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In Edmonton, Alberta, the sun had yet to come up. The temperature was more than 20 degrees below zero. In the dark and cold, Tanis Smith was ready to run up and down hundreds of stairs among the trees in the Saskatchewan River Valley.  在阿尔伯塔省的埃德蒙顿，太阳还没有升起。气温零下二十多度。在黑暗和寒冷中，坦尼斯·史密斯准备在萨斯喀彻温河谷的树林中跑上跑下数百级楼梯。  And Smith was not...

The archaeologists found the site under the jungle canopy in the southeastern state of Campeche by accident during an internet search. A PhD student spotted a radar survey posted by an environmental organisation that could peer through thick vegetation. 考古学家们在一次互联网搜索中意外地在丛林树冠下发现了这处位于墨西哥东南部坎佩切州的遗址。一名博士生注意到了一个环境监测组织发布的雷达测绘图，这个雷...

Think of the wisest person you know. What is it that makes them wise? What qualities do they have? Does wisdom mean the same for you as it does for me? All cultures value wisdom, but not all cultures agree on its definition. For some, the focus is on intelligence, while others emphasise compassionate love for others. In some cultures, a spiritual component is required to be considered wi...

Jon Fosse began writing stories as a child. His  breakthrough  novel, Boathouse, was published in 1989. Having established himself as a  novelist , poet and children's author, he then turned his attention to writing plays. 约恩·福瑟从童年时就开始编写故事。他在1989年发表的小说《船屋》令他崭露头角。在以小说家、诗人及儿童文学作家的身份站稳脚跟后，他将注意力转移到戏剧剧本创作...

A much-publicized art piece made up of a single banana taped to a wall has sold for $6.2 million.  一件广为人知的艺术作品，由一根用胶带粘在墙上的香蕉组成，售价为 620 万美元。  The sale happened Wednesday night during an auction in New York City at famous art seller Sotheby’s. The work, called Comedian, was sold to cryptocurrency businessman Justin Sun. He is a Chinese collector and found...

People will no longer have to fight with monkeys in the historic Thai city of Lopburi.  在泰国历史名城华富里，人们将不再需要与猴子打斗。  That is because of new efforts to keep the animals from reproducing and to limit their movements.  这是因为人们采取了新的措施来阻止动物繁殖并限制它们的活动。 Before public health measures to control COVID-19 closed businesses in Lopburi, about 3,0...

“We’re…used to bears so (when you see one) you don’t start to tremble,” Mayor Mike Spence said. “It’s their area too. It’s important how the community coexists with bears and wildlife in general to really get along. We’re all connected.”  “我们……已经习惯了熊，所以（当你看到熊时）你不会开始颤抖，”市长迈克·斯彭斯说。“这也是他们的地盘。社区如何与熊和野生动物共存才能真正和谐相处，这一点很重要。我...

Churchill, Manitoba is a small, rural Canadian town that lives with neighboring predators and loves it. That is because the predators — a polar bear population — attract the visitors who saved the town’s economy after a military base there closed. Tourists wanting to see the bears bring millions of dollars into the local economy.  马尼托巴省的丘吉尔是加拿大的一个乡村小镇，与邻近的掠食者一起生...

The basic building blocks of humans are cells. When embryos are first fertilised, they're all the same. But after three weeks, they begin to specialise and clump together to form the various bits of the body.  人体结构最基本的组成是细胞。当胚胎刚受精时，它们的细胞是完全相同的。但三周后，细胞会开始分化并分别凝聚形成人体的各个部分。  The secret to learning how humans are built [lies] deep...

Think of the wisest person you know. What is it that makes them wise? What qualities do they have? Does wisdom mean the same for you as it does for me? All cultures value wisdom, but not all cultures agree on its definition. For some, the focus is on intelligence, while others emphasise compassionate love for others. In some cultures, a spiritual component is required to be considered wise. Are th...

Researchers at Michigan State University recently found that bees’ sense of “smell” is sensitive enough to identify chemical smells of cancer.  密歇根州立大学的研究人员最近发现，蜜蜂的“嗅觉”足够灵敏，可以识别癌症的化学气味。  Bees sense chemicals in their environment using antennae, structures on their heads, which serve as “noses” to sense smells.  蜜蜂使用触角来感知环境中的化学物...

Technology company Microsoft is working with the Roman Catholic Church to create a detailed, digital version of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.  科技公司微软正在与罗马天主教会合作，创建梵蒂冈城圣彼得大教堂的详细数字版本。  The project aims to give people a new way to experience the famous building, which sits in the Catholic Church’s spiritual and administrative center in Rome.&nbs...

