可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hello everyone, and welcome back to America Under the Microscope, advanced episode. Hi Lulu. Hi, James. Let's continue our talk about text books and curriculum, and let's get into the more controversial issues related to textbooks in America. Oh, yes. I've heard about some of the issues. Yeah. So let's go and talk about some of that textbook content that people find to be questionable. As we talked about in the last episode, so the states choose the standards and the textbooks that can be used. But this also leads to political influence because different states have like different views of what should or should not be taught. Different political leanings. And this can reflect into the textbooks for use and what get taught. Good example of this in America would be the American Civil War. Oh, American Civil War, I thought now is pretty much settled like people have a generalized leaning on this, or people still disagree on which side should be supported? Well, in general you're not going to find people arguing that because slavery was bad. It's more of like in some states, more commonly in the Southeast will still frame it as like a war against Northern aggression. I see. Instead of a war about… Abandoning…abolishing slavery. So, I mean, they still talk about the abolishing slavery, but they also talk about some of the atrocities that the Northern armies did, and they focus more on that. They're not teaching incorrect information, but they're just skewing it and putting a kind of a spin on it. I think it was history textbooks, it’s always… perhaps it attracts more debates because history is one of those, the facts might be the same, but how you spin it, how you interpret it will directly affect people you are teaching. And the other subject that this is really noticeable in are biology and English. Biology and English? Yes. Biology, the big one in biology is evolution. Oh, yes, because there are people who don't believe in evolution. There are quite a few Americans, due to their religious beliefs, don't believe in evolution and don't want evolution to be taught in schools. Or if it is taught in schools, it needs to be taught alongside something called intelligent design. Intelligent design? Yeah, it's a religious idea. I don't quite understand it. But it is… Is it just creationism? Yean, it is, under a new term. Can I just clarify this? It is against law to teach students, directly teach students religion in public school, right? Yes, separation of church and states. So the schools cannot do any kind of religious activity or religious indoctrination in schools. What they can do is they can teach about the religions as in this is a religion, this is what people believe, this is where it is practiced as an you know just general cultural knowledge. But you cannot tell a student that is like there is one god, that you will get you fired. But now it sounds like you're saying people who are religious are saying if you teach, if you teach evolution, if you teach that human came from monkeys, then you must teach religion as well. In some states, yes, not in all states. I was lucky in my state that did not happen. My state is like you learned evolution, that was what you learned. Yeah. The other thing I would imagine is sex education. That's another big one. But mostly it’s just whether it is taught, how much it's taught, or is it not taught. So some places they just don't teach it. At all? At all. Some places teach it really well. So it depends. And I suppose when. Yeah, also when they teach it too. And you also mentioned English language, what's that about Ha, a big part of the issue and English is like the novels you read. Oh, the book list. So a lot of parents don't want their kids read certain novels because they contain themes they don't like, or language they don't like. 可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~

"欢迎来到英文小酒馆的迷你双语板块【Buzzword Mix】-新词特饮，短短几分钟，让不同段位的你掌握最新最地道的英文谈资！ 关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，获取更多有趣节目内容和文稿哦~" In today's Buzzword Mix, our buzzword is Threequel. 相信很多人都和璐璐一样, 已经看过新上的《侏罗纪世界3》了，所以今天的Buzzword里，我们就来聊聊和电影有关的这个词Threequel. The term Threequel is a blend of the words “three” and “sequel”, 这个新词是由“three”和“sequel”两个部分组成的. The word “sequel” originates from the Latin sequella, meaning “follow”. When we are talking about movies, “sequel” simply means the second movie following the original story. 说电影的时候“sequel”指的就是续集/续章. And Threequel means the movie that is following the sequel. 而所谓的Threequel就是指续集后面的续集, 比如说三部曲里的第三部。 In the Hollywood film industry, three usually is thought of as the magic number. That's why there are lots of trilogies. 在电影史上你就能看到很多的trilogy, 三部曲. This is usually the original movie followed by sequel, and then followed by a threequel, the third movie in the series. Now there are many examples of high profile threequels, for example, The Godfather Part III, 影史上有很多有名的电影系列都出到了第三部, 比如说《教父3》. And the latest threequel in the Jurassic Franchise – Jurassic World Dominion. 