英语每日一听 | 每天少于5分钟

Farmers in Turkana Kenya face an existential crisis.

肯尼亚图尔卡纳的农民面临着生存危机。

For much of the past year out-of-control swarms of locusts have rampaged through this impoverished region,

过去一年的大部分时间里，失控的蝗虫群在这片贫困地区肆虐，啃食大片庄稼，

eating fields of crops and leaving little to sell or feed the farm animals.

几乎没留下什么可以出售或喂养家畜的东西。

Our elders talked about desert locusts, but this is the first time I've seen them.

我们的长辈们谈论过沙漠蝗虫，但这是我第一次见到它们。

A mother of seven Anna Amurai says locusts deprive animals of the food they need to produce the milk she serves to her family.

七个孩子的母亲Anna Amurai说，蝗虫夺走了牲畜产奶所需的食物，而她正是用这些奶来供养家人的。

It takes several days and we add water to the milk to make enough for the children.

有好几天，我们在牛奶里加水，才够孩子们喝。

At this fitness clinic, a small group of Malaysians try to shed some excess weight.

在这个健身诊所， 一小群马来西亚人试图减肥。

Sarah Baharudin is 35 years old, 165 centimeters tall, and weighs 110 kilos.

莎拉·巴哈鲁丁35岁了，身高165厘米，体重110公斤。

I eat traditional Malay food, and it's high in fat and calorie. And then on top of that, I did not go for any you know active. I was not active.

我吃传统的马来食物，它的脂肪和热量很高。除此之外，我没有进行任何锻炼。我不爱运动。

I was not living an active lifestyle. I did not exercise. So you know, years after years of doing that and becomes obesity.

我不锻炼。年复一年这样做就导致了肥胖。

Her story is all too common across Malaysia. About half of the country's adults are overweight or obese.

她的故事在马来西亚非常普遍。约一半的马来西亚成年人超重或肥胖。

Dr. Noradhiah Tumirin, a physician and fitness

At the Computer History Museum in the heart of Silicon Valley, people gathered recently at the African Diaspora Investment Symposium to talk about the future of Africa business.

在硅谷中心的计算机历史博物馆，人们最近齐聚非洲侨民投资研讨会，探讨非洲商业的未来。

In the past, many Africans and especially people like me from the diaspora were not invited to the table to really discuss on issues that mattered for the continent.

过去，许多非洲人，尤其是像我这样旅居海外的非洲人，没有被邀请参与真正讨论对非洲大陆至关重要的问题。

So we said, well, what if we can just bring everyone together so we can have that discussion at the same table?

我们就想，如果我们能把所有人聚到一起，让大家围坐一桌进行讨论，会怎么样呢？

Remittances, money set by people living in the U.S. to family in Africa, has long been a key way to support the continent, speaker said.

发言人表示，汇款，即居住在美国的人寄给非洲家人的钱，长期以来一直是支持非洲大陆的关键方式。

But Negash and others said there are other uses of diaspora funds.

但内加什和其他人表示，侨

Grueling work for little pay, that's the daily reality for millions of children across Africa.

做着辛苦的工作，报酬却十分微薄，这就是非洲数百万儿童的日常写照。

The International Labour Organization estimates about 73 million children in Africa are sent out to work because of widespread poverty, insufficient access to education and conflict, some as young as five years old.

国际劳工组织估计，非洲约有7300万儿童因普遍贫困、教育机会不足和冲突而被送去工作，有些年仅五岁。

What we're talking about is work that puts their future in jeopardy whether because their health is on the line.

我们谈论的是危及他们未来的工作，无论是由于他们的健康受到威胁。

They're working in mines, for example, where the imminent danger of a mine collapse or death.

例如，他们在矿井里工作，那里随时可能发生矿井坍塌甚至有生命危险。

Murtada Al-Haj left school in Sudan when he was 12. For him, it was a choice between study or feeding his family.

穆尔塔达·哈吉12岁时就离开了苏丹的学校。对他来说，这是在学习和养活家人之间做出的选择。

Since its discovery, food businesses have encouraged high-protein diets, according to research by the University of Oregon. Whether it's bars, shakes or even marshmallows, protein has always prevailed in conversations about health and fitness. Some people think that these kinds of diets are a fad because high-protein products appear on supermarket shelves often. However, these diets have slightly stagnated within the realm of wellness.

根据俄勒冈大学的研究，自发现以来，食品企业一直鼓励高蛋白饮食。 无论是能量棒、奶昔甚至棉花糖，蛋白质在有关健康和健身的话题中始终占据主导地位。 有些人认为这种饮食是一种时尚，因为高蛋白产品经常出现在超市货架上。 然而，这些饮食在健康领域略有停滞。

And that's because there's now another food group gaining popularity – fibre. Found in foods like fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds, and legumes, our enzymes can't break down fibre into nutrients to absorb like it would with other food groups. Instead, it passes through the digestive system, which helps regulate bowel movements. Multiple studies have shown that certain types of fibre can lower cholesterol, help manage blood sugar leve...

