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标题：Climber Alex Honnold scales 101-floor skyscraper without safety gear

正文：American climber Alex Honnold has successfully scaled a Taiwan skyscraper without a rope, harness or safety equipment.

The building, named Taipei 101 for the number of its floors, is 508m (1,667ft) tall, made of steel, glass and concrete and is designed to resemble a stick of bamboo.

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rope /roʊp/, n.

a thick cord made by twisting or braiding strands together.（绳索）

• The climbers used a strong nylon rope to secure themselves during the ascent. 攀登者在上升过程中使用坚固的尼龙绳来确保安全。

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标题：Gold and silver prices are slumping after their meteoric rise. Here's why.

正文：The shine is coming off gold and silver. Prices for the precious metals, which last week soared to record highs, are extending their slide after a sharp selloff on Friday.
Gold, which topped $5,500 last week, dipped below $4,500 per ounce in overnight trading.

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shine n. /ʃaɪn/
brightness from light reflected off a surface 光泽；光亮
• The table had a high shine after it was polished. 桌子抛光后非常光亮。
• Her hair had a healthy shine. 她的头发有健康的光泽。

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标题：They Said They Weren't Close to Epstein. New Documents Show Otherwise.
Materials released by the Justice Department revealed that leading business and political figures had enduring relationships with the disgraced financier.

正文：They said they didn’t really know Jeffrey Epstein that well. They were disgusted by him right off the bat. They werejust drawn tohis intellector love of science or business acumen. They didn’t know about his abuseof women and girls. They deeply regretted associating withhim. In the years since Mr. Epstein’s 2019 arrestand death by suicide in a Manhattan jail, some of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people...

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标题：Nicki Minaj calls herself  T's 'number one fan' and shows off gold card visa

正文：Trinidad and Tobago-born rapper Nicki Minaj declared herself to be T's "number one fan" on Wednesday, while also showing off her T "gold card" visa, which offers applicants residency and a path to US citizenship. The US President called the star up on stage in Washington DC after she announced her support for the so-called "Trump Accounts", which provide trust funds for children. Previously a critic of Trump's hardline immigation policies, Minaj, who came to the US with her parents as a child, has praised his leadership in recent years...

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标题：Born of a Factory Mistake, This Sad Toy Horse Captures China’s Mood
A manufacturing error turned a Lunar New Year toy into an unlikely emblem of workplace fatigue.

正文：A frowny-faced horse plushie, the result of a factory mistake, has become the internet’s unofficial mascot for the Lunar New Year. Fans say it resonates with overworked office employees. When Vivian Hao, a 39-year-old editor in China’s Anhui Province, came across the red horse plushie on social media, she felt a pang of recognition. The toy, meant to spread holiday cheer, seemed to capture something deeper about...

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标题：British PM starts China visit amid intensive trips by Western leaders; Starmer tells delegates ‘you're making history’

正文：Accompanied by around 60 British business and cultural leaders, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for an official visit to China through Saturday. Addressing business delegates in Beijing, Starmer was quoted by BBC as saying, "on this delegation, you're making history. You're part of the change that we're bringing about."

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accompanied by phrase /əˈkʌmpənid baɪ/
be present or occur at the same time as (something else) 由…陪同；伴随…发生
• The CEO arrived at the conference, ac...

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标题：Chinese AI is a risk for Europe. So is shunning it
Especially now that America is becoming a less reliable partner

正文： On January 20th 2025 DeepSeek was an obscure hedge-fund-turned-tech-startup from Hangzhou. Within a week it had become the byword for a new wave of Chinese innovation, after launching an artificial-intelligence model as capable as Silicon Valley’s bleeding edge but much cheaper to build and run. Having slugged it out in China’s cutthroat domestic market over the past year, DeepSeek and its homespun rivals are looking abroad for profits. They will not find the largest ones in America, increa...

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标题：Gold tops $5,000 for first time ever, adding to historic rally

正文：The price of gold has risen above $5,000 (£3,659) an ounce for the first time ever, extending a historic rally that saw the precious metal jump by more than 60% last year.

