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The 35-year-old woman had to be cut out of her jeans after she lost the feeling in her lower legs, which had become badly  swollen . 这位 35 岁的女士在她的小腿已经严重肿胀失去知觉后，不得不将她的牛仔裤剪掉。 The doctors said the tight jeans had caused a loss of  blood supply  as well as  muscle  and  nerve  damage. 医生说紧身牛仔裤导致血液供应中断以及肌肉和神经损...

Motorists  over 70 are  considered  to be  amongst  the safest on the road. Many avoid  rush-hour  and late-night driving and are said to cause fewer  accident-related  injuries  than younger drivers. 70 岁以上的驾车者被认为是道路上最安全的人。 许多人避免高峰时间和深夜驾驶，据说与年轻司机相比，事故相关伤害更少。 But more of them than ever are being...

With their  waddling  gait  and  lack  of  flight , penguins have long been an  oddity  in the  bird kingdom . Now  zoologists  have discovered they're unusual too in their sense of taste. 由于走路摇摇晃晃、不会飞，企鹅长期以来一直是鸟类王国中的异类。 现在，动物学家发现它们的味觉也很不寻常。 Most birds can't  detect  sweet things. Bu...

Gardening requires a lot of physical labor. The activity can extend from light exercise to heavy labor. All that bending, lifting, digging, carrying and moving burns calories and builds muscle. But it can also injure the body. A gardener’s back can start to hurt and so can their knees. Even the strongest and healthiest of gardeners can hurt themselves. For people who are less physically...

Growth  last year was good, but not as good as originally hoped and there are worries that the economy is losing  momentum . The British economy is probably still  expanding  faster than any other major economy, and this is the fastest  rate  of growth since 2007. 去年的增长不错，但不如最初希望的那么好，人们担心经济正在失去动力。 英国经济的扩张速度可能仍高于任何其他主...

Some American skateboarders are creating new moves by combining longboarding and dance. This version of the activity is already popular in southern California. It has also become popular in cities like Paris, France and Seoul, South Korea. Reporters from The Associated Press recently spoke with some skaters about the unusual activity. The AP described it as bringing together skating...

Buying shampoo can be overwhelming – there are so many  brands  to choose from, across a huge  range of  prices. Some brands promise to  repair  and  nourish  our hair, while others promise to  strengthen  and add  volume . But are any of these claims true? Do we even need shampoo at all? 购买洗发水可能会让人不知所措——品牌众多，价格差异巨大。...

词汇表 World Heritage 世界遗产 candidates 候选 settlements 定居地 peatland 泥炭地 preservation 保护，维护 tentative list 预备名单，暂定名单 migratory 迁徙的 flyway 迁飞路径 In total, there are more than 1,100  World Heritage  sites across the globe, including the pyramids and the Great Barrier Reef. 全球共有1100多处世界遗产，包括金字塔和大堡礁。 The Government has now submitted seven&nbs...

With an ongoing war in Europe, high energy prices and food shortages, some wealthy people find themselves wanting to spend their money in ways that do not draw attention. Even in the current economic climate, many people who have a lot of money are still buying costly items such as fine wool clothing and leather bags. However, they are purchasing items without the large company logos and lettering...

Where is the line between art and advertising? The question is central to a big dispute in a small American town. A large painting in Conway, New Hampshire, has led to a zoning conflict, a First Amendment legal action and a local vote. It started with a high school art project to paint a picture on a building in the town. The building houses a store called Leavitt’s Country Bakery. The picture sho...

Scientists say a small parasite is the cause of death of many sea urchins in the Caribbean Sea. Sea urchins are simple animals that have long spines. Last year, the long-spined sea urchins, also known as Diadema antillarum, started getting sick. They were losing their spines and their sticky feet were losing their grip on the coral reefs. The loss of so many sea urchins, which eat algae that grow...

Everyone gets tired – it's a normal part of human existence. It can make us grouchy and grumpy at the end of the day, but a good night's sleep will often leave us feeling well rested. However, sometimes we feel more than just general tiredness. We can get overtired and feel a bit run-down which may affect our daily lives – but what can we do about it? Here are some things that may stop you getting...

