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笔记：sharenting n. 晒娃

sharent n. v. 爱晒娃的父母；晒娃

这是个新词，是由 share 和 parent 两个词合成的，爱分享的父母其实就是说「爱晒娃」。sharenting 指的是晒娃这种行为，sharent 指的是晒娃狂魔，爱晒娃的父母，也可以直接表示晒娃这个动作。

He needs to stop sharenting! I see so many photos of his daughter.

他真的不能再晒娃了！我看到太多他女儿的照片了。

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笔记：crystal clear 浅显易懂的；显而易见的
The message is crystal clear – if you lose weight, you will have a happier, healthier, better life. 
这意思很清楚–如果你减肥的话，你会过上更快乐、更健康、更美好的生活。
I want to make my meaning crystal clear. 
我想把我的意思解释得清清楚楚。

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标题：The matcha shortage traces back to a Japanese warlord
Demand for the popular green tea is soaring, but not enough farms in Japan are producing it.

正文：The next time you order a matcha in one of its many forms now so wildly popular—a matcha latte with white chocolate syrup, for example—take a moment to remember the Zen master who started it all, and the warlord and conqueror who ordered him to cut open his belly. And then make sure to really enjoy it, because supplies of matcha might just be running out.

知识点：syrup n. /ˈsɪrəp/
a t...

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标题：Digital resurrection: fascination and fear over the rise of the deathbot Harriet Sherwood
Ozzy Osbourne appeared as an AIg enerated image at a recent Rod Ste wart concert, prompting questions about how the ghoulish phenomeno n will affect grieving.

正文：1.Rod Stewart had a few surprise guests at a recent concert in Charlotte, North Carolina. His friend Ozzy Osbourne, the lead singer of Black Sabbath who died last month, was apparently beamed in from some kind of rock heaven, where he was reunited with other departed stars including Michael Jackson, Tina Turner and Bob Marley.

知识点：beam in /biːm ɪn/，v.
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标题：The middle-aged are no longer the most miserable

正文：FOR DECADES, surveys have suggested that middle age is the low point of life. While young and old generally reported high levels of life satisfaction, those in mid-life endured a slump. This “U-bend of happiness” or “hump of despair”, depending on your perspective, has been documented hundreds of times across many countries. The age of peak misery varied—the Swiss were saddest at 35, Ukrainians in their 60s—but the pattern was consistent.

知识点：report v /rɪˈpɔːt/
to give people information about something that you have heard, seen, done, etc. 报告；汇报；报道；陈述

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标题：Online Shopping May Never Be the Same
Buying goods from international sellers has been cheap and easy—until now.

正文：A few years ago, I found the perfect rug for my daughter’s room. It had pink unicorns and flowers. But I scoffed at the price tag on Anthropologie’s website: more than $1,000, plus an additional fee for “white glove delivery.” Then I fired up Etsy. I found a similar product made by a workshop in India that shipped directly from there. It took weeks to arrive, but it was half the price.

知识点：rug n. /rʌɡ/
a piece of thick heavy c...

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标题： Scientists Perform First Pig-to-Human Lung Transplant
Researchers in China placed a lung from a genetically modified pig into a brain-dead man, with mixed results.

正文：Scientists have dreamed for centuries about using animal organs to treat ailing humans. In recent years, those efforts have begun to  bear fruit : Researchers have begun transplanting the hearts and kidneys of genetically modified pigs into patients, with varying degrees of success.

But lungs are  notoriously  difficult to transplant, even from human to human, and mortality rates are high. Now, in the first procedure of its kind, Chinese scientists on Monday reported transplanti...

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标题:Do We Age Steadily, or in Bursts?

正文：For many people, aging feels like it happens in stops and starts. After a period of smooth sailing, one day, seemingly out of the blue, you have achy knees. “You wake up in the morning and you suddenly feel old,” said Dr. Steve Hoffmann, a computational biology professor at the Leibniz Institute on Aging in Jena, Germany. “That’s sort of the takeaway.” It turns out there may be a scientific basis for this experience. By analyzing age-related markers, such as proteins and DNA tags in the bloodstream, some scientists are coming to under...

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标题:Knowing what your colleagues earn The pros and cons of greater pay transparenc

正文：How much do your colleagues get paid? In a few countries, such as Norway, you can take a good guess by looking at public records on individuals’ overall tax payments and income. But in most places, finding out people’s salaries means asking them what they earn. And that is about as socially acceptable as saying “What an ugly baby.”

