A three-day-week gets the best performance from workers aged over 40, a study has found. 一项研究发现,40岁以上的人如果每周上三天班,工作表现将会最佳。 Researchers found the cognitive performance of middle-aged people im

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(107) / 评论(0) 分类 求职英语

It's got to be philanthropic, because profits distract biotech, 这些研究的钱的来源最好是慈善,因为利润会分散生物技术研究公司的注意力, but it's basically got a 90 percent chance, I think, of succeeding in this. 但我

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲科学篇

You're Into What? 恋物癖 by Marcus Maurice During the Tang Dynasty, girls as young as five had bandages wrappedund their feet to inhibit the growth to no longer than six inches. _(1)_ Later in their lives, women who had endured foot binding suffer

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(113) / 评论(0) 分类 常春藤解析英语

If you thought running was just great for the body, then think again. 如果你认为跑步只对身体有好处,那么再想想吧。 Scientists have uncovered evidence the sport not only keeps people trim but also boosts brain power. 科学家已经

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Blind Boy Defines His Life With Music 失明男孩定义他的生活与音乐 When Frankie Moran first saw his son Cole, he could not imagine ever sharing his love of music with the boy. Cole had cognitive delays and other birth defects. And he was b

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Artificial Intelligence: Helpful and Dangerous 人工智能,是敌是友? Computers and other machines have and will continue to change the way people do business and how we live. Many researchers use the term artificial intelligence (AI) to describe

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Let's imagine that your amyloid plaques have reached that tipping point. 假设你的淀粉样斑块已经达到临界点。 Your scale arm has crashed to the floor. 你天平的一端已坠地。 You've tripped the cascade, setting fire to the fores

发表于:2018-12-18 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲国际问题篇

According to a variety of studies my languages may be providing mental benefits beyond the ability to chat with locals when I travel. Judith Kroll, from Penn State University, discussed findings from a number of her labs papers on February 18th at a

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(二)月

People who are furrowing their brows over weighty arithmetic puzzles or sweating over wordy text books might want to take note. 对超难度算术题皱眉头或对冗长的课本冒汗的人需要记笔记。 Adults can significantly bulk up their b

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Has the person become agitated, aggressive, irritable, or temperamental? the questionnaire asks. Does she/he have unrealistic beliefs about her/his power, wealth or skills? 人有变得焦躁不安、具攻击性、易怒、情绪起伏不定吗?这份

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Every year, TIME selects the best inventions that are making the world better, smarter andin some casesa little more fun. Here's which ones made this year's unranked list. 每年《时代》周刊都会选出让世界变得更美好、更智能或者更

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

We all know that we don't get enough sleep. But how much sleep do we really need? 我们都知道自己睡眠不足。但是我们真正需要多少睡眠呢? Until about 15 years ago, one common theory was that if you slept at least four or five h

发表于:2019-02-09 / 阅读(38) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语

Over the next five minutes, 在接下来的5分钟里 my intention is to transform your relationship with sound. 我想把你们与声音的关系作个转变 Let me start with the observation that most of the sound around us is accidental, 首先,请

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

相由心生是一句成语,那究竟是不是这么回事呢,科学家们研究表明这种说法是有根据的,可以成立的。所以说我们的祖先们是多么的睿智!下面我们来看这篇托福阅读练习。 if you exhibit posit

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 托福英语

Study after study 一个又一个的研究 is coming to the same conclusion. 证实了相同的结论 The CDC recently conducted a survey 疾病防治中心(CDC)最近进行了一次调查 where they asked respondents simply to tell them 他们简单地

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Pregnancy, then, does indeed do things to a womans brain. 那么怀孕确实对母亲的大脑有影响。 But what exactly those things mean is hard to tease out. 但是具体对大脑有什么影响很难弄清。 Neuroscientists do not really unde

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(36) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

Paying over the odds for a ticket to see a film in 3D is the bane of many a cinema-goer's life. 为了一张3D电影票而节衣缩食,省吃俭用,这是许多电影爱好者生活中的一大痛楚。 But there may be a benefit to doing so, as

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Science and technology 科学技术 Children's intellectual development 儿童智力发展 Bedtime stories 睡前故事 Regular sleeping hours really are good for childrenif they are girls 有规律的睡眠时间对儿童真的有好处如果她们是

发表于:2019-02-24 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

考生想要在GRE写作中写出优秀的文章,就一定要积累较多的素材和写作技巧,下面新东方小编就给大家整理的一些GRE写作素材,希望大家取得理想的成绩。 Society does not place enough emphasis on the

发表于:2019-02-25 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 GRE英语

托福阅读题型中有一类题型让人头疼不已,就是我们常见的托福阅读词汇题,即选择四个选项里和文章中的某个词汇意义相同的单词。通常被考到的词汇也是非常关键性的,对理解文章整个的

发表于:2019-03-11 / 阅读(120) / 评论(0) 分类 托福英语