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'Mental toughness is the secret to success' | BBC Ideas Some people say you have to be broken to be fixed again. My name is Asha Philip and I run. Athletics for me was just a bit of fun. It was something different and it was something new. Trampolining was my main sport and I loved it, and then I fell into double mini trampolining and then I became a world junior champion at it. 有些人说，你必须被打碎，才能被重塑。我叫阿莎 · 菲利普，我是一名田径运动员。运动对我来说只是一种乐趣。这是不同的东西，这是新的东西。蹦床是我的主要运动项目，我喜欢它，然后我喜欢上双迷你蹦床，并成为该项目的世界青年冠军。 I was at the World Championships in Quebec. I bounced up, but when I came down I didn't land right. I could just hear the crunch. I could just see my leg pointing in a different direction. Then I just remember grabbing my leg, and then just screaming and screaming. There was nothing holding my legs together. In a heartbeat, everything was just gone. Everything I worked hard for, had vanished. 我参加了魁北克的世界锦标赛。我蹦了起来，但当我下来时，我没有正确落地。我只能听到嘎吱的声音。我只能看到我的腿指向不同的方向。然后我只记得抓住我的腿，然后尖叫着，尖叫着。没有任何东西能把我的双腿并拢。一瞬间，一切都消失了。我为之奋斗的一切，都消失了。 Everyone told me I was a write-off. So how does a child, of age of seventeen, get back up? It felt like I had lost something. I had lost a part of me. I wanted to give up. And when you're at that point of just giving up, that's when you're meant to really turn your life around, and change. 每个人都说我没戏了。那么，一个十七岁的孩子如何重新站起来呢？感觉好像失去了什么。我失去了自己的一部分。我想放弃。当你到了要放弃的时候，你就应该改变自己的生活，改变自己。 It was my Mum who believed in me, and for that I believed in her. I really do question how I made it out. It was little by little. Coming in to do the rehab. Step by step you started to see improvement. The crutches went away, then I could walk, I was able to jog and then run. But then I had loads of injuries along the way. 是我妈妈相信我，因此我也相信她。我真的怀疑我是怎么做到的。这是一点一点的。进来做康复治疗。一步一步地，你开始看到改进。拐杖消失了，然后我就可以走路了，我可以慢跑，然后跑步。但后来我一路上受了很多伤。 The only thing standing between success and failure, is mental toughness. It's about being resilient. Being an athlete isn't like a normal job. The gym. Strengthening. The mind work. The fitness. For one shot. For eleven seconds. There are a lot of knockbacks. A lot. It's how you handle it. But it's also the most amazing release. I let out all my stresses, all my bad energy. 在成功和失败之间唯一的障碍就是精神上的坚韧。这是关于有弹性。做运动员不像一份正常的工作。健身房。加强。脑力工作。健身。只有一次机会。持续11秒。有很多挫折。很多。这就是你如何处理它。但这也是最令人惊叹的释放方式。我释放了所有的压力，所有的坏能量。 Every time I show up to train, I have the opportunity to learn more about myself, and how to run correctly. Some people train brilliantly, but in a race, they don't win. You need focus. You're in an arena of thousands of people, and you're on the start line with seven other women then you have a man holding a gun, and you have to learn to channel all this, and not panic. But there's so much going on. 每次我参加训练，我都有机会更多地了解自己，以及如何正确跑步。有些人训练得很出色，但在比赛中，他们并没有获胜。你需要集中注意力。你在一个有成千上万人的竞技场上，你和其他七个女人站在起跑线上，然后你有一个男人拿着枪，你必须学会引导这一切，不要恐慌。但事情太多了。 You've got your family in the crowd, everyone screaming, wanting you to do well, and obviously they're screaming for the girl alongside you. How do you put that all aside, and say, OK. I have to focus on myself, focus on my lane, focus on me. 你的家人在人群中，每个人都在尖叫，希望你做得好，显然他们也在为你旁边的女孩尖叫。你怎么能把这些都放在一边，然后说，好吧。我必须专注于自己，专注于我的赛道，专注于我自己。 There are sacrifices. There are lots of ways to have fun. Go after your goals, and balance it out the right way. In the end, it's about knowing what's important to you, and what makes you thrive. That's not just athletics. That's life. 会有牺牲。有很多种玩乐的方式。追求你的目标，并以正确的方式平衡它。归根结底，这是关于知道什么对你来说是重要的，什么让你茁壮成长。这不仅仅是体育运动。这就是生活。 ✔更多内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，可进入【打卡交流群】

为什么上班要穿制服 Business Bartleby Corporate uniforms A quarter of the American workforce wears one. Why? 商业版块巴托比专栏公司制服四分之一的美国工作者需要穿制服，为什么 If you work in a white-collar job in an office and make your way there this week, it is unlikely that anyone will be able to guess exactly what you do from your clothes. That is not true for lots of the people you will interact with. 如果你在办公室做白领工作，并在本周前往办公室，那么不太可能有人能够从你的衣着猜到你做什么工作。对于你将打交道的许多人来说，情况并非如此。 The bus driver who gets you to your destination, the barista who makes your coffee and the people on reception who wish you "good morning" as you enter the building-they, and many others, are likely to be wearing some kind of corporate uniform. A poll of American workers conducted last summer by Gallup found that although most employees wear casual clothes-some smart, some really not-almost a quarter donned a uniform. 送你到目的地的公交车司机、为你煮咖啡的咖啡师，以及当你走进大楼时向你问好的前台，他们和其他许多人很可能都穿着某种公司制服。