知识点：overall n. /ˈəʊvərɔːlz/ adj. & adv. /ˌəʊvərˈɔːl/

a loose-fitting garment worn over other clothes to protect them [常复数] 工装裤；罩衫

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标题：Call Me a Sucker, but I’m Happy for Taylor and Travis

正文：1. By now you’ve probably heard the news, or maybe just the joyful squeals emanating from TikTok or Swifties in your neighborhood: On Tuesday, Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, the Kansas City Chiefs football star and the multiplatinum pop princess (or, as the happy couple refer to themselves, “your English teacher and your gym teacher”) announced their engagement.

知识点：squeal n. /skwiːl/
a long, high-pitched cry or sound. 尖叫声；长而尖的声音
e.g. The children let out squeals of excitement when they saw the ice cream truck. 孩子们看到冰淇淋车时发出了兴奋的尖叫声。

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标题：'Ne Zha II' Review: A Captivating Demon Hero
This ambitious sequel serves as a testament to the level of artistry in the Chinese animation industry right now.

正文：In an age of locally sourced six-packed superheroes and generically charming Disney-animated protagonists, Ne Zha, the unruly, uncompromising, raccoon-eyed star of an internationally acclaimed Chinese film franchise, stands out. In part because this hero is a toddler. And also a demon.

知识点：locally sourced /ˈləʊkəli sɔːst/，adj.
obtained or produced in the local area.（本地采购的；本地生产的）
• The restaurant prides itself on using locally sourced vegetables and meat.这家餐厅以使用本地采购的蔬菜和肉类为荣。

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标题：Britain leads the world in a new global business—a criminal one

正文：WALK DOWN the street in London and you might notice two things. First, although many pedestrians are glued to their phones, a few will periodically look over their shoulder, scanning for an assailant arriving at high speed. Second, some of the fancy cars, particularly SUVs, will have a steering lock. This does not mean that Britain is “lawless”, as the government’s critics complain. But both are signs of something worrying: a criminal enterprise that spans the world, but is flourishing most in Britain. We call it Grand Theft Global In...

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标题：The Insidious Creep of POTUS’s Speaking Style

正文：1. “Many such cases.” “Many people are saying this.” You may recognize these phrases as“Trumpisms”—linguistic coinages of POTUS—but they’ve also become ingrained in our collective vocabulary. Since they became popular as memes during his first presidential campaign, we have begun using them, first sardonically, and then out of habit.

知识点：linguistic adj. /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/
relating to language or linguistics. 语言的；语言学的
e.g. Her linguistic abilities allowed her to easily pick up new dialects. 她的语言能力使她能够轻松掌握新的方言。

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标题：A 400-year-old Chinese cough syrup is winning over Westerners
Young shoppers in particular are going gaga for Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa

正文：The recipe for Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa has not changed since it was first concocted in the 1600s. Yet the sweet Chinese cough syrup, which has the colour and consistency of mud, is enjoying a renewed surge in popularity.

知识点：recipe /ˈresəpi/，n.
a set of instructions for preparing a particular dish, including a list of the ingredients required.（食谱；烹饪法）
• She followed a traditional recipe to make chocolate cake.她按照传统食谱制作巧克力蛋糕。

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标题：Young Women Are Starting to Recession-Proof Their Lives 
副标题：America’s biggest consumer spenders are skipping manicures and Ubers, as worries about the economy increase 

正文：Call it a new recession indicator: Young women who not long ago ( splashed out ) on self care, tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras tour and “Barbie”are ( pulling back on ) their spending. 

知识点：recession indicator n. /rɪˈseʃən ˈɪndɪˌkeɪtər/ 
a sign or measure that suggests an economic recession is approaching. 衰退指标；经济衰退信号 
e.g. Rising unemployment is often seen as a key recession indicator. 
失业率上升常被视为经济衰退的重要信号。 

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标题：OPINION GUEST ESSAY

Why Are So Many Young Adults Getting Cancer?

By Daniela J.Lamas

正文：When I started working in the intensive care unit of a cancer hospital, I didn’t know what to make of the horror stories of patients in their 30s and 40s. There was a young father with colon cancer. A recent college graduate with an aggressive malignancy that had destroyed her jaw and airway. An aspiring journalist with breast cancer that had spread to her lungs.

