Unsurprisingly, people in the United States are spending more time at home, according to a new report from Google that analyzes cellphone location data to see how people’s activities are changing amid the coronavirus pandemic. 谷歌新出炉的报告显示，不出所料，美国民众宅在家的时间更长了。谷歌分析了手机定位数据，想看看新冠疫情期间人们的活动变化。 Activity, measured by “visits and length of stay,” is up 12% at residential locations, while it’s down 47% at…
How many times have you flipped to the back of a company’s annual report or 10-K and found yourself blankly staring at dozens, or even hundreds, of pages of numbers and tables? 你有多少次直接翻到一家公司的年终报告或10-K表格的最后，结果发现自己盯着几十页甚至几百页的数字和表格都懵了？ You know that these should be important to your investment decision, but you’re not quite sure what they mean or where to…
A short seller firm has accused Chinese video-streaming platform Iqiyi of reporting inflated revenue figures and user numbers in 2019, following just days after US-listed Luckin Coffee’s explosive revenue fraud disclosure last Thursday. 一家做空公司控告中国的视频流媒体平台爱奇艺在2019年报告虚增收入和用户数量。而不久前的上周四，在美国上市的瑞幸咖啡刚被披露收入欺诈，成为爆炸性新闻。 The Beijing-based company often referred to as the “Netflix of China” is another high-profile target for short sellers following beverage chain…
Global Citizen and the World Health Organization announced One World: Together At Home, a Live Aid-style event designed to celebrate healthcare workers around the globe and to support the U.N. Foundation’s COVID-19 Response Fund. 世界公民组织和世界卫生组织公布了一期直播援助式演唱会——《同一个世界：共同在家》，致敬全球医护人员，并为联合国基金会的新冠肺炎疫情应对基金提供支持。 The concert will be broadcast live on TV and on social media Saturday, April 18 at 8 p.m. ET. 演唱会时间为美国东部标准时间周六4月18日晚上8点，会在电视和社交媒体上直播。…
Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter and payment app Square, has said he will donate $1bn (£810m) towards efforts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. 推特和支付应用Square的创始人杰克·多西说将捐赠10亿美元（合8.1亿英镑）帮助对抗新冠疫情。 According to Mr Dorsey, the donation represented approximately 28% of his wealth. 多西先生说，捐赠的钱数约占他财富总数的28%。 He made the announcement on Twitter, writing that the “needs are increasingly urgent”. 他在推特上宣布了这一消息，他写道：“需求日益紧迫。” Mr Dorsey did…
The gas station nearest my house happens to face a strip club. It is apparently a very successful strip club, as they could afford to install a LCD screen on their roof that might be visible from the Space Station. It’s certainly visible from the gas station. At some point my eyes will drift up…
How can I stop worrying about things that are beyond my control? 我怎样才能不再为超出我能力范围的事担心？ This is my favorite fortune cookie prediction ever and I carry it with me always. 这是我最喜欢的幸运饼干预测（西方中餐馆给客人的包有预测未来运气小纸条的小饼干），我总是带在身边。 （你正在为永远不会发生的事担心） You see, I used to be a worrier. 跟你说，我过去总是忧心忡忡。 I worried all the time. I worried that something was going to happen to someone I…
It was the first day of Spring here 此时此地正是初春 but it didn’t feel like it. 却感觉不到春天的暖意 The Coronavirus Pandemic was sweeping the globe 疫情横扫全球 and everywhere 每个地方 there were feelings of uncertainty, fear, 都弥散着彷徨，恐惧 loneliness 孤独 and even despair. 甚至绝望的感觉 “Social Distancing” 群体间疏离 had become the new norm. 成为新的常规 Here 在这里 the schools had been…
Here are 10 real-life examples from this year’s survey: 以下是今年一次调查中的10个真实故事。 • Candidate answered cell phone and asked the interviewer to leave her own office because it was a “private” conversation. 应聘者接到一个电话后要求面试官离开自己的办公室，因为那是一次”私人”谈话。 • Applicant told the interviewer he wouldn’t be able to stay with the job long because he thought he might get an inheritance if…
A friend who was down in the dumps wrote me a letter a few weeks ago. His life was full of problems. His heart was full of worries. He was low on hope. 几周前，一位生活几经波折的友人给我来信，说他的生活中充斥着麻烦，对此他忧心忡忡、感到无望。 He ended his letter to me with this question: “We can’t really change this crazy world we live in, can we?”…