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9月23日 每日双语新闻:社恐福音!AI助手Muse帮你接电话订酒店;特朗普支持禁止柴油出口
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>Meta testing a 'human concierge' for its new personal AI agent, Muse
Meta:全新人类礼宾服务个人AI助手Muse
💜concierge /ˈkɒnsieəʒ/ :旅馆服务员;(宾馆中负责提供信息、订票等的)服务台职员
Meta has been testing a “human concierge” for its new personal AI assistant, Muse, which entails having human contractorsquietly handle some of the phone calls placed via the digital agent, according to internal company posts seen by Reuters.
Meta 一直在测试其新款个人AI助手Muse的“人工礼宾服务”。据路透社看到的公司内部帖子,这项测试包括让外包人员在幕后接手一部分通过这一数字代理打出的电话。
💜entail:意味着;包含;必然涉及
*比involve更正式
💜human contractors:(企业高频词)人工承包人员;外包人员
*指不属于正式员工编制、以合同形式为公司提供服务的人
💜quietly:在幕后;不公开地
*不是单纯的“安静地”。quietly handle 在企业报道中常带有“低调处理、不让用户明显察觉”的含义
💜calls placed via...:通过……发起的电话
*place a call 是比较正式的“打电话、拨打电话”;via 强调渠道
The Facebook and Instagram owner told employees about the test last week, shortly after the company publicly launched a phone-calling feature for Muse.
上周,Facebook 和 Instagram 的母公司向员工透露了这项测试,而就在不久之前,该公司刚刚公开推出了 Muse 的电话呼叫功能。
💜feature:功能,特性

The Muse agent, which has topped US app download charts in the two weeks since its debut, is designed to autonomously perform tasks like sending emails, shopping and booking travel on a person's behalf.
AI代理Muse自上线以来的两周内,一直位居美国应用下载榜前列,其设计目标是能够自主代表用户完成发送邮件、购物、预订旅行等任务。
💜chart:排行榜;图表
💜autonomously:自主地;无需人工逐步操控地
💜on a person's behalf:(正式)代表某人;替某人办理
With the phone-calling feature, a Muse user can tell the agent to dial phone numbers for US businesses and talk with people on the other end to handle errands like booking haircuts, checking whether a store has an item in stock or getting quotes from different contractors.
借助这一电话呼叫功能,Muse 用户可以让该代理拨打美国企业的电话号码,并与电话另一端的人沟通,以处理诸如预约理发、确认商店是否有某件商品的现货,或向不同承包商询价等事务。
💜on the other end:(通讯术语)电话另一端
💜errand /ˈerənd/ :差事;需要代为办理的小事务;跑腿
💜be in stock:(商业术语)有现货;库存充足
💜get quotes from:向……询价;取得报价
*quote是quotation的缩略形式,指商家/承包商提供的报价,不是“引用”
>Trump says he backs diesel export ban to curb soaring energy costs
遏制不断飙升的能源成本:特朗普支持禁止柴油出口
💜back:(政治/商业高频词)支持
💜diesel /ˈdiːz(ə)l/ :柴油
Trump on Tuesday said he backed the idea of a ban on diesel exports, which some US politicians are calling for as a way to curb the soaring cost of energy.
周二特朗普表示,他支持禁止柴油出口的主张。一些美国政治人士正呼吁采取这一措施,以遏制不断飙升的能源价格。
Diesel prices have rallied in Europe and the US to record highs as wars in Iran and Ukraine sharply cut exports from some of the biggest producers such as Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
由于伊朗和乌克兰的战争导致俄罗斯、沙特阿拉伯和阿拉伯联合酋长国等主要生产国的出口大幅减少,欧洲和美国的柴油价格已涨至新高。
💜rally:(金融术语)大幅上涨;强劲反弹
*表示价格出现较明显、持续性的上升
💜sharply cut:大幅削减
A gallon of diesel fuel in the US was $6.53 on Tuesday, the highest average on record and over 75% higher than a year ago.
周二,美国柴油平均价格为每加仑6.53美元,创有史以来的最高平均价格,比一年前高出75%以上。
💜a gallon of:(英美制容量单位)一加仑的
“I’ve said let’s not send out the diesel. We make a lot of diesel … I’ve called for it. I’ve called for it within my people,” Trump told reporters ahead of a meeting with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
特朗普在与乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基会面前对记者表示:“我说过,别把柴油运出去。我们明明生产大量柴油……我已经呼吁这么做了,我已经在我的团队内部提出了这一要求。”
The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, speaking at the same meeting, said: “We’re examining whether it’s feasiblein terms of the overall refining capacity and whether a full or partial ban would work.”
美国财政部长斯科特·贝森特在同一场会晤中表示:“我们正在研究,从整体炼油产能来看是否可行,以及全面禁令或部分禁令是否能够奏效。”
💜treasury secretary:财政部长
💜feasible:可行的
💜in terms of:从……来看;就……而言
💜refining:提炼;完善
On Sunday, Trump urged Zelenskyy to pause strikes on Russian oil refineriesover concerns that they could further push up prices, the Financial Times reported.
《金融时报》报道称,周日,特朗普敦促泽连斯基暂停对俄罗斯炼油厂的袭击,因为他担心这些袭击可能进一步推高价格。
💜oil refinery:炼油厂
💜over concerns that...:(新闻高频词)由于担心……
On social media, Trump wrote that Russia “unfortunately lost control of its Diesel Oil Industry”.
特朗普在社交媒体上写道,俄罗斯“不幸失去了对其柴油产业的控制”。