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2022年寒假高中英语外刊热点研读规划3
【经济学人——2021.9】 难度:❤❤❤
China urges its people to struggle. Some say no
中国正在激励人们努力奋斗,但有些人对此说不
Two vegetarian meals each day. A monthly budget of 200 yuan ($30). Working just one or two months a year. In April an internet user posted this brief description of his simple, stress-free life. He described his philosophy as tangping, or “lying flat”. “I can be like Diogenes, who slept in his wine cask in the sun,” he wrote. He included a photo of himself doing an appropriate job: playing a corpse in a film.
每天两顿素食,每月有200元(约30美元)的伙食费预算。每年只工作一到两个月,今年4月,一位网友用简短地描述了他关于简单、无压力生活的看法。
他把这种人生态度描述为“躺平”,或英文里的 "lying flat"。他写道:我可以像第欧根尼一样,躺在他的酒桶上晒太阳。他还附上了一张适合自己的工作的照片:在一部电影中扮演一具尸体。
The post went viral. On social media, people showed their approval of tangping by sharing pictures of themselves (and, often, their cats) lying in bed. More than 60% of over 240,000 respondents to a poll on Weibo, a Twitter-like platform, said tan