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ounce n. /aʊns/
a unit of weight equal to 28.35 grams 盎司
• Gold is traditionally measured and traded in troy ounces. 黄金传统上以金衡盎司计量和交易。
• Every ounce of effort contributes to the final success. 每一分努力都对最终的成功有贡献。

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标题：Another horrifying shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis

What happens when armed men are given impunity

正文：THE LATEST shooting by federal agents on the streets of Minneapolis unfolded just after 9am on January 24th. At least half a dozen masked Border Patrol agents were conducting a “targeted operation”, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), when they encountered a man on a part of Nicollet Avenue known as “Eat Street” and tackled him. A video shot from across the street captures the struggle after it had begun. One officer is seen apparently repeatedly punching the man in...

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标题：China Moves to Ban ‘CEO Romance’ Dramas Due to Fears Young Women Are Being Fed Billionaire Delusions

正文：China is taking aim at a wildly popular entertainment genre that has captivated millions of young women across the country: micro dramas featuring romance between ordinary women and ultra-wealthy CEOs.

According to sources, authorities have announced plans to regulate these short-form video dramas, which typically run just a few minutes per episode and are consumed primarily on mobile devices. The concern centers on content that regulators believe promotes materialism and encourages unrealistic fantasies about wealth and romance am...

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标题：Chloé Zhao Is Yearning to Know How to Love

正文：Chloé Zhao is an anomaly. At only 43, with just five feature films under her belt, she has already established herself as one of cinema’s most distinguished and distinctive directors. And she has done it at a time when the movie business is increasingly averse to artistic risk and originality — two qualities on shimmering display in all her work.

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anomaly n. /əˈnɒməli/
something that is unusual or unexpected and does not fit a pattern 异常事物，反常现象
• The result is an anomaly that cannot be explained by current theory. 

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标题：Health experts scramble to contain outbreak of deadly Nipah virus
Two nurses at a hospital in India are infected with the bat-borne pathogen that inspired the  Hollywood film Contagion

正文： Two cases of Nipah virus, a rare, bat-borne pathogen, have been confirmed in an Indian hospital, prompting a nationwide alert as well as local quarantine and surveillance measures. The cases, both in nurses working at the private Narayana Multispeciality Hospital in Barasat, West Bengal, 16 miles from the capital city Kolkata, have raised fears that the disease, which inspired the Hollywood film Contagion, could be spreading undetected.
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标题：T is Making China—Not America—Great Again, Global Survey Suggests

正文：. A year after T’s return to the White House, a 21-nation survey conducted by the influential European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) think tank reveals a striking global perception: the U.S. president’s “America First” agenda appears to be bolstering China’s rise rather than restoring American dominance.

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conduct   /ˈkɑːndʌkt/ (n.)

behavior; the way someone acts 行为；举止

e.g., His conduct during the meeting was highly professional. 

他在会议中的表现非常专业。

conduct   /kənˈdʌkt/ (v.)

to organize and carry out an activi...

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标题：Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip
Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers. 

正文：Until recently, Harvard was the most productive research university in the world, according to a global ranking that looks at academic publication. That position may be teetering, the most recent evidence of a troubling trend for American academia. Harvard recently dropped to No. 3 on the ranking. The schools racing up the list are Chinese universities that have been steadily climbing in rankings...

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标题：A new generation of Chinese companies is expanding around the world

正文：A few years ago it would have been hard to imagine Chinese brands making it big in America. Yet today shoppers in Manhattan can pop by the 2,800-square-metre store of Urban Revivo to pick up one of the Chinese retailer’s trendy outfits, which are all the rage on TikTok, a short-video app owned by ByteDance, another Chinese company. They can follow that up with a latte from Luckin Coffee, which began opening outlets on the island last year, or an ice cream from Mixue, another Chinese retailer...

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标题：Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds —— by Ivan Zhao

正文：Every era is shaped by its miracle material. Steel forged the Gilded Age. Semiconductors switched on the Digital Age. Now AI has arrived as infinite minds. If history teaches us anything, those who master the material define the era.

知识点：infinite adj. /ˈɪnfɪnət/
having no limit or end. 无限的
e.g. A parent's patience sometimes feels infinite, but it can be tested by a toddler's tantrums. 

父母的耐心有时感觉是无限的，但也可能被幼儿的脾气所考验。

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标题：Beckham v Peltz Beckham: Could Brooklyn torpedo the family brand?
Brooklyn Peltz Beckham has claimed "performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships" were a fixture of his life.

