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摘要：China rushed to respond after a strong earthquake killed at least 113 people and injured hundreds more on Saturday, striking an area roughly 50 miles from the epicenter of the devastating 2008 quake that killed some 80,000.epicenter：中心，震源 devastating：毁灭性的，摧毁 Saturday's quake struck China's s
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摘要：In a post on the Chinese Twitter-like site Sina Weibo, Lu Lingzi's page shows a photo of a bowl of fried dough along with the words 'My wonderful breakfast!'mourn：哀悼，哀伤，悲痛 That was on Monday at around 9 a.m. in Boston. Just hours later, Ms. Lu became a victim of the bombing at the Boston
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摘要：Hong Kong’s pollution levels hit nearly decade-level highs this week, sending locals scurrying inside and obscuring the city’s skyline behind a blanket of white.scurry：急跑，急赶 In the city’s central business district, roadside monitoring devices clocked levels of pollution as high as 210 on the city...
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摘要：Working out at the gym might not be enough to stay fit if you spend much of the rest of the day sitting down.Americans are more sedentary than ever, government surveys show. That is a problem even among people who exercise regularly.sedentary：久坐的，静坐的 An increasingly popular way people are trying ...
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摘要：After Beijing's air-pollution readings soared in January, local executives for German auto maker BMW AG received bad news: several candidates for midlevel expatriate jobs withdrew their applications.soar：飙升，骤然上升 expatriate：移居国外，外派雇员'They called and said they no longer had the support of thei
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摘要：At the beginning of 'Walden,' Henry David Thoreau makes a concise case against the complexity of modern life. 'Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicit
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摘要：To mark International Women's Day this year, China's Ministry of Commerce sent a group of employees to finishing school.etiquette：礼节，礼仪，规矩 About 20 women signed up for a half-day course offered by Rebecca Li of the etiquette school Institute Sarita. For three hours, Ms. Li reviewed elements
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摘要：Students from China may be rethinking the value of a U.S. graduate degree.Ending nearly a decade of double-digit growth, applications from Chinese citizens to U.S. graduate schools declined 5% for the coming academic year amid worries about unstable funding for science programs and tight immigration
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摘要：One day my husband arrived home from the supermarket with a product that piqued my curiosity. He couldn't find our usual brand of Bell & Evans breaded, frozen chicken tenders─I like their thick, meaty texture, which makes them seem a bit closer to the real thing─and instead got Applegate Far
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摘要：Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around─decisively─the British economy in the 1980s, she also saw her methods copied in more than 50 countries. 'Thatcherism' was the most popular and successful way
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摘要：Concerns about a deadly new strain of bird flu intensified last week as the disease claimed a sixth life in eastern China and agricultural authorities in Shanghai ordered a wide-scale slaughter of poultry in an effort to stem its spread.Avian-Flu：禽流感 intensify：增强，加剧 slaughter：屠杀，宰杀The U.S. C...
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摘要：Supreme Court justices appeared divided Tuesday during historic arguments over the fate of gay marriage in California, at times almost regretful they took the case and at others splitting neatly into well-worn ideological camps.Justice Anthony Kennedy, seen holding a key vote, wrote both of the cour
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摘要：Why are children so, well, so helpless? Why did I spend a recent Sunday morning putting blueberry pancake bits on my 1-year-old grandson's fork and then picking them up again off the floor? And why are toddlers most helpless when they're trying to be helpful? Augie's vigorous efforts to
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摘要：We are on the precipice of the greatest retirement crisis in the history of the world. In the decades to come, we will witness millions of elderly Americans, the Baby Boomers and others, slipping into poverty. Too frail to work, too poor to retire will become the “new normal” for many elderly Americ
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摘要：What can be said about Apple Inc.'s upcoming iPhones?upcoming：即将来临的What we do know is that the company's suppliers in Asia are working simultaneously on two models. One is a higher-end design with a metal shell, the other a lower-performance one with non-metal shells in multiple colors, whic
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摘要：It's just past dusk and the crowds are getting bigger at Huashan 1914 Creative Park, a distillery-turned-arts-hub in the heart of Taiwan's capital.dusk：黄昏，幽暗 distillery：酿酒厂 Couples drift out of an exhibition of Pulitzer Prize winning photography, while families gather at Alleycat's Pizza
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摘要：LIFE AS A 'WEALTH STRATEGIST' can seem pretty comfortable these days. Tom Rogerson, for one, makes a nice living, working half the month from his Boston-area home office.The other half, the senior Wilmington Trust executive might find himself hopscotching between exclusive zip codes, meeting
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摘要：After a decade shooting news stories in China for National Geographic, CNN and CBS News, American cameraman and director Nathan Mauger decided to find out how people in contemporary China view love and marriage, the topic of his documentary, 'The People's Republic of Love.'contemporary：当
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摘要：In the future, your smartphone won't auto-correct your errors. It will correct them before they're even made.It will know you really meant to hit the 'K' key on your screen when you hit the 'L' key. Maybe even one day, there won't be a traditional keyboard at all, if some
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摘要：Ursula Burns, who started as an intern at Xerox Corp., eventually rose through the ranks to become the first African-American female CEO of a Fortune 500 company.During a talk at Catalyst's annual awards conference on Tuesday, the 54-year-old CEO recounted how her mother, who raised Burns in New
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