He thought he had had a lot of luck, in fact. Over a 18-year career he had chalked up 189 victories in other races, including the Vuelta a Espa?a, his only Grand Tour, La Flche Wallonne, the French national champion-ship and the Paris-Nice (twice) ag...
鲸鱼体型之谜(1) Why are whales so big? One answer is simply that they can be. 为什么鲸鱼的体型如此庞大？有一个答案很简单，它们就是能长到这么大。 The size of land animals is constrained in part by their need to s...
Enforcement has been beefed up. Improvements to NAFTA's dispute-settlement system are 执法力度得到了加强。NAFTA的纠纷解决体系的改进 probably the most important thing in the whole treaty, says Jesus Seade, Mexico's chief negotiator...
The world this week 本周要闻 Business 商业 The prospect of Congress approving the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement improved, after Democrats reached a deal with the White House to revise the trade deal. The reworked USMCA weakens intellect...
骑自行车的人雷蒙布里多(1) Raymond Poulidor, cyclist, died on November 13th, aged 83 自行车手雷蒙布里多于11月13日去世，享年83岁。 Eight times Raymond Poulidor stood on the podium at the end of the Tour de France, soaked i...
数据存储(1) A hard drive is a miracle of modern technology. 硬盘驱动器是现代技术的一个奇迹。 For $50 anyone can buy a machine that can comfortably store the contents of, 只要花上50美元，每个人都能买上一台机器，轻...
Vietnamese customs officials have stepped up checks of everything from seafood to aluminium to ensure that they are not relabelled Chinese goods. 越南海关官员已经加强了对从海产品到铝等各种商品的检查，以确保它们不是被重...
The world this week 本周要闻 Politics 政治 The House of Representatives presented two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump: that the president abused his power by pressing Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden, and that he obstructed Cong...
He was the 41st killer to be interviewed by Mr Oppenheimer. He gloated over how they used to crush their victims' necks with wooden staves, How they hanged them, strangled them, cut off their heads, ran them over with carsall because they were allowe...
A year ago an economic forecasting unit in the Chinese government published an outlook for the coming year. 一年前，中国政府的一个经济预测部门发布了明年的经济展望。 The big worry, it concluded, was the external environment...
