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标题：A Near Disaster on Flydubai

This unbelievable sequence of events has huge implications.

正文：Today, somewhere over Saudi Arabia, the co-pilot of an Israel-bound Flydubai Boeing 737 stabbed the other pilot and pitched the nose of the plane toward the desert below. The jet descended 17,000 feet in two minutes, at an acceleration violent enough to make your phone and in flight snack jump off your tray and be pinned to the ceiling. Other crew members and at least one Israeli passenger broke into the cockpit and subdued the assailant. Relief pilots then took over and landed the plane in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.

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标题：How gold surpassed cocaine as Peru's most profitable criminal industry

正文：“Halt, stop right there,” shouts a Peruvian Navy Seal, firing warning shots into the air. But the fleeing man pays no attention,scrambling up to the rim of a football pitch-sized crater and disappearing into the dense rainforest as the commandos give chase,swearing and shooting.

知识点：fleeing adj. /ˈfliːɪŋ/
· 英⽂释义：running away from danger or a pursuer
· 中⽂释义：逃跑的，逃离的
· ⽂中意：正在逃窜的（描述那名不顾警告、拼命逃离抓捕的男⼦）
· 例句⼀：Police finally caught the fleeing suspect after a three-hour chase. 经过三⼩时的追逐，警⽅终于抓住了那名逃窜的嫌疑⼈。
· 例句⼆：Thousands of fleeing civilians crossed the border to seek refuge. 成千上万逃离的平⺠越过边境寻求避难。

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《早安英文-每日外刊精读》，带你精读最新外刊，了解国际最热事件：分析语法结构，拆解长难句，最接地气的翻译，还有重点词汇讲解。  
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标题：A SpaceX Starship Rocket Officially Reached Orbit. Why That's So Significant

正文：For three and a half years, ever since the spring of 2023, when SpaceX launched the first of its massive Starship rockets, the company has been promising that before too long the towering, stainless steel machine would get to orbit. This morning, on the 14th such launch, it made good on that boast.

知识点：【massive】 /ˈmæsɪv/ adj. 

英文释义：massive means extremely large, heavy, and solid 本义为"有巨大质量的"（词根 mass 质量），物体描述语境核心义为"又大又沉、块头惊人的"（本文特指：2023年首飞的那一批星舰火箭，箭体高达四百多英尺）
核心搭配：a massive increase、massive layoffs、massive investment、a massive earthquake、on a massive scale
・The carrier announced massive layoffs just weeks after posting record profits. 这家航空公司在公布创纪录利润几周后就宣布了大规模裁员。
・Rebuilding the grid will require investment on a massive scale. 重建电网需要规模巨大的投资。

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标题：How China is conquering high-tech markets once controlled by the West

正文：It’s the rare factory that doubles as a tourist attraction. But more than 300,000 visitors have streamed through Xiaomi’s sprawling “hyperfactory” here since the company began offering tours of its automobile assembly lines two years ago.

知识点：double as phr. /ˈdʌbl æz/
· 英⽂释义：to serve two purposes or functions at the same time
· 中⽂释义：兼作，兼任
· ⽂中意：兼作——指⼯⼚不仅是⽣产基地，同时也充当旅游景点
· 例句⼀：The old warehouse now doubles as an art gallery and a concert venue. 这座旧仓库如今兼作美术馆和⾳乐会场地。
· 例句⼆：She doubles as the team's coach and its equipment manager. 她兼任球队教练和器材管理员。

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《早安英文-每日外刊精读》，带你精读最新外刊，了解国际最热事件：分析语法结构，拆解长难句，最接地气的翻译，还有重点词汇讲解。  
所有选题均来自于《经济学人》《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》《华盛顿邮报》《大西洋月刊》《科学杂志》《国家地理》等国际一线外刊。  

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标题：Soaring diesel prices are clobbering Trump's MAGA faithful,exposing rifts

Pain at the pump for rural Republicans is shifting the political map.