盖洛普去年夏天对美国工作者进行的一项民意调查发现，虽然大多数员工穿着休闲服--有些人穿得很时髦，有些很不时髦--但近四分之一的人会穿制服 For employers who require them, there are several arguments in favour of uniforms. They help ensure a level of professionalism in appearance. They project a brand identity, from the red coats of Virgin Atlantic crew to the "Browns" uniform of UPS delivery drivers. They may have useful job-specific features: chefs' jackets are double-breasted to protect against burns and can be reversed to hide stains. They send a clear signal to customers about whom they should approach with questions, avoiding those awkward "do you work here?" moments. 对于要求穿制服的雇主来说，有几个理由支持穿制服。制服有助于确保外表上的专业性。制服展现了一种品牌身份，从维珍航空机组人员的红色外套到UPS快递送货司机的棕色制服都是如此。制服可能有特定工作用途：厨师服是双排扣的，可以防止烫伤，还可以翻过来掩盖污渍。制服向顾客发出了明确的信号，告诉他们应该向谁提问，避免人们尴尬地去问“你在这里工作吗？” Those customers draw different conclusions if staff are in uniform, for good and bad. A study by Robert Smith of Tilburg University and his colleagues asked people to imagine being on the receiving end of poor service when picking up a pizza. They were then shown pictures of uniformed or non-uniformed employees; the person who had notionally treated them badly was circled. Participants were more likely to blame the company than the individual or the circumstances for a bad experience when a uniform was involved. If corporate clothing makes each worker seem more representative of their employers, the authors suggest that it may be a good idea not to give it to inexperienced workers. Uniforms can also affect the psychology of employees. In 2012 Hajo Adam, now of the University of Bath, and Adam Galinsky, now of Columbia Business School, coined the term "enclothed cognition" to describe the effect that specific clothes have on the way that people think and feel. Questions have been raised over the validity of enclothed cognition, but a new meta-analysis by Messrs Adam and Galinsky, along with Carl Blaine Horton of Columbia Business School, concludes that the phenomenon is real. In one study Guillaume Pech of Universite Libre de Bruxelles and Emilie Caspar of Ghent University gave participants the option to administer electric shocks to other people in return for money; those dressed up in Red Cross uniforms showed more empathy than those in normal outfits. Xuehua Wang of Asia Europe Business School and her co-authors found that formal clothes made people more likely to make healthy eating choices. According to a paper by Saaid Mendoza of Providence College and Elizabeth Parks-Stamm of University of Southern Maine, people who wore a police uniform during a video-game simulation designed to test reaction times were more likely than those in their own clothes to shoot unarmed targets. Clothes maketh the bang. The effects that uniforms have on workers will obviously vary. A uniform that confers a sense of professional identity-a doctor's white coat, say-is likely to be more motivating than one that does not. People will be happier to be a corporate billboard if they feel pride in their employer. Some work clothing looks good and some of it is a paean to polyester: you do not so much represent a brand as a fire hazard. Some uniforms are comfortable and some are not, with women usually getting the worst of it. Only in 2023 were female police officers in Britain issued with body armour made to suit their anatomy. The obvious objection to uniforms, at least from people who do not wear them, is that they suppress individuality and autonomy. But employees who do not have to wear a formal uniform often gravitate towards a costume anyway. Some coders seem to be under an unspoken obligation to wear T-shirts. The combination of shirt, trousers and Patagonia gilet is known as the "midtown uniform" for finance types in New York. Executives wear cultlike corporate lapel pins. Celebrity bosses build brands by wearing the same outfit day after day. You may not be required to don a uniform when you head off to work. You may nonetheless be wearing one ✔更多内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，可进入【打卡交流群】

