每日口說挑戰【CNN10】2022年北京冬季奧運會 | 2021年1月18日 (Challenges For The 2022 Winter Olympics | January 18, 2021)

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Welcome to this week’s news report. I'm Leila.

2022 Winter Olympic Games to Start Amidst COVID Complications

The 2022 Winter Olympic Games is less than two weeks away, this time taking place in Beijing. Nearly 3,000 international athletes are expected to compete, however, fans from outside the country are not allowed to attend and China announced last Monday that tickets won’t be sold to the public in China either. That doesn’t mean stands will necessarily be empty. Those who wish to attend can only do so after meeting China’s COVID requirements and then being invited. Organizers are holding the games in a closed-loop system. This means that participants cannot have contact with the general public, and only those participants are allowed at hotels, competition venues, and on official vehicles. Unvaccinated participants must quarantine in Beijing first for 21 days. Anyone who tests positive will be isolated and removed from the games.

China made this rule shortly after it confirmed its first case of Omicron in Beijing, just a 15-minute drive from the Olympic Park. While the variant is less severe than other forms of COVID, China has a zero-tolerance policy which means that even a single case will result in strict lockdown and contact tracing. The entire community where the person with Omicron lives is under lockdown, as is the person’s workplace, which happens to be in a bank inside a building. However, the bank and building are not empty. People have been locked down at work. CNN10’s video shows COVID control staff carting in big boxes of pillows and bedding to make the offices more comfortable while the people inside undergo multiple tests. This kind of lockdown is not unique to Beijing. Social media shows video footage of shoppers being trapped at a store in Shanghai when a lockdown was suddenly enforced. Besides being locked down at the office or a store, 20 million Chinese have been recently locked down in their homes, and others have been bussed to quarantine encampments.

Civil Rights Advocate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Remembered and Honored

The third Monday in January is an annual federal holiday in America in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The holiday was signed into law in 1986, however, even before then, several states and cities had been holding their own holidays for the man. Dr. King was an American Baptist minister who advocated for and participated in peaceful demonstrations to gain civil rights for Black Americans. Marches, parades, and other events were held on the 17th to honor his legacy. While many Americans get the day off from work for Martin Luther King Day, they’re encouraged to volunteer in community improvement projects. Last year, some members of the Harvard Diversity Project made a video sharing some memorable and influential passages from some of Dr. King’s most famous speeches during the 1960s, including his 1965 speech "Our God is Marching On", from which comes our sentence of the day.

And now, our Sentence of the Day:

Somebody's asking, "How long will prejudice blind the vision of men?" However difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth, crushed to earth, will rise again.
有人問：「盲目劃分人的偏見將持續多久？」無論此刻多麼困難，無論此刻多麼令人沮喪。不會太久的，因為被壓在地上的真理會再次崛起。

Let’s look at some vocabulary from the sentence:

prejudice
KK /ˋprɛdʒədɪs/ IPA /ˈpredʒ.ə.dɪs/
an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially when formed without enough thought or knowledge
成見，偏見，歧視
i.e. For many years, prejudice against female authors forced women to adopt male pen names or ask a male partner to publish their writings.
多年來，對女性作家的偏見迫使女性必須採用男性筆名或請求男性伴侶來發表作品。

blind
KK /blaɪnd/ IPA /blaɪnd/
to make someone unable to notice or understand something
蒙蔽；使無辨別力
i.e. Sometimes the love that parents feel for their children blinds them to the reality that their kids are capable of lying, cheating, or stealing.
有時，父母對孩子的溺愛使他們對自己的孩子撒謊、欺騙或偷竊的現實狀況視而不見。

frustrating
KK /ˋfrʌstretɪŋ/ IPA /ˈfrʌs.treɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
making you feel annoyed or less confident because you cannot achieve what you want
令人灰心的；使人氣餒的
i.e. If you've ever received a text message with a symbol that you were not familiar with, you know how frustrating it can be to not understand what the sender meant to say.
如果你有過收到寫著你不熟悉的符號的短信，那你就會明白搞不懂對方想表示什麼是多麼令人沮喪。


Today's CNN10 video left me with some gray-area questions.

What does the future hold for competitive sports events, in regards to both the athletes who would participate in them and the fans who would like to attend live events?

Will China’s efforts to contain COVID be successful in keeping its 1.4 billion people healthy?

I’m Leila, and that’s the news for now.

☺Somebody's asking, "How long will prejudice blind the vision of men?" However difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth, crushed to earth, will rise again.
有人在問：「盲目歧視他人的狀況還要持續多久？」無論此時有多麼艱困，無論此刻有多麼令人沮喪，這種狀況都不會持續太久，因為被壓在地上的真理會再次崛起。
【心得】希望政治人物都不要靠操弄分裂來賺取選票，畢竟生活在台灣的人民一定都希望台灣能安全和平繁榮啊!!!
■prejudice [ˋprɛdʒədɪs] (n.C or U)偏見、歧視[(+against)]；偏愛、偏袒[（+in favor of）；{法律}損害、侵害
(vt.)使…懷有偏見、成見[(+against/in favor of)]；對…不利；損害、侵害
■blind [blaɪnd] (vt.)蒙蔽；使失去理智(或判斷力)；使看不見、使失明
(adj.)瞎的、盲的；盲人的、為了盲人的；視而不見的、不願承認的[(+to)]；盲目的、未加思考的；無目的的；人力不能控制的；(飛機等)單憑儀表駕駛的；極少的；隱蔽的、難以察覺的；(信件)地址未寫清楚的；(路等)走不通的；(司機看不到的)盲點的、盲區的；(科學實驗中、測試人和/或被測人不知測試內容的)盲測的
(adv.)看不見地；盲目地；輕率地；單憑儀表駕駛地
(n.C)掩飾、借口；{美式用法}埋伏處、隱藏處、躲藏處(UK hide)；單憑儀表的駕駛；遮眼物；the blind盲人
(n.P)百葉窗、窗簾(US also shade)
■frustrating [ˋfrʌstretɪŋ](adj.)令人洩氣、沮喪、失望的

Somebody's asking, "How long will prejudice blind the vision of men?" However difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth, crushed to earth, will rise again.

Some gray-area questions Leila has raised.

What does the future hold for competitive sports events, in regards to both the athletes who would participate in them and the fans who would like to attend live events?

Will China’s efforts to contain COVID be successful in keeping its 1.4 billion people healthy?

Somebody’s asking, “How long will prejudice blind the vision of men ?” However difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth, crushed to earth, will rise again.

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Somebody’s asking, “How long will prejudice blind the vision of men?” However difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth, crushed to earth, will rise again.

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CNN10 Challenges For The 2022 Winter Olympics
Somebody's asking, "How long will prejudice blind the vision of men?" However difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth, crushed to earth, will rise again.

Somebody's asking, "How long will prejudice blind the vision of men?" However difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth, crushed to earth, will rise again.
有人問：「盲目劃分人的偏見將持續多久？」無論此刻多麼困難，無論此刻多麼令人沮喪。不會太久的，因為被壓在地上的真理會再次崛起。