08.12-08.18

The mini-gyms, also known as shared gyms, are garnering positive and negative attention among netizens.
这种只能容纳一人健身的迷你健身房也称为共享健身仓，网友对这一新兴事物褒贬不一。

• garner
  to take or collect something, especially information or support
  得到，收集〔尤指信息或支持〕
  [例]The party garnered 70 percent of the vote. 该党得到了70%的选票。

Passengers with an Android phone in Beijing can now swipe their phones to board the subway.
北京有安卓手机的乘客将可刷手机乘地铁。

• NFC（Near Field Communication）近距离无线通讯技术

拉链车 zipper truck

About 7 million mercury thermometers in hospitals and clinics across China may be phased out by the end of this year, as an international treaty to protect human health and the environment from poisonous mercury took effect in China on Wednesday.
8月16日，《关于汞的水俣公约》对我国正式生效。这是一项旨在保护人体健康和环境免受水银毒害的国际公约。全国医院和诊所约700万水银温度计或将在年底前被淘汰。

It is important for BRICS countries to exchange governance experiences as the bloc, consisting of emerging and developing nations, strives to usher in its second "golden decade", a senior publicity official said on Thursday.
一位政府高级官员周四表示，致力于 开启下一个“黄金十年”的金砖国家之间交流治国理政经验十分重要。金砖国家由新兴市场国家和发展中国家组成。

• usher
  使开始；迎来(常与 in 连用)：
  The rising sun ushered in a new day.
  旭日的升起迎来了新的一天。
• 处于相近的发展阶段 undergoing development at a similar stage
  面临相似的风险挑战 face shared challenges
• 携手建设更紧密的金砖伙伴关系 make joint efforts for closer ties

At least four suspects have been killed in Cambrils, a town south of Barcelona, in an operation responding to a terror attack in Barcelona in which 13 people have been killed and more than 100 others injured on Thursday, police said Friday.
警方18日表示，17日，巴塞罗那发生恐怖袭击，造成13人死亡，上百人受伤；在应对此次恐袭展开的行动中，警方在巴塞罗那南部城市坎布里尔至少击毙了4名嫌疑人。

白人至上主义
white supremacy

US President Donald Trump denounced white supremacist groups on Monday, two days after a white-nationalist rally turned deadly in Virginia, and earned him wide criticism for failing to respond more forcefully earlier. Charlottesville mayhem underscores growing US white supremacy movement, commenters say.
在弗吉尼亚州举行的白人种族主义者集会演变成夺命事件两天后，14日，美国总统特朗普对白人至上主义团体进行谴责。特朗普因早先未对该事件作出更为强硬的表态而广受批评。评论人士称，"夏洛茨维尔暴乱"突显出美国的白人至上主义运动正在抬头。

• 纳粹思想 Nazi ideas
• 种族问题引发的冲突 race-fueled clash

机器僧
robot monk

The WeChat account of a robot monk in Beijing that uses artificial intelligence to speak with the public started communicating in English on Wednesday - although it still refers many questions to its master.
16日，北京一个利用人工智能与公众对话的机器僧的微信账号开始用英语与人们进行交流，不过它仍有很多问题得问师父。

• 仿真机器人 humanoid
• 类脑 brain-inspired intelligence
• 英语菜鸟 English novice