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《Hairspray》是一部充满活力的音乐剧，讲述了胖女孩Tracy Turnblad在1960年代巴尔的摩追求舞蹈梦想的故事。Tracy梦想登上当地的热门舞蹈节目“Corny Collins Show”，她不仅凭借自己的舞蹈才能和乐观精神赢得了一席之地，还勇敢地挑战节目中的种族隔离政策。在一系列幽默而感人的事件中，Tracy和朋友们一起为平等和接纳而战，最终改变了节目和整个城市的面貌。
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The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny. It was a warm summer day. The flowers were blooming, and the grass was green. People in the village started to gather in the square between the post office and the bank around ten o'clock. In some towns, there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had to start on June 2nd. But in this village, with only about three hundred people, the lottery took less than two hours. It could start at ten in the morning and finish in time for people to go home for lunch.
First, the children gathered. School had just ended for the summer, and most of them felt uneasy about having free time. They stood quietly for a while before starting to play loudly. They still talked about school, teachers, books, and being scolded. Bobby Martin had already filled his pockets with stones, and the other boys soon did the same. They picked smooth, round stones. Bobby, Harry Jones, and Dickie Delacroix made a big pile of stones in one corner of the square and watched it to keep other boys from taking their stones. The girls stood aside, talking among themselves, looking back at the boys playing or holding the hands of their older brothers or sisters.
Soon, the men began to gather. They looked at their children, talked about planting, rain, tractors, and taxes. They stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner. Their jokes were quiet, and they smiled instead of laughing. The women came shortly after their husbands. They wore old house dresses and sweaters. They greeted each other and shared small pieces of gossip before joining their husbands. The women, standing by their husbands, started to call their children. The children came reluctantly, being called four or five times. Bobby Martin slipped under his mother's hand and ran, laughing, back to the pile of stones. His father spoke sharply, and Bobby quickly returned to stand between his father and his oldest brother.
Mr. Summers conducted the lottery, just like he did the square dances, the teen club, and the Halloween program. He had time and energy for community activities. He was a round-faced, happy man who ran the coal business. People felt sorry for him because he had no children and his wife was mean. When he arrived in the square with the black wooden box, the villagers started to talk, and he waved and called, "A little late today, folks." The postmaster, Mr. Graves, followed him, carrying a three-legged stool. They placed the stool in the center of the square, and Mr. Summers set the black box on it. The villagers stayed back, leaving space between themselves and the stool. When Mr. Summers asked, "Do some of you want to help me?" there was a pause before two men, Mr. Martin and his oldest son, Baxter, came forward to hold the box steady on the stool while Mr. Summers mixed the papers inside.
The original items for the lottery had been lost long ago. The black box on the stool had been used even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town, was born. Mr. Summers often talked to the villagers about making a new box, but no one wanted to change the tradition of the black box. There was a story that the current box was made from pieces of the old box that had been used since the village was first settled. Every year, after the lottery, Mr. Summers would talk again about a new box, but nothing was ever done.
The black box became more worn each year. It was no longer completely black. It was split along one side, showing the original wood color, and some parts were faded or stained.
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Hi, everyone. And welcome back to《词源考古研究所》 It Means What?
So 安澜 with the silly voice again.
Yes. Hi, everyone.
Hi. What are we going to talk about today? Which word or which phrase are we going to focus on to explore its origin?
Today, I thought we could focus on “steal someone's thunder”.
Thunder. You mean like thunder lightning?
That's it.
就是打雷吗? “偷走某人的雷”。 Sounds a bit weird. It's not mythological, is it?
No. It's sounds a bit of a weird phrase. But that's what we're gonna talk about today. We can talk about its story. But first of all, what does it actually mean? So to steal someone's thunder means to take credit for someone else's idea or to undermine their success.
No, hang on a minute. So these two are two slightly different meaning. So the first one ‘to take credit for someone's idea’, for example, if I say my boss takes credit for my idea, this means it's my thoughts, but he or she claims it to be their own. That is take credit就抢别人的功劳. Or did you say undermine?
Yeah. So undermine someone's success or someone's achievement.
To undermine means to make whatever they have achieved seems smaller or insignificant.
Exactly. So a good example is in the UK, during a wedding, people have to be very careful when they go to a wedding because they don't want to steal the bride's thunder. So they don't want to dress in something that is even more attractive or even more expensive than the bride.
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Welcome back to Geek Time advanced. How are you doing, Lulu?
Hi, Brad. I'm doing fine.
So we were talking about EV and gas powered cars. Do you have any interesting questions?
