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标题: 【揽瓜阁俱乐部每日任务】Day11 2020.05.21 [打印本页]
作者: 妥妥 时间: 2020-5-20 22:20
标题: 【揽瓜阁俱乐部每日任务】Day11 2020.05.21
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Day11 2020.05.21
【人文科学-文化输出】
The Reclusive Food Celebrity Li Ziqi Is My Quarantine Queen
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Like so many home cooks in quarantine, after I’ve used up the green tops of my scallions, I drop the white, hairy roots into a glass of water to regenerate, feeling pleased with my own sense of thrift and pragmatism.
But last week, after the Chinese internet star Li Ziqi posted a new cooking video to YouTube called “The Life of Garlic,” I wished I could graduate from scallions on the windowsill.
In the 12-minute video, which already has over seven million views, Ms. Li pushes garlic cloves into a patch of earth outside her home. A time lapse shows the sprouts growing, reaching up toward the sky.
Ms. Li sautées the young, fresh green garlic shoots with pork. When she harvests the bulbs, she plaits the stems, hanging them up to finish the drying process, pickling and preserving the rest, and using some to season chicken feet and dress salad.
Ms. Li, who lives in a village in Sichuan Province and rarely speaks to press, looks not unlike a Disney princess in her crown braids, wearing a silvery fur cape, trudging gracefully in the snow. At 29, she is famous for her mesmerizing videos of rural self-sufficiency, posted on Weibo and YouTube.
For a worldwide audience in isolation, her D.I.Y. pastoral fantasies have become a reliable source of escape and comfort.
I usually plan to watch one — just one — but then I let the algorithm guide me to another, and another, until, soothed by bird song and instrumentals, I’m convinced that I’m absorbing useful information from Ms. Li about how to live off the land. If I’m ever stuck with two dozen sweet potatoes, I now have some idea how to extract the starch and use it to make noodles. This is what I tell myself. Leave me alone in a lotus pond, and I know how to harvest and prepare the roots.
Ms. Li doesn’t explain anything as she goes. In fact, she tends to work in silence, without the use of any modern kitchen gadgets. Her sieve is a gourd. Her grater is a piece of metal that she punctures, at an angle, then attaches to two pieces of wood. Her basin is a stream, where she washes the dirt from vegetables.
Her kitchen is nothing like mine, in Los Angeles. But watching Ms. Li on my laptop, while eating a bowl of buttered popcorn for dinner, I think maybe I could be happy living like that, too, soaking in the sheer natural beauty of the countryside, devoting myself to extremely traditional ways of cooking.
Ms. Li makes peach blossom wine and cherry wine, preserves loquats and rose petals. She makes fresh tofu, and Lanzhou-style noodle soup with a perfectly clear broth, and ferments Sichuan broad bean paste from scratch. She butchers ducks and whole animals.
She is not known for taking shortcuts. A video about matsutake mushrooms begins with her building the grill to cook them, laying the bricks down one at a time, scraping the mortar smooth, then hunting for mushrooms in the woods.
In a video about cooking fish, she first goes fishing, in the snow, patiently throwing back any catches that are too small, as snowflakes freeze into her hair.
Like the main character in some kind of post-apocalyptic novel, Ms. Li is almost always alone, though she doesn’t seem lonely, riding her horse through fields of wildflowers, or carrying baskets of sweet potatoes under citrus trees. She seems tireless, focused, confident, independent.
The videos are deeply soothing. But it’s not just that — they reveal the intricacy and intensity of labor that goes into every single component of every single dish, while also making the long, solitary processes of producing food seem meaningful and worthwhile.
It’s the complete opposite of most cooking content, the kind that suggests that everything is so quick and easy that you can do it, too, and probably in less than 30 minutes.
But Ms. Li also romanticizes the struggles of farm life, and, as any savvy influencer would, monetizes that appeal. In her online shop, she sells a curved cleaver, similar to the ones she uses in her videos, as well as loose Hanfu-inspired linen clothing, Sichuan ginseng honey and chile sauces.
Skeptics are suspicious of her access to YouTube in China, where the platform is blocked. And though it seems unlikely, some people have wondered in the comment sections if her videos are propaganda.