In order to survive the cold, emperor penguins must remain on platforms of sea ice for long enough every year to replace weather-beaten feathers with new waterproof coats. Little was known about what is called catastrophic moulting until researchers at the British Antarctic Survey looked at satellite pictures of the frozen continent and spotted brown smudges. They realised they were mounds of feathers. But global warming is now rapidly changing Antarctica. 

为了在严寒中生存，帝企鹅每年必须在海冰平台上停留足够长的时间，以将历经风雨的羽毛换成一套全新的防水 “大衣”。此前，人们对帝企鹅这种被称为 “灾难性换羽” 的过程知之甚少，直到英国南极调查局的研究人员看了这片冰封大陆的卫星照片时，发现了一些棕色的斑块。他们意识到这些斑点其实是堆积如山的羽毛。不过，全球变暖正在迅速改变着南极洲。

Satellite images show that after summer sea ice shrank dramatically in 2022 and 23, there were fewer smudges, suggesting many penguins had died in West Antarctica. There is hope that some move to safer ice, but it is another sign of how climate change is endangering some of the world's most vulnerable animals.

卫星图像显示，自夏季海冰于 2022 年和 2023 年大规模缩小之后，棕色斑块的数量有所减少，这表明西南极洲的许多企鹅可能已经死亡。虽然人们仍希望部分企鹅能迁移到更安全的冰面上，但这一迹象再次表明，气候变化正危及世界上一些最脆弱的动物的生存。

The students in this class reflect the diverse nature of American society.

这个班的学生反映了美国社会的多样性。

Elizabeth Kleinrock is teaching students how to respect differences and challenge prejudice, racism, social injustice, and learn how to be the agents of change in their own lives.

伊丽莎白·克莱因洛克正在教导学生如何尊重差异、挑战偏见、种族主义和社会不公，并学习如何推动生活变革。

If you can't talk about race comfortably, how are we everyone to end systemic racism in our country?

如果你不能自在地谈论种族问题，我们又怎能共同终结国内的制度性种族主义?

And I think it's really important to have these conversations with children because they have this very clear, pure, less biased way of looking at the world, where they haven't learned that these topics are things that they should be afraid of.

我认为与孩子们进行这些对话非常重要，因为他们看待世界的方式非常清晰、纯粹且较少偏见，他们尚未学会对这些话题产生畏惧。

So they're more willing to sit d

I wanted one probably for, I don't know, as long as I could think.

我一直都想要一部手机，大概从很早就想要了。

Getting a first cellphone is a rite of passage for many kids around the world, a taste of independence.

对于全球许多孩子来说，拥有第一部手机是一种成长的标志，也是体验独立的开始。

When the bell rings to go home, literally everyone takes out their phones, and they're just like staring down at it.

放学铃声一响，所有人立刻掏出手机，低头盯着屏幕。

But a new phone brings risks. The parents agonize about too much screen time and online predators.

但新手机也带来了风险。家长们为过多的屏幕时间和网络上的潜在危险而苦恼。

When she discovered one of her daughters was being targeted by an adult man on the social media platform designed for kids, Alani Parker was outraged.

当阿兰妮·帕克发现自己的一个女儿在专为儿童设计的社交媒体平台上被一名成年男子盯上时，她感到无比愤怒。

I mean it was so scary because I just had no idea who reall

At this Silicon Valley high school, teachers are locking up students' phones.

在硅谷的这所高中，老师们正在没收学生的手机。

Checking their phones and texting and going on social media, and I would confiscate the phone over and over and over.

检查他们有没有在玩手机、发短信、刷社交媒体，我会一遍又一遍地没收手机。

We were just playing for a night, like on top of the desks with their phones, like in the middle of class.

我们只是晚上玩，手机放在桌子上，就像在课上那样。

We did see some students upwards of like 11, 12 hours of screen time a day.

我们确实看到一些学生每天的屏幕使用时间长达11、12个小时。

Each student now has to stow their phone in this small cloth pouch with a magnetized lock.

现在每个学生都必须把手机放进这个带磁力锁的小布袋里。

This pin, and go right in here, and now it's kind of locked for the day. And then at the end of the day, they find one of these

Athletes and organizers in Budapest say the water is fine in the fast-flowing Danube river.

布达佩斯的运动员和组织者说，多瑙河的湍急水流很好。

Here it's the current that many people see is scary or causes them anxiety.

这是许多人看到的令人恐惧或焦虑的急流。

In recent years, we noticed that we Hungarians swim very little in the Danube.

近年来，我们注意到匈牙利人很少在多瑙河上游泳。

The event is part of the Budapest Urban Games where the city's local government encourages using the city's parks, roads and waterways as sporting venues.

该活动是布达佩斯城市运动会的一部分，市政府鼓励将城市的公园、道路和水道用作体育场地。

In past years, concerns about pollution and the Danube kept many swimmers away.

过去几年里，对污染和多瑙河的担忧使许多游泳者望而却步。

But the Urban Games founder and organizer Balazs Mezos says the city cleaned up the river years ago.

