The scientists at Manchester Metropolitan University then discovered the Achilles' tendon became thicker and stiffer meaning it was harder to stretch the feet out to walk.

随后曼切·斯特城市大学的科学家们发现跟腱(脚跟与小腿之间的大块肌腱)变厚变硬意味着伸展脚走路会更加困难。

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The term 'chewing the fat' takes on a whole new meaning with this course offered by George Washington University in the US.

成语“开怀畅谈”（英语为chewing the fat，直译为“嚼脂肪”）有了新的含义了，拜乔治华盛顿大学所赐。

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An attempt to enable computers to assess the emotional meaning of text is being led by Stephen Pulman of the University of Oxford and Karo Moilanen, one of his doctoral students.

牛津大学的斯蒂芬·波曼和他的博士生卡罗·莫拉南正进行一项研究，尝试使电脑能评估文本中的情感因素。

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W. Bush and now a professor at the University of Rochester, asked me for a short piece on the meaning of baseball to me.

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For stress to be most beneficial, it's important to find meaning in your work, says Debra Nelson, a management professor at Oklahoma State University who has been studying stress for 30 years.

WSJ: How to Turn Bad Stress Into Good

While the middle finger may historically have symbolised a phallus, it has lost that distinctive meaning and is no longer even obscene, says Ira Robbins, a law professor at American University in Washington DC, who has studied the gesture's place in criminal jurisprudence.

BBC: When did the middle finger become offensive?