸的氧气有一半来自海洋光合作用，如浮游植物和海藻。海洋还调节着我们的气候，通过将太阳热量散发到地球的各个角落来调节温度。 We may not feel it, but every one of us is affected every day by the role the ocean plays in our finely balanced Earth system. And yet, the efforts we've made so far to protect and preserve this vital life source are, well, a drop in the ocean. 我们可能感觉不到，但我们每个人每天都受到海洋在我们微妙平衡的地球系统中所扮演角色的影响。然而，迄今为止，我们为保护和维护这一重要生命源泉所做的努力不过是沧海一粟。 There's still so much we don't know —— so many breathtaking canyons unseen, so many creatures undiscovered — but new technology is revealing more about our ocean than ever before. Perhaps if we knew more of the ocean's secrets we might look after it better. ✔更多内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，可进入【打卡交流群】

Culture 文艺版块 World in a dish 盘中世界 A steep rise 热度迅速上升 Flat whites are Australia's greatest culinary export, even better than Vegemite. 馥芮白是澳大利亚最好的饮食输出，比维吉麦酱还要好。 On any given day Shoreditch, a trendy part of London's East End, is a flurry of hipsters clutching artfully designed takeaway cups. Between April 11th and 14th some 30,000 caffeine-keen people will descend on the area for the London Coffee Festival. Many visitors will be ordering flat whites. The drink has rapidly gained popularity among those who want to taste their beans rather than temper them. 肖尔迪奇是伦敦东区的一个时髦地段，无论哪一天这里都会有一群潮人端着有艺术感设计的咖啡外带杯。4月11日至14日，大约3万名咖啡爱好者将来到该地区参加伦敦咖啡节。许多参加者会点一杯馥芮白。在那些想尝到咖啡豆的味道，而不是弱化咖啡豆味道的人群中，这种饮料迅速流行开来。 Flat whites, which originated in Australia and New Zealand in the 1980s, are powerful yet smooth. Two shots of espresso are combined with between 140 and 180 millilitres of gently steamed milk and crowned with a sliver of "microfoam". The result is punchy and, if done well, a little sweet: less milky than a latte and not as frothy as a cappuccino. 馥芮白起源于20世纪80年代的澳大利亚和新西兰，这种咖啡味道香浓且口感丝滑。两份浓缩咖啡与140到180毫升的用蒸汽棒轻微加热的牛奶混合，并在上面盖上薄薄一层“细腻奶泡”。这样的咖啡味道很浓，如果做得好，还会有轻微甜味：没有拿铁那么浓的奶味，也没有卡布奇诺那么厚的奶泡。 Australia's coffee-making prowess is fairly recent. Tea was the preferred beverage for British settlers in the 18th century; as a result, no one seemed to know how to make a decent cup of joe. Beans were not roasted, but boiled. To improve the taste, people added chicory, a bitter endive, egg shells or mustard. In a letter to a newspaper in 1939, one man complained that Australia's coffee "punishes the drinker". 澳大利亚的咖啡制作技艺是最近才出现的。茶是18世纪在澳洲的英国定居者最喜欢的饮料，因此，似乎没有澳洲人知道如何泡一杯好咖啡。当时咖啡豆不是烘烤的，而是水煮的。为了改善味道，人们加入了苦苣（一种苦味菊苣）、蛋壳或芥末。在1939年一家报纸的读者来信中，一名男子抱怨说，澳大利亚的咖啡“是对喝咖啡的人的惩罚”。 During the second world war, American servicemen stationed in the Pacific refused to drink such concoctions and demanded that the Antipodeans up their game. The Greek and Italian immigrants who arrived after the war brought expertise. Commercial espresso-makers reached the country in the 1950s. Peter Bancroft had tasted proper coffee on holiday in London and, with the help of his father, began importing Italian machines. 在第二次世界大战期间，驻扎在太平洋的美国军人拒绝喝这种混合物，并要求澳大利亚人升级一下技术。二战后来到澳大利亚的希腊和意大利移民带来了专业知识。商用浓缩咖啡机在20世纪50年代进入澳大利亚。彼得班克罗夫特在伦敦度假时尝到了正宗的咖啡，于是在父亲的帮助下，他开始进口意大利咖啡机。 Australia's cafes take in AS10bn($6.6bn) a year, the most per person of any country outside Europe. Some 95% of the country's 14,000 cafes are independently owned. It is a market in which Starbucks has struggled. The firm opened 84 shops in 2000, but has closed many; it posted a profit in Australia for the first time last year. 澳大利亚的咖啡馆每年收入为100亿澳元(合66亿美元)，是除欧洲以外所有国家中人均收入最高的。在全国1.4万家咖啡馆中，约95%是独立经营的。这是一个星巴克难以攻克的市场。星巴克在2000年开设了84家门店，但也关闭了许多门店，去年，该公司首次在澳大利亚实现盈利。 