Ms. Li’s story, as she tells it, is that she left home as a teenager to find work, but returned to the countryside to take care of her grandmother, then began documenting her life. Though she used to shoot her videos alone, on her phone, she now works with an assistant and a videographer.
“I simply want people in the city to know where their food comes from,” Ms. Li said, in a rare interview with Goldthread last fall. (She never responded to my requests.)
But most of the world’s food, whether in China or the United States, doesn’t come from anyone’s backyard, and isn’t made from scratch. Noodles are produced and packaged in factories. Chickens and pigs are gutted on fast, dangerous lines.
The fragility of our industrial supply chains, and the immense risks for the people who work in commercial plants and slaughterhouses, have been laid bare in the last few weeks.
Ms. Li sidesteps the existence of that broken system entirely. This is the powerful fantasy of her videos right now — people growing and cooking all of their own food, not wasting anything, and not needing anything more than what they already have around them.
In isolation, watching Ms. Li gather rose petals and ripe tomatoes, I catch myself thinking, is this sequence set in the past, or the future? Are these videos a record of the collective food knowledge we’ve already lost, or an idealized vision of its recovery?
Source: The New York Times
【人文科学-艺术】
Choir Practice Could Lower Stress in Cancer Patients
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This isn't your typical choir practice. And it’s not held in a traditional practice space either. These singers are all dealing with cancer, theirs or a loved one’s. "There are people in our choirs who are undergoing treatment right now. There are some people who are waiting for treatment." Rosie Dow leads the choir groups at Tenovus Cancer Care, in the U.K. "We do have some terminally ill patients as well in our choirs, so people in palliative care. And then we also have people who've lost people to cancer. So carers and supporters."
Anecdotally, chorus members have said that belting out tunes makes them feel good. But Dow and her colleagues wanted to see if that psychological effect might translate to a biological effect. So they selected five choir groups in Wales—with a total of 193 singers—and they took saliva samples both before and after an hour of singing. They found that singers had significantly lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol after the session than they’d had prior to choir. Along with an increase in proteins called cytokines—which the researchers say might suggest a boost in immune activity. The results are in the journal eCancer Medical Science.
Of course it's still not clear whether those biochemical changes translate to any better outcome for patients. And choir practice is in addition to—not instead of—conventional treatments. "Of course we wouldn't recommend it as an alternative to chemotherapy or radiotherapy or surgery or any of the other conventional cancer treatments, but in terms of people's mental health, this might be a good complement to the treatment that they're having."
Next up, the researchers will conduct a follow-up study at the U.K.'s biggest cancer center to see if these biological changes hold up over the long term. After all, singing is certainly a cheap treatment. And it does no harm, either…as long as you don't wail too hard.
Source: Scientific American
【人文科学-文化输出】
K.pop is changing, too
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In a small restaurant in a quiet backstreet in Seoul’s Gangnam district, the walls and part of the ceiling are covered in posters, postcards and key rings. On one shelf sits an enormous pyramid of coffee-cup sleeves. All the decorations show members of BTS, South Korea’s most successful K-pop act and the highest-grossing boy band in the world. They are gifts from fans around the world for whom the restaurant, where the band used to eat before they were famous, has become a site of pilgrimage.
So far, so unsurprising. Teenagers have projected their dreams onto K-pop idols for years. But BTS are not your average K-pop band. Although their output has all the trappings of the genre—slick production, perfectly choreographed dance routines, rap interludes and ever-unconfirmed rumours about band members’ relationships—they do not conform to the stereotype of the flawless, manufactured idols who are expected to serve as blank screens for fans’ projections. Their producer, a graduate in aesthetics who set up his production company after years of working as a songwriter, has given them plenty of leeway in writing their songs and developing their own image.
That has led them down lyrical paths previously unseen in K-pop. “Dionysus”, the final track of “Map of the soul: persona”, an album inspired by the theories of Carl Jung, a Swiss psychoanalyst, which topped charts all over the world in 2019, celebrates the creative potential of intoxication. The song, named for the Greek god of wine and other sensual pleasures, cuts to the heart of current changes in South Korea. Murray Stein, whose book about Jung inspired the album, likes to think of the Greek god as a “loosener”. Dionysus forces his followers to abandon rigid patterns of thought or behaviour that threaten to thwart their development.