正文：Sir David and Lady Beckham's son has accused them of putting "Brand Beckham" first as they built up their global image and business empire. His bombshell statement threatens to derail both their public reputation and their private life.

知识点：accuse /əˈkjuːz/
v. to say that someone has done something wrong or is guilty of something 指责，控告
• The report accused the company of ignoring safety regulations. 
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标题：Why Everyone Is Suddenly in a ‘Very Chinese Time’ in Their Lives

The viral meme isn’t really about China or actual Chinese people. It's a symbol of what Americans believe their own country has lost.

正文：Across social media, people are proclaiming that “You met me at a very Chinese time of my life,” while performing stereotypically Chinese-coded activities like eating dim sum or wearing the viral Adidas Chinese jacket. The trend blew up so much that celebrities like comedian Jimmy O Yang even got in on it. It has now evolved into variations like “Chinamaxxing” (acting...

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标题：‘Like an Earthquake’: How 40 People Died in a Spanish Train Crash

正文：Salvador Jiménez was on a high-speed train to Madrid on Sunday evening, speeding through the arid countryside of southern Spain, when the carriage shook so violently that he thought it had hit an animal on the tracks.

知识点：speed v. /spiːd/
to move or travel quickly 快速行进；疾驰
• Cars sped along the motorway late at night. 
夜深时，汽车在高速公路上疾驰。
• The train was speeding through the countryside. 
列车正飞速穿过乡村。

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标题：‘China’s POTUS’ told us how he went viral. And yes, it started as a bet

正文：Employing the casual hyperbole of his presidential idol, the “Chinese POTUS” gave our  interview a 67 out of 10. He said it calmly. Cheerfully. With absolute confidence. Like people do when they’re standing in a megacity with fans seemingly on every street corner. Here in Chongqing, southwestern China, population 32 million, business manager Ryan Chen has mastered an impression so uncanny that strangers stop eating lunch to look up, mid-bite, when they hear his voice.

知识点：employ v. /ɪmˈplɔɪ/
to use a particular method, skill, o...

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标题：What the collapse of Iran's regime would mean

Thousands have died and America has threatened to strike back against the horror there

正文：WHEN PROTESTERS took to the bazaars and streets of Iran, the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, met them with bullets. After two weeks of chants of “death to the dictator”, militiamen allied with the Revolutionary Guards and toting automatic rifles rode in on swarms of motorbikes. With snipers, they shot their fellow citizens, aiming at their faces and genitals. Morgues are overflowing. Bodies in bags are stacked on bloodied pavements. Several thousand may be dead. Thousan...

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标题：RFK Jr.’s new food pyramid puts meat, dairy at the top. What you should eat?

正文：If you’re eating several servings of fruits and vegetables daily, avoiding ultraprocessed foods and baking your chicken instead of frying it, you’re already following some of the newly updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

知识点：serving n. /ˈsɜːrvɪŋ/
A single portion of food or drink; the amount of a food item typically consumed at one time.
一份食物或饮料；通常一次食用的食物量。
· Adults should aim for five servings of fruits and vegetables daily. 

成人应争取每日摄入五份蔬果。
· This cereal contains 150 calories per serving. 

这款麦片每份含150卡路里。

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标题：China’s ‘Are You Dead?’ app checks in on growing cohort of people living alone

Popularity among Chinese Apple users highlights concerns created by rapidly changing demographics

正文：An app called “Are You Dead?” that checks up on people living alone has become the most popular paid Apple Store download in China, a sign of concerns created by the country’s rapidly changing demographics. The app, called Sile Me in Chinese, requires users to “check in” by pressing a button. If they fail to do so over two consecutive days, the app sends a message to an emergency contact nominated...

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标题：The White House weighs how to acquire Greenland

Leaders in Greenland and Denmark are in shock. Is the president serious?

正文：T’s appetite in the western hemisphere appears insatiable. Just a day after snatching Nicolás Maduro, Mr. T set his sights on Greenland. “We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security,” the president told reporters on January 4th. His allies amplified the message. Stephen Miller argued American control was necessary to secure the Arctic and defend NATO. Forget international law, he growled: “We live in a world…governed by strength, governed by force, governed by powe...

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标题：The options America faces in Iran

T promises to “rescue” Iranian protesters. How could he try?