正文：Diesel prices soaring to record highs this past week have caused Republican candidates in solid-red parts of the country to call for an end to President Donald Trump’s war with Iran and for a ban on diesel exports, as the issue rattles the party’s MAGA base in a way that few have in this midterm election year. “Michigan families are struggling with the price of everyday life,” Mike Rogers, the state’s GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, said in an ad th...

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标题：The Great Stuff Transfer Has a $750 Billion Golden Lining

In the coming avalanche of possessions being passed down from baby boomers to younger generations, jewelry is the bright spot.

正文：When Andrew Stinger’s mother, Nancy, died of cancer in 2024, her grief-stricken husband and sons began the journey of managing her estate in probate court — a process that would stretch almost two years. Then, in January 2025,Stinger’s father, Bill, died unexpectedly. And yet, there was one happy spot amid the heartbreak: the jewelry.

知识点：【grief-stricken】 /ˈɡriːf strɪkən/ adj. 

英文释义：grief-stricken means overwhelmed by extreme sorrow, especially afte...

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标题：Scientists create mice with part-human brains

正文：Researchers have created mice with half-human brains in an effort to understand and develop new treatments for disorders such as schizophrenia,epilepsy, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability and rare forms of dementia. The scientists transplanted lab-grown human brain cells into animals that were engineered to be born without a cortex or hippocampus. This made space for the human tissue to grow inside the rodents’ skulls. 

知识点：in an effort to phr. /ɪn ən ˈefət tuː/
· 英文释义：with the aim or purpose of achieving something
· 中文释义：为了，力图，旨在
· 文中意：为了理解并开发新疗法（表示目的，语气比"to"更正式，强调付出的努力）
· 例句一：The government tightened emissions standards in an effort to combat air pollution. 政府收紧了排放标准，力图治理空气污染。
· 例句二：She began meditating daily...

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标题：China spends record amount importing over 1,000 tonnes of gold this year

World's second-largest economy shelled out almost $160bn on bullion in eight months to August

正文：  China has spent a record sum importing more than 1,000 tonnes of gold this year as the central bank and local investors pour cash into bullion amid rising geopolitical tensions abroad and poor returns on local assets.

知识点：sum /sʌm/ n. 英文释义：sum means an amount of money 本义为"总和、总计"，财务支出语境核心义为"一笔钱、款项"（本文特指：a record sum，即中国花在黄金进口上创纪录的1588亿美元；它是标题里record amount 的同义替换）
核心搭配：a record sum、a large sum of money、a lump sum（一次性付款）、the sum of、raise a sum 
・The founders walked away with a lump sum of $80m when the acquisition closed. 收购完成时，几位创始人一次性拿到了8000万美元。
・She paid a considerable sum for a stake in the private fund. 她花了相当大一笔钱买下这只私募基金的一部分份额。

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标题：OpenAl Agent Hacked Public Health Care Site, Australia Says

正文： Artificial intelligence agents for OpenAI infiltrated a government-run public health care website in Australia in June and accessed nonpublic information, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday. The case prompted a government investigation into the breach and raised alarm about rogue activities by fast-advancing A.I. systems.

知识点：infiltrate v. /ˈɪnfɪltreɪt/
· 英文释义：to gain access to a system, organization, or place secretly and without authorization
· 中文释义：潜入，渗透
· 文中意：潜入（指AI智能体未经授权秘密进入政府网站，带有隐蔽性和越轨意味）
· 例句一：Hackers managed to infiltrate the company's internal network through a phishing email. 黑客通过一封钓鱼邮件成功潜入了公司的内部网络。
· 例句二：The spy infiltrated the organization and spent months gathering classified information. 那名间谍潜入了该组织，花了数月时间收集机密情报。

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《早安英文-每日外刊精读》，带你精读最新外刊，了解国际最热事件：分析语法结构，拆解长难句，最接地气的翻译，还有重点词汇讲解。  
所有选题均来自于《经济学人》《纽约时报》《华尔

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标题：Wall Street expects Meta's AI agent to shape into a new revenue engine

正文： Wall Street has turned bullish on Meta Platforms, betting that its new AI agent Muse could open a new revenue stream for the social media giant and reshape the company's AI monetization prospects.

