Time for some number crunching from our data expert, Mona Chalabi, from fivethirtyeight.com. And she has given us this number of the week. AUTOMATED VOICE: Thirty-eight. MARTIN: That is the percentage of American wives who earn more than their husban

发表于:2019-01-24 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

By Barry Wood Washington 10 November 2007 Washington's non-government Cato Institute Friday released its annual report on economic freedom, in which it uses several indicators to rank 141 global economies. VOA's Barry Wood reports the surprise in thi

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Science and Technology Greenhouse-gas monitoring Not hot air 科技 温室气体监测 而非热空气 A new, private initiative should help show which gases come from where 一项新的私人倡议或许能够表明各种气体从何而来 IN 1955 a

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

A database for Sanrio, the Japanese owner of the Hello Kitty brand, was breached, putting 3.3 million of its users' data at risk, according to security website CSOonline.com's report. 网络安全信息网站CSOOnline.com的一份报告显示,日本三

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Twenty years after selling books online, Amazon is opening the doors to its own brick-and-mortar bookstore. 在网上卖了二十年的书后,亚马逊的实体书店也向客户敞开了大门。 Amazon Books, which opened Tuesday in Seattle's Uni

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

A marriage is not just the union of two people. It is also the union of their data. And when they divorce, the data often gets spilled. 婚姻不只是两个人的结合。双方的数据也会融合在一起。当他们离婚的时候,这些数据往

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

The municipal government in the city of Hangzhou is in talks with the central authorities for the establishment of an online free trade zone. The online FTZ would consist of four systems and two platforms. The four systems will involve a data sharing

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Brazil's National Institute of Amazonian Research and Germany's Max Planck Institute have joined efforts to build the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO). Located along the waterways of a northern tributary of the Amazon River, the observatory was f

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

在进入一家公司工作的时候,通常公司会要求员工签署一份保密协议。保密协议在具体条款上,各个公司会有不用,一般的条目还是有相似之处的。下面是一份保密协议的英文范本,如果你要

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 求职英语

Nine out of ten people globally are breathing poor quality air, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday. 世界卫生组织昨天表示,每十个人就有九个呼吸着不良空气。 In a staggering report, calling for dramatic action

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The latest app that's sweeping the web is the fiendishly addictive, and surprisingly difficult, Kuku Kube. 最新颜色辨识应用程序Kuku Kube正在席卷网络,它像恶魔般使人上瘾,并且难度惊人。 It has been designed to put you

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Interest in the Apple Watch might be dropping significantly, at least where U.S. customers are concerned. 消费者对苹果手表的兴趣或显著减少,至少美国的消费者是这样的。 According to a new report from research firm Slice In

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

NEW YORK, April 15 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. stocks gained on Friday as surging U.S. consumer confidence and industrial(工业的) production offset Bank of America's disappointing earnings report and the inflation concerns, but still ended the week w

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

China's holdings of U.S. Treasuries fell in July to the lowest level in more than three years, as the world's second-largest economy pares its foreign-exchange reserves to support the yuan. 随着世界第二大经济体通过削减外汇储备来支持

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BEIJING, August 1 (Xinhuanet) -- U.S. researchers have discovered a genetic mutation unique to African Americans that links to heighten their asthma risk, according to reports published on Sunday in the journal Nature Genetics. Researchers of Univers

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(102) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- China's crude oil production increased only 0.6 percent year on year to 17.24 million metric tons in July as the current economic slowdown dampened fuel demand in the country, according to data released by the National De

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Doctors at Imperial College hospitals will soon be monitoring the health of patients with an app developed by Google-backed AI firm DeepMind. 帝国学院校医院的医生很快将会用谷歌旗下AI公司DeepMind开发的一款APP,监测病人的健

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

瑞士国会议员再次拒绝美国的税收法案 GENEVA, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Switzerland's National Council (lower house) rejected on Wednesday a draft law that would have allowed Swiss banks to cooperate with the United States and hand over confi

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Chinese firm FiberHome has developed a type of optic fiber that can transmit 400 terabytes of data per second, breaking the world record for the amount of data that can be transmitted on optic fibers, the company said. 中国公司烽火通信近日表

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- The software industry garnered more than 1.3 trillion yuan (205 billion U.S. dollars) in revenues in the first seven months of this year, up 25.4 percent year on year, government data showed Monday. The fast revenue growt

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