但城市运动会的创始人兼组织者Balazs Mezos表示，该市多年前就对这条河流进行了清理。

There's long been concern about the effect that melting ice was having on their ability to hunt seals, their staple diet. But in the Norwegian Archipelago of Svalbard, something surprising has happened. The bears there have gained weight, and for a polar bear, fatter means healthier. Rising temperatures, though, mean that there are now 100 more ice free days per year in Svalbard than when this study began, so the bears are now hunting on the land.

长期以来，人们一直担心海冰融化会影响北极熊捕食海豹的能力，而海豹正是他们的主食。但在挪威的斯瓦尔巴特群岛，一个令人意想不到的情况发生了。那里的北极熊体重增加了，而对于北极熊来说，更胖就意味着更加健康。不过，不断上升的全球气温也意味着斯瓦尔巴特群岛现在每年平均无冰天数比这项研究开始时增加了 100 天，因此那里的北极熊现在开始在陆地上进行捕食。

This unexpected, good news, scientists say, is temporary. As sea ice recedes more, bears may have to travel further between their hunting grounds, using up valuable fat reserves for energy.

科学家们表示，这个出乎意料的好消息只是暂时的。随着海冰进一步消退，北极熊可能需要往返于更远的猎场之间，迫使它们大量消耗本就宝贵的脂肪储备以获取能量。

For years, astronomers have hypothesised about life beyond Earth, especially on the closest planet to Earth – Venus. Venus is often named the Earth's 'evil twin' because of its extremely hot temperature and greenhouse effect, which make it toxic and inhospitable. It is also similar in size, mass and rocky composition.

多年来，天文学家一直假设地球以外存在生命，特别是在距离地球最近的行星——金星上。 金星经常被称为地球的“邪恶双胞胎”，因为它具有极高的温度和温室效应，使其有毒且不适宜居住。 它的大小、质量和岩石成分也相似。

Though no organic molecules have been discovered on Venus, new findings from the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instrument on board NASA's Magellan spacecraft shows caves lurking beneath the surface. Researchers from Nature Communications add that these could offer us new ideas about the evolution of Venus – about how it might have possibly supported life in the past or could again in the future.

虽然金星上没有发现有机分子，但美国宇航局麦哲伦航天器上的合成孔径雷达 (SAR) 仪器的新发现显示，金星表面下潜伏着洞穴。 《自然通讯》的研究人员补充说，这些可以为我们提供关于金星演化的新想法...

It's taken decades and millions of health workers traveling by foot, boat and any other way they had to immunize children from polio.

经过数十年努力，数百万医务工作者跋山涉水、不辞辛劳，通过步行、乘船等各种必要方式为儿童接种脊髓灰质炎疫苗。

Health workers have even braved conflict to prevent a horribly crippling disease.

卫生工作者甚至冒着冲突的危险来预防这种可怕的致残疾病。

We've made tremendous progress, working with community leaders, sometimes with military officials,

我们取得了巨大进展，与社区领袖合作，有时也与军方官员协作，

to help deliver vaccine to reduce the number of children that were inaccessible due to conflict down to very very small numbers.

帮助运送疫苗，将因冲突而无法接种疫苗的儿童数量降至极低水平。

Twenty years ago, African governments committed to eradicate polio.

20年前，非洲各国政府开始致力于根除脊髓灰质炎。

Since then, nine billion oral polio vaccines have prevented nearly two million cases of wild polio virus on the continent, according to the World Health Organization.

据世界卫生组织称，自那时起，90亿剂口服脊髓灰质炎疫苗已在非洲

I'm kind of awkward a lot of the time. Like even like just standing around feels like I'm not supposed to be there.

很多时候我都有点手足无措，比如光是站在那里就让我觉得自己不该在那儿。

So a lot of people would be like, "Are you new here?" I'm just like, "No, I'm just uncomfortable."

很多人会问：“你是新来的吗？”我就说：“不，我只是不太自在。”

So it started five years ago. A guy named Brandon Block was talking to his friend and he's like, "We should have a stand-up comedy club".

俱乐部五年前就成立了。一个叫布兰登·布洛克的家伙跟朋友闲聊时突发奇想：“咱们该开个脱口秀俱乐部”。

And they actually started having shows. It attracts a lot of different people because I think a lot of people want to do this as a hobby.

然后他们开始表演节目了。它吸引了很多不同的人，因为我觉得很多人想把这当作一种爱好。

Members go up and then they deliver their about seven-minute stand-up sets.

成员们上台后，会带来大约七分钟的脱口秀表演。

And li

I watched the video and I was like, what a crazy sound. And then after it ended, I like heard the sound in the background.

我看了视频，心想这声音也太不可思议了。 视频结束之后，我好像听到了背景里的声音。

It's quite loud actually. Since then, I've been hearing it almost every afternoon or evening.

其实声音很大。从那以后，我几乎每天下午或者晚上都能听到。

The Golden Gate Bridge has started to sing. The new musical tones that are coming from the Golden Gate Bridge are a known and inevitable phenomenon that stem from our wind retrofit project.