知识点：Meta Platforms（Meta公司）
简要介绍：Facebook、Instagram、WhatsApp等应用的母公司，2021年由Facebook
更名为Meta，首席执行官为马克·扎克伯格。
本文中的意思：发布AI智能体Muse的公司，其股价因Muse受到热捧而大涨。

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《早安英文-每日外刊精读》，带你精读最新外刊，了解国际最热事件：分析语法结构，拆解长难句，最接地气的翻译，还有重点词汇讲解。  
所有选题均来自于《经济学人》《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》《华盛顿邮报》《大西洋月刊》《科学杂志》《国家地理》等国际一线外刊。  

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1、关注时事热点新闻，想要学习最新最潮流英文表达的英文学习者  
2、任何想通过地道英文提高听、说、读、写能力的英文学习者  
3、想快速掌握表达，有出国学习和旅游计划的英语爱好者  
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标题：Ukraine hits Moscow with‘largest ever’ drone attack

正文：Ukraine has hit Moscow with what local authorities said was the largest ever drone attack on the capital, setting a major oil refinery ablaze and killing at least two people, as voting in Russia’s stage-managed parliamentary elections entered its final day.

知识点：refinery n. /rɪˈfaɪnəri/
· 英文释义：a factory where a raw material such as oil or sugar is purified or processed
· 中文释义：炼油厂；精炼厂
· 文中意：炼油厂（文中指莫斯科南部的一家大型石油加工厂，遭无人机袭击后起火）
· 例句一：The refinery on the outskirts of the city processes over 200,000 barrels of crude oil per day. 该市郊区的炼油厂每天加工超过20万桶原油。
· 例句二：Residents complained about the pollution emitted by the local sugar refinery. 居民抱怨当地糖厂排放的污染物。

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《早安英文-每日外刊精读》，带你精读最新外刊，了解国际最热事件：分析语法结构，拆解长难句，最接地气的翻译，还有重点词汇讲解。  
所有选题均来自于《经济学人》《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》《华盛顿邮报》《大西洋月刊》《科学杂志》《

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标题：An AI deal with China could get Donald Trump his Nobel prize

正文：Donald Trump is about to have the opportunity of a lifetime—if he is up for it. As OpenAI’s Sam Altman and others have noted in recent days, making a deal with China around artificial intelligence could actually win Mr Trump the Nobel peace prize he has long sought. Where better to seal such an agreement than his one-day summit with the Chinese leader on September 24th?

知识点：be up for sth. phr. /biː ʌp fɔːr ˈsʌmθɪŋ/
· 英文释义：to be willing and ready to do something
· 中文释义：愿意做某事，准备好做某事
· 文中意：愿...

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标题：US Strikes Deal Over Greenland to End Row That Threatened NATO

The US, Denmark and Greenland struck a security deal that expands Washington’s role on the Arctic island, ending for now a long running diplomatic spat without ceding land to the US.

正文：President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration had reached an agreement handing the US “permanent control over security” in Greenland.Leaders of Denmark and Greenland confirmed that an accord is expected to be signed next week at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

知识点：【hand】 /hænd/ v.
英文释义：hand (v.) means to give or transfer something to someo...

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标题：Donald Trump fails to bend the Federal Reserve to his will

正文：Kevin Warsh has rebuffed Donald Trump’s demands for low borrowing costs, as the president’s pick to run the Federal Reserve led it to the first rate rise since 2023 less than four months into the job. The central bank chair on Wednesday offered the strongest evidence yet that he is prepared to disregard Trump when he corralled all 12 rate setters on the Federal Open Market Committee into backing a quarter-point rate rise. “The plain fact is that inflation is too high and has been for too long,” Warsh said, as he repeatedly told journa...

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标题：China launches new canal, first of its kind since 1949, giving inland access to sea lanes

Newly opened Pinglu Canal will allow cargo from inland provinces to reach the Gulf of Tonkin, avoiding a 560km detour, deepening trade ties

正文：China officially opened its landmark Pinglu Canal to navigation on  Wednesday, creating a new maritime gateway for the country's southwestern hinterland and providing a shorter route to Southeast Asia as Beijing seeks to deepen trade with the region. The 134.2km (83.4 mile) waterway links Nanning,the capital of the southern region of Guangxi, to  the Gulf of Tonkin, known as the Beibu Gulf in China, allowing c...

