1. “We had to make Steve look like a blue-blooded man of great family wealth,” Mr. Corso said. “There’s a specific look, a definite visual that goes along with that.”

2. How much time? And to what extent will bitcoin, in seeking wide adoption as a currency and as a protocol for new applications, face the hurdle of mainstream consumers’ lack of understanding? Adam Ludwin suggests that people don’t need to understand how the technology works to appreciate it. “It has the quality of early Internet,” he says. “People don’t actually know anything about how it works, but they don’t need to know, or care. They just know they turn their computer on and can check email.”

3. 今年初，麦基在接受媒体采访时说：“虽然似乎有悖于直觉，但尽可能提高长期利润的最佳途径就是不要把利润作为公司的首要目标。”

4. 平板电脑的病毒出现。

5. 伦敦阿格纽艺术品交易所(Agnew’s)的主管安东尼·克赖顿-斯图尔特(Anthony Crichton-Stuart)说：“如果没有意识到我们处在非常危急的关头，那就太天真了。人们的偏好出现了重大转变。但是如果拍卖会上出现一幅18世纪前绘画大师的佳作，而且价位合理，人们还是会感到兴奋。”

6. ● “佛罗里达一男子在毒品实验室放屁引发火灾，后死于爆炸”

应用

1. 有些模子对人体危险？

2. The parallels between Snapchat, the upstart "sexting" service, and social media behemoth Facebook (FB) in its early days are uncanny. We all know how well Zuckerberg's long bet paid off (not to mention how thoroughly he vanquished those dastardly Winklevoss twins). Could Snapchat's future be just as bright?

3. After China hawk Steve Bannon’s exit there was a temptation to proclaim the death of the Trump White House’s economic nationalism. But that ignored the presence of Donald Trump, who is instinctually a protectionist. He wants “tariffs” rather than deals when it comes to China, as we’ve learned in recent days. He also sees cracking down on China as key to keeping his “America First” promise to his base.

4. adj. 终极的，根本

5. 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。

6. An increasing amount of clients are non-Koreans, from China, Japan, the Middle East and even Africa, and ministers believe medical tourism will help boost the Korean economy.

旧版特色

1. 《阳光小美女》的夫妻档幕后团队将1977年鲍比.里格斯和比利.简.金之间的性别大战拍成了电影。55岁的里格斯是职业网球运动员，他向年轻的王牌选手简.金（当时世界排名第二）发起挑战赛，结果落败。

2. 《江南Style》击败《Call Me Maybe》成为最受热捧的流行歌曲，而《007：天降杀机》战胜了《普罗米修斯》成为最多人查询的电影。

3. For years, slow emissions declines in the West have been swamped by rising emissions in the East, and the trend continued in 2013. China's emissions grew 4.2 percent and India's 5.1 percent. Both countries have been constructing coal-burning power plants at a breakneck pace.