Actually, last time you mentioned, apart from gas powered cars, EV, there's a new thing on the horizon which is hydrogen cars就是氢能源车. I was wondering if we can start the conversation by perhaps going a little bit into that?
Okay, yeah. Hydrogen powered cars are something that several car manufacturers such as Toyota are developing, and BMW I think is going into a partnership with Toyota and going to develop even more in the future. But the interesting thing is you can create newer hydrogen powered vehicles, but you can also take older gas and diesel engines and convert them with a few different parts to make them into a car that will run on hydrogen power. You have to change like the gas tank, but the engine itself you just add in a new fuel injector, and basically you can have a hydrogen powered car.
That would make things a lot handier. Isn't it? People don't necessarily have to buy new cars in the future. They just convert their car or modify their car.
Mhm. Yes, especially for people who are really attached to like a classic car or something like that. They don't have to give up that car, they can keep it, they just have to convert it.
I see. So hydrogen, I'm assuming when hydrogen is used to power cars, it also doesn't cost or create pollution. That's the whole point, isn't it?
There's no carbon dioxide or methane that gas that comes out of the engine. Basically, what happens is now you have the hydrogen and it gets split. It goes into the atmosphere and combines with oxygen and basically just creates water vapors or combined with that. And so it doesn't really have any noxious gases that a gas car would. And the best thing is...
How do we refuel it?
Basically you just go to a hydrogen station. There's actually a few hydrogen stations in Japan that I've seen. It's not much different from your typical gas station, the way they store it's a little bit different. They don't have like a tank in the ground like they do with the gas, but essentially the same idea, you hook up your car, you just basically put the fuel into the car like you would a gas car. The major difference is it does require high pressures or low temperatures restoring the hydrogen. So it's not as easily usable as gas as we have it today.
I see. I because I was gonna ask if everything looks so perfect, then why not hydrogen instead of EV right?
But obviously there are certain limitations now. So that cannot be the only reason why we are pushing for electric vehicles. I pretty much I don't know if it's to the same extent, but most of the countries are trying to push EV, right?
Yeah, like when you look at EV, most EVs can go several 100 kilometers. There, I think a few of them are getting closer to like 1,000 kilometers on a charge, but the majority of people don't really do more than like a daily 30 kilometer round trip. Right? Yeah, people aren't going that far in their daily work, right? So they don't really need to have a car that can go hundreds of miles.
For daily commute, EV is more than enough within cities, but it's just like when you have to drive long distance, EV can be a little bit more difficult.
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Hi, everyone and welcome back to Geek Time, 欢迎回来【极客时间】. Hi, Brad.
Hi, Lulu, hello, everyone.
Long time no speaky. How's life treating you in Japan?
Pretty good. Can't complain about anything.
I heard last time we were talking you really got into car racing.
I've been into car racing for a while, but I actually entered my first race last month.
Wow, how did you do?
Did fairly good. I wasn't the fastest on there, but my car is pretty much stock except for I got a little bit better tires.
在赛车的语境中，"stock" 指的是车辆几乎保持原厂状态，没有经过大量的改装或升级。
Okay. How many cars do you have right now?
Currently I have five cars, one in the States and four in Japan.
You have four cars in Japan. Wow. It sounds like you're pretty serious about it. I mean, I assume they're all gas cars.
They are indeed, they are all gas cars.
So I thought today let's talk about EV. LOL.
Okay.
我们今天来聊一下电动车 EV, short for electric vehicle, right?
Right.
So to talk about EV, Brad, you obviously know cars a lot more than I do. So let's talk about the different engines. So you have gas or, you say gas, British people say petrol. That's the same thing, gas, gas station, petrol station same thing.
Same thing, yeah. Gas or petrol is pretty much the way most cars are. In some places hybrids or electric vehicles are becoming more popular. Hybrid is kind of like in between where you don't have to charge the car, you use gas sometimes. And when you're going so fast, you use the electric power to drive the car. And so it's kind of an in between.
Okay. Can you give us... I know, I mean, you're basically from an engineering background, can you give us a little bit of a very, very like a for dummy version of how does it work with gas powered or petrol powered cars. How does the engine work?
Basically, you have a cylinder and within that cylinder, you have a little bit of gas and air, and then you ignite it, which causes an explosion, which causes a piston to move downwards. And that creates a rotational movement, basically kind of...
Drives the cars forward.
this rotational movement which causes the car to move.
I see. And just now you also mentioned hybrid, we said gas on the side and EV electric on the other side. In between there's a hybrid, 就是混合动力车. Right? Have you ever driven a hybrid car before?
I've never driven one, but I have been in them before. I have seen them working, but I've never driven one myself.
