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My name's Michelle Moon. I'm 54 years old. I'm a housekeeper at Days Inn in Harmarville, Pennsylvania and I've been working for this company for over 20 years.

我叫米歇尔·穆恩，今年54岁，是宾夕法尼亚州哈马维尔戴斯酒店的一名客房服务员，在这家公司已经工作了20多年。

Quite frankly, I like it here. I like my coworkers, sometimes. Far as the clients go that stays here, some is good, some is bad, some is rotten.

说实话，我很喜欢这里。有时候，我也喜欢我的同事们。至于这里的房客，有好有坏，有些烂透了。

With some people, I'll be wondering. They trashes a room. Do they treat their houses, their places like that? Because they're nasty. But I just keep on going.

看到一些房客，我有时候会想，他们把房间弄得一团糟，也是这样对待自己的房子和住处吗？因为他们太邋遢了，但我只管工作。

I had no goals when I was younger, really, not really, just surviving day by day, doing whatever I do, whatever I want, and whatever I can. Just day by day thing.

我年轻的时候没有什么目标，只是一天天地熬日子，做我该做的、想做的、能做的，就这样日复一日。

I had no regrets. Where I'm at is where I'm at. I have no regrets. I love my chi

Because our employees are experiencing, you know, 20 to 25 percent a day in downtime, due to the internet speed.

每天有20%到25%的时间，我们的员工因为网速慢而停工。

They're not, you know, being able to effectively do their work as efficiently as possible. We have been waiting for a year now to have fiber brought to us.

他们没办法尽可能高效地开展工作。我们已经等了一年，就等着光纤接入。

They just say that we're not within their territory and they don't have to provide us service.

他们只是说我们不在他们的辖区内，他们不必为我们提供服务。

If it's an issue of giving service that's necessary for public safety, then there's a very strong social argument or public argument.

如果提供网络事关公众安全，肯定会有强烈的公众要求或社会要求。

So, hospitals, the police, homeland defense, perhaps other emergency services that are provided in t

I've been coming to Dyker Heights. Well, this is my first time actually, so he's actually taking me on a tour of Dyker Heights.

我一直想来戴克高地。实际上这是我第一次来，他正带我参观戴克高地。

Yes and I've been here several years. My parents grew up in Brooklyn. So, you know, everybody knows about it from the surrounding area.

我在这里待了好几年了。我父母在布鲁克林长大，周边地区的每个人都知道。

Ryan was just telling me about a house that you can see from space, so we're on the hunt to find that house that you can see from space. Hot chocolate. Hot chocolate. Wink wink. It's hot chocolate.

瑞安刚才告诉我有一栋房子从太空都能看到，所以我们正在寻找那栋从太空可见的房子。热可可。

It's really nice and I like, I think the lights are very beautiful.

它真的很漂亮，我认为灯光非常漂亮。

It's just really nice how everybody decorates and lets everybody come by their properties and watch the lig

I relish the day after the burn, when I get to come and clean it up and walk away from a black stain.

这里烧过稻草后的第二天，我会过来打扫干净，然后远离那片焦黑的痕迹。

It's great. I mean, something happened and there's a tiny black stain on the earth where it happened. Very simply, it makes me happy. I love it.

太棒了，有事情发生了，事发地点会在地球上留下一个小小的黑色污渍。简单来说，这让我感到快乐。我爱极了。

My name is Joe Pachak. I'm an artist. I love to do sculpture.

我叫乔·佩查克。我是一位艺术家。我喜欢雕塑。

Every year, I make a very large piece of sculpture and on December 21st, at a very important time, Winter Solstice, the beginning of the astronomical year,

每年我都会制作一件很大的雕塑，并在12月21日冬至这个重要时刻，也就是天文年的开端，

I set fire to it as a spiritual event connected to the science of our relationship between Sun and Earth.

They are loving companions. And for the blind, these dogs are a lifeline.

狗狗是人类忠诚的伴侣。但对于盲人来说，狗狗就是他们的生命线。

Lorri Bernson lost her vision 25 years ago and had her current guide dog named Captain for one year.

洛丽·伯恩森25年前失明，她现在的导盲犬名为船长，已陪伴她一年。

He is so sweet, and so devoted, and so makes me smile. You know, these dogs, they're not just your eyes.

它十分贴心，也很忠诚，还总能逗我开心。这些导盲犬可不只是你的眼睛。

I mean they become your heart. They become part of your soul. They become part of your being, Because when they're not with you, you notice the difference.

它们会走进你的心里，成为你灵魂的一部分，成为你生命的一部分。因为一旦它们不在你身边时，你会察觉到不同。

Many dogs are bred and trained here at Guide Dogs of America outside Los Angeles.

许多狗狗在洛杉矶郊外的美国导盲犬协会接受培育和训练。

Owners and dogs move in tandem step by step, navigating obstacles, including cars.

Do you find yourself getting increasingly irate while scrolling through your social media feed? If so, you may be falling victim to rage bait. According to the Oxford University Press, this is defined as online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive.

