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Lovers’ Leave

请个爱人假

Moons & Meteorites

月亮与陨石

Folding Phones

可折的手机

Firm 大公司、集团

Leave 放假的假

Employees 员工

Over 30   30岁以上

Two Chinese firms are giving single female employees over the age of 30 an additional eight days of annual leave to “go home and date”.

additional 多余的

annual 年度

The initiative by the Hangzhou Songcheng Performance and Hangzhou Songcheng Tourism Management firms will only be available to employees who have non-essential roles.

Hangzhou Songcheng Performance 杭州宋城表演

Hangzhou Songcheng Tourism Management 杭州宋城旅游管理

Available 可选的

Non-essential 不关键

Role 角色

A growing middle class has led to a larger number of Chinese women focusing on their careers and choosing to marry later – or staying single altogether.

Middle class 中产

Lead to 引起、带来、导致

Focus 专注

Career 事业

Altogether 干脆

 The Moon was hit by a meteorite while you were staring at the ‘Super Blood Wolf Moon’ eclipse

Meteorite 陨石

Stare 盯着

Blood 血

Wolf 狼

Eclipse 月食

Stargazers watching the eclipse saw a brief white flash on the darker side of the moon that lasted for only a fraction of a second.

Stargazer 看星星的人

Brief 很短

Flash 闪

Last (v) 持续

Fraction 分数（一小部分）

Fraction of a second 瞬间之中

This bright flash was made by something incredibly small – experts think the meteorite might have weighed only 22 pounds.

Incredibly 不可思议的

Phone makers are going all-in on foldables, but I’m skeptical

All in 完全投入的、不给自己留退路

Foldable 可折起来的

Skeptical 半信半疑（也是“完全不信”的委婉说法）

Huawei confirmed that it was working on a foldable phone, Motorola was just granted a patent for one with the Razr label, and a leaked video showed a tri-folding Xiaomi phone.

Confirm 确认

Grant 允许

Patent 专利

Label 牌子

Leaked 漏的

Tri- 三

I’m curious to see if this will be a passing fad, or a mainstream trend in phone design. 

Curious 好奇

Passing fad 快就过去了的小时尚

Mainstream 主流

Trend 趋势

It feels like there’s a lot to figure out before foldable handsets go mainstream. 

Figure out 解决

Handset 手持