Much of the country has an unfavourable climate for coffee plants, so it imports far more beans than it sells. However, along with avocado toast and Vegemite, flat whites are one of Australia's great culinary exports. In the past year one in three British consumers ordered the beverage; Pret A Manger alone sold 8m to thirsty Brits. (The company sold 9m cappuccinos, but says the gap between the pick-me-ups is shrinking.) 澳大利亚的大部分地区都不适合种植咖啡，因此进口的咖啡豆远远多于卖出的咖啡豆。然而，与牛油果吐司和维吉麦酱一样，馥芮白是澳大利亚最好的饮食输出之一。在过去的一年里，三分之一的英国消费者点过馥芮白，仅Pret A Manger一家店就向口渴的英国人销售了800万杯馥芮白。(Pret A Manger公司售出了900万杯卡布奇诺，但表示两种咖啡之间的差距正在缩小。） Americans are increasingly sipping flat whites, too. At COP the UN's annual climate summit, the Australian pavilion has become a social hub. Not because of the country's green credentials-it is one of the world's top exporters of coal and natural gas. Instead, what makes Australia so popular is the barista the delegation brings along. Call it flat-white diplomacy. 美国人也越来越多地在喝馥芮白。在联合国一年一度的COP气候峰会上，澳大利亚馆成为了社交中心。不是因为该国的绿色资质--澳大利亚是世界上最大的煤炭和天然气出口国之一。相反，让澳大利亚如此受欢迎的是代表团带来的咖啡师。这就叫馥芮白外交吧。 ✔更多内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，可进入【打卡交流群】

I'm Neil. And I'm Beth. Have you ever been sent a text reminding you about a doctor's appointment? Or impulsively bought something on the internet because there was "only one left"? If any of these have happened to you, then you've been nudged. A nudge is a subtle way of altering human behaviour. It's a powerful way for governments, advertisers and social media companies to encourage, or nudge, people into making choices that benefit themselves and society as a whole. Imagine the government want people to eat better. It might encourage supermarkets to put healthy snacks in easy-to-reach shelves near the checkout, and hide the chocolate bars out of sight on the top shelf. Shoppers are being nudged to eat better. Well… that's the idea, anyway. But often nudging is used less to benefit society, and more to make money for big business. And it happens more often than people realise. So in this programme, we'll be asking whether the idea behind nudging - to influence human behaviour for good - is still true today. And, as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well. But first I have a question for you, Beth. Another example of nudging happened in Woolwich, an area of London which in 2011 had a problem with anti-social behaviour, and particularly with shop windows being smashed. The local authority decided to use nudging to fix the problem by painting pictures on the shop windows, but what did they paint? Was it: a) cute kittens? b) babies' faces? or, c) barking dogs? I guess barking dogs would keep the window breakers away. OK, Beth, I'll reveal the correct answer later in the programme. Nudging started in 2008 with the publication of a book by Nobel Prize winning economist, Professor Richard Thaler. Professor Thale's ideas about how to gently persuade people into making good decisions became known as 'nudge theory'. Advertising executive, Rory Sutherland, introduced nudge theory to his agency, Ogilvy. Here's Rory explaining more to BBC Radio 4 programme, Analysis: Let's say you make the profitable option button green and highly attractive, the less profitable option, you make it kind of grey, and kind of manky looking, oka.y.. Ihat would be an example of something which is, you know, a nudge not necessarily used in the best interests of the consumer. Advertisers use colours to nudge customers towards the profitable option, the