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Forty percent of Japan’s population uses the Internet. In fact, Japan is one of the world’s most wired Internet–using nations. Many people find friends on the Internet. But some of these friendships a...

日本 40% 的人口使用互联网。事实上，日本是世界上互联网使用最多的国家之一。许多人在网上找到朋友。但事实证明，其中一些友谊是危险的。一些日本人正在使用互联网寻找可以一起死去的人。 2006 年 3 月，日本警方发现了 8 名年轻人的...

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Medical device companies Abbott and Dexcom make small devices that attach to the skin and monitor the amount of glucose, or sugar, in the blood. These devices were first made to help people with diab...

医疗器械公司雅培（Abbott）和德克康（Dexcom）生产附着在皮肤上的小型设备，用于监测血液中的葡萄糖或糖的含量。 这些设备最初是为了帮助糖尿病患者而制造的。糖尿病是一种阻止身体正确消化糖并将其转化为能量的疾病。 这些设备允许人们改...

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On February 20, 1824, British scientist and Christian clergyman William Buckland spoke before the Geological Society of London. He described the find of a huge jaw and other bones at a rock mine in th...

1824 年 2 月 20 日，英国科学家和基督教神职人员威廉·巴克兰 （William Buckland） 在伦敦地质学会 （Geological Society of London） 发表演讲。他描述了在英国牛津附近斯通斯菲尔德村的一个...

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The Summer Olympic Games this year are in Paris, France. Paris does not have an ocean. So, how do organizers plan to present competition in the sport of surfing? They are taking that Olympic event h...

今年的夏季奥运会在法国巴黎举行。 巴黎没有海洋。那么，组织者计划如何呈现冲浪运动的比赛呢？ 他们正在将奥运会赛事带到半个地球的南太平洋国家法属波利尼西亚。运动员将在大溪地岛一个名叫 Teahupo'o 的沿海小村庄进行比赛。该地区是农村...

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American pop singer and songwriter Taylor Swift won Album of the Year for Midnights” on Sunday at the Grammy Awards. She has now won that award four times, breaking the record for wins in that catego...

美国流行歌手兼词曲作者泰勒·斯威夫特 （Taylor Swift） 周日在格莱美颁奖典礼上凭借《午夜》赢得了年度专辑奖。 她现在已经四次获得该奖项，打破了该类别的获奖记录。Frank Sinatra、Paul Simon 和 Stevie...

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There were other issues involved,including Southern pride.So Doctor Goldberger had himself injected with blood from a person with pellagra.He also took liquid from the nose and throat of a pellagra pa...

还涉及其他问题，包括南方的自豪感。因此，Goldberger 医生自己注射了一名糙皮病患者的血液。他还从一名糙皮病患者的鼻子和喉咙中取出液体，放入自己的鼻子和喉咙。他甚至吞下了含有糙皮病患者皮肤的药丸。一名助手也参与了实验。戈德伯格医生的妻...

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At the start of the twentieth century,the United States Army had a Yellow Fever Commission.The Army wanted medical experts to study yellow fever and find a way to stop the disease.One team went to Cub...

20 世纪初，美国陆军成立了一个黄热病委员会，陆军希望医学专家研究黄热病并找到阻止这种疾病的方法。一个团队前往古巴测试蚊子传播黄热病的观点。该团队由沃尔特·里德 （Walter Reed） 领导，他是一位以传染病工作而闻名的陆军医生和科学家...

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Azalea Adair opened a tiny old purse and took out a dollar bill. It had been fixed with a piece of blue paper and the upper right hand corner was missing. It was the dollar I had given to Uncle Caesar...

Azalea Adair 打开一个小小的旧钱包，拿出一张美元钞票。它用一张蓝色的纸固定了，右上角不见了。那是我给凯撒叔叔的那块钱。“到贝克先生的店里去吧，英皮，”她说，“给我拿二十五美分的茶叶和十美分的糖蛋糕。请快点。 孩子跑出了房间...