金门大桥又开始唱歌了。从金门大桥传来的新乐声是我们防风改造工程导致的一种已知且不可避免的现象。

It happens during very high winds. We've been replacing handrail on the west sidewalk with new railing that has thin vertical slats that are designed to run more air to flow through them.

一般发生在风力较强的时候。我们一直在更换西侧人行道的扶手，新安装的栏杆采用细长垂直板条设计，这种结构能让更多气流穿过。

One effect of that is that the

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is perhaps the most famous person to survive pancreatic cancer.

美国最高法院法官露丝·巴德·金斯伯格或许是胰腺癌幸存者中最著名的人物了。

She's actually done it twice. Ginsburg's cancer was found early, which is rare.

她实际上两次战胜了病魔。金斯伯格的癌症发现得很早，这种情况实属罕见。

Chemotherapy is one treatment for a pancreatic cancer. But only 9 percent of those who are diagnosed with it are alive five years later.

化疗是胰腺癌的一种疗法。但确诊后五年存活率的患者仅有9%。

The location of the pancreas makes the cancer difficult to detect. The pancreas is at the back of the abdomen.

胰腺的位置使得癌症难以被发现。胰腺位于腹部后方。

It's covered by the stomach and the liver. So cancerous tumors or cysts can't be seen or felt.

它被胃和肝脏所覆盖。癌性肿瘤或囊肿既看不见也摸不着。

And there is one more thing. The cancer doesn't produce any symptoms early on.

此外，早期胰腺癌没有任何症状。

Start with small things: changing over your water bottle to reusable, then do maybe your coffee cup, then work on weaning yourself off paper towels.

从小事做起：把水瓶换成可重复使用的，然后可以换咖啡杯，接着努力戒掉使用纸巾。

And there's different ways, you know. Then, maybe you want to start buying local food and eating less meat.

有不同的方法。也许你会想开始购买本地食材并减少肉类摄入。

I mean, don't think that you have to do everything at one time, to take one step at a time and then it's not as insurmountable or scary.

别想着必须一次性完成所有事情，要一步一步来，这样就不会显得那么难以克服或可怕了。

This is our semi-annual textile drive. So, we run two a year. We also run two e-waste drive, so electronic waste drives, four drives a year.

这是我们每半年举行一次的纺织品促销活动。一年两次。我们还会举办两次电子废物促销活动，也就是一年总共四次活动。

And this one, for this one we partner with Wearable Collecti

No peeing on plants or mailboxes, that's my rule. This is Gretl, she's just a puppers.

不准在植物或邮箱上撒尿，这是我的规矩。这是格蕾特，她是只小狗。

She is a cavalier king poodle mix. The five most important things to be successful in the dog walking business to me, number one, integrity.

她是一只骑士贵宾犬混血。对我来说，在遛狗业务中取得成功的五个最重要因素，第一是诚信。

It's what you do when nobody is looking. So just you have to be where you are when you say you're gonna be there and follow through.

无人注视时的举动才见真章。你只需言出必行——说到何处便在何处现身，且贯彻始终。

Two, kind of ties into, it is reliability. Where's my girls at? I can't tell somebody I'm gonna be at their house by 2 and show up at 2:30.

第二点和第一点有一些联系，那就是可靠。我的小宝贝们在哪？我不能告诉别人我两点到他们家，结果两点半才出现。

So I'm in constant contact with my clients. I send pictures. I use live Facebook to comfort my clie

This is what your brainwaves look like at any given moment. To the untrained eye, it's just a jumble of lines.

这就是你大脑在任何时刻的脑电波形态。在外行人看来，这不过是一堆杂乱无章的线条。

For AJ Keller and Alex Castillo, it's a treasure trove of data.

对AJ·凯勒和亚历克斯·卡斯蒂略来说，这是一个数据宝库。

The pair have created Notion, a 900-dollar wearable device that captures and processes brainwave signals, transforming thoughts into action.

两人共同研发了Notion这款价值900美元的可穿戴设备，它能捕捉并处理脑电波信号，将思维转化为行动。

There are eight sensors that are imaging the brain 250 times a second.

有八个感应器每秒对大脑进行250次成像。

All of that is instantaneously being processed on the actual headset. Notion is a so-called brain computer.

所有这些数据都会在头戴设备上即时处理。Notion是一种所谓的脑机。

So traditionally brain computer interfaces, they relay their raw data to a computer

The 24-carat gold pendant features the Tudor rose and a pomegranate bush, the personal symbol of Katherine of Aragon.

这枚 24K 纯金吊坠上刻有都铎玫瑰和石榴树丛纹饰，后者是 “阿拉贡的凯瑟琳” 的个人象征。

Discovered by a metal detectorist in a field in Warwickshire in 2019, it's believed to be the only surviving piece of jewellery directly linked to Henry VIII's 24-year marriage to Katherine.

这枚吊坠由一位金属探测寻宝爱好者在 2019 年于沃里克郡的一处田野中发现，它被认为是唯一一件存世的、与亨利八世和凯瑟琳 24 年的婚姻有直接关联的珠宝。

The British Museum raised hundreds of thousands of pounds to help pay for the piece through a public appeal. Its director, Nicholas Cullinan, says the response shows how strongly people value Britain's past.

