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经济学人双语阅读：德国武器公司 不和武器说再见
【经济学人】双语阅读：德国武器公司不和武器说再见Business商业报道German weapons firms德国武器公司No farewell to arms不和武器说再见Political pressure and bribery allegations are unlikely to hurt Germany's exporters of military equipment.看起来政治压力和受贿指控都不会影响德国的军事装备出口公司。
SINCE the second world war, Germany has rarely sent soldiers to combat zones.自二战以来，德国几乎不曾向战争地区派兵。
But it exports a lot of weapons: more than Britain, France or any other country besides America and Russia.然而它却出口了大量武器：超过英国、法国以及除美国、俄罗斯之外的所有其他国家。
Some German makers of military gear are part of civilian industrial giants, such as Airbus Group, and ThyssenKrupp, a steelmaker.德国的武器制造商中有些隶属于私有的工业巨头，比如空客集团，还有钢铁制造商蒂森克虏伯集团。
But the biggest German company known mainly for weapons, Rheinmetall, is just 26th in the world league of arms-exporting firms.然而，即使是德国著名的以武器业务为主的公司中最大的莱茵金属公司，在世界武器出口公司中也仅仅排在26位。
小学英语双语阅读-狗狗Clifford之神秘飞碟_通用版-文档资料
小学英语双语阅读：狗狗Clifford之神秘飞碟1. Hi, I'm Emily. This is my dog, Clifford. Every school day, he takes me all the way to the school gate. Of course, dogs can't go inside the school. So he waits for me outside.嗨，我是Emily。
这是我的小狗，Clifford。
每天上学的时候，他会一路送我到学校门口。
当然啦，小狗是不能进学校的，所以他会在校门外等我。
2. After school, some kids go home by bus. My friends and I go home by "Clifford".放学后，有些孩子坐公共汽车回家。
我的朋友们和我一起同Clifford回家。
3. After I finish my homework, I play with Clifford. He likes to catch balls and Frisbees like other dogs.我做完回家作业后，就和Clifford一起玩。
他和其他小狗一样，喜欢玩抢球游戏和掷飞碟游戏。
4. One day, Clifford and I are playing on the grass. Clifford sees a big "Frisbee". 一天，Clifford和我正在草地上玩耍，Clifford看到一个很大的“飞碟”。
5. He catches it. But we are surprised to see some purple creatures!他抓住了飞盘。
但是他惊讶地看到一些紫色的动物！6. When they see Clifford, they quickly go back to their "Frisbee" and fly away. Clifford and I have a good time every day.当他们看到Clifford的时候，飞快的回到“飞碟”里并把飞碟开走了。
英语科普阅读材料双语——科技4篇
英语科普阅读材料双语——科技4篇（一）我们如何在28小时内到达火星？ (1)（二）饮水鸟蕴含的工程学原理 (9)（三）人们是否应该接受人造肉 (29)（四）为什么当代手机电池还是这么不经用 (40)（一）我们如何在28小时内到达火星？How Could We Get To Mars In Only 28 Hours?Everyone always wants to get to Mars.每个人都总是渴望去火星Unfortunately, the journey would be a long one,不幸的是依靠我们目前的技术taking hundreds of days of travel with our current technology.这趟旅途将会十分漫长长达几百天Well, what if we could shorten that time to only a matter of days试想如果我们不使用宇宙飞船by throwing away our spaceships而是用一些在太空中急速穿梭的东西and using something that’s already zooming acr oss space?这趟旅程可以缩短到几天？I’m talking about comets.我说的是彗星Comets are big ol’ cosmic snowballs,彗星是一个由冻结气体岩石和尘埃made from frozen gases, rock, and dust组成的巨大雪球that end up orbiting the Sun after the other planets当其他行星试图把彗星扔向地球tried throwing them at Earth and missed.但没成功时它们便围绕地球飞行Well, that last part probably isn’t true.当然最后那部分可能是假的Everyone knows that the planets only have water gun battles.我们都知道行星上只有水枪之战Not to mention, comets can actually be pretty big.更不必说彗星实际上可能非常大Frozen, you could probably liken them to about the size of a small town.这些雪球你可以把它们比做一个小镇那么大However, when these things get close to the Sun in their orbit,然而它们在自己的轨道环形并接近太阳时they can begin to heat up.会逐渐变热Then they start spewing dust and gases,接着喷涌出尘埃和气体forming a giant glowing head.形成一个巨大的发光脑袋Huh. I thought only I had that problem.哈我认为只有我有这个顾虑Luckily enough, if we want to use one of these things for stellar travel,幸运的是如果我们想用其中一个彗星进行星际旅行we have quite a few to choose from!我们的选择有很多！According to NASA,根据美国航天局there are around 3,600 comets that we currently know of.我们目前已知的彗星约有3600颗Beyond that, it’s believed that there are billions of other comets out there此外据说在遥远的柯伊伯带还有数十亿颗彗星orbiting our Sun in the Kuiper Belt and even more distant Oort Cloud. 甚至是更远的奥尔特云围绕着太阳运行的What makes comets great for getting around in space彗星能够穿梭星际is that they can go SUPER fast.是因为其速度极快Yeah, this baby can fly!是的这小东西会飞！How fast they’re travelling depends on a bunch of different factors,它们的速度取决于多种不同因素but they can travel anywhere from a few thousand kilometers per hour,但在一定条件下它们的速度可以从时速几千公里to over 160,000 kilometers per hour under certain conditions.达到每小时超16万公里在任何地方飞行In fact, in 2016, scientists at NASA recorded2016年美国航天局的科学家们记录了a comet traveling at nearly 600 kilometers per second as it dove toward the Sun.一颗秒速六百公里驶向太阳的彗星That’s over 2 /million/ kilometers per hour!那超过了两百万公里每小时！To put that in perspective,就此展望if we could travel at 2 million kilometers per hour,如果我们能以每小时两百万公里的速度飞行then wecould get to Mars from Earth in around 28 hours,我们可以在一天多的时间里just little more than a single day,约28小时就可以完成火星之旅assuming the two planets were close together in their orbits. 假设轨道上有两颗行星距离很近Lining up the planets is the least of our worries though.我们可以在可控范围内排列行星While comets can go super fast,彗星的速度超快getting to them would be a big problem.登上彗星仍会是一大问题That’s because, not even considering how hard it would be to actually commandeer one,因为我们甚至没有考虑控制一个彗星有多难comets just don’t typically get that close to Earth.彗星一般离地球很远Hale-Bopp, a comet that made the news about two decades ago, 大概二十年前新闻上报道了海尔-波普彗星came closer to Earth than most comets do,它比大多彗星更靠近地球and it was still about 200 million kilometers away.但还是有约两百万公里的距离We might as well just go straight to Mars at that point!照那样我们还不如直接去火星吧！Even if a comet did come by Earth,即使彗星确实经过地球we assume that its trajectory is towards Mars,我们也断定它的轨道是朝着火星的and we ignore that it would likely be in its more gassy, less-solid state,并且我们忽略了它可能更多的是气体而非固态物质you’d still have to keep yourself alive on the comet.