可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Mr. Lestrade from London’s Metropolitan Police was a frequent visitor at 221B Baker Street, the home I shared with my friend, the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Holmes always liked these visits because Lestrade would tell him all the latest news from the world of crime. In return, Holmes might give Lestrade some helpful suggestions for whatever case he was trying to solve. On one evening in June 1900, Lestrade was embarrassed when Holmes asked him what case he was working on. “It’s so ridiculous and stupid that I’m not sure if I want to even tell you,” he said. “On the other hand, although it’s not very important, it’s also strange, and I know you are interested in strange cases. In fact, it might be of more interest to Dr. Watson than to us.” I looked up when I heard my name. “Is it about disease, then?” I asked. “Disease of the mind, maybe,” said Lestrade, “only a madman would hate Napoleon so much that he would want to destroy every statue of him that he can find.” “You mean Napoleon Bonaparte, the former emperor of France?” I exclaimed. “That’s correct,” said Lestrade. “It’s become a case for the police because this man isn’t smashing his own statues of the French emperor—he’s committing burglary to destroy those belonging to other people.” “This does sound very interesting, Lestrade,” said Holmes. “Please tell me more.” Lestrade took out a notebook to look through the details. “The first case was reported four days ago,” he said. “It took place at Harrison’s Art and Antiques, a shop on Kennington Road in London. The assistant went into the back office for a moment when he heard a crash from the main shop. Hurrying back in, he found a plaster bust of Napoleon, which had been standing on the counter, lying in fragments on the floor. He rushed into the street but saw no sign of who did it. “The bust was very cheap, and it seemed like one of those random acts of vandalism that happen from time to time and are not worth investigating. The second case, however, was more serious and, in its way, strange. It happened only last night.” “Just a short distance from the shop I just mentioned lives a doctor by the name of Barnicot. This man is an admirer of Napoleon, and his house is full of books and pictures of the French emperor. Some time ago, he purchased two plaster busts of Napoleon exactly the same from Harrison’s Art and Antiques. One of these he placed in the hall of his house, and the other in his doctor’s surgery in Lower Brixton. “This morning, Dr. Barnicot woke up and discovered his house had been burgled in the night, but nothing had been taken except the bust of Napoleon. It had been carried out into the garden and thrown against the wall, beneath which he found its remains.” Holmes happily rubbed his hands. “This is fascinating,” he murmured. “You’ve not heard the end yet,” said Lestrade. “At midday, Dr. Barnicot arrived at his surgery, and you can imagine his amazement when he found the window open and broken pieces of the second Napoleon bust all over the room. In neither case could we find any clues as to the person who carried out these bizarre crimes. And those, Mr. Holmes, are the facts of the case.” “And very strange facts they are, too,” said Holmes. “Tell me, were Dr. Barnicot’s busts exactly the same as of the one destroyed in the Harrison shop?” “Yes. Exactly the same.” “This suggests the criminal isn’t motivated by a general hatred of Napoleon. Think of how many statues of Napoleon there must be in London. Surely it’s too much of a coincidence that the three he happened to destroy are all identical.” “I’m not so sure,” said Lestrade. “There may be hundreds of statues of Napoleon in London, but as far as we know Harrison’s is the only shop selling them in that area of the city. Therefore, a local Napoleon-hater would begin with them. What do you think, Watson?” “I suppose it’s pos

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi everyone, and welcome back to Britain Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话英伦】. Hi, 安澜. Hi, Lulu. Hi, everyone. The other thing I have noticed is something called special fried rice. And so I was thinking what's so special about it? Because in China, if you say special fried rice and you think this 炒饭 must be amazing. This got like all these expensive things in it, like prawns and like seafood. It must be like gold. Yeah. Gold in it as well. Yeah. And then I realize it's just 扬州炒饭. It is. It's just 扬州炒饭. And I have no idea why it's called special fried rice. I think it's because in many restaurants it was a special, so it was like a speciality dish and the name just stuck, so it became special fried rice. And if you just want like normal rice, you call it steamed rice. Steamed rice or plain rice. Plain rice. But I always remember when my dad, because he loves Chinese takeaways. When my dad came to China, I asked him “what do you want to eat?” And he said “I have some special fried rice” and I just said “Dad, this is China, fried rice isn't very special”. 