你是否发现自己会在滑动浏览社交媒体上的信息时变得越来越愤怒？如果是这样的话，那么你很可能是 “rage bait（愤怒诱饵）” 的受害者。牛津大学出版社将这个词定义为 “被刻意设计过的互联网内容，通过使人觉得心烦、受到挑衅或冒犯来引发怒气或愤慨”。

Such content is typically posted in order to increase traffic to websites or social media accounts.

发布这类内容的目的通常是为了增加网页或社交媒体账号的流量。

Shortlisted words were put to a public vote, the results of which help to guide the final decision taken by OUP's language experts.

入围的词汇经过公众投票，投票的结果作为参考帮助牛津大学出版社的语言专家们做出最终决定。

Are you worried that you can't keep up with AI? Current artificial intelligence systems can do many tasks much quicker than we can. Does this mean that machines will put us out of work?

您是否担心自己跟不上人工智能的发展？ 当前的人工智能系统可以比我们更快地完成许多任务。 这是否意味着机器会让我们失业？

Rather than replace our jobs, it may be more likely that AI will transform the way we work. Previous waves of mechanisation and automation did not cause lasting effects to employment rates. However, the skills valued by the economy could change. Research from Goldman Sachs shows some evidence that AI has affected the US job market differently in different sectors. Being adaptable and understanding how AI and humans can best work together in the industry that you work in is lik...

We've been on the bench for over thirty years. For 25 years, we were on television just in Rhode Island. That's it. 

我们做法官已经有三十多年了。在过去的二十五年来，我们的节目只在罗得岛州的电视台播出。仅此而已。

I get letters every day, people sending me letters saying, "Please continue to treat people with understanding and compassion."

我每天都会收到信件，人们在信中写道：“请继续以理解和同情之心对待他人。”

And many people, because of my treatment of people who come before my court, send money to my court saying, "Please use this to help someone else."

许多人因我对出庭者的态度而向法庭捐款，并附言：“请用这笔钱帮助他人。”

I have a letter from a woman named Angie Chesser. And she said, I got a small bonus from where I work and I would like to donate 100 dollars to help somebody else.

我收到了一封来自安吉·切瑟女士的信。她说：“我从工作的地方拿到了一笔小额奖金，想捐出100美元来帮助其他人。”

And she actually sent cash. So we're gonna use this to help pay for your fine

The English oak is one of Britain's most iconic trees. Broad and majestic, this tree supports more species than any other native tree in the UK, from blackbirds, to squirrels to butterflies. For centuries it has stood watching the landscapes change and our societies evolve. The question is, can a tree remember, learn and adapt to new environments within its lifetime? Does wisdom lie within its boughs? 

英国橡树是英国最具标志性的树木之一。 这棵树宽阔而雄伟，比英国任何其他本土树木都支持更多的物种，从黑鸟、松鼠到蝴蝶。 几个世纪以来，它一直见证着景观的变化和我们社会的演变。 问题是，一棵树在其一生中能否记忆、学习和适应新环境？ 智慧就在它的枝干里吗？ 

Trees provide a physical record of their life experiences in their growth rings. Dendrochronologists take samples from a tree trunk and are able to see whether a tree has been through a forest fire, periods of drought or a rainy season. But these markings are more than just battle scars. An organisation called Membra studies a number of UK tree species to see how they 'remember' and respond to environme...

4,000 brain scans of people up to the age of 90 have revealed our brains go through five distinct eras. The first is childhood. This is when the brain is rapidly growing but getting less efficient over time.

对 4000 名最大年龄为 90 岁的人的脑部扫描显示出我们的大脑会经历五个不同的阶段。首先是童年期。在这个阶段中，大脑会快速地生长，但效率会逐渐降低。

Then, a surprisingly long period of adolescence kicks in, starting at the age of nine and lasting until you're 32 when the brain peaks. You then get the longest stage, adulthood, which lasts three decades.

在这之后，一段漫长到令人有些惊讶的青春期就会开始，这段时期从九岁开始一直持续到 32 岁，那时你的大脑会达到最佳状态。然后你会迎来最长的成年期阶段，持续约三十年。

Then comes 66 and early ageing. The effects are subtle, but the brain is beginning to fragment as smaller regions work tightly together – it's like a band starting their own solo projects. At 83, this accelerates as we enter the final phase.

然后在 66 岁时进入早期衰老阶段。这个阶段的影响并不明显，但大脑会开始逐渐碎片化，更小的区域会开始紧密合作，就像一个乐队中的成员开始推出他们的个人作品一样。到 83 岁时，这个现象会开始加速，大脑进入最后的晚期阶段。

The international team of researchers says ultra-processed foods present too great a danger to health to wait any longer to take action against them.

一个国际研究团队称，超加工食品对健康的危害太大，所以必须立即采取行动来应对。

They say products containing high levels of saturated fat, salt, sugar and additives are displacing fresh food. Examples include processed meats, crisps, mass-produced bread, ready meals and fizzy drinks.

研究人员表示，含有大量饱和脂肪、盐、糖和添加剂的食品正在取代新鲜食物，比如加工肉类、炸薯片、批量生产的面包、即食餐和碳酸饮料。

The researchers take aim at a handful of massive food corporations, calling for them to face marketing restrictions and extra taxes.

