They were all dressed as clowns.
他们都打扮成小丑。
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The bomb was disguised as a package.
炸弹伪装成一个包裹。
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She works as a courier.
她的职业是导游。
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Treat me as a friend.
要把我当作朋友。
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She is to retire as from 1 October.
她将于10月1日退休。
Anne shrugged, as if she didn't know...
安妮耸了耸肩,好像她并不知晓。
He burst into a high-pitched laugh, as though he'd said something funny.
他突然放声大笑,好像讲了什么好笑的事似的。
The border, effectively closed since 1981, will be opened as of January the 1st...
实质上从1981年就已关闭的边境将于1月1日开放。
They should make decisions as to whether the student needs more help...
他们应该决定学生是否需要更多的帮助。
Andy sat down at the table and inquired as to what the problem was.
安迪在桌边落座,询问出了什么问题。
In this changing business environment, different demands are being placed on employees. As a consequence, the education system needs to change.
在当今变幻莫测的商业环境下,员工被提出各种不同的要求。因此,教育体系有必要随之改变。
As you can see, we're still working...
如你所见,我们仍在工作。
We were sitting, as I remember, in a riverside restaurant.
我记得我们当时是坐在一个河畔的餐馆里。
They are regularly sent booklets about personal safety, but they barely read them as they have so much paperwork to deal with...
他们经常会收到关于人身安全问题的宣传册,但因为大量文案工作缠身,他们几乎无暇阅读。
Enjoy the first hour of the day. This is important as it sets the mood for the rest of the day.
好好享受每天的第一个小时。这之所以重要是因为它会决定你一整天的心情。
I'd understood the words, but I didn't, as it were, understand the question.
字面的意思我懂了,但是可以说我并不能理解这个问题。
I want to work at home on a Tuesday but as it turns out sometimes it's a Wednesday or a Thursday.
我想周二在家工作,但实际上有时却是周三或是周四。
I feel that there's a lot of pressure put on policemen. And as for putting guns in their hands, I don't think that's a very good idea at all.
我觉得给警员的压力太大了。至于让他们佩枪,我并不认为是一个明智之举。
The news apparently came as a complete surprise...
这个消息显然让人大吃一惊。
She loved singing as a child and started vocal training at 12.
她从小就喜欢唱歌,12岁开始了声乐训练。
I'll behave toward them as I would like to be treated...
我会以希望别人对待我的方式来对待他们。
Today, as usual, he was wearing a three-piece suit...
像往常一样,他今天穿的是三件套。
As a result of the growing fears about home security, more people are arranging for someone to stay in their home when they're away...
因为越来越担心住宅安全,更多的人在出门的时候会在家中留人。
She gets as many as eight thousand letters a month.
她一个月里收到的信件多达8,000封。
He has worked as a diplomat in the US, Sudan and Saudi Arabia...
他曾任驻美国、苏丹和沙特阿拉伯的外交官。
You can look forward to a significant cash return by saving from as little as £10 a month...
只要每个月存下区区10英镑,你就有希望得到相当可观的现金收益。
There was no obvious reason why this could not be as good a film as the original.
找不出明显的理由来解释为什么这部片子拍得不如原先的好。
I never went through a final exam that was as difficult as that one...
我从来没有碰到过像那次那么难的期末考试。
All the jury's eyes were on him as he continued...
在他继续陈述的时候,全体陪审员的目光都集中在他身上。
Another policeman has been injured as fighting continued this morning...
今早又有一名警员在冲突中受伤。
You feel the same emotions – it is just as raw, just as fresh… You can't turn off that stream of memories, no matter how hard you try.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文To ensure employees' commitment, it is advisable to give them more flexibility as to where and how they work.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文This is hard to achieve when, as is now the case in many big firms, a large proportion of staff are temporary contractors.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文They give priority to relationships, as careers often recede .