Rather than put fans off, the public soul-searching and the references to Greek mythology and psychoanalysis have struck a chord in a way that no previous K-pop act has ever managed. In 2019 BTS were the highest-paid boy band in the world, selling out stadiums from Seoul to São Paulo. Their latest album topped the charts not just in South Korea but also in Britain and America. “The band’s story is very compelling,” says Hong Seok-kyeong of Seoul National University. “Just these seven ordinary boys who grow together.”
Contrary to common narratives in the West, the South Korean government’s efforts to promote Korean culture have had little to do with this success, says Ms Hong. “Western observers still find it hard to accept that a small east Asian country could generate this amount of cultural influence without a five-year plan from the government.” But that is precisely what BTS appear to have done.
Source: The Economist
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精读笔记格式要求：
1.总结文章中心大意
2.总结分论点或每段段落大意
3.摘抄印象深刻或者觉得优美的句子
4.总结文章中的生词
5.记录阅读时间、总结时间、总时间
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4.总结精听过程中的生词
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作者: 妥妥 时间: 2020-5-20 22:20
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精读 The Reclusive Food Celebrity Li Ziqi Is My Quarantine Queen
一 文章大意
在疫情隔离期间，李子柒记录的静谧的田园生活给观众带来了舒适和满足，引起了人们对当今城市生活的共鸣与议论。
二 段落总结
- 疫情隔离期间，我独自在家水培葱头，享受着极简生活。但是上周中国网红李子柒的一个大蒜的一生的美食视频引起了我的关注。
- 李子柒视频记录了大蒜从播种到收获到做成美食的详细过程。
- 李子柒李是一个以拍摄闲适优美的田园生活而出名的网红，隔离期间看她的视频总让人感到舒适，享受丰收的快乐。作者本人心理也得到了极大的满足。
- 她并不使用任何现代化工作，连厨房也是原始的。视频里安静地劳作和生活让生活在洛杉矶的作者感觉那样的生活可能更幸福一点。
- 李子柒在视频中记录了自己如何酿酒，做美食，做手工，骑着马在野花树林中传说，看起来是那样专注又自信。
- 李子柒把乡村生活刻画的如此舒缓和浪漫，与现代的快节奏生活形成了鲜明对比。
- 有人怀疑李子柒的视频生活是否真实，她回应说拍摄视频是希望人们了解食物的来源和步骤。
- 但当前的食物是来自工业化的流水线，而非后院。视频中回避了这一问题，这也是它的魅力所在。
- 这引发了人们的反思：这些视频是我们对已经失去的集体食物知识的记录，还是对其未来生活的理想愿景?
三 生词摘录
Reclusive：独居的
scallions：葱
thrift and pragmatism：节俭和实用主义
windowsill：窗台
cloves：丁香
lapse：流逝
sprouts：豆芽
sautée：炒
plait：把……编成辫
sooth：安抚
pickle：腌渍
braid：辫子
cape：披肩
trudge：跋涉
mesmerizing ：迷人的
starch：面粉
lotus pond：荷塘
gadget：小工具
sieve：筛子
gourd：葫芦
grater：刨丝器
puncture：刺破
sheer：纯粹的、
loquat：枇杷
petal：花瓣
ferment：发酵
scratch：刮
butcher：宰杀
matsutake：日本松茸
mortar：研钵
scrap：刮去
snowflake：雪花
post-apocalyptic：末日后
intricacy：错综复杂
savvy：精明的
monetize：盈利
cleaver：切肉刀
ginseng：人参
slaughterhouse：屠宰场
Skeptics：质疑者
propaganda：宣传 鼓吹
Goldthread：黄连
gut：取出（内脏）
sidestep：回避
四 句子摘抄
she first goes fishing, in the snow, patiently throwing back any catches that are too small, as snowflakes freeze into her hair.
But Ms. Li also romanticizes the struggles of farm life, and, as any savvy influencer would, monetizes that appeal.