你还要在彗星上生存下去I guess if it’s only a day or so then food and water would be less of an issue我猜如果只是一天左右那食物和水就不是问题了since the aliens would definitely feed you once we got there,因为一旦我们到了那里外星人肯定会伺候我们的but you’d still have to worry about oxygen and protecting your self from space.但你仍要担心氧气并且保护自己远离太空You would need about 0.84 kilograms of oxygen a day,你每天约需0.84公斤的氧气so you better grab a spacesuit and take a big breath before jumping on the comet.所以跳上彗星前你最好穿上宇航服深吸一口气So yeah, using comets as a means of space travel is probably not that viable in the end.所以利用彗星进行太空旅行或许并不可行Sometimes I like doing these thought experiments, you know,有时我喜欢做这些思维实验and then realizing that they can’t work.然后意识到不可能实现But it’s still interesting!仍然它仍很有趣！That’s how we learn people!这也是咱认识人类的方法！So do you have any questions about space that you want me to answer.你有关于太空的疑问想要我解答？Any planets that we should cover next?接下来我们要讲哪些行星？Let me know right now in the comment section below!请立刻在下方评论区告诉我吧！Curious to know what would happen if you were trapped on the international space station?我很好奇如果你被困在国际空间站会发生什么？We teamed up with our friend William Osman to answer that question.我们会与我们的朋友William Osman一起为你解答ISS actually gets its power from solar arrays made up of thousands of solar cells.国际空间站的能量来自上万个太阳能电池组成的阵列These arrays can efficiently covert solar energy into electrical power. 这些阵列可以有效地将太阳能转换成电能Typically producing more power than the station needs at one time. 通常在同一时间产生超出所需的电力（二）饮水鸟蕴含的工程学原理The Engineering of the Drinking BirdThis toy has fascinated me since childhood.我从小就对这个玩具着迷To me its motion is almost hypnotic.对我来说它的运动就像是催眠Here’s how it operates.它是这样运转的Wet the bird beak thoroughly with room temperature water.将鸟喙完全浸透在室温的水中The opaque container makes it looked chilled,不透明容器使它看起来冷淬了but it isn’t…其实并没有Then stand it upright…然后让它直立It will take a few seconds for it to start drinking…它要等几秒钟后才开始喝水Notice that all of the action right now takes place in the stem here 注意现在所有的运动都发生在躯干这里As l speed up the action当我快进这个过程you see liquid rising and the bird rocking back and forth.可以看见液面上升饮水鸟开始前后摇摆If I return to normal speed,如果调回常速播放you can see the bird slowly …可以看到饮水鸟慢慢地very, very slowly ….非常非常慢地Rock forward…向前摆动Until it takes a drink,直到它喝到了水which it will do again and again.然后一遍又一遍地重复此过程In this video I’ll detail the bird’s clever engineering design,在本视频中我将详述这只鸟精妙的工程设计explain how it uses thermodynamics,阐明它是如何运用热力学知识and link its action to some of the greatest将其运动与一些工程师创造的and most impactful devices created by engineers.伟大且影响深远的装置联系起来的This toy has long history,这个玩历史悠久but its current incarnation is due to Miles V. Sullivan—它的当前形态是由贝尔实验室一名科学家a scientist at Bell Labs.Miles V. Sullivan创造的He specialized in methods of manufacturing semiconductors,他专精于研究制造半导体的方法but as a sideline invented toys.发明玩具是他的副业Its reported that this bird delighted U.S. President Herbert Hoover,据说这只饮水鸟深得美国总统赫伯特·胡佛喜爱an engineer who failed to figure out how it worked,作为一名工程师他没搞懂它的工作原理and it also defeated the great scientist Albert Einstein,而且它还难倒了伟大的科学家艾尔伯特·爱因斯坦who spent three and half months studying it.爱因斯坦花了三个半月来研究它It’s reported that he refused to take the bird apart.据报道他拒绝把这只鸟拆开With the benefit of hindsight,有了后见之明let’s start by exploring how it works让我们从探索它的工作原理and examining the key engineering design aspects.以及检查关键的工程设计方面开始First, let’s ask is the water ornamental or essential?首先要问的是水是装饰品还是必需品？At first the bird acts just as if the water were still there.最初饮水鸟的行为好像水还在那里一样Now let’s speed up the bird’s motion我们快进饮水鸟的动作you see at 15 minutes it is still drinking.可以看见过了15分钟它仍在喝水At 30 still drinking.30分钟还在喝水45 minutes still drinking.45分钟依然还在喝水60 minutes still drinking.60分钟还在喝水75 minutes still drinking.75分钟仍然还在喝水And five or ten minutes later,又过了5到10分钟后at eighty or eight-five minutes it takes its last drink.约在80到85分钟它喝了最后一次水The liquid still rises a bit,虽然液面上升了一点but it never rises enough to make the bird tip over,但它从没上升到足够使鸟翻倒的高度which shows that the motion is not perpetual说明这个运动不是永恒的—as long as there is water, the bird keeps drinking.只要有水鸟就一直喝水Let’s look inside the bird来看看饮水鸟的内部to get an idea of how it works.了解它的工作原理Underneath the bird’s hat, beak and fabric covering lies a glass bulb 在鸟帽鸟嘴和织物覆盖物下面有一个玻璃泡smaller than the bulb at the base, and also rounder.它比底部的玻璃泡小也更圆Now, watch as I put a few drops of isopropyl alcohol on the bulb to cool it.现在我滴几滴异丙醇在玻璃泡上使它降温The liquid rapidly rises to the head,里面的液体快速上升到头部this changes the bird’s center of gravity这改变了饮水鸟的重心so that it will tilt forward.使它向前倾斜The head now fills with liquid and then …现在头部充满了液体接下来……there…你看…it …drinks.它喝水了It becomes upright and the liquid drains from the head.它直立后液体从头部排出Liquid rises again to the head and…液体再一次上升到头部……the bird drinks again.饮水鸟再一次喝水This cycle repeats until all of the isopropyl alcohol on the bird ’s head evaporates.这个过程循环往复直到鸟头上的异丙醇都蒸发掉Why does the liquid rise?为什么液面会上升呢？The place to begin is with the bird’s manufacture.我们从饮水鸟的制造说起The bird is filled through this “tap ”—a small pipe built into the head —通过装在头部里的小管子即龙头with methylene chloride dyed red, which is then frozen,向鸟内装入冷冻的染成红色的二氯甲烷a vacuum applied to evacuate the air,抽走空气形成真空the tap sealed ( and of course, later hidden by the bird’s hat )…把龙头密封(当然后来被鸟帽盖住了)And then the methylene chloride melts:之后二氯甲烷融化It turns to liquid and then some of it evaporates（turns into vapor）.转变为液态其中部分二氯甲烷蒸发(变成蒸汽)The key to the bird’s operation is饮水鸟运转的关键就在于that the vapor in the head and in the base are separated by the liquid in the base.头部和底部的气体被底部的液体所隔离It’s hard to see,这很难看清楚but the tube extends into the base, nearly reaching the bottom.