Well, what exactly is a library? Have you ever thought about that? Well, somewhere with lots of books I suppose, where you go to read or study. A symbol of knowledge and learning, a place to keep warm in the winter, or somewhere to murder victims in a crime novel: libraries can be all of these things, and more. In this programme, we'll be looking into the hidden life of the library, including one of the most famous, the Great Library of Alexandria, founded in ancient Egypt in around 285 BCE. And as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary, and doing it all in a whisper so as not to disturb anyone! Glad to hear it! But before we get out our library cards, I have a question for you, Beth. Founded in 1973 in central London, the British Library is one of the largest libraries in the world, containing around 200 million books. But which of the following can be found on its shelves. Is it: a) the earliest known printing of the Bible? b) the first edition of The Times' newspaper from 1788? or, c) the original manuscripts of the Harry Potter books? I'll guess it's the first edition of the famous British newspaper, 'The Times'. OK, Beth, I'll reveal the answer at the end of the programme. Libraries mean different things to different people, so who better to ask than someone who has written the book on it, literally. Professor Andrew Pettegree is the author of a new book, 'A Fragile History of the Library'. Here he explains what a library means to him to BBC Radio 3 programme, Art & Ideas: Well, in my view, a library is any collection of books which is deliberately put together by its owner or patron. So, in the 15th century a library can be 30 manuscripts painfully put together during the course of a lifetime, or it can be two shelves of paperbacks in your home. Andrew defines a library as any collection of books someone has intentionally built up. This could be as simple as a few paperbacks, cheap books with a cover made of thick paper. Today, books are available everywhere from supermarkets to train stations, but back in history that wasn't the case. In earlier centuries, printed books or manuscripts were rare and may have been painfully collected over many years. Andrew uses the adverb painfully, or painstakingly, to describe something which took a lot of care and effort to do. But paperback books and private collections are only part of the story. You may not believe it, but libraries are places of power! To find out why we have to go back in time to the ancient Egyptian port of Alexandria in the third century BCE. The Great Library of Alexandria held the largest collection of books in the ancient world. Founded in the city built by Alexander the Great, the library's mission was to bring together a copy of every book then in existence. According to history professor, Islam Issa, there were two reasons why the Great Library made Alexandria so powerful, as he explained to BBC Radio 3 programme, Art ; Ideas: The first is being in a location at the intersection of the continents and bringing a diverse set of people together to live in harmony, or relative harmony, can bring about economic prosperity. And the second is, quite simply, that knowledge equals power, and so the library is a form of soft power, it's a way of saying that Alexandria is an important centre of knowledge, a regional capital by being the guardians of knowledge… Alexandria was the meeting point of different cultures where different ideas and philosophies were exchanged. This atmosphere encouraged people to live in harmony, peacefully and cooperatively with each other. But the main reason for the Great Library's importance is that knowledge equals power, a saying meaning that the more someone knows, the more they will be able to control events. Alexandria became the capital of soft power, the use of political and cultural knowledge, rather than military power, to influence events. Now, maybe it's time to reveal the answer to your question, Neil? Sure, I asked you which famous text could be found in The British Library. I guessed it was the first edition of 'The Times' newspaper. So, was I right? That was… the correct answer! In the British Library you'll find the first copy of 'The Times', along with the first editions of many famous books. OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned in this programme starting with shhh!, an exclamation used to ask someone to be quiet. A paperback is a type of book with a cover made of thick paper and sold relatively cheaply. Doing something painstakingly or painfully means doing it in a way showing that lots of care and effort has been taken. Harmony is a situation where people cooperate peacefully with each other. According to the expression, knowledge equals power, the more you know, the more you're able to control events. And finally, soft power involves using political or cultural means, rather than military power, to get what you want. ✔更多内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，可进入【打卡交流群】

