通勤學英語 15Mins Today

Welcome to 15mins.today the home of English Shadowing. I’m your house Gavin and this is In-Tense Episode 28.

Now guys in this episode we will be looking at a very interesting thing. It’'s basically if you watch any YouTube channels from North America you will hear it, and that's the word “good” You did good!” Well it's very interesting, I was taught when you use the word “good” to describe a verb you use it as “well.” You change it from “good” to “well.” If you use it to describe a noun, a thing, then you use the word “good.” So for an example, “He did well.” or “The car is good.” So that's how it is, of course you will hear it everywhere, I've heard it in movies, et cetera. But that's how we use it, if you describe a verb we use “well” and if you describe a noun you use “good.” One way to cheat a bit is to use the word “great” because “great” is always “great!” But you know “great” and “good” don't exactly mean the same thing, but if you are a bit unsure just throwing in a “great” is okay. So let's get going with a questions.

Did Jane write well? Yes, Jane wrote well.

Did Jane write well? No, she did not write well.

Did Jane do well in the test? Yes, she did well in the test.

Did Jane do well in the test? No, she did not do well in the test.

Was Jane’s test result good? Yes, her test result was good.

Was Jane’s test result good? No, her test result was not good.

Did Peter sleep well? Yes, he slept well.

Did Peter sleep well? No, he did not sleep well.

Was the nap good? Yes, the nap was good.

Was the nap good? No, the nap was not good.

Do you feel well? Yes, I feel well.

Do you feel well? No, I do not feel well.

Is your health good? Yes, my health is good.

Is your health good? No, my health is not good.

Did you have a good day? Yes, I had a good day.

Did you have a good day? No, I did not have a good day.

Did John and Jane perform well? Yes, they performed well.

Did John and Jane perform well? No, they did not perform well.

Did Peter do well? Yes, he did well.

Did Peter do well? No, he did not do well.

Well, there you go guys. Keep practicing and remember, just keep repeating. Have a great day and catch you next time, bye!

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Summary:

TKK fried chicken opened its first store in Manhattan at the end of 2018. The store teamed up with Kung Fu Tea to operate a combo store offering fried chicken and bubble tea. The gourmet website Eater reviewed the restaurant offerings including: tenders, wings, breasts, thighs, drumsticks, and fried chicken sandwiches. Sides include mashed potatoes, coleslaw, curly fries, crunchy cheese curds, and shishito peppers.

The gourmet website considers TKK fried chicken one of the top fried chicken brands in New York and highly recommends the signature combo and crispy spicy chicken. Priced at $8.49, it includes one piece of chicken, one side, and a so-called kwa kwa bao, an invention that’s become a signature of the chain. What is kwa kwa bao? It’s sticky rice shot with the shiitake mushrooms. But it’s not wrapped in a lotus leaf as it’s often seen at dim sum restaurants.

Full article: https://www.15mins.today/blog/663-tkk-fried-chicken-among-25-best-fried-chicken-brands-in-new-york

Vocabulary and Sample Sentences:

Gourmet n. a connoisseur of good food / food suitable for a gourmet

• I don't consider myself a gourmet, but I do enjoy food in Taiwan.

Hotness adj. food containing spices or peppers that create a burning sensation

• When you go to a chili hotpot restaurant, you would need to choose the level of hotness.

Crispy adj. food having firm, dry, brittle surface

• In Taiwan, all the fries are crispy.

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每日跟讀#727: ‘Unicorns’ Learn A Hard Lesson:Profits Matter

Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist at Union Square Ventures, recently published a blog post titled “The Great Public Market Reckoning.” In it, he argued that the narrative that had driven startup hype and valuations for the past decade was now falling apart.

美國聯合廣場創業投資公司創投業者威爾森，最近發表一篇部落格文章，題為「公開市場算總帳」，他在文中主張，過去十年使新創事業知名度和市值衝高的那一套說詞，如今不管用了。

His post quickly ricocheted across Silicon Valley. Other venture capitalists, including Bill Gurley of Benchmark and Brad Feld of Foundry Group, soon weighed in with their own warnings about fiscal responsibility.