one which is most likely to make money. These appear brightly coloured and attractive on the screen, whereas less profitable options are made to look manky, a slang word meaning dirty and unattractive. Here, nudging isn't being used for the public good. These'dark nudges, also called 'sludge, make money for a company, but are not always in the best interests of the consumer. If something is in your best interests, it's the most advantageous and beneficial thing for you to do. Dark nudges have caused many to question the morality of nudging, including Neil Levy, professor of ethics at Oxford University, speaking here to BBC Radio 4 programme, Analysis: The big one, the one people have concentrated on, is that it's paternalistic- that is that nudge might be in our interests but we want to make our own decisions. People worry that nudges infantilize us, it's undermining our autonomy. Critics of nudging call it paternalistic, meaning it wants to make decisions for people, rather than letting them take responsibility for themselves. They also claim nudging infantilizes people, it treats them like children, and, as a result, people lose autonomy, the ability to make your own decisions about what to do, rather than being told by someone else. I guess nudging itself is neither good nor bad, it just depends how you use it. Well, let's look on the positive side by revealing the answer to your question, Neil. Right, I asked you how authorities in Woolwich, in south-east London, nudged anti-social window breakers to behave nicely. I guessed it was by painting pictures of scary barking dogs on the windows.. Which was..t he wrong answer, I'm afraid, Beth! In fact, Woolwich council hired graffiti artists to paint pictures of local babies' faces onto the window shutters. Not even the most hard-hearted criminal smashed those windows, and anti-social behaviour fell by 18% in one year! OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned in this programme about nudging, ways of gently persuading or encouraging someone to take decisions. Something which is profitable makes a profit, or is likely to make money. Manky is slang for dirty and unattractive. If something is in your best interests, it's the most advantageous, beneficial thing for you to do. A paternalistic person prefers making decisions for other people, rather than letting them take responsibility for their own lives. To infantilize someone means to treat them as if they were a child, And finally, autonomy is the ability to make your own decisions about what to do, rather than being told by someone else. ✔更多内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，可进入【打卡交流群】

Every year more than 30m people are released from behind bars. Many leave much as they enter-in very poor health. People who end up in prison have higher rates of infections such as hiv and hepatitis; cognitive disabilities; mental illness and addictions. Prisoners tend to have several of these problems, often rooted in abuse or other trauma. Unsurprisingly, ex-prisoners die earlier than those who have never been incarcerated. What is striking is how many deaths occur within days of release. 每年有超过3000万人从监狱中获释。许多人离开时的健康状况和进入时一样糟糕。最终入狱的人感染艾滋病毒和肝炎等疾病的几率更高；以及认知障碍、精神疾病和成瘾。囚犯往往有这些问题中的几个，往往植根于虐待或其他创伤。不出所料，有前科的人比从未入狱的人死得早。令人震惊的是，在释放后的几天内死亡的人数之多。 A paper in the Lancet on April 10th by an international research consortium led by Rohan Borschmann from the University of Melbourne and Stuart Kinner from Curtin University, in Perth, sums up an analysis of the records of nearly 1.5m prisoners released between 1980 and 2018 in America, Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland and Sweden. 