研究人员将矛头指向了少数几家大型食品公司，呼吁对它们施加营销限制并征收额外的税费。

Can you imagine waiting ten years to take the perfect photograph? With phones accessible in our pocket, it's easier than ever to take photos of nature and wildlife, providing we can find it. But what skills do the most successful wildlife photographers have? Talent, patience, curiosity and resilience.

你能想象为了拍到一张完美的照片而等待十年吗？如今手机随身携带，只要我们能找到拍摄对象，拍摄自然与野生动物从未如此容易。那么，最成功的野生动物摄影师具备哪些能力呢？天赋、耐心、好奇心以及韧性。

The winner of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025 was South African wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever. His shot depicts a brown hyena lit up in an abandoned mining town in the Namibian desert and was the culmination of ten years' work. So why was it so difficult to capture? The subject is a shy creature, mostly active at night, and the Namib Desert often succumbs to thick fog, while easterly winds can pile sand up to a metre high. "I ha...

We're talking about the Volkswagen scandal. Yes, well, let's go back to the beginning. How did it all start? Well, Richard, if you think about it, German products, they have a good reputation, don't they? Especially for engineering, yes.

我们在谈论大众汽车丑闻。是的，那我们回到事情的起点吧。一切是如何开始的呢？理查德，如果你仔细想想，德国产品的口碑一直很好，对吧？尤其是在工程技术方面，是的。

And I think the motor car industry represents the best of all of that. Yes, they're reliable, well-designed, efficient, highly engineered. Who doesn't want to own a BMW? Or a Mercedes.

我认为汽车工业正是这些优点的最佳体现。是的，它们可靠、设计精良、高效，而且工程技术含量极高。谁不想拥有一辆宝马？或者一辆奔驰呢？

But in terms of being environmentally friendly, diesel cars have a poor reputation, particularly in the US, where very few are sold. So, yes, so when VW said that it had designed cars with a new clean diesel technology that surpassed the strict US regulations, it filled a huge hole in the market. Yes, so there are fewer fumes, Richard, toxic fumes.

但是在环保方面，柴油车的名声并不好，尤其是在美国，柴油车的销量非常少。所以，当大众汽车宣称

Authorities in Hong Kong say the number of people killed in an apartment fire last week has now risen to 151. This as an investigation is pointing to the building's renovation as a catalyst for the tragedy. We're showing you here images released today by the Hong Kong police force showing the interior of an apartment that was destroyed in the fire, giving you a sense of the damage caused by the flames inside with walls blackened, floor to ceiling, and a lifetime of memories reduced to ash.

香港当局表示，上周发生的一场公寓火灾的死亡人数现已上升至151人。调查显示，这场悲剧的导火索可能与大楼正在进行的翻修工程有关。我们现在展示的是香港警方今天发布的画面，画面显示了一套在火灾中被彻底烧毁的公寓内部景象，让人直观感受到火焰造成的破坏——墙壁从地板到天花板一片焦黑，一生的记忆化为灰烬。

Mary-Anne Demayne joining me now. She's been following this story all morning for us. Those images, Mary-Anne, are just unbelievable, devastating, but really speak to the intensity of this fire.

玛丽安·德梅恩现在加入我们。她整个上午都在为我们跟进这条新闻。玛丽安，这些画面令人难以置信、令人心碎，也真实反映了这场火灾的猛烈程度。

And now, of course, the investigation looking into e...

I'm talking to somebody who works for the biggest supermarket in the UK. Hi Alan. Hello there.

我正在和一位在英国最大连锁超市工作的人交谈。嗨，艾伦。你好。

So, who do you work for? I work for Tesco, which is a British company. It's got supermarkets and stores all over the world. We've got something like 4,000 stores and we are the biggest by market share in the UK.

那么，你是为哪家公司工作的呢？我在乐购（Tesco）工作，这是一家英国公司，在世界各地都有超市和门店。我们大约有4000家门店，在英国的市场占有率是最高的。

Fantastic. What is your job title? So my job title is Technical Director of the Clothing Division, which is branded F&F. What do you do exactly? So my job really is to help the buyers who choose the products for our customers to get the right quality and to buy from the right factories all over the world.

太棒了。你的职位是什么？我的职位是服装事业部的技术总监，我们的服装品牌叫 F&F。那你具体是...

Over the past three years, Syria's air force has rained death on more than 21,000 civilians. Their bodies ripped apart by exploding barrel bombs. Missiles dropped on homes, businesses, bus stops, even hospitals.

在过去三年里，叙利亚空军向两万一千多名平民倾泻了死亡。爆炸的桶装炸弹将他们的身体撕得粉碎，导弹落在民宅、商铺、公交车站，甚至是医院上。

These war crimes have been well documented. Not so the part played by the shadowy world of offshore finance. Behind the scenes, companies using offshore tax havens were accused of supplying fuel to the Syrian air force.