I've never driven them. I've seen them on the road. Does that mean that there is like a switch thing that you can just switch between gas and electricity?
It basically does it all automatically. When you're at a like a low speed, you automatically just use the electric power as long as there is some stored within the battery. Once the battery is depleted, then it goes back to the gas engine. The gas engine moves the car and while the car is moving, it's charging the battery.
I see, so this is very different from what I would imagine. I thought it was like a button or something.
Yeah, no, it's but I think some of them do have a button that you can push to just stay on electric power or just stay on gas power, but I've never driven one, so I've never really looked at the panels there.
I see. Now apart from gas hybrid EV, I've also heard something called hydrogen就是氢动力车. What is that? Is that what car makers are working on right now?
So hydrogen power is another way to power cars. So there's actually two ways you can do this. You can use hydrogen power to charge a battery which causes an electric motor to move. But you can also use hydrogen to just like a gas or petrol power. And so you can use an old engine and basically just power the car the same way. So it
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The other thing I often hear, in some of the old war movies, you hear some soldiers say "Blighty".
Yes, that's a really old historic slang. And it's always used by soldiers in the First and Second World Wars, and it just means Britain. So they would say "go home to Blighty".
So it means the country.
It means the country.
Go home to Blighty.
Yeah. And that actually comes from Urdu.
乌尔都语？
Yeah.
Okay.
It's the Urdu word for foreign land, "Vilayati" .
For foreign land. That's a bit weird to go home to foreign land.
Well. If you think about it, this was the era when Britain ruled India.
So if they were speaking, Hindustani, Hindi or Urdu, then probably people in India would say "Vilayati" .
Oh. It's like go back to your own...
Over there.
Over there. Okay, go back to the foreign land, foreign land to us, I see.
Yeah.
See. In Chinese we also have different names for the country, for example, it was like什么此生无悔入华夏，华夏，对吧?
Oh, yeah.
So, we have a lot of those as well.
Yeah, it's the same as in English. They mostly used in sort of poetic.
Poetic, more literary, historical.
Yeah.
Okay. And what about Wales? Wales has his own language, right?
Yes. They speak Welsh.
Which is an impossible-to-learn language.
It is very, very difficult.
Do you understand Welsh?
No.
It's a completely different language.
It's a completely different language. The grammar is completely different. The words are completely different. If you lived in Wales, then you would have to learn Welsh at school up to about 16, it's a compulsory subject, but most English people don't speak Welsh.
Okay. But where does the name Wales come from?
Well. It comes from the old English word for foreigner.
Okay. So basically English and just saying "over there, they are foreigners".
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Hi, everyone and welcome back to Britain Under The Microscope. Hi, 安澜.
Hi, lulu. Hi, everyone.
So, 安澜, can I propose a topic?
Of course.
The other day, during my live stream, you know, watching TV shows.
Oh, yes.
我们之前有一次那个看剧解梗的直播, 你知道吧? 然后我们就看了一个剧叫Ted Lasso.
I love Ted Lasso.
《足球教练》这个剧. It is about an American football coach going to coach a football team in the UK.
Yeah.
So, (I’m) not going into details but one of the things that we've noticed, because there's obviously a lot of cross cultural misunderstanding thing.
Yeah.
There was this particular part where Ted, the American guy got really confused about all these names for Britain or like people's like "oh, yeah, is that Wales, is that another country?"
It does get confusing.
Yeah, because when you meet英国人, sometimes they say "I'm from the UK". Sometimes they say "I'm British", sometimes they say "I'm from England".
Yeah.
So, I thought today let's just get that sorted out.
Yep. There's lots of different names for the UK, but first of all, let's start with the official name. So this is the name that's on my passport.
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Hi, everyone. And welcome back to one of your favorite segments【词源考古研究所】...
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I haven't said the English name yet.
Sorry.
【It means what? 】
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Welcome to the show, 安澜.
Thank you. Hi, everyone.
You're in high spirit today. So I'm assuming we're talking about a fun word today.
We're talking about I have to say an activity I really enjoy doing.
So it must be quite boring then.
It’s actually... we’re talking about quizzes.
Quizzes, Q-u-i-z.
Quiz can mean测验测试或这种什么问答. I like quiz in the sense of when it’s a fun quiz. I don't particularly like quiz when it's given by teachers.
I remember when I was at school, we used to have lots of pop quizzes. So just these type of quizzes, the teacher would say right, books away. I'm gonna test you.
No preparation. 这种随堂突击测验, I hated that.
I really, really hate that.
This is why now I'm a teacher, I don't give that.
Actually that's why when I was a teacher, I used to give those all the time.
You are such a horrible human being.
I know.
