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It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville, Tennessee -- a slow, gray rain. I was tired so I went straight to my hotel. A big, heavy man was walking up and down in the hotel lobby. Somethin...

我在田纳西州纳什维尔下火车时下了雨——一场缓慢的灰色雨。我很累，所以我直接去了我的酒店。 一个高大魁梧的男人在酒店大堂里来回走动。他的移动方式让我想起了一只饥饿的狗在寻找骨头。他有一张又大又胖的红脸，眼睛里带着困倦的表情。他介绍自己叫...

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Katharine Graham had four children to raise and a newspaper to operate.At first,she was concerned only with finding a way to keep control of The Washington Post until her sons were old enough to super...

凯瑟琳·格雷厄姆 （Katharine Graham） 有四个孩子要抚养，还要经营一家报纸。起初，她只关心找到一种方法来保持对《华盛顿邮报》的控制，直到她的儿子们长大到可以监督它为止。她是一个没有安全感的人。她认为自己没有能力做一项重要的工...

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That evening his sister Ellen came to Anthony, to talk about the troubles that lovers have. “He told me all about it,” said brother Anthony. “I told him he could have all the money he wanted. Then ...

那天晚上，他的妹妹爱伦来找安东尼，谈论恋人之间的烦恼。 “他把这一切都告诉我了，”安东尼弟兄说。“我告诉他，他可以得到他想要的所有钱。然后他开始说，钱对他没用。他说钱帮不上忙。 “哦，安东尼，”艾伦说，“我希望你不要那么想钱。金...

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Mammon and the Archer. Old Anthony Rockwall, who made millions of dollars by making and selling Rockwall’s soap, stood at the window of his large Fifth Avenue house. He was looking out at his neigh...

玛蒙和弓箭手。 老安东尼·罗克沃尔 （Anthony Rockwall） 通过制造和销售罗克沃尔的肥皂赚了数百万美元，他站在他位于第五大道的大房子的窗户前。他望着他的邻居 G. Van Schuylight Suffolk-Jones...

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Egbert Roscoe Murrow was born in nineteen-oh-eight in the state of North Carolina.His parents lived on a farm in an area called Polecat Creek.The Murrows were members of the Quakers,a religious group ...

埃格伯特·罗斯科·默罗 （Egbert Roscoe Murrow） 于 19 世纪 8 日出生于北卡罗来纳州，他的父母住在一个叫 Polecat Creek 的农场上。默罗斯夫妇是贵格会的成员，贵格会是一个以其人道主义活动和反对战争而闻名...

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After the first level of testing only thirteen remained, including Jerrie Cobb.The youngest among them was twenty-one-year-old Wally Funk who was also a competitive skier.Forty-year-old Jane Hart was ...

经过第一级测试后，只剩下 13 人，包括 Jerrie Cobb.他们中最年轻的是 21 岁的 Wally Funk，他也是一名有竞争力的滑雪运动员。40 岁的简·哈特 （Jane Hart） 是最年长的。她嫁给了密歇根州参议员菲利普·哈特...

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In nineteen fifty-nine the United States was involved in a space race with the former Soviet Union.The Soviets had surprised the world by launching the first satellite.Sputnik One was launched into or...

1959 年，美国卷入了与前苏联的太空竞赛，苏联发射了第一颗卫星，震惊了世界。斯普特尼克一号于 1957 年 10 月 4 日发射入轨。突然之间，美国似乎在一个重要的技术领域落后了。因此，德怀特·艾森豪威尔总统于 1958 年成立了美国国家...

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By the 1920s,sports organizations were attempting to stop the use of doping substances.But they lacked scientific ways to test for them.One method of doping is called blood doping.It is the use of sub...

到 1920 年代，体育组织试图停止使用兴奋剂物质。但他们缺乏科学的方法来测试它们。一种兴奋剂方法称为血液兴奋剂。它是使用激素或血液等物质来增加红细胞的产生。红细胞的增加会导致更多的氧气流向肌肉，从而增加它们的力量。一个例子是促红细胞生成素...