1. 在第一部掌上移动设备发明之前，自拍杆已经问世。自拍杆其实是由一个日本男人上田宏在20世纪80年代发明的。上田宏是美能达相机公司的摄影师，他发明这个自拍杆，是因为他和妻子在欧洲旅行时无法自拍合照。（当时，他叫一个男孩帮他们拍照，那个男孩却拿着相机跑了。）

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3. 这两部纪录片都使用标准工具——资料影像、人物采访，悉心选择的音乐资料——在目前的紧张局势中书写历史。在“黑人的命也是命”(Black Lives Matter)的时代，关于黑豹党和爵士歌手兼行动分子妮娜·西蒙妮的影片确实意义重大。尼尔逊和贾巴斯精彩地讲述了他们的故事。

4. Mr. Lyons took a casting of Ms. Swinton’s mouth and designed teeth to fit. Those were clipped on over Ms. Swinton’s real teeth. For Minister Mason, he came up with a quirky look but didn’t quite want it to be comical. He was, however, interested in adding a little bling. “There’s a little bit of gold on the left-hand side,” he said. “We used real gold to make the filling of one tooth. We did it to put more character into the character.”

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6. NATO’s bombing campaign began on March 24 1999 after peace talks meant to stop the persecution of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo collapsed. Targets in both Yugoslavia and Kosovo were struck—first the Serb air defense network that opposed NATO planes then a broader target array including Yugoslav army forces said to be directly involved in the persecution of Kosovars. The target list also included political-military targets inside the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade itself.

应用

1. Debrecen is Hungary's second largest city after Budapest, and the heart of low-cost Hungary.

2. 该调查讨论了对未来的预测："生活成本总是变化的，来年将发生的变化已经有了迹象。"

3. 野村证券(Nomura)的分析师表示：“我们预期这一轮出口增长的反弹不会维持很长时间，未来数月增长势头将恢复温和，原因是人民币的升值可能弱化中国的出口竞争力，且即使习主席和特朗普总统近期在北京会面，发生贸易摩擦的潜在风险并未显著减轻。”

4. 30岁的阿什莉·格林汉姆是首位跻身收入榜单的大码模特，她通过自己的内衣和泳衣品牌代言合同赚得550万美元，排在榜单的第十位。

5. Total net profit for China’s commercial banks grew by 2.4 per cent last year, according to data from China’s bank regulator. Smaller banks saw increases in profit growth, while bigger banks slowed down.

6. These artificial eyes have indeed restored sight to blind mice. And the follow-up experiments on monkeys offer a lot of hope for eventual trials on humans because monkey and human retinas work similarly.

旧版特色

1. condensed

2. Bernard Baumohl 作为Economic Outlook Group的首席经济学家，表示他甚至更乐观的认为接下来的两年将会成为至少近十年以来形势最好的两年，他还称“有很多证据充分的表明了经济正在恢复的势头”。

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