算不上特别美食. I forgot does it also come in just numbers on the menu like No.68, No.57, that sort of thing. And you know the reason for that is. Why? Because many of the dishes people couldn't pronounce. Okay, well, special fried rice is not Chinese. But these are just some of the typical dishes. They do have some dishes, for example, like a version of 麻婆豆腐. They've got a version of that, but because not many people can say that. Mapo tofu, it's not that difficult. Kung Pao chicken, it's not that difficult. But it is difficult for somebody who's not really traveled and doesn't really know. So what they do is they use numbers. Another reason as well is that you have to think it was immigrants that opened these restaurants. And sometimes not even Chinese immigrants. Sometimes not even Chinese immigrants. Many of the takeaways were run by immigrants, and you have to think that their English was probably not completely proficient. Emm. So this was a way of both sides being able to communicate. So instead of saying “okay, I want crispy duck pancakes”, they'll go “I'll have number18”. Ah, I see. So it's very clear. I see. For what they want. This is more very efficient system. Exactly.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi everyone, and welcome back to Britain Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话英伦】. Hi, 安澜. Hi, Lulu. Hi, everyone. So what have you been doing since Chinese New Year? I mean apart from being busy at work, I spent all of my spare time trying to go to the gym or going for workout to try to shed some of those holiday weight that I put on. Oh, you tell me about it. I put on a few kilos during the holidays. 中文现在也说每逢佳节长三斤。I don't think it's just三斤, is it? I actually did put on三斤。 Exactly？ Exactly. I think I put on more than that. So, I thought why don't we talk about food? I mean, we can't eat any delicious food anymore, but at least we can talk about it. Exactly. That's the spirit. Let's fantasize about some of the food that we can actually not eat right now. But I thought, you know, we talked about British food and also British food was there to talk about really. Oh, come on. British food is actually really really nice, but that's a completely other episode. So I thought today, let's talk about food in the UK, but in particular Chinese food in the UK. Oh. That's an interesting, that is actually a very interesting topic. I mean, everybody complains about British food, right? Including some British. But the fact is because of the multiculturalism, 因为英国是一个比较多文化这种移民国家, so especially in London, you can pretty much find food from all parts of the world. Exactly. And in the UK even very, very small places, even some villages, it's quite common to find a Chinese restaurant. I once heard a saying, I don't know if it's a saying or a joke, saying that they will always be at least three different types of restaurants on any given British street, Italian, Indian and Chinese. Is that true? That's absolutely true. I would say probably more Indian and Chinese rather than Italian, but I would say, I've been to very small villages in the UK and they still have a Chinese takeaway. Emm. So let's talk about Chinese food. I think for those of you who have never been to the UK, you will find that these Chinese food that we talk about, they're not really like the Chinese food we're used to at home. Well, yeah. Let’s, we'll talk about the dishes a little bit later, but first of all, as you were saying before, going for a Chinese is incredibly popular in the UK. So they, yeah, I've heard people say “fancy a Chinese”, which initially I found really offensive and creepy, and then I realized they were just talking about Chinese takeaway. Yeah. They're not talking about Chinese people, they're saying if you go for a Chinese that means you're going to get a Chinese takeaway. You call it “takeaway”. Yes. Instead of “takeout”? Yeah. Takeout is American English. But these two are exactly the same meaning. Exactly the same meaning. So if you say takeaway or takeout, pretty much, people will understand what you're saying. Emm, like when you lived in London, did you use to have like a Chinese take away that you will order from. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Remember that when I was growing up this is the days before deliveries and things like that. When you actually wanted to go for Chinese food, what you have to do is call them first of all, and then you go to the restaurant yourself to pick it up. What's the point in that than just go to the restaurant?