4月10日，墨尔本大学的罗翰 · 博尔施曼和珀斯科廷大学的斯图尔特 · 金纳领导的一个国际研究联合会在《柳叶刀》上发表了一篇论文，对1980年至2018年间美国、澳大利亚、巴西、加拿大、新西兰、挪威、苏格兰和瑞典近150万囚犯的释放记录进行了分析。 These ex-prisoners were followed up by consortium members for an average of seven years. The researchers found that mortality was highest in the first week following release and fell dramatically after that. In the first week it was more than twice as high as it was a month later. (The researchers excluded the spike in deaths on day one, which they discovered was partly due to recording errors for inmates who had died in custody.) 研究小组成员对这些前囚犯进行了平均7年的跟踪调查。研究人员发现，释放后的第一周死亡率最高，之后急剧下降。第一周是一个月后的两倍多。(研究人员排除了第一天死亡人数的激增，他们发现这部分是由于在押期间死亡的囚犯记录错误所致。) In the first few weeks on the outside alcohol and drug poisoning represented the leading cause of death in every country except for Brazil (where deaths from violence predominated). One possible explanation is that enforced abstinence when in prison makes an addict's body less able to handle their usual dose, increasing the risk of fatal intoxication thereafter. Deaths from alcohol and drugs remained high beyond the first week of freedom but were eventually overtaken by the combined deaths from suicides, accidents and disease. 在最初的几周里，酒精和药物中毒是除巴西（暴力死亡占主导地位）以外的所有国家的主要死亡原因。一种可能的解释是，在监狱中强制禁欲会使瘾君子的身体无法掌控通常剂量，从而增加此后致命中毒的风险。在获得自由的第一周之后，酒精和毒品导致的死亡人数仍然居高不下，但最终被自杀、事故和疾病导致的死亡人数总和所取代。 These results, if put to use, could save lives. Upon their release, prisoners with opioid addiction could be provided with naloxone, a drug that treats opioid overdose. This has been tried in parts of Canada since 2016, with naloxone kits given to prisoners upon release, on the assumption that either they or a close contact would be likely to need it. (The consequences of this intervention were outside the scope of this week's paper.) 这些成果如果得到应用，可以挽救生命。阿片类药物成瘾的囚犯获释后可获得纳洛酮，这是一种治疗阿片类药物过量的药物。自 2016 年起，加拿大部分地区开始尝试这种做法，在假定囚犯或其亲密接触者可能需要纳洛酮的情况下，向获释囚犯发放纳洛酮包。(这种干预的后果不在本周论文的讨论范围之内）。 Ensuring better access to mental-health services in the first weeks after release could also be beneficial. A study from the Netherlands published in 2021 found that prison has no net effect on inmates' pre-existing health. Someone who goes in unwell, in other words, comes out unwell. Appropriate care behind bars could change that, helping prisoners better face what awaits them outside. 确保在获释后的头几周更好地获得心理健康服务，也会有所裨益。荷兰在 2021 年发表的一项研究发现，监狱对囚犯原有的健康没有任何净影响。换句话说，一个人进去的时候不舒服，出来的时候也不舒服。狱中适当的护理可以改变这种状况，帮助囚犯更好地面对狱外的生活。 ✔更多内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，可进入【打卡交流群】

Rotten Romans-The pre-gladiatorial custom of staging fights at funerals. Imagine spot: High school for aspiring gladiators. 腐朽的罗马人-在葬礼上举行战斗的前角斗习俗。想象: 有抱负的角斗士高中。 When people died in Roman times, we had some really funny ideas about how to give them a good sendoff. And above all Messiunas was a wise and a noble man who only ever beat his slaves when it was absolutely necessary. He will be sorely missed by us all. But nowfor the fight! CHEERING Yea! Fight! Fight! Fight! Go onfight, fight! What on earth's going on? Oh, it's a fight!But why? Oh, it's the latest Roman thing. 在罗马时代，当人们去世时，我们有一些非常有趣的想法，关于如何给他们一个良好的告别。 最重要的是，梅西乌纳斯是一个聪明而高尚的人，他只在绝对必要的时候才打他的奴隶。 我们都会非常想念他的。 但是现在该比赛了！耶！战斗！战斗！战斗！继续战斗，战斗！到底发生了什么？打起来了！但是为什么呢？这是最新的罗马风格。 