Culture Museums A different sort of art heist Museums are raising their ticket prices. How high can they go? "It's almost a moral duty that museums should be free," said Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). That was in 2002, when a ticket to MOMA cost $12 (around $19 in today's prices). In October MOMA started charging $30, the latest in a series of price rises. MOMA is not the only museum raising the cost of admission. The Metropolitan Museum in New York ended its longstanding "pay what you will" policy for out-of-town visitors in 2018 and raised general admission for them to $30 in 2022. Last summer the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum and the Guggenheim Museum all followed suit, bumping a standard ticket from $25 to $30. Museum staff complain of climbing costs and a case of "long covid". In America only a third of museums have met or surpassed pre-pandemic visitor numbers. Higher energy and labour costs have pushed up ticket prices in Europe, too. In January the Berlin State Museums, the Louvre and the Vatican Museums, which include the Sistine Chapel, raised the price of general-admission tickets by 20%, 29% and 17%, respectively. Prices have remained stable only in Asia and the Middle East, where museums are younger and state funding is especially generous. Ticket fees may seem high, particularly in destination cities where tourists are not likely to be dissuaded by spending a few more dollars. But "whatever museums charge, it is not covering their operating costs," says Javier Jimenez, a director at Lord Cultural Resources, a consulting firm. The Association of Art Museum Directors reported in 2018 that ticket sales accounted on average for just 7% of total revenue at American art museums. Memberships contributed another 7%. The remainder of budgets usually come from endowments, charitable donations, grants and retail operations. European museums are less reliant on admissions fees, because they are often heavily subsidised by governments. This can make it awkward to ask taxpayers to buy a pricey ticket and in effect pay twice. Many institutions choose to offer reductions for the young, pensioners and locals. All national institutions in Britain offer free admission, as do most state-run museums in China. (Exceptions are made for special exhibitions.) In America some 30% are free, including big public museums like those of the Smithsonian Institution and private ones such as the Getty Centre in Los Angeles. Some observers have repeated Mr Lowry's call for museums, especially the well-endowed, to stop charging for admission entirely. Ballooning prices go against museums' goal of sharing art with a more diverse public. They could also accelerate the already steep decline in the share of Americans attending museums and galleries: between 2017 and 2022 it shrunk by 26%. Declining public interest, particularly among young people, is a challenge for institutions that rely heavily on public support. Those who choose not to visit a museum today may be the people who vote against government subsidies or refuse to write personal cheques as patrons in a few years. Those who spend time inside museums' galleries are more likely to grasp their richness and want to invest their own riches in them. Yet significantly reducing costs may not actually do much to attract new audiences either. In both America and Europe, people say that price is just one of several factors when it comes to deciding what to do with their leisure time. If tickets were free, "people who typically come anyway might come more often. Otherwise, you're not really changing your demographic," says Michael Rushton, an economist at Indiana University who studies pricing in the arts. He compares museums to elite American universities: Harvard and Stanford could afford to make tuition free for all, but many wealthy students who do not need the gift would be among the biggest beneficiaries. As museums throughout the West debate what price is right, most are unlikely to conclude the answer is zero, "moral duty" or not ✔更多文本内容见公众号【琐简英语】回复“1”，进入【打卡交流群】

