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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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Welcome back to Geek Time advanced. How are you doing, Lulu?

Hi, Brad. I'm doing fine.

So we were talking about EV and gas powered cars. Do you have any interesting questions?

Actually, last time you mentioned, apart from gas powered cars, EV, there's a new thing on the horizon which is hydrogen cars就是氢能源车. I was wondering if we can start the conversation by perhaps going a little bit into that?

Okay, yeah. Hydrogen powered cars are something that several car manufacturers such as Toyota are developing, and BMW I think is going into a partnership with Toyota and going to develop even more in the future. But the interesting thing is you can create newer hydrogen powered vehicles, but you can also take older gas and diesel engines and convert them with a few different parts to make them into a car that will run on hydrogen power. You have to change like the gas tank, but the engine itself you just add in a new fuel injector, and basically you can have a hydrogen powered car.

That would make things a lot handier. Isn't it? People don't necessarily have to buy new cars in the future. They just convert their car or modify their car.

Mhm. Yes, especially for people who are really attached to like a classic car or something like that. They don't have to give up that car, they can keep it, they just have to convert it.

I see. So hydrogen, I'm assuming when hydrogen is used to power cars, it also doesn't cost or create pollution. That's the whole point, isn't it?

There's no carbon dioxide or methane that gas that comes out of the engine. Basically, what happens is now you have the hydrogen and it gets split. It goes into the atmosphere and combines with oxygen and basically just creates water vapors or combined with that. And so it doesn't really have any noxious gases that a gas car would. And the best thing is...

How do we refuel it?

Basically you just go to a hydrogen station. There's actually a few hydrogen stations in Japan that I've seen. It's not much different from your typical gas station, the way they store it's a little bit different. They don't have like a tank in the ground like they do with the gas, but essentially the same idea, you hook up your car, you just basically put the fuel into the car like you would a gas car. The major difference is it does require high pressures or low temperatures restoring the hydrogen. So it's not as easily usable as gas as we have it today.

I see. I because I was gonna ask if everything looks so perfect, then why not hydrogen instead of EV right?

But obviously there are certain limitations now. So that cannot be the only reason why we are pushing for electric vehicles. I pretty much I don't know if it's to the same extent, but most of the countries are trying to push EV, right?

Yeah, like when you look at EV, most EVs can go several 100 kilometers. There, I think a few of them are getting closer to like 1,000 kilometers on a charge, but the majority of people don't really do more than like a daily 30 kilometer round trip. Right? Yeah, people aren't going that far in their daily work, right? So they don't really need to have a car that can go hundreds of miles.

For daily commute, EV is more than enough within cities, but it's just like when you have to drive long distance, EV can be a little bit more difficult. 

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Hi, everyone and welcome back to Geek Time, 欢迎回来【极客时间】. Hi, Brad.

Hi, Lulu, hello, everyone.

Long time no speaky. How's life treating you in Japan?

Pretty good. Can't complain about anything.

I heard last time we were talking you really got into car racing.

I've been into car racing for a while, but I actually entered my first race last month.

Wow, how did you do?

Did fairly good. I wasn't the fastest on there, but my car is pretty much stock except for I got a little bit better tires.

在赛车的语境中，"stock" 指的是车辆几乎保持原厂状态，没有经过大量的改装或升级。

Okay. How many cars do you have right now?

Currently I have five cars, one in the States and four in Japan.

You have four cars in Japan. Wow. It sounds like you're pretty serious about it. I mean, I assume they're all gas cars.

They are indeed, they are all gas cars.

So I thought today let's talk about EV. LOL.

Okay.

我们今天来聊一下电动车 EV, short for electric vehicle, right?

Right.

So to talk about EV,  Brad, you obviously know cars a lot more than I do. So let's talk about the different engines. So you have gas or, you say gas, British people say petrol. That's the same thing, gas, gas station, petrol station same thing.

Same thing, yeah. Gas or petrol is pretty much the way most cars are. In some places hybrids or electric vehicles are becoming more popular. Hybrid is kind of like in between where you don't have to charge the car, you use gas sometimes. And when you're going so fast, you use the electric power to drive the car. And so it's kind of an in between.

Okay. Can you give us... I know, I mean, you're basically from an engineering background, can you give us a little bit of a very, very like a for dummy version of how does it work with gas powered or petrol powered cars.  How does the engine work?

Basically, you have a cylinder and within that cylinder, you have a little bit of gas and air, and then you ignite it, which causes an explosion, which causes a piston to move downwards. And that creates a rotational movement,  basically kind of...

Drives the cars forward.

this rotational movement which causes the car to move.

I see. And just now you also mentioned hybrid,  we said gas on the side and EV electric on the other side.  In between there's a hybrid, 就是混合动力车. Right? Have you ever driven a hybrid car before?

I've never driven one, but I have been in them before. I have seen them working,  but I've never driven one myself.

I've never driven them. I've seen them on the road. Does that mean that there is like a switch thing that you can just switch between gas and electricity?

It basically does it all automatically. When you're at a like a low speed, you automatically just use the electric power as long as there is some stored within the battery.  Once the battery is depleted, then it goes back to the gas engine. The gas engine moves the car and while the car is moving, it's charging the battery.

I see, so this is very different from what I would imagine. I thought it was like a button or something.

Yeah, no, it's but I think some of them do have a button that you can push to just stay on electric power or just stay on gas power, but I've never driven one, so I've never really looked at the panels there.

I see. Now apart from gas hybrid EV,  I've also heard something called hydrogen就是氢动力车. What is that? Is that what car makers are working on right now?

So hydrogen power is another way to power cars. So there's actually two ways you can do this. You can use hydrogen power to charge a battery which causes an electric motor to move. But you can also use hydrogen to just like a gas or petrol power. And so you can use an old engine and basically just power the car the same way. So it

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