SSS 2008-12-24

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TED演讲:为什么要跟别人一样?(2)

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TED演讲:和老年痴呆症说再见(8)

How can this be? We think it's because these nuns had a high level of cognitive reserve, 这是怎么回事呢？我们认为这是因为这些修女拥有高级的认知储备， which is a way of saying that they had more functional synapses. 意味着

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MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Across Europe, bankrupt municipalities are looking for new sources of revenue and some are eyeing the Catholic Church. In Spain, the church is the country's largest and richest landowner, but its non-profit status means it's exem

【荆棘鸟】第二章 05

The general store was the next-biggest building, also boasting a sheltering awning, and two long wooden benches under its cluttered windows for passersby to rest upon. There was a flagpole in front of the Masonic hall; from its top a tattered Union J

【荆棘鸟】第二章 14

During lesson breaks in the playground they walked with arms looped around each other's waists, which was the sign that you were best friends and not available for courting by anyone else. And they talked, talked, talked. One lunchtime Teresa took he

【荆棘鸟】第二章 22

So she sent the girl home and told her not to come back until her head was clean. I left her and Sister Declan and Sister Catherine looking through every head in the school, and there turned out to be a lot of lousy ones. Those three nuns were scratc

【荆棘鸟】第四章 14

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她实际上是个什么样的人，或者他认为她是个什么样的人？ 哦，梅吉。他无能为力地说道。 她转过身来，凝视着他，尽管她很悲痛，还是向他投来了毫不掺假的、充满了爱的一笑。这是恣意纵

【荆棘鸟】第六章 19

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Don't sell that cow 别卖那头牛 The wise old Mother Superior was dying. The nuns gathered around her bed, trying to make her comfortable. They gave her some warm milk to drink, but she refused it. Then one nun took the glass back to the kitchen.

'Our' not 'Your'

At a small parish (教区）in rural New England there lived a priest, and several nuns. One day, one of the older nuns wasnoticing that the rugs （地毯，小垫子）in the church were beginning to fray（磨损）. She went to the priest and tol

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