刚刚上映的《侏罗纪世界》第三部也是一部threequel. Many threequels have enjoyed box office success, especially those ones that are based on stories originally conceived as trilogies, such as The Lord of the Rings. 很多系列里的第三部票房成绩都还算不错, 特别是像《指环王》这样本来就计划做三部曲的电影系列. However, despite the box office success they may enjoy, threequels are often seen as disappointing. 虽然票房不错, 但是也有很多人都觉得凡是三部曲里的最后一部多半都是烂片. Some people even talk about the curse of the threequels, 甚至有人把它叫做threequel的诅咒. And it's not just the terrible ones, some of the most critically acclaimed trilogies also suffer from the threequel curse. 即使那些很有名的电影系列, 很多时候也逃不过第三部烂尾的诅咒. So it got us wondering, what's really happening here. Why are threequels almost always the worst ones？ There are two factors that come into play here: formula and necessity. The reason why film trilogies have been around for so long is that they're a really great structure to tell a long story, with each film serving as a beginning, a middle, and an end. This also means that each film should serve a very specific purpose. 为什么三部曲一直很火？主要就是因为如果要把一个很长的故事讲完整, 三部曲的分工正好是beginning, middle, and an end, 各占其位, 各司其职. No matter the genre, the first film always serves as an origin story that introduces us to our heroes and the world they live in. 第一部, 通常是介绍整个故事的大背景以及主人公. The sequels always tend to enjoy more freedom, since their characters and worlds are already established for them. For this reason, the second film is all about heroes facing the greatest challenge they've faced yet. 然后到了sequel续集的时候, 因为前面已经打好了框架, 就可以专注来讲主人公面临的某一个巨大的挑战或者一个大反派. This is where the problem with threequels comes in. There isn't really a formula for a successful threequel, at least not yet. 关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，获取更多有趣节目内容和文稿哦~"

公号: 【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目文稿，了解广阔的世界。跟随我们的脚步，体会英语的温度。 Hi, everyone. And welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来《闲话美国》。 Hi, James. Hi, Lulu, hi everyone. Every time I'll start the episode by asking you what we're gonna talk about today, but instead of doing that, I would like to propose a specific topic. I see. Go ahead. Have you been following the latest heated discussion about textbooks? The problem with Chinese text books on social media. Ah, I have seen posts about it, but I haven't really been following that news. So a lot of people are getting really angry about the problems with these text books. I thought it would be quite interesting to talk about text books that you guys use in United States. That's a very good topic. Let's do it. First things first, in China, our textbooks, especially for K12, so for primary education and secondary education, they are generally approved by the Ministry of Education, 是由教育部这边要审核和认可的。 And then how the curriculum as well, 整个课程计划, what about in the States? I'm guessing, from based on what we were talking about before in other episodes, each State will have their own rules. That is a very good guess and you are correct, in America, it’s a lot more complicated than here in China. Don't you have Department of Education? Don't they have a say like more of a generalized control over this? OK, so we do have a Department of Education at the Federal level, but in America, the Department of Education does not set curriculum and does not choose or write the text books that the schools use. The Department of Education sets the education policy, such as who can go to school like don't discriminate against your students, things like this; and making sure that the schools are credited, and are safe and suitable for students. But the material, the curriculum is all done at the local State level. I see, so Department of Education is very much about macro policy, 更多是宏观的一些政策, very vague, very general. That's right. And then what does State do? The State Departments of Education, they are the ones who really control what is taught in the classroom. So the State Education Departments, they're the ones that set such curriculum and choose the standards which the teachers need to be teaching in the classroom. Additionally, they also approve the text books that are to be used in school. Okay, you know in China, we would say at this grade you should be, for example, you should recognize, let's say 3,000 Chinese characters at this age or at this grade, you should be able to do geometry, so that sort of thing is set by the States. Yeah, governments uhhh Those are what we'd call the standards. I see. I have a question though, because each State will have this much power over how kids are taught, what kind of contents are taught in school, then the difference between states can be significant, right, technically some states can set a very low standard for the students for the kids? Now there are some nationwide standards that the States can choose to use. Some people may be familiar with the term Common Core. What is Common Core? This is a standard for English Language Arts and Math that has been adopted in many States across the country as part of their school standards; and Common Core states things like by this Grade students will be able to analyze text and write a descriptive essay, by this Grade, they can know this kind of math formula and things like that it's a standard, but States can choose their own. Common Core听起来有点像我们统一的教学大纲。But you also said they're about English Language Arts and Math. 公号: 【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目文稿，了解广阔的世界。跟随我们的脚步，体会英语的温度。