Many people with SAD respond to light therapy, said Dr. Paul Desan of Yale University’s Winter Depression Research Clinic. The therapy devices give off light about 20 times brighter than regular indoor light.  耶鲁大学冬季抑郁症研究诊所的保罗·德桑博士说，许多季节性情感障碍患者对光疗有反应。该治疗设备发出的光比普通室内光亮约 20 倍。  “The first thing to try is light,” Desan said. “When we...

As fall and winter come to some parts of the world, daylight hours grow shorter. This lack of light can cause seasonal depression.  随着秋季和冬季的到来，世界上一些地区的白天时间变得越来越短。光照不足会导致季节性抑郁症。  “It (is) a feeling of panic, fear, anxiety and dread all in one,” said Germaine Pataki. The 63-year-old woman living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, is among t...

The basic building blocks of humans are cells. When embryos are first fertilised, they're all the same. But after three weeks, they begin to specialise and clump together to form the various bits of the body.  人体结构最基本的组成是细胞。当胚胎刚受精时，它们的细胞是完全相同的。但三周后，细胞会开始分化并分别凝聚形成人体的各个部分。  The secret to learning how humans are built [lies] deep...

Squashed noses, scratched cheeks and t-shirts covered in sticky drinks. These are just some of the things that people are complaining about following the introduction of a new style of plastic bottle lid. Regulations in Europe now require manufacturers to tether lids to plastic drink bottles, making them difficult to remove.  鼻子被压扁，脸颊被抓伤，T 恤上沾满了粘稠的饮料。这些只是新型塑料瓶...

It would not be autumn without planting advice from Associated Press gardening expert Jessica Damiano.  如果没有美联社园艺专家杰西卡·达米亚诺的种植建议，就不会有秋天。  Damiano recently wrote about her experience planting garlic cloves. She was concerned not just about protecting them from low winter temperatures. She was worried that animals would dig up her bulbs and eat them.  达...

Researchers in Mexico have discovered a large, lost Mayan city.  墨西哥的研究人员发现了一座失落的大型玛雅城市。  The major urban settlement, named Valeriana, is hidden deep in the southern forest of Campeche.  主要城市定居点瓦莱里亚纳 (Valeriana) 隐藏在坎佩切南部森林深处。  The discovery adds to existing knowledge about ancient Mayan settlements.  这一发现丰富了有关古代玛...

British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, highly infectious version of mpox that first appeared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  英国卫生官员表示，他们已经发现了四例新型高传染性MPOX病例，该病例首次出现在刚果民主共和国。  The announcement marks the first time the variant has caused a group of illnesses outside of Africa. Scientists said the risk to...

The clear-winged, yellow-bellied moths made an improbable journey from the jungle of Guyana to Pontardawe in South Wales before being discovered. One was spotted on a windowsill at home by ecologist Daisy Cadet, whose mother had visited South America on a photography trip three months earlier. The pair later found the remains of two cocoons in the bag she'd used to carry her boots on the journey.&...

So, you've reached an intermediate level of English – congrats! You can understand most things about familiar topics and can express yourself in most situations. But maybe you've been here a while, and now you're stuck in what we call the 'intermediate plateau'. Often when we begin learning something, progress is fast and noticeable, but perhaps now it's difficult to see your improvements. Let's s...

Fruit flies can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo females. All this, and these flies have a brain that's tinier than a pinhead. Researchers have taken a closer look and found that it's a tangle of more than 130,000 separate wires called neurons – all packed together, making more than 50 million separate connections to each other.  果蝇能行走和盘旋，雄性果蝇甚至能够通过...

What do these three things have in common: a grumpy baby, Harry Potter puppets singing, and a challenge where you pour a bucket of icy water over your head? The answer – they have all 'gone viral'.  这三件事有什么共同点：脾气暴躁的婴儿、哈利·波特木偶的歌声以及将一桶冰水倒在头上的挑战？答案是——它们都“病毒式传播”了。  The world is becoming more and more digital, and we can't stop it. While...

In the Japanese village of Kamimomi, a small group of farmers began gathering their rice in extreme heat, two weeks earlier than usual.  在日本的上莫米村，一小群农民开始在酷暑中收割稻谷，比平时提前了两周。  Kamimomi is in Japan’s western Okayama prefecture. The area is called "the Land of Sunshine" because of its good weather. But farmers working in the mountainside rice fields say clima...

Researchers say a large fish that was thought to have disappeared from Asia’s Mekong River has been seen in the waterway in recent years.  研究人员表示，一种被认为从亚洲湄公河消失的大型鱼类近年来在该水道中被发现。  The fish is called a giant salmon carp. A recent study detailed the most recent sightings of the fish. The lead writer of that study said the fish was seen at least three time...