哪个国家会最后摆脱通胀？ Finance and economics Price rises Curse of the Anglosphere Which country will escape inflation last? 财经版块价格上涨英语国家的诅咒哪个国家将最后摆脱通胀？ In January prices across the rich world rose by 5.7% year on year, down from a peak in late 2022 of 10.7%。 今年1月，富裕国家的物价同比上涨5.7%，低于2022年末10.7%的峰值。 This conceals wide variation, however. 然而，这个数据掩盖了巨大的差异。 Some countries have slain the inflation beast. 一些国家已经消灭了通胀猛兽。 Others are still in the fight of their lives, 其他人仍在拼命与之搏斗。 To get a view of the various battlefields, we have updated our measure of "inflation entrenchment" for ten rich countries. 为了了解不同战场的情况，本刊更新了我们对十个富裕国家的“通胀顽固性”的衡量结果。 The measure comprises five indicators: core inflation, unit labour costs,"inflation dispersion", inflation expectations and Google-search behaviour. 该结果包括五个指标：核心通胀率、单位劳动力成本、“通胀分散”、通胀预期和谷歌搜索行为。 We rank each country on each indicator, then combine the rankings in order to form an overall score. 我们在每个指标上对每个国家进行排名，然后将排名组合在一起，形成总分。 The results are better than in November, when we last conducted the exercise. 结果比我们上一次在11月进行统计时要好。 They also reveal a linguistic divide. 这些结果还揭示了语言上的鸿沟。 Countries in the EU and Asia perform well; in the English-speaking world, inflation is taking longer to fade. 欧盟和亚洲国家表现良好，在英语世界，通货膨胀需要更长时间才能消退。 Australia tops the ranking, 澳大利亚位居榜首。 Britain and Canada are not far behind. 英国和加拿大紧随其后。 America is doing better, but even there inflation remains entrenched. 美国的情况正在好转，但即便如此，通货膨胀依然根深蒂固。 A few factors may explain the differences. 有几个因素可以解释这种差异。 One is fiscal stimulus during covid-19, which was 40% larger in the Anglosphere than elsewhere. 一个是新冠肺炎期间的财政刺激，英语国家的财政刺激规模比其他地方大了40%。 The boost to demand is still visible in "core" inflation data, which strips out items such as energy, and indicates underlying inflationary pressure. 对需求的提振在“核心”通胀数据中仍然可见，该数据剔除了能源等商品价格，表明根本的通胀压力。 British core inflation is close to 5%, 英国核心通胀率接近5%。 Our measure of "inflation dispersion" provides similar clues. 我们对“通胀分散”的衡量也得出了类似的线索。 This measures the share of consumer prices that are rising by more than 2% year on year. 这一指标衡量的是同比上涨超过2%的消费者价格所占份额。 Australia tops the rankings here. 澳大利亚在这方面位居第一。 By contrast, most Japanese prices are rising by less than 2%, 相比之下，大多数日本商品价格的涨幅都不到2%。 Immigration could also help explain the divide. 移民也可能有助于解释这种差异。 The rich world has experienced an immigration boom, with a large share of the new arrivals going to English-speaking countries. 富裕国家经历了移民热潮，很大一部分新移民流向了英语国家。 Last year Australia, Britain and Canada broke net-migration records. 去年，澳大利亚、英国和加拿大打破了净移民记录。 The large rise in population has supported demand. 人口的大幅增长支撑了需求。 In the past year the cost of renting a flat in the Anglosphere has risen by 8%, compared with 5% elsewhere. 在过去的一年里，在英语国家租一套公寓的成本上涨了8%，而在其他地方只上涨了5%。 The effects on labour markets are less clear. 通胀对劳动力市场的影响不那么明显。 America's unit labour costs, which measure how much firms pay workers to produce a unit of output, are not rising. 美国的单位劳动力成本并没有上升，单位劳动力成本衡量企业为生产一个单位的产出而付给工人多少工资。 But Canada's are growing strongly. 但加拿大的单位劳动力成本增长势头强劲。 History may also play a fole in explaining the Anglosphere's entrenched inflation 历史也可能有助于解释英语国家根深蒂固的通货膨胀。 During the 2010s southern Europe and much of rich Asia saw few price rises. 在2010年代，南欧和大部分亚洲富裕地区的物价几乎没有上涨。 Inflation in the Anglosphere was firmer. 但英语国家的通胀更为顽固。 Owing to these different experiences, people's current beliefs about future inflation may also differn, 由于这些不同的经历，人们目前对未来通胀的看法也可能不同。 Data coming out of America are worrying. 来自美国的数据令人担忧。 The public believes prices willrise by 5.3% over the next 12 months, more than in any other country in our ranking. 公众认为，未来12个月物价将上涨5.3%，超过排名中的任何其他国家。 Americans also often search on Google for inflation-related topics, suggesting that the cost of living is still on their minds. 美国人还经常在谷歌上搜索与通胀相关的话题，表明生活成本仍在让他们担心。 Across the Anglosphere the threat of continued high inflation-or even a second wave of price rises-has not gone away. 在所有英语国家里，持续高通胀-甚至出现第二波价格上涨-的威胁并未消失。 ✔更多文本内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，进入【打卡交流群】

What is a solar eclipse?| Newsround A total solar eclipse will darken the skies over large parts of North America early next week. 下周初，日全食将使北美大部分地区的天空变暗。 A partial eclipse will also be visible in some areas of the UK. 英国部分地区也能看到日偏食。 But what causes eclipses and how can you watch them safely? 但是是什么导致了日食以及如何安全地观看日食呢？ Well, BBC's weather's Sophia Herrod has sent us this. 嗯，BBC 天气节目的 Sophia Herrod 给我们发了这个。 A total solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between the sun and the earth as they align, blocking the face of the sun. 当月球在太阳和地球对齐时穿过太阳和地球之间，挡住太阳的表面时，就会发生日全食。 Total solar eclipses occur once every one to two years, but only those in the narrow path of totality, when the moon completely covers the sun, get to see it. 日全食每隔一到两年发生一次，但只有那些处于日全食狭窄路径中的人，当月亮完全遮住太阳时，才能看到它. So where can you see it this year? 那么今年哪里可以看到呢？ The full eclipse will happen across North America, passing over Mexico, the United States and Canada. 日全食将发生在北美，经过墨西哥、美国和加拿大。 