The prospect of further lockdowns in China prompted a fresh wave of economic anxiety on Monday as investors and companies whose supply chains run through China contemplated the impact of 70 new virus cases that the Beijing government said it had detected…

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Twitter has never been a place for rational, nuanced speech. Expect it to get much, much worse. Twitter从来不是一个发表理性、细致言论的地方。情况有可能会变得更糟。 The decision by Twitter’s board of directors on Monday afternoon to accept a takeover bid from Elon Musk means the company…

RCEP协定自今年年初生效以来，已经对区域贸易和经济复苏产生了积极影响。3月越南、泰国、马来西亚三国驻广西南宁总领事开展的直播带货活动不仅增进了跨境电商合作，加强了RCEP成员国的贸易往来，也有助于全球经济的复苏。

Smoke hung over the gray streets that day in Kyiv, where protesters had piled tires, furniture and barbed wire to barricade themselves from security forces. Torn blue and yellow Ukrainian flags whipped in the wind, and candles left on sidewalks marked where…

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian tanks were rolling over the border and Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, was in the grips of fear and panic. Street fighting broke out and a Russian armored column, barreling into the city, advanced to within two miles of the office of…

中国人民银行决定自2022年5月15日起下调金融机构外汇存款准备金率1个百分点，即外汇存款准备金率由现行的9%下调至8%。

4月21日，国家主席习近平在博鳌亚洲论坛2022年年会开幕式上以视频方式发表主旨演讲，提出全球安全倡议。习近平指出，要坚持共同、综合、合作、可持续的安全观，坚持尊重各国主权、领土完整，不干涉别国内政。

WASHINGTON — When Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III declared Monday at the end of a stealth visit to Ukraine that America’s goal is to see Russia so “weakened” that it would no longer have the power to invade a neighboring state, he was acknowledging…

“百依百顺”，汉语成语，形容事事都顺从别人，毫不违背。可以翻译为“agree with somebody in everything，be all obedience”等。

>China makes headway in IP industry我国知识产权创造量质齐升

Ngoc Anh of Vietnam knows the value of trees. For years, he worked as a logger. He cut trees down illegally to sell as timber. He often worked with others to carry 100-kilogram logs out of a quickly thinning forest. But very high rainfall and floods increasingly…

Drug companies are testing new methods to improve the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, using combination shots or nasal drops. They hope the continued research will help strengthen resistance to a continuously changing coronavirus. Original vaccines and “bivalent”…

In the early 1900s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) requested an order of Callery pear tree seeds from China. The agency hoped the seeds might be a solution for a bacterial disease harming American pear production. Today, however, experts from the…

Since the beginning of 2021, at least 17 states have passed measures aimed at how public schools can teach highly debated subjects, says the publication EducationWeek. These efforts, however, have caused concern among some teachers of Advanced Placement,…

The first private astronaut crew to visit the International Space Station (ISS) has returned safely to Earth. The team flew to the ISS and back on the spaceship Crew Dragon. The SpaceX company vehicle landed as planned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast…

4月25日，社交媒体平台推特公司接受了埃隆·马斯克的收购协议。根据协议，马斯克将以每股54.2美元，总计约440亿美元的价格收购推特。

在这段简短演讲中，Joachim de Posada分享了一个里程碑式的关于延迟满足的实验——以及它如何预测未来的成功。   （来源：新浪微博   编辑：丹妮）

BEIJING — Faced with a growing number of coronavirus infections across Beijing, city officials are trying to test most of the capital’s 22 million residents in the hope of avoiding the pain of imposing a citywide lockdown like in Shanghai. 北京——面对各区越来越多的新…

Four days into a coronavirus lockdown in her Shanghai neighborhood, Ding Tingting began to worry about the old man who lived alone in the apartment below her. She knocked on his door and found that his food supply was dwindling and that he didn’t know how…