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Fluentide 306 - 两亿四千五百万美元，一分钱都不是抢来的：一个二十二岁的人打了两年电话，每一笔都是对方自己交出去的 — Not One Cent of the $245 Million Was Taken by Force: a 22-Year-Old Spent Two Years on the Phone, and Every Victim Handed It Over Themselves

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两亿四千五百万美元，一分钱都不是抢来的：一个二十二岁的人打了两年电话，每一笔都是对方自己交出去的 — Not One Cent of the $245 Million Was Taken by Force: a 22-Year-Old Spent Two Years on the Phone, and Every Victim Handed It Over Themselves

10 Sep 2026

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两百年来第一匹：野马在哈萨克斯坦的草原上自己生下了小马，而它们的父亲没能看到 — The First in Two Hundred Years: Wild Horses Have Foaled on Their Own on the Kazakh Steppe — and Their Father Did Not Live to See It

10 Sep 2026

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一只蜱虫咬了他，从此他不能吃牛肉：七年后，这个营养师自己养起了四百只鸵鸟 — A Tick Bit Him and He Could Never Eat Beef Again — Seven Years Later, This Nutritionist Is Raising Four Hundred Ostriches

10 Sep 2026

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陪审员选她当陪审长，理由是「你上过法学院」：可她只是在《律政俏佳人》里演过律师，连大学都没念完 — A Jury Made Her Their Foreman Because "You Went to Law School" — She Had Only Played a Lawyer in Legally Blonde, and Never Finished College

10 Sep 2026

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《荒野大镖客二》地图上那块过不去的墨西哥，一个玩家用二十二个月自己补上了，九月十六号免费发布 — One Person Spent Twenty-Two Months Rebuilding the Mexico You Could See But Never Reach in Red Dead Redemption 2 — and He Is Giving It Away Free on 16 September

09 Sep 2026

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八胜两负、防御率一点七九，大谷翔平今年不再上场投球：教练说他爱当双向球员，但现在这么做说不通 — He Was 8-2 With a 1.79 ERA and He Will Not Pitch Again This Year: "He Loves Being a Two-Way Player. But Right Now, It Just Doesn't Make Any Sense."

09 Sep 2026

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喀拉喀托之子在半夜醒了：七百公里外都听得见，八个机场关闭，二十七万人走不了，地面上没有一个人死 — Krakatoa's Child Woke Up at Midnight, Was Heard Seven Hundred Kilometres Away and Stranded 270,000 People — Without Killing a Single One

09 Sep 2026

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无糖口香糖里那个甜的东西，被发现和心血管事件有关：一万七千人，最高的一组高出百分之五十七 — The Sweetener in Your Sugar-Free Gum Turned Up Alongside Heart Attacks in 17,710 People — and the Researchers Went Out of Their Way to Say That Is Not the Same as Causing Them

09 Sep 2026

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他们把白鸽染成蓝色放上了天：几天后有人在河边找到它们，蓝色怎么洗都洗不掉 — They Dyed the White Doves Blue and Sent Them Up for a Gender Reveal — Days Later They Turned Up by the River, and the Blue Would Not Wash Off

08 Sep 2026

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他把七十英亩麦地还给了水：现在那里住着一百四十种鸟，和两种快没有了的鱼 — He Gave Seventy Acres of Century-Old Barley Ground Back to the Water — Now It Holds 140 Bird Species and Two Fish That Had Almost Stopped Reproducing

08 Sep 2026

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不丹三年没有一个人死于狂犬病：他们没有只救人，他们去给狗打针 — Bhutan Has Gone Three Years Without a Single Rabies Death — Because It Stopped Only Treating People and Started Vaccinating Dogs

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NASA 让卫星靠拍太空垃圾找到了自己。大家都嫌碎片危险，它成了天上唯一免费的路标。 — A NASA Satellite Found Itself With No GPS by Photographing Space Junk. The Debris Everyone Calls a Hazard Became the Map.

29 Aug 2026

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四十年拿不下来的靶点被拿下了。胰腺癌病人多活半年，代价是一个月三万九千八百美元。 — A Target Called Undruggable for Forty Years Just Fell. Pancreatic Cancer Patients Gain Six Months, at $39,800 a Month.

29 Aug 2026

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尼泊尔和西藏之间的冰川塌了。仪器上那个四点四级的地震，其实是山掉下来的声音。 — A Glacier and the Rock Beneath It Fell 1,200 Metres on the Nepal–Tibet Border. The Magnitude 4.4 "Earthquake" Was the Mountain Landing.

