>Spring vegetable hits market
'香椿自由'成中產(chǎn)新標(biāo)準(zhǔn)?
First it was cherries. Now, the young red leaves of the Chinese toon tree are being talked about as a gauge of financial health among the middle class. The spring vegetable, which tastes a bit like onion and is used in a variety of dishes, is not cheap. And in some places in the north of the country, like Beijing, its popularity has been driving up prices. It has been selling for 80 yuan to 200 yuan for 500g at markets in Beijing in recent weeks, China News Service reported. That has led some consumers to take to social media, complaining they can no longer afford to buy the vegetable, which is known as xiangchun in Chinese. One post on microblogging site Weibo, which has drawn more than 10,000 comments, claimed a bunch of the leaves could now cost as much as a lobster, 10 abalone, or 39 crayfish. "You can buy this [vegetable] to show off your wealth," one person commented. Another said: "There's plenty of xiangchun trees at my grandmother's house. I feel like I've just found the path to riches." The first spring leaves of the tree are traditionally used in Chinese cooking, especially in the north where it is fried with eggs, mixed with tofu, or used in stuffing for dumplings.
早先，人們崇尚"車?yán)遄幼杂?，而現(xiàn)在，香椿樹的紅色嫩葉被認(rèn)為是衡量中產(chǎn)階級財務(wù)健康水平的指標(biāo)。這種春季蔬菜吃起來味道有些像洋蔥，可以做成各種菜肴，但售價不菲。在北方的一些城市，比如北京，香椿的流行已推動其價格直線上升。據(jù)中新社報道，近幾周，香椿的零售價為每斤80元至200元。這導(dǎo)致一些消費者在社交媒體上抱怨稱，他們已經(jīng)買不起這種蔬菜了。微博上一篇評論過萬的文章稱，一把香椿的價格相當(dāng)于一只龍蝦、10只鮑魚或39只小龍蝦。"你可以買香椿炫富"，一位微博用戶評論道。另一位用戶說："我奶奶家有很多香椿樹，我仿佛發(fā)現(xiàn)了致富之路。"初春的香椿嫩葉在中國一直都用于烹制菜肴，特別是在北方，香椿炒蛋、香椿拌豆腐和香椿餡餃子都很常見。

>Apple launches new products
蘋果推流媒體訂閱服務(wù)
Apple Inc attempted to reintroduce itself on Monday as an entertainment and financial services company that also makes iPhones as it launched a streaming television service, a credit card and an online gaming arcade. The programming will come through a revamped television-watching app for users of Apple's 1.4 billion gadgets worldwide, as well as owners of smart TVs and other devices. Apple is taking a different approach by offering paid "channels" from AT&T Inc's HBO, Lions Gate Entertainment's Starz and CBS Corp's Showtime, alongside its own content. Its revamped app for subscribing to channels from others will come out in May, but Apple's own original shows will not arrive until autumn, with pricing not yet announced. Apple said both its TV+ shows and the new version of the TV app will be available in more than 100 countries. Apple also introduced a credit card, a digital video game arcade, and added hundreds of magazines to its news app. The launches come as Apple struggles with falling iPhone sales, which has prompted the company to turn more of its attention to services that provide regular subscription revenue.
iPhone制造商蘋果公司25日發(fā)布了一項流媒體電視服務(wù)、一張信用卡和一個在線游戲平臺，試圖重塑其作為娛樂和金融服務(wù)公司的形象。全球14億蘋果產(chǎn)品用戶以及智能電視等設(shè)備用戶，均可通過一款改進(jìn)的看電視應(yīng)用觀看節(jié)目。蘋果正采用一種不同的方式，提供AT&T公司的HBO、獅門娛樂公司的Starz、哥倫比亞廣播公司的Showtime及自己的內(nèi)容等付費"頻道"。這款可以訂閱其他公司內(nèi)容頻道的應(yīng)用將于5月推出，但蘋果自己的原創(chuàng)內(nèi)容要到秋季才能上線，其價格信息尚未公布。蘋果表示，將在100多個國家推出其TV+和新款TV應(yīng)用。蘋果還推出了信用卡和數(shù)字影像游戲平臺，并在其新聞應(yīng)用中添加了數(shù)百種雜志。蘋果發(fā)布上述服務(wù)之際，正苦于iPhone銷量的下滑，這促使其把更多注意力轉(zhuǎn)向能夠提供經(jīng)常性訂閱營收的各類服務(wù)。

>Time really getting faster
時間越過越快并非錯覺
It's one of those slightly unfair-seeming facts of life, that as you get older, time seems to get faster and faster – especially when compared to the endless summers of childhood. But physics might offer an explanation. According to Professor Adrian Bejan of Duke University, "People are often amazed at how much they remember from days that seemed to last forever in their youth. It's not that their experiences were much deeper or more meaningful, it's just that they were being processed in rapid fire." Bejan believes it's due to how many new images people are processing - which tails off with age due to physical changes in the human body. Because infants process images faster than adults, their eyes move more often, acquiring and integrating more information.
人生有一個看似不太公平的事實：隨著年齡的增大，時間也似乎越過越快，尤其是與兒時的漫長夏日相比。對此物理學(xué)也許能提供一種解釋。杜克大學(xué)教授亞德里安?貝讓說："人們往往對他們青年時代留下的大量記憶感到吃驚，那些日子似乎永無止境。這不是因為他們那時的經(jīng)驗更深刻或更有意義，而只是因為他們的這些經(jīng)驗以連續(xù)快速的方式得到了處理。" 貝讓認(rèn)為，時間的快慢取決于人腦處理的新的圖像的數(shù)量，而隨著年歲漸長，人體發(fā)生的物理變化導(dǎo)致人腦處理的圖像數(shù)量變少。因為嬰兒的大腦處理圖像的速度比成年人快，所以他們眼動更頻繁，能獲取和合成更多信息。

>Holiday spurs May tourism
五一假期引爆出游熱情
According to a State Council announcement on Saturday, this year's May Day holiday in China will be expended from a single day off to a four-day holiday, with April 28 and May 5 as working days. Ctrip, an online travel agency headquartered in Shanghai, said that the search volume for tour packages bound for Chengdu, Sanya, Hangzhou and Kunming rose over 7 times compared to last week - and just three hours after the holiday adjustment was released. Ctrip also estimated that about 150 million trips would be made during the period. Data cited from Fliggy, Alibaba's travel agency in Hangzhou, shows that reservations for domestic flights increased by 50% compared with the same time period last week until 12 pm, and international flights rose by 150%.
國務(wù)院22日發(fā)布通知，將2019年勞動節(jié)假期從1天延長至4天，4月28日、5月5日上班?？偛课挥谏虾５脑诰€旅行機構(gòu)攜程表示，五一假期調(diào)整的消息發(fā)布僅三個小時，前往成都、三亞、杭州和昆明旅行團(tuán)的搜索量較上周暴增了7倍以上。攜程還估計，五一假期預(yù)計全國出游人次約1.5億。位于杭州的阿里巴巴旗下旅行社飛豬的數(shù)據(jù)顯示，截至22日晚12時，國內(nèi)航班預(yù)訂量較上周同一時間增長50%，國際航班預(yù)訂量增長150%。

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