不过管子延伸到底部几乎接触到底面This separates the vapor in base and the vapor in the tube使得底部和管中的气体隔离……and …of course, the head.当然还有头部的气体So, at rest the pressure in these two spaces are equal,在静止状态这两个空间的压强相等but when the bird’s beak is wet,但当鸟喙湿润时the temperature falls鸟喙温度下降and as I’ll explain in a moment the pressure in the head drops头部的压强下降这个我稍后会解释below that in the base and the liquid rises.降到低于底部的压强然后液面上升Of course this liquid in the head causes the bird to…tilt forward, to drink …自然头部的液体导致饮水鸟向前倾斜喝水and when it drinks,当它喝水时the vapor in the head and the base are connected,头部和底部的蒸汽连通the pressures is nearly equalize两端压强几乎相等—a slug of vapor rises to the top and some liquid drains from the head一股蒸汽上升到头部迫使部分液体流出and then the cycle repeats.然后循环重复To see the pressure equalize为了看到压强平衡过程l will slow down the bird as I tilt it forward.我会慢一点倾斜饮水鸟Right now the head is half full.现在头部已经半满了When I tilt it you see a slug of vapor go from bottom to top.当它倾斜时可以看见一股蒸汽从底部升到顶部I’ve tilted it far enough forward我把它倾斜得够多that the liquid in the head is below the top of the tube以至于头部的液面低于管子的顶端and the liquid in the base is below the section of the tube that almost reaches the bottom of the bird.同时底部液面也低于几乎触底的管子底端This allows the pressure to equalize,这样头部和底部的压强相等and as the bird becomes upright而当饮水鸟站起来时the liquid returns to the base before the cycle starts again.液体会在下一次循环开始之前返回到底部In operation it doesn’t tilt quite this far forward实际运转时它不会向前倾斜这么多and so the pressures don’t fully equalize.因此压强不会完全平衡Why, though, does the pressure in the head drop as the temperature falls?那么头部压强为何会随着温度下降而下降呢？You can see the answer if I shoot cool, compressed gas across the bird’s head.你看我向头部射低温压缩气体就知道答案了As the cool gas strikes,遇到低温气体时you see liquid condensing inside the head;头部内壁出现了冷凝的液体and, as you see on the left,正如你在左图看到的this causes the liquid in the base to rise.这导致底部的液面上升The cool gas withdraws energy as heat from the head,低温气体带走头部的热量causing some of the methylene chloride vapor inside to condense –to turn into a liquid.导致头部部分二氯甲烷气体冷凝成液体This decreases dramatically the amount of vapor in the head.这大大减少了头部的气体体积Liquid is 1,000 times more dense than vapor.液体的密度是气体的1000倍This in turn lowers the pressure in the head and causes the liquid to rise.结果降低了头部的压强使液面上升I used compressed gas to cool the head我用压缩气体给头部降温because I can control the amount of cooling;因为我可以控制降温的程度the bird, though, cools its head by “drinking.”然而饮水鸟通过喝水来降温The head is wrapped in fabric that absorbs water.其头部包裹在吸水的织物中As I put drops on its beak当我把水滴在鸟喙上you can see the water beads up at first…一开始你可以看到水珠……and then saturates the fabric and spreads rapidly across the bird’s face.然后水珠浸透织物并迅速扩散到鸟的整个面部On the right side you can see it creeping to back of the head.从右边看可以看到水渍浸到了后脑勺If I now turn the bird around,如果我现在把鸟转过来you can see that the water has spread to the back.可以看到水已经蔓延到后面As I continue adding drops on the beak如果我继续往鸟喙上滴水the saturated area on the back increases.头背处渗水区域扩大When this water evaporates into the air, it removes energy from the bulb as heat当水蒸发到空气中带走了头部的热量you feel this effect every time you step out of the shower,每次你洗完澡都会有这种感受the evaporating water withdraws energy as heat and chills you.蒸发的水带走热量让你感到冷飕飕的This evaporation, this withdrawal of heat, lowers the temperature 蒸发吸热降低了头部的温度and begins the condensation of the vapor, which starts the cycle 蒸汽冷凝启动循环as I showed you with the cool, compressed gas.就像我之前用低温压缩气体做的演示一样As long as the head is wet and heat is withdrawn from it,只要头部保持潮湿而且有热量带走the bird will always “drink, ”饮水鸟将一直“喝水”but if you were to operate the bird in humid air,但如果你把饮水鸟放在潮湿的环境it would slow down, because little water would evaporate,它就会减速喝水因为很少有水分蒸发and if the air were at 100 % humidity the bird would stop如果空气湿度是100% 饮水鸟将停止喝水because no water would evaporate at all.因为根本没有水蒸发Now, to make this dramatic condensation happen现在为了达到明显的冷凝效果when the temperature is lowered just slightly当温度只稍微降低时the evaporating water lowers the temperature by only about three-tenths of a degree水的蒸发只降低了0.3 度the bird’s designer choose a highly volatile liquid.饮水鸟的设计者选择了一种极易挥发的液体This means one whose boiling point is near ambient temperature这就需要这种液体的沸点接近室温because for small changes in temperature因为即使温度轻微变化there is a large change from vapor to liquid从气态至液态的变化也是巨大的and so the variation of pressure is large.从而引起压强的巨大变化Watch what happens as I “heat ”the base of the bird with my hand.观察我用手加热饮水鸟的底部时会怎么样You see the liquid level in the base dropping,可以看到底部的液面在下降that’s because energy from my hand is converting some of the liquid into vapor,这是由于手的热量使部分液体转化成气体which increases the pressure in this region…增大了这个区域的压强and that causes the liquid to rise to the head.从而使液体上升到头部Eventually I heat the vapor so much that it shoots up the stem.最终我把蒸汽加热到从管子中冒出来Now watch as I place my hand around the head.现在看我把手放在头部Heat from my hand converts liquid to vapor,手上的热量将液体转化为蒸汽which increases the pressure从而增大了压强and forces the liquid back to the base.并迫使液体回到底部To test this explanation of the bird’s operation,为了验证这个饮水鸟运转的解释let’s activate the bird in different ways.让我们用不同方式来触发饮水鸟As I noted it is the temperature difference between its top and bottom我说过是它顶部和底部的温差that drives liquid to rise to the head.驱使液体上升至头部So, let’s see what happens if I point a light at the base of the bird,那么我们看看对底部进行光照会怎么样which I’ve painted black我把饮水鸟的底部涂成了黑色so it will absorb the energy from the light better.这样它能更好地吸收光能As I heat the base of the bird,当我给饮水鸟底部加热时the liquid rises, as before but …液体像之前一样上升但是……五倍速播放the bird tips backwards.