If you're in the UK though, don't be disappointed because some of us can still see the partial solar eclipse. 如果您在英国，请不要失望，因为我们中的一些人仍然可以看到日偏食。 Look out for it just before the sunset at around 8pm, but of course the weather will play a part, so keep your eye on the latest forecast. 请留意晚上 8 点左右日落之前的天气，当然天气也会起到一定的作用，所以请密切关注最新的天气预报。 How can we view it safely? 我们如何才能安全地查看它？ Well, you can't look directly at any phase of a solar eclipse because it'll damage your eyes. 好吧，你不能直接观看日食的任何阶段，因为它会损害你的眼睛。 But you can view it with protective eyewear like eclipse glasses or a handheld solar viewer. 但您可以佩戴防护眼镜（例如日食眼镜或手持式太阳观察器）观看它。 And you can even make your own at home. 您甚至可以在家自己制作。 To do this safely, check out the Newsround webpage on the Solar Eclipse 2024. 为了安全地执行此操作，请查看有关 2024 年日食的 Newsround 网页。 ✔更多文本内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，进入【打卡交流群】

Meet the young actors celebrating Shakespeare Week I Newsround Theatre fans celebrated a special week in March dedicated to Shakespeare and his works. 剧院迷们在三月庆祝了一个特别的一周，专门纪念莎士比亚及其作品。 So we went to meet some young actors at the Stratford Playhouse to check out how they're honouring the legendary playwright with their special version of one of his most famous plays, Romeo and Juliet. 因此，我们去斯特拉特福剧院会见了一些年轻演员，看看他们如何用特别版本的传奇剧作家最著名的戏剧之一《罗密欧与朱丽叶》来纪念这位传奇剧作家。 We've been rehearsing Romeo and Juliet for Shakespeare week. 我们一直在为莎士比亚周排练《罗密欧与朱丽叶》。 I always really like Shakespeare because his plays are about love, tragedy and death. 我一直很喜欢莎士比亚，因为他的戏剧是关于爱情、悲剧和死亡的。 More woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. 朱丽叶和她的罗密欧比这更不幸。 Shakespeare Week is the annual national celebration for primary school children. 莎士比亚周是一年一度的全国小学生庆祝活动。 It's finding out about his life as well as his plays and his characters and exploring some of the language. 这是了解他的生活、他的戏剧和他的角色，并探索一些语言。 I mean the children, although I've directed it, they've kind of helped me devise bits of it so they've created some of the freeze frames and images that you see on the stage and bits of the movement which is really really cool. 我的意思是孩子们，虽然是我导演的，但他们帮助我设计了一些东西，所以他们创造了一些你在舞台上看到的定格和图像以及运动的一些部分，这真的很真实。凉爽的。 This is the first time I'm going to perform on stage in a theatre. 这是我第一次在剧院的舞台上表演。 We're going to perform in front of a lot of people. 我们要在很多人面前表演。 To keep calm I'm going to take some deep breaths. 为了保持冷静，我要做几次深呼吸。 I'm a little bit nervous on being on a big stage but I think I can do it. 登上大舞台我有点紧张，但我想我能做到。 I think this event has made me more interested in Shakespeare because it makes me want to read more Shakespearean stories and what they're about. 我认为这次活动让我对莎士比亚更感兴趣，因为它让我想阅读更多莎士比亚的故事及其内容。 I think if Shakespeare was here to watch us perform, I think he would be very proud of us. 我想如果莎士比亚在这里观看我们表演，我想他会为我们感到非常自豪。 ✔更多文本内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，进入【打卡交流群】

New study reveals how many ants there are in the world 新研究估算出全球蚂蚁总数 你有没有凝神思考过世界上到底有多少只蚂蚁？一组研究人员认为他们已估算出这个数字。 20 quadrillion sounds like a lot of ants, and it is. To give you an idea, that's two and a half million ants for every human on Earth. 20千万亿听起来像是很多只蚂蚁，事实也确实如此。这就相当于地球上每一个人对应250万只蚂蚁。 To count them at one a second would take 634 million years. So, no one's tried that. 以每秒数一只蚂蚁的速度，要6.34亿年才能数完。所以，没有人尝试过。 But the scientists involved in this report have made their estimate by consulting hundreds of studies from different habitats around the world. 然而参与这项研究的科学家们通过查阅世界各地不同蚂蚁栖息地的数百项研究做出了估算。 The study warns that the staggering figure may be an underestimate because of the lack of data from regions including Central Africa and Asia. 该研究提醒，由于缺少包括中非和亚洲等地区的数据，所以尽管这个数字惊人，但可能仍低估了蚂蚁的实际数量。 词汇表 quadrillion 一千万亿 give someone an idea 让某人大致了解情况 estimate 估算，估计 consulting 查阅 staggering 惊人的 underestimate 低估 ✔更多文本内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，进入【打卡交流群】

Happy Easter everybody! 大家复活节快乐！ I'm really looking forward to the Easter holidays because I get to eat lots of chocolates and sweets and I'm going away. 我真的很期待复活节假期，因为我可以吃很多巧克力和糖果，然后我就要离开了。 Easter's a nice time of year because it's not as wet and horrible as winter and all the flowers are coming out in the garden and it's really pretty outside. 复活节是一年中的美好时光，因为它不像冬天那么潮湿和可怕，花园里所有的花都在绽放，外面真的很漂亮。 I'm looking forward to Easter holidays because me and my friend are going camping and I can't wait. 我期待着复活节假期，因为我和我的朋友要去露营，我等不及了。 This Easter I'm going to wake up before all of my family and steal most of the eggs. 今年复活节我要在全家人之前起床并偷走大部分鸡蛋。 I really do hope they're not watching this. 我真的希望他们没有看到这个。 The thing I like most about the Easter holidays is I go to the beach and I've got loads of fun. 