这些战争罪行早已有大量记录。然而，离岸金融这个阴暗世界所扮演的角色，却鲜少被揭示。在幕后，有人指控，一些利用离岸避税天堂的公司向叙利亚空军供应燃料。

In 2014, multiple governments, including the UK and US, issued bans on doing business with these companies. But now, a new global investigation has revealed that a Panamanian firm helped these companies operate, as attacks in Syria continued. That firm, Mossack Fonseca, is a key player in a sprawling, secretive industry that the world's rich and powerful use to hide assets and skirt rules by setting up...

We ask… What do the US National Turkey Federation, Spanish grape growers, French wine producers and the British Milk Marketing Board all have in common? The answer is they have all used clever marketing to make us buy things because we think it's traditional to do so. But in actual fact, it's just the result of modern advertising campaigns. If we start first of all, then, Richard, with the French wine producers.

我们要问的是……美国国家火鸡联合会、西班牙的葡萄种植者、法国的葡萄酒生产商以及英国牛奶营销委员会，这些机构有什么共同点？答案是：他们都运用了巧妙的营销手段，让我们因为“以为这是传统”而去购买某些东西。但事实上，这些所谓的传统，只是现代广告宣传活动的结果。那么，理查德，我们先从法国的葡萄酒生产商说起吧。

Yes, there's an area of France, Beaujolais, they produced the first wine after the season's finished. That particular wine, that Beaujolais, became very popular with the Parisians, didn't it? Yes, but the key moment was in 1985 when they chose the third Thursday in November as the first day this wine could be drunk, the first wine in France to be drunk for that season. Yes, Beaujolais Nouveau Day.

是的，法国有一个地方叫博若莱，那里的酒庄会在当季结束后酿造出第一批葡萄酒。这种酒——博若...

The business news at the moment is dominated by the falling price in oil. We're looking at some of the reasons behind this. So Richard, falling oil prices, what's it all about? Like any commodity, it's all about supply and demand.目前的商业新闻几乎都被油价下跌所主导。我们正在探讨这背后的一些原因。那么，理查德，油价下跌到底是怎么回事？和任何一种大宗商品一样，这归根结底还是供求关系的问题。

So presumably you're saying that demand is going down? Demand is going down because the world economy is slowing, especially China. So therefore there is less demand for oil, so the price goes down. So there's a decrease in demand.所以你的意思是需求在下降？是的，需求在下降，因为全球经济正在放缓，尤其是中国。因此，对石油的需求减少，价格自然就下跌了，也就是说需求出现了下降。

So what about supply then? Well, that's the double whammy. That's why the oil price has gone down so much, because there's been a surge in supply. From OPEC countries? No, from the US.那供给方面呢？这就是“双重打击”了。这也是油价大幅下跌的原因，因为供应量激增。是来自欧佩克国家吗？不，是来自美国。

The US has doubled its production of oil since 2010. How come they've done that? Well, it's all about fracking. Right.自 2...

Some time between now and 2017, the British government will hold a referendum on whether to leave the European Union. We will give the British people a referendum with a very simple in or out choice. But what does leaving the EU actually mean? There's a few scenarios for what could happen.在现在到 2017 年之间的某个时间，英国政府将举行一次是否退出欧盟的全民公投。英国人民将面对一个非常简单的选择：留下还是离开。但“脱欧”究竟意味着什么？可能出现的情况其实有好几种。

The first is total independence. Britain becomes just another country that sells to the EU but doesn't have to follow any of its silly rules. Just like the United States.第一种情况是完全独立。英国将成为一个向欧盟出售商品、但不必遵守欧盟那些“繁琐规则”的普通国家，就像美国一样。

This sounds empowered, like Britain is finally releasing itself from the shackles of Eurocrats and Brussels. But what it really means is that Britain would have to negotiate everything it sells to Europe on a case-by-case basis. This type of complicated bargaining leads to real costs.听起来这似乎很振奋人心，仿佛英国终于摆脱了欧盟官僚和布鲁塞尔的束缚。但实际上，这意味着英国出口到欧洲的每一种商品都必须逐项谈判。这种复杂的谈判方式会带...

Children, particularly those under the age of seven, seem to develop more aggressive type 1 diabetes than those diagnosed later in life. Researchers at the University of Exeter studied pancreas samples from 250 donors, allowing them to see how the beta cells which produce the hormone insulin formed normally and in type 1

.儿童，尤其是七岁以下的儿童，似乎比在年龄更大时诊断出的人 1 型糖尿病发展得更凶猛。埃克塞特大学的研究人员仔细研究了来自 250 名捐赠者的胰腺样本，这让他们得以一窥产生胰岛素这种激素的胰岛 β 细胞在正常人的胰腺和 1 型糖尿病患者的胰腺中形成方式的区别。

They showed early in life the beta cells live in small clusters which are easy for the immune system to pick off and destroy. The researchers say it's a really significant finding and that the future was looking much brighter with drugs that can slow the immune system's attack.

这些样本显示出在生命早期胰岛 β 细胞会以小团的形式存在，这让免疫系统能够轻易地识别并破坏它们。研究人员称这项发现意义重大，它为糖尿病治疗的未来带来了希望，因为将会有可以减缓免疫系统攻击的药物。

We've all heard advice about good sleep hygiene. No phones or caffeine before bed, and make sure that we get a good eight hours' rest. But is this the best sleep pattern, or have we just been led to it by modern life?