饮水鸟向后倾斜The wet nose tilted the center of gravity……湿润的鼻子倾斜了饮水鸟的重心……and so I added some modelling clay to the nose于是我在鸟鼻子上加了些粘土to get the bird to tilt forward.好让鸟向前倾斜And now when I turn on the light the liquid rises,现在当我打开灯光液体上升the birds drinks as if there were liquid in front of it until…鸟儿就像面前有水一样喝水直到……I turn the light off我把灯关掉and the bird drinks for a little bit longer until eventually…这只鸟再坚持了一会儿直到最终……it comes to rest.它停了下来Next, let’s see what happens if we use this: Whiskey.接下来让我们看看用这个会怎么样：威士忌Again, thoroughly wet the bird’s beak with the liquid…再次用液体浸润鸟喙……stand it upright …让它直立……and then we see again the liquid rising in the bird …然后我们又看到饮水鸟体内的液面上升and then …it drinks.然后……它在喝水We can also now understand why the bird’s rate of drinking differs 我们现在也能理解在三种不同的刺激下among the three methods I used to “activate ”the bird:为什么饮水鸟的喝水频率不同了a heat lamp, whiskey and water.加热灯威士忌和水三种刺激Roughly, heat bird takes three drinks for every one of the water bird,大致上饮水鸟每喝一次水受热鸟喝三次the whiskey bird takes two for every drink of the water bird.而饮水鸟每喝一次饮酒鸟喝两次The reason the bird drinks whiskey faster than water is之所以饮酒鸟比饮水鸟快because the rate of evaporation of the alcohol is greater than that of water.是因为相对于水酒精更易挥发This means that heat is withdrawn faster from the head也就是说头部的热量散失更快and so more vapor condenses in a shorter amount of time,短时间内冷凝的蒸气更多which accelerates the pressure difference.从而加速扩大压差The heat lamp causes the greatest difference of all,加热灯导致的压差最大which highlights how an engineer thinks about this bird.这重点表明了工程师对饮水鸟的想法To an engineer this bird is a heat engine.对工程师来说饮水鸟是一个热机A heat engine turns heat differences into work —mechanical motion.热机将热能转化为功——机械运动To see that recall that when the bird is just about to drink回想一下当鸟正要喝水时that its head is at a lower temperature than its base,它的头部温度比底部的低which is at ambient temperature.底部温度就是环境温度Then when it “drinks ”, the pressure in the head and base start to equalize,当它“喝水”时头部和底部的压强开始平衡so liquid returns to the base,于是液体回到底部but the overall temperature of the bird但是现在饮水鸟的整体温度is now just a little below ambient temperature.只是稍低于环境温度When it return to upright, the base draws in energy as heat…当它恢复直立时底部吸热……the head then rejects some energy as heat头部放热and the bird drinks again.然后饮水鸟再次喝水These two flows define a heat engine:这种热传递定义了热机：a device, operating in a cycle一种循环运行的装置that absorbs heat from a high temperature reservoir,从高温热源处吸热converts part of it into work,将部分热能转化为功and rejects the remainder into a low temperature reservoir.向低温热源放热The fact that this is a heat engine饮水鸟就是热机这一事实means it’s related to the great machines that make our globalized world happen:表明它跟实现全球化的许多伟大机器有关among those the mighty steam turbine that generates electricity,其中有能发电的大型蒸汽轮机the giant diesel engine that propels container ships across the oceans,推动货轮穿越海洋的大型柴油机and the great gas turbine that flies us around the globe.还有让我们飞遍全球的燃气轮机（三）人们是否应该接受人造肉Lab-Grown Meat Is Coming to Your Supermarket. Ranchers Are Fighting Back.Would you eat a hamburger or a chicken nugget你会吃在实验室生长的肉made of meat grown in a laboratory?所制的汉堡或鸡块吗？Joshua Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of JUST is betting that you will. JUST的合伙人兼CEO Joshua Tetrick断言你会吃In tomorrow’s world, you can eat more meat,在将来你能在不吃动物的情况下hopefully safer meat, even better tasting meat, without eating the animal.吃到更多的肉很可能是更安全甚至更好吃的肉JUST which is based in San Francisco,JUST公司位于美国旧金山has been producing and selling2013年起就生产销售non animal versions of food like mayonnaise since 2013各种无动物食品and it’s raised more than 310 million dollars in venture capital.并筹集到超过3.1亿美元的风险投资基金Tetrick and his team have created products like JUST Mayo Tetrick及其团队通过寻找鸡蛋等常见动物产品的植物替代品by identifying plant based alternatives to common animal products like eggs.创造了像JUST Mayo这样的产品We’re one part pharma,我们公司有医药部one part bio-tech and a whole bunch of regular food company.有生物技术部总得来说是一个常规的食品公司We built a discovery system that我们创建的搜索系统has the only patent of the world拥有世界上唯一能够that utilizes machine learning for food ingredient discovery利用机器学习如何搜索食物组成的专利and it helped us find this mung bean该系统还帮我们找到了that when you put it in a pan scrambles一种放入平底锅时变得蓬松的绿豆and that process broken down means that这一过程的突破意味着we source from over 51 countries in the world,我们的原料来自超过世界上51个国家we look at about 21 different molecular properties,我们要研究大约21种不同分子的性能we look at how that bean functions,研究这种绿豆的作用does it bake a cake, does it gel in a pan看它能否用来烤蛋糕是否会粘在平底锅上and then we see if it makes ice cream or butter or scrambled eggs. 以及能否用来做冰淇淋黄油或炒鸡蛋Our process of finding these new tools is high tech,这些新工具的开发过程技术含量高but what we find is not high tech at all.但开发结果却简单的很The mung bean has been in the world’s food system for 4400 years.早在4400年前绿豆就已经被当做食物了I sure as hell didn’t invent the mung bean.我很肯定绿豆不是我发明的JUST is one of the handful of tech companies workingJUST只是众多致力于to disrupt the meat production industry.颠覆肉类供应行业的高科技公司之一While many of its competitors are pursuing better plant based meat substitutes,正当其他竞争者还在寻找更好的以植物为基础的肉类替代品时JUST is pushing ahead with so called clean meatJUST已经开始推进所谓的瘦肉or lab grown animal tissue that requires no farming,和无需农场养殖无需喂养牲畜且无需屠宰场no feeding of livestock and no slaughterhouses.的实验室生长的动物组织Only a single sample from a single animal duplicated endlessly.只需要动物身上的一个样本就可以无限克隆JUST and companies like it are poised toJUST和其他同类公司准备disrupt the entire livestock industry but颠覆整个畜牧业the established players are turning to the government to protect their turf.