03 2014 档案
摘要：Mistrust between U.S. and Malaysian air-accident investigators has hampered a multinational probe into the jetliner that went missing three weeks ago, people familiar with the investigation said, with no clear leads emerging about who or what was responsible for its disappearance.hamper：妨碍，束缚 jet...
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摘要：Entrepreneur and author ShaoLan Hsueh thinks that English-speakers can start learning to read Chinese in less than 10 minutes. The language, she says, has more than 20,000 written characters, which most students in China learn by rote memorization. Ms. Hsueh's new book, 'Chineasy,' aims
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摘要：The default background for Microsoft's Windows XP operating system -- a perfect blue sky full of cotton-candy clouds above rolling hills with impeccably trimmed grass and daffodils -- is the spring day we wish could last forever.rolling hills：起伏群山 impeccably：无可挑剔地 trimmed：修整过的，平衡的 daffodil...
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摘要：With startup-themed conferences, hackathons, meet-ups and cocktail hours regularly taking place, entrepreneurs are in no short supply of opportunities to meet people who could be helpful to their startups.cocktail：鸡尾酒 But there's a lot more to developing fruitful business relationships than simp
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摘要：[Confident girls are often called the other B-word, and it can keep them from reaching their full potential, write Sheryl Sandberg and Anna Maria Chavez.]Sheryl: When my brother and sister describe our childhood, they will say that I never actually played as a child but instead just organized other
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摘要：Like many 10-year-olds, Nick Wald takes private lessons. His once-a-week tutor isn't helping him with piano scales or Spanish conjugations, but teaching him how to code.Nick, a fifth-grader in New York, went in with no experience and has since learned enough HTML, JavaScript and CSS to build a s
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摘要：Some drink only vegetable juice. Others soak in Epsom salts. It's all in the pursuit of ridding the body of months or years of accumulated toxins, said to be the cause of fat, fatigue, diabetes, memory problems and countless other conditions.soak in：吸收 toxin：毒素，毒物 diabetes：糖尿病 The question...
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摘要：Much has been said about what the 'China Dream' really means to many Chinese -- whether it is national strength, cultural renewal or more modest personal goals. For many of those living in the vast countryside, the dream is a life in one a city and some of the benefits that go with it.renewa
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摘要：Is your desktop or laptop computer starting to feel a little poky? Even after just a few months of use, your PC or Mac may start to lose steam thanks to a fragmented hard drive, too many programs running in the background, or even a rogue piece of malware.poky：慢吞吞，狭小的 rogue：淘气，流氓，游手好闲 malware：...
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摘要：What the world needs now is a Web-enabled toothbrush.That part is clear to several oral-hygiene companies. What they can't agree on is who was first to put teeth into the smartphone.The giant Procter & Gamble Co. last week demonstrated what it calls the 'World's First Available Inter
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摘要：It's a common scenario: You have an odd pain for weeks or are feeling too tired lately. So you head to a doctor, who may run a test or two. But no clear cause for the symptom shows up.Despite a dizzying array of high-tech medical tests, the reality is that many symptoms, such as fatigue or heada
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摘要：Overseas tourists continued to shun Beijing through 2013.shun：避开，避免，回避Amid rising pollution and a strengthening yuan, the capital city saw its tourist numbers drop to 4.20 million visits from January to November from 5.01 million visits in 2012, according to China Daily, citing a report from China T
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摘要：The conference call is one of the most familiar rituals of office life -- and one of the most hated.ritual：典礼，宗教仪式Abuses are rife. People on the line interrupt others, zone out or multitask, forgetting to hit 'mute' while talking to kids or slurping drinks.zone out：头昏脑涨，开小差 mute：静音键 slurp：啜食
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摘要：If you find yourself needing to sit down to take off your shoes, it might be time to start paying attention to your sense of balance.People don't usually think about balance until they fall, but little signs such as relying on handrails to go up and down stairs can be early warnings that stabili
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摘要：When her husband died of cancer 10 years ago, Becky Aikman says she experienced grief and adapted to her loss -- but not in the way some people seemed to expect.proactive：有前瞻性的，主动地 About a year after his death, when Ms. Aikman felt it was time to start rebuilding her life, she attended a widows su..
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摘要：In the war for the Chinese Internet, messaging giant Tencent is taking the battle to rival Alibaba's territory as never before.Tencent, a leader in online messaging and gaming, said Monday it will pay $215 million for a 15% stake in online retailer JD.com, in advance of JD.com's planned U.S.
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摘要：Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, with 239 people aboard, lost contact early Saturday with the airline shortly into the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Government and airline officials said they weren't ready to speculate about what caused the Boeing 777-200 to disappear from radar. Here are
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摘要：For much of the last year, intellectuals and officials in China -- land of world-beating students and, in a bygone age, the scholar official -- have been wringing their hands over the country's declining interest in reading.bygone：过去的 wringing：湿透的，扭绞 Earlier this week, the anxiety surfaced in th
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摘要：AS AUTO MAKERS ADD far-out features to the latest cars at warp speed--everything from futuristic heads-up displays to simple perks like hands-free calling--the appeal of the newest showroom tech can be hard to resist. But a car, unlike a smartphone, doesn't need to be replaced every two years. I
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摘要：The problem: Every night, your workaholic boss is still glued to the computer when you need to leave. How to go home without looking like a slacker?slacker：懒鬼Should you sneak out, hoping to avoid a six o'clock showdown in the hall? Guiltily apologize, promising to be on email all night? Or just
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摘要：Several years ago, while observing a parenting group in Minnesota, I was struck by a confession one of the women made to her peers: She didn't really care that her husband did the dishes after dinner. Sure, it was swell of him, and she had friends whose husbands did less. But what she really wan
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摘要：Daifailluh al-Bugami was just a year old when his parents noticed that his lips turned blue as he slept at night. It was his weight, doctors said, putting pressure on his delicate airways.delicate：精致的，微妙的，易碎的 Now Daifailluh is 3, and at 61 pounds he is nearly double the typical weight of a child hi.
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摘要：今天用Matlab跑程序，由于数据量太大，又出现Out of memory. Type HELP MEMORY for your options.的问题。看到这篇文章非常实用，转过来方便查阅~用 Matlab 进行大规模科学计算或仿真时，内存是一个需要时常注意的问题。在matlab里运行>>system_dependent memstats就可以看到内存的使用状况。当你写的 Matlab 程序跳出“Out of Memory” 时，以下几点措施是需要优先考虑的解决方法：1. 升级内存2. 升级64位系统3. 增加虚拟内存4. 采用3GB开关启动系统由于32位 Windows 操作系
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摘要：The hottest showcase for new technology at this year's Mobile World Congress wasn't in the event's cavernous exhibition halls. It was actually about two miles away, at an affiliated show for startups and venture capitalists.showcase：展示，作品欣赏 cavernous：洞穴状的，空洞的 affiliated：附属的，联营的In a makes
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