正文：To hear T tell it, the end of the Islamic Republic is nigh. “Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before,” he announced on social media on January 10th. “The USA stands ready to help!” The American president has made similar pronouncements every few days since a wave of protest began sweeping Iran on December 28th. He warned that America is “locked and loaded and ready” to intervene if the regime kills demonstrators. “If they do that, they’re going to have to pay hell...

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标题：Is Life a Game?

正文：Every summer for the past few years, I’ve taught a multiday seminar for philosophy professors who want to write for magazines. The seminars involve a fair amount of after-dinner chitchat under the stars, during which talk often winds its way to the weirdness of being a professional philosopher. It turns out, for instance, that philosophy departments are ruled by rankings. A single website, the Philosophical Gourmet, ranks graduate programs in philosophy, sorting them not just in general terms but by specialization. 

知识点：multiday adj. /ˈmʌltiˌdeɪ/

lasting several days 持续多天的

• The conference...

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标题：American Violence Is Pushing Families to Think About Leaving

正文：The one group in the United States most interested in leaving the country and permanently living somewhere else is American women ages 15 to 44. According to Gallup, 40 percent of women polled in my age bracket expressed this desire, double the rate of all U.S. adults. That tells me that the women who are building their lives and the lives of the next generation are looking for the exit.

知识点：permanently adv. /ˈpɜːrmənəntli/
in a way that lasts or remains unchanged indefinitely. 永久地
e.g. After years...

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标题：These Teenagers Are Already Running Their Own AI Companies

They might not yet drive, but they’re getting an early start in business by leveraging vibe-coding and social media.

正文：Like any good tech founder, Nick Dobroshinsky puts in late nights and early mornings working on his startup. But this particular founder doesn’t have much choice: Between 8 a.m. and 2:55 p.m., he’s in high school. He’s 15. “Around the end of eighth grade, I wanted to make some sort of business,” says Dobroshinsky, a sophomore in Sammamish, Wash. “I just spent a long time thinking about what probl...

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标题：As new jobs in finance dry up, New York City’s fiscal model is wilting 

正文：At 270 PARK AVENUE in midtown Manhattan, employees have moved into the immense new headquarters of JPMorgan Chase. The building boasts 2.5m square feet of office space and is almost 1,400 feet tall—more or less the same as the Empire State Building. Measuring an entire city block across, and built by a bank whose market capitalisation is climbing towards $1trn, the building gives the impression of unshakable dominion. For more than two centuries New York City has been a behemoth of trading, banking and money-management...

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标题：America chases down the shadow fleet serving Venezuela

POTUS is determined to enforce its oil blockade

正文：It was a slow-motion naval chase. Last month in the Caribbean the US Coast Guard attempted to board the Bella 1, an oil tanker used to smuggle oil in defiance of American sanctions. The attempt failed. Weeks later the Bella 1 turned up in the Atlantic with a new name (the Marinera) and a new flag (Russian). A Russian submarine was en route to protect it. But on January 7th American forces pounced before the Russians could arrive, rappelling onto the ship near Icel...

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标题：Venezuela’s Crisis Is No Accident: How Oil and Intervention Shaped a State 

How Chávez’s unfinished revolution, U.S. interventionism and strategic oil politics culminated in the 2026 capture of Nicolás Maduro.

正文：Hugo Chávez’s ascent to power in 1998 was rooted in domestic collapse rather than ideological novelty. His victory reflected the exhaustion of Venezuela’s political system, entrenched inequality and the social consequences of economic reforms that had delivered growth without inclusion. 

知识点：ascent n. /əˈsent/
the act of climbing or moving up; a rise to a higher position 上升；升高；攀登
• The climbers began thei...

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标题：Rage bait, goblin mode … do words of the year have any real value?
Analysis shows obscure and barely used choices, drawn from online slang, do not stand the test of time

正文： If you have seen a news story declaring 2025’s chosen “word of the year” in recent weeks, you might be forgiven for asking yourself: what, another one?

知识点：bait /beɪt/ (n. & v.)
n. food used to attract fish or animals; something used to tempt sb 诱饵；诱惑物
v. to put bait on a hook or in a trap; to deliberately annoy or taunt sb 下诱饵；故意激怒
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标题：Inside ‘Operation Absolute Resolve,’ the U.S. Effort to Capture Maduro 

正文：In August, a clandestine team of C.I.A. officers slipped into Venezuela with a plan to collect information on Nicolás Maduro, the country’s president, whom the Trump administration had labeled a narco-terrorist.