但是现有的畜牧公司正在向政府寻求庇护The United States Cattlemen’s Association, which declined to participate in this story,美国牧民协会拒绝受访submitted a petition still under consideration by the United States Department of并向美国农业部递交了请愿书目前正在受理中Agriculture asking that the words meat and beef exclude any products他们请求肉和牛肉这样的词汇不得用于that are ‘neither derived from animals, nor slaughtered in the traditional manner.’任何既不来自动物也不经传统方法宰杀的肉类产品The power of the terms is a lot more powerful than people think, 这些术语的影响力远比人们想象的要大especially in food尤其是在食品行业Imagine Tesla launches a pickup truck,想象一下如果特斯拉推出了一辆小货车but US Department of Transportation says然后美国交通部门说-Hold up, Tesla, y ou can’t call it a pickup truck.-等等特斯拉你不能把它称作小货车You have to call it electric mobility transport unit.你必须叫它“电动交通装置”That’s not winning in Alabama, even though it might be fast,这在阿拉巴马州行不通即使它可能很快even though it might have an amazing amount of horsepower,马力也超级大because a car is identity, but food’s identity even more.因为车有它的定义而食物的定义则更复杂JUST is also looking to transcend the vegan vs carnivore paradigm. JUST也在试图寻找一种超越纯素食主义者和肉食主义者的范式来界定We don’t allow the term vegan to be used in our company.我们公司不允许使用“纯素食主义者”这个词Not because we don’t believe in the spiri of it,并不是因为我们不相信素食主义精神that word ends up turning off 99% of people.而是这个词会令99%的人反感The food system needs to start over,食物体系需要革新了little girls in the second row of a class in Liberia aren’t ge tting proper nutrients,在利比里亚教室里第二排的女孩们营养不良a young boy growing up in Birmingham Alabama is阿拉巴马州伯明翰的一个男孩accelerating a path to Type 2 diabetes,患2型糖尿病的速度加快了animals are being confined in needless ways,动物们受到了一些不必要的限制it’s contributing to climate change,这加剧了气候变化and I think if we can think differently about the food system而且我觉得如果我们对食物系统换种思维while also realizing that we can’t be so new and so out there同时认识到我们不能太新奇太超前that it doesn’t relate to the everyday human being,以至和百姓的寻常生活脱节we can do a whole lot of good.我们就可以造福大家And that’s what I want to do.而这就是我想要做的This isn’t Tetrick’s first fight with entrenched food interests.。
【高中英语双语阅读】关于春分等你可能不知道的5件事情素材
关于春分你可能不知道的5件事情The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides a year into 24 solar terms. The Spring Equinox，as the fourth term of the year starts on Mar 21 and ends on Apr 4 this year.传统中国农历将一年分为24个节气。
春分是一年的第四个节气，今年始于3月20日，终于4月4日。
The Spring Equinox signals the equal length of the day and night time. On the day of the Spring Equinox, sun is directly above the equator. After the equinox, the sun moves northwards, resulting in gradually longer day time in the Northern Hemisphere and longer night in the Southern Hemisphere.春分标志着昼夜时间等长。
在这一天，太阳直射赤道。
春分后，太阳北移，使得北半球逐渐白昼更长，南半球夜晚更长。
Here are 5 things you may not know about the Spring Equinox.这里是关于春分你可能不知道的5件事情。
Swallows fly north燕子北飞The ancient Chinese people divided the fifteen days of the Spring Equinox into three "hou’s". As the old saying goes, swallows fly back to the North in the firsthou; thunder cracks the sky in the secondhou; lightning occurs frequently in the third hou, which vividly reveals the climate feature during the Spring Equinox.古人把春分十五天分为“三候”。
英语文摘在线阅读
英语文摘在线阅读篇一：双语阅读英语文摘人一天最重要的40分钟人一天最重要的40分钟,你用好了吗? 英语生活贴士 The Forty Most Important Minutes Each Day: Are You Using Them Well? 人一天最重要的40分钟，你用好了吗？Recently I had a conversation in Beijing with an adult Chinese friend who was complaining how difficult it is to study English. No surprises there. It is a difficult language to master, just like Chinese.最近我在北京听一位中国朋友吐槽英语难学。
这并不奇怪，英语跟中文一样，都不好学。
I made a few suggestions based on my own experience. One involved a very valuable fact which I learned from my high school Latin and Greek teacher. He was a Jesuit priest, a gifted linguist, and had an amazing ability to memorize things, like poetry, essays, speeches, etc.根据亲身经历，我有几点建议，其中也包括我高中拉丁语和希腊语老师的真传。
这位老师是名耶稣会的牧师，很有语言天分，对诗歌、论文、演讲等记忆力超群。
His advice to us students was that for memorization purposes, there are forty minutes each day in which our memory is vastly more receptive than it is during the other 23 hours and 20 minutes. This 40-minute “super memory” period is divided into two parts: the20 minutes before we sleep, and the 20 minutes after we first awake.他告诉我们这些学生，人在一天之中有40分钟记忆力最强，接收能力超过其余23小时20分。
三国演义英文故事双语阅读版
三国演义英文故事双语阅读版提起三国演义，不免想到诸葛亮的草船借箭，在我们的学生课本中，不也有关于诸葛孔明使用草船借箭这个计谋的文章吗?今天为大家奉上三国演义英文故事，时间难得，何不深入了解一下让自己的收获更多呢?三国演义英文故事(一)草船借箭This is an episode from the Three Kingdoms. Zhou Yu ordered Zhuge Liang to manufacture 100，000 arrows within ten days. Zhuge said，“Give me three days.” He also signed a pledge placing himself liable for punishment should he fail to complete the order. Zhou Yu ridiculed that Zhuge Liang was looking for self-destruction. On the one hand， Zhou Yu ordered his troops not to provide Zhuge Liang with materials to make the arrows. He also sent Lu Su to spy on him to find out what was going on. In fact， Zhuge Liang had already realized that this was a plot by room， Zhuge said to Lu Su，“Save me please.” He asked Lu Su to lend him 20boats， each lined with straw-made scarecrows and manned by 30 soldiers. He requested that Lu Su not tell Zhou Yu what was happening.When Lu Su came again to see Zhuge Liang， he did not find anything unusual. Nothing happened on the second day either. In the small hours of the third day， Zhuge Liang invited Lu Su for a boat ride. The 20 boats were tied together with strong ropes. Zhuge's fleet sailed toward the camp of Cao Cao. A thick mist had spread over the surface of the river. People could hardly see each other on the river. When Zhuge's