Dont forget to move your clocks forward this weekend. And then dont forget to be more careful in the days after you adjust your clocks. Because a recent study found that the hour of lost sleep was related to increased job-related injuries. Probably b

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(三)月

When your kids misbehave, maybe you tell them to stop acting like chimps. Well, that would be an insult to the familiar common chimp, Pan troglodytes, which actually grows up pretty fast. Now bonobos, the other chimp species, or Pan paniscus, enjoy h

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the successful candidate合适的应聘者 英文释义 Used exclusively in job descriptions, this phrase means the person who will get the job (NOTE: candidate in this usage means job applicant) 例句 The job description said that the successful ca

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It's time for a new year and a new you, but perhaps your heart is not in it this time around. Maybe you're jaded from too many failed New Year's resolutions, or maybe you're just not feeling motivated these days. Here are a few reasons why you may no

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Citigroup's Prince Resigns as CEO By Mario Ritter / Broadcast: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 16:00:00 UTC This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week, we told you about big losses at the investment bank Merrill Lynch. But the lo

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AS IT IS 2015-09-15 Richard Branson Speaks to Vietnamese Businesses 理查德布兰森提及越南企业 In the 1960s, Richard Branson quit high school and started a magazine. He hoped he could change the world by using the magazine to protest the Vi

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AS IT IS 2015-04-18 San Francisco Artists Make Art from Trash 旧金山艺术家利用垃圾进行艺术创作 Trash and garbage are other words for waste things that people no longer want or need. In San Francisco, they are also words for art. A loc

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AS IT IS 2016-06-14 Mental Health Not Primary Cause of Gun-Related Violence The order of events is almost always the same after a mass shooting in the United States. People go to the place where the shooting happened. The mourners cry or stand silent

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Coachella First: DJ as Leading Performer The dreamy 10-day California music festival, Coachella, opens Friday, starring three very different artists. Electronic rock band LCD Soundsystem headlines Friday nights. The classic heavy metal band Guns n Ro

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: a fresh look at a topic we did with Slangman David Burke in Los Angeles five years ago this month: food-related slang. This time, he's whipped up one of his exclusive stories base

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Yogurt is a healthy food that can be made at home. One way to make it is to first buy some yogurt from a store or purchase dry yogurt culture. Add two small spoonfuls of the yogurt to two cups of mi

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BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) -- An official from the Ministry of Health (MOH) stressed on Tuesday that surrogate motherhood remains banned in China. While responding to questions on surrogate motherhood from the public and press, the official said, The

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AGRICULTURE REPORT - Pumpkins for All SeasonsBy Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Conditions for growing pumpkins were poor in som

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Robin Li Yanhong, CEO of Chinas search engine giant Baidu Inc, issued a public apology at a meeting on Sunday about a scandal involving the companys disease-related online forums, domestic news portal yicai.com reported. 据国内新闻门户网站第一

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According to scientists, it is possible to predict whether a couple will break up by using a word association test - and it's much more accurate than simply asking them how they feel about each other. 科学家近日指出,通过一项所谓的文字

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It may seem hard to believe that such an unusual looking animal has remained hidden for so long. 世界上存在如此相貌罕见而不为人知的动物,这似乎有点难以置信。 But scientists have only just discovered a new species of elep

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全球700万人死亡与污染相关 LONDON, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Around seven million people across the world died as a result of air pollution exposure in 2012, according to a report of World Health Organization(WHO) released on Tuesday. The report

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BEIJING, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Smoking is a big problem in China, the world's largest tobacco consumer, and now the World Health Organization (WHO) wants tobacco warning labels to be more vivid. Experts said China's text warnings, such as Smoking is ha

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BEIJING, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Dear Premier(总理) Wen, I'd like to tell you the good news first. The problem I brought up at the seminar last year has been solved in Beijing, wrote 34-year-old, wheelchair-bound Li Nan to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on

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The top five most popular tech-related reasons for not doing homework: 五个不做作业最流行的科技借口: 1 My computer crashed and I lost it. 电脑死机了,我做的作业(因没有保存)丢失了。 2 I finished my homework but then

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