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标题:What will humans do if technology solves everything?

Welcome to a high-tech utopia

正文：In “permutation city”, a novel by Greg Egan, the character Peer, having achieved immortality within a virtual reality over which he has total control, finds himself terribly bored. So he engineers himself to have new passions. One moment he is pushing the boundaries of higher mathematics; the next he is writing operas. “He’d even been interested in the Elysians [the afterlife], once. No longer. He preferred to think about table legs.” Peer’s fickleness relates to a deeper point. When technology has solved humanity’s deepest problems, what is left to do?

知识点：utopia/juːˈtəʊpɪə/

If you refer to an imaginary situation as a utopia, you mean that it is one in which society is perfect and everyone is happy. 理想社会; 乌托邦

• We weren‘t out to design a contemporary utopia. 我们不想去设计⼀个当代乌托邦。

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标题:Electric ‘beng bengs’ create a sensation in US. Now about those delivery charges …

正文：Bad news for Americans worried about the viability of domestic auto production. The super-cheap Chinese electric vehicles that Elon Musk and Donald Trump fear are already rolling on US soil. The good news is that these vehicles only have three wheels.

知识点：sensation /senˈseɪʃ(ə)n/

n. very great surprise, excitement, or interest among a lot of people; the person or the thing that causes this surprise轰动；哗然；引起轰动的⼈（或事物）

• News of his arrest caused a sensation .他被捕的消息引起了轰动。

• The band became a sensation overnight.⼀夜之间，这⽀乐队名声⼤振。

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标题:China Is Mixed on Elon Musk—but They Sure Love His Mom

At 76, Maye Musk is a surprising celebrity in the country, and the tycoon’s secret weapon

正文：Elon Musk has many problems in China. His 76-year-old mom isn’t one of them. Maye Musk, the enigmatic tycoon’s mother, enjoys a surprising celebrity status across the country. Her autobiography, “A Woman Makes A Plan,” skyrocketed to the top of China’s bestseller lists in recent years. Crowds pack in to hear her speak. Even the Chinese government sings her praises.

知识点：enigmatic adj. /ˌenɪɡˈmætɪk/

mysterious and difficult to understand神秘的；费解的；令⼈困惑的

• an enigmatic smile 神秘的笑

enigma n./ɪˈnɪɡmə/

If you describe something or someone as an enigma, you mean they are mysterious or difficult to understand. 难解之谜

• The country remains an enigma for the outside world. 这个国家对外部世界⽽⾔依然是个谜。

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标题:Why caste still matters in Indian politics

Narendra Modi must rethink his approach to Hinduism’s social hierarchy

正文：Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, made several costly miscalculations in this year’s general election. He overestimated his own popularity. He underestimated the extent of economic angst, especially about underemployment and inflation. And he relied excessively on Hindu nationalism to mobilise voters from the nation’s religious majority. But perhaps his most telling error was to mishandle what is still the most important fault line in Indian society: caste.

知识点：overestimate v. /ˌoʊvərˈestɪmeɪt/ to estimate sth to be larger, better, more important, etc. than it really is⾼估 • They overestimated his ability when they promoted him.他们提拔他的时候⾼估了他的能⼒。 • The importance of these findings cannot be overestimated (= is very great) .这些发现的重要性是⽆法充分估量的。

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标题：Has Sequoia Capital outgrown its business model?
Venture capital’s hardiest perennial gets back to its roots

正文：The first thing that catches your eye when you enter the poshly serene headquarters of Sequoia Capital on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, is a metre-wide cross-section of what appears to be a redwood. On closer inspection it turns out to have been a tree in the past—38m years ago, according to a plaque on the back. Now it is solid stone. A gift from Roelof Botha, the venture-capital (VC) firm’s current boss, and his wife, it reminds employees and guests of the durability of the organisation they are visiting, which has existed since 1972. In the accelerated time of Silicon Valley, that is aeons.

知识点：posh adj. /pɒʃ/ 1. elegant and expensive优雅豪华的；富丽堂皇的 • a posh hotel豪华旅馆 • You look very posh in your new suit.你穿上新⾐服显得雍容华贵。 2. typical of or used by people who belong to a high social class上流社会的；上等⼈的 • a posh accent/voice 上等⼈的腔调╱嗓⾳ • They live in the posh part of town.他们⽣活在本市的富⼈区。


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标题:India is turning into an SUV country

The culture and meaning of cars is changing as the country gets richer

正文：Getting to Bangalore, India’s startup capital, is easy: arrive at the gorgeous new garden-themed terminal, collect your bags, and zip down the buttery smooth National Highway 44 into the city. Getting around Bangalore is another matter. It is the most heavily gridlocked city in India, with average speeds during rush hour of 18kph (11mph). That has not stopped the city’s residents from buying ever more vehicles. The number of registered cars in Bangalore jumped from 2m in April 2020 to 2.4m by April this year. Last year it overtook Delhi, India’s car- dependent capital, to become the city with the highest number of private cars in both absolute terms and relative to the population. Bangalore adds a new car to its streets roughly every four minutes.