fleet got close to the Cao camp before dawn，Zhuge Liang ordered his soldiers to shout and beat drums to fake an attack. Zhuge and Lu Su simply sat insideone of the boats and drank wines to enjoy themselves.As soon as the Cao camp heard the shouting and drum beating， they mistook it for a surprise attack by the Zhou Yu camp. Since they could see nobody on the river， they gathered 3，000 bow men and ordered them to shoot arrows towards where the shouting and drum beating came. The front of the scarecrows was quickly shot full of arrows. After a while， Zhuge Liang had his fleet turned around to expose the other side of the scarecrows. When this side was also shot full of arrows， the day broke. Zhuge Liang ordered his soldiers to return to their base port. The soldiers shouted，“Thank you， Cao Cao， for your arrows.” After they got back to their camp， they collected more than 100，000 arrows from the scarecrows.东吴与刘备联合抗曹，东吴大都督周瑜命诸葛亮十日内制作十万支箭。
英语学习阅读材料(A4打印版) - 1800704
有声双语美文：当你放弃探索，人生就结束了Romain Rolland once said:罗曼·罗兰曾说："Most men die at twenty or thirty;“很多人在20岁、30岁的时候就死了，thereafter they are only reflections of themselves，一过这个年龄，他们只不过变成了自己的影子for the rest of their lives they are aping themselves,此后的余生不过在模仿自己中度过，repeating from day to day more and more mechanically and affectedly what they said and did and thought and loved when they were alive."日复一日，更机械，更装腔作势地重复他们有生之年的所作所为、所思所想、所爱所。
”Recently, I suddenly realized that this quote is talking about me.最近，我忽然发现这则引言说的就是我。
I chose a stable job back as a civil servant in my hometown under my parents' advice after I graduated from college.大学毕业之后，我听从父母的建议，在家乡找了一个稳定的公务员工作。
The job is easy. And my workload is quite small.工作很轻松，工作量也很小。
So I have plenty of time of my own to spend.所以我有充足的时间可以自由支配。
I bought my car and my house and went on dates which are arranged by my parents.我买好了车和房子，并根据父母的安排去约会。
托福Integrated Writing范文5篇(中英双语)
托福Integrated Writing范文5篇（中英双语）第一篇：以下是一篇关于太阳能能源的托福Integrated Writing范文，包括阅读材料、听力材料以及中英双语翻译：题目（Topic）：阅读材料介绍了太阳能能源的优点，而听力材料提出了一些关于太阳能发电的担忧。
总结阅读材料和听力材料的观点，然后解释担忧如何影响阅读中的观点。
阅读材料（Reading Passage）：英文：Solar energy is considered a renewable source of energy with several advantages. Firstly, it is environmentally friendly, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and contributing to climate change mitigation. Secondly, the cost of solar panels has been continuously decreasing, making solar energy more economically viable. Additionally, solar power systems have long-term maintenance benefits as they require fewer mechanical components.中文翻译：太阳能被认为是一种可再生能源，具有多个优点。
首先，它对环境友好，减少温室气体排放，有助于减缓气候变化。
其次，太阳能电池板的成本持续降低，使太阳能更具经济可行性。
此外，太阳能电力系统具有长期的维护优势，因为其需要较少的机械部件。
听力材料（Listening Passage）：英文：However, some concerns have been raised regarding solar power generation systems. It is argued that the manufacturing of solar panels may result in the emission of harmful chemicals, potentially causing adverse environmental effects. Moreover, solar panels have a limited lifespan and typically need replacement within a few decades. The recycling and disposal of these panels also raise concerns due to their hazardous components.中文翻译：然而，关于太阳能发电系统，一些担忧也被提出。
英文科普阅读材料双语—宇宙4篇
英文科普阅读材料双语——宇宙四篇目录一、究竟有多少个宇宙 (1)二、科学家在自然界中发现宇宙的第一个分子 (9)三、如果我们的宇宙与另一个相撞怎么办？ (20)四、宇宙的尽头有什么？ (28)一、究竟有多少个宇宙有时候当我在孤单的长途飞行中，Sometimes when I’m on a long plane flight,我望向那些山脉与沙漠I gaze out at all those mountains and deserts尝试去理解地球的广袤and try to get my head around how vast our Earth is.然后我想起来有一样东西我们天天看见，And then I remember that there’s an object we see every day它的体积相当于130万个地球的大小。
that would literally fit one million Earths inside it.太阳，看起来无限大，The sun seems impossibly big,但从宇宙的角度上讲，它只是茫茫星海中的一个尘埃，but in the great scheme of things, it’s a pinprick,只是银河系里四百亿颗恒星当中的一颗，one of about 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy,银河系是你可以在晴朗的夜晚看到which you can see on a clear night的一片横跨天空的银色带子。
as a pale, white mist stretched across the sky.但这还远远不止于此And it gets worse.我们通过望远镜，可以探知到大概有100亿个星系There are maybe 100 billion galaxies detectable by our telescopes,所以如果每一颗恒星等于一颗细沙的大小，so if each star was the size of a single grain of sand,仅仅是银河系就有足够的恒星来装满just the Milky Way has enough stars to fill一个体积是30英尺乘以30英尺，3英尺深的沙滩a 30 foot by 30 foot stretch of beach three feet deep with sand. 而整个地球根本没有足够大的沙滩，And the entire Earth doesn’t have enough beaches来代表整个宇宙中的恒星。
2023考研英语双语阅读材料：机器宠物火星猫
2023考研英语双语阅读材料：机器宠物火星猫2023考研英语双语阅读材料：机器宠物火星猫At CES 2023， one of the more well-representedgadget categories was definitely consumer robots — but none was more adorable than MarsCat， a newrobo-pet from industrial robot startup ElephantRobotics.在CES 2023消费电子展上，消费级机器人是一个更具代表性的小工具，但其中最得意的当属“火星猫”，这是一款新的机器宠物，来自工业机器人初创公司——大象机器人公司。
这款机器人宠物是完全自主的伙伴，能对抚摸和语音指令做出反响，甚至还能玩玩具。
即使只和它待一小会儿，你也很难不喜欢上它。
MarsCat＇s pedigree is a bit unusual， since Elephant Robotics is focused on building what＇sknown as ＂cobots＂， or industrial robots that are designed to work alongside humans in settingslike factories or assembly plants.火星猫的“血统”有点不寻常，因为大象机器人公司主打产品是“合作机器人”，或者叫工业机器人，设计用处是在工厂或装配车间等场所与人一起工作。
Elephant， which was founded in 2023， already produces three lines of these collaborativerobots and has sold them to client panies around the world，including in Korea， the U.S.， Germany and more.大象机器人公司成立于2023年，已经有三条协作机器人的消费线，客户遍布全球，包括韩国、美国、德国等国。
初中英语阅读材料70篇(双语版)