知识点：intensive care unit 重症监护室

She spent several days in (the) ICU after the surge...

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标题：How Rajinikanth, a 74-year-old actor, drives fans into a frenzy
Indian crowds greet his new film with prayer, confetti and milk

正文：For fans of Rajinikanth, or Rajini, it is not enough to simply buy a ticket to one of his films and turn up at the right time and place. No: preparations begin days in advance. Ahead of his latest release, “Coolie”, on August 14th, some fans prostrated themselves in front of shrines, seeking a divine blessing for the Indian actor. Others bathed giant cardboard cutouts of him in milk, a sign of reverence usually reserved for Hindu gods.

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标题：Should you trust that five-star rating on Airbnb?
How to make sense of online customer reviews

正文：It’s summer in the northern hemisphere. And as holidaymakers travel to unfamiliar places, that means demand for online customer reviews. Want to find a restaurant that won’t give everyone food poisoning, or the perfect accommodation for a city break, or a mosquito repellent that actually works? Whether you are looking on Tripadvisor, Airbnb or Amazon, you will almost certainly be guided by reviews from other people. Should you be?

知识点：hemisphere /ˈhemɪsfɪə(r)/，n.
one half of a sphere, especially one...

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标题：Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

正文：1.Growing up near Silicon Valley, Manasi Mishra remembers seeing tech executives on social media urging students to study computer programming.

2.“The rhetoric was, if you just learned to code, work hard and get a computer science degree, you can get six figures for your starting salary,” Ms. Mishra, now 21, recalls hearing as she grew up in San Ramon, Calif.

3.Those golden industry promises helped spur Ms. Mishra to code her first website in elementary school, take advanced computing in high school and major in...

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标题：Box, run, crash: China’s humanoid robot games show advances and limitations
Beijing is keen to showcase country’s prowess in robotics, say observers –but some are sceptical about real world use

正文：A quick left hook, a front kick to the chest, a few criss-cross jabs, and the crowd CHEERS. But it is not kickboxing prowess that concludes the match. It is an attempted roundhouse kick that squarely misses its target, sending the kickboxer from a top university team tumbling to the floor. While traditional kickboxing comes with the risk of blood, sweat and serious head injuries, the competitors in...

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标题：Delhi’s million stray dogs—and the dilemma of what to do with them
A third of the world’s rabies deaths are in India and the supreme court has ordered a mass round-up of strays. Cue days of protests hailing four-legged national heroes

正文：It’s hard to run in heels. The other night, further away from home than I would have liked, a pack of five street dogs came into view. It was hard, too, to say whether their intentions were as malign as their snarls suggested, but it made sense to take no chances. Escape was a non-starter. I locke...

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标题：It’s Not Just a Feeling: Data Shows Boys and Young Men Are Falling Behind 

正文：Boys’ educational achievement, mental health and transitions to adulthood indicate that many are not thriving. 

知识点：transition /trænˈzɪʃn/（英 /trænˈzɪʃn/；美 /trænˈzɪʃn/；n.） 
a change from one form, state, style, or place to another 过渡；转变；变迁 
• The transition from childhood to adulthood can be challenging.（从童年到成年的过渡可能颇具挑战。 ） 

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标题：A Global Flourishing Study Finds That Young Adults, Well, Aren’t 

副标题：New data collected from more than 200,000 people across the world shows that young people aren’t as happy as they used to be. 

正文：The happiness curve is collapsing. For decades, research showed that the way people experienced happiness across their lifetimes looked like a U-shaped curve. Happiness tended to be high when they were young, then dipped in midlife, only to rise again as they grew old. 

知识点：U - shaped adj. /ˌjuː ˈʃeɪpt/ 
having the shape of the letter U U形的；呈U字形的 
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标题：Starbucks Struggles to Find a New Identity in Cutthroat China

正文：When a group of private equity investors and Chinese technology companies were asked for ideas on how they would revive Starbucks Corp.’s fortunes in the world’s second-largest economy, the most common advice was: Be a lot more like the local competition that beat you. Starbucks, they argued, should have smaller stores, employ fewer people and cut prices, according to people familiar with the sale process that kicked off in May. These proposals resemble the very model that enabled Luckin Coffee Inc. to overtake Starbucks as China’s biggest coffee...