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Buzzmix-EP144-Grit.mp3 In today's Buzzword Mix, our Buzzword is Grit. I'm sure many of you have read articles about how kids are allowed to roam free, do whatever they want in the west, and they really aren't put under that much pressure as the kids in China. 相信很多人都读过那种 “西方快乐教育”的文章, 并且十分羡慕。但今天的Buzzword里, 想和你分享一个在近些年来英语国家也逐渐开始认同的一个教育理念，叫做Grit教育 , 我看过有把它翻译成 “坚毅教育”或者 “坚韧教育”。 Have you ever wondered what makes someone a good student, a good athlete, or a good leader? Why do some people accomplish their goals while others fail. What makes the difference? 你有没有想过不管在哪个领域，不管在多大或者多小的环境里，为什么有人成功有人失败? Usually we answer these questions by talking about the talent of top performers. We say they are very gifted, they are very talented, but we all know there's more to the story than that. 我们也都知道能成功，绝对不只靠天赋。 Now some research seem to argue that what makes a bigger impact than talent or intelligence is mental toughness. Mental toughness or grit as they call. It plays a more important role than anything else for achieving your goals in health, business, and life in general. 于是很多最近的研究就得出这样的一个结论，就说grit或者叫mental toughness，你个人精神的坚韧、坚毅程度才是最终决定你是否能成功的要素。 So what is grit? Grit is the perseverance and passion to achieve long term goals. 简单来说grit就是达成长远目标long term goals的这种perseverance坚持不懈and passion和热情. Angela Duckworth, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania did this popular Ted talk. She suggests that grit is a strong predictor of success and ability to reach one's goals. 说到grit怎么火起来，就不得不提到 Angela Duckworth, 她是做了一个挺有名的Ted演讲，有兴趣的你也可以去看一下，专门讲grit. 她也把自己的研究成果写成了这样一本关于grit的书。 Her research on grit has shown that, for example, West Point cadets who scored highest on the Grit Test were 60% more likely to succeed than their peers. 西点军校里那些 Grit Test里面得分高的学生，在以后的生活训练学习里比其他人的成功概率要高出了60%. Ivy League undergraduate students who had more grit also had higher GPAs than their peers . 在Ivy League就是美国这些顶级藤校的大学生里面，如果更有grit的这些人，他们的整个绩点也会明显的高于他们的同学。 When comparing two people who are the same age but have different levels of education, grit (and not intelligence) more accurately predicts which one will be better educated. Now this is very interesting because earlier studies of achievement often emphasize the notion that high achieving people typically possess traits above and beyond that of normal ability. 在此之前，很多关于这些成功人士的研究都会聚焦在他们异于常人的这些能力水平天赋等等上面。 But people like Duckworth, they emphasize that grit is a better predictor of achievement than intellectual talent because grit provides the stamina required to stay the course amid challenges and setbacks. 但是近些年来像Duckworth做出的这样的研究，就表明其实成功路上最重要的品质就是 grit，坚韧、坚毅，因为只有这样才能在各种的挑战和挫折面前还能够继续走下去. Stay the course. Now let's get more specific and talk about some of the characteristics relating to grit. No.1 is Courage. While courage is hard to measure, it is directly proportional to your level of grit. More specifically, your ability to manage fear of failure is imperative and a predictor of success. 跟grit相关的人格特质的其中之一是courage勇气, 这个勇气主要是去manage fear of failure敢于应对失败的勇气。

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Welcome back to 【Geek time】. This is Brad. How are you doing, Lulu? Hi, Brad. I'm fine. And I can't wait to hear more about Elon Musk, last time we talked about Space X . Aha. Now we're gonna talk about something that's tangential to Space X, it's called Starlink. Star Link. And Starlink isn't a space program in the sense that space rockets and things like that, it's actually satellites, and Space X uses their rockets to put these Starlink satellites into space. 