A SpaceX rocket successfully launched with the company’s Starship spacecraft Thursday, but the two-part system exploded minutes later and crashed into the sea. It was the first test flight for SpaceX’s latest Super Heavy rocket, which carries a large space capsule on top, called Starship. The capsule is designed to one day carry astronauts and supplies to the moon and possibly Mars. No astronauts...

Scientists, environmental activists, and government officials warn that the Bahamas’ conch population is decreasing because of overfishing. The conch is a kind of marine creature with a shell. It is important to Bahamians’ diet and economy. Tereha Davis's family has fished for conch around the Bahamas for five generations. Davis, who is 49 years old, remembers when she could walk into the water an...

Businessman Elon Musk says ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence “bots” are too liberal and that he plans to create his own. Musk, the owner of Twitter and the Tesla electric vehicle company, spoke with Tucker Carlson on the American television channel Fox News on Monday night. He said his new AI “bot” will be called TruthGPT. He said it will be a “maximum truth-seeking AI that tries...

Scientists have released a more detailed version of the first image of a black hole. That first image, released four years ago, showed a blurry, round-shaped orange object. Now, researchers have used machine learning methods to create an improved picture. The new image was recently published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. The same shape remains as in the first image, but it has a narrower r...

Have you ever caught a whiff of something and been strongly reminded of a person or place? It seems there is a deep psychological link between smells, our personality and our memory. Some research even suggests that smells can influence our cognition. 您是否曾闻到某物的气味并强烈想起某个人或某个地方？气味、我们的性格和我们的记忆之间似乎存在着深刻的心理联系。一些研究甚至表明气味会影响我们的认知。 S...

For many, the idea of commuting daily to a place of work might sound outdated. In the UK, at least, the shape of the working week is changing, and a new hybrid approach is becoming commonplace. This new look seems inevitable: new technology means tasks traditionally done in the office can be done at home. And there's the demand for a better work-life balance, too. All of this has been accelerated...

Well, you're in a real pickle. You see, a few years ago, the king decided your life would be forfeit unless you tripled the gold coins in his treasury. Fortunately for you, a strange little man appeared and magically performed the feat. He placed handfuls of coins in and out of a magical bag, and sang a strange rhyme:“The more gold goes in and more comes out, as sure as I am me. And in again, and...

For many years, skateboarding was considered an activity for young rebels or drug users in city streets, schoolgrounds and public parks. Those days are long gone. Skateboarding, which has Indigenous roots connected to surfing, is now an Olympic sport. There are many skateboarding competitions held across the United States and other countries. Recently, skateboarding was honored with a special reco...

An Australian company has made lab-grown meat using genetic information from a wooly mammoth, an extinct animal. The company launched the creation in a science museum in the Netherlands. It came just days before April 1, known as April Fools’ Day. “This is not an April Fools' joke,” said Tim Noakesmith, founder of the Australian company Vow. “This is a real innovation.” The lab-grown meat, also ca...

What does a small school in the American state of Florida have to do with the famous Italian statue of David in Florence, Italy? Well, the mayor of Florence and the museum where David is housed recently invited parents, students and the former principal of the school to visit. The invitation came after some parents were upset when their sixth-grade children at Tallahassee Classical School saw a ph...

Thousands of Japanese cherry trees are blooming on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. When the trees reach peak bloom, the United States’ capital city is awash in pink and white. In the 1920s, the average peak bloom date was April 5. That moved up to March 31 in recent years. And the 2023 peak arrived yet a week earlier, the National Park Service said last week. “I’m feeling like this is going...

Throughout history, people have been attracted to puzzles, from Ancient Greek riddles to brain-teasing video games, people have tried to solve problems for fun. But what is it about these conundrums that makes us enjoy them? It could be that the desire to find a solution is wired into us. A study has shown that when people complete anagrams, it can stimulate the reward centre in the brain. One of...

In the early 20th century, a meteorologist named Alfred Wegener noticed striking similarities between the coasts of Africa and South America. These observations led him to propose a controversial new theory: perhaps these and many other continents had once been connected in a single, gigantic landmass. Wegener’s Theory of Continental Drift directly contradicted the popular opinion that Earth’s con...