• 大学师生因“煤气泄漏”紧急撤离,“元凶”竟是这种水果!

    More than 500 students and teachers were evacuated from a university in Melbourne, Australia, as a result of a smell initially suspected to be gas. 因为闻起来像煤气的气味,导致澳大利亚墨尔本的一所大学的超过500名学生和老师从中撤离。 But it turned out the “gas” that students smelt at the RMIT’s library was a rotting durian that had been left in a cup...阅读全文
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  • 研究发现:要想外语达到母语水平,十岁前就得开始学

    There is a critical cut-off age for learning a language fluently, according to research. 研究发现,流利地掌握一门语言有一个关键的年龄分界点。 If you want to have native-like knowledge of English grammar, for example, you should ideally start before age 10, say the researchers. 研究人员说,如果你想拥有比如说像讲母语者那样好的英语语法,那么最好在10岁前就开始学习...阅读全文
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  • 日本高中开另类生命课 让学生亲手养鸡再宰了吃

    For the past 60 years, every generation of freshman students at Izumo Agricultural and Forestry High School, in Izumo, Japan’s Shimane prefecture, has taken the “Class of Life”, a controversial six-month course during which the students help hatch and raise chickens, before having to slaughter and eat them. 过去60年来,日本岛根县出云市的出云农林高中的每一届新...阅读全文
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  • 英国内政部错误撤销数千名留学生签证

    The Home Office may have falsely accused as many as 7,000 foreign students of faking their proficiency in English and ordered them to leave the country, with some of them saying they were detained and made homeless as a result. 英国内政部(Home Office)可能错误地指控多达7000名外国学生伪造他们的英语水平,据此勒令其离开英国,其中一些学生表示,此举导致他们遭到拘留...阅读全文
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  • 高考成绩能否预测美国高中生未来学术能力?

    This Saturday, hundreds of thousands of U.S. high-school students will sit down to take the SAT, anxious about their performance and how it will affect their college prospects. And in a few weeks, their older peers, who took the test last year, will start hearing back from the colleges they applied to. Admitted, rejected, waitlisted? It often hinges, in no sma...阅读全文
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  • 耶鲁大学校长2018年毕业演讲:心胸开阔,海纳百川

    Yale began the 317th Commencement celebrations with a traditional Baccalaureate service for graduating seniors and their families in Woolsey Hall on Saturday afternoon. 周六下午,耶鲁大学在伍尔西大厅为毕业生和他们的家人举行了第317次毕业典礼,庆祝他们学士毕业。 University Chaplain Sharon Kugler opened the ceremony with a prayer, after which four students read p...阅读全文
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  • 国外英雄老师扑倒持枪男子,拯救了所有学生

    When a middle school boy allegedly opened fire at his Indiana school, the science teacher immediately ran and tackled him to the ground, one student in the classroom told ABC News. 印第安纳一名中学生在学校开枪,教科学的老师立即跑过来把他摔倒在地,教室里的一个学生对ABC新闻这样说道。 The suspected shooter, a student at Noblesville West Middle School, asked to be...阅读全文
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