威爾森的文章隨即在整個矽谷引起回響。其他創投業者，包括標竿資本公司的格利和鑄造集團的費爾德，旋即加入討論，各就財務責任提出警告。

At some startups, entrepreneurs began behaving more cautiously. Travis VanderZanden, chief executive of the scooter startup Bird, declared at a tech conference in San Francisco last week that his company was now focused on profit and not growth.

一些新創事業的創業者開始更謹慎行事。美國共享電動滑板車新創企業柏德公司執行長范德桑登，本月初在舊金山一場科技會議上宣布，他的公司現在專注於獲利，而非成長。

The moves all point to a new gospel that is starting to spread in startup land. For the last decade, young tech companies were fueled by a wave of venture capital-funded excess, which encouraged fast growth above all else. But now some investors and startups are beginning to rethink that mantra and instead invoke turning a profit and generating “positive unit economics” as their new priorities.

這些舉動都反映出，新的信條開始在新創事業圈風行。過去十年，新興科技公司受到爆量的創投資金鼓舞，這些資金重視快速成長甚於一切。不過，如今一些投資人和新創事業開始反省「快速成長」這信條，轉以獲利和產生「正向單位經濟效益」為新的首要目標。

The nascent change is being driven by the stumbles of some high-profile “unicorns” — the startups that were valued at $1 billion and above in the private markets — just as they reached the stock market.

出現這種新的轉變，是因為一些高知名度的「獨角獸」一上市就受挫。獨角獸是指在私募市場市值10億美元以上的新創事業。

The lackluster performances have raised questions about Silicon Valley’s startup formula of spending lots of money to grow at the expense of profits. (All of those companies lose money.) Public market investors, it seemed, just weren’t having it.

這些獨角獸表現不佳，令人質疑矽谷新創事業砸大錢拚成長卻犧牲獲利的成規。（這些公司全都賠錢。）看來公開市場的投資人也不相信這一套。

“A lot of these highly valued companies have run into the buzz saw of Wall Street, where they’re questioning or reminding us that profitability matters,” said Patricia Nakache, a partner at Trinity Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.

矽谷創投公司「三人組創投」合夥人派翠西亞．納卡奇說：「許多高市值公司在華爾街踢到鐵板，這些公司探究得知，獲利能力很重要，這些公司的例子也提醒我們這件事。」

She added that she anticipated a “ripple effect” on private startup valuations that would start with the largest, most valuable companies and trickle down to the smaller, younger ones.

納卡奇說，她預期這會對私人新創事業的市值產生「連鎖效應」，市值下降的情況會從規模最大、市值最高的公司開始，逐漸擴及規模較小、成立時間較短的公司。

Aileen Lee, an investor at Cowboy Ventures, a venture capital firm in Palo Alto, California, said she considered dusting off a four-year-old “winter is coming” email she had sent to startups in 2015, telling them to prepare for a downturn.

加州帕羅奧圖市創投公司「牛仔創投」的投資人艾琳．李說，她考慮把四年前寄給新創事業、警告「冬天就要來了」的一封電子郵件重新拿出來看看。2015年她在這封信中提醒新創事業，為這個圈子的下行趨勢做準備。

Other venture capitalists are being more forward. At Eniac Ventures, a venture firm in New York and San Francisco, the partners recently combed through their companies and identified the “gross margins” — a measure of profitability — for each one, said Nihal Mehta, general partner of the firm. This was not something the firm regularly looked at, he said, but they were inspired by Wilson’s cautionary blog post.

其他創投業者更進一步。紐約與舊金山創投公司「伊尼亞克創投」普通合夥人梅塔說，這家公司的合夥人最近審視了投資的公司，並找出每家公司獲利能力的指標「毛利」。他說，這並不是合夥人常常會做的事，不過他們從威爾森那篇部落格示警文得到啟發。

Source article: https://paper.udn.com/udnpaper/POH0067/346374/web/

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