The star of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, an annual jamboree held in Las Vegas, was the Pre, a snazzy smart-phone from Palm (pictured left).

一年一度的消费电子盛典已经在拉斯维加斯举行，其上的明星就是来自Palm的时尚智能手机Pre。

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Dubai, which built the world's tallest building, palm-shaped islands with hotels and the world's first seven-star hotel, has thousands of empty hotel rooms and visitor levels are stagnant.

迪拜建有全球最高的建筑、建有酒店的棕榈岛以及全球的第一家七星级酒店，却经常有数千间的酒店客房是空置的，游客数量也遭遇瓶颈。

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Saponified oils of olive, palm, coconut, camellia, shea butter, purified water, essential oils of orange, spearmint, star anise, fir needle, glycerin, organic rose petals, vitamin e.

皂化橄榄油、棕榈油、椰子油、茶籽油、乳木果油、纯净水；甜橙、留兰香、茴香、纵木精油，甘油、天然玫瑰花瓣、维生素e。

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He got a tattoo on one arm of its logo two palm fronds embracing a star, supposedly the emblem of the Galactic Confederacy seventy-five million years ago.

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Star professors palm their pupils off on graduate students and then give them top grades to keep them happy (one survey found that 91% of Harvard graduates get honours compared with just 51% at Yale).

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Later came intensive memorising of the star-compass, a circle of coral pebbles, each pebble a star, laid out in the sand round a palm-frond boat.

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