酒馆音乐剧板块《曲外之音》，跟璐璐和英国资深音乐剧人Oliver一起品名音乐剧背后的故事，让高雅艺术触手可得~公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】可以索要英语全文稿哦~ Hi, everyone. And welcome back to Sound of Musicals. 欢迎回来【曲外之音】。 In the previous episode, we talked to Oliver about West Side Story, and today we're gonna continue that talk about its conflicts and the music. Hi, Oliver. Hello. Welcome back to the show. Thank you. It's good. I remember talking to you when we're not recording and then you mentioned that you play the character in West Side Story. However, this is not one of your favorite musicals. No, that's true. I was in this show, and there are definitely some good aspects of it. But it doesn't sit perfectly with me. There are lots of things which I think could have been done better, or changed, or it’s just not my style. It’s not as hopeless as Les Mis (Les Miserables 悲惨世界). Yes, that's true. Les Mis is on the other end of the musical chart in terms of hopelessness and sadness really. But I think some aspects in this, yeah, they could have certainly been a bit more serious, a bit more heart-hitting than they were. Yes. When I was watching it, at bits I also felt like it is still about gang violence or maybe they were just using this as a backdrop, but certainly at place it felt like they were kind of playing light of this theme which should be a lot darker, a lot heavier. It should, yeah. And most times people do make gang violence, gang warfare to be very dark because that is more towards the truth of gang violence. West Side Story takes it in a very different direction by having these serious gangs who fight and kill. They do elaborate dances to happy music while they click their fingers, it doesn't feel quite like I should take them seriously. It's hard to be, it does feel like that. It's like pretend gangsters but actual musical actors. Yes, it does feel like that. We are supposed to believe these guys fight and they're angry and they do lots of bad things, but you can't really believe it sometimes when you see them. That's one of the things that I think could have been changed a little bit. But I do know that lots of people like that side of it. It’s embracing this gang culture, this gang idea but not in a serious heavy sad way. Yeah, I mean you can't imagine turning Godfather trilogy into musicals, it just doesn't work. Don Corleone (唐·柯里昂, 《教父》系列的Godfather) clicking his fingers and spinning doesn't really go very well with that movie. No, no. And I think a lot of people do love the idea of gangsters. Actually, I think in many cultures, there has been a period… different historical periods of people would into that sort of film, TV, it's also about this youth related adrenaline rush, like you're fighting for whatever you think it's the right reason to fight. And you can use violence to correct the wrongs or to deal with everything. That idea I think you can obviously see in the gang members. Yes, definitely. Both of the gangs have very different ideas of … in terms of how they should be seen by other people and how they should be treated and their positions within the neighborhood. Both of them are using violence to try to become the top gang to have everybody listen to them, so they are respected. What that actually means for the neighborhood? I'm not entirely sure, because would they do if they are number one? But that's not talked about within the musical. I don't think they just want to be the best. So… No. But the other thing I noticed about the two gangs it's not just normal two nameless gangs. It's more like, there’s the racial element. There's definitely the racial element. It's the whites, the local gangs. I don't know if they're Italian because Tony sounds very Italian, then some of the other names sounds a bit Italian. And then you have this other newer immigrants, the Puerto Rican gang. So the racial element that you do see. ... 公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】可以索要英语全文稿哦~

