main idea:
Pinduoduo is stuck into PR crisis and investigated by social security bureau because of a worker death, resulted from pinduoduo's overwhelming workload and secreted culture
structure:
topic sentence: pinduoduo is facing an scandal and investigation because of worker dead
Industry pain point: this kind of tech industry has a tough schedule - 996 - which means, starting work at 9pm, off work at 9pm and work for 6 days per week. the overwhelming workload led to 400 times share increasing last year but 2 decreasing after the death accident
Fei's death: the company called the worker by first name Fei, according to the company, she off work at 1:30 am and suddenly go dead on her way to home from work. former workers said working time from pinduoduo always stretch beyond 9 hours, in return: they earn much more than tecent and alibaba
Critics on Pinduoduo's post: social account of pinduoduo on Zhihu: we are all trade life for work/money, the post was condemned by public, pinduoduo deleted the post and explained: not on behalf of Pinduoduo but someone who sent out the post mistakenly. Zhihu verified that the post was absolutely sent by pinduoduo, who then blamed on agency: Li
Investigation: pinduoduo is already investigated by Shanghai social security bureau
main idea:
Pinduoduo is stuck into PR crisis and investigated by social security bureau because of a worker death, resulted from pinduoduo's overwhelming workload and secreted culture
structure:
topic sentence: pinduoduo is facing an scandal and investigation because of worker dead
Industry pain point: this kind of tech industry has a tough schedule - 996 - which means, starting work at 9pm, off work at 9pm and work for 6 days per week. the overwhelming workload led to 400 times share increasing last year but 2 decreasing after the death accident
Fei's death: the company called the worker by first name Fei, according to the company, she off work at 1:30 am and suddenly go dead on her way to home from work. former workers said working time from pinduoduo always stretch beyond 9 hours, in return: they earn much more than tecent and alibaba
Critics on Pinduoduo's post: social account of pinduoduo on Zhihu: we are all trade life for work/money, the post was condemned by public, pinduoduo deleted the post and explained: not on behalf of Pinduoduo but someone who sent out the post mistakenly. Zhihu verified that the post was absolutely sent by pinduoduo, who then blamed on agency: Li
Investigation: pinduoduo is already investigated by Shanghai social security bureau
作者: Chloe_gogogo! 时间: 2021-1-18 20:54
Economic Scene;Good news for the down and out, or are the data misleading?
Main Idea:
the rich got richer and the poor got poorer? yes, but rather than caring about the inequity, it's more meaningful to pay attention to change this condition.
CA is traditional in census, tracked samples from young to their working age, among 5% poorest people changed their poor condition after 16 years, many even jumped to to 5th.
Mr. G, however use different method to track ppl.
MB better represents the main stream of the topic.
instead of studying, helping to change the situation is more meaningful.
作者: Chloe_gogogo! 时间: 2021-1-19 23:27
Shades of black：For centuries, the colour black has tested artists’ ingenuity
阅读时间：14:07 分析：30min 总：34min
main idea:
traced the development of color black
P1- cited the story of Monet's funeral to elicit black
On the funeral of Monet, minister exclaimed: no black for monet! so they replaced the black pall by monet's own painting: colorful~
P2- many colors represent different notation
white, red, green ...
P3-P10
traces the development of the color black from 1927 to 2015
2015 vantablack is the turning point of black
长难句：
Claude monet died in darkest December in 1926 surrounded by the garden he had created at Giverny. When Georges Clémenceau, the former French prime minister, arrived three days later for the artist’s funeral and caught sight of the black-draped coffin, he exclaimed: “No! No black for Monet.” An old piece of cretonne was brought down from the house to replace the dark pall with the palette that the artist had made his own: nature’s many greens, lavender, water lilies and forget-me-nots.