大英博物馆通过公众募捐筹集了上百万英镑以支付购买这件珠宝。大英博物馆馆长尼古拉斯·库里南表示，公众的响应显示出人们对英国历史的高度珍视。

The pendant will join the museum's collection later this year and is expected to tour the UK.

这枚吊坠将在今年晚些时候加入到大英博物馆的藏品行列中，并计划在英国各地巡回展出。

From singing at concerts to singing 'Happy birthday'. Around the world, humans have been singing in unison for millennia. Some anthropologists even think our ancestors may have sung before they could speak. "Lullabies are sung to children, and then songs are sung at funerals", says Alex Street, from the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research, who thinks that our positive response to music is no accident. Music is not only enjoyable, but beneficial for our health.

从在音乐会上唱歌到唱“生日快乐”。 在世界各地，人类几千年来一直在齐声歌唱。 一些人类学家甚至认为我们的祖先可能在会说话之前就已经唱歌了。 剑桥音乐治疗研究所的亚历克斯·斯特里特说：“给孩子们唱摇篮曲，然后在葬礼上唱歌曲”，他认为我们对音乐的积极反应并非偶然。 音乐不仅令人愉悦，而且对我们的健康有益。

There is growing evidence that singing can energise us, improve immune function and increase feelings of happiness, according to 'A Review of the Physiological Effects and Mechanisms of Singing', published in 2018. It's thought that the repeated and controlled breathing that singing requires releases endorphins, which are chemicals released by the brain associated with pleasure and wellbeing. It may even provide a p...

OK, I'm not proud of it, but sometimes when I'm watching TV, I might not actually be watching. Sometimes I'm just more tempted by my phone. Be honest, do you do the same? If you do, then we're not alone, lots of us watch TV with our phones in our hands. How is TV changing to accommodate this?

好吧，我并不为此感到自豪，但有时当我看电视时，我可能实际上并没有在看。 有时我只是对手机更感兴趣。 说实话，你也这样做吗？ 如果您这样做，那么我们并不孤单，我们很多人都拿着手机看电视。 电视如何改变以适应这一点？

Let's start by looking at the data. Studies have investigated different countries across the world and many of them reported that most people use their phone while watching TV. While the classic stereotype is that it's younger people who find it hard to put their phone down, the data actually shows that second-screening is common in most age groups under 55. Younger age groups are more likely to be looking at social med...

In central Kenya, local say people are being driven away from their homes by a cactus.

肯尼亚中部地区有传言称，一种仙人掌正迫使当地居民背井离乡。

Many people have moved out because their goats and cattle are dying. The people of Il Polei and Muneshwara are fleeing to other places. Many have left.

很多人因为山羊和牛不断死亡而搬离，伊尔波莱和穆内什瓦拉的居民正逃往其他地方，许多人已经离开。

The opuntia cactus are spread like a weed, killing off thousands of acres of grassland. Rancher Margaret Mamai says it has destroyed her livelihood.

仙人掌像杂草一样蔓延，毁掉了数千英亩的草原。牧场主玛格丽特·马迈说，这毁了她的生计。

If goats eat the cactus and its fruit, their eyes and mouth are affected. The most effective one is sheep.

如果山羊吃了仙人掌及其果实，它们的眼睛和嘴巴会受到影响。最可怜的是绵羊。

If it eats the cactus, there is no treatment. It dies. Now there is no place for them to graze.

如果它们吃了仙人掌，就无药可医了。它们就死定了。现在它们没有地方吃草了。

Mamai is figh

Millions of people flock to the Trevi Fountain every year to take photos and make a wish as they flip a coin into the water, but there have long been complaints from locals about overcrowding. Now two lanes are being set up: one for residents, who get free access to the fountain, and another for tourists, who have to buy a ticket. The fees will go towards upkeep of the fountain and managing visitors.

每年都有数百万计的游客涌向特雷维喷泉，合影留念并向水中投硬币许愿。然而，当地居民长期以来一直对过度拥挤的人群有所怨言。现在，那里设立了两条专用通道：一条为居民通道，当地居民可免费进入喷泉区域；另一条为游客通道，游客需购买门票方可进入。门票收入将用于喷泉的修缮维护以及游客流量管理。

Tourists will also start paying for access to five other attractions across Rome, including the Napoleonic Museum. Venice already charges some visitors an entry fee on certain days, and with a boom in global tourism, other European cities are considering similar ideas.

游客前往罗马的其它五个景点也将开始付费，包括拿破仑博物馆。威尼斯已经在特定日期向部分游客收取 “进城费”，而随着全球旅游业的迅速增长，其它欧洲城市也在考虑推行类似的收费政策。

You may have heard of the idiom 'once in a blue moon' to describe an event that doesn't happen often. But can the Moon really be blue? Our closest neighbour in this vast galaxy, the Moon, orbits the Earth like a natural satellite. Unlike many of the other planets in our Solar System, ours only has the one moon. If you flew to it, you would land on grey rocks. This is because the lunar surface is made from mostly magnesium, iron and other minerals of that colour. But, if you're lucky to have clear skies under the curtain...