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标题：Hearty quarterly results conceal a dual challenge for the burger behemoth

正文：The success of the Golden Arches rests on three simple, sturdy foundations: a menu of reliably decent grub, at a decent price, shored up by catchy marketing. Ever since it went public in 1965, McDonald’s has done best whenever it stuck to this original blueprint. When one or more of these pillars crumbles, the fast-food fortress looks shaky. A quarter of a century ago this led to a near-collapse. Overly rapid expansion in the number of outlets and, at the same time, of products on offer made it harder for burger...

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标题：The New ChatGPT Resets the AI Race

正文：1.Yesterday evening, Sam Altman shared an image of the Death Star on X. There was no caption on the picture, which showed the world-destroying Star Wars space station rising over an Earth-like planet, but his audience understood the context. In fewer than 24 hours, OpenAI would release an AI model intended to wipe out all the rest.

2.That model, GPT-5, launched earlier today with all the requisite fanfare. In an
announcement video, Altman said that the product will serve as a “legitimate Ph.D.-level expert in anything—any area you nee...

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标题：Up on the Roof, POTUS Surveys the Home He’s Making His Own
White House reporters looked up from the driveway to see a familiar figure in a most unfamiliar location.

正文：POTUS was on the roof. As a confused group of reporters assembled below him on Tuesday morning, POTUS strolled around on top of the White House, stopping somewhere above the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room —now only occasionally a venue for taking questions—to tell his audience that he was “taking a little walk” in service of his latest home improvement project: a large ballroom. “It’s just anot...

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标题：Indian firms aim to gorge on weight-loss drugs 
Domestic demand is surging. And Indian generics could make slimming cheaper worldwide 

正文：Until recently, Indians had few safe ways of joining the global craze for weight-loss drugs. Some smuggled them into the country when returning home from abroad; others chanced it with bootlegged versions from Dubai. But in March Mounjaro, a weight-loss drug from Eli Lilly, an American pharmaceutical giant, became legally available in India. In June Wegovy, a drug from Novo Nordisk, a Danish firm, followed. 

知识点：craze /kreɪz/，n. 
an enthusiastic and widely shared passion for something, especia...

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标题：The Real Reason Why Students Are Using AI to Avoid Learning 

正文：“I feel like I'm getting dumber.” The confession hung in the air between us, startling in its honesty. My sister—a college senior at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and one of the most hard-working people I know—wasn’t joking. We were sitting at the kitchen table late one night, sipping tea, when she said it. She stared into her mug. "AI is replacing mycritical thinking skills,"she admitted quietly. “I know it’s not ideal, but it’s so tempting.” 

知识点：dumb adj. /dʌm/ 
lacking intelligence or good...

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标题:Have humans passed peak brain power?
Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning

正文：What is intelligence? This may sound like a straightforward question with a straightforward answer — the Oxford English Dictionary defines it as “a capacity to understand” — but that definition itself raises an increasingly relevant question in the modern world. What happens if the extent to which we can practically apply that capacity is diminishing? Evidence is mounting that something exactly like this has been happening to the human intellect over the past decade or so.

知识点 ：straight...

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标题：At the Tesla Diner, the Future Looks Mid 

The new Los Angeles restaurant from the electric car giant is a smash burger and content machine, drawing Elon Musk’s fans and protesters. 

正文：When Elon Musk announced that he was building the Tesla Diner in 2018, it was sold as a wholesome, Americana-flavored vision of the future in Hollywood—electric cars charging around a communal big screen while drivers fueled up on re-imagined fast food. 

知识点：be sold as phr. /bi səʊld æz/ 
to be marketed or presented as something. 被宣传为；被包装成 
e.g. The drink is sold as a health booster...

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标题：China’s Small Workshops Are Hurting. Trump’s Tariffs Are Only One Reason. 
The U.S.-Chinese cease-fire left exporters with crippling tariffs, worsening a slowdown for light industry factories caused by China’s shift to advanced  manufacturing. 

正文：It was 96 degrees in the shade with high humidity and no wind on a Tuesday afternoon in a Guangzhou factory district, the heart of China’s garment manufacturing. Operating sewing

workshops were sweltering, but roughly half of the hundreds of factories sat dark, doors closed and lacking their usual bustle. Bright red signs on walls and poles advertised industrial buildings for s...