"欢迎来到英文小酒馆的迷你双语板块【Buzzword Mix】-新词特饮，短短几分钟，让不同段位的你掌握最新最地道的英文谈资！ 关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，获取更多有趣节目内容和文稿哦~" In today's Buzzword Mix, our buzzword is Side Hustle. If you have been following English language media in the past few years, you have definitely seen this expression. So Side Hustle, “Side” means on the side; “Hustle” here simply means work or a job. So simply put a Side Hustle is work you do on the side of your regular job to make additional income. 说白了, 在你主业工作之外所有你做的这些搞钱的副业, 都可以叫做Side Hustle. Some people might say, isn't that just a part time job？ It is and it isn't. The way people define Side Hustle tends to vary, but to most, it involves some type of self-employment as opposed to a traditional second job. Side Hustle和普通的***还是有点不一样的, 它通常更倾向于是self-employment, you are your own boss, such as freelance gigs. 比如说自由职业的一些工作, or an entrepreneurial endeavor或者干脆是自主创业. One great thing about Side Hustles is that they often serve as an opportunity for people to pursue something they’re interested in or passionate about. But perhaps the greatest reason more and more people are starting a Side Hustle comes down to the financial security it can provide. Although this word has been very popular in the past few years, the expression Side Hustle was actually first used in 1950. 其实从50年代就开始出现的这个Side Hustle并不是一个新词, but the term became popular during and after the last recession when traditional jobs disappeared and enterprising people had to make ends meet. 但是它的爆火则是因为上一次经济萧条期, 传统的工作机会越来越少, 所以很多人都不得不开始研究副业搞钱这条路. So what are some of the typical examples of Side Hustles？ For example, you can set up a store and start selling clothes and other things online; you can launch your own social media account for profit on YouTube or on Bilibili, TikTok; you can make and sell handicrafts; you can teach online courses, offer photography services; or you might be doing some freelance creative work including writing, illustration, graphic design. 常见的Side Hustle包括开网店/做自媒体/售卖自己做的手工艺品/教授网上课程/做写手插画师…等等自由职业. The reason why so many people are engaged in Side Hustles is because there are obvious benefits. A Side Hustle can offer you the opportunity to explore your passions or pursue your dream job without sacrificing the steady pay check of a day job. 一个好的副业可以让你既不牺牲平时工作的稳定, 又能去追求自己的梦想. Not only does a Side Hustle provide an injection of extra cash flow to your bank account, it can also help to boost overall life satisfaction. 而且用副业就能搞到钱补贴家用, 也会提升你的生活质量. Another benefit of having a Side Hustle is that they allow for flexibility in workplace and work hours. Often Side Hustles are solopreneurial or entrepreneurial endeavors. 很多人喜欢副业其实是因为它的flexibility, 灵活性, 因为很多人在副业里自己不是个entrepreneur创业者, 就是solopreneur单打独斗的创业者. And when you're the boss, you get to decide everything, call the shots-including when and for how long you’ll work. This can be really appealing to those who feel trapped by a traditional 9-to-5 job. 仅凭这一点Side Hustle就能吸引很多已经过惯了朝九晚五的人. On Top of that, Side Hustle typically does not require a large financial investment upfront. 它的另外一个好处就是和真正抛家舍业的创业不一样, Side Hustle通常不需要a large financial investment upfront一开始就投入一大笔资金. It can be as simple as you create something and you try to sell it online. If you're good enough, you can easily sell ideas and knowledge you already have. While there are plenty of pros to having a Side Hustle, that's not to say there aren't a lot of things to consider before diving in. 说了这么多好处Side Hustle可不是人人都能一闭眼就开干的. There are many things to consider, one major consideration before taking on a Side Hustle is the potential conflict with your day job, some companies have policies that prohibit moonlighting.... 关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，获取更多有趣节目内容和文稿哦~

酒馆音乐剧板块《曲外之音》，跟璐璐和英国资深音乐剧人Oliver一起品名音乐剧背后的故事，让高雅艺术触手可得~公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】可以索要英语全文稿哦~ Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Sound of Musicals. 欢迎回来【曲外之音】. Hi Oliver. Hello. So what are we gonna talk about today? In the very first interview I had with you, you talked about your theater groups have put on quite a few musicals, and you mentioned Les Misérables, but what else? One of my earliest musicals that I had a speaking part in, not a lead role, but I was on stage a lot, I was talking. It was West Side Story. Okay, based on our conversations before, you don't really strike me as someone who would be in West Side Story, like essentially a gangster story, right？ It is basically, yes, it's a story about two gangs in New York fighting for control of their neighborhood who is the top gang. West Side Story is one of those things I'm not sure if it's very popular among Chinese audience, but if people in English speaking countries, if they know anything about musical theater, they have at least heard of it. Yes, I'm not sure how many people would say it's their favorite, but most people have heard of it, yes, either the musical or the two movies that were made of it. The latest movie version of West Side Story was released only last year 2021 by Spielberg. Yes, it came out last year. I haven't seen it but the reviews are quite positive. Online reviews seem to like the movie. I checked on Rotten Tomatoes, they’re getting as high as 93% which is amazing. That is quite good. I have to admit I only watched some of it, but the whole cinematography how they shot it looked amazing, definitely have to find a time to watch the entire thing, little bit about the background. So it debuted in the 1950s, right？ Yes, in 1957 is when it opened, and it did quite well, lots of people did enjoy it. They went to see it and they had about 1,000 shows within 3 years, so it did very well for itself. And I think one of the things that made Wide Side Story really popular or special is not just the gang stories, but it's also that is based on a Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet. Yes, so the background and sort of the under story, the story itself really is based on Romeo and Juliet this idea of two gangs fighting in a city; and then a boy from one gang, a girl from the other fall in love, and everything that happens between them. It's basically modern-day Romeo and Juliet set in New York. Yes, that is exactly it is, it's modern setting for Romeo and Juliet. And there are different take in some areas, some things are a little different, but overall the story is quite similar I think to Romeo and Juliet. It's just instead of rival families, these are rival gangs, but I suppose it's the equivalent of rival families. It is yes, when Romeo and Juliet was set, it was family gangs but not everybody in the family was actually related. You could be in somebody's family but not their brother, their cousin, anything like that. They could be your friend. The Clan, like the clan culture, like a family clan. Yes, exactly. So you could be friends of the family fighting with them, but not actually in the family. All right. So, let me give you that impossible task again of giving us a very, very brief summary of the plot. ... 公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】可以索要英语全文稿哦~

【Geek Time】-“极客”时间，和“科技宅”Brad一起聊神秘有趣的“黑科技”“高科技”“硬科技”。欢迎关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，可以查看更多精彩内容，查看英语全文稿哦~ Hi everyone, and welcome back to Geek Time. This is Brad. Hey, Lulu, how are you going? Actually, it’s Geek Time advanced. Geek Time advanced, that’s right. Hey, Brad. So last time we were talking about NFT. Yeah, so we're gonna kind of talk a little bit about the speculative nature of the NFT as an asset, like the stock market. Speculative, basically, means you're taking a lot of risks. NFT just sounds like all speculation to me because it doesn't have any real, in a traditional sense, any like real sort of value. Right. In some cases, it does have value because it can give you like a commercial right to use something. But when it comes to, some of it is just you buy a piece of art and you're hoping that maybe someone will want to buy that from you later at a higher price. But it's still different though. If I buy an actual painting, I can hang it up in my room for people to see. And later on I can sell that actually that very tangible piece of painting to other people. But NFT, I can't hold in my hand. And if I lose the file, I lose all of my money, right? If you lose the file, you lose everything. Like it's connected to like when you look at it, it doesn't have any value unless you have a buyer. That's the one thing like that one makes it quite speculative, right? You can't sell it unless you have a buyer; when it comes to the stock market or something like that, you buy a stock, there's a value that's inherent in the company. But when you have like a piece of art, may not have anyone that wants to buy that at any point ever. So it doesn't have any intrinsic value in that way. Because I know you, I know you invest in stock market and even in crypto-currency, what about NFT, would you in the future ever consider investing in NFT market? I don't think I would ever actually buy any NFTs, unless that NFT carried some sort of licensable rights that I could use. Okay. Like if it was just… maybe like a song, if I can…the NFT gave me the right to use a song or something like that. But you will only buy it if you can profit from it, not just because you really like this artist that you would buy an NFT. Probably not. I'll buy the T-shirt from someone. All right, probably much cheaper. When did it all start? This started about 2011, as when they think the first NFT was actually made, could have been before that. But this was like the first time that anyone has like recorded knowledge of an NFT that I've seen. Someone made an art piece of art at GPEG, basically. I don't know if that was the actual file, but it was a graphic piece of art that they sold as an NFT; and then after that, there wasn't really a whole lot. But in 2015, Ethereum started selling like hexagon tiles to their world. They sold all the hexagon tiles for something like $1.4 million. Not a piece, but the total. But still, I mean that is a very very new concept. Why do you think NFT, since it was pretty much created, the whole concept was created 5 or even 10 years ago, why do you think was all the buzz about NFT now like in the past year or so?.... 欢迎关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，可以查看更多精彩内容，查看英语全文稿哦~

