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Lucy Parry was getting ready to leave her home. It was a spring day in 2007. Suddenly, she felt a sharp pain. A wasp, a flying insect, had stung her. For most people this may not have been a big probl...

露西·帕里正准备离开家。那是2007年的一个春日。突然，她感到一阵剧痛。一只黄蜂，一只会飞的昆虫，蜇了她。对大多数人来说，这可能不是一个大问题。但对露西来说，这是一个严重的问题。她的血压开始迅速下降。她挣扎着走向药店。但当她到达时，她没有得...

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Lee Man-woo is vice representative of the Whale Culture Preservation Association in Ulsan.He and others say whaling has been a part of Korean culture for thousands of years.He also says meat from hunt...

李文宇是蔚山鲸鱼文化保护协会的副代表。他和其他人说，数千年来，捕鲸一直是韩国文化的一部分。他还说，被猎杀的鲸鱼的肉不应该被浪费。他的团队表示，应该以合理的价格向外国游客和喜欢吃鲸肉的人出售。最近，蔚山出售的一小份肉售价高达50美元。韩国和日...

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Environmental activists in South Korea are condemning a government plan to hunt endangered whales for scientific research.They believe the plan is part of an effort to re-start commercial whaling acti...

韩国的环保活动人士谴责政府为科学研究而猎杀濒危鲸鱼的计划。他们认为，该计划是重启商业捕鲸活动努力的一部分。许多国家禁止此类活动。韩国于7月在巴拿马举行的国际捕鲸委员会会议上宣布了这一提议。韩国代表团团长表示，需要该计划来回答有关小须鲸种群的...

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But Russ Rosen from Virginia does not like them. “They are stupid and they cover the ground. They fly into everything. If you are in a cicada’s path, it will fly right into you.” Many people agr...

但弗吉尼亚州的拉斯·罗森不喜欢他们。“它们很愚蠢，会覆盖地面。它们会飞到任何地方。如果你在蝉的路上，它会直接飞到你身上。”很多人都同意Russ的观点。他们说蝉的叫声太大了，耳朵都疼了。他们不喜欢死蝉的味道。动物世界喜欢吃蝉。许多鸟会吃掉整只...

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What would you do if you had just spent seventeen years under ground? Would you want to change your clothes? Would you want to sit in the sun? Would you want to sing as loud as you could? Singing i...

如果你刚刚在地下呆了17年，你会怎么做？你想换衣服吗？你想坐在阳光下吗？你想尽可能大声地唱吗？唱歌正是2007年夏天美国数百万只蝉所做的！蝉是一种昆虫。它大约有三厘米长。像许多昆虫一样，它有六条腿。成年蝉也有两对翅膀。全世界有两千多种蝉。他...

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In northern areas of the United States,drive-in theaters were open just a few months of the year.In the north,nights can get cold even during the summer.Blankets and portable heaters helped -- but, ag...

在美国北部地区，免下车影院每年只开放几个月。在北方，即使在夏天，夜晚也会变冷。毯子和便携式加热器有所帮助，但同样没有多大帮助。即使免下车服务开放，剧院在白天也经常闲置。有时，这些土地会在白天用于露天市场，但这些并没有带来很多收入。在许多情况...

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In fifteenth and sixteenth century Europe killing with poison was common - especially in Italy and France. At this time Arsenic was the most usual poison. People would mix small amounts of it into foo...

在 15 世纪和 16 世纪的欧洲，用毒药杀人很常见——尤其是在意大利和法国。此时，砷是最常见的毒药。人们会把少量的它混入食物中——就像玛丽·布兰迪（Mary Blandy）所做的那样。他们知道这种毒药没有味道或气味。他们的受害者会一点一点...

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The first drive-in movie theater opened in the United States in 1933.Popular Science magazine described a theater in Camden, New Jersey, as the first of its kind in the word: an open-air movie theater...

1933年，第一家汽车影院在美国开业。《大众科学》杂志将新泽西州卡姆登的一家影院描述为世界上第一家此类影院：一家仅供驾驶者使用的露天电影院。人们可以坐在车里，边吃边聊，放松地在大屏幕上看电影。（音乐）随着战后美国经济的扩张和更多人购买汽车，...