29 Aug 2026

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Episodes

两亿四千五百万美元，一分钱都不是抢来的：一个二十二岁的人打了两年电话，每一笔都是对方自己交出去的 — Not One Cent of the $245 Million Was Taken by Force: a 22-Year-Old Spent Two Years on the Phone, and Every Victim Handed It Over Themselves

两百年来第一匹：野马在哈萨克斯坦的草原上自己生下了小马，而它们的父亲没能看到 — The First in Two Hundred Years: Wild Horses Have Foaled on Their Own on the Kazakh Steppe — and Their Father Did Not Live to See It

一只蜱虫咬了他，从此他不能吃牛肉：七年后，这个营养师自己养起了四百只鸵鸟 — A Tick Bit Him and He Could Never Eat Beef Again — Seven Years Later, This Nutritionist Is Raising Four Hundred Ostriches

陪审员选她当陪审长，理由是「你上过法学院」：可她只是在《律政俏佳人》里演过律师，连大学都没念完 — A Jury Made Her Their Foreman Because "You Went to Law School" — She Had Only Played a Lawyer in Legally Blonde, and Never Finished College

八胜两负、防御率一点七九，大谷翔平今年不再上场投球：教练说他爱当双向球员，但现在这么做说不通 — He Was 8-2 With a 1.79 ERA and He Will Not Pitch Again This Year: "He Loves Being a Two-Way Player. But Right Now, It Just Doesn't Make Any Sense."

喀拉喀托之子在半夜醒了：七百公里外都听得见，八个机场关闭，二十七万人走不了，地面上没有一个人死 — Krakatoa's Child Woke Up at Midnight, Was Heard Seven Hundred Kilometres Away and Stranded 270,000 People — Without Killing a Single One

他们把白鸽染成蓝色放上了天：几天后有人在河边找到它们，蓝色怎么洗都洗不掉 — They Dyed the White Doves Blue and Sent Them Up for a Gender Reveal — Days Later They Turned Up by the River, and the Blue Would Not Wash Off

他把七十英亩麦地还给了水：现在那里住着一百四十种鸟，和两种快没有了的鱼 — He Gave Seventy Acres of Century-Old Barley Ground Back to the Water — Now It Holds 140 Bird Species and Two Fish That Had Almost Stopped Reproducing

不丹三年没有一个人死于狂犬病：他们没有只救人，他们去给狗打针 — Bhutan Has Gone Three Years Without a Single Rabies Death — Because It Stopped Only Treating People and Started Vaccinating Dogs

一个月一万美元，请你吃冰淇淋：这个工作的后面，是一个爸爸和一个儿子 — Snoop Dogg Will Pay Someone $10,000 a Month to Eat Ice Cream — and It Started on His Father's Dairy Farm

联合国投票换掉世界地图：因为这张地图，把非洲画小了四百五十年 — The UN Voted to Change the World Map — Because It Has Been Shrinking Africa for 450 Years

他们把几千条内裤埋进二十五个国家的土里：这项研究拿了今年的搞笑诺贝尔奖 — They Buried Thousands of Pairs of Underpants in 25 Countries — and Won an Ig Nobel for It

纽约禁止六十万中小学生在校用 AI：反对的人说，这还不够 — New York Banned AI for 600,000 Schoolchildren — and the Loudest Critics Say It Didn't Go Far Enough

苹果第一部折叠 iPhone，9 月 9 日发布：新 CEO 上任第八天的第一场大考 — Apple's First Folding iPhone Lands September 9 — the New CEO's First Test, Eight Days Into the Job

State Farm 拒赔屋顶，一年少赔十四亿美元：最先反对的，是它自己的代理人 — State Farm Kept $1.4 Billion by Denying Roof Claims — Its Own Agents Tried to Stop It

NASA 让卫星靠拍太空垃圾找到了自己。大家都嫌碎片危险，它成了天上唯一免费的路标。 — A NASA Satellite Found Itself With No GPS by Photographing Space Junk. The Debris Everyone Calls a Hazard Became the Map.

四十年拿不下来的靶点被拿下了。胰腺癌病人多活半年，代价是一个月三万九千八百美元。 — A Target Called Undruggable for Forty Years Just Fell. Pancreatic Cancer Patients Gain Six Months, at $39,800 a Month.

尼泊尔和西藏之间的冰川塌了。仪器上那个四点四级的地震，其实是山掉下来的声音。 — A Glacier and the Rock Beneath It Fell 1,200 Metres on the Nepal–Tibet Border. The Magnitude 4.4 "Earthquake" Was the Mountain Landing.