Whether this week’s collapse of stock and oil prices will spiral into a much deeper economic crisis, perhaps even eclipsing that of 2008, depends on how the United States and other governments react.

美国股市和油价在本周的暴跌是否会演变成更严重的经济危机，甚至可能超过2008年的危机，取决于美国和其他国家政府如何反应。

The United States has now, belatedly, taken drastic actions on travel and announced some support for businesses. But these are too late to prevent the coronavirus from spreading and too little to stave off a deeper economic downturn.

美国政府现已严格限制旅行，并宣布会给予企业一些支持，不过这些姗姗来迟的举措对于预防新冠病毒的传播为时已晚，对于阻止经济进一步衰退也过于微不足道。

Apple does not “let bad guys use iPhones on screen”

苹果公司：影视剧里的反派不准用 iPhone

Rian Johnson, the director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, has lifted the lid on a secret in the world of product placement — Apple will not allow its kit to be used by a villainous character on screen.

电影《星球大战：最后的绝地武士》的导演莱恩·约翰逊，揭露了一个关于植入式广告的黑暗秘密：苹果公司规定，具备邪恶属 性的人物，不能在影视剧中使用它们的产品。

① Netflix’s new documentary “American Factory”, the maiden project of Barack and Michelle Obamas’ production company Higher Ground, has opened to rave reviews in Sundance festival and has a shot at the Oscars.

网飞的新纪录片《美国工厂》是奥巴马夫妇创立的高地影片制作公司出品的处女作，该片在圣丹斯国际电影节上映，赢得如潮好评，有望争夺奥斯卡奖项。

② “American Factory” is set in the industrial heartland of the US. Hard done by The Great Recession in 2008, General Motors shut down their truck plant in Ohio, putting around 2,000 employees out of work. Cut to 2015, the founder of Fuyao Glass, Cao Dewang, took over the plant and employed for his first operations in the US around 1,000 locals, who worked alongside the imported Chinese “trainers”.

《美国工厂》的故事发生在美国工业中心地带。受2008年经济大萧条冲击，通用汽车公司关闭了俄亥俄州的汽车厂，导致近2000名员工失业。时间跳转到2015年，福耀玻璃集团创始人曹德旺接手该厂，并为其在美国的初期运营雇佣了大约1000名当地员工与来自中国的“培训师”一同工作。

① Smoke obscured the skyline of Sao Paulo on August 19 as fires were raging in the Amazon rainforest 1,700 miles away. Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) said that the Amazon region accounted for more than half of the 72,843 fires in the country this year - an 80% increase year on year.

8月19日，浓烟模糊了圣保罗的天际线，此刻大火正在1700英里以外的亚马孙雨林肆虐。巴西国家空间研究所（INPE）表示，今年巴西境内共检测到72843起火灾，比去年同期增加80%，其中亚马孙地带的火灾数量占一半以上。

② Home to an eclectic mix of flora and fauna, the Amazon produces 20% of the oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere and acts as a counterforce to global warming. It is not without reason that the Amazon is called the “lungs of the planet.”

亚马孙雨林有着丰富多样的动植物种类，释放的氧气占地球大气氧气总量的20%，在对抗全球变暖中扮演重要角色。“地球之肺”的美誉，可谓实至名归。

今日导读

最近热映的美剧《切尔诺贝利》将 1986 年震惊世界的切尔诺贝利核反应堆熔毁事故，和它骇人听闻的后果再次呈现在我们面前。在这次事故中，受到辐射最严重的受害者是在第一时间冲往核电站灭火的 28 名消防员，在《切尔诺贝利》第三集中，辐射对这些英雄的身体造成的影响被真实地还原了出来，令人印象深刻，心生同情。

带着问题听讲解

如何理解 meltdown 这个词？

Daniel Parker 是如何看待因得辐射病而死这种死亡方式的？

如何看待切尔诺贝利核事故对我们的启示意义？