1. The website claims that "the more you sip, the smarter you (and the bottle) get," but in reality the more you sip, the drunker you get and the less information you'll retain.

2. Paris is in third place with 18.03 million forecast visitors.

3. Losers: Kings

4. Portugal's achievement gives governments and energy companies a tangible example of how it can and does work, and why they should be investing in solar, wind, wave and other renewable technologies now.

5. But when he gave us his long-gestating free adaptation of Michel Faber’s novel Under the Skin, the result really was gasp-inducing: hilarious, disturbing, audacious. No less an A-lister than Scarlett Johansson plays an alien in human form who roams the streets and shopping malls of Glasgow. Perfectly genuine footage of real-life passersby is shown as the incognito Johansson impassively sizes up these earthlings for their calorific value. Then actors will step out of the crowd for their scenes with the great seducer. She takes them back to her place: a mysterious dark cavern in which, in an erotic trance, they submit to being imprisoned and farmed for their meat – and perhaps, who knows, for their very soul.

6. "Sure, there are only whites in the stadium. It comes down to money," said Ana Beatriz Ferreira, a 27-year-old parking attendant in Rio de Janeiro, who is black. "Nobody I know could find affordable tickets."

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2. adj. 忙碌的，使用中的，订婚了的

3. 根据迪拜政府的最新预测，在迪拜旅游的游客今年将消费313亿美元，远远超过伦敦游客消费的198亿美元。伦敦在游客消费榜单中排名第二。

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5. Let us look at what lies ahead for the rest of 2017 in trade:

6. 2017年，全球黄金的产量从上一年的3263吨上升至3268.7吨。这是自2008年以来的最小涨幅。2008年金融危机期间，黄金开采量下降了逾2%。

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1. 目前我在创业领域中所关注的大趋势之一是“接触或获得的权利”。创新者们正在将曾经昂贵的、耗时的，或是不可能获得或效率极低的产品带给消费者。无论是学习新技能、激发新兴趣，亦或是叩开此前成本高昂的市场，创业家们正在寻找全新的方式来将独一无二且术业专攻的产品带向更为主流的市场。我们开始看到合作消费商业模式中出现了这个趋势，而我预测，我们将在未来几年看到“基于接触或获得的权利”商业模式的潮涌。

2. 中国（大陆及香港）在排行榜上新添了25个成员，增长数量超过其他任何国家，共计207家。三个国家今年首次在排行榜上亮相了：毛里求斯、斯洛伐克以及多哥。

3. The dollar value of China’s exports fell markedly more than expected last month and import growth more than halved, while revisions to November data erased what had appeared to be a long-hoped-for return to growth for outbound shipments.