出自-2017年6月阅读原文They are favored as a form of art.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文There's an ancient legend that as long as these eggs are made, evil will not prevail in the world, says Joan Brander, a Canadian egg-painter who has been painting eggs for over 60 years, having learned the art from her Ukrainian relatives.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文The report says America's urbanization will continue to be the most significant issue affecting the industry, as cities across the country imitate the walkability and transit-oriented development making cities like New York and San Francisco so successful.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文The report refers to this as the coming of the 18-hour city, and uses the term to refer to cities like Houston, Austin, Charlotte, and Nashville, which are positioning themselves as highly competitive, in terms of livability, employment offerings, and recreational and cultural facilities.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文The fashion for teams is also spreading from the usual corporate suspects to some more unusual ones.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文The brain is a seemingly endless library, whose shelves house our most precious memories as well as our lifetime's knowledge.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Teams are as old as civilisation, of course: even Jesus had 12 co-workers.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Strength, softness and thickness remain the leading indicators of toilet paper quality, with just a small proportion of consumers preferring more luxurious alternatives, such as those with flower patterns or perfume,said Mintel analyst Jack Duckett.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Some people regard professional change as an unpleasant experience that disturbs their stable careers.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文People with HSAM have the same memory as ordinary people when it comes to impersonal information.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Penny-pinching UK consumers choose cheaper products from discounters such as Aldi and Lidl rather than luxury alternatives.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文It will recover as population grows.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文It is especially favored as a church decoration.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Interestingly, their memories are highly self-centred: although they can remember autobiographical life events in extraordinary detail, they seem to be no better than average at recalling impersonal information, such as random lists of words.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文I was making as much money as I was as an accountant.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use team as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文He knew my love for yoga and had seen a space close to where he lived that he thought might be good to serve as a yoga studio.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Eggs serve as an enduring symbol of new life.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Clearly, there is no such thing as a perfect memory – their extraordinary minds are still using the same flawed tools that the rest of us rely on.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Chast's designs, such as a worried man alone in a tiny rowboat, reflect that delicateness.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Calling out our fears explicitly, as Leah did, can help us act decisively.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文But current studies are beginning to place greater emphasis on the conditions under which we forget, as its importance begins to be more appreciated.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Bill, for instance, often gets painful flashbacks, in which unwanted memories intrude into his consciousness, but overall he has chosen to see it as the best way of avoiding repeating the same mistakes.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文As soon as I saw the location, I knew this was it.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文As smaller cities copy the model of these 24-hour cities, more affordable versions of these places will be created.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文As she explored new interests and developed new potentials, Leah felt powerful internally.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文As much as we would like to cling on to our past, even the saddest moments can be washed away with time.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文And I think people see that for smoking as well.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文A good rule of thumb is that as soon as generals and hospital administrators jump on a management bandwagon , it is time to ask questions.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文When Katherine joined Facebook, some of her classmates at high school started to add her as a friend.
出自-2017年6月听力原文This behaviour may have evolved as dogs gradually learned they could benefit from avoiding conflicts with humans.
出自-2017年6月听力原文They suggest this indicates that dogs aren’t sensing emotions from a single feature, but piecing together information from all facial features just as humans do.
出自-2017年6月听力原文The researchers also note that dogs scan faces as a whole to sense how people are feeling, instead of focusing on a given feature.
出自-2017年6月听力原文Still, 60% of drivers would like to get some kind of self-driving feature, such as automatic braking or self-parking the next time they buy a new car.
出自-2017年6月听力原文One of the creatures made a dramatic appearance by moving on to the head of the team leader as he slept.
出自-2017年6月听力原文In the 1600s, people in China used carrots as medicine, but they also ate carrots boiled in soup.
出自-2017年6月听力原文He also believes they will be more likely to trust selfdriving cars as they become more familiar with features such as automatic braking or parking.
出自-2017年6月听力原文Doctors used carrot seeds and roots as medicine, on the theory that foods that taste bad must be good for you.
出自-2017年6月听力原文[The most recent of these studies, published in The Journal of Applied Gerontology, surveyed 150 Connecticut residents of assisted living, nursing homes and smaller residential care homes .