嗯, 中文叫星链, which really created a buzz in all types of media, really. Haha, yeah. What is Starlink about? You said Starlink is all about satellites, and one of the jobs of Space X is to send Starlink satellites into space. What are they used for and what is the coverage? Starlink is basically trying to cover the world with internet service. And so oftentimes there's a lot of cables that connect internet around people's homes. People at home have WiFi and they can use cell phone service. But Starlink is going to bring basically internet service and wireless service now to people around the world using satellites. Emm. I heard that the expectation at least is that it offers better internet connection than 5G. Yeah. If you look at the connection, the internet connection, while in some cases it won't be as strong. It depends on line of sight and just how close you are to one of the satellites. But in general, it is faster than 5G. However, if you live in a city, because you're so close to the cell phone towers and there's a lot of connections around the city, you're probably going to get better service with mobile service than you would with Starlink. However, when you're in a van in the middle of nowhere, and there's no cell phone service around, you could easily get access to Starlink. I see. I have a question though. Are there worries about, because obviously it's still... Elon Musk is a private company. Right? It's not really like, for example, state owned or something in... akin to that, then don't people worry about when Elon Musk controls the internet? Yeah, well, of course, you know, people will always be afraid of who is in control of it. in the US, you have all the internet is controlled by private companies anyways. The internet is not something like power or water that's government controlled. Even in some cases, power and water has been sent off to private companies and that's kind of scary. But yeah, companies in the US are kind of in some ways limiting what access people have to the internet. Okay. But perhaps I should rephrase it, because Starlink is aiming to install or to build better internet connection than 5G, then obviously people would probably opt for the faster option. Wouldn't that bring with it some sort of monopoly issue, like if he's monopolizing the fastest internet connection, that sort of worries? Definitely. Because if other companies start wanting to put satellites into space, there's gonna be a lot of interruption. They're gonna possibly smack into each other. It will create a lot of problems. And so if there's probably going to be some sort of laws built around what he can and cannot do with the internet connection. But not yet. But not yet, right. Because this is still in the infancy. And so no one has really looked at it and go OK, we can see some problems here, but as of yet, there's not been anything to stop him from doing this. Yeah. But talking about these satellites, they're not very big satellites, are they? No. They're actually not that big. They might sound like they're quite big, but in comparison to a lot of the other satellites out there, they're quite small. Most of the satellites are, there about it a little bit further away than the ISS the space station we talked about earlier. They're almost 600 kilometers away from the Earth. But there are two hundred twelve hundred kilograms, while there are smaller satellites, they're not really all that

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ 3月14日，埃隆·马斯克的SpaceX公司获准第三次发射星舰；北京时间3月14日晚21时40分，太空探索技术公司（SpaceX）创始人马斯克发文，向星舰团队表达祝贺，星舰“已达到轨道速度”。 要知道，仅4个月前的十一月，星舰的上一次试飞以提前发生爆炸而告终，前几次的故障包括：硬着陆撞击海面、发动机传感故障、节流阀卡住。 接受采访时，记者提问马斯克：连续失败，你觉得有必要就此打住吗？答说，“不知道什么是放弃，除非我死了。” Elon: I don’t ever give up. I mean, I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated. 被网有调侃为“价值三十亿美金的名画” 于是第三次发射被提上议程： “这枚400英尺高(122米)的巨型火箭计划于美国东部时间周四上午8点(北京时间周四晚8点) 开始的110分钟窗口期（launch window）任意一个时间内，从Space X 位于德克萨斯州博卡奇卡的Starbase发射升空。” 当然，发射全过程也有在社交媒体X和其官网同步直播，不知道昨天有观看的小伙伴吗？ The time has come for Starship to embark on its third test flight, during which the megarocket will once again be pushed to its limits and demonstrate advances made since the previous flight last November. The 400-foot-tall (122-meter) megarocket is scheduled to blast off from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, at roughly 8:00 a.m. ET on Thursday, March 14, with a 110-minute launch window available. The company’s livestream will be made available on X and its website, with the broadcast starting at 7:30 a.m. ET. Of course, this is contingent on favorable weather conditions. 如果你好奇什么是 SpaceX, 它是做什么的，为什么这么重要...相关阅读欢迎点击下方音频或者查看下方文稿了解哦~ Hi everyone, and welcome back to Geek Time. 