推荐一个了解商业科技资讯（顺便学英语）的好网站

时间：2023-03-16 18:52:01 | 来源：电子商务

时间：2023-03-16 18:52:01 来源：电子商务

Recommend a website for you: http://morningbrew.com

You can browse the website or sign up for a free daily newsletter (from Monday to Saturday) that compiles important business and technology news. It was reported that the reason that the CEO, Alex Lieberman, launched this business is he felt the WSJ is wrote by 50 years old people and aimed for old people. He wanted something new.

The language the website uses is very vivid. For example, let's read part of the following article publish today:

Democrats pinned the tail on the donkey this weekend, securing the 50th Senate seatrequired for control of the chamber for the final two years of President Biden’s term. The clincher came in Nevada, where incumbent Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto defeated Republican challenger Adam Laxalt in a tight race.

The idiom "pin the tail on the donkey" is very expressive, since its original meaning is a game played by children, especially in their birthday party. A picture of a donkey with no tail is stuck to a wall where children can easily reach it. Each child is blindfolded and given a piece of paper with a push pin or thumbtack stuck through it as a "tail." The child is then spun around until he or she can't figure out where he or she is. The child fumbles around and tries to pin the donkey's tail on. The winner is the player whose tail is closest to the donkey's rear.

Here the idiom probably means "to succeed with great efforts" as Democrats had struggled with the competition.

Here the word "clincher" means "a fact, a remark or an event that settles an argument, a decision or a competition" or "something that gives a decisive advantage". It derives from the verb "clinch" means "to succeed in achieving or winning sth". For example:

DNA fingerprinting has proved the clincher in this investigation.

"A tight race" means "A political contest in which two or more of the candidates have good chances of being victorious." For example:

Thanks to a late surge in the polls, this election has suddenly turned into quite the tight race.

There are also many lively expressions in the article, which is why I recommend you to read the newletter to improve your English.