"欢迎来到英文小酒馆的迷你双语板块【Buzzword Mix】-新词特饮，短短几分钟，让不同段位的你掌握最新最地道的英文谈资！ 关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，获取更多有趣节目内容和文稿哦~" In today's Buzzword Mix, our buzzword is That Girl. You heard it right, it's super simple. Today's buzzword only consists of two of the most simple words in English vocabulary, that girl. However, “that girl” is a viral phenomenon that's been going around on TikTok since last year, and its popular has also split over onto other platforms including YouTube. 今天的buzzword我们就来聊聊从去年开始火遍社交媒体的这个标签 “that girl-那个女孩”. First things first, who is that girl？ Well, of course “that girl” is not any girl in particular. It is, however, essentially a viral wellness trend. 所谓的那个女孩指的不是特定的某个女生, 而是去年开始火遍社交媒体的一种wellness trend. Wellness这个词蛮难翻译的, a combination of your physical, mental, and spiritual health, 基本可以把它理解为你的身心灵都全面健康. People who want to be “that girl, they are embracing the best version of themselves or showing the best version of themselves, and trying to level up their life. 所以”那个女孩”指的也就是社交媒体上永远都自律阳光正能量的完美女神. The “that girl” trend first rose in popularity on TikTok in April last year, videos with the #thatgirl had billions of views, many of these encouraged the viewer to become that girl. “那个女孩”的风潮去年在 TikTok上走红, 很快就达到了过亿的播放，一时有无数的人开始发短视频, 争当”那个女孩”. So how do you become that girl？ Let me walk you through her routine. So that girl wakes up really early in the morning. She cooks and eats a plant-based breakfast. “那个女孩”早上总是很早起床, 然后下厨给自己做一份健康又美丽的素食早餐. And then she journals her thoughts in a neatly section day planner. 她会在自己的每日计划文里工工整整的写下今天要做的事项以及她的心得体会. She chants affirmations, perhaps saying to herself in the mirror you are the best. 她随时随地都在对自己进行自我肯定的暗示. She works out in cute coordinated outfits. 她健身的时候永远穿着超高颜值的成套的健身服. After working out she gulps some green juices which is really good for your system. 健完身再来一大杯绿色的果蔬汁. She is productive, professionally successful, and somehow still finds time for skin care, meditation, and all the time taking perfect photos of all of the evolve for social media. 她不仅效率惊人, 事业有成, 永远的保持着最佳状态; 同时护肤冥想一样也没落下, 还有时间把自己所有的这些完美瞬间都拍成照片或者视频分享在社交媒体上. So this is a typical “that girl”. This all sounds a little bit exhausting to me, but there are many people who enjoyed the “that girl” trend, especially young women. For example Hollie, an 18-year-old lifestyle YouTuber based in the UK, feels like the trend is about finding joy within the small moments找到生活的小确幸; whilst also establishing daily habits and routines that allow you to be healthy mentally, physically, and spiritually. 她就认为that girl的风潮确实可以激励你去追求身、心、灵的全面健康. She said “I think if you focus on the feelings you get from following this trend, and how engaging in these habits can improve your overall well-being, then it can actually be very helpful and motivating”. Another young video creator who also became “that girl” last year, she calls the trend more of a “highlight reel” . 另外一位也跟风拍了视频的女孩就认为that girl的这种视频其实更像一个highlight reel, 高光时刻的集锦. ... 关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，获取更多有趣节目内容和文稿哦~"

【Geek Time】-“极客”时间，和“科技宅”Brad一起聊神秘有趣的“黑科技”“高科技”“硬科技”。欢迎关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，可以查看更多精彩内容，查看英语全文稿哦~ Hi everyone. And welcome back to Geek Time.欢迎回来【极客时间】。Hi, Brad. Hello. I know that I always ask you what we're gonna talk about, but can I propose a topic today? Right, what do you have in mind? NFT. OK. Something I see everywhere now, but I just don't understand. Would you say NFT is a big topic in English speaking world as well? I would say it's really big, it's all over in the news these days. You see it just about anywhere, on Facebook, on YouTube, you'll see just tons and tons of videos and news stories about people buying NFTs. But please tell me that people in English speaking world also don't understand, most of them… Most of them really have no idea what it is, like a lot of them like the boomers are just like what is this NFT stuff. Boomers are old. Ok, first things first, NFT in Chinese is called非同质化代币。同质就是同样的 I don't know, maybe同样的性质的代币it still sounds very technical, in English, it's… Non-Fungible Token. Fungible means…? Not replaceable. Not replaceable token, token is almost like a little coin, right, that you use; and they are art pieces, could you give us a, like a very general, description of what is a Non-Fungible Token? Non-Fungible Tokens can really be any type of file format. They could be like jpeg art, they could be movie files, they could be music files, they could be 3D printable files, just about anything, but it ends kind of like involves just a bunch of data that you can sell. But it's not replaceable because you have one file, and this file can only be used by like one person at a time. Ok, so let me put it in an even simpler way, if you Brad were an artist, you made a digital creation, like a painting, digital painting. I wanna buy that painting, like I wanna buy the NFT of that painting, basically I buy something digital and then there's a file that shows I own the digital version of that painting or that digital painting. Right, you would own like a license afore, right, so you wouldn’t own like the copyright to it. Like original owner, the original creator of that, they would own the copyright to that idea, but like you could own depending upon like the base kind of, like the contractual agreement with the NFT, you could either just own it and have it for your own use or maybe even use it for like a license to be able to sell things containing that graphic or art. 