欢迎回来【极客时间】. Hi, Brad. Hi, Lulu. So in today's Geek Time, I thought we continue to talk about Elon Musk. All right. Because he's done a lot of really outstanding things. I mean really out-there things, right? You know, people, even if you’re not into science technology, you've heard of things like SpaceX, Starlink, 什么星链呐SpaceX,还有像各种各样的这种rockets, I thought we can start with SpaceX, what does it actually do? And why is it so impressive? Well. A SpaceX was a company, it was started in 2002. The whole reason was there was a competition, and that competition was to design a rocket that could be sent into space and then reused within 2 weeks. And SpaceX was able to win that competition, but that the whole idea is to reduce cost for putting things into space. They are often referred to as a payload, but just something like people or in a satellite or parts for the space station, and do it in a cost effective way. 对, 那个叫载荷吧, 就是那个 payloads. So this was started by what, the US government, you said this competition? I don't remember if the government started, but like the government wanted this, because NASA, NASA could do a lot, but they had to have other people looking at us. NASA is kind of limited as to what it can and can't do. And so they wanted more of like the private sector to go out and start doing some of this stuff as well. And so this whole competition was created as a way to get that going. So basically, private companies like SpaceX they were competing in trying to make fully reusable rockets? You said reusable within 2 weeks. Right. What about the cost? Do they also reduce cost? That's the whole point. It's like if you can reuse the rocket, then you can reduce the cost by a lot. SpaceX has been able to get their rocket launches down to about or 67 million per launch, which is 10 times cheaper than what NASA has been able to do this far. Wow, 10 times, mainly because the rockets are reusable or immediately reusable. I see. I see.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ In today's Buzzword Mix, our Buzzword is Woke. Now I have to confess this word has been sitting in my script for some time. I've been having the hardest time trying to decide whether I wanna talk about this word or not. 其实这个词我一直都想讲, 但一直都在犹豫, 主要是因为这个词后面的争议太大, 而且它的倾向性和内涵一直都在变迁。 虽然它是美国乃至英语国家, 甚至整个西方都在谈的一个热词, 但是你问10个人10个人都可能给它下不同的定义, 会告诉你不同的看法。 But anyhow, I'm gonna take a step at it. First of all, what does it mean literally? Woke is not standard English. 首先它不是标准英语, it is an adjective derived from AAVE, African American Vernacular English. 它是非裔美国人, 也就是美国黑人他们的口语表达里面的一个词。只要你学过小学英语, 你都学过 wake, wake up, wake醒过来, 这个词的过去式是woke, 它的过去分词是woken. But in some varieties of African American English, woke is used in place of woken. 它最早的字面意思就是在African American的英语里面, 他们会用woke来代替woken这个词; 后来这个词就逐渐的从过去分词的一个变体变成了一个adjective, equivalent to awake. 像我们说stay awake就是保持清醒的状态, 现在woke它的字面意思, 你可以把它理解为清醒状态, 但是我们一般把它翻译成 “觉醒/警醒”. The phrase “stay woke” has been present in African American English since the 1930s. In some context, it refers to an awareness of social and political issues affecting African Americans. 这个词在逐渐的演化中, 就从最早的简单的awake, “清醒的觉醒的”词的本意延伸到美国黑人文化里对系统性种族歧视 “ systemic racism”保持清醒和警惕, 这也是为什么我们把它翻译成 “警醒”或者 “觉醒文化”. But that's not all of it. During the 2014 Ferguson protests, the phrase was popularized by Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists seeking to raise awareness about police shootings of African Americans. 本来这个词它是没有进入mainstream主流的英语语境, 仅限于在黑人群体中的小范围使用; 但到了2014年, Ferguson protest是因为有一位美国黑人被白人警察射杀, 这个事件掀起了弗格森地区的抗议浪潮, 所以当时在社交媒体上#staywoke, “#保持警醒”话题标签就开始火了起来. 当时主要是为了呼吁人们关注这样的一个系统性种族歧视的现象. Over time, it gained so much popularity, it became increasingly connected to matters beyond race, such as gender and identities perceived as marginalized. 不过随后woke这个含义从简单的 “黑人反抗种族压迫” 进一步扩大, 它的政治和社会意义内涵, 开始从 “种族不平等”延伸到 “性别、跨性别者、环保主义、堕胎、性骚扰”等等社会话题, 在美国逐渐就演变成了一场文化战争, 这也是为什么英语里有wokeism, 可以把它理解为 “觉醒主义”或者 “觉醒运动”. Now the term became popular with millenniums and members of Genz, 特别受千禧一代和Z世代的欢迎, 相当于中国的85后、90后、95后、00后这么几代人。 As its use spread internationally, woke was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2017. Wokeism也逐渐超越了美国的国境, 蔓延到其他英语国家乃至世界上很多其他的国家。 