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological debate.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文This is, in any case, the right conversation to be having now as Mayor Megan Barry takes office.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文The trend began in 2007, when leading wheat-exporting countries such as Russia and Argentina limited or banned their exports, in hopes of increasing local food supplies and thereby bringing down domestic food prices.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文The study, which followed more than 2,000 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60, found that certain mental functions—including measures of abstract reasoning, mental speed and puzzle-solving—started to dull as early as age 27.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文The philosophy professor says it is as relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文The nice thing about ancient philosophy as offered by the Greeks is that they tended to see life clear and whole, in a way that we tend not to see life today.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Such personality characteristics as self-discipline have no effect on longevity.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文States fail when national governments can no longer provide personal security, food security and basic social services such as education and health care.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Soupios say following the 10 Golden Rules based on ancient wisdom can guide us to the path of the good life where we stop living as onlookers and become engaged and happier human beings.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Russell argues that as robots take on more complicated tasks, it's necessary to translate our morals into AI language.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Researchers from the University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life, emotional well-being and social interaction, as well as about the quality of the facilities.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Parents regard it as the first phase of children's development.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Others saw them as politically correct and morally appropriate.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Its production depends too much on technologyThey enjoyed cooking as well as eating.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文It will be possible to create more sophisticated moral machines, if only we can find a way to set out human values as clear rules.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文It has become an inevitable peril as technology gets more sophisticated.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文It contributes greatly to the advance of society as a whole.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文I do not think that we spend nearly enough time trying to concentrate on achieving a sort of calmness, a sort of contentment in a mental and spiritual way, which was identified by these people as the highest form of happiness and pleasure.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文For many in the development community, the four objectives were seen as positive, promoting development as long as they did not cost too much.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home, or has the industry simply hired better interior designers? Are nursing homes as bad as people fear, or is that an out-moded stereotype ? Can doing one's homework really steer families to the best places? It is genuinely hard to know.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Declining mental function is often seen as a problem of old age, but certain aspects of brain function actually begin their decline in young adulthood, a new study suggests.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文But unlike the modern definition of Epicureanism as a life of indulgence and luxury, for the ancient Greeks, it meant finding a state of calm, peace and mental ease.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文But the new paper suggests that if you want long life, you should strive to be as outgoing as possible.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文But according to Aristotle—a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great—most relationships don't qualify as true friendships.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Based on what is emerging from some of this research, that might have been as rational a way as any to reach a decision.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China's wheat crop, the world's largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文As the world's food security falls to pieces, individual countries acting in their own self-interest are actually worsening the troubles of many.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文As incomes rise among low-income consumers, the potential for further grain consumption is huge.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflation puts severe stress on the governments of many countries.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly sophisticated, there are growing concerns that robots could become a threat.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文As a result, wheat prices elsewhere more than doubled, pulling rice and corn prices up with them.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文As a matter of fact, consumers expressed higher satisfaction with the one-star facilities, the lowest rated, than with the five-star ones.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents or their family members are.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health, therefore, might be no less depressed in assisted -86 living than in a nursing home.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文A person who had input into where he would move and has had time to adapt to it might do as well in a nursing home as in a small residential care home, other factors being equal.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Today, Americans are finding their own tips and tricks for fixing malfunctioning devices with supplies as simple as paper and glue.
出自-2016年6月听力原文Soon, members of the Royal family and other wealthy people took up motoring as a sport.
出自-2016年6月听力原文Some, like Mr.Azar’s plastic bag, are open to argument as to how they work, or whether they really work at all.
出自-2016年6月听力原文Long queues, delayed flights and over - crowding at airports have become almost as much a topic for conversation in Britain as the traditional complaining about the weather.
出自-2016年6月听力原文In some departments, either the chairman or the director of graduate studies serves for at least the first semester as a new student adviser.
出自-2016年6月听力原文As customers began to queue, Mr.
