"Hot chocolate outlets are booming," wrote Roger Boyes in the UK Times last Thursday.

“热巧克力店营业额激增。” 罗杰·布瓦耶在英国泰晤士报中写道。

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In the UK, travel times to work had been stable for at least six centuries, with people avoiding situations that required them to spend more than half an hour travelling to work.

在英国，上班的交通时间至少稳定了六个世纪，人们避免了需要花半个多小时去上班的情况。

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South Africa is five times the size of the UK.

南非比英国大五倍。

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"So condoms are the seat belts of AIDS." According to the Britain-based HIV Charity the Terence Higgins Trust, over 7,000 people were diagnosed with HIV in the UK in 2008, that's almost three times the number a decade ago.

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The Sunday Times (UK) named it the best current affairs book of 2012 and The Times (UK) named it one of the best non-fiction books of 2012.

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With his latest book "The God Delusion" currently sitting comfortably among Amazon.com's top sellers and on both the New York Times and the UK's Sunday Times bestseller lists, Richard Dawkins will no doubt appreciate the irony of friends and families exchanging copies on Christmas Day.

CNN: The rise of the 'New Atheists'

In 2013, the US searched the database more than 238 million times, the UK more than 140 million times and the UAE more than 104 million times.

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