书评：1。豹龟与苏卡达2。哥斯大黎加的蛇类。
Book Reviews: 1. Leopard and African Spurred Tortoises. 2. Snakes of Costa Rica.
一间哥斯大黎加旅馆尝试让客人与当地猫科动物和平共处。
And a Costa Rica hotel is making peace between its guests and the local feline residents.
在清初礼学的复兴运动中，万斯大是个引人注目的礼学家。
Wan Sida was a striking scholar who studied Li in movement of resurrection of Li-study in early Qing Dynasty.
测试结果令埃姆斯大感意外，虽然他已经预料到会有一些认知差异。
The results surprised even Ames, who had expected to find some differences in perception.
卡罗林是拉斯维加斯的酒吧女侍，今年26岁，比菲尔普斯大3岁。
上星期，我在哥斯大黎加，唯一可行的方式是通过电子邮件沟通家园。
Last week I was in Costa Rica, and the only practical way to communicate home was by email.
从卡拉加斯大铁矿运输铁矿石到邻近的热带雨林帕拉州的铁路也因为暴雨暂时关闭。
The rains also prompted the temporary closure of a railway that takes iron ore from the sprawling Carajas mine in the neighbouring jungle state of Para.
赛特凯达斯大瀑布，原先那么有气势，汹涌地河水紧贴悬崖咆哮而下，滔滔不绝，一泻千里。
Saite kai da great falls, originally so imposing manner, surging river close to the cliff and growling, gushing, li.
在很多村庄里，很多小孩子甚至必须接受“克拉普斯大挑战”，他们努力比克拉普斯的鞭子跑得更快。
In some villages, kids are even made to run what is known as a Krampus-gauntlet, in an attempt to outrun the switches.
他在阿姆斯特丹的斯希普霍尔机场已办理了飞往亚特兰大的航班的登机手续。
He had checked in at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport for a flight to Atlanta.
在塔尔西斯高原上发现了三座非常大的火山。塔尔西斯高原是火星赤道附近一片广阔的地质区域。
Three very large volcanoes are found on the Tharsis bulge, an enormous geologic area near Mars's equator.
切斯特猎豹嚼着一大块切达干酪。
然后，我们通常在11月向东走穿越加拿大，去看望特拉维斯和我们的20多岁大的孙辈。
Then, usually in November, we make the even longer trip east across Canada to see Travis and our grandchildren, who were about their twenties.
管家塞巴斯蒂安，一个外套上有大铜纽扣的男人，很快就站到了她面前。
Sebastian, the butler, a man with large brass buttons on his coat, soon stood before her.
他和妻子、女儿、五只猫和三只狗一起生活在罗马市的郊外，他还是那不勒斯第二大学的一名教授。
He lives with his wife, teenage daughter, five cats, and three dogs just outside Rome and is a professor at the Second University of Naples.
2002年，安吉丽娜在拍摄电影《古墓丽影》时访问了柬埔寨的一家孤儿院，并收养了当时只有七个月大的马多克斯。
Angelina adopted Maddox when he was just seven months old after she visited a Cambodian orphanage while shooting her film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in 2002.
《消费者报告》杂志的副主编杰夫·布莱斯卡尔说，有关联盟的宣传大吹大擂是毫无意义的。
Jeff Blyskal, associate editor of Consumer Reports magazine, says the promotional ballyhoo over alliances is much a do about nothing.
也许我们需要一个新的短语，它能让每个人向杜波依斯最初的理想主义希望迈进一大步：“重要的不是名字，而是事情本身。”
Perhaps a new phrase is needed, one that can bring everyone one big step closer to realizing Du Bois's original, idealistic hope: "It's not the name—it's the Thing that counts."
来自埃塞克斯郡科尔切斯特的研究员奥尔汉伊斯梅尔发现，去年圣诞节，他10个月大的儿子卡梅伦收到了无数玩具，这让他的情况变得更糟了。
Orhan Ismail, a researcher from Colchester, Essex, saw a change for the worse in Cameron, his 10-month-old son, after he was given innumerable toys last Christmas.
几年前，我的朋友朱利叶斯在路边救了一只野生鹦鹉妈妈，把它养在一个大笼子里当宠物。
Years ago, my friend Julius saved a bird—a wild "Mom" cockatoo (鹦鹉) from the side of the road and kept it as a pet in a big cage.
在这里，“银发网上冲浪者”活动的组织者之一吉尔·亚当斯给出了她认为老年人应该上网的十大理由。
Here, Gill Adams, one of the organizers of Silver Surfers' Day, gives her top ten reasons why all older people should get connected.
但是，通过一个被称为“国家青年管理局”的大萧条时期的项目，博洛格得以进入明尼阿波利斯市的明尼苏达大学学习林业。
But through a Great Depression era programme, known as the "National Youth Administration", Borlaug was able to enroll in the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis to study forestry.
现在的研究表明，在最后一次冰河时期的尾声阶段，阿拉斯加东南部沿岸的内大陆架的相当大的区域并未被冰覆盖。
Research now indicates that sizable areas of southeastern Alaska along the inner continental shelf were not covered by ice toward the end of the last Ice Age.
这是全球四大导航网络之一，其他三个是美国的全球定位系统、俄罗斯的格洛纳斯和欧盟的伽利略。
It's one of four global (全球的) navigation networks, including the United States' GPS, Russia's GLONASS and the European Union's Galileo.
玛丽莎·托梅和碧昂斯坚持转呼啦圈来保持她们动人的身材，这是有原因的，转呼啦圈可是消耗脂肪和卡路里的一大攻略。
There's a reason Marisa Tomei and Beyoncé hoop to keep their bodies beautiful—it's a major fat-and-calorie torcher.
玛丽莎·托梅和碧昂斯坚持转呼啦圈来保持她们动人的身材，这是有原因的，转呼啦圈可是消耗脂肪和卡路里的一大攻略。
There's a reason Marisa Tomei and Beyoncé hoop to keep their bodies beautiful—it's a major fat-and-calorie torcher.
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