每一代的智商都比前一代的智商高,这一理论叫做弗林效应。我们真的是越变越聪明,还是想法不同了呢?在二十世纪快速前行的认知历史里,道德哲学家詹姆士弗林提出:我们思想方式的巨

发表于:2018-12-09 / 阅读(179) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:头脑游戏

Tens of Thousands of Nigerians took to the streets for a third straight day Wednesday in the main commercial city of Lagos and the capital, Abuja, to protest soaring fuel costs, sparked by a government move to end a popular fuel subsidy. 抗议政府取

发表于:2018-12-19 / 阅读(109) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2012年1月

C: what's wrong with you? Why do you look so sad? J: I've lost all my files from the computer. It's a total disaster. C: How did that happen? J: three days ago, my laptop went on strike. I couldn't enter the Windows system. As I was about to give it

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发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(186) / 评论(0) 分类 英伦广角

很多人都说他们学英语的时候最大的障碍就是单词记不住。经常记住了前面的,忘了后面的;要不就是单词字母记错了顺序。有人研究发现,单词的开头和结尾比中间部分更容易被记住。你有这

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Nowadays, it's less common to use placebos this way because of ethical concerns. 如今,通过安慰剂的这种方法已经不常见了,因为涉及到道德问题。 If it's possible to compare a new drug against an older version, 只要将新药

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In 1996,56 volunteers took part in a study to test a new pain killer called Trivaricaine. 1996年,56个志愿者参加了一项研究,测试一种名叫Trivaricaine的止痛药。 On each subject, one index finger was covered in the new painkille

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STEPHEN FEE: Fifty-nine-year-old Karen Sonneberg grew up on the North Shore of Long Island, just an hour's drive from New York City. Her parents survived the Holocaust but rarely mentioned it. KAREN SONNEBERG: All I knew was that we were different, t

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Zoe Barnes, Twitter, blogs, 佐伊巴恩斯,推特,博客 enriched media, 泛滥的媒体 they're all surface. 这些都太肤浅了 They're fads. 不过是昙花一现 They aren't the foundation this paper was built on, 这些既不是这份报纸

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We've got situation near the Secretary State who will not engage with this in any constructive way at all. And I think we feel very frustrated about that. I'm sure parents do too. But Michael Gove says he's driving up standards. Every policy that Mic

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1 From Sharp minds, come sharp products. (夏普产品,来自智慧的结晶。) 这是夏普的一则广告。广告中Sharp既可指夏普又可指智慧的,巧妙地传达出购买夏普就是智慧的选择这样一种理念。 2 There's

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Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors, South Korea's top two automakers, saw car sales in the Chinese market cut in half last month, statistics showed. 据统计数据显示,上个月韩国最大的两家汽车制造商--现代和起亚在中国市场的销量

发表于:2019-02-08 / 阅读(144) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Up to 70,000 South African construction workers are expected to go on strike Wednesday in a move that will threaten timely completion of stadiums being readied for the FIFA 2010 World Cup. 多达7万名南非建筑工人预计星期三举行罢工。这

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Economics brief: six big ideas. 经济概要:六大经济思想。 Information asymmetry: Secrets and agents 信息不对称:秘密和代理 George Akerlof's 1970 paper, The Market for Lemons, is a foundation stone of information economics, the f

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Signalling explains all kinds of behaviour. 信号行为能够解释各种各样的行为。 Firms pay dividends to their shareholders, who must pay income tax on the payouts. 企业给股东支付红利,股东必须为这笔支出缴纳收入税。

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This week, HuffPost Weddings highlighted a handful of tweets that summed up the marriage experience. 本周,赫芬顿邮报婚礼专栏为大家带来了一系列推文,总结了婚姻生活经历。 Turns out, marriage is mostly just walking beh

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Properties near stately homes cost ?41,000 more than the average house in the same county, research reveals. 调查显示,庄园宅邸周边的房屋价格比同一郡县平均房价高出4.1万英镑。 A study claims the Downton Abbey effect mean

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The Duchess Effect The positive economic impact of Kate Middletons fashion choices, derived from her new title, the Duchess of Cambridge. 公爵夫人效应指英国王妃凯特?米德尔顿的时尚穿衣品味对经济产生的积极影响,该说法

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Britain Measuring diversity 英国 衡量种族多样化 The London effect 伦敦效应 Britain is becoming more like its capital city 英国渐渐成为一个大都市 Milton Keynes, a new town of 249,000 people some 50 miles from London, is famous

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很多人都说他们学英语的时候最大的障碍就是单词记不住。经常记住了前面的,忘了后面的;要不就是单词字母记错了顺序。 有人研究发现,单词的开头和结尾比中间部分更容易被记住。你有

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