出自-2016年6月听力原文With surging obesity levels putting increasing strain on public health systems, governments around the world have begun to toy with the idea of taxing sugar as well.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文Wireless devices will transmit signals so as to activate the alarm once something wrong is detected.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文The implication is a sharp decline in global trade, which has plunged partly because oilproducing nations can't afford to import as much as they used to.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文Still, gamification only stands to become more popular, he says, as more and more people come into the workforce who are familiar with the structures and expressions of digital games.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文One of the prizes used was a lottery ticket , with a $10, $50 or $100 payout, and this was as effective as a tangible gift in persuading people to eat less.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文Nonetheless, the renewed focus on waistlines means that industry groups are under pressure to demonstrate their products are healthy as well as tasty.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文No matter how the math works out, you persistently view restaurants with voluntary tipping systems as being a better value, which makes it extremely difficult for restaurants and bars to do away with the tipping system.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文It is difficult to crack SimpliSafe as its system keeps changing.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文It did not work out as well as was expected.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文Informing students about the brain as a learning machine is a good strategy to enhance their motivation for learning.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文Increasingly, companies are tapping into these desires directly through what has come to be known as gamification: essentially, turning work into a game.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文In the past, falling oil prices have given a boost to the world economy, but recent forecasts for global growth have been toned down, even as oil prices sink lower and lower.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文In addition, parents and teachers can help children by providing explicit instruction regarding the mind as a learning machine.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文In a Los Angeles Times article, one employee referred to the board as a digital whip.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文I hate it because it's an obligation disguised as an option.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文He'll need to be jamming you at this point, as a broken window or opened door would normally release the alarm.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文White parents are more likely than others to read to their children daily, as are married parents.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文They are not as serious in its online stores.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal cost—are depleted.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文The prices of coal are low as a result of over-supply and decreasing demand.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord & Taylor.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文The Russian, Greek and Polish storks flew as far as South Africa, while those from Spain, Tunisia and Germany flew only as far as the Sahel.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文The Grand Tourist was typically a young man with a thorough grounding in Greek and Latin literature as well as some leisure time, some means, and some interest in art.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Technological innovations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal .
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Nearly all members of last year's winning U.S.IMO team took part in MathCounts as middle school students, as did Loh, the coach.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Much of the waste is discarded rotten meat, mixed in with other human debris such as plastic bags and old toys.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Most American parents say they are not concerned about their children's grades as long as they work hard.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Middle-class and higher-income parents see their children as projects in need of careful cultivation, says Annette Lareau, whose groundbreaking research on the topic was published in her book Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Many scientists believe that El Ni o events, caused by warming in the Pacific, are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Last year, the Royal Society in London said in its report that scientists need to shift away from a research culture where data is viewed as a private preserve.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文It also adds the element of artistic creativity to attract a new pool of students who may not see themselves as math people.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Interestingly, parents' attitudes toward education do not seem to reflect their own educational background as much as a belief in the importance of education for upward mobility.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文In the past decade, even as income inequality has grown, some of the socioeconomic differences in parenting, like reading to children and going to libraries, have narrowed.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文In England, where architecture was increasingly seen as an aristocratic pursuit, noblemen often applied what they learned from the villas of Palladio in the Veneto and the evocative ruins of Rome to their own country houses and gardens.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文If you look at a lot of low-income communities in the United States, there are programs that are serving them, but they're primarily centered around ‘Let's get these kids' grades up,' and not around ‘Let's get these kids access to the same kinds of opportunities as more-affluent kids,' said Daniel Zaharopol, the founder and executive director of the program.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Ni o weather phenomenon in decades.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Designer sportswear was not modeled on that of Europe, as modern art would later be; it was genuinely invented and developed in America.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Data on management expenses at the college system and in other state departments will be part of a business justification the state will use as officials deliberate the specifics of an outsourcing plan.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Could utility alone justify the new ideas of the American designers? Fashion is often regarded as a pursuit of beauty, and some cherished fashion's trivial relationship to the fine arts.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Closings were simple, practical, and accessible, as the modern woman depended on no personal maid to dress her.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice, Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination of their classical education.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文Andrea Flack of the Max Planck Institute found that birds following traditional migration routes were more likely to die than German storks that flew only as far as northern Morocco, and spent the winter there on rubbish dumps.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文And it would raise the demand for technologies such as carbon capture and storage, spurring their further development.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文A tax on upstream carbon sources is one easy way to put a price on carbon emissions, although some countries may wish to use other methods, such as emissions trading schemes.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文You need to understand as a citizen and as a tax payer and as a voter what’s really behind the arguments.