所以就是原著者/原创者还是有著作权，还是有版权 copyright. But I have, depending on how much I pay, depending on the contract, I will have some form of ownership either I can just have it to myself or I can use it for commercial use to make money. Yeah. And usually you said only one copy, but it's not just one copy, is it? You can own one copy, you could own 10 copies of it, basically like the person who makes the art or whoever makes the NFT can make as many copies as they want, and so like the value of that can be really based on the number of copies, maybe there's only one copy of it or maybe… And that is very, very expensive, if they're like millions of copies, then it's really cheap. Exactly. I see. So say I pay you the money, I got the copy. What do I get? I don't just get the picture, I get a file? It's a file, it's like a block chain file, so you get something that's like the art, but also it comes with like a block chain that shows like your ownership of it. Block Chain就是区块链。 Another topic that we can really go into, but essentially I just get like a digital file that proves the ownership, ok.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ 【America Under the Microscope】Advanced Keywords • Late night wars （Previous generation of famous comics） Fight for viewers Controversy over who takes over the show • Outdated format YouTube and subscription-based TV No need to stay up late to watch Lack of originality • Modern hosts Much more friendly rivalry Hello everyone, and welcome back to America Under the Microscope, advanced episode. Hi, Lulu. Hi, James. So we're gonna continue our talk about late night talk shows, and I want to know what talk shows do you like? I've been watching the Daily Show. I've watched a lot of Daily Show, but not so much with the new host. Trevor Noah? Yeah. I mean, I like Trevor Noah. But I started watching the Daily Show when John Stewart was still the host. I remember watching the Daily Show when I was still in university, a long time ago. What attracts you to… for example the Daily Show. What I liked about the Daily Show is because it was different than other late night talk shows, yet and also, Stephen Colbert’s previous show, The Colbert Report. Oh, I love Colbert Report. Because they were literally fake news. So it was kind of poking fun of like the Cable News programs. So they were just doing things very differently; and also their interviews that they did. They interviewed people that you wouldn't see on the regular talk shows because they interviewed like scientists, writers that you would not normally think of… One thing that always shocks me about the Daily Shows is like some of the interviews these people they look legit, you think are they just playing alone with this whole comic act? I think sometimes they were. Or do they actually think this is a serious interview? Most of them are aware that it's a comic act, but the hosts were pretty good at like jesting based on the guest that they had there. So they know some can be more playful or others play a more straight. Yeah, but I mean, I'm not saying it's scripted, but they've definitely talked to these people before. It's not like live interview. One thing that always gets to me is that sometimes people get really offended by like the Daily Show. And then they're like this is just fake. This is not true. Well, dah, this is like we're comedians. It's not a news program. I think this is very important to see things like the Daily Show as just satirical comedy. There's satirical about absolutely everything, to not take it seriously. This is one thing I think that… personally I think it's the ability to take a joke, you don't have to agree with them, right? And that's the thing. What I like about some of these shows especially like the Daily Show is that I like the sort of the comedy timing, a lot of the hosts and also the co-hosts on this show they've got perfect comedy timing, and their own different style. They're all comedians and they're all have practicing it for years and getting on the Daily Show like if you're a comedian and get on the daily shows. You're really an upcoming comic. I do watch things like Fallon and Kimmel sometimes, but honestly for me personally that is a little bit too family friendly for my taste. Yeah, they're… the big ones like Fallon and Kimmel, they're trying mass appeal, they're trying to reach out to be… the general public. I mean Colbert is a little bit different. He does bit more satire, so it kind of misses with some of the population. He's actually involved in politics, right? Colbert? Partially. I mean, he's jokingly run things, um, but he is known to be a bit more political than the other hosts. 可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~

