2020年英语媒库文选:英汉对照 Precious Prose of 2020电子书

编者的话 在20年代回顾和向前

序言 20年的跨越

一月

丢掉时尚宝典

How I learnt to throw away the curvy woman’s fashion rulebook

单女身份标签流变

Why words for single women have changed through

东西没用了才会进博物馆

Washington’s newseum nears final deadline amid crisis in US journalism

如何在2020年收获更多快乐

The joy audit：how to have more fun in 2020

消费当公平

The case for consumption equality

二月

人工智能跟踪新冠病毒

How AI spotted and tracked the coronavirus outbreak

带着爱 去救助

Run to the rescue with love， and peace will follow

欢迎来到隔离时代

Welcome to the quarantine era

一个意为“病毒”的拉丁术语在传播

“Virus”：the spread of a latin term for poison

三月

“新冠肺炎号”巨型邮轮

The world is a giant cruise ship called the Covid-19

新冠伦理：友而不毒

Coronavirus etiquette：how to make friends and not infect people

大疫新词

In pandemic， word definitions shift and new lexicon emerges

四月

“好日子终将到来”

The queen’s coronavirus speech transcript：we will succeed and better days will come

禁足之下探火星

Space scientists use Covid-19 lockdown as dry run for Mars mission

封城时光

How to tap into creativity during lockdown

新冠病毒的文化变革

Coronavirus to prompt worldwide cultural changes

与新冠蛮少年跳一支惊魂舞

Coronavirus：the new rhythms of life will jolt and jar as we try to live with this horrible teenager

只有这一种悲伤

Unhappy in the same way

年幼不解疫情

Children may be the silent victims of coronavirus

五月

电子情书回归

The digital love letters of lockdown：why You’ve Got Mail is back on millennial screens

适应变化 生存下来

We need adapt and innovate in a post-Covid-19 world

六月

抖音的超现实时刻

When tear gas comes to TikTok：how the internet is changing protest

你也可以读懂病毒科学文献

How to make sense of scientific studies about coronavirus

建设一个美好的疫后世界

Building a better post-Covid world

期待东京奥运会的“堡垒之夜”

Why the next Olympics should include Fortnite

七月

音乐还能飞起来吗

Can the music take flight again?

新冠唤醒自行车

From dusted-off bikes to electric dreams：UK green economy booms on back of Covid-19

摩天大楼时代结束

Why the age of the skyscraper is over

网络犯罪乘势而上

Why Covid-19 is a gift for cyber criminals

飞向火星

Going to Mars in a time of pandemic

八月

机器进军人类世界

March of the machines

对语言实行清算

A reckoning has emerged on American English

电梯厢新冠礼仪指南

Covid-19 is changing lift etiquette

预知未来感受怎么这么难

Why predicting our future feelings is so difficult

新冠疫苗DIY

Do-it-yourself vaccines for Covid-19

九月

抗击心理疫情

How to deal with the anxiety of uncertainty

封锁隔离与容貌管理

Lockdown meltdown：the panic for plastic surgery

新冠肺炎如何改变英语

How Covid-19 is changing the English language

十月

人生最痛苦的年龄是47.2岁

Why economists believe 47.2 is our most miserable age

新闻快把人逼疯了

The news is driving you mad

天塌下来也得笑一笑

You’ve got to laugh：why a sense of humour helps in dark times

字斟句酌时，谨慎即大勇

Choosing agreeable verbs for collective nouns

数字生活需要数字货币

Our digital lives need digital money

十一月

“修复美国的灵魂”

President-elect Joe Biden’s remarks

我们戴口罩时想念的

What we miss when we’re masked

2020年，怎能用一个字说得

Oxford’s 2020 word of the year? It’s too hard to isolate

消失的餐馆

Your next favorite restaurant might not be a restaurant

十二月

无人驾驶是场梦啊

Is the dream of driverless cars about to crash?

可叹今年又虚度

This year was not supposed to be anything like 2019

为2021年再下一回决心

A new year’s resolution for 2021：harness the power to change