复活节假期我最喜欢的事情是去海滩，我玩得很开心。 It's the perfect time to play football because it's not usually muddy and things like that. 这是踢足球的最佳时机，因为通常不会出现泥泞之类的情况。 And it's the perfect time to have ice cream. 而且现在正是吃冰淇淋的最佳时机。 This Easter we go to my auntie's house to do a family tradition where we have a big Easter egg hunt. 今年复活节，我们去我阿姨家参加家庭传统活动，寻找复活节彩蛋。 Easter egg hunt. 寻找复活节彩蛋活动。 Big Easter egg hunt. 复活节彩蛋大搜寻。 I cannot wait for Easter holiday because I am going to Australia. 我等不及复活节假期了，因为我要去澳大利亚。 The only reason I'm going to Australia is pretty much to visit family and also a well-earned rest. 我去澳大利亚的唯一原因主要是探望家人以及好好休息。 I'm really excited for Easter and I hope you are too. 我对复活节感到非常兴奋，希望你也是如此。 Happy Easter everybody! 大家复活节快乐！ ✔更多文本内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，进入【打卡交流群】

Cutouts like these sometimes appear at roadsides in fields and memorials when people want to pay tribute to those who died during two world wars. 当人们想要向在两次世界大战中丧生的人们致敬时，这样的剪纸有时会出现在路边的田野和纪念碑上。 They represent the soldiers who fought for the UK and other nations. 他们代表为英国和其他国家而战的士兵。 Now, a school in Oxfordshire has been helping to make some that will be travelling to France to take part in a big anniversary. 现在，牛津郡的一所学校正在帮助制作一些将前往法国参加重大周年纪念日的作品。 This year marks 80 years since D-Day when forces from the UK, the US and other countries landed in France during the Second World War to fight against Germany and its allies. 今年是第二次世界大战期间英国、美国和其他国家的军队登陆法国对抗德国及其盟国的诺曼底登陆80周年。 This school has many children who have a connection to the armed forces and they explained what it meant to them. 这所学校有许多与武装部队有联系的孩子，他们解释了这对他们意味着什么。 It's like a privilege to be part of this project because when you see these outside in France you're going to know that you've been a part of this. 能够成为这个项目的一部分就像是一种荣幸，因为当你在法国以外看到这些时，你就会知道你已经参与了这个项目。 It means quite a lot though because my dad's in the RAF. 但这意义重大，因为我父亲在英国皇家空军。 When we see it up there in France it will be really special because we know that we've as a team made them. 当我们在法国看到它时，这将非常特别，因为我们知道我们作为一个团队创造了它们。 The cutouts will be painted, decorated with poppies and put on display as part of the official commemorations this summer. 这些剪纸将被涂上油漆，用罂粟花装饰，并作为今年夏天官方纪念活动的一部分进行展示。 ✔更多文本内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，进入【打卡交流群】

Why it's hard to spot a liar 为什么我们很难发现说谎者？ Squirming in their seat, glancing around the room and never looking you in the eye. 在座位上蠕动，环视房间，却从不看你的眼睛。 We think we know when someone is lying to us, but do we really? 我们认为我们知道什么时候有人在对我们撒谎,但我们真的知道吗? A study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Review showed that people's ability to tell if someone is lying to them is little better than 50%. 发表在《人格与社会心理学评论》上的一项研究表明，人们判断某人是否对他们撒谎的能力仅略高于 50%。 Interestingly, other research suggests that we are actually quite good at unconsciously spotting liars, but our conscious thoughts overrule this. 有趣的是，其他研究表明，我们实际上很擅长无意识地识别说谎者，但我们的有意识思维却推翻了这一点。 Forensic Scientist R. Edward Geiselman points out that training in recognising liars doesn't always help, saying 'quick, inadequate training sessions lead people to over-analyse and to do worse than if they go with their gut reactions". 法医科学家 R. Edward Geiselman 指出，识别说谎者的培训并不总是有帮助，他说，“快速、不充分的培训课程会导致人们过度分析，结果比跟随直觉反应更糟糕”。 One reason for this may be 'truth bias'. 造成这种情况的原因之一可能是“真相偏见”。 Experts have suggested that we are usually biased to believe that people are telling us the truth, at least in most contexts. 专家表示，我们通常会偏向于相信人们告诉我们的是事实，至少在大多数情况下是这样。 Another reason that might make us bad at identifying liars is that there are a number of myths around body language and lying, 另一个可能让我们不擅长识别说谎者的原因是，关于肢体语言和谎言存在着许多误区。 Many of us believe that liars are unlikely to look us in the eye or will fidget in their seat. 我们中的许多人都认为，说谎者不太可能直视我们的眼睛，也不会在座位上坐立不安。 However, this isn't necessarily the case. 然而，情况并非一定如此。 Professor of psychology Kevin Colwell suggests that liars often work hard to disguise these behaviours. 心理学教授凯文·科尔韦尔表示，说谎者常常努力掩饰这些行为。 It may be that not looking away, or sitting more still than usual, are actually the giveaways that someone is not telling the truth. 没有移开视线，或者比平时更安静地坐着，实际上可能表明某人没有说实话。 To see how someone's behaviour really changes as they lie, many experts recommend observing people talking about things known to be true. 为了了解某人在撒谎时行为有何变化，许多专家建议观察人们谈论已知的真实事情。 This allows us to establish a baseline of their normal behaviours while speaking. 这使我们能够建立他们说话时正常行为的基线。 Any differences to this baseline behaviour could show that someone is lying. 与此基线行为的任何差异都可能表明有人在撒谎。 