Some jokes just make you chuckle, and thank goodness for them. But some punch lines make you stop mid-laugh and actually think. 有些笑话让你发笑，你会感谢它们。但是有些段子会让你停止大笑，开始思考。 One. An elderly...
THE YONAGUNI MONUMENT. Are they human-made steps and ancient pyramids that sank in an earthquake, or natural rock formations created by currents? 与那国岛古迹。它们是人类制造的台阶和在地震中沉没的古代金字塔，还是由洋流...
It has been nearly 150 years since the publication of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 《海底两万里》出版至今已近150年， and scientists are still searching for the truth about many of the creatures and features of the deep. 科学家仍在搜...
Our son was upset that his baseball coach yelled whenever he or a teammate made a mistake. 每当我们的儿子或他的队友犯错时，他的棒球教练就会大喊大叫。这让他很生气。 It's just something coaches do, I said. It's not p...
Six. Preserve Your Laptop's Battery It sounds counterintuitive, but unplugging your laptop can help save its battery. 保护笔记本电脑的电池这听起来有点违反直觉，但拔掉笔记本电脑的电源插头可以帮你节省电池。 Th...
One. Book a Cruise ASAP. March is the last month of what the industry calls wave season. 尽快订邮轮。三月是被业界称为波浪季节的最后一个月。 Cruise lines want to sell as many cabins as possible, so they often throw in upgrades...
Experts warn that obsessing over investments is often counter-productive because timing the stock market's highs and lows is impossible. 专家警告说，沉迷投资常常会产生相反效果，因为知晓股市的涨跌时间是不可能的。 T...
To maximize his benefits, he also plans to wait as long as possibleuntil age 70to draw from Social Security. 为了最大化他的收益，他也计划等待尽可能长的时间，直到70岁才从社会保险中支取出来。 He expects to receive...
Vincent Martin is 56 and on track to retire right on time at 65. 文森特马丁现年56岁，65岁时将准时退休。 That's no small feat, considering that he has never used a financial adviser or other investment advice. 这是个不小的壮举，...
Do you have a favorite letter? The C. A lot of starting-out players are afraid of C's because they don't make any two-letter words. 你有最喜欢的字母吗？C。很多新手都害怕C这样的字母。因为他们构不成任何两个字母的单词...
Clara Daly was seated on an Alaska Airlines flight en route from Boston to Los Angeles 克拉拉戴利坐在从波士顿飞往洛杉矶的阿拉斯加航空公司航班上时， when a flight attendant asked an urgent question over the loudspeaker: D...
Had the case gone to trial, jurors may well have convicted Anderson, 但是对被告人来说，这很难被称为是一个小的错误。如果这个案子开庭审理，陪审团很可能将安德森定罪， as they did the other three defendants...
When Corporal Erin Lunsford, a 15-year veteran of the Los GatosMonte Sereno Police Department, arrived at the Kumra mansion, 埃琳伦斯福德下士是洛斯盖托斯-蒙特塞利诺警察局的一名15年的退伍军人。他来到库姆拉公馆后，...
Back in the 1980s, when DNA forensic analysis was new, crime labs needed a speck of bodily fluidusually blood, semen, or spitto generate a genetic profile. 在20世纪80年代，DNA法医分析还是一项新技术，犯罪实验室需要一点身体的...
When the DNA results came back, even Lukis Anderson thought he might have committed the murder. 当DNA检测结果出来时，就连卢基斯安德森都认为他可能是凶手。 I drink a lot, he told public defender Kelley Kulick as they sat in a...