我们都听过关于良好睡眠习惯的建议：睡前不要玩手机或摄入咖啡因，并且要确保有充足的八小时睡眠。但这真的是最好的睡眠模式吗？还是说，我们只是被现代生活方式引导成这样的？

Artificial light in our houses and streets means that we no longer have to go to bed at sundown. Having a job to go to at a set time in the morning can be the main determining factor on when we decide to rouse ourselves. In past centuries, the time of sunset and sunrise had a much bigger impact on people's days. Historical studies have shown that in many parts of the world it was common for people to sleep in two...

At least 12 homes were either destroyed or damaged when a wildfire swept through a coastal area north of Sydney, local authorities said.

当地政府表示，悉尼以北的沿海地区遭遇野火侵袭，至少有 12 所房屋被毁或受损。

The blaze broke out in the town of Colwong, New South Wales.

这场大火发生在新南威尔士州的科尔旺镇。

Scores of wildfires are burning across the state, fueled by soaring temperatures.

由于气温飙升，全州有数十处野火正在燃烧。

An unnamed local resident said, you had no time to even think, we've lost everything, all we've got left is what we're wearing.

一位未透露姓名的当地居民表示：“你根本没有时间思考，我们失去了一切，现在唯一剩下的就是身上穿的这些。”

Aerial footage shows several homes ablaze as firefighting helicopters work to extinguish the flames.

航拍画面显示，多座房屋正在燃烧，灭火直升机正努力扑灭火势。

Our striker falls out with Liverpool and we meet two furry besties having the time of their lives. Okay, but first this morning, will you be sending a Christmas card to your friends this year where King Charles and Queen Camilla have been showing off their official card?

我们的前锋与利物浦闹翻了，而我们也会见到两位毛茸茸的好朋友，正在享受他们人生中最快乐的时光。好了，但首先今早——你今年会给朋友们寄圣诞卡吗？查尔斯国王和卡米拉王后已经展示了他们的官方圣诞卡。

It shows the royals on a recent trip to Rome in Italy. The Prince and Princess of Wales have also been getting into the festive spirit along with their children, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.

卡片上展示的是他们最近前往意大利罗马旅行的照片。威尔士亲王与王妃也和他们的孩子——乔治王子、夏洛特公主和路易王子——一起融入了节日的氛围。

They all attended a special Christmas carol service at Westminster Abbey in London.

他们全家参加了在伦敦威斯敏斯特教堂举行的一场特别圣诞颂歌活动。

Okay, football now and there's been very strong words from Liverpool superstar Mohamed Salah who has hit out saying he's getting all the blame for the team's problems this season.

好了，现在说足球。利物浦球星穆罕默德·萨拉赫发表了强烈言论，指

But China discounts energy costs for a chip company by 50%. That's right. They provide free transportation for employees to come out to the factory.

但中国会将芯片公司的能源成本打五折。没错。他们还为员工提供免费的上下班交通，让他们去工厂。

That's right. I mean, you don't, you can't do that. Our energy cost is more expensive than theirs in the first place.

没错。我的意思是，你不能、也做不到这样。首先，我们的能源成本本来就比他们贵。

Absolutely. And then they discount it 50%. And so it's probably, we'll probably call it four to eight times the cost.

确实如此。然后他们再打五折。所以我们这边的成本可能要高出四到八倍。

So tell me, how do you feel about this great competition with China? I mean, the government is putting enormous resources underneath their champion. We don't do that in this country. You know, how do you feel about that?

那么告诉我，你怎么看待与中国之间的这场激烈竞争？我的意思是，中国政府在他们的“冠军企业”背后投入了巨大的资源。而在我们国家，我们不会这么做。你怎么看？

Well, before

Unless you're an astronomer, the moment when the star in the center of this image flickers may not seem so exciting.

除非你是天文学家，否则画面中央那颗星星闪烁的瞬间可能并不那么令人兴奋。

But it marks the passage of an asteroid, space objects which are usually too small and faint to see.

但它标志着一颗小行星的掠过，小行星这类太空物体通常太小太暗而难以观测。

Those asteroids sometimes pass very close to us. They are detected a few hours, a few days before the flyby.

那些小行星有时会离我们非常近，它们通常在飞掠前几小时或几天被探测到。

And if we don't follow them up while they're doing the flyby, we will basically lose them.

如果我们在它们飞过的时候没有进行追踪，我们就会失去其踪迹。

In this case, the critical data came from a new consumer telescope carried in a backpack to a desert in Oman.

在这种情况下，关键数据来自一台被装入背包带到阿曼的新型消费级望远镜。

Franck Marchis, whose day job at SETI Institute involves working with the world's largest telescopes, designed

Because according to recent polling from Gallup, Americans' trust in mass media has fallen to a record low.

因为根据盖洛普最近的民调，美国人对大众媒体的信任度已经降到历史最低点。

Millions of Americans, especially young people, have turned from traditional television outlets and newspapers to consume their news from podcasts, blogs, social media, and other independent outlets.