整个第一段其实刚开始读 不是很理解 其实就是个引子，读到最后的时候，看到了第一段的呼应，恩。。。好手法。。
n. (Dye) （美、法）戴伊（人名）
5, confect [kən'fekt]
vt. 混合；调制
n. 糖果；西点
6, conjure up
想起，使在脑海中显现；用魔法召唤
7, gall [ɡɔːl]
n. 胆汁；五倍子；怨恨；苦味
vt. 烦恼；屈辱；磨伤
vi. 被磨伤
n. (Gall)人名；(英)高尔；(法、德、俄、意、罗、捷、塞)加尔
8, plumb [plʌm]
vt. 使垂直；探测，探索
n. 垂直；铅锤
adv. 恰恰，正；垂直地
vi. 当管子工
adj. 垂直的
n. (Plumb)人名；(英)普拉姆
9, eroticism [ɪˈrɒtɪsɪzəm]
n. 色情；性的兴奋，性欲亢进；性爱倾向
10, vex [veks]
vt. 使烦恼；使困惑；使恼怒
vi. 烦恼
11, distinct [dɪˈstɪŋkt]
adj. 明显的；独特的；清楚的；有区别的
12, ingenuity [ˌɪndʒəˈnjuːəti]
n. 心灵手巧，独创性，足智多谋；精巧的装置
13, entwine [ɪnˈtwaɪn]
v. 缠住，盘绕；使缠绕；与……密切相关
14, prism [ˈprɪzəm]
n. 棱镜；[晶体][数] 棱柱
15, witchcraft [ˈwɪtʃkrɑːft]
n. 巫术；魔法
16, palette [ˈpælət]
n. 调色板；颜料
n. (Palette)人名；(法)帕莱特
17, pall [pɔːl]
n. 幕；棺罩；遮盖物
vt. 覆盖；使乏味
vi. 走味
n. (Pall)人名；(英、德、罗、瑞典)帕尔
18, cretonne [kre'tɒn; 'kretɒn]
n. 印花棉布；大花帘布
19, exclaim [ɪkˈskleɪm]
vi. 呼喊，惊叫；大声叫嚷
vt. 大声说出
20, coffin [ˈkɒfɪn]
n. 棺材
vt. 把（尸体）装入棺材；收殓
21, drap [dræp]
n. 发现拖；呢绒，织物
vt. 使滴下（等于drop）
vi. 滴下（等于drop）
n. (Drap)人名；(法)德拉
作者: Chloe_gogogo! 时间: 2021-1-19 23:43
04:53
main idea
对女性来说，法律对权益的维护是至关重要的
P1
it matters whether under common law or under cilvil law
P2 common law和civil law system的不同
P3 new mexico and NY
NY其实是complex civil law对common的一个让步/结合
P4 解释NY的法律作者: Chloe_gogogo! 时间: 2021-1-21 23:52
事物总是有两面性的，代孕亦如此。
对于代孕这个问题，我们不仅要 hear from intended parents about touching stories, 更要知道从另一面-给代孕者带来的负面影响-去看问题。
美句子，很人性化
Given the current policy climate and controversy around surrogacy, it’s crucial that public discussion of this issue includes the fullest range of perspectives. As well as hearing moving stories from intended parents about how surrogacy enabled them to overcome biological or social infertility to realise their dreams of becoming parents, we also need to hear from a range of surrogate mothers. That includes those whose experiences have not been so rosy, and who instead encountered challenging power imbalances between themselves and the intended parents, or who felt that their human rights were subtly or overtly undermined during their pregnancy or birth, or who suffered unexpected physical or emotional repercussions. There are two sides to this story, and both must be told.作者: Chloe_gogogo! 时间: 2021-1-21 23:55
。作者: Chloe_gogogo! 时间: 2021-1-22 15:54
Main idea:
The pandemic gives Chinese djs a chance to shine.
2 effects from the pandemic could prove.
回忆：
Dai Zhao, a nightclub in Beijing, is full of people who enjoy in music, during the pandemic, they don't allow anyone but who's personal safety code is green. However, every night, there will be more than 200 ppl in the club so that many clubs shut down this year until August.
One of the effects from the pandemic is that people are locked for too long time so that nightclubs are prosperous. Michael, the DJ from another nightclub Dada, said the crowd showed up in the nightclub is as large as before the pandemic.
The other of the effect is that the culture of nightclub spread beyond original cities: Beijing, shanghai and sichuan.
Many nightclubs shut down because of the covid-19, soneone, the dj of xxx, shut down the club in shanghai and went his hometown - xiamen, the west of shanghai, and achieved, Michael also opened a new club in sichuan.
The abrupt of Chinese clubs give chances to chinese djs to shine. A chinese dj held a music festival this year and gathered more than 3000 ppl there. But some commented: many of chinese djs are proficient in djing but they don't get the culture of electric music. They wish the broad of electric music could engage more foreign djs.