出自-2017年6月听力原文In the past, health experts warned us that the day would come in which it would become very difficult to provide medical care for even common problems such as lung infection or severe sour throat.
出自-2017年6月听力原文In fact, you may have heard about the new superbugs, which are antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have developed as a result of overprescribed antibiotics.
出自-2017年6月听力原文And, apparently, that day has come because seemingly routine operations such as knee replacements are now much more hazardous due to the looming threat of these infections.
出自-2017年6月听力原文When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Today's teenagers admire their parents and welcome parental guidance about important matters such as career choice—though certainly not Mom and Dad's advice on matters of personal taste, such as music or fashion.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文They include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patient's needs with an eye on both cost and quality, and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs, are treated properly.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文The one in the House bill would have to negotiate rates with providers, rather than using Medicare rates, as many reformers wanted.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文The changes would have to be approved or rejected as a whole by Congress, making it hard for narrow-interest lobbies to bend lawmakers to their will.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate change.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文That was as it should be: kitchens were for servants, and the aspiring middle classes wanted nothing to do with them.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文That statement comes not, as you might imagine, from a stereotypical tree-hugging, save-the-world greenie , but from Gordon Brown, a politician with a reputation for rigour, thoroughness and above all, caution.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Teenagers of today often turn to their parents for advice on such important matters as career choice.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Still, in my studies and others I have read, I find the same patterns as in USA WEEKEND's survey.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Southern states without strong teachers' unions have schools at least as awful as those in union states.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Recently, we examined more than 400 essays on the laws of life that teens from two communities had written as part of an educational program initiated by the John Templeton Foundation in Radnor, Pa.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Measuring emissions is not a precise science, particularly when it comes to issues surrounding land use; not all nations have released up-to-date data, and in any case, emissions from some sectors such as aviation are not included in national statistics.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Marketers must qualify their claims on the product packaging and limit them to a specific benefit, such as how much of the product is recycled.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Manufacture as many green products as possible.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文It is regarded as the center of a modern home.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文It gave a third party the authority to label its products as environmentally friendly.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursuing real solutions.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Hunt through the reports prepared by UN agencies and development groups—many for conferences such as this year's Millennium Goals review—and you will find that the linkage between environmental protection and economic progress is a common thread.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文How much is today's spirit of harmony a change from our more turbulent past? A mere generation ago, parentchild relations were described as the generation gap.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Get a teacher from the top 20%, and it's as if a child has gone to school for an extra month or two.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Get a bottom 1% teacher, and the effect is the same as if a child misses 40% of the school year.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Changes in policy would be approved or rejected as a whole so that lobbyists would find it hard to influence lawmakers.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文By and large, these are very nice kids, and as the band The Who used to sing, The kids are alright.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文But now, as then, powerful forces are ideologically opposed to the whole idea of government action on a sufficient scale to jump-start the economy.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文But is this right? Do things get better or worse as we get richer? Here the Stockholm declaration is ambiguous.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文But frequently untreated human waste harvested from lavatories is delivered to farms and spread as fertilizer.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文But could Norway keep its standard of living and yet cut its emissions to Moroccan or even Ethiopian levels? That question, repeated across a dozen environmental issues and across our diverse planet, is what will ultimately determine whether the human race is living beyond its ecological means as it pursues economic revival.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文But as the working classes prospered and the servant shortage set in, housekeeping became a matter of interest to the educated classes.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文As countries become richer, they produce more greenhouse gases; and the impact of those gases will fall primarily in poor parts of the world.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文As a result, the bills do not require, as they should, that the results of these studies be used to set payment rates in Medicare.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文As a report in The New England Journal of Medicine concluded, Pretty much every proposed innovation found in the health policy literature these days is contained in these measures.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文As a country's wealth grows, so do its greenhouse gas emissions.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文As I said, structural unemployment isn't a real problem, it's an excuse—a reason not to act on America's problems at a time when action is desperately needed.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文And the World Resources Institute in its World Resources 2005 report, issued at the end of August, produced several such examples from Africa and Asia; it also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor more than the rich, as poorer people derive a much higher proportion of their income directly from the natural resources around them.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文And on reflection, this is not surprising; the single word environment has so many dimensions, and there are so many other factors affecting wealth—such as the oil deposits—that teasing out a simple economy-environment relationship would be almost impossible.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented , and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文You know, one of the first things I like to tell people when they ask me about the supplements, is that a lot of them are promoted as a cure for your memory, but your memory doesn’t need a cure.
