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In February 1866, Charles Dickens  threatened  to move away from his part of Kent [in the UK] because of the loss of a Sunday postal service. “I should be so  hampered  by the proposed restriction” he writes, in a letter  made public  for the first time, “that I think it would force me to leave this part of the country.” 1866年2月，查尔斯·狄更斯因周日邮政服务被取消而...

Tickets  for the American football Super Bowl game are among the hardest to get in all of sports. Because of that, some websites that buy and re-sell tickets have set prices for the upcoming game in Las Vegas, Nevada at almost $10,000. 美式橄榄球超级碗比赛的门票是所有体育赛事中最难获得的门票之一。 因此，一些购买和转售门票的网站将即将在内华达州拉斯维加斯举行的比赛的价格定为近 10,000 美元。 The...

Our brain works by  firing off   electrical impulses . The team at Boston University used this in order to  boost  memory. 我们的大脑通过发送电脉冲来工作。美国波士顿大学的研究团队就利用了这一原理来提高人们的记忆力。 They asked volunteers to wear a cap filled with  electrodes , then used precise  electrical currents  to alter their  brainwaves  in 20-min...

At 30 metres long, weighing 25 tonnes, it's thought this  salvage  wreck, found in 2002, was built around 1449 from Basque-country wood and was involved in the  lucrative  wine trade between Portugal and Bristol (UK). 这艘沉船于2002年被发现，船身长30米、重25吨 ，人们认为它是在1449年前后用巴斯克地区的木材建成的，这艘船被用于葡萄牙和英国布里斯托之间利润丰厚的葡萄酒贸易活动。 Hist...

Elon Musk says his company Neuralink has placed an experimental brain device in a person in the first human test of the technology. 埃隆·马斯克表示，他的公司 Neuralink 已经在人体中放置了一个实验性大脑设备，这是该技术的首次人体测试。 Neuralink describes the coin-sized device as a “brain-computer  interface .” It is designed to be  implanted  inside the brain through a medical operati...

The African violet, a plant from Tanzania that came to the U.S. in the late 1800s, received a special honor from the National Garden Bureau (NGB). 非洲紫罗兰是一种来自坦桑尼亚的植物，于 1800 年代末传入美国，获得了国家园林局 (NGB) 的特殊荣誉。 The organization named 2024 “The Year of the African Violet.” Other plants, flowers and vegetables for 2024 include: squash, Angelonia, lily, buddleia and ho...

Scientists in Berlin announced recently the first successful embryo  transfer  in a white rhinoceros. 柏林的科学家最近宣布首次在白犀牛身上成功进行胚胎移植。 The transfer, which occurred in a southern white rhinoceros, offers hope for saving the northern white rhino from completely dying off. 这次发生在南方白犀牛身上的转移，为拯救北方白犀牛免于完全灭绝带来了希望。 The white rhinoceros inc...

Britain’s King Charles was treated recently for a medical condition called enlarged prostate. American Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently spent two weeks in a hospital for treatment following an operation for prostate cancer. 英国国王查尔斯最近因前列腺肥大而接受治疗。 美国国防部长劳埃德·奥斯汀最近在接受前列腺癌手术后在医院接受了两周的治疗。 The 70-year-old Austin did not share any news of his...

This study  monitored  pregnant women who were working in rice fields in The Gambia. They were farming in direct sun for between two to eight hours, often in high  humidity . 这项研究监测了在冈比亚稻田里工作的孕妇。她们在阳光直射、且经常是高湿度条件下耕作两到八个小时。 Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine say as a mother worked in the extreme heat the&...

The value to society of satellite  meteorology  is  immense . In terms of lives saved and  infrastructure  damage that's avoided, the returns on investment run into billions annually. 卫星气象学的社会价值是巨大的。就卫星气象学挽救的生命和因其免遭破坏的基础设施而言，每年相关投资的回报可达数十亿美元。 Europe's new Meteosat will replace technology that is now more than 20 yea...

The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of very small plastic known as nanoplastics, a recent study says. 最近的一项研究表明，每升瓶装水中平均含有近 25 万个看不见的非常小的塑料，即纳米塑料。 Researchers found the nanoplastics with a microscope using dual lasers. 研究人员用双激光显微镜发现了纳米塑料。 Scientists long figured there were lots of these very sma...

Cameroon has begun the world’s first major malaria vaccine program for children. 喀麦隆已启动世界上第一个针对儿童的大型疟疾疫苗计划。 The campaign launched Monday in the Central African nation. Health officials called the effort a major step in the fight against the disease across Africa. The continent accounts for about 95 percent of the world’s malaria deaths. 该活动周一在这个中非国家发起。 卫生...

The social media site X has blocked some searches for Taylor Swift in reaction to an online spread of  pornographic  deepfake images of the singer. 社交媒体网站 X 屏蔽了泰勒·斯威夫特 (Taylor Swift) 的一些搜索，以应对网上传播泰勒·斯威夫特 (Taylor Swift) 的色情深度伪造图片的情况。 A “deepfake” is an image, sound recording, or video created to make it appear that people in it are saying or...

