Having evolved when the pace of life was slower, the human brain has an inherent defect that prevents it from absorbing several streams of information simultaneously and acting on them quickly.

由于在其进化期间，人类的生活节奏较为缓慢，人脑形成了固有的缺陷，不能同时接收来自多个渠道的信息并迅速进行处理。

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Rainforests have been called the "lungs of the Earth," because they filter our air by absorbing CO2, while emitting life-supporting oxygen.

雨林被称为地球的“肺”，因为它们过滤空气吸收二氧化碳，而排放维持生命的氧气。

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Earth's ozone layer protects life by absorbing ultraviolet light, which damages DNA in plants and animals (including humans) and leads to skin cancer.

太阳光中的紫外线会损伤动植物(包括人类)的DNA和引起皮肤癌，而臭氧层的功能就是阻挡住这些有害的紫外线从而保护地球上的生命。

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Peter Clarke, an historian, makes the case for Keynes's continued relevance by combining an absorbing narrative of his life with perceptive comments on how that life shaped his views.

ECONOMIST: John Maynard Keynes

While the complexities of family life are described in absorbing detail the arrival of children, the decline of a parent it is Ms Tyler's ability to conjure a character in a few succinct phrases that draws the reader deep into the whirling resentment and misunderstanding that becomes Pauline's and Michael's marriage.

ECONOMIST: New fiction

For a country obsessed with people's life stories, Indians don't write absorbing autobiographies or biographies.

BBC: Vinod Mehta memoir a rare and salacious Indian tell-all