But it's all about music, nonetheless, one of the followers attending music festival said that i couldn't even see the stage among the crowd, but it's enough to have music there, it's all what we need.
优美的句子
Yet many electronic-music clubs have weathered the disruption, in part because punters freed from lockdown have flocked back to them.
这里的weather很巧妙，使disruption回暖了，比拟了天气的回暖
flock也是比拟了动物，蜂拥而返
Now they have no choice but to give locals a chance to shine.
I don't really like the sentence. 如果你永远不给新人机会，那么你永远需要借助别人的力量，everyone needs opportunities even if they are good enough. In conclusion, i don't like the word: have not choice but to.
生词：
grumblereveller
bop
punt
27, bop [bɒp]
n. 防喷器；（美口）波普爵士音乐；一击
28, revel [ˈrevl]
vi. 狂欢；陶醉
n. 狂欢；闹饮；喜庆狂欢活动
n. (Revel)人名；(意、罗、法)雷韦尔；(英)雷维尔
29, reveller
n. 饮酒狂欢者；摆设酒宴者
30, grumble [ˈɡrʌmbl]
vi. 抱怨；嘟囔
Identifying white supremacy as the most salient and pervasive force in Mississippi's history between Reconstruction and the New Deal, McMillen engages two related interpretive debates on the nature and evolution of race relations inthe South.
句首碰到doing，要注意这时候主语就在第二句，也就是MM。在identify sth的时候，MM提出了2个相关的解释性辩论on sth(sth也一样要清楚，辩论什么的，辩论南部种族关系的nature和evolution)。
MM的观点：white supremacy was the most....
接下来就是2个interpretive debates: first... second...
论证1：first： First, he argues, the social relations of slavery gave way to an"informal code of exclusion and discrimination" (p. 5), which in turn evolved into legally mandated separation and disfranchisement. Like Howard Rabinowitz, McMillensees little of the flickering light discernedby C. Vann Woodward, no period offluidity preceding the codification of Jim Crow.' Indeed the very"confidence of the dominant race" (p. 9) in the universal recognitionof the imperatives of place made legislation unnecessary for twodecades.
论证2：second
Ironically, it was the perception of a threat to rigidity that provoked the construction of a legal edifice to enforce an already familiar definition of place. Spatial contact was relatively insignificant; what mattered was hierarchy. Second, race relations were not functions of class relations;if white supremacy was an ideology, itwas not merely an ideology. It was not placed in the service of class hegemony,but rather seems to have been an ideal,even to the extent that one can speak of "white interests."McMillen's Mississippi has been shapedlargely by continuity in the content and function of white supremacy, an ideology closely tiedto the equally stable plantation system,but with a logic and legitimacy of its own. What changes are the strategies adopted by black Mississippians in"their struggles to achieve autonomy and full citizenship" (p. xiii).
这里说，白人霸权是一只连续的，其实变化的是黑人的夺权策略
If the continuity ofwhite supremacy provides the context of the dark journey through the age of Jim Crow, the shiftingresponses to oppression define the stages of that journey. For two decades after"Redemption," leadership continued to rest in the hands of Reconstruction politicians,many of whom had held office. Concerned less about segregation than inequality,they directly―and unsuccessfully―challenged the emerginglegal structure andthe increasingly rigid definitions ofplace. Their successors accepted Jim Crow and subordination as inevitable, but not as either natural or legitimate.The alternative to accommodation, in theeyes of Isaiah Montgomery and Mississippi's disciples of Booker T. Washington,was "unrestrainedracial conflict they would surelylose" (p. 288). The final stage of the journey, initiated by the Great Migration duringWorld War I and symbolized by the "New Negro" was characterized by pragmatic opportunism.Still disinclined toward militant protest,Mississippi's black leadership seized upon the Great Migration as a political lever, whose forcedrew upon the South's dependence on black labor. The distinctions between stages one and two seem blurred by overlapping leadership and a continuedconservative bent. More emblematic of a third stage, I suspect, are the Great Migration itself―the refusal ofthousands of black Mississippians toaccept the places available in the Jim Crow South―and the"surprising number" who joined Mississippi chapters of the UniversalNegro Improvement Association.
