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Day1 2021.01.18



Pinduoduo faces growing PR crisis over employee death.
Core: The death of an employee of Pinduoduo, the giant ecommerce group, causes public relation crisis and an investigation of its working condition.

Under fire: [backcolor=rgba(135, 131, 120, 0.1)]being rigorously criticized.
gain steam: to increase in strength, force, or energy
gruelling: 精疲力尽，艰辛的
downplay:轻描淡写，贬低，低估
backtrack: 收回说法，改变意见，走回头路
errant： 出格，出轨，犯错的
trending topics: 热搜

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Day1 2021.01.18


Economic Scene; Good news for the down and out, or are the data misleading?

Core: Whether the mobility actually offsets the impact of income inequality and by how much if so.
W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm believe that economic mobility matters more than income inequality as the former provides opportunities for struggling people to grab the brass ring.
While Mr. Gottschalk criticized that they should have used averaged family income rather than individuals who only worked briefly during the investigated time.

Moshe Buchinsky and Jennifer Hunt of Yale University found that averaged family income could reduced measured inequality, while the rate of economic mobility had fallen since 1980

1.Most Americans struggling to make ends meet are on the fast track to affluence.
2. Indeed, after a ringing endorsement from the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, it has become required reading for conservatives impatient with the current hand-wringing over the alleged plight of the young and immobile

vocabularies:
down and out: 穷困潦倒的人
grab the brass ring：迅速发财
mover and shaker：风云人物
splitting hairs： 吹毛求疵

allow： to admit or agree that something is true
prorate: 按比例计算
amiss: wrong, not suitable, or not as expected
disquiet: 焦虑，不安

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Day 19:
一： Shades of black：For centuries, the colour black has tested artists’ ingenuity
第一部分
Core: Black is bound up with witchcraft, the underworld, night-time and the far side of the Moon. Black materials were hard to conjure up in Europe.
句子：
The latest attempt to plumb these depths comes from Anish Kapoor, a British-Indian artist whose work questions notions of perception.
Words:
adultery: 偷情
witchcraft：巫术
entwin: 缠绕；盘绕；使交错
vexed: 棘手的；伤脑筋的；引起争议的
connotation: 内涵，意义
eroticism： 情欲
concoction：调制品
conjure：变戏法


第二部分：

Core: The series of works inspired by his nocturnal ramblings represented something of an epiphany for Palmer.

句子：

With one side of her face lit up gloriously and the other darkly shaded, it is her eyes that capture the viewer’s attention; in life they were green, but Manet made them profound by painting them black

brooding：忧心忡忡

enliven: 使有生气，使活跃，使更有趣

nocturnal:夜间的

ramblings：杂乱无章的

epiphany: 顿悟

banish：消除排出，赶走，流放，驱逐

Deciple：信徒，门徒，追随者

第三部分

Core: New works immerge as another step in the quest for the meaning of black, among which the 'Black Square' marked a turning point in modern art.

句子：

Perhaps the shade’s most ambitious devotee was Kazimir Malevich, a Russian artist who enlisted black to invent a whole new painterly language that elevated feelings over representation.

第二篇：

Core: The different experiences in colonial America under two different law systems, the common law and the civil law.

句子：

Nevertheless, a comparison of women’s lives under two different colonial legal regimes shows that women gained tangible benefits from civil law systems that they did not enjoy under common law.

words:

dowry: 嫁妆

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DAY 3:
第一篇：
核心观点：Venture capitals are rushing into the field of Quantum computing, trying to take nascent technology. However, what behind the capital glory is people who are doing a great deal of less celebrated, less glamorous work.

excerpt:
None of that is to deny the importance of the people who run the last few miles, taking nascent technologies and trying to spin out profitable businesses. But those who want to see more of that success should keep in mind that a great deal of less celebrated, less glamorous work must come first.
The popular image of innovation as a “pipeline”, with a stream of individual technologies proceeding smoothly from ideas to products, is likewise too neat.
Other early work was done in the sorts of big, boring companies in which no self-respecting disrupter would be seen dead


Words:
reckoning: 计算
foolhardy:鲁莽的
proposition：商业提案
by golly: 天哪
boon: 提高生活质量的物品
frenzy： 狂热
buttoned up: 低调的
cull：kill
nascent:新生的，萌芽的；开始发展的




第二篇：
Core：Buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has caused a large amount of fresh water into North Altlantic, lowering the density of the upper layer of the ocean. This change will in a way threaten the thermohaline circulation and thus speed up the process into a mini-ice age.

excerpt:
In his cluttered office, full of soft light from the foggy Cape Cod morning, he explains how such warming could actually be the surprising culprit of the next mini-ice age.

words
culprit: 罪魁祸首
sounded an alarm
subvert：try to destroy or damage something, especially an established political system.
Waft: move gently through air
balmy: pleasantly warm
[backcolor=rgba(255, 212, 0, 0.14)]veer: Change direction
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[backcolor=rgba(255, 212, 0, 0.14)]听力：
put stock in: 信任看重

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Day 4
第一篇：Surrogacy – wish fulfilment or exploitation?(Sprogcast- 1012 字 长精读）
Core:
The Controversy around surrogacy must be fully discussed in order to both protect the surrogate dignity and provide proper assistance to intended parents.

Excerpt:
1. Given the current policy climate and controversy around surrogacy, it’s crucial that public discussion of this issue includes the fullest range of perspectives.
2. 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.

Words
antenatal： 产前的
stillbirth: 死胎
coercion： 强制
foetus: 胎儿
rosy:光明的；有希望的；美好的
overtly: 公开地

第二篇：Hispanic Law Water Right.