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标题：Boomers Are Sacrificing Retirement Savings to Support Their Grandkids

正文：Half a century ago, learning English went almost overnight from being discouraged to a national obsession. Throughout the 1980s and beyond, young and old alike would gather in parks, at what became known as “English corners”, to practise with each other. The language became a core part of the national curriculum, on a par with maths and Chinese, right up to the gaokao, or university entrance exam.

知识点：overnight adv. /ˌəʊvəˈnaɪt/
· 英文释义：suddenly and unexpectedly; in a very short period of time
· 中文释义：一夜之间，骤然
· 文中意：形容学英语从被冷落到全民痴迷的转变极其迅速，几乎在一夜之间完成（overnight 在此为副词，强调变化的突然性与戏剧...

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标题：Boomers Are Sacrificing Retirement Savings to Support Their Grandkids

正文：The Bank of Mom and Dad is staying open for the grandkids as the cost of raising a child in the US tops $300,000 for the first time this year — and that doesn’t include college tuition. Nearly two in five parents of young children expect to receive financial help — or ask for it — from their own parents or grandparents in the next year. Among them, 47% said they will receive cash for day-to-day basics from relatives, according to the BMO Real Financial Progress Index survey. A quarter said they expect relatives to contribute to their children’s...

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标题：HYROX Beijing faces backlash after Aussie athlete continues race despite soiling herself

正文：The organisers of a viral sporting event in Beijing have faced backlash and criticism after an Australian woman was allowed to continue competing after soiling herself. Athlete Joanna Wietrzyk was participating in the global indoor fitness race HYROX in the Chinese capital at the weekend when she suffered a bout of faecal incontinence. Wietrzyk was allowed to finish the course and won her event, with videos and photos posted online showing her continuing through demanding exercises and using communal equipment while visibly soiled.

知识点：a bout of phr. /ə baʊt ɒv/
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标题：Tech’s New Rich Are Suffering From ‘Sudden Wealth Syndrome’

A growing post-exit ecosystem is helping founders deal with the unexpected difficulties of becoming extremely wealthy.

正文：It was the kind of exit every entrepreneur dreams about. Anastasia Koroleva and her husband sold for nine figures: 100% cash on Day 1, zero earnouts, no strings attached. But what followed blindsided the founder. Instead of the soft life she’d expected, Koroleva found herself dealing with years of unease and a painful divorce.

知识点：nine figures /naɪn ˈfɪɡəz/ 固定短语
英文释义：nine figures means an amount of money containing nine digits, that is, at least one hundred million本义为"九个数字位"，财富量级描述语境核心...

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标题：No one is falling for Trump's budget busting 'dividend' check gimmick

The president's message at the Republican midterm convention underscores why so many Americans who care about fiscal sanity feel politically homeless.

正文：Socialism will not be stopped with more socialism. President Donald Trump's proposal to pay every adult citizen $5,000 if the GOP holds the House and Senate this fall is a desperate gimmick that betrays a profound lack of seriousness about the looming fiscal crisis. "If the Republicans win, you win with us, and you get $5,000," Trump said Wednesday night at the party's midterm convention in Dallas.He dubbed the payout...

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标题：How counterterrorism has empowered Donald Trump's imperial presidency

正文：Twenty-five years after 9/11, the share of people with no direct recollection of the attacks is rising; just over 100m Americans, roughly a third of the population,were not alive at the time. Yet the counter-terror apparatus that President George W. Bush and Congress enacted in response—hastily drafted legal authorities to wage war, surveillance powers, permissive CIA operations and new bureaucracies—remains largely in place, even as the threat of jihadist violence has receded.

知识点：recollection n. /ˌrekəˈlekʃn/
· 英文释义：the act of remembering something; a memory of something
· 中文释义：记忆，回忆
· 文中意：指对九一一事件的直接记忆（“peopl...