Japan’s space agency says a spacecraft that landed on the moon earlier this month has regained power and is continuing its  mission . 日本宇宙航空研究开发机构表示，本月早些时候登陆月球的航天器已恢复动力并继续执行任务。 Officials from the Japan Exploration Agency (JAXA) said Monday they had successfully reestablished communication with the SLIM moon explorer. 日本研究开发机构 (JAXA) 的官员周一...

Gene treatments are being credited with permitting several children born with deafness to hear again. 基因治疗被认为使一些先天性耳聋的儿童能够再次听到声音。 Gene therapy is a medical treatment that aims to change a few of a patient’s genes to cure a genetic disease. 基因疗法是一种旨在改变患者的一些基因以治愈遗传性疾病的医疗方法。 A small study recently published in The Lancet reported im...

A large U.S. study found no evidence that taking Ozempic or Wegovy is tied to an increase in suicidal thoughts, researchers reported recently. 研究人员最近报告称，美国的一项大型研究发现，没有证据表明服用 Ozempic 或 Wegovy 与自杀念头增加有关。 Both Ozempic for type 2 diabetes and the  obesity  treatment Wegovy have the same active ingredient, semaglutide. 用于治疗 2 型糖尿病的 Ozempic 和...

The researchers from Sorbonne Paris Nord University say they were surprised by how efficient and reliable the ants were in  sniffing out  cancer. 70 ants belonging to the species known as Formica fusca were  exposed  to  urine  samples from mice with and without  cancerous  cells. 来自巴黎第十三大学（又称 “索邦-巴黎北大学”）的研究人员表示，他们对蚂蚁能如此高...

Rob   Finn? …Hello Finn? 芬恩?...你好 芬恩？ Finn  Oh sorry Rob, you caught me  napping . It's that time of day when I need to  nod off  – or in other words, fall asleep. 芬恩:  哦，对不起，罗布，你发现我在打瞌睡。 一天中的这个时候我需要打瞌睡，或者换句话说，需要入睡。 Rob  Well,  sleeping on the job  – or sleeping at work - is no bad thing – and I...

Finn  Thank you! Thank you sound effects! Thank you, Neil! Is this all for me? I feel like quite a  celebrity !                芬恩 谢谢你！ 谢谢音效！ 谢谢你，尼尔！ 这一切都是为了我吗？ 我感觉自己真是个名人啊！ Neil  Yes, a celebrity – someone famous - particularly someone in  show business , that...

The first few months of 2023 were pretty unexceptional in terms of global temperatures. That changed in July when the world began a remarkable and almost unbroken streak of daily air temperature records. 2023年头几个月的全球气温并无值得关注之处。但从7月起，这一情况发生了变化：全球平均气温几乎连续打破了往年同日的纪录，令人震惊。 More than 200 days set new daily global temperature records, according...

Cotton or plastic: which kind of bag is better for the environment? Many of us would naturally say that the cotton bag is best, but that might only be true if you use that bag thousands of times. Surprised? Keep listening and we'll explain.  棉质或塑料：哪种袋子更环保？ 我们中的许多人自然会说棉质袋子是最好的，但只有当您使用该袋子数千次时，这才可能是正确的。 惊讶吗？ 继续听，我们会解释。 ...

It is early morning on a sunny spring day in April. Heathrow Airport, London, is busy, as usual. Hundreds of people are arriving, leaving, or waiting for planes. In the departure Lounge of Terminal One, a man is sitting reading a newspaper.  这是四月一个阳光明媚的春日清晨。伦敦希思罗机场一如既往地繁忙。数百人正在抵达、离开或等待飞机。在一号航站楼的候机室里，一名男子正坐着看报纸。 He doesn't l...

At first look, the playground at the Children's Guild-Transformation Academy in Baltimore, Maryland, looks like any other. It has swings, slides, and places for children to climb and crawl.  乍一看，马里兰州巴尔的摩儿童协会转型学院的游乐场与其他游乐场没什么两样。里面有秋千、滑梯，还有供孩子们攀爬和爬行的地方。 But the playground is not just a place for fun. It is also a place where students c...

Okay, I think we should roll out of the window if we're gonna try and escape. Let's, let's get out of this apartment or this house completely. 好吧，我想如果我们想逃跑的话就应该滚出窗外。让我们，让我们彻底离开这个公寓或者这个房子。 So, I'm going to choose that as an option.  The window is shut okay. Why did it give me that as an option when the window is shut?  Anyway, Let...

About seven years ago, I got an invitation to attend a dinner party at my cousin's house. I have a pretty large family and I had never actually seen this particular cousin before. I had only ever spoken to him on the phone. 大约七年前，我收到邀请参加我表弟家的晚宴。我有一个相当大的家庭，我以前从未真正见过这个表弟。我只和他通过电话。 I was surprised that his family unexpectedly invited me over, but...