Cave art is seen as a key evolutionary moment, marking the point that humans began to think in truly abstract, symbolic ways. The kind of imagination that underpins language, religion, and science.

洞穴艺术的出现被视作进化史上的一个关键时刻，它标志着人类从这个时间点开始用真正抽象和象征性的方式思考。正是这种想象力，构成了语言、宗教和科学的基石。

Uranium dating confirms that the latest discovery is more than a thousand years older than the previous oldest artwork. It adds to the view that there was no single creative awakening for humanity in a small part of Western Europe, which then spread. Rather, creativity was innate. Evidence for which stretches back to Africa where our species of humans, Homo sapiens, evolved.

铀系测年法确认，最新的发现比先前认为最古老的画作还要早 1000 多年。这一发现进一步支持了这样一个观点：人类创造力的觉醒并非源于西欧的一小块地区，而后扩散传播开来。恰恰相反，创造力是与生俱来的。证明这一点的证据可以追溯到非洲，我们人类的物种——智人最初进化出来的地方。

Thanks to data collected by satellites, scientists have a good understanding of Antarctica's icy surface, but what lies beneath has remained more of a mystery. In fact, more is known about the surface of some planets in our solar system than much of what's under the continent's ice.

得益于人造卫星采集到的数据，科学家们对南极洲的冰层表面有良好的认识，但潜藏其下的部分则一直更像是一个谜题。实际上，人类对我们太阳系中一些行星表面的了解甚至超过了对这片大陆冰下世界的认识。

Now, researchers have used a new approach to create what they believe to be the most detailed map of the landscape yet. The ridges, mountains, and channels shape how fast the glaciers above move, and understanding the topography could help scientists work out how quickly the ice might retreat in a warming climate.

现在，研究人员采用了一种新方法，绘制出了他们认为迄今为止最详尽的描绘这片景观的地形图。冰下的山脊、山脉和沟槽决定了上方冰川移动的速度，了解这些地形细节能帮助科学家计算出冰层随着不断变暖的气候可能会以多快的速度消退。

The scientists say m

Many of us grew up learning that humans have five senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch – an idea dating back to the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. But what if this list is incomplete? A sense is anything that can give your body information about the outside world, and some of these don't neatly fit into the traditional five. Modern scientists estimate there may be up to 33 different senses.

我们中的许多人在成长过程中都知道人类有五种感官：视觉、听觉、味觉、嗅觉和触觉——这个想法可以追溯到古希腊哲学家亚里士多德。 但如果这个列表不完整怎么办？ 感觉是任何可以为你的身体提供有关外部世界信息的东西，其中一些并不完全符合传统的五种感觉。 现代科学家估计可能有多达 33 种不同的感觉。

One sense that doesn't fit into one of the five boxes is proprioception. This is the sense of where your body parts are in space. Thanks to this sense, you can touch your nose with your eyes closed and walk around in the dark – you know where your legs are without looking. Then there's interoception which helps you sense things inside your body, like hunger and an increased heart rate. And don't take your...

72-year-old Samaila Adamu is repairing this faulty generator using very unique tools.

72岁的Samaila Adamu正在用非常独特的工具修理这台有故障的发电机。

After losing his vision 26 years ago, Adamu learned to spot motorized faults through sound and touch.

26年前失明后，Adamu学会了通过声音和触觉来识别机动故障。

When people bring generators for repairs, I touched the parts and feel them, then I know what's wrong with them.

当人们把发电机送来维修时，我触摸并感受那些零件，就能知道问题出在哪里。

Adamu makes less than five dollars on every generator repair, nearly enough to provide for his three wives and 19 children. But he says it keeps him from begging on the streets.

Adamu每修好一台发电机只能赚不到五美元，勉强够养活他的三位妻子和十九个孩子。但他说这至少让他不必上街乞讨。

It helps me provide food to feed myself, my wives and children. I don't receive assistance from any

Are you one of those people that sees faces in inanimate objects? Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have been trying to find out why this is. They have pinpointed a circuit in an evolutionarily ancient part of the brain. It's called the superior colliculus, and it helps us recognise facial features. It triggers movement of the eyes, turning of the head and enables us to detect faces.

您是那些在无生命物体中看到面孔的人之一吗？ 美国国立卫生研究院的研究人员一直试图找出其中的原因。 他们在大脑中一个进化古老的部分中找到了一个回路。 它被称为上丘，它帮助我们识别面部特征。 它会触发眼睛的运动、头部的转动，并使我们能够检测面部。

This study helps us understand face pareidolia – the common psychological phenomenon where the brain perceives illusions of faces in objects, like seeing faces in the clouds, exteriors of houses or even in a slice of toast. A study carried out by Susan Wardle showed that the parts of the human brain that respond to faces are sensitive to the shapes of other objects, and that our visual system is opti...