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标题：Everybody Wants AI to Destroy the World

An Anthropic researcher quit his job because he believes it will. His story is going viral because you want to believe too.

正文：The sky streaked orange and red as my mother drove us home to Albuquerque through the Tijeras Pass, which separates the Sandia Mountains to the north from the Manzano to the south. “Look out for mushroom clouds,” my father said to her. “If you see them, turn around.”

知识点：streak /striːk/ v.（此处为动词过去式 streaked）
英文释义：streak means to mark or cover sth. with long, thin lines or bands of a 
different colour本义为"（在某物表面）留下长条痕迹、划出道道"，自然景物描写语境核心义为"（天空、云层）被染成一...

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标题：Apple Debuts New Foldable iPhone Duo, New CEO and New (Higher) Prices

正文：Apple kicked off its most consequential product event in years on Wednesday, where it introduced a truly new iPhone, a new chief executive, as well as higher prices. It hopes consumers will concentrate on the first two. The headline is the first foldable iPhone, which will start at $1,999. An almost tablet-like device,the new iPhone Duo will fit comfortably in a pocket and allows people to use more than one app at a time. It comes in two colors: white and dark gray. 

知识点：kick off phr. v. /ˌkɪk ˈɒf/
· 英文释义：t...

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标题：Are teenagers growing dimmer?

The latest global school tests reveal shocking new declines

正文：Every three years the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, releases the results of international school tests sat by 15-year-olds all across the world. There were reasons to hope that the latest data, published on September 8th, would bring positive news. Marks in mathematics, reading and science had collapsed in the previous round of testing, which was carried out just after the pandemic. Policymakers dared hope that, with the calamity well in the past, grades might start to rebound.

知识点：sit /sɪt/ v.（sat 为过去式/过去分词）
英文释义：sit...

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标题：Chinese carmakers are bringing their factories to the world

Incumbents will need to hit the accelerator to compete

正文：When Ford opened the industry’s first large-scale overseas outpost, in Manchester in 1911, it set the route by which ambitious carmakers went from dominating at home to spanning the globe. Over a century later, with Ford in retreat, exports of China’s cheap but technologically advanced cars are roaring,and its firms are taking the next step to becoming global giants. When localising production, Chinese carmakers will not be able to bring all of their competitive advantages with them. But many will travel—to...

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标题：Inflation is back around the world—as is the fight against it

Central banks are raising interest rates again

正文：Who remembers the “soft landing”? In 2022-23 central bankers dreamed of bringing high inflation down without triggering a recession. Some countries came awfully close to achieving it. But with victory tantalisingly close, a growing number of central banks are now redoubling their fight against inflation. Price pressure is building. The world is a long way from the pain of four years ago, but the diagnosis is not promising.

知识点：【soft landing】 /sɒft ˈlændɪŋ/ 固定短语
英文释义：a soft landing means slowing an economy enough to bri...

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标题：‘A Storm of Cybercabs’: Musk launches steering-wheel free taxis even as 70% of Americans say they’re uncomfortable with driverless cars

正文：Elon Musk sent dozens of self-driving Cybercabs without steering wheels or brake pedals onto the streets of Austin, Texas, on Thursday, betting that Americans will overcome their fears of rides with “no control” and hop inside.

知识点：cab /kæb/ n. 英文释义：a cab is a taxi; a car that carries passengers in return for payment 本义为"出租车"（源自法语 cabriolet，指19世纪一匹马拉的轻便折篷马车，因词长被截短为cab），城市出行语境核心义为"按次计费的载客车辆"（本文特指：Cybercab名称的后半部分，也是文中反复出现的cabs deployed 的计量单位） 核心搭配：hail a cab、take a cab、a cab driver、cab fare、cabbie
・He hailed a cab outside the terminal and made it to the meeting on time. 他在航站楼外拦了辆出租车，赶上了会议。
・Cab fares in the city have risen sharply since the new licensing rules took effect. 新的牌照规定生效以来，该市的出租车费涨得很厉害。

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标题：US, China arm for space warfare: hunter satellites and orbital weapons

正文：In June, a secretive unmanned Chinese spaceplane monitored by U.S. military analysts released a small satellite hundreds of miles above Earth. The object then looped around another Chinese satellite before returning towards the spaceplane,according to U.S. space-tracking firm LeoLabs. Little is known about the satellite or the mission. But the U.S. military operates a similarly secretive uncrewed spaceplane. Both programs reflect the rapidly evolving field of military space operations as Beijing and Washington prepare for the possibility of conflict extending into space.

