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Hi Lulu, hi, everyone.
What about cats? I know for a fact that black cats are seen as witches’ familiars. Yeah. So is it actually a bad thing if you see a black cat crossing your path in the UK.
Some people still believe that, I have to admit if I'm on the way to an exam or if I'm doing something very important and a black cat tries to walk across my path, I do tend to........shoo it away, or trying to scare it away.
You're like not superstitious but you're somewhat superstitious.
I don't want to .
You do not wanna jinx it.
I don't wanna tempt fate.
You don't wanna tempt fate. Yes, now to tempt fate here is a little bit like in Chinese we say宁可信其有不可信其无。
Exactly.
Yeah, but you also got some lores about big cats not just cat cat.
Well yeah, but these are based on modern folklore. So these are called ABCs, Alien Big Cats.
Why alien, not alien ET.
Alien as in foreign. So these creatures are described as being similar to panthers, leopards or pumas. Now this is a little bit of an urban legend. This is kind of more modern folklore. But there have been sightings of big cats in Britain and these have been reported for decades when cows, sheeps have been killed. They found strange paw prints in remote areas.
This is so weird. I mean you don't have any wild live population of these cats.
This is the thing, theories about the origin of these big cats, normally come from animals that were released after the dangerous wild animals act of 1976. So before then rich people could keep pumas, leopards.
So now it's illegal to keep these exotic animals, even if you're super rich,
Well you need to get a license.
They probably can get a license.
So some people say actually maybe these are the creatures that were released by the pet owners.
They can't just release them on the streets of England.
It does happen, it does happen.
This is ridiculous.
But they don't release them on the streets. For example, there's the Beast of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, which is.
Oh I think I've been there, Bodmin, there's a jail there, right?
There's a jail. There is a very, very mysterious part of the UK, very bleak, lots of fog, lots of mist.
Forests?
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Hello again and Happy New Year everyone.
So back to New Year's day, I think this is appropriate time for us to revisit the topic of New Year Resolution. 今天的节目里我们就再来谈谈 New Year Resolution.
In English New Year Resolution is a plan that you make on the first day of theNew Year or the beginning of the New Year that you wish to keep throughout the year.
基本上就是我们说的年初立的一个flag。我相信大家在年初多多少少都会立这样那样的flag. Did you know that on average, only 8% of people actually keep their new year's resolutions.
So if you didn't manage to keep last year's resolutions. Relax, it's very, very normal.
So each and every January we make all these big plans for the new year ahead, for example, I need to lose weight, going to the gym. And then you join a gym in the beginning of January. Usually people just give up in February.
So why then do we keep going around in circles? Why do we always try to make plans on the new year's day, only to give up these goals, perhaps in the following months.
Are there any ways to help us really live up to our New Year's Resolutions? That's what we're going to talk about today.
First of all, let's take a look at the most popular New Year's Resolutions people make, and then break.
Things include lose weight, get in shape, stop smoking or stop eating certain things, quit drinking, eat healthier, earn more money, read more books. Sound familiar? We've all made and quit at least one of these resolutions in the past.
The thing is I'm all for New Year's resolutions. And I do make them myself. This whole idea of starting anew is very tempting.
They also keep us more focused. The reason why we can't keep them, it's because we're often doing it the wrong way.
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Hi, 安澜.
Hi, lulu, hi everyone.
You think we're gonna talk about Britain under the microscope today, aren't you?
Well, I think most people are thinking about that.
Actually I'm thinking about bringing you on to more regular shows. Since I am a bit bored.
Well, I'm fine with that. Does it come with a pay rise?
Everything is a pay rise for you.
Then pay me money.
All right. 我们以后很多的节目会改成这种对谈的模式, 即使不是在讨论闲话英伦, 我们也希望安澜能够跟我一起来做这个节目.
So leave us comment in the comment section, first of all, about how you like this idea, how do you like this idea?
You didn't answer my question about the pay rise.
Let's move on to the topic today.
You always say that.
As some of you know, we just got back from Japan from Kyoto.
Yes,
So I thought I would like to propose a very interesting topic.
Ok.
Before we do that, I am going to ask you a question. How is your Japanese 安澜?
コ一ヒ一お願いします、ホット
So you can order a hot coffee.
I can order a hot coffee.
What about beer?
生ビールお願いします。
Hi everyone, and welcome back to Happy Hour. 欢迎回来酒馆.
Hi, 安澜.
Hi, lulu, hi everyone.
You think we're gonna talk about Britain under the microscope today, aren't you?
Well, I think most people are thinking about that.
Actually I'm thinking about bringing you on to more regular shows. Since I am a bit bored.
Well, I'm fine with that. Does it come with a pay rise?
Everything is a pay rise for you.
Then pay me money.
All right. 我们以后很多的节目会改成这种对谈的模式, 即使不是在讨论闲话英伦, 我们也希望安澜能够跟我一起来做这个节目.
So leave us comment in the comment section, first of all, about how you like this idea, how do you like this idea?
You didn't answer my question about the pay rise.
Let's move on to the topic today.
You always say that.
As some of you know, we just got back from Japan from Kyoto.
Yes,
So I thought I would like to propose a very interesting topic.
Ok.
Before we do that, I am going to ask you a question. How is your Japanese 安澜?
コ一ヒ一お願いします、ホット
So you can order a hot coffee.
I can order a hot coffee.
What about beer?
生ビールお願いします。
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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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