Instead of shrugging off the next joke your friend tells or trying to top a story, laugh.

当你的朋友说下一个笑话或者故事时，不要耸耸肩，你应该大笑起来。

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Top a mixed-green salad with candied walnuts, tangerine wedges and a bit of goat cheese.

顶端放带有胡桃，楔形红橘和一点羊干酪的混合绿色色拉。

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Garnish. Use a zester to make lemon peel curls to adorn desserts, cut wedges to top a salad or use lemon slices to hang on the rim of glasses.

装饰——柠檬皮用削皮器削出卷曲的条状可以装饰甜品，切成小块可以装饰沙拉，柠檬切片还可以摆放在玻璃杯的杯口。

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Here is one of their top American hits, "Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress),"

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Legislation to require cost basis has been introduced in both the House and Senate--although those bills don't go as far as the administration's proposal, which would require brokers to track holding periods so the IRS can check up on whether your gains should be taxed as short term (at a top rate of 35%) or long term (at a top rate of 15%).

FORBES: Basis In Truth

Powered by battery, the Black Hornet is reported to have a range of about half a mile (800m), a top speed of 22mph (35kph) and can fly for up to 30 minutes.

BBC: Mini helicopter drone for UK troops in Afghanistan

In 1929, a country girl, Chiyo, is sold into bondage at a Kyoto training house for geishas, a house ruled by the foul-tempered Mother (Kaori Momoi) and a nasty top geisha, Hatsumomo (Gong Li) the equivalents of a wicked step-mother and stepsister.

NEWYORKER: Memoirs of a Geisha