知识点：secretive adj. /ˈsiː...

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标题：Nvidia is driving the AI boom. Good

The chipmaker’s enormous bets are how capitalism is supposed to work

正文：NVIDIA was named in 1993 after the Latin word for envy. Sure enough, the American colossus inspires plenty of it. Insatiable global demand for its graphics-processing units (GPUs), the chips that power artificial intelligence, has made Nvidia the world’s most valuable company, worth $5.4trn. Next year it may also become the most profitable, generating $370bn in net income. By 2029 its sales could hit $1trn.

知识点：【name after】 /neɪm ˈæftər/ 短语 

英文释义：to name A after B means to give A the same name as B, in reference or tribut...

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标题：How data centres became one of America’s hottest political issues

正文：A spectre is haunting America—the spectre of data centres. The computer-filled warehouses powering America’s boom in artificial intelligence have become less popular than almost every other kind of infrastructure—even nuclear-power plants. Counties and states are rushing to wrap them in red tape or ban them altogether. On August 31st Donald Trump weighed into the fractious debate,warning that local opponents would “end up being backwards and poor” if they killed the “Golden Goose”. The backlash is scrambling traditional political alignments, reshaping the coming elections and unnerving tech firms and invest...

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标题：Hyrox, the fitness craze that runs and runs

A gruelling mix of running and strength-training has people working up a sweat

正文：Inside Strawberry Arena, a cavernous stadium in Stockholm, thousands of chiselled men and women are puffing and slick with sweat. A few are the colour of the fruit. And little wonder: they have run a kilometre, covered the same distance on a ski-training machine, then run again. Between laps of the stadium they have also rowed, lunged, done burpees, carried kettlebells, pushed and pulled a sled and lobbed a medicine ball. A respectable race time is about 90 minutes; the fittest...

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标题：Shein shares slide in Hong Kong debut on worries about trade and regulatory risks

正文：Shares in online fast-fashion retailer Shein fell 8% in their first day of Hong Kong trade on Tuesday, with investors worried about setbacks that long delayed its listing and undermined its competitive advantages. The stock fell as much as 10% despite only 6.6% of the company being floated. Shein raised about $1.7 billion in the IPO, which valued the company at around $26.5 billion — far below its 2022 peak of nearly $100 billion.

知识点：retailer n. /ˈriːteɪlə(r)/
· 英文释义：a person or business that sells goods directly to consumers
· 中文释义：零售商
· 文中意：在线快时尚零售商Shein，直接面向消费者销售商品...

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标题：Venezuela vowed not to ‘hand over’ its oil. Trump aims to grab a windfall.

The deal cements the United States’long-term dominance over Venezuela, which has become a neo-colony since the U.S. military’s capture of then President Nicolás Maduro in January.

正文：As Nicolás Maduro’s vice president in Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez once accused her political rival of planning to hand over the country’s riches — its vast oil reserves — to the United States. “They are her owners,” Rodriguez said in 2024 of María Corina Machado, then the U.S.-backed opposition leader. “Her master gives her orders to do what? To hand ov...

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标题：Make the U.N. Great Again: The Uphill Struggle Facing the Next Secretary General

正文：It may be both the most prestigious and the most frustrating job in international diplomacy: members of the United Nations are weighing who should succeed António Guterres as Secretary-General when he completes his final term in December. The timing couldn’t be more critical, with U.N.’s fortunes at a historically low ebb. With major powers repeatedly blocking the U.N. from intervening in crises and the U.S. rolling back funding, some predict that whoever succeeds Guterres will simply have to do “less with less” and manage a proce...