"欢迎来到英文小酒馆的迷你双语板块【Buzzword Mix】-新词特饮，短短几分钟，让不同段位的你掌握最新最地道的英文谈资！ 关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，获取更多有趣节目内容和文稿哦~" In today's Buzzword Mix, our buzzword is the Goblin Mode. Now if you have been following TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter lately, chances are you have seen this new trend？ 今天的buzzword里，咱们就来聊聊最近在国外的社交媒体很火的一个词, the Goblin Mode--哥布林模式. To understand what that is, we need to understand the original meaning of the word “goblin”. In European folklore, goblin is a general name for evil and malicious spirits, usually small and grotesque in appearance. 在欧洲的民间传说里就提到这样一种长相怪异丑陋的像精灵一样的类人生物, 他们被叫做Goblin哥布林; 如果你喜欢奇幻题材的影视游戏, 肯定也见过goblin这样的存在. Now in many of the stories, they are described as a subterranean species, so they live underground. They don't really socialize with humans apart from causing them trouble, and they pay zero attention to how they look. 关于哥布林的形象怎么说, 就是颜值一言难尽的那种. 他们很多时候生活在地下, 和人也没有什么良性的互动. Now you might be asking, but how is goblin related to us？ Picture this: it’s Saturday afternoon, and you have hundreds of things to do, but instead of doing them, you're in your pajamas, you make yourself a comforting bowl of instant noodles and devour them, splashing soup over your chin and your bed sheets while your dog looks at you in disgust. 比如你可以想象在某一个宅家的周末, 你穿着睡衣, 刚狼吞虎咽下一包泡面, 泡面的汤汁滴的你睡衣还有床上到处都是, 连你们家狗子都在一边嫌弃你. You've just binged an entire web series and are preparing to start another. 你刚 “肝”完了一部狗血的网剧, 马上连“肝”下一部. You feel a bit like a slob. Look at yourself in a mirror, you're just in “Goblin mode”. 那么恭喜你, 完美达成了你的 “哥布林模式”. So this Goblin Mode, which is taking the current pandemic-ridden world by storm, is a state of being that is defined by behaviors people got used to during deep lockdown days. 所谓的“哥布林模式” 就是因为这几年断断续续长期的疫情宅家, 我们已经很习惯的那种居家生活, 躺平摆烂的状态. ... 字数有限，全文文稿请关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，获取更多有趣节目内容和文稿哦~"

搜公号: 【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目文稿，了解广阔的世界。跟随我们的脚步，体会英语的温度。 KEY WORDS • Late night talk show Basic • Video clips of Jimmy Fallon/Kimmel and Stephen Colbert are popular on Chinese social media • What is Late night talk shows? History • Started late 40s early 50s • Evolved from variety shows • Created the format • Monologue • Comedy • Celebrity interviews • A house band • Musical performances • Format hasn’t changed Now the big three popular talk shows? • The Late Show • The Tonight Show • Jimmy Kimmel Live • Evolution Late night comedy news The daily Show Hi everyone, and welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【 闲话美国】. Hi James. Hi Lulu, hi everyone. So what's our topic today? Well, I've been noticing on Chinese social media a lot right now, clips from comedians like Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert seem to be really popular here. Are we going to about talk shows? We're going to talk about talk shows, specifically kind of like the American style of talk shows. First of all, what is the idea of talk show? In Chinese, we translated it directly into脱口秀, but is it just like a one host and then guest speakers so… like what we're doing now? A little bit like what we're doing now, so talk show, you have the host. Uh. And usually, the host is a comedian because they’re also gonna, you know, spend part of the time just talking by themselves and tell jokes, but then they interview usually celebrities, but it could be things like musicians, comedians, actors, famous authors, and even sometimes politicians, too. But the whole undertone of it is comic? Yes. The undertone of these shows is comic and entertaining. So the interviews usually are not serious, it 's not a news interview or anything like that. So they are no serious talk shows? Like a serious dialogue asking, for example, politicians about the policies they want to make? In those kind of things, we would consider that more of a news talk show, and those do exist. But usually that's not going to be hosted by a comedian that's going to be hosted by a journalist. Oh, so when people about talk shows in America, most people would think it's more like a comic. More light hearted. We do have kind of like daytime talk shows which tend to be more… not serious but not quite comedic. That's another thing. When it comes to脱口秀, you have the idea of daytime就是日间的脱口秀and late night深夜脱口秀. 去【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目全文逐字文稿~