Core:
Despite the fact that the common law of water rights was elaborately developed based on Hispanic law, it overlooked the and distorted historical traditions of the previously prevailed communal water system.

Excerpt:
Similarly, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century state courts developed elaborate theories of water rights ostensibly based on Hispanic law, but which bore no resemblance to actual Spanish and Mexican legal traditions

Words:
ostensibly: 表面上地
riparian: 河边地
paramount: 至上的，首要的

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Day 5
第一篇：The pandemic has changed China’s nightclubs：It has given local DJs a chance to shine
Core:
How the pandemic shapes China's nightclubs and the local DJs

Excerpt:
Yet many electronic-music clubs have weathered the disruption, in part because punters freed from lockdown have flocked back to them

Words:
faff:  费力；引起麻烦
reveller: someone who dances, drinks, sings, etc. at a party or in public, especially in a noisy way
weather: 平安度过（困境）；经受住
punter: 赌博者
wrought: 精炼的；精制的
grumble: 发牢骚，抱怨，嘟囔

第二篇：Review: Jim Crow's Offense
Core:
Mc Millen identifies white supremacy as the driving force in Mississippi's history between Reconstruction and the New Deal for several reasons. Firstly, in an attempt to demolish the rigidity and reassure the hierarchy, the white legally mandated separation and disfranchisement. Secondly, black Mississippians struggled to oppress the continuity of white supremacy in 3 stages.


Excerpt:
McMillen's  Mississippi has been shaped largely by continuity in the content and function  of white supremacy, an ideology closely tied to the equally stable plantation system, but with a logic and legitimacy of its own

Words:
salient: 显著的，突出的
pervasive: present or noticeable in every part of a thing or place
interpretive:
disfranchisement: 剥夺…的权力，使失去权力（尤指选举权）；剥夺…的机会
flicker: 摇曳；闪烁
codification: [backcolor=rgba(135, 131, 120, 0.1)]编集成典
edifice: a large building, especially an impressive one
hegemony: the position of being the strongest and most powerful and therefore able to control others
emblematic: representing a particular person, group, or idea

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Day 6
第一篇：
Core:
It's the impact that cause the mass extinction around 66m years ago, at which time the dinosaur disappeared.
Excerpt:
And yet... a small group of holdouts paint a different picture
Words:
Lingering:持续的，长时间的
阅读时间：3分钟，总结3分钟

第二篇：
Core: Neutralino, the lightest supersymmetric particle, could be the candidate of cold dark matter.

Excerpt:
Neutrinos were once a prominent possibility for dark matter, and their role remains a matter of discussion, but experiments have found that they are probably too lightweight

words:
corroborate：证实，确证
primordial：太古时代存在的，原始的
fleet-footed： rapidly
sluggishly：行动缓慢的；迟缓的
amalgam：聚合物
阅读时间3分钟，总结3分钟

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Day 7
第一篇：
Core: The rising prevalence of dementia is a global emergency：It requires more research, better provision for long-term care  and changes in individual behaviour.
Excerpt:
Many require round-the-clock care long before they die. It does not just affect the elderly, but they are much more likely to have it—and life expectancy globally has climbed from not much more than 30 a century ago to over 70 now, and over 80 in rich countries.
Words:
knock-on effect：连锁反应
阅读10，总结5mins

第二篇：
Core:
Antitrust is not the reason that causes the Diversification of both American and other international Corporations.
Excerpt:
These restrictions were rarely applied as the government was more interested in encouraging horizontal combinations than discouraging them (OECD (1974)). Despite this favorable environment for horizontal mergers, the United Kingdom also experienced a diversification merger wave in the 1960s and early 1970s.
words:
anecdotal: 趣闻的，轶事的；传闻的
corroborate the negative view of:证实，确证
阅读时间12mins，总结5mins

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第一篇：
Core:


Drama doesn't need to fictionalize 'reality' that only the royal knows and writes.




Excerpt:
It seems odd that a government led by a man who is writing a book on Shakespeare should insist on historical accuracy in drama.
If the monarchy is so vulnerable that a man pretending to be Prince Charles saying mean things to a woman pretending to be his wife damages it gravely, then the institution has probably outlived its usefulness.
The Windsors constructed their own happy-family story, which turned out to be less true than the fictionalised tale of dysfunction and despair.


Words:
redeeming:可以弥补的，有可取之处的
snub: 冷落，怠慢
smear:涂抹（黏腻的东西）
cork: 橡木瓶塞
traduce:强烈批评；（尤指）诽谤，诋毁
heir: 王位继承人
ricochet: 反弹
pin-up： 裸女
rasping termagant: 泼妇
rub the noses of： keep reminding them
flunkey: 无聊的工作人员；男仆
bulimia： 贪食症
estrange： 使。。。成为陌生人，疏远
purveyor：供应商
dysfunction：功体失调；机能不良
veracity: 真实，事实，实事求是


第二篇：
阅读：6分钟，总结10分钟
Core
Anna Olmsted’s part in this was central, although her reputation waxed and waned between 1939 and 1989.


Excerpt:
Retrospectively, it can be seen that Olmsted’s fluctuating reputation went hand in hand with changing priorities in American ceramics.


Words:
zeal:热情，激情
curator：馆长
facilitator：帮助者，推动者
juror：陪审团成员
epitomize：是…的典型；成为…的典范
retrospectively: 回顾地
dissemination：the act of spreading news, information, ideas, etc. to a lot of people
render: 给予，提供；表达；表演