As a puppeteer, I make puppets as well. I build my own puppets. I perform.

作为一个木偶师，我也制作木偶。我自己做木偶，自己表演。

If it's my own production, then I have to write the story.

如果是我自己的作品，那我就得写故事了。

People love puppeteers. Whenever I tell people, people ask me, "What do you do?"

人们喜欢木偶师。每当我和别人交流时，他们就会问我：“你是做什么的？”

I say, "I'm a puppeteer." And everybody's first reaction, "Oh."

我说“我是个木偶师。”他们的第一反应都是“哇。”

Puppetry is such a magical art form because it brings things to life just by moving it.

木偶戏是一种神奇的艺术形式，因为它仅仅通过动作就能赋予木偶生命。

And the reason why it's so magical, it not only depends on my own imagination, but it also depends on audience's imagination,

木偶戏的神奇之处，不仅取决于我自己的想象力，也取决于观众的想象力。

because if I am moving

Aggressive medication used during a clinical trial paralyzed her left arm and leg.

临床试验期间使用的强效药物导致她的左臂和左腿瘫痪。

As a nurse, Gersh knew she had to take action quickly in order to get moving again.

作为一名护士，格什知道她必须迅速采取行动，以便恢复行动。

Everything was totally limp and flaccid on the left side. She found Neofect, a tech company that uses games to retrain the brain through physical therapy.

左边的身体软弱无力。她找到了Neofect，一家通过物理疗法利用游戏来重新训练大脑的科技公司。

After six months of daily play, she regained most of the movement in her arm.

经过半年的每日练习，她手臂的活动能力已基本恢复。

Neofect CEO Scott Kim leaned on his own experience with rehab as a young child born with spina bifida.

Neofect首席执行官ScottKim借鉴了自己幼时因脊柱裂接受康复治疗的经历。

I had a major surgery on my back, and after the surgery, I had to go through the rehabilitation process, ge

Humans do it, chimpanzees do it, even polar bears do it. And now a study has shown that kissing likely evolved about 21 and a half million years ago.

人类会接吻，黑猩猩也会接吻，甚至北极熊都会接吻。而如今，一项研究表明，接吻很可能是 2150 万年前出现的。

The mouth-on-mouth kiss is actually something of a biological puzzle, with no obvious survival or reproductive benefits, so the Oxford University-led team gathered evidence of animals that kiss each other on the mouth and worked out their evolutionary relationship to each other and to humans. This revealed that kissing probably evolved in the last common ape ancestor of humans, chimps and bonobos

嘴对嘴的接吻其实是一个生物学谜题，这个行为对生存和繁殖并没有明显的益处。所以，一个由牛津大学主导的团队收集了动物互相之间会亲吻嘴部的证据，然后找到了它们彼此之间以及和人类之间的进化关系。这一研究发现接吻很可能是在人类、黑猩猩和倭黑猩猩的最后一个共同猿类祖先身上进化出来的。

The study suggested that Neanderthals probably kissed too, and that they may have smooched with modern humans when the two species lived alongside each other. The researchers hope that the insight will encourage more scientists to gather data that could finally help solve the evolutionary mystery of why we and many other animals kiss.

这项研究认为尼安德特人很可能也会接吻，并且

Laughter is so important. Laughter is medicine. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people, one of the best gifts we've ever been given.

笑是如此重要。笑是良药。 笑是两个人之间最短的距离，是我们最好的馈赠。

I've been doing stand-up for 15 years. So, I've seen all different kinds of laughers.我做脱口秀已经15年了。我看过各种各样的笑法。

There's the inside laugher, they don't make any noise, they're always just like.

有内向的笑，不发出任何声音，就像这样。

Insecure touchy laughers, they always need reassurance. They always, "Did you see that?" Like, "Yeah, I heard that. We're at the same show."

有不安而敏感的笑，时常需要别人的肯定。他们总是问“你看到了吗”，然后别人会说，“我听到了，我们看的是同一个表演。”

Oh, the snorter, my favorite, you know. It's like such a compliment when you get a snort except you feel bad for their spouse.

还有我最喜欢的笑出猪叫。当别人对你笑出猪叫的时候，事实上是一种褒奖，只不过你会为他们的配偶感到难过。

You're like dang, you're like every morning, "Honey," I'm like, "Oh my God."

My name is Ethan. I'm 10 years old. I worked on some robots and a game. It's kind of difficult. I hope I can make five or to seven games by the end of this week.

我叫伊森，今年10岁，我做过一些机器人和一款游戏，有点难。我希望在本周末之前能制作出五到七款游戏。

Code Ninjas is a center where children, ages 7 through 14, learn how to code. We want to leverage screen time and make it productive.

Code Ninjas是一个供7至14岁儿童学习编程的中心。我们希望利用屏幕时间并使其富有成效。

Kids love video games. That's why we have built our curriculum around learning how to code.

孩子们喜欢电子游戏，这就是我们围绕学习编程构建课程的原因。

By building video games, the kids are engaged. When they're engaged and having fun, they're going to learn.