数百万美国人，尤其是年轻人，已经不再依赖传统电视和报纸获取新闻，而是转向播客、博客、社交媒体以及其他独立资讯平台。

It's essential to our team that we share this message everywhere and adapt this White House to the new media landscape in 2025.

对我们团队来说，在各个渠道传达这一信息，并让白宫适应 2025 年的新媒体环境，是至关重要的。

To do this, I am excited to announce the following changes will be made to this historic James S. Brady briefing room where Mr. Brady's legacy will endure.

为此，我很高兴宣布，我们将对这间历史悠久的詹姆斯·布雷迪简报室进行以下改动，而布雷迪先生的精神将在这里继续传承。

These women own businesses in Accra, work with nonprofits and women in northern Ghana to source raw materials for their goods, such as shea butter.这些女性在阿克拉做生意，与加纳北部的非营利组织和妇女合作，为她们的商品采购原材料，比如乳木果油。

The butter extracted from the nut of the African shea tree is a staple in Violet, a MOB's line of Natural Beauty products.从非洲乳木果树坚果中提取的乳木果油是MOB旗下紫罗兰系列天然美妆产品线的主打成分。

She says one of their goals is to help women keep the next generation out of poverty.她说，他们的目标之一是帮助妇女使下一代脱贫。

So we ensure that they're able to use the profits or the money they get from our purchases to improve their livelihood by doing things like building clinics, taking their children to school and ensuring that they have a job.我们确保他们能够利用从我们购买中获得的利润或资金来改善生活，比如建造诊所、送孩子上学以及确保他们有工作。

Mobarika Awudu supports women in the north by buying their handmade ...

There were a lot of mysterious processes that my team and I have had tounravelover the past two weeks that were implemented by the previous press shop,and so I can commit to a greater access and transparency,which I believe we already have,by ensuring that the 440 journalists whose credentials were revoked will be reinstalled.在过去的两周里，我的团队和我不得不理清许多由前任新闻办公室实施、但十分神秘的流程，因此，我可以承诺提供更大的开放度和透明度，我相信我们现在已经做到了这一点，通过确保那 440 名被撤销采访证的记者都能恢复他们的证件。

They will get their credentials if they wish to.We've also, of course, opened up a new seat to new media,and as far as open press events here, if we tell you it's open press, it's open press.只要他们愿意，他们就能取回自己的采访证。当然，我们也为新媒体开放了一个新的席位，至于这里的公开采访活动，如果我们告诉你是开放采访，那它就一定是开放采访。

A new live video platform that builds communities around interactive conversations with leaders and content creators from every subject area, Mark and his colleagues welcome all voices into discussions that are spirited but respectful.一个全新的直播视频平台，围绕与各领域领袖及内容创作者的互动对话来建立社群。Mark 和他的团队欢迎所有声音参与讨论——既充满活力，也保持尊重。

They have over 375 million video views, over 36 million watch time hours since the platform began just last year.自平台于去年推出以来，已累积超过3.75 亿次视频观看量，以及 超过 3,600 万小时的观看时长。

This is new media in its truest sense allowing the people to ask questions, make comments and be an active part of engagement on the most important issues facing the country and our world.这是真正意义上的“新媒体”——让公众能够直接提问、发表评论，并主动参与到有关国家及世界重大议题的讨论之中。

The study looked at more than 33,000 adults aged 40 to 79 in the UK who walked fewer than 8,000 steps a day. The researchers, from the University of Sydney and the Universidad Europea in Spain, tracked their health over eight years.这项研究分析了英国 33000 多名成年人，他们的年龄在 40 岁到 79 岁之间，每天走路的步数少于 8000 步。来自悉尼大学和西班牙马德里欧洲大学的研究人员在八年间对这些人的健康状况进行了追踪。

People who walked in longer stretches had a lower risk of heart problems than those who walked in short bursts. Whether that's because they were fitter to begin with isn't fully clear from the study, but the researchers did try to control for this by taking into account factors such as whether the person smoked, was obese or had high blood pressure.每次走路时间更长的人比多次短距离走路的人出现心脏问题的风险更低。研究并未判明这是否是由于走路时间更长的人原本身体就更健康，但研究人员确实已经尝试了通过把多种因素考虑在内来控制这个变量，比如这个人是否曾吸烟、肥胖或患有高血压。

Even among

If you've ever felt the benefit of a loved one's warm embrace when you're feeling stressed or sad, it might not surprise you that strong relationships can do wonders for your wellbeing. Research over the years has shown that people with strong social ties tend to be healthier, but a 2025 study, published in Brain, Behaviour and Immunity now suggests that it could also slow down the ageing process.如果你曾在压力大或情绪低落时，从挚爱的人温暖拥抱中得到力量，那么你大概不会惊讶：稳固的人际关系对身心健康有奇效。多年来的研究显示，拥有强大社会联系的人往往更健康；而 2025 年发表在《大脑、行为与免疫》上的一项研究更指出，人际关系甚至可能减缓衰老过程。

Researchers in the United States came up with a measure called 'cumulative social advantage', which takes into account the benefits of maintaining strong, supportive relationships over time, rather than just newer relationships. They looked at things like support from parents growing up, participation in the community, and ongoing support from friends and family. People who had these things were more likely to have a younger biological...