出自-2016年6月听力原文Today, my guest is Dana Ivanovich, who has worked for the last twenty years as an interpreter.
出自-2016年6月听力原文The US has already lost more than a third of the native languages that existed before European colonisation, and the remaining 192 are classed by UNESCO as ranging between unsafe and extinct.
出自-2016年6月听力原文Still, there are good reasons to make positive changes in how we live and what we eat as we age.
出自-2016年6月听力原文He predicts high failure rates for smaller, regional banks in 2010 as commercial real estate loans come due.
出自-2016年6月听力原文Gregg Rosen lost his job as a sales nearly three years ago and is still unemployed.
出自-2016年6月听力原文Cognitive decline is the loss of ability to learn new skills, or recall words, names, and faces that is most common as we age.
出自-2016年6月听力原文As U.S.banks recovered with the help of the American government and the American taxpayer, president Obama held meetings with top bank executives, telling them it’s time to return the favor.
出自-2016年6月听力原文After the failure of Lehman Brothers, many of the world’s largest banks feared the worst as the collapse of the housing bubble exposed investments in risky loans.
出自-2016年6月听力原文a basis for explaining human genetic diversityan aid to understanding different populationsan explanation for social and cultural differencesa term to describe individual human characteristicsmodern genetics research is likely to fuel racial conflictsrace is a poorly defined marker of human genetic diversityrace as a biological term can explain human genetic diversitygenetics research should consider social and cultural variablesit is absolutely necessary to put race aside in making diagnosisit is important to include social variables in genetics researchracial categories for genetic diversity could lead to wrong clinical predictionsdiscrimination against black people may cause negligence in clinical treatmentThey be more precise with the language they use.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文Your job is literally killing you, as The Washington Post put it.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文You can see that we're here to stay, said Vladimir Cheberdak, 57, chief of the Bellingshausen Station, as he sipped tea under a portrait of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, a high-ranking officer in the Imperial Russian Navy who explored the Antarctic coast in 1820.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文While we argue phasing out racial terminology in the biological sciences, we also acknowledge that using race as a political or social category to study racism, although filled with lots of challenges, remains necessary given our need to understand how structural inequities and discrimination produce health disparities between groups, Yudell said.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become prosumers, who produce and consume their own energy on-site?No one knows which – if any – battery technology will ultimately dominate, but one thing remains clear: The future of energy is in how we store it.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文This might not be right, but school-leavers who fail to acknowledge as much risk making the wrong decision about going to university.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文They do not often demonstrate risky behaviors as their peers.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文They are almost as liable to depression as the high-risk group.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文The research stations on King George lsland offer a glimpse into the long game on this ice-blanketed continent as nations assert themselves, eroding the sway long held by countries like the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文The practice of clocking in for an eight-hour workday is a leftover from the days of the Industrial Revolution, as reflected in the then-popular saying, Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文The newer players are stepping into what they view as a treasure house of resources.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文The market demand for electronic devices is now either declining or not growing as fast as before.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文The booths are still exciting, and the demos are still just as crazy.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文The Paris agreement has been widely hailed as a positive step forward in addressing climate change for all, although the details on addressing climate justice can be best described as sketchy.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文The researchers also acknowledged that there are a few areas where race as a construct might still be useful in scientific research: as a political and social, but not biological, variable.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文As you make reading a regular part of your life, you'll make more connections, stay more focused and understand the text better.
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