What if your morning run through a park could generate electricity, which could then charge batteries or maybe even power the phone you’re running with? If you’re wearing the right T-shirt, that might be a possibility. 想象一下要是你早上在公园晨跑就能发电，能给电池甚至随身携带的手机充电，会怎么样？只要你穿对了T恤，这些都可以实现。 Researchers from the University of Málaga in Spain and the Italian Institute of Technology have designed a T-shirt…
If life treats you unfairly. 如果生活对你不公。 Don’t cry. Don’t shout. Don’t complain to anyone. 不要哭泣。不要叫嚷。也不要向任何人抱怨。 Because that’s just how life is. 因为这就是生活。 It’s never fair. 它从来就不是公平的。 Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time there were two boys. 让我来给你讲一个故事吧。从前，有两个男孩。 One of them was short and the other was tall. 他们其中一个很矮，而另一个很高。 They stood in…
Connectors Definition 连接词定义 sentence connectorsLinker Words or Word Connectors are used to link large groups of words: phrases and sentences. You can also use them to connect paragraphs to give them coherence. Sentence connectors are usually placed at the beginning of a sentence and may be categorized as follows: 句子连接词连接词或单词连接词用于连接大量单词组：短语和句子。你也可以用它们连接段落，使它们连贯一致。句子连接符通常放在句子的开头，可分为以下几类： connectors-of-contrast 对比连词 CONTRAST 对比 1.…
In short, economics is the study of how people and groups of people use their resources. 简单地讲，经济学这门学科研究的是人们以及不同的群体如何利用他们手上的资源。 Money certainly is one of those resources, but other things can play a role in economics as well. 金钱显然就是其中一种资源，但很多其他东西也在经济学中占有一席之地。 In an attempt to clarify all this, let’s take a look at the basics of economics and why you…
After launching nearly a dozen Echo speaker models in India in two years, Amazon said on Wednesday it is adding a new variant to the mix that addresses one of the most requested features from customers in the nation: portability. 两年来亚马逊在印度推出了十几款Echo音箱，该公司周三说要推出该系列的一款新产品，增加了该国消费者最需要的一个功能：便携。 The e-commerce giant today unveiled the Echo Input Portable Smart Speaker Edition, a new…
My brother is a Boy Scout, 我弟弟是个童子军 and was selling popcorn tonight. 今晚他的任务是贩卖爆米花 Not long after he and my dad got set up to sell, 弟弟和我们的爸爸刚把摊子架好，准备开始卖了 a guy came up to them 一个男人朝他们走过来 to say, 说到 “I don’t want any popcorn, 我不想要爆米花 but I want you to get sales, 但我希望你买卖顺利 and I want to be…
Did you negotiate your salary for your current job? If not, you’re not alone. Some 41 percent of people didn’t, according to Salary.com. 你有为现在的工作谈过薪水吗？如果没有，你也并不孤单。据Salary.com的数据，大约41％的人都没有。 Many fear that haggling over the starting salary will take them out of the running for the job entirely. 许多人担心在起薪问题上讨价还价会让他们完全失去这份工作。 But not negotiating for a competitive salary at the start of…
Wherever we humans go, we leave behind a mess. That goes for space, too. 人类所到之处都是一片狼藉，太空也不例外。 Today, our species is responsible for more than 500,000 pieces of junk hurtling around Earth at phenomenal speeds, and if we don’t start actively removing the largest pieces, the risk of collisions will only grow worse. 现在人类要为超过500,000个绕地球高速飞行的垃圾负责，如果我们再不积极行动起来清理大型垃圾，碰撞的危险只会越来越大。 “Imagine how dangerous…
As Airbnb absorbs more and more of the demand for housing, it’s exploring how to monetize opportunities beyond vacation rentals. 随着Airbnb满足了越来越多的住房需求，它现在也正在探索将业务范围扩大到度假租赁之外。 A marketplace for longer-term corporate housing could be a huge business, but rather than build that itself, Airbnb is making a strategic investment in one of the market leaders called Zeus Living, which will…
Apple is toppled by oil giant Saudi Aramco as the most valuable listed company. 石油巨头沙特阿美石油公司取代苹果成为最有价值公司。 In the largest initial public offering in history, a state-owned oil and gas behemoth in Saudi Arabia became the most valuable publicly traded company in the world. 沙特阿拉伯国有油气巨头公司首次公开募股规模成为史上之最，将成为全球最有价值上市公司。 Saudi Arabian Oil Co., aka Saudi Aramco, has just priced its shares…