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标题：If women don’t want children, will cash fix it?

 
正文：1.To get a sense of China’s demographic problem, consider the generations of my family. My great-grandmother had nine children. My grandmother had three by the age of 27. My mother had only one by the same age. I’m now a few years older than that milestone, and I still don’t want kids yet. You can imagine the anxious conversations my grandma and mum have with me. But they know that I’m hardly an exception, in the UK or in China. For Chinese women, the average age of first marriage has risen...

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标题：The Tragedy Unfolding in Gaza 

正文：If any place had experience seeing civilians through war, it was the Gaza Strip. It’s much of why the place exists. That stretch of Mediterranean coast was only even named while being demarcated as a refuge for Palestinians driven off their land by Jewish forces in the 1948 war that created Israel. Gaza’s permanent status, like the fate of the Palestinians, was never decided, however. And as the decades churned on, so did the conflict. 

知识点：civilian n. /sɪˈvɪliən/ 
a person not in the armed services or police. 平民；非军事人员 
e.g. The new policy ai...

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标题：Americans Are Obsessed With Watching Short Video Dramas From China 
How did steamy, short soap operas that originated in China become the hottest  thing in Hollywood, seemingly overnight? 

正文：My partner recently confessed something to me about his screen-time habits: When he’s giggling at his phone, he’s often watching short English-language soap operas that have begun showing up on his social feeds. The plots are basic, the acting is exaggerated, and the performers are stereotypically good-looking, but the constant twists and turns keep him spellbound and wanting more. 

知识点：confess /kənˈfes/，v. 
to admit that you have done someth...

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标题:Americans Are Unhappier Than Ever. 
Solo Dining May Be a Sign.

正文：The United States slipped to its lowest ranking ever in the World Happiness Report, in part  because more Americans are eating alone. Once again, the Finns came out on top.

知识点 ：Solo n./adj./adv./ˈsəʊləʊ/
Having or doing something alone; a performance by one person. 单独的（地）；单人的（地）；独唱（曲），独奏（曲）

• The singer gave a solo performance on the stage. 这位歌手在舞台上进行了独唱表演。

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标题：It would be so much easier if we said what we thought

正文：On a recent morning commute on the London Tube, the train ground to a halt and a disembodied voice told us all to get off. Being British we trooped on to the crowded platform and waited silently, the only indication of annoyance being a few people tutting and looking at their watches.

知识点：commute n. /kəˈmjuːt/

the journey that a person makes when they travel to work 上下班路程；通勤

•I have a long commute to work. 我上班的通勤路程很长。

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标题：First Came Tea. Then Came the Male Rage. 
The app was meant to make dating safer for women. Data breaches exposing its users show why it was so popular in the first place. 

正文：Until last Thursday, the team behind the app Tea Dating Advice was having an extraordinary week. They claimed to have amassed more than 2 million new users, making Tea the most popular free app in Apple’s App Store, after it stirred discussion on TikTok and Reddit. Women were using Tea, whose tagline is “Helping women date safe,” in exactly the way they were supposed to: reviewing men they’d dated...

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标题：Kraft Heinz is not the only food giant in trouble 

正文：When Warren Buffett, a venerable investor, and 3G Capital, a private-equity firm, merged Kraft and Heinz in 2015 to create a packaged-food heavyweight, consumers’ appetite for its colourful condiments, sugary snacks and processed cheeses seemed insatiable. The deal now looks to have been a big fat flop. Kraft Heinz’s market value, at $32bn, is down by three fifths since the tie-up. The company expects its operating profit to fall by 5-10% this year. It is now said to be exploring a break-up. 

知识点：venerable /ˈvenərəbl/, adj. 
deserving...

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标题：China’s Problem With Competition: There’s Too Much of It 

正文：1.It’s the circle of life in China’s business world 
2.A promising technology or product emerges. Chinese manufacturers, by the dozens or 
sometimes the hundreds, storm into that nascent sector. They ramp up production and drive down costs. As the overall market grows, the competition becomes increasingly cutthroat, with rival companies undercutting one another and enduring razor-thin profit margins or even losses in the hope of outlasting the field 

知识点：storm into phr. v. /stɔːm ˈɪntuː/ 
to enter a place quickly and with force or anger 气势汹汹地冲进 
· Protest...