01、From the time we were babies we have been taught our manners. We are taught how to hold a knife and a fork and not to talk with our mouths full. We are taught how to shake hands and when to stand and when to sit and the way to introduce people. Sometimes good manners in one place are very bad manners somewhere else.Almost everywhere eating together means that you are very friendly to each other. But in parts of Polynesia(波利尼西亚) it is bad manners to be seen eating at all. They politely turn their backs on each other when they are taking food. Some East Africans spit four times as a kind of blessing. They do it to show that they want a sick person to get well, or tobless a new-born baby. In most other places, spitting means just something completely different. It’s something to do to show that you hate someone.When we go to visit someone we say “Hello”, and “How are you” and things like that.If you were visiting an East African village, everyone would be very careful not to pay any attention to you. The polite thing there would be for you to go quietly, without speaking to anyone, and sit beside your friend. You would wait until he had finished what he was doing and then he would begin talking to you.In a village in Arab, a visitor walks behind all the tents(帐篷) until he gets to the one he wants to visit. If he passed in front, he would be invited into each tent and asked to eat. It was rude(粗鲁) to refuse.从我们是婴儿时候起就被教导我们的举止。
中英双语 经典书籍
中英双语经典书籍经典书籍一直以来都是人们喜爱的阅读材料，它们承载着深刻的思想和智慧，为读者带来了无尽的启示。
下面是我列举的十本经典书籍，希望对大家有所启发。
1. 《1984》- 乔治·奥威尔这部小说描绘了一个极权主义社会的恐怖景象，警示人们对权力滥用的警觉性。
2. 《麦田里的守望者》- J.D.塞林格这本小说通过主人公霍尔顿的视角，深刻揭示了社会对青少年的冷漠和人性的脆弱。
3. 《傲慢与偏见》- 简·奥斯汀这部小说通过描绘伊丽莎白·班内特与达西先生之间的故事，探讨了社会等级、婚姻和爱情的主题。
4. 《查理与巧克力工厂》- 罗尔德·达尔这是一本充满奇幻和幽默的童话故事，讲述了查理和其他孩子们参观巧克力工厂的冒险经历。
5. 《魔戒》- J.R.R.托尔金这是一部奇幻史诗小说，讲述了一群冒险者为摧毁邪恶力量而展开的旅程，探讨了勇气、友谊和背叛等主题。
6. 《小王子》- 安托万·德·圣-埃克苏佩里这本童话故事通过小王子的冒险旅程，探讨了成长、友谊和人生的意义。
7. 《人类简史》- 尤瓦尔·赫拉利这本非虚构作品从人类的起源开始，通过科学、历史和哲学的角度，探讨了人类文明的发展和未来的展望。
8. 《傲慢与偏见与僵尸》- 简·奥斯汀与塞斯顿·葛雷汉姆·史密斯这本小说是对经典小说《傲慢与偏见》的创意改编，加入了僵尸元素，带给读者一种全新的阅读体验。
9. 《时间简史》- 斯蒂芬·霍金这本科普作品以通俗易懂的语言，介绍了宇宙的起源、演化和未来的发展，让读者对宇宙的奥秘有更深入的了解。
10. 《悲惨世界》- 维克多·雨果这是一部描绘了法国社会底层悲惨生活的长篇小说，通过多个角色的故事，展现了人性的复杂和社会的不公。
这些经典书籍涵盖了不同的题材和风格，从中我们可以汲取到丰富的人生智慧和思考。
无论是文学、科学还是哲学，这些书籍都值得我们反复品味和思考。
2023考研英语双语阅读材料：机会永在
2023考研英语双语阅读材料：时机永在
2023考研英语双语阅读材料：时机永在
Every second is a chance to turn your life around.
每一秒都有时机转变你的生活。
我的话要么会吸引一个意志坚强的人，要么会得罪一个意志薄弱的人。
Respect is for those who deserve it， not for those who demand it.
尊重是给那些值得拥有它的人，而不是那些需要它的人。
Don＇t find a fault， find a remedy.
别纠缠于谁对谁错，重要的是找到解决方法。
The most difficult thing is the decision to act，the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life； and the procedure， the process is its own reward.
最困难的事情是决定开场行动，剩下的只是坚韧不拔。
恐惧是纸老虎。
你可以做你决定去做的任何事。
你可以用行动来改变和掌控你的人生，而步骤和过程本身就是奖励。
双语英语阅读
一篇适合五六年级学生阅读的英语文章，并附有中文翻译：Title: My Favorite SubjectI love learning English because it is a very interesting subject. I enjoy reading stories and books in English. It is also fun to learn new words and phrases. I like to practice speaking English by speaking with my teacher and classmates. English helps me communicate with people from different cultures and countries. I want to be able to speak English fluently and confidently so that I can understand and be understood by others. I am also interested in learning about different cultures and countries through English. Learning English has opened up a whole new world of opportunities for me. I hope to travel the world one day and experience different cultures and languages.Title: 我最喜欢的科目我喜欢学习英语，因为它是一门非常有趣的科目。
我喜欢读英文故事和书籍。
学习新单词和短语也很有趣。
我喜欢和老师和同学练习说英语。
英语帮助我与来自不同文化和国家的人交流。
【51Talk-双语阅读】世界上最大的图书馆
世界上最大的图书馆It contains 167 million items, has 838 miles ofbookshelves and adds 12000 articles of history daily.它有着1.67亿件馆藏，书架长度达838英里（约合1349公里），每天增添1.2万件馆藏。
The U.S. Library of Congress is the largestlibraries in the world. It was established in 1800 withthe same sweep of President JohnAdams’s pen that moved the federal government from Philadelphia to Washington.美国国会图书馆是世界上最大的图书馆之一。
它是在1800年由约翰·亚当斯(John Adams)总统大笔一挥而设立的，同时他还将联邦政府从费城搬到了华盛顿。
As its name suggests, the library was originally for members of Congress, but its r ole as theleading research arm of the government has expanded. Anyone 16 and older may get a library card and use the collections on site.正如它的名字所显示的，这家图书馆原本是为了国会成员设立的，但它作为政府主要研究机构的作用扩大了。
任何16岁以上的人都能获得了一张图书证，在馆内使用馆藏。
While its main office is in Washington, the library has offices around the world. Its collection includes materials in 470 languages.尽管它的主要办公室在华盛顿，但图书馆在全世界都设有办事处。
托福阅读双语材料：“表情符号”盛行
托福阅读双语材料：“表情符号”盛行提高托福阅读水平最好方法莫过于大量增加阅读量。
本期为大家分享的托福阅读双语素材是“表情符号”盛行，希望对提高大家的托福阅读有所帮助。
Emoji are being adopted at a faster rate than any other'language'-and eight in10of us now use the colourful symbols to communicate.与其他任何“语言”相比，表情符号的采用速度要快得多，现在80%的人在使用多种多样的表情符号进行交流。
To plot this popularity,a linguistics professor has conducted the first'Emoji IQ'study looking at how the pictures are used and by whom.为了证明表情符号的流行度，一位语言学教授进行了一项名为“表情符号智商”的研究，旨在探寻是什么人，在如何使用这类表情图片，这类研究尚属首次。
And she has created an online test to determine how well you know your'confused'face from your 'angry'face to determine if you're an emoji master.语言学教授创建了一个在线测试，看受测者是否能区分“困惑”的表情及“愤怒”的表情，以确定受测者是否是一位表情符号达人。
The test contains10questions that ask users to identify the meaning of certain symbols,and how they would write sentences using emoji.测试包含10个问题，皆在让受试者识别某些表情符号的含义以及如何运用表情符号编写句子。
2021考研英语双语阅读材料：复仇者联盟4
2021考研英语双语阅读材料：复仇者联盟4对于考研英语差的同学，一定要先做好英语复习规划，把功夫下早，把阅读基础打夯实，阅读的练习不仅要去做试题，还有更重要的是要拓展练习，看课外阅读，老师整理2021考研英语双语阅读材料：复仇者联盟4，希望可以帮助到大家！
Whatever it takes!