This is why it's much harder to lie to people who know us well. 这就是为什么对熟悉我们的人撒谎要困难得多。 As liars may be working hard to conceal their behaviours, some psychologists have suggested increasing the effort needed for this by asking them to tell their story backwards. 由于说谎者可能会努力隐藏自己的行为，一些心理学家建议通过要求他们倒着讲述自己的故事来加大这方面的努力。 When faced with this increased cognitive load, any behavioural tell-tale signsare magnified. 当面对这种增加的认知负荷时，任何行为迹象都会被放大。 It can be hard to spot liars. 很难发现说谎者。 We are likely to trust people, and behaviours can be hidden, but if we know someone well, and if someone is working too hard to stick to their story, it's possible to see through people who are not telling the truth. 我们可能会信任别人，行为也可能会被隐藏，但如果我们很了解某人，并且如果某人非常努力地坚持自己的故事，就有可能识破那些没有说实话的人。 词汇表 squirm扭来扭去 glance 扫视 look someone in the eye 直视某人的眼睛，与某人坦诚相视 unconsciously 无意识地 spot 看出，发现 conscious 有意识的 over-analyse 过度分析 gut reaction 直觉，本能反应 truth bias “取真偏好”，人们更倾向于相信他人所言为真的现象 biased 偏向的，倾向于 fidget 动来动去 disguise 掩饰 giveaway 让（某人）露马脚的事情 behaviour 行为 establish 确立，建立 baseline 基准，基线 conceal 隐藏，掩盖 cognitive load 认知负荷 behavioural 行为上的 tell-tale sign 暴露隐藏行为的迹象，端倪 stick to 坚持 see through 看穿，识破 ✔更多文本内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，进入【打卡交流群】

The world this week--Business The top ranks of Boeing's management were overhauled amid investor unease about safety checks on its airliners. 本周国际要闻--商业由于投资者对波音飞机的安全检查感到不安，波音公司的最高管理层进行了全面调整。 In January a panel fell from a 737 Max 9 passenger jet soon after take-off. 今年1月，一架737 Max 9型客机起飞后不久，一块面板从飞机上掉了下来。 Several incidents have been reported since then, including a 777 that lost a landing-gear tyre when it was taking off. 自这起事故后，又报道了几起事故，其中包括一架777型客机在起飞时掉落了一个起落架上的轮胎。 Boeing safety has become a meme on TikTok. 波音飞机的安全问题已经成为TikTok上的一个热梗。 Dave Calhoun is to step down as chief executive by the end of the year and Larry Kellner departs as chairman. 戴夫·卡尔霍恩将于今年年底卸任首席执行官一职，拉里·凯尔纳也会卸任董事长一职。 The head of the commercial-aircraft division has been replaced with immediate effect. 商用飞机部门的负责人已被撤换，立即生效。 America's Justice Department lodged an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of making it harder for customers to switch phones, undermining innovation in apps, and imposing "extraordinary costs" on developers, businesses and consumers. 美国司法部对苹果公司提起反垄断诉讼，指控这家科技巨头加大了用户更换手机的难 度，破坏了应用程序的创新，并给开发商、企业和消费者带来了“巨大的成本”。 The complaint in effect attempts to stop Apple locking users into its ecosystem. 这项投诉实际上是试图阻止苹果将用户锁定在其生态系统中。 Apple said the suit "threatens who we are" as a company and sets "a dangerous precedent, empowering government to take a heavy hand in designing people's technology". 苹果表示，这起诉讼"威胁到了我们”作为一家公司的身份，并开创了“一个危险的先例，授权政府在设计人们的技术方面采取强硬施”。 The case will take years to wind its way through the courts. 这个案子要经过数年的法庭审理才能结束。 Meanwhile, the European Union opened investigations into Alphabet and Apple over competition practices at their app stores, and Meta over its use of personal information in advertising. 与此同时，欧盟开始调查Alphabet和苹果在其应用商店的竞争行为，以及Meta在广告中使用个人信息的行为。 It is the first official scrutiny of tech companies under the EU's new Digital Markets Act. 这是欧盟根据新出台的《数字市场法》对科技公司进行的首次官方审查。 Had the issues been resolved with the companies by "mere discussion, they would have been solved by now", said the EU's antitrust commissioner. 欧盟反垄断专员表示，如果这些问题“仅仅通过讨论就能解决”，那么这些问题早就解决了。 Alibaba abandoned a planned IPO for its logistics division, instead offering to buy out minority shareholders in the business. 阿里巴巴放弃了物流部门的首次公开募股计划，转而提出买断该业务少数股东的股份。 A year ago the Chinese tech giant announced its intention to split into six parts, with the potential for each to pursue a stockmarket listing. But the plan hasn't excited investors. 一年前，这家中国科技巨头宣布，计划将业务分拆为六部分，每个部分都有可能寻求上市。但该计划并没有让投资者感到兴奋。 Late last year Alibaba decided not to spin off its cloud unit and suspended the IPO of its supermarket arm. 去年年底，阿里巴巴决定暂不剥离云业务，并暂停了超市业务的首次公开募股。 Reddit's share price held on to most of the gains reaped from its successful flotation on the New York Stock Exchange. Reddit的股价守住了其在纽约证券交易所成功发行股份所获得的大部分涨幅。 The social-media platform's stock soared by 48% on the first day of trading. 这个社交媒体平台的股票在交易首日飙升了48%。 The yen fell to a 34-year low against the dollar, triggering warnings from Japanese officials that they might intervene in the currency markets. 日元兑美元汇率跌至34年来的最低点，引发日本官员可能会干预外汇市场的警告。 The Bank of Japan raised interest rates recently for the first time since 2007, which would normally cause the yen to strengthen, but its monetary policy remains comparatively loose. 日本央行近期加息，是2007年以来的首次，这通常会导致日元走强，但其货币政策仍相对宽松。 ✔更多文本内容见公众号【琐简英语】，回复“1”，进入【打卡交流群】