五 用时记录
阅读 5min 总结 30min 共计 41min
作者: 龙驾马 时间: 2020-5-21 18:17
阅读
中心大意
来自中国李子柒，上传了大量的治愈风格的田园生活视频，广受欢迎。而在最近工业社会工业链出现问题的时候，让很多人再次思考这种自给自足的生活方式的意义。
段落大意
第1段 作者描述自己的家庭烹饪细节（把剪过的葱放入水中等其再生）作为全文引子。
第2段 作者提到，这个举动是向一位网红明星——李子柒学的。
第3段 李子柒上传的一段大蒜在自家门口生长发育的视频，很受欢迎，播放量超过了700万。
第4段 李子柒能将蒜不同部位的功能都充分发挥，或做炒菜辅料，或作腌制作料。
第5段 来自四川的李子柒，在微博和Youtube上发布了很多自给自足的乡村生活视频。
第6段 她通过视频向全球观众展示了舒适的田园生活。
第7段 只打算看一个李子柒视频的作者，在算法推荐下，观看了一个又一个李的视频，并了解了很多农家生活的技艺。
第8段 李子柒的视频没有解释，她直接向观众展示自己的使用传统农家工具的劳作过程。
第9段 她视频中的厨房与作者在洛杉矶的现代厨房完全不同，让作者产生了也可以像她那样过上传统农家生活的遐想。
第10段 李子柒用传统工艺酿制桃花酒，樱桃酒，鲜豆腐，兰州拉面，四川豆瓣酱，并自己宰杀家禽。
第11段 李子柒并从事那些省力的捷径，她在一期松茸蘑菇的视频中，自己垒砖做灶，并去林中采摘蘑菇。
第12段 在一段烹饪鱼鲜的视频中，她独在雪中耐心垂钓，不断抛掉任何过小的上钩物。
第13段 李子柒的不懈，自信，专注与独立，让她就像后末日小说里的主人公那样独创天涯。
第14段 这些视频非常治愈，向大家展示了食物从种植到烹饪的各种细节。
第15段 与很多烹饪视频相反，这些菜肴看上去烹饪方式简单便捷，似乎都能在半小时内完成。
第16段 李子柒把艰辛的农业生活表现的浪漫化，并在网上运用她的影响力来出售各种食品，酱料，汉服。
第17段 在中国无法访问Youtube，她的视频引起了一些人的争议，怀疑她在刻意做宣传工作。
第18段 她自述自己在少年时就离家独自谋生，在回乡照顾祖母的时候，开始用视频记录下了的这些田园生活。
第19段 她在接受采访时说，她只是想让观众知道食物是如何产生的。
第20段 然而无论是在中国还是美国，这个世界的大多数食物平不是从自己后院来的。工业化生产的食品无处不在。
第21段 工业供应链的脆弱性和屠宰场的潜在风险在最近的（疫情）面前充分暴露了出来。
第22段 李子柒的田园生活方式却规避了整个系统的存在，让人们感到可以自给自足地生活。
第23段 作者开始思考，这些视频是已被遗忘的食物获取技艺的记录，还是理想化的幻景。
句子摘抄
For a worldwide audience in isolation, her D.I.Y. pastoral fantasies have become a reliable source of escape and comfort.
Like the main character in some kind of post-apocalyptic novel, Ms. Li is almost always alone, though she doesn’t seem lonely, riding her horse through fields of wildflowers, or carrying baskets of sweet potatoes under citrus trees.
The fragility of our industrial supply chains, and the immense risks for the people who work in commercial plants and slaughterhouses, have been laid bare in the last few weeks.
But it’s not just that — they reveal the intricacy and intensity of labor that goes into every single component of every single dish, while also making the long, solitary processes of producing food seem meaningful and worthwhile.
生词摘抄
pragmatism n.实用主义
scallion n.青蒜
braids n.披肩
sieve n.筛子
intricacy n.错综复杂
gutted a. 取出内脏的
阅读时间 10分钟
总结时间 40分钟
总计用时 50分钟
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中心大意
一个由癌症患者组成的乐团正在排练。研究者发现，将合唱活动作为附加的辅助治疗手段，有助病患康复。
听写时间 18分钟
总结时间16分钟
共计34分钟
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