所以2017年它也被作为形容词, 收入了牛津字典。 So far, this is understandable. But this is when it gets tricky. 但是在woke这个词进入主流英语之后, 它的感情色彩却发生了很微妙的变化。 By 2020, many on the political right and some in the center in several Western countries began using the term sarcastically as a pejorative for various leftist and progressive movements and ideologies. Wokeism或者Woke这个概念本来就是比较偏激进派、偏左的这样的一个思潮, 所以到了2020年, 很多偏右甚至偏中间的这些组织或者党派, 他们开始用woke这个词来讽刺一些过于激进或者是这种过度追求政治正确的人。 Some argue that this is because the term has been co-opted by mainstream culture and stripped off its original meaning and power. 有的人就说这是因为Woke的内涵, 它迅速的泛化, 进入主流社会, 致使很多人虽然不清楚这个词本来表示什么, 但是他们会把这个词泛泛地用在他们自己认为的各种歧视或者不公现象, 这个时候他们就可以高举 Wokeism警醒的这面大旗, 并且对于他们认为不够woke的人占据moral high grounds, 道德高地。 正是因为这种概念的泛化和woke追随者的这种self righteousness, 自以为是道德高地的这种态度, 反而令woke这个本来应该很有力量的词引发了大量的反感. People are starting to watch out for what they say so that they don't get blamed and attacked for not being woke enough, especially in the United States where this concept of woke originated. It has been used in political fights, 特别是在美国这个词还被用来作为党争的工具, the Republican Party representatives, including Trump, and some senators, they are actually calling people who embrace wokeism as the woke mob. 甚至共和党里的一些言论, 他们会把 wokeism觉醒主义的这些人称为woke mob, 叫做所谓的 “觉醒暴民” 。 所以可以说短短几年间曾经被众多的美国年轻人用作觉醒号角, 在社交媒体上充当进步徽章的这个词woke, 如今很多时候都会在贬损和戏谑的语境里才会被使用。

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Barista is a professional coffee maker是咖啡师. You actually need to get qualified for that. Oh, yeah. You can get qualifications in being a barista. They even have competitions for barista art. Kind of when they make the really nice patterns, pictures… Latte art. Yeah, the latte art. The latte art咖啡拉花的那个东西. Yeah. But back to espresso, I remember because I went to Italy so many times. It's very interesting to see Italians on their way to work in the morning. And then they would pop into a café, but they would never sit down. They would just pay at the bar at the counter, and then just get an espresso and drink it, or a double espresso. Well, actually, vice versa. They'll order a drink, first drink it, then they pay. Oh, okay. But the reason for that is that in Italian cafés, if you sit down, the coffee is more expensive. Yeah. I’m always the dumb-dumb. It's a good way of saving money. If you just want a quick coffee in Italy, you have to stand at the bar. It's a bit cheaper. It's only maybe like a Euro or just slightly more than a Euro. And then you can just drink your coffee and off you go. Yeah, but can't you just go like, do it like in Starbucks, and just order one to go and just… Oh,no no no no no no no… Why? Coffee on the go is just not done in Italy. Okay. It's actually called an American. If you order a coffee to go, then it's pretty much saying I am a tourist. Wow. They look at me, they know I’m a tourist, so… Well, yeah, true. But that's the thing what we would consider as a regular coffee in Britain or in America is called an Americano. Americano is basically just black coffee with… It's espresso. With water. Water down with hot water. The reason why it's called an Americano is that when the Americans during the World War II went to Italy, they couldn't drink the local coffee cause it was too strong. So what they did was they added hot water to it and that became an Americano. Oh, I could imagine the local Italian barista would just be like you're a Yankee, you're an American. That's what you guys would order. So Americano, here’s for you Americans. Exactly. Interesting. 所以为什么叫美式. So this is Italy. Oh, one thing I do want to mention, it's... I used to go to Italy in hot summers. So sometimes I would want to drink like an ice coffee, although I don't really drink coffee. But so when I’m thinking about ice coffee, I was really thinking about like an ice latte or an iced cappuccino. But I just order iced coffee and it turns out just like a very sweetened espresso. Yeah, exactly. I love ices espresso, and I love cold coffee as well. Okay, so that's a little bit about Italians. I think there's also very strong coffee culture in Arabic countries.