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    According to the Daily Telegraph¹ of September 20, the world's ten most unanswerable questions include "what is the meaning of life", "does God exist", showed a study made by Ask Jeeves, a popular search engine in US。
    The search engine has now compiled² what it describes as a top ten of "unanswerables" – the posers where there is no simple answer – based on more than a billion questions it has been asked in the last decade. They include everything from the taxing question "what is love" to "who is the most famous person in the world?"Other weighty issues include mortality, the secret of happiness and even whether blondes have more fun。
    Nadia Kelly, of Ask Jeeves, said: "Jeeves prides himself on being able to answer 16 million questions a month and has been doing so for ten years now. But even we have to admit that occasionally³ there is going to be a question where there is no simple answer so we're letting our users⁴ do it themselves."据《每日电讯报》9月20日报道，美国著名搜索引擎Ask Jeeves最新调查发现，世界上最难回答的十大问题包括“生命的意义是什么”、“有没有上帝”等等。
    本次评选的十大难题是从该网站十年来网友提出的十几亿问题中挑选出来的，这些难题无法用简单的语言回答，其中有很多非常抽象难回答的问题，比如“什么是爱情”、“谁是世界上最出名的人”等等。
    其他难回答的问题还涉及到道德以及幸福的秘诀，甚至还有“金发女郎真的更快乐吗”这样的问题。
    来自Ask Jeeves的纳迪亚？凯莉说：“Jeeves一直以每月能够为用户解答1600万个问题而骄傲，并且坚守本职工作十年如一日。但是我们必须承认一点，有时我们也会有一些问题无法简简单单给出答案，这些就要靠我们的用户自己去寻找答案了。”

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1 telegraph
n.电报，电报机；v.打电报，显示
参考例句：
A new telegraph line has been set up between the two cities.那两个城市之间架设了一条新的电报线。 Telegraph communication was broken off.电讯中断了。

2 compiled
v.收集( compile的过去式和过去分词 )；编辑；编制；编译
参考例句：
They have compiled a collection of Elementary Readings on the Natural Scieces to help young people in their studies. 为了便于青少年学习，他们编了一套《自然科学小丛书》。来自《现代汉英综合大词典》 Bibliographies are lists of books and are compiled in many different forms. 书目是以许多不同形式编制的图书目录。来自辞典例句

3 occasionally
adv.偶然地；非经常地
参考例句：
He went on talking,occasionally wiping at his face with a towel.他继续说着，偶尔用毛巾擦一下脸。 I like playing football best,but occasionally I play table tennis,too.我最喜欢踢足球，偶尔也打打乒乓球。

4 users
用户，使用者( user的名词复数 )
参考例句：
The new software will prove a boon to Internet users. 这种新软件将会对互联网用户大有益处。 Ramps should be provided for wheelchair users. 应该给轮椅使用者提供坡道。