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Singles Day in China is the celebration -- or mourning -- of being unattached. Started by students in Nanjing in the mid-1990s, the date was selected in observation of its four solitary digits: 11/11.mourn：哀伤，哀痛 unattached：独立的，未订婚的 While relatively obscure in most other countries, Singles Day ... 阅读全文
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A 1-1 tie at home was sufficient for Guangzhou Evergrande to clinch the Asian Champions League title, the first Chinese club to win the tournament in more than two decades.clinch：拥吻，钉牢 tournament：锦标赛，联赛 on aggregate：总共，总计It was difficult to spot a shirt that wasn't red in Guangzhou's Tianhe 阅读全文
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In late September, on a crowded commuter train in San Francisco, a man shot and killed 20-year-old student Justin Valdez. As security footage shows, before the gunman fired, he waved around his .45 caliber pistol and at one point even pointed it across the aisle. Yet no one on the crowded train noti 阅读全文
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Stolen sheets, snoring and hot flashes are just some of the annoyances that lead a quarter of U.S. couples to sleep apart, according to the National Sleep Foundation. But do the benefits of sharing a bed outweigh such costs? One neurologist, Rachel E. Salas, the assistant medical director for the Jo 阅读全文
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Parents should ban electronic media during mealtimes and after bedtime as part of a comprehensive 'family media use plan,' according to new recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics.pediatrician：儿科医生 The influential new guidelines are being spurred by a growing recognition of k 阅读全文
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Big data. It's the latest IT buzzword, and it isn't hard to see why. The ability to parse more information, faster and deeper, is allowing companies, governments, researchers and others to understand the world in a way they could only dream about before.buzzword：流行词 parse：解析，分析 All that is t 阅读全文
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The long-running patent war among the technology industry's heavyweights just grew a whole lot bigger-and more controversial.After a brief hiatus for major new litigation, a joint venture owned by Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., BlackBerry Ltd. , Ericsson Inc., and Sony Corp. launched a barrage of 阅读全文
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Welcome to Monday morning at the office. Did you have trouble sleeping last night? Was your stomach bothering you? Did you feel a sense of dread about heading into work?dread：恐惧，担心 Could be that you have a case of the Sunday blues - and you're not the only one. A recent survey by jobs website Mo 阅读全文
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Big auto makers are steering their efforts to develop cars that drive themselves out of the labs and into the fast lane for production, after years of low-profile experimentation.Auto industry executives on Tuesday used the podium offered by the biennial Frankfurt auto show to deliver that message i 阅读全文
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The casino billboards lining America's roadways tantalize with the lure of riches. 'Easy Street. It's Only a Play Away,' screams one in Arizona. '$7.1 Million Every Day. We're a Payout Machine,' reads another.casino：赌场，俱乐部 lining：内层，衬套 tantalize：逗弄，逗惹 But how often do gam 阅读全文