All right, quiz doesn't sound English. Where does it come from?
There is a famous story which to be honest, I think is a myth, most people think it's a myth. It's believed that it was invented by a theater manager in the 18th century.
You would be surprised how many words are invented by people working in theaters.
Now he bet that he could introduce a word into the language within 24 hours.
That was before social media time and the internet, how could he do that?
What he did was, he went out according to the story, he went out and hired a group of street children, so children that lived on the streets, homeless kids, okay. To write the word quiz which was a nonsense word.
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Acting fast, I moved behind him and struck his head with the handle of my revolver. He collapsed back onto the floor. I held him down with all my strength, using my arms and knees to pin him in place while Holmes blew hard on his whistle, calling for help.
There was the sound of running feet, and three men rushed into the room. Two were policemen in uniform, and the third was a plain-clothed detective. I realized he was the man I had seen earlier standing in the doorway.
"Is that you, Lestrade?" Holmes asked.
"Yes, Mr. Holmes. It's good to see you back in London, sir."
"I thought you could use some help. Three unsolved murders in one year isn't very good, Lestrade."
The two policemen took over holding the prisoner, who had gotten back on his feet.
In the light of their lanterns, I saw the prisoner clearly for the first time. He had a weathered face, like someone who had spent years outdoors. His blue eyes were sharp and strong, but also cold, like a hunter. He ignored everyone except Holmes, staring at him with a mix of hatred and surprise. "You devil," he kept saying. "You clever, clever devil."
"My dear Colonel," Holmes replied, "I don't think we've met since the day you threw rocks at me above the Reichenbach Falls. Gentlemen, let me introduce Colonel Sebastian Moran, formerly of Her Majesty's Indian Army, and the best big game hunter in the East. No one has hunted more tigers than you, right, Colonel?"
The old man glared at Holmes. With his fierce eyes and bristling moustache, he looked a little like a tiger himself.
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"He threw another stone, and it hit the ledge very close to my head. I realized with alarm that Moriarty hadn't been alone. This man must have been watching while the professor attacked me. He had seen his friend die and me escape, and now he was trying to do what Moriarty couldn’t."
"A third stone came flying down and missed me by inches. I had no choice but to scramble back down the cliff. In my rush, I lost my balance and hung from the ledge by my fingers while another stone flew past my ear. I kicked around until I found a place to put my foot and kept going down. Halfway down, my hand slipped and I fell, getting hurt and bleeding on the path. Then I started running. I ran for miles through the mountains as night fell."
"A week later, I arrived in Florence, Italy. I had managed to lose my pursuer and thought that no one knew where I was—except my brother Mycroft. I had to tell him because I needed money. I'm sorry, my dear Watson, that I didn't feel I could trust you with this information, too.
"I was in so much danger that I couldn't risk contacting you. But your account in The Final Problem helped make people believe I was dead. It would not have been as believable if you had known the truth.
"Over the past three years, I wanted to write to you many times, but I was afraid. Not just for my safety, but for yours too. My enemies might use you to find me. That's why I acted so strangely earlier this evening. If you had recognized me, it could have been very dangerous for both of us."
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Hi, everyone. And welcome back to one of your favorite segments【词源考古研究所】, It Means What?
Hi, 安澜.
Hi, Lulu. Hi, everyone.
So what are we gonna talk about today?
First I wanna ask you a question, okay,
what would you do if you clogged your toilet?
Clogged my toilet? What are you talking about? I never clog my toilet. I'm a lady.
Really?
Okay. If I accidentally clog my toilet, I would use a plunger. I would use any method to try to unclog it.
But what if you can't? I'll call someone, I'll call a guy. Are we talking about plumber today就是水管管道工?
So we're gonna talk about the word. Plumber or plumbing
Plumbing is a word... I would assume the origin of this word has something to do with pipes because你说水管，我们说上下水管道工。
No, it comes from Latin “plumbum”, means lead.
Lead铅, 这个词在它作为金属的时候, 它读lead[led]，在作为引导的时候它读lead[li:d]. Here is lead[led], was it because the original pipes, water pipes they were made of lead?
Exactly. So the Romans were famous for their plumbing. They were famous for their water supplies and their aqueducts.
Yes, the aqueducts are those things that you use to transport water.
And the Romans use lead to make the pipes.
Isn't that a bit dangerous?
Yes, it is. The problem is that lead is highly poisonous,
对, 铅就是特别有毒的.
Yes. The problem is that nobody realized that lead was that dangerous. So some scholars actually think the reason why the Roman empire fell is because of lead poisoning.
I guess a lot of these things that we now know to be highly dangerous, they were found out because people died from it, (exactly) massive amount of people died from it.