知识点：gorgeous adj. /ˈɡɔːrdʒəs/

very beautiful and attractive; giving pleasure and enjoyment⾮常漂亮的；美丽动⼈的；令⼈愉快的

• a gorgeous girl/man漂亮的⼥郎；美男⼦

• gorgeous weather (= warm and with a lot of sun) 宜⼈的天⽓

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标题:Angela Merkel Tells Us What She Really Thinks

正文： “Never explain, never complain,” is a maxim supposedly espoused by the British royal family. As Angela Merkel writes in her exhaustive yet surprisingly fast-paced autobiography, “Freedom,” it also became a phrase that she would repeat to herself during her 16 years as German chancellor, from 2005 until she stepped down in December 2021.

知识点：maxim n./ˈmæksɪm/

A maxim is a rule for good or sensible behaviour, especially one in the form of a saying. 格⾔

• I believe in the maxim "if it ain't broke, don't fix it.” 我相信这句格⾔：“如果它没坏，不要去修理它。”

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标题:Dictionary.com Names‘Demure’ as Its Word of the Year for 2024

正文：Popular online dictionary platform Dictionary.com has officially announced its annual word of the year, and they’ve made a very mindful choice. Their 2024 Word of the Year is the viral sensation “demure,” which took off on TikTok in August of this year. It was popularized by TikToker Jools Lebron, whose phrase “very demure, very

mindful” was featured in a series of viral videos and replicated by other creators. Lebron would also often pair the word with “cutesy” and “considerate,” providing advice to her followers for situations like “how to be demure and modest and respectful at the workplace.”

知识点：mindful adj. /ˈmaɪndfl/

remembering sb/sth and considering them or it when you do sth SYN conscious记着的；留意的；考虑到

• mindful of our responsibilities意识到我们的责任

• Mindful of the danger of tropical storms, I decided not to go out.想到热带风暴的危险，我决定不出门。

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标题:What ChatGPT’s corporate victims have in common

The first casualties of generative AI offer lessons for other businesses

正文： In less than four years the share price of Chegg, an online education service, has dropped by 99%. A post-pandemic slump in digital learning is partly to blame for its tumble. A bigger problem for the company, though,is artificial intelligence (AI). Its customers are mostly students who want help answering their homework assignments, which often involves the virtual support of a human tutor. The rise of ChatGPT and its kind have created a free substitute for that service. On an earnings call on November 12th Nathan Schultz, Chegg’s boss, admitted that “technology shifts have created headwinds”. The same day the firm said that it would fire a fifth of its workforce.

知识点：slump v. /slʌmp/

1. to fall in price, value, number, etc., suddenly and by a large amount（价格、价值、数量等）骤降，猛跌，锐减

• Sales have slumped this year.今年销售量锐减。

• Profits slumped by over 50%.利润突降50%以上。

2. to sit or fall down heavily重重地坐下（或倒下）

• The old man slumped down in his chair.⽼先⽣⼀屁股跌坐到椅⼦上。

• She slumped to her knees.她扑通⼀声跪倒在地。

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标题:Once dominant, Germany is now desperate

As an election looms its business model is breaking down

正文：The finance ministry of the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg, home to giants like Bosch, /bɔ:ʃ/ Mercedes and ZF Friedrichshafen, is not a bad spot from which to probe Germany’s anxieties. The country is gripped by fears of deindustrialisation as it heads into an election that seems certain to throw its chancellor, Olaf Scholz, out of his job if his party does not dump him first. That ministry’s occupant, Danyal Bayaz, frets that Germany has squandered the “globalisation dividend” of the past 15 years, underfunding the public realm in an era of low interest rates. Now, facing an energy squeeze, growing competition from China and the prospect of Donald Trump’s America slapping 10-20% tariffs on imports, the country’s business model, fears the minister, is “collapsing”

知识点：ministry n. /ˈmɪnɪstri/

a government department that has a particular area of responsibility（政府的）部

• the Ministry of Defence国防部

• a ministry spokesperson部发⾔⼈

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