寒假外刊热点研读提升规划2 2022届高中英语复习

2022年寒假高中英语外刊热点研读规划2 【经济学人——2021.2】 难度：❤❤❤ “Demon Slayer” is the most successful Japanese film of all time 《鬼灭之刃》成为有史以来最成功的日本电影 Its subject—battling against the odds to overcome adversity—has struck a chord 它的主题（迎难而上，克服逆境）引起了人们的共鸣 For nearly 20 years “Spirited Away”, an Oscar-winning animation, reigned unchallenged as Japan’s highest-earning film. But in the last days of 2020 the title was, well, spirited away by “Demon Slayer: Mugen Train”, an adaptation of a hit manga (comic book). 近20年来，奥斯卡获奖动画《千与千寻》一直稳居日本最高票房电影的宝座而无人撼动。但在2020年的最后几天，这项桂冠却被改编自热门漫画的《鬼灭之刃：无限列车篇》悄然夺去。 Set in the early 20th century, “Demon Slayer” follows a young boy, Tanjiro, as he and his comrades battle a band of demons who have killed his family and turned his sister into one of them, as demons do. “Spirited Away” took more than eight months to reach ticket sales of ¥30bn ($247m at the time); “Demon Slayer” passed that mark in less than two (there was ha