不计代价，义无反顾!
I love you three thousand.
我爱你三千遍。
I can do this all day.
我可以和你耗一整天。
Tony Stark has a heart.
托尼史塔克有一颗温暖的心。
Everything is gonna be alright, thank you for everything.
一切都会顺利的，谢谢你所做的一切。
Thanos：I am inevitable。
萨诺斯：我就是天命。
Tony：I am Iron man.
托尼：我是钢铁侠!
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White House jet with first lady Michelle Obama aboard flew closer than permitted to an Air Force cargo plane due to an air-traffic control slip-up Monday afternoon and had to break off its approach to land at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, according to people familiar with the details. 据知情人士透露，周一下午，由于空管员的失误，美国第一夫人米歇尔•奥巴马(Michelle Obama)乘坐的白宫飞机与一架空军货机距离过近，小于允许距离，飞机不得不中止在华盛顿外安德鲁斯空军基地(Andrews Air Force Base)的降落。
The incident didn't pose an imminent hazard to the First Lady's plane, these officials said, because the two planes remained roughly two miles apart and Federal Aviation Administration controllers manning the airport tower took action to alleviate it. When it appeared that the C-17 cargo jet landing in front of the White House aircraft wouldn't depart the runway in time to maintain 'the required amount of separation,' according to the FAA, the pilots of the First Lady's Boeing 737 jet broke off the approach, circled the field and landed safely. 这些官员说，事件没有令第一夫人乘坐的飞机濒临危险，因为两架飞机保持着约两英里的距离，机场控制塔中的美国航空管理局(Federal Aviation Administration)空管员采取措施缓解了险情。
据美国航空管理局说，当时看起来这架在白宫飞机之前降落的C-17货机无法及时离开跑道，以保持规定的距离，于是第一夫人乘坐的波音737客机的驾驶员中止降落，飞机在机场上空盘旋，之后安全降落。
An FAA statement said the 'aircraft were never in any danger' and the agency was investigating the incident. 美国航空管理局发表声明说，飞机从未遭遇危险，该机构正在对事件进行调查。
Taiwan is almost as technologically capable as the United States, according to a report released by the World Economic Forum and INSEAD on Tuesday in New York. 据世界经济论坛(World Economic Forum)和欧洲工商管理学院(INSEAD)周二在纽约发布的《2010-2011年全球信息技术报告》(2010-2011 Global Information Technology Report)显示，台湾的科技能力几乎可与美国并肩。
Taiwan jumped to the 6th ranked country in the 2010-2011 Global Information Technology Report, up from 11th in the prior year. The report measures economies' 'preparedness' to use technology effectively. Bloomberg News将数据服务器连接起来的光缆台湾在报告中的排名从去年第11位跃升至今年第六位。
报告考量的是各经济体有效使用技术的“充分程度”。
Sweden and Singapore continued to dominate the list, followed by Finland, which jumped three places from its ranking last year to become No. 3. Switzerland and United States hold stable at positions four and five respectively. 瑞典和新加坡继续占据第一和第二的位置，而芬兰较去年上升了三位，今年排名第三。
瑞士和美国的排名保持不变，分别是第四和第五位。
China, which was at 59th position five years ago and is currently at position 36, has continued to move up. 'It is making progress in areas like adult literacy and infrastructure,' said Soumitra Dutta, a professor at INSEAD and co-author of the report. India, one of the 中国大陆排名持续上升，从五年前的第59位跃至当前的第36位。
欧洲工商管理学院(INSEAD)教授、该报告作者之一杜塔(Soumitra Dutta)说，中国大陆在成人读写能力和基础设施建设等方面不断取得进展。
亚洲最大经济体之一印度的排名有所下降，位列第48。
杜塔说，印度largest economies in Asia, lost some ground and was ranked 48 on the index. 'The penetration of technology is not very high in India,' Dutta said, 'It ranks 108 in the list of 138 countries when it comes to number of computers per household. The number of Internet users, broadband penetration and adult literacy is also low.' 在科技运用方面的普及率并不很高；就每个家庭拥有电脑数量而言，印度在138个国家里排名第108位，另外在互联网用户数量、宽带普及率和成人识字率方面，印度的排名也比较靠后。
The countries are ranked by how conducive their economy is to information technology industries. Items such as business-friendly laws, education levels and penetration of technology are evaluated, among others. Each country is assigned a Networked Readiness Index (NRI). 报告依据各国经济受惠于信息技术产业的程度对这些国家进行排名，并对有利营商的法律、国民受教育水平和技术普及程度等具体项目做了评估。
每个国家都有一个网络就绪指数(Networked Readiness Index)。
Dutta said this year's findings were a testament to the efforts that the Nordic and Asian countries were putting into information and communication technology development. 杜塔说，今年的调查结果证明北欧和亚洲国家在推动信息和通信技术发展方面做出了巨大努力。
When asked why the U.S. had not gained any ground, Dutta said that reasons included the increasing complexity of doing business, the low level of math and science education and spotty access to broadband. 当被问及缘何美国的排名没有提高时，杜塔说，这其中有诸多原因，例如商业经营的复杂程度越来越高、数学和科学教育水平较低以及宽带接入水平参差不齐等。
'The U.S. has made a lot of progress especially in broadband penetration. But being the biggest economy, it can do better.' 杜塔说，美国在很多领域特别是宽带普及方面，取得了很多进展，但作为全球最大的经济体，美国可以做得更好。
rapidly spreading Internet controversy threatens to turn a precocious political star-in-the-making into a 21st century Chinese version of Icarus.互联网上迅速蔓延的争议可能会把一个还在成长中的早熟的政治明星变成21世纪中国版的伊卡洛斯（Icarus）。
Like the mythical Greek boy with the waxen wings, the child at the center of the controversy, 13-year-old Huang Yibo, was soaring. 2011年5月5日的截图显示了讨论13岁政治神童黄艺博的博文。