生词：
1, emblematic [ˌembləˈmætɪk]
adj. 象征的；可当标志的
2, blur [blɜː(r)]
n. 模糊不清的事物；模糊的记忆；污迹
v. 使……模糊不清，变模糊；使暗淡；玷污，沾上污迹
n. (Blur) （英、美、俄、马、新、印）布勒（人名）
3, lever [ˈliːvə(r)]
n. 杠杆；控制杆
vt. 用杠杆撬动；把…作为杠杆
vi. 用杠杆撬
n. (Lever)人名；(法)勒韦；(英)利弗；(德)莱韦尔
4, pragmatic [præɡˈmætɪk]
adj. 实际的；实用主义的
5, accommodation [əˌkɒməˈdeɪʃn]
n. 住处，膳宿；调节；和解；预订铺位
6, continuity [ˌkɒntɪˈnjuːəti]
n. 连续性；一连串；分镜头剧本
7, codification [ˌkəʊdɪfɪˈkeɪʃn]
n. 编纂，整理；法典编纂；法律汇编
8, discern [dɪˈsɜːn]
vt. 觉察出；识别；了解；隐约看见
vi. 辨别
9, flickering ['flɪkərɪŋ]
adj. 闪烁的，忽隐忽现的；摇曳的
v. 闪烁（flicker的ing形式）
10, separation [ˌsepəˈreɪʃn]
n. 分离，分开；间隔，距离；[法] 分居；缺口
11, franchisement
n. 特权；公民权；经销权；管辖权 (franchise的变形)
12, disfranchisement
n. 剥夺公民权
13, oppression [əˈpreʃn]
n. 压抑；镇压；压迫手段；沉闷；苦恼
14, place [pleɪs]
n. 地方；住所；座位
vt. 放置；任命；寄予
vi. 名列前茅；取得名次
n. (Place)人名；(罗)普拉切；(法)普拉斯；(英)普莱斯
15, edifice [ˈedɪfɪs]
n. 大厦；大建筑物
16, rigidity [rɪˈdʒɪdəti]
n. [物] 硬度，[力] 刚性；严格，刻板；僵化；坚硬
17, Redemption [rɪˈdempʃn]
n. 赎回；拯救；偿还；实践
18, hegemony [hɪˈdʒeməni; ˈhedʒɪməni]
n. 霸权；领导权；盟主权
19, ideology [ˌaɪdiˈɒlədʒi]
n. 意识形态；思想意识；观念学
20, race [reɪs]
n. 属，种；种族，人种；家庭，门第；赛事，赛跑
vt. 使参加比赛；和…竞赛；使急走，使全速行进
vi. 比速度，参加竞赛；全速行进
n. (Race)人名；(英)雷斯；(塞)拉采
21, fluidity [fluˈɪdəti]
n. [流] 流动性；流质；易变性
22, engage [ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ]
vt. 吸引，占用；使参加；雇佣；使订婚；预定；攻击，与……开战；使啮合
回忆：
Most of people believed that there had been a collision between the earth and an asteroid, leading to the extinction of dinosaurs, which were not categorized as birds. However, the extinction could also caused by a burst of vocano.
During the vocano, some other animals also extincted. But during the collision, there remains other animal species.
H from Yale doubtd the hypotethis and analyzed the surroundings during the vocano, the leaves... found that...
and also, those poisoned gases brought by vocano already volatilized 2000 years before the dinosaurs' extinction.
In conclusion, the extinction was not likely caused by vocano but more likely caused by the effect of asteroid.
生词：
, isotope [ˈaɪsətəʊp]
n. 同位素
2, straw [strɔː]
n. 稻草；吸管；一文不值的东西
adj. 稻草的；无价值的
n. (Straw)人名；(英)斯特劳
3, cast [kɑːst]
vt. 投，抛；计算；浇铸；投射（光、影、视线等）
n. 投掷，抛；铸件，[古生] 铸型；演员阵容；脱落物
vi. 投，抛垂钓鱼钩；计算，把几个数字加起来
n. (Cast)人名；(法)卡斯特
4, modelling [ˈmɒdəlɪŋ]
n. 模化；立体感；模特儿职业（等于modeling）
v. 模仿（model的ing形式）；做模型
5, blot out
完全清除（思想、记忆等）；遮盖
6, suspend [səˈspend]
vt. 延缓，推迟；使暂停；使悬浮
vi. 悬浮；禁赛
7, wipe out [waɪp aʊt]
消灭，彻底摧毁；垮台；（滑雪等时的）翻倒；封闭