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标题：A Judge Has Blocked the Pentagon’s Attempt to Blacklist Anthropic

正文：A federal judge has blocked the Pentagon’s attempt to blacklist Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind Claude, ruling that the T administration’s actions were unlawful. US District Judge Rita Lin overturned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to designate Anthropic a national-security “supply-chain risk”, a label that threatened its work with the Pentagon and other government contractors.The ruling marked a striking victory for a company that, only months earlier, had been one of the US military’s important AI partners.

知识点：overturn v. /ˌəʊvəˈtɜːn/
· 英文释义：to reverse a decisio...

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标题：Can Trump actually change Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’? Here’s what to know

正文：Amid a growing trade war with one of the United States’ closest allies,President Donald Trump on Thursday moved to rename Lake Ontario to 
“Lake America,” needling Canada further after trade talks collapsed.Trump’s executive order marks the president’s latest attempt to use rebranding as an assertion of power — after signing an order to rename the Gulf of Mexico on his first day back in office. Trump has wide latitude over how the US government refers to geographic landmarks, but he can’t force other countries to follow suit.

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标题：Glacier collapse may have triggered deadly Nepal flash flood, experts say

正文：A deadly flash flood near the Nepal-China border may have been triggered when part of a glacier collapsed high in the Himalayas, experts said, after satellite images showed a dramatic change in the landscape. The disaster struck on Wednesday in Nepal’s Rasuwa district and China’s Tibet region, killing people,destroying infrastructure and leaving hundreds missing on both sides of the border. The incident has drawn attention to the growing risks facing communities beneath the Himalayas.

知识点：landscape n. /ˈlændskeɪp/
· 英文释义：the visible features of an area of land, including its ph...

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标题：As his presidency flounders, Donald Trump is more dangerous than ever

Forget lame ducks. America’s president will defend his dominance like an ageing silverback gorilla

正文：Is Donald Trump becoming a lame duck? As his troubles multiply at home and abroad, the prospect of dealing with a hobbled American president is enough to make foes and friends swoon with relief.

知识点：multiply /ˈmʌltɪplaɪ/ v.
英文释义：multiply means to increase greatly in number or amount 本义为数学
上的"相乘"，新闻评论语境核心义为"（问题、麻烦）成倍增加、迅速增多"（本文特指：特朗普在国内与国外同时堆积的各类麻烦——国会掣肘、市场反应、伊朗局势——正在快速累加，构成"跛脚鸭"猜测的现实基础）核心搭配：problems multiply、complaints multiply、multiply rapidly、multiply by ten、risks multiply
・Complaints multiplied within hours of the app's botched update. 那次失败的应用更新之后，投诉在几小时内成倍涌来。
・As the audit dragged on, questions about the firm's accounting multiplied. 随着审计一再拖延，关于这家公司账务的疑问越来越多。

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《早安英文-每日外刊精读》，带你精读最新外刊，了解国际最热事件：分析语法结构，拆解长难句，最接地气的翻译，还有重点词汇讲解。  
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标题：In China, people brave simulated typhoons to prepare for the real thing

正文：Huang Zhen, 34, shut his café for a day to be buffeted by surging waters and powerful winds that knocked him off his feet — training for extreme weather increasingly afflicting China. Huang was one of a dozen people attending a session at the Lvxing Disaster Simulation Training Center in Hangzhou. For 1,599 yuan ($235) per day, the centre offers a realistic experience of being caught in a typhoon or flash flood, with participants wearing wetsuits and helmets under the guidance of safety instructors.

知识点：be buffeted by  phrase. /bi ˈbʌfɪtɪd baɪ/
· 英文释义：to be...

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标题：Trump's economic challenge: $40tn debt, 6.7% mortgages and $5 diesel

正文：Almost two years since Donald Trump won election pledging to slash prices and fix the US’s public finances, his Iran war and tax cuts have delivered a different outcome: record-high debt, soaring fuel costs and punishing mortgage rates. Investors pushed yields on long-term US debt to a 19-year high amid alarm at the weight of public borrowing and the war’s inflationary fallout.Trump’s Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, rushed to soothe markets, unveiling a programme to “at least double” purchases of long-term debt and plans to tackle the deficit.

知识点：pledge to v. phr. /pledʒ tuː...