So some people think that if you read Roman history, there's lots of people who are a little bit crazy or a little bit of eccentric or do very weird things. Some people have suggested that actually that could have been partly lead poisoning because lead poisoning does actually make you slightly erratic. It does affect your nervous system.
It's heavy metal poisoning, exactly. It's like in Chinese history there's a lot of because of all the 炼丹, there's a lot of mercury poisoning.
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The Empty House
It was the spring of 1894, and all of London was shocked by the terrible murder of Mr. Ronald Adair. I wished my late friend, Sherlock Holmes, was still here because this crime had a mystery to it that I knew he would have loved to solve.
Three years had passed since Holmes's death. He had died during a fight with his enemy, Professor James Moriarty, at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Both of them had fallen into the powerful water below. Now, all I had were my memories of Holmes and the many adventures we had shared together.
My time with Holmes had given me a deep interest in crime, and every day I read the newspapers to look for unsolved robberies and murders. Sometimes, I even tried to use Holmes's methods to solve them, though I wasn’t very successful.
The murder of Ronald Adair was especially interesting to me, and I carefully read all the evidence presented at the inquest. All day, as I visited my patients, I kept thinking about the case. However, I couldn’t figure out how the murder was committed, or who the killer was.
Ronald Adair was the second son of the Earl of Maynooth, who was the governor of an Australian colony. His mother came back to England from Australia in the summer of 1893 for an eye operation. She, Ronald, and his sister Hilda lived at 427 Park Lane in London. Ronald quickly became popular with the upper class of London society. He seemed like a well-liked young man who had no enemies. In the autumn of that year, he got engaged to Miss Edith Woodley, but they ended the engagement by Christmas. There were no bad feelings, and they stayed friends.
People who knew Ronald Adair said he was quiet, modest, and easy to get along with. There was nothing about his life or personality that made it seem like he would meet a violent end. However, he died in a strange and brutal way between 10:00 and 11:20 p.m. on the night of March 30, 1894.
Ronald Adair enjoyed playing card games. He was a member of three card clubs in London and played almost every day, but usually for small amounts of money. On the day he died, he played two rounds of whist at the Bagatelle Club, one in the afternoon and one after dinner. His fellow players—Mr. Henry Murray, Sir John Hardy, and Colonel Sebastian Moran—later said there were no big wins or losses that day. Adair might have lost five pounds, but that was a small amount for someone with his wealth. He was a careful player, though he did win big sometimes. For example, he once won £420 in a single round with Colonel Moran as his partner.
On the night he died, Ronald Adair came home from his club at exactly ten o'clock. His mother and sister were out visiting someone. The servant said she heard him go into his sitting room on the second floor. She had already lit a fire in the room and opened a window to let out the smoke.
No one heard any noise from that room until Lady Maynooth and Hilda came back home at eleven-twenty.
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Hi, everyone. And welcome back to The Sound of Musicals.欢迎回来区外之音， And this is the second episode for the musical Cats. Hi, Oliver.Hello again.
So last time we were talking about Cats, and we have summarized or you summarized the plot or the none plot for cats, basically a bunch of cats trying to go to kitty heaven.
Yeah, cats go to kitty heaven and start their new life.
So are there any themes?
Well there are. They're a little bit harder to find than in most musicals, but one of the more obvious ones is the idea of rebirth. They go to the heavy side layer, their version of heaven, and they are reborn using their cats nine lives. That's quite an interesting idea there because you only get one cat a year to go, so they have to choose who deserves it.
So it is seen as an honor or as at least a good thing, it’s a rare opportunity.
It’s seen as like a prize or a benefit or something they get to go, they get to start again.
And then they can come back and have everything again that they've lost in their life this time through age or injury or illness.
Speaking of age, I think one of the reasons that number Memory is so popular is because it's so sad. It's not just about cats, it’s not just about an individual. It speaks to all of us because all of us will age, will all die, will all lose our useful energy.
Yes, it is one of the few songs which you can really connect within this musical. A lot of them are introduction songs. There's some very strange songs and some very good songs, but this one it stands out because everyone can connect to it.
She sings about the happiness of the past and what she used to be like and what she is like now and it's another strong theme of this musical is the idea of losing things.
Another character, Gus, I think his name Asparagus, but they call him Gus, he used to be an actor, but he became ill and his hands his paws shake. And He can't act and that through injury and through illness now he can't do what he used to do. And his song is looking back at his time as an actor and his crowning moment of playing this part. But of course now he can't do that and they're all looking backwards and remembering what it was rather than doing it now.
So a lot of reminiscing about the good days that are past tense that are gone.
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