You get your two favourite slaves to fight to the death in front of your graveside. Whatever for?It's very noble. The loser's like a sort of sacrifice to the dead man, you know, keep his soul company? The best thing is, it's really good fun to watch. So this is catching on, then? Oh, yeah, friend of mine died last month, had three fights, that means three more funerals and three fights at each one that makes nine funerals! It's been wall-to-wall funerals for weeks now. 你让你最喜欢的两个奴隶在你的墓前拼死搏斗。 为了什么？它非常高尚。 失败者就像是对死者的一种牺牲，你知道吗，让他的灵魂陪伴着他？最棒的是，这真的很有趣。 所以这很流行，那么？哦，是的，我的一个朋友上个月去世了，打了三场仗，这意味着又有三场葬礼，每场葬礼打三场仗就成了九场葬礼！几个星期以来，葬礼一直在举行。 Brilliant! Which one was that? Um Marcus. We are gathered here today to mark the passing of Marcus. He was a good slave. I can't believe all this. Oh, this is nothing. My uncle, Centillus, had it written into his will that he wanted a fight to the death between two beautiful women. Seriously?Yeah. His funeral's in ten minutes. It's disgust. can I come?Yeah. You've got to pretend to be sad until the fight starts. No problem. 太棒了! 是哪一个? 嗯，马库斯。 我们今天聚集在这里纪念马库斯的逝世。 他是个好奴隶。 真不敢相信。 这没什么。 我叔叔 森提勒斯在遗嘱里写了他想让两个美女决一死战。 - 真的?-是啊。 他的葬礼十分钟后举行。 今人厌恶。 - 我能去吗?-当然。 你得假装悲伤，直到比赛开始。 没问题。 It's horrible, but it's true! Romans loved watching slaves fighting at funerals. In fact, they loved it so much that someone had the bright idea of putting the slaves in stadiums and calling them gladiators. Rat-a-tat-a-ta! Gladiators were trained in gladiator schools, not like your schools, but, do you know, it would be funny if they were. 很可怕，但这是真的! 罗马人喜欢看奴隶在葬礼上打架。 事实上，他们非常喜欢它，以至于有人想出了一个聪明的主意: 把奴隶放在体育场里，并称他们为角斗士。 （老鼠笑）！角斗士是在角斗士学校接受训练的，不像你们的学校，但是，你知道吗，如果他们是的话会很有趣。 Teacher's coming! Hail Rome, class! Very good to see you all working hard, but I'm afraid we must push on. All right! Someone tell me where we got to yesterday. Sir!Yes, Abacus? Maths, Sir, We were counting how many criminals heads we could chop off in one contest. Oh, yes, maths. 老师来了！罗马万岁，同学们！很高兴看到你们都努力工作，但恐怕我们必须继续努力。 好吧有人告诉我我们昨天到了哪里。 先生是的，算盘？数学，先生，我们在数一场比赛能砍下多少罪犯的脑袋。 哦，是的，数学。 So, if we're to take Sir! Sir!What is it, Overzealous? when do we get to fight in the Colosseum, Sir? Colosseum? The Colosseum is for elite gladiators, like me, masters of the gladitorial arts. Which of you will become raging retiarius, eh? With your trident and your net. Or a vile venator doing battle with wild animals. You, Overzealous, are not ready for the Colosseum. 所以，如果我们要…先生！先生！什么，你这个急性子？我们什么时候可以在斗兽场战斗，先生？斗兽场？斗兽场是为像我这样的精英角斗士，角斗士艺术大师而建的。 你们中的哪一个会变成愤怒的雷塔里乌斯，嗯？用你的三叉戟和网。 或者是一个卑鄙的狩猎者与野生动物作战。 你，急性子，还没有准备好去斗兽场。 What did you get in your last Fighting Wild Animals exam? Got a "Bee". You got a "Bee". Smallest and easiest to fight of all the animals. But what would you do if you were up against a lion in the arena? Speak up, boy! Don't know, Sir. "Don't know, Sir!" Na-na-na-na! Exactly! Now, where were we? Maths, Sir. Maths! Good. 你上次的野生动物格斗考试得了什么? 得了一个“蜜蜂”。 你有一只“蜜蜂”。 是所有动物中最小最容易打架的。 但是如果你在竞技场上面对一头狮子，你会怎么做？大声点，孩子！不知道，先生。 “不知道，先生!”呐呐呐! 没错! 现在，我们在哪里? 数学，先生。 数学，很好。 So, if I was to cut off four men's heads and add them to the ten slaves arms I cut off the day before what would we have? Yes?A great afternoon of entertainment for the people. Correct answer. Well done! BELL RINGS Oh, OK, everyone pack up violently. And before you go, before you go, make sure you hand in your homework. GRUMBLING All right, all right, thank you! Very good, very nice work. A+. 那么，如果我砍下四个人的头，再加上我前一天砍下的十个奴隶的手臂，我们会得到什么? 是吗? 人们度过了一个愉快的下午。 正确的答案。 做得好! 铃响了哦，好吧，大家赶紧收拾。 在你们走之前，一定要把作业交上来。 疼，好吧，好吧，谢谢你！很好，做得很好。A +。 ✔更多内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，可进入【打卡交流群】