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi everyone, and welcome back to Happy Hour, 欢迎回来酒馆. It's International Women's Day, every year around this time, we would do a special episode. So far we've talked about the history of feminism, workplace stereo types, and shared with you stories of some truly fascinating women. So what are we gonna talk about today？ When it comes to anxiety we face as women on a pretty regular basis, I'm sure a lot of you will agree that one major source of anxiety is related to body image. In other words, do I look good enough？Especially in this day and age, for a woman, looking good is almost seen as a requirement rather than an option. Go on any social media platform, you'll see countless influences trying to show off their perfect body; and even more of them trying to teach you to secrets to attain that perfect body through all sorts of exercise, diet and products. 近年来火遍社交媒体的什么A4腰，漫画腿，锁骨养金鱼等等，都是刷出了一波又一波的焦虑。 It's pretty difficult not to fall victim to these increasingly harsh standards. But a thing is, when we talk about the ideal body, we sometimes tend to forget that the idea of beauty is not only subjective but constantly changing. So in today's episode, I'm going to take you back in history, take a look at the changing standards of female beauty in the west. 今天的酒馆里，璐璐就带你看看西方历史上那些不断峰回路转的对于完美女性身材的定义。 Let's start with prehistoric times. Some of the earliest known representations of a woman's body in the west are the 'Venus figurines'. These are small statues from over 20,000 years ago in Europe. These figurines usually portray round, pear-shaped women's bodies, many with large breasts, large hips, and large everything symbolizing fertility, the ability to have many babies. And moving on to Ancient Greece and Rome. The ideal female body should be slim but robust. So you have to have some strength, high, round, useful breasts.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ In today's Buzzword Mix, our buzzword is Hustle Culture. 之前我们说到过一个带hustle 的buzzword叫做Side Hustle副业. But today's Hustle Culture is different. You may not have heard of this word before, but you have definitely experienced hustle culture. So hustle culture describes a common, modern workplace environment that emphasizes hard work and long hours as the key to success. 是不是听起来很熟悉？这个Hustle culture就是指的这么一种现代的职场文化, 它的重点就是hard work and long hours，要取得成功, 你就必须要拼命的工作, 用高强度不断加班这样子的去“卷”才能够获取成功. Hustle culture可以翻译成“搏命文化”, “鸡血文化”或者你直接就说卷的文化. It's become increasingly popular in recent years. With many companies encouraging their employees to put in extra effort and work hours for better results. 其实这个Hustle Culture还真不是只有咱们这儿有, 要不然英语里也不会出现这个词了. Let's dive into the word a little bit more, what exactly is this Hustle Culture? Well, this hustle culture places an intense focus on productivity, ambition, and success. 它所关注的重点就是productivity生产力, ambition野心,和成功success. With little regard for rest, self-care, or any sense of work-life balance. 至于什么休息, 自我关怀或者什么所谓的work-life balance, 工作生活的平衡, 统统都不在意. Now this lifestyle has become increasingly popular in recent years as people strive to achieve their professional goals faster and more efficiently. Despite its popularity though, this mindset has been linked to mental health concerns, like increased anxiety, stress and depression, which we're gonna talk about later. But first of all, you might ask why is hustle culture glorified if it has so many problems, 既然它听起来就有很多问题, 那么为什么它会被吹捧呢？

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi, everyone and welcome back to Happy Hour,欢迎回来酒馆. Hi, 安澜. Hi, Lulu. Fancy seeing you in the studio. Fancy seeing you here too. Jokes aside, what are we gonna talk about today? Well. Today I thought we'll choose a topic that means a lot to me, it's very close to my heart. 