FOR YEARS, people have been naming their petsand their kids, in some casesafter pop icons they love. 多年来，人们一直用喜欢的流行偶像的名字来给他们的宠物和孩子取名。 In 2016, 370 people in the United States named their...
11 Lightning can strike the same place twiceand it often does, especially objects that are tall, pointy, and isolated. 11闪电可以两次击中同一个地方，而且经常如此，特别是那些孤立的高尖物体。 The Empire State Building,...
6 Rubber tires are not what protect you from lightning when you're in your car. 6当你在车里的时候，橡胶轮胎并不能保护你免受闪电电击。 You're protected because when lightning hits a car, it travels around the outside of the m...
1Lightning strikes more than eight million times a day worldwide. 1世界每天有超过八百万次的闪电。 That's about 93 times per second. 大约是每秒93次。 2 How hot is a lightning bolt? About 50,000Ffive times hotter than the surface...
I see the day when it won't mean so much to a tiny soul to have me sit next to her and read a story, one that means little to either of us 我看到有一天，我坐在她旁边对她来说不再那么意义非凡，读着我们两个都觉得毫无意...
She sees me looking! Back to work. 她看见我在望着她！接着出题。 (What is the significance of the motto carved on the bow of Benito Cereno's ship?) （刻在贝尼托塞莱诺船头上的格言有什么意义?） She pats the wicker chai...
I leave them in conversation and return to my desk. 我留下他们两个说着话，自己回到办公桌前。 Within five minutes she appears before me, wearing her mother's shoes. 不到五分钟，她就穿着她妈妈的鞋子出现在我面前，...
I CAN DO MY OWN work fairly well during most of these chores, 大部分的家务活，我都能很好地完成。 and so I concentrate on Melville. 所以我把注意力集中在梅尔维尔的出题上。 (Discuss the similarity of the alienation th...
She follows a daily routine that is both time-consuming and challenging. 她每天的工作既费时又有挑战性。 It includes certain basic tasks: 包括一些基本任务： watching the grop. (That would be the fish.) Sweeping the rug in her r...
MISSY, I CALLED to my wife, did you smear Vaseline on my desk? 米西，我对妻子喊道，你把凡士林放在我桌子上了吗? No, honey. Meghan probably did. 没有，亲爱的，可能是梅根放的。 Just like that. Calm. 就像这样。冷...
