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take action against: 對..採取行動

governor: 州長

sign: 簽署

measure: 措施

limit: 限制

access: 使用

impose..on: 強加

curfew: 宵禁

require: 要求

parental: 父母親

consent: 同意

go into effect: 成效

response: 回應

concern: 擔憂

mental wellbeing: 心理健康

advocacy group: 擁護團體

curb: 抑制

addictive: 會上癮的

follow suit: 跟進

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portmanteau: 混成詞，a word whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms.

describe: 描述

trend: 趨勢

social media platforms: 社群媒體網站

parliament: 國會

put a stop to: 禁止

appall: 使驚駭

influencer: 網紅

gain more followers: 得到更多追隨者

mashed potatoes: 馬鈴薯泥

spoonful: ㄧ匙的

purée: 菜泥，果泥

film: 拍攝

reaction: 反應

go viral: 網路爆紅

a quick buck: 快速賺到的錢

exploit: 剝削

disregard: 漠視

average: 平均的

bill: 法案

guilty: 有罪的

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marine: 海洋的

take a plunge for: 為了某事冒險

sea surface: 海表面

previous: 先前的

record-holding: 記錄保持的

resurface: 上來水面

veteran：退休軍人

biomedical engineering: 生化工程

spark: 點燃

curiosity: 好奇心

be monitored: 被監控

long-term effects: 長期效應

pressurized: 受壓的

virtual lecture: 線上課程

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spoke: 輪幅

Saturn: 土星

The Hubble Space Telescope: 哈伯太空望遠鏡

capture: 捕捉

solar system: 太陽系

spectacular: 壯觀的

celestial: 天體的

rings: 環

detect: 察覺

light patches: 光塊

pop up: 突然出現

equinox: 晝夜平分

equator: 赤道

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Kara Swisher is not the one who is afraid to leave her comfort zone. When her career in Washington Post was going really well and she was on the trajectory to go really high there, on one bright sunny day she just suddenly had this epiphany that it was time to leave. She just felt she was no longer growing as a journalist there, so she quit the Washington Post for the Wall Street Journal and became their tech reporter. However, the same epiphany occurred years later. She just wanted to do something else that’s better for her. So again she made the choice of leaving another prestigious job.

Kara Swisher interviewed Jobs more than seven times in his lifetime. In the last interview she did with him before his passing when he was looking severely ill, Swisher asked two forthright questions that shocked everyone in the conference. One was “What do you do all day?”Second question was, “What are you going to do with the rest of your life?” She didn’t ask these two questions with mean intentions. She was just genuinely interested and curious. Jobs gave wonderful and thoughtful answers to both questions. Even to his dying days, Jobs was still thinking about innovation.

Swisher says that she thinks Steve Jobs had a successful life because he was who he was. She admires people who are true to themselves. She also wants people to remember her as someone who’s not afraid to be herself when she is gone one day. She also likes to be known as a good parent. She’s proud of her four children. As to what are the keys to good parents? She finds this obsession with academic performance and achievement to be disturbing. She honestly believes that most of her schooling is insignificant. She says she’s ambitious and hardworking simply because she’s happy with what she does. One thing she’s very particular about is that as a parent, you have to teach your kids the consequences of their conducts. You shouldn’t shield them from owning to their mistakes. Moreover she doesn’t believe in sugar-coating reality. Once, she was attending a PTA meeting at one of her sons’ schools, and a parent just remarked that every child was special. She immediately retorted, “No, they are not. If everyone is special, then no one is special! Let’s tell the honest truth here. We all know the rules and the status symbols and how we are always ranking people based on their wealth, status, creativity.”

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collapse: 崩塌

a run on the bank: 擠兌

financial crisis: 金融危機

depositor: 存款戶

withdraw: 提領

fear: 恐懼

meet one’s request: 符合某人的要求

monetary: 金錢的

institution: 機構

start-ups：創投

tech-sector: 科技領域

to get something off the ground: 讓某事啟動

remain little known: 很少人知道

value: 價值

stock: 股票

interest rate: 利率

bring one to one’s knees: 擊倒

assure: 確保

bailout: 舒困

be borne by: 被承擔

taxpayers: 納稅人

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speedcuber: 可以快速解魔術方塊的人

Rubik’s cube: 魔術方塊

attribute to: 歸因爲

field: 領域

repetition: 重複性

break down: 分解

blindfolded:遮眼的，蒙眼的

To commit something to memory: 記住

algorithms 演算法

byproduct: 副產品

naive: 天真的

hone磨練

despite of: 儘管

invest in: 投資

pragmatic 實際的

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mathematician: 數學家

physicist: 物理學家

figure out: 找出，想出

optimize: 使優化

texture: 口感，層次

geometry: 幾何

refer to: 指的是

branch: 分支

property： 性質

utilize: 使用

three-dimensional: 三次元的

various: 不同的

complicated: 複雜的

geometric: 幾何的

improve: 改善

crunchy: 脆的

swirl: 捲曲

whipped cream: 生奶油

spiral: 螺旋的

voter: 投票者

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Kara Swisher has a remarkable personal story. When she was five, her father suddenly died of a cerebral hemorrhage. This incident has a tremendous impact on her and her two brothers. They all have a strong sense of mortality. She said, “There’s a theory, and a great book about how kids whose parents die can be very high-functioning people, because the worst thing happened to them, and they got over it.” So not only Kara but also her two brothers have this incredible drive to constantly move forward in life because they know how impermanent life can be. Kara Swisher suffered from a stroke in 2012, and luckily it didn’t do too much damage to her physically. After she recovered from it, everyone around her thought she would slow down and focus less on her work and more on herself and family. But she was like, “are you kidding me?! I could literally die any minute now, so I need to keep going!” People told her that when she died, she wouldn’t miss time spent at work, but she retorted that she would because she genuinely loved her work.

Kara Swisher answers that she just works harder and is more persistent. Moreover, most people are handicapped by laziness and lack of observation. One common problem shared by many reporters is that they don’t take the time to analyze the information they get from interviews. They just quickly react, type, and publish.

When asked why she became interested in tech news and the Internet, Kara Swishers answers that when she was little, she wanted to be in the military, like her dad, but because she is gay, she knew that she could not survive as gay in the military at that time. Then when she was an undergraduate, she wanted to be spy, but once again the environment in the intelligence field was hostile towards gay. However, her interest in espionage and propaganda and the effectiveness of propaganda did not ebb, which is probably why she’s attracted to the Internet because it’s also a form of propaganda. And like a spy, a reporter also needs to cultivate her sources, so she can get as much information about the person she’s about to interview. Therefore, at the time of the interview, se has already known so much about the interviewee that she knows when he/she is telling the truth or a lie.

She doesn’t want things from people. She doesn’t need their love, I doesn’t need their money, she doesn’t want their acceptance or anything like that. She cares little about what people think of her, definitely not a people pleaser. Swisher says this has to do with her sexuality. Because she knows she’s gay when she was only four, she was actually super happy with the way she was born. After that, she discovered at every point in her life where she said what pleased her, she always got more successful.

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重點單字

fighter jet: 戰鬥機

shoot down-shot down: 射落

surveillance: 偵查

insist: 堅持

simply: 僅僅是

drift off one’s course: 漂離..軌道

designated: 指定的

according to: 根據

senior: 資深

defense officials: 國防部官員

gather: 收集

military site: 軍事基地

denounce: 公開譴責

obvious: 明顯的

overreaction: 反應過度

unusual: 不尋常的

as a matter of fact: 事實上

be traced back to: 被追溯到

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