This group of young Iraqis shows how life is slowly returning to normal in Mosul,这群年轻的伊拉克人展示了摩苏尔的生活如何逐渐回归正轨

the country's second largest city, which was destroyed by the Islamic State and the war against the terror group.这座伊拉克第二大城市曾被极端组织伊斯兰国及其反恐战争摧毁。

These athletes all lost limbs during the fighting, but they did not lose their will to survive and thrive.这些运动员都在战斗中失去了肢体，但他们没有丧失生存和奋斗的意志。

And now they play in a volleyball league designed for people with disabilities.现在他们参加了一个专为残障人士设计的排球联赛。

I used to lead a normal life, just like everybody else during the Islamic State's occupation.在“伊斯兰国”占领期间，我曾过着和其他人一样的正常生活。

One day, our house was bombed and I got wounded and was taken to hospital for about a month. Then I found this volleyball team in Mosul and decided to join them.有一天，我们的房子被炸了，我受了伤，在医院里住了大约一个月。后来我在摩苏尔发现了这支排球队，决定加入他们。

Some are with prosthetic legs, others in wheelchairs. The players meet

We're talking about branding. And in particular, we're looking at one brand. We're looking at the British cycling team, Team Sky, and how, after only two years of racing, they were the most recognised of all the teams on the Tour, the Tour de France.我们今天讨论的是品牌塑造。特别是，我们要讨论一个品牌：英国自行车队——天空车队（Team Sky）。他们在仅仅参加两年比赛后，就成为环法自行车赛中辨识度最高的车队之一。

Yeah, so how did that happen, eh, Richard? Well we should say, of course, that they are an incredibly ambitious and successful team. They didn't start until 2010, did they? And they had this amazing aim to create the first British winner of the Tour de France within five years.是啊，所以这是怎么做到的，理查德？当然必须先说，他们是一支雄心勃勃而且非常成功的团队。他们直到 2010 年才成立，对吧？但他们设下了一个惊人的目标：五年内培养出第一位英国籍的环法冠军。

Mmm, and they actually achieved it within two.嗯，而他们实际上只用两年就达成了目标。

Bradley Wiggins won the Tour de France to become the first British rider in 2012. And then his Sky teammate, Chris Froome, won it the following year. So an amazing achievement for a fairly new company.布拉德利·威金斯在 2012 年赢得环法，成为第一位英国冠军。接着他的队友克...

Miami beaches have traditionally been a very attractive destination for both tourists and local residents.迈阿密海滩向来是游客和当地居民都十分向往的旅游胜地。

But keeping them clean and attractive is a job that often falls to a dedicated group of volunteers that pick up trash under the scorching sun.但让它们保持干净和美观的工作通常落在志愿者肩上，他们顶着烈日捡拾垃圾。

You don't want to go and see there in a dirty, trashy beach.你不想去那里看到肮脏的、充满垃圾的海滩。

And so for me I want people to experience what the real Miami, the beautiful Miami, right, which is clean water not just for us but also for our wildlife.对我来说，我希望人们能体验真正的迈阿密，美丽的迈阿密，那里有干净的水，这不仅是为了我们，也是为了我们的野生动物。

And so that's why I spend most of my time cleaning instead of tanning, which is well, I still get pretty dark.这就是为什么我大部分时间都在打扫卫生而不是晒日光浴，不过呢，我还是晒得挺黑的。

Originally from Colombia, Maria Algarra came to Miami from New York,玛丽亚·阿尔加拉原籍哥伦比亚，她从纽约来到迈阿密，

got a law degree and started

We're talking about hashtags. Hashtags for Twitter.我们今天要谈的是标签（hashtag）。Twitter 上使用的标签。

I'll stop you right there, Jackie.杰姬，我先打断你一下。

You know I don't know hardly anything about Twitter whatsoever, but can you just clarify for me the difference between the hashtag and I've also seen the at symbol used for Twitter.你知道我对 Twitter 几乎一无所知，不过你能不能帮我解释一下 hashtag 和我在 Twitter 上看到的 @ 符号之间的区别？

OK. So, the hashtag is basically a way for people to search for tweets that have the same topic or specific theme, whereas the at symbol is followed by the username.好的。Hashtag 基本上是一种让人们搜索同一主题或特定话题推文的方法，而 @ 符号后面则接的是用户名。

It's the person's Twitter handle. It's used by a specific user.那是一个人的 Twitter 帐号，也就是某个特定用户使用的标识。

Okidoki.好的，明白了。

So, if we take the British Council or any other language organisations, learners or teachers of English, if they put in has...

