Think of how stingy you are with your money: if someone on the street asks for $10, you’re not giving it to them. There’s no way you’re giving a 30% tip for a normal dining experience. And so on. 想想你在花钱上是多么的吝啬，如果有人在街上问你要10美元，你是不会给的。普通的一顿饭要收你30%的小费，那也是没门。诸如此类的事情还有不少。 And yet so many of us just waste ungodly amounts of our time. We throw…
Computer Programmer! You get paid to solve puzzles and learn stuff. You know what I like to do in my free time? Solve puzzles and learn stuff! 电脑程序员！你通过解决难题、学习来获薪。你知道我平常都在干嘛了吧？解决难题还有学习。 A programmer of course. 当然是一名程序员。 Low entry barriers 门槛低。 Low material needs 物质需求低。 Long career: If you want, you can keep your career as long as possible.…
Canines have been used for decades to sniff out drugs, bombs, corpses and even cancer. 犬类数十年来一直被用于检测毒品、炸弹、尸体，甚至癌症。 Now, a team of British researches are hoping dogs’ keen sense of smell can help detect COVID-19, CNN reports. 据CNN报道，现在英国的一个研究团队希望狗的灵敏嗅觉能帮助检测新冠病毒。 The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is working with specially trained dogs to develop a new kind…
Have you ever thought about what your own personality is like? 你有没有想过，你自己的个性到底是怎样的？ If you are asked to describe yourself with three words, which three words would you choose? 如果让你用3个词来概括你自己，你会选择哪3个单词？ Or, do you actually have no idea what your own personality is like? 还是说，其实你自己并不清楚自己的个性是怎样的？ Are you actually a person with no personality? 或者你其实是个没有什么个性的人？ But then again,…
Why is it so common to be cold/unfriendly/antisocial in the UK? 为什么在英国冷漠/不友好/反社会很普遍？ My guess is that you have gained that experience in London, or another large city. This is a common attitude to London, Paris, New York, Zurich or Rome. 我猜你这种经历是发生在伦敦或其他大城市，这是伦敦、巴黎、纽约、苏黎世或罗马的通病。 Where I was brought up (in deepest rural Derbyshire), it was normal to say…
Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, will spend RMB 200 billion ($28.27 billion) on its cloud infrastructure over the next three years following an increase in demand for digital services in the aftermath of the Covid-19 outbreak in China. 阿里云是中国电商巨头阿里巴巴集团旗下公司，中国新冠疫情爆发使对数字服务的需求增加，该公司将在未来三年将2千亿元（282.7亿美元）投入到云基础结构上。 Alibaba’s cloud revenue grew 62% in the quarter ended December 2019 compared…
Perhaps you’ve heard money is a major stressor in romantic relationships. 你可能听说过恋爱中钱是矛盾之源。 That’s why it can be uncomfortable—or even strain relationships—when the woman in a heterosexual relationship makes more money. 这就是为什么，女方赚钱更多会让人感觉不舒服，有时甚至会影响恋情。 And when two people in a relationship come from diametrically opposite socioeconomic backgrounds, it raises all sorts of difficult conversations about how you should…
The royal family is joining the rest of the world in working from home during the coronavirus pandemic—and they’re facing many of the same issues as the rest of us as they adjust to the new normal. 新冠疫情期间，皇室成员和世界上其他人一样在家办公，他们在适应这个新常态的过程中也和我们面临着很多同样的问题， During a rare interview with the BBC on Friday (recorded from their home, of course), Prince William…
Days after a report revealed that the upcoming iPhone 12 Pro will look like a tiny iPad Pro, CAD designs of the biggest version of the iPhone 12 Pro—the iPhone 12 Pro Max—have leaked confirming Apple’s design for the upcoming flagship. 有一篇报告说即将推出的iPhone 12 Pro的外观和缩小版的iPad Pro很像。几天以后，最大版的iPhone 12 Pro，即iPhone 12 Pro Max的CAD设计图泄露了，确认了苹果即将推出的旗舰产品的设计。 The CAD designs come courtesy…
I don’t know when it first started. 我不知道这是从什么时候开始的。 I don’t really talk to my friends anymore. 我已经不再和朋友们进行真正的交谈了。 We just send each other texts and emojis on social network. 我们仅仅是在社交网络上发发信息、发发表情。 And the ones who don’t do this often gradually fade away from my daily life. 而那些不这么做的人，则渐渐淡出了我的生活。 I don’t even talk to my family much anymore. 我甚至都不怎么和家人讲话了。…