昨天是藍色星期一,穿了一身藍,深藍上衣,淺藍牛仔褲,裡面也是穿藍色的,藍色襪子,藍色鞋子,寶藍色的包包,藍色絲巾,藍色手帕,眼鏡也是藍色的,藍色手環,真的很藍,但是沒有 blue。
今天才是 Blue Tuesday,壞消息,焦慮,無解的事實,好多要做的事。上星期的假期也太短了,這星期馬上就要面對現實。潔西的心情太跳了啦,超不OK的,無奈到寫不出來,對學生說教結果事情發生在自己身上還不是無可奈何。睡覺去,明天又是另外一天,誰知道明天心情會如何呢?
九月六日
A
Britain’s Conservative Party has announced its new leader is Liz Truss, who has served as foreign minister for the past 12 months. She will be formally appointed as the next prime minister by Queen Elizabeth, likely on Tuesday afternoon. — NPR
(Britain’s Conservative Party) (has announced)
主詞 動詞
(its new leader is Liz Truss, who has served as foreign minister for the past 12 months.) 名詞子句
(its new leader) (is) Liz Truss,
主詞 動詞
(who has served as foreign minister for the past 12 months) 形容詞子句
(who) (has served) as foreign minister for the past 12 months
主詞 動詞
(She) (will be formally appointed)
主詞 動詞
as the next prime minister by Queen Elizabeth,
likely on Tuesday afternoon.
英國保守黨宣布它的黨魁是特拉斯,她在過去的十二個月擔任外交部長。她將正式被伊莉莎白女王提名為首相,很可能是星期二下午。
1 Conservative Party 名,保守黨
2 foreign minister 名,外交部長
3 appoint 動,任命
4 prime minister 名,首相
5 likely 副,有可能地
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B
There’s no shortage of bad news in the media to “doomscroll”, from a global pandemic to the war in Ukraine and an impending climate crisis, but new research suggests the compulsive urge to surf the web can lead to poor mental and physical health outcomes.
媒體上不缺壞消息來負面瀏覽,從全球的疫情到烏克蘭戰爭,還有逼近的氣候危機,但是新的研究顯示,這樣子的強制性的衝動去上網會導致負面的心理跟身體健康的結果。
Doomscrolling is the tendency to “continue to surf or scroll through bad news, even though that news is saddening, disheartening or depressing”, a practice researchers found has boomed since the onset of the pandemic. — Guardian
大量瀏覽壞消息是「持續上網或瀏覽不好的新聞,雖然新聞是令人傷心的,令人失望的,令人沮喪的」,一個實踐研究者發生大量增加,自從疫情的開始。
1 shortage 名,短缺
2 doomscroll 動,花時間在手機或電腦上看負面新聞
末日刷新,陰暗刷屏
doom 名,毀滅,死亡
scroll 動,滾動
3 pandemic 名,疫情
4 impending 形,即將發生的
5 climate crisis 名,氣候危機
6 compulsive 形,欲罷不能的,強制性的
7 urge 名,慾望,衝動
8 mental 形,心理的
9 physical 形,身體的
10 outcome 名,結果
11 tendency 名,傾向
12 saddening 形,令人傷心的
13 disheartening 形,令人失望消沈的
14 depressing 形,令人沮喪的
15 boom 動,增加
16 the onset of something 片,不愉快的事的開始