知识点：clandestine adj. /klænˈdɛstɪn/
Kept secret or done secretly, often for an illicit purpose. 
秘密的，通常是为了非法目的而秘密进行的。
• They held a clandestine meeting in a hidden location. 
他们在一个隐蔽的地点举行了秘密会议。
• The organization operated clandestine activities to avoid detection. 
该组织进行秘密活动以避开侦查。

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标题：Tesla Is No Longer the Top EV Seller. Why Is It Losing Ground Around the World?

正文：Tesla Inc. is facing a difficult road ahead after deliveries of its fully electric vehicles declined for a second year in a row and were overtaken by Chinese rival BYD Co. on an annual basis for the first time. The US EV maker is struggling with heightened competition, the loss of federal purchase incentives in its home market, and backlash to the polarizing politics of Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk. Fundamentally, the company is lacking a truly new, affordable vehicle to revitalize its a...

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标题：OpenAI faces a make-or-break year in 2026

One of the fastest-growing companies in history is in a perilous position

正文：Sam Altman is like a juggler on a unicycle. Building all-knowing chatbots powered by cutting-edge artificial-intelligence models is too meek an ambition for OpenAI’s boss. To keep his audience rapt, he has thrown ever more balls into the air. Custom chips? Of course. E-commerce? Why not. Business consulting? Too easy. A consumer device? You betcha.

知识点：Juggler /ˈdʒʌɡlə(r)/ (n)
a person who juggles, especially as an entertainer; someone who manages multiple tasks or responsibilities a...

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标题：T wants to run Venezuela, and dominate the western hemisphere
Snatching Nicolás Maduro and attempting to take control of Venezuela and its oil is an extraordinary display of the new “Donroe doctrine”

正文：WHEN ASKED what he sought to achieve with his military campaign against Venezuela, Donald Trump used to offer only vague answers: stopping migrants and criminals from reaching the United States; halting the flow of drugs from Venezuela; and, latterly, reclaiming oil reserves that Venezuela, like many other countries, nationalised decades ago. Rarely, if ever, did he mention regime change, perhaps because he knew that his ba...

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标题：T claims US has captured Venezuelan dictator and wife

US president says on social media that operation to capture Nicolás Maduro carried out with US law enforcement

正文：T has claimed the US has “captured” Venezuela’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flown them out of the South American country after a pre-dawn assault on Caracas and the surrounding region.“It was a brilliant operation, actually,” the US president told the New York Times after eyewitnesses in Venezuela reported a series of explosions. “A lot of good planning and [a] lot of great, great troops and great pe...

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标题：What self-help books tell us about ourselves

The genre holds up an unflattering mirror to society

正文：To understand modern self-help books, open “Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm”. The sequel to “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse”—and no doubt the prequel to the “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Massive Royalty Cheque”—these animal parables topped Britain’s bestseller charts at Christmas. They have sold many millions of copies (often a bad sign) and been described as “heartwarming” (a worse one).

知识点：s...

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标题：How Meta’s Newest Acquisition Target Got Around Worries Over Its Ties to China

The $2.5 billion deal could herald a new era for China-linked AI companies and U.S. investors

正文：Workers at Butterfly Effect, an artificial-intelligence startup with Chinese roots, gathered in March to count down to the launch of a demo of a new AI-powered tool called Manus. Released in the shadow of DeepSeek, a China-built AI model that rocked the U.S. market in January owing to its advanced capabilities and low cost, Manus became an overnight hit. The product, which used models from An...

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标题：Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It’s Hiring High-School Grads.

正文：At first, the idea of skipping college to take a fellowship for Palantir Technologies seemed preposterous to Matteo Zanini. But he couldn’t stop thinking about it.

知识点：skip /skɪp/ (v)
to move lightly by hopping; to miss out on something 
蹦跳；跳过，略过
e.g. He chose to skip the meeting to finish his report earlier.  
他选择跳过这场会议，好早点完成报告。
e.g. The rabbit skipped across the grass and disappeared into the bushes.  
兔子蹦蹦跳跳地穿过草地，钻进了灌木丛里。

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