可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Welcome back to Geek Time, advanced. This is Brad. How's it going? Lulu? Hi, Brad. It's going.All right. So I thought we'd get back into talking about liminal spaces.Woo, spooky. Yeah. Now what really started liminal spaces as being part of today's like vernacular things people talk about, it’s something that happened on Reddit. There's whole discussion boards for people to post pictures that evoke this feeling of liminality. Hang on a...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ It was the second morning after Christmas. I visited my friend Sherlock Holmes to give him my good wishes for the holiday season. I found the great detective lying on the sofa. He was smoking his favorite pipe. Next to the sofa stood a chair. On the chair’s back, there was a black hat. The hat was dirty and torn. A magnifying glass lay on the seat of the chair. Holmes had been looking at the hat. “You know Peterson, the doorman?”...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi everyone, and welcome back to Geek Time. 欢迎回来【极客时间】. Hi, Brad. Hey, lulu.So today I thought we can talk about something spooky.Like supernatural, ghost, vampires?No, actually spooky, but in a geeky way.All right. What are you thinking? I'm thinking we should talk about liminal space. Woo. That's always a fun topic. Hahahaha. Yeah. I know that you have heard of this.Oh, yeah, definitely. Emm. Liminal space可能对于我们很多听众小伙伴会是一个很陌生的概念,...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ In Chinese tradition, Qing Ming is a day for remembrance, a day for us to cherish the memory of our loved ones who passed away, and also to pay tribute to our ancestors. In the past few days, you could see on social media and also in many English-speaking programs, their long list of vocabulary related to Qing Ming, the rituals and the stories about this tradition. But this is not what I'm going to talk about in my show today, because...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ “No, no!” cried Holmes.  “Don’t say a word to the cousin, I beg of you.” The manager raised his eyebrows at this response, but promised he wouldn’t. “I noticed when you were looking at your records,” said Holmes, “that you sold those casts on June 3rd last year. Could you tell me when Beppo was arrested?” “I can work it out from the pay list,” said the manager, referring to another file. “He was last paid on May 20th, so the arrest would...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ In China we go to 民政局 for both getting married and getting divorced.Yeah.I know in the UK we talked about it for getting married. You have to go to like the council, sort of like the registry or like a civil...You have to go to what is called the registry office. The registry office.就登记大厅，就跟我们那个民政局差不多。Yeah.Is this the same place you go to when you want to get divorce?No. No.To get divorce, you can actually do it online or you can go to a...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi, everyone, and welcome back to Britain Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话英伦】. Hi, 安澜.Hi, Lulu, hi, everyone. So, Lulu, what do you want to talk about today? Tell you what, let's talk about divorce. That's a very cheery happy subject. It's a pragmatic subject. I guess so. We talked about marriage before, if you remember. We did touch a little bit on divorce, but I don’t think we went into too much detail. I think we're mostly focused on...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Mr. Lestrade from London’s Metropolitan Police was a frequent visitor at 221B Baker Street, the home I shared with my friend, the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Holmes always liked these visits because Lestrade would tell him all the latest news from the world of crime. In return, Holmes might give Lestrade some helpful suggestions for whatever case he was trying to solve. On one evening in June 1900, Lestrade was embarrassed when...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi everyone, and welcome back to Britain Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话英伦】. Hi, 安澜. Hi, Lulu. Hi, everyone. The other thing I have noticed is something called special fried rice. And so I was thinking what's so special about it? Because in China, if you say special fried rice and you think this 炒饭 must be amazing. This got like all these expensive things in it, like prawns and like seafood. It must be like gold.Yeah.Gold in it as well....