通过制作电子游戏，孩子们会投入其中。当他们投入并乐在其中时，他们就会学到东西。

We also had a drone station where the drones were being coded so that they would code the flight path

I'd say that I was always a person that liked to tinker with stuff, tinker with Legos, so on and so forth.

我是个喜欢修修补补的人，也喜欢拼乐高之类的。

But it wasn't really until I got here to UVA, had access to the woodshop, that I realized that I really liked, you know, woodworking.

但是我是来了弗吉尼亚大学之后，才开始接触木工活，然后才意识到我非常喜欢木工活。

I've been just following the plans and the instructions that I found and that should hold up for a good while. These are a little, there you go. There's some 'shorties.'

我一直都按照说明和指南进行拼装，这些应该能维持相当长一段时间。这里有一个小的，给你。这里有一些比较短的。

This is about a year into an idea to try and make something out of the logs that are, you know, already coming down across campus and to mill some wood.

大概是在一年前，我尝试用那些已经在校园里砍伐下来的原木做一些东西，然后把一些木材加工一下。

All the insides of the kiln wi

Paradise in peril. As the world battles a pandemic, large swaths of the African continent have been submerged by floods.

天堂岌岌可危。当全世界都在与疫情作斗争时，非洲大陆大片地区被洪水淹没了。

This is the scene in the eastern Ugandan city of Jinja along the shores of lake Victoria.

这是乌干达东部金贾市维多利亚湖沿岸的场景。

Since march flooding has left more than 400 people dead in east Africa.

自三月以来，东非洪水已造成四百多人死亡。

In Uganda catholic relief services estimates that as many as 580 000 people are affected,

在乌干达，天主教救援机构估计，多达58万人受到影响，

from nice lakeshore homes in Kampala to small farms along the Kenya border.

从坎帕拉风景优美的湖边住宅到肯尼亚边境沿线的小农场都未能幸免。

And you're a smallholder farmer who normally benefits from farming on a riverbank.

小农户通常只能从在河岸耕种中获益。

An

Ada Tembeli is amongst a number of entrepreneurs who didn't get a formal education, but found a new and easier way to do business with the help of an app.

Ada Tembeli是许多没有受过正规教育的企业家之一，但她借助一款应用程序找到了一种全新且更便捷的经商方式。

Here are your lovely fruits. We have nice ripe oranges, apples, bananas. Without forgetting to mention the pineapples.

为你们准备了美味的水果。我们有熟透的橙子、苹果、香蕉，当然还有菠萝。

Today we have almost everything to keep you satisfied. To find us, go to the third bridge, and you will see me.

今天，我们几乎拥有一切让你满意的东西。要找到我们，走到第三座桥那里，你就会看到我了。

Armed with a smart phone, she attracts clients by sending an ideal message in Bambara with her stall's location, as well as photographs of the goods she has available.

她手握一部智能手机，通过用班巴拉语发送包含摊位位置和待售商品照片的信息来吸引顾客。

She says the Lenali app is user-friendly for someone like her.

她说，Lenali应用

Kevin Mbenza keeps smiling despite a setback. A flat tire just as he was ready to start training.

尽管遭遇挫折，凯文·本扎仍然保持微笑。就在他准备开始训练的时候，他的轮胎爆了。

I came here to train with my friends, so that you know I'll be ready when they announce the competition.

我来这里和朋友们一起训练，这样当他们宣布比赛时我会做好准备。

The 16-year-old dreams of becoming a cycling champion as well as a computer engineer.

这位十六岁的年轻人梦想成为一名自行车冠军和一名计算机工程师。

He says he will return with the new tire and renewed determination to befriend the pain of a tough workout.

他说，他会带着新轮胎回来，并重新下定决心，会艰苦训练。

The pain you feel today will transform into joy, once you have to climb those mountains and feel they are not that difficult to climb anymore.

今日你所承受的痛苦将化作未来的喜悦，待你攀登过那些高山后便会发觉它们已不再难以逾越。

Kevin belongs to La Suisse, one of a handful of cycling clubs in the DRC's capital and

It's the robotic version of man's best friend. The four-legged robot from Boston Dynamics is being put to work at Ford Motor Company in Michigan.

这是机器人版的人类最好的朋友。波士顿动力公司的这款四足机器人正在密歇根州的福特汽车公司投入使用。

We were looking at a way to get into tight spots within our facilities, and spot who we nicknamed Fluffy came up as a brainstorming idea.

我们当时正在想办法进入设施内的狭窄区域， 集思广益之后想到了Fluffy。

We could mount a 360 high resolution camera onto it as well as a laser scanner.

我们也可以在上面安装一台360度高分辨率相机以及一台激光扫描仪。

Fluffy works with an autonomous robot named Scatter to help create a 3D map of the factory floor.

Fluffy与名为Scatter的自动机器人合作，帮助创建工厂车间的三维地图。

They autonomously go through the plant and then stop, scan, move, stop, scan to waypoints like a GPS.

它们像GPS一样自主穿过工厂，然后停下、扫描、移动、停下、扫描，依次到达各个路径