We're talking about computer hacking. So Richard, what exactly do we mean by hacking? Accessing a computer without authorisation.我们今天要谈的是电脑骇客行为。那么，Richard，我们所说的 hacking（骇客行为）到底是什么意思？就是未经授权访问电脑系统。

So why is it in the news? Well, there's been a huge attack recently – a DDoS attack.那为什么最近上新闻了呢？因为最近发生了一起大规模攻击——也就是 DDoS 攻击。

Hold on, hold on. DDoS? Which is? A Distributed Denial of Service attack. Explain what that means.等一下，DDoS？是什么意思？它是“分布式阻断服务攻击”。你解释一下那是什么吧。

We're hosted on a server.我们的网站托管在一台服务器上。

Right. It happens to be in Germany.对，这台服务器刚好位于德国。

Now, if millions and millions of people throughout the world all typed on their computer to get into our website, it would completely take the website down.如果全世界有成百万上千万的人同时试图访问我们的网站，网站就会完全瘫痪。

Because? It can't handle so many people accessing our website at the same time.为什么？因为服务器无法同时处理这么多访问量。

So is that a kind of hacking, though?那这算是一种骇客攻击吗？

Well, it is th

Kindness is the word that inspired Emmy award-winning filmmakers Kahane Cooperman and John Hoffman to make "The Antidote".“善良”一词启发了荣获艾美奖的电影制作人卡汉·库珀曼和约翰·霍夫曼制作《解药》。

The documentary focuses on how American communities across the country are coming together in times of need.这部纪录片聚焦于美国各地社区如何在需要时团结一心。

My name is O'connell. I'm Dr O'connell. What do you need? Anything? I need mental health.我叫欧康奈尔。请问你需要什么？什么都行？我需要心理健康。

Dr James O'connell, founder of Boston healthcare for the homeless, goes out in the streets to treat homeless people.詹姆斯·欧康奈尔医生是波士顿流浪者医疗中心的创始人，到街上去治疗无家可归的人。

In Amarillo, Texas, Russell Lowery-Hart, President of Amarillo College, helps underprivileged students manage their personal lives, thrive academically and escape generational poverty.在德克萨斯州的阿马里洛，阿马里洛学院院长拉塞尔·劳瑞·哈特帮助贫困学生管理个人生活，在学业上取得成功并摆脱代际贫困。

At Peter Johansen High School in Modesto California, Sherry Mcintyre teaches a class about religious tolerance and the diversity of faith in America.在加州莫德

We're talking about Airbnb. What is Airbnb? Well, Airbnb is an online community marketplace for holiday rentals. It connects people with rooms to share with people who need a place to stay.我们今天要谈的是 Airbnb。什么是 Airbnb？嗯，Airbnb 是一个线上社区型的短租市场平台。它把有空房可分享的人与需要住宿的人连接起来。

Right, so Airbnb has really taken off recently, hasn't it? Yes. June 2015, the company was priced at $25.5 billion. Wow.是的，Airbnb 最近真的发展得很快，不是吗？是的。2015 年 6 月，这家公司估值达到 255 亿美元。哇。

I know, and ranked the third most valuable start-up business in the world. Hmm, so how many properties do they have on their books then?我知道，它被评为全球第三有价值的创业公司。嗯，那他们的平台上到底有多少房源呢？

Over 2 million listings, Richard, in more than 190 countries. So it's truly worldwide.超过 200 万条房源，Richard，分布在 190 多个国家。可以说是真正的全球化。

Yeah, over 65 million people have used it already. And counting. Exactly.是的，已有超过 6500 万人使用过它，而且数字还在持续上涨。确实如此。

And it's mainly in cities, isn't it? And I think it's come up wit...

About a change he has made in his career.关于他在职业生涯中做出的一个改变。

OK Jonny, what did you used to do?好的，Jonny，你以前是做什么的？

I used to work in financial services and we found hedge fund managers and determined what their characteristics were and then we found institutional investors who would be interested in investing in those particular funds with those particular characteristics and we would try and match them up, arrange meetings and road shows and hopefully they would invest in the funds that we presented to them.我以前在金融服务业工作，我们会寻找对冲基金经理，判断他们基金的特性，然后再找出愿意投资具有这些特性基金的机构投资者，把双方撮合起来，安排会面和路演，希望投资者能投资我们推荐的基金。

How long did you do that for?你做这份工作做了多久？

We set up the business in 2004, so it's been going now for a dozen years.我们在2004年创立了这家公司，到现在已经有十二年左右了。

Yeah, OK, well over ten years. OK Jonny, so that's not what you do now. What do you do now?是的，超过十年了。好，Jonny，但你现在已经不是做这个的了。那你现在是做什么？

We're returning to the topic of automation. Now last podcast we talked about how jobs were affected more in the manufacturing area, wasn't it Richard? Yes, we were talking about the production line and machines doing repetitive jobs in factories, weren't we?我们回到自动化这个话题。上期播客我们讨论了自动化对制造业的影响，对吧，Richard？是的，我们当时谈的是生产线，以及机器在工厂里如何执行重复性工作，对吗？

Yes, and now we want to have a little look at the future and how businesses and jobs are going to be affected. The big change, in the past, machines did jobs in the manufacturing sector.没错，而现在我们想看看未来商业和工作将如何受到影响。最大的变化是：过去机器主要替代的是制造业的工作。

It looks now as if the future, it will be the service sector jobs that are going to be lost. Can you give an example? Well, driverless taxi cabs. They're going to have taxis with no drivers going around the cities and this is actually happening now.而现在看来，未来将失去的将是服务业的工作。你能举例吗？比如无人驾驶出租车。未来城市里会有没有司机的出租车四处行驶，而这...