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi everyone, and welcome back to Britain Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话英伦】. Hi, 安澜. Hi, Lulu. Hi, everyone. So what have you been doing since Chinese New Year?I mean apart from being busy at work, I spent all of my spare time trying to go to the gym or going for workout to try to shed some of those holiday weight that I put on.Oh, you tell me about it. I put on a few kilos during the holidays. 中文现在也说每逢佳节长三斤。I don't think it's just三斤, is...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Buzzmix-EP144-Grit.mp3In today's Buzzword Mix, our Buzzword is Grit. I'm sure many of you have read articles about how kids are allowed to roam free, do whatever they want in the west, and they really aren't put under that much pressure as the kids in China. 相信很多人都读过那种 “西方快乐教育”的文章, 并且十分羡慕。但今天的Buzzword里, 想和你分享一个在近些年来英语国家也逐渐开始认同的一个教育理念，叫做Grit教育 , 我看过有把它翻译成 “坚毅教育”或者 “坚韧教育”。Have you ever wondered what makes someone a good student, a good...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Welcome back to 【Geek time】. This is Brad. How are you doing, Lulu? Hi, Brad. I'm fine. And I can't wait to hear more about Elon Musk, last time we talked about Space X . Aha. Now we're gonna talk about something that's tangential to Space X, it's called Starlink.Star Link.And Starlink isn't a space program in the sense that space rockets and things like that, it's actually satellites, and Space X uses their rockets to put these...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ 3月14日，埃隆·马斯克的SpaceX公司获准第三次发射星舰；北京时间3月14日晚21时40分，太空探索技术公司（SpaceX）创始人马斯克发文，向星舰团队表达祝贺，星舰“已达到轨道速度”。要知道，仅4个月前的十一月，星舰的上一次试飞以提前发生爆炸而告终，前几次的故障包括：硬着陆撞击海面、发动机传感故障、节流阀卡住。接受采访时，记者提问马斯克：连续失败，你觉得有必要就此打住吗？答说，“不知道什么是放弃，除非我死了。”Elon: I don’t ever give up. I mean, I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated.被网有调侃为“价值三十亿美金的名画”于是第三次发射被提上议程：“这枚400英尺高(122米)的巨型火箭计划于美国东部时间周四上午8点(北京时间周四晚8点) 开始的110分钟窗口期（launch window）任意一个时间内，从Space X...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ In today's Buzzword Mix, our Buzzword is Woke. Now I have to confess this word has been sitting in my script for some time. I've been having the hardest time trying to decide whether I wanna talk about this word or not. 其实这个词我一直都想讲, 但一直都在犹豫, 主要是因为这个词后面的争议太大, 而且它的倾向性和内涵一直都在变迁。虽然它是美国乃至英语国家, 甚至整个西方都在谈的一个热词, 但是你问10个人10个人都可能给它下不同的定义, 会告诉你不同的看法。But anyhow, I'm gonna take a step at it. First of all, what does it mean literally? Woke is not...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Barista is a professional coffee maker是咖啡师. You actually need to get qualified for that. Oh, yeah. You can get qualifications in being a barista. They even have competitions for barista art. Kind of when they make the really nice patterns, pictures…Latte art.Yeah, the latte art. The latte art咖啡拉花的那个东西. Yeah. But back to espresso, I remember because I went to Italy so many times. It's very interesting to see Italians on their way to work...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi everyone, and welcome back to Happy Hour, 欢迎回来酒馆.It's International Women's Day, every year around this time, we would do a special episode.So far we've talked about the history of feminism, workplace stereo types, and shared with you stories of some truly fascinating women.So what are we gonna talk about today？When it comes to anxiety we face as women on a pretty regular basis, I'm sure a lot of you will agree that one major source...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ In today's Buzzword Mix, our buzzword is Hustle Culture. 之前我们说到过一个带hustle 的buzzword叫做Side Hustle副业. But today's Hustle Culture is different. You may not have heard of this word before, but you have definitely experienced hustle culture. So hustle culture describes a common, modern workplace environment that emphasizes hard work and long hours as the key to success. 是不是听起来很熟悉？这个Hustle culture就是指的这么一种现代的职场文化, 它的重点就是hard work and long...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ In today's Buzzword Mix, our buzzword is Hustle Culture. 之前我们说到过一个带hustle 的buzzword叫做Side Hustle副业. But today's Hustle Culture is different. You may not have heard of this word before, but you have definitely experienced hustle culture. So hustle culture describes a common, modern workplace environment that emphasizes hard work and long hours as the key to success. 是不是听起来很熟悉？这个Hustle culture就是指的这么一种现代的职场文化, 它的重点就是hard work and long...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi, everyone and welcome back to Happy Hour,欢迎回来酒馆. Hi, 安澜. Hi, Lulu.Fancy seeing you in the studio. Fancy seeing you here too. Jokes aside, what are we gonna talk about today?Well. Today I thought we'll choose a topic that means a lot to me, it's very close to my heart. 安澜喜欢的话题, old books, really really old mildew books?No.Scotch?No.Oh. Then there's only one thing left, coffee.Yes. So today I thought let's talk a little bit about...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Welcome back to Geek time Advance. This is Brad. How are you doing Lulu? Hi, Brad, I’m doing fine, and I’m ready for our talk about Brain Chipping.All right. So I thought we'd start off by talking about Neuralink, which is Elon Musk’s company. He is creating brain chips that people can use. The whole idea for him is to use like these chips to control devices really like IoT devices or to help people with their motor skills, their...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~“Which of you is Holmes?”, the man shouted.“That is my name, sir,” answered my friend. “Now what is yours?”“I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott of Stoke Moran.”“Please take a seat, Doctor,” said Holmes.“I will not!” Dr. Roylott shouted. “My stepdaughter has been here. What did she tell you?”“The weather has been nice this year.” Holmes calmly replied.“You will not distract me! I know who you are. You are Holmes the meddler! Holmes the...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi everyone, and welcome back to Geek Time. 欢迎回来【极客时间】. Hi, Brad. Hey, lulu, how's it going?It's going. So What are we gonna talk about today? Have you heard of brain chipping? Brain chipping. It doesn't mean chipping your brain. It means linking your brain to a chip?Yeah, putting a computer chip in your brain and connecting the two. 好像叫大脑芯片. I don't think this is... as an idea, as a concept, this is not new. I'm definitely seeing them...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ KeywordsWhat is a bunkerAn underground home that is self-sufficientFallout seriesA place to go if the world goes crazy or if there is a worldwide catastropheWhy a bunkerKeeps you away from disease and radiation.A layer of stone should protect against most radiation, but other materials can be incorporated to increase the strength such as lead.You can hide from roving bandits that might come to take your supplies. As seen in movies...

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ “It was early in April 1883. At this time I was living with Sherlock Holmes. We had rooms at 221B Baker Street.One morning I woke up early. Holmes was standing by my bed. He was already dressed. I looked up at him in surprise. My clock showed that it was only seven. Holmes generally got up late.“Very sorry to wake you up, Watson,” he said.“What is it?” I asked. “A fire?”“No. It is a young lady. She just came in. She says she must see me....

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi everyone, and welcome back to geek time with Brad. 欢迎回来【极客时间】. Hi, Brad.Hi, lulu. How's it going? Yeah. I mean it's going and it has been some time since last time we actually talked about geeky stuff. Yeah. I don't remember. Yeah, I hope life's treating you well.Life's treating me pretty good, no problems. But have you seen some of the latest news? I mean that is actually a topic that I would like to propose today. Have you seen...