安澜喜欢的话题, old books, really really old mildew books? No. Scotch? No. Oh. Then there's only one thing left, coffee. Yes. So today I thought let's talk a little bit about coffee. Now the reason why I have chosen coffee apart from the fact that I am completely addicted to coffee. I know Lulu that you don't drink coffee. I can’t. I physically cannot drink coffee. No idea how you can survive. I guess I just drink. So… Okay. Fair do. If you know us very well or know me very well, you probably heard me mention on several occasions that I don't really drink coffee, or can't really drink coffee, because I get pretty bad heart palpitations. And if I don't drink coffee, I actually feel physically unwell. I am very, very addicted to coffee now. 就是我是那种喝不了咖啡的体质,会心动过速, 然后安澜是那种特别典型的, I think many Europeans are like that, you guys get... are so addicted to coffee, you literally get coffee headaches if you don't drink coffee. Yeah. The first thing I do in the morning is make myself a coffee before anything else. If you're in a place where coffee is not available? Woo. That doesn't happen. Even if I go somewhere, if I go into the countryside, for example, I love going into the outskirts of Beijing. I always take coffee with me. You know. Years ago, I remember when I was in Germany and I went into like a, I don't know, I needed to do some procedural thing and I went into like an office, like a functional office. And then I saw the poster on the wall, saying “there's no life before coffee”. And I tested that to be true, because I was talking to the person working there. Obviously, she didn't have her coffee. And she was filling in the form about me, and she looked at me, and she felt in gender as “unknown”. Hahaha… So what it does... That could be coffee, that could be other reasons, but I’m not gonna be rude. So coming back to the topic, why did you choose this topic apart from the fact that you're so addicted to coffee?

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Welcome back to Geek time Advance. This is Brad. How are you doing Lulu? Hi, Brad, I’m doing fine, and I’m ready for our talk about Brain Chipping. All right. So I thought we'd start off by talking about Neuralink, which is Elon Musk’s company. He is creating brain chips that people can use. The whole idea for him is to use like these chips to control devices really like IoT devices or to help people with their motor skills, their cognitive issues. Yeah, just to remind our audience. IoT is internet of things we actually talked about this “物联网”. So it's like all of these things that are connected within a network, right? So using brain chipping, I guess you can control all of those devices. Yeah, so rather than having to say serious name or to any of your home systems, you can just rather than say something, you can think it, and you can control it that way. Yeah, so I think I want my room to be warmer and immediately my brain, this chip in my brain will help control the temperature of the room because it's linked with my smart aircon. Exactly. That sort of idea. These chips aren't just meant for controlling IoT devices. They're also used for helping people with medical issues. They can help people who have problems with motor skills, help people with vision problems or other issues with senses, whether it's hearing or anything like that. And he's already started to do trials not on humans, but on monkeys. So human trials haven't started yet. He is in the process of getting those human trials going. He's accepting applications, but there's a little bit of issue, because some of the monkeys in the trials didn't exactly behave to the way they would. Some of them got sick, because of the brain chips and so may not be ready for human trials. Yeah. To be honest, I know everyone talking about Elon Musk, especially people who really, really love him, really look up to him. There was obviously they always say he's such a visionary, he's a man with vision. But the other way of looking at it is so progressive in a way that sometimes I think that there's a lot of ethical issues, ethical concerns to be hammered out before going further whatever his vision is. Mhm. Yeah, you have to wonder how this is gonna affect people. Are people actually going to be able to maintain their sanity? Are they gonna be healthy? There's a lot of issues that can come because of this. And so we do have to make sure that people aren't going to get sick after we put a chip in their brain.