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摘要：Why are some obese people healthy, apparently protected from the damaging effects of excess fat on the liver and other organs?interfere with：干涉，妨碍，打扰 metabolism：新陈代谢 obese：肥胖的，过胖的 liver：肝脏Scientists are investigating this question as they look to understand how obesity disrupts normal organ...
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摘要：It's a nightly dilemma in many households: A student hits a wall doing homework, and parents are too tired, too busy—or too mystified—to help.dilemma：困境，进退两难 mystified：困惑的，使难解Ordering up a tutor is becoming as easy for kids as grabbing a late-night snack. Amid rapid growth in companies offering
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摘要：BEIJING—China's family-planning agency is projecting a slow rollout for an easing of its one-child policy, underscoring reluctance by the government in moving too quickly to let some couples have two children and a law in place for decades.rollout:首次展示，上线 unserscoring:强调 reluctance：勉强，不情愿The p..
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摘要：As we continue examining this season’s DVR success stories in The Blacklist and Sleepy Hollow it makes one wonder, just what other shows caused networks to change the way they think about how their audience watches television?24 (2001)Jack Bauer is more than just one of television’s most iconic acti
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摘要：If you’re a writer or artist, you understand the power of location when it comes to creativity and finding inspiration. Looking for a place that will get your juices flowing? Here are 15 common places that can inspire your creativity.1. Libraries and BookstoresWords are a wonderful thing. You could
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摘要：Young people from less-privileged homes are more likely to graduate from college and earn more if raised by two married parents.privileged：特权的，特殊的 Young adults are 44 percent more likely to have graduated from college if they were raised by their married parents.In fact, the opportunity story beg...
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摘要：The teen years are often fraught with door-slamming, eye-rolling and seeming insensitivity, even by kids who behaved kindly before. Some parents worry that they're doing something wrong, or that their children will never think of anyone but themselves.fraught with：充满 slamming：砰地关上，猛烈抨击 insensi..
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摘要：In the darkest moments of the killer storm that ripped across this coastal city on Friday, residents huddled beneath a statue of Jesus' crucifixion on the second floor of the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center, praying for survival.rip across：把..撕成两半 huddle：挤成一团，瑟缩 crucifixion：刑法，苦难 Th...
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摘要：As his term as premier was drawing to a close, Wen Jiabao reflected wistfully on some of the goals he failed to achieve in his time in office and told a surprised group of reporters he should be forgotten.Wistful：渴望的，沉思的，留恋的 While he may have been overstating the case in that 2012 speech, at leas...
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摘要：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 ...
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摘要：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
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摘要：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
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摘要：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
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摘要：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
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摘要：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
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摘要：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
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摘要：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
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摘要：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
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摘要：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
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摘要：In a forest on the outskirts of this former Chinese capital, 58-year-old real-estate developer Lu Jun and his 30-year-old son, Lu Xun. are set to unveil their pride and joy: a $164-million development with 11 buildings designed by leading international architects.outskirts：市郊，郊区 The centerpiece o...
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