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A deadly snake which had finally been tracked down after escaping a zoo has slipped away for the second time. 一条致命的蛇在逃离动物园后终于被找到,但它又第二次溜走了。 The poisonous snake forced the closure of the attraction last week when staff noticed the disappearance. 上周,当工作人员发现这条毒蛇失踪后,该景点(动物园)被迫关闭。 After six days of desperate searching, he was eventually found and placed in a supposedly secure area. 经过六天的拼命搜寻,工作人员终于找到了它,并将其安置在一个据说安全的区域。 But it seems the animal is no fan of the zoo because yet again he is out on the loose. 不过,这条蛇似乎并不喜欢动物园,因为它再一次出逃了。 The snake is a relative newcomer to the zoo but has already been frustrating its staff. 这条蛇对动物园来说是新来者,但它已经让动物园的工作人员感到挫败了。 The staff believe he squeezed himself out of a gap located around new energy-saving bulbs installed inside the snake house. 工作人员认为,它是从蛇屋内新安装的节能灯泡周围的缝隙中挤出来的。 He was only found the first time around because staff brought in a special machine to trace him inside a wall opening. 它第一次被找到是因为工作人员带来了一台特殊的机器,在一个墙洞中追踪到了它。 This kind of snake is one of the most deadly and poisonous in the wild, and they can range from three to five metres in length. 这种蛇是野外最致命和最具毒性的一种蛇,体长可达3至5米。【缺少答案,请补充】
Electric bikes have been the craze in downtown Jacksonville since they were first introduced earlier this month as a one-year pilot program. 自本月初杰克逊维尔市中心推出为期一年的电动自行车试点项目以来,电动自行车在市中心掀起了一股热潮。 But they're leading to safety concerns, mainly at night when some riders don't follow the rules of the road. 但它们也引发了安全担忧,主要是在夜间,一些骑行者不遵守道路交通规则。 As the night goes on, groups of riders are often seen traveling in just about every direction in the streets and on pedestrian paths. 随着夜幕降临,人们经常看到成群结队的骑行者在街道和人行道上向各个方向骑行。 That is increasing the probability of dangerous accidents. 这就增加了发生危险事故的概率。 Electric bike riders have to follow all the same rules as you would if you were in an automobile. 电动自行车骑行者必须遵守和开车一样的规则。 That means no running red lights or traveling in the opposite direction of traffic on one-way streets. 这意味着不能闯红灯,也不能在单行道上逆行。 City Council member Anna Cumber was instrumental in introducing the electric bikes to Jacksonville as a way to bring new life into downtown. And she's aware of the concerns. 市议员安娜·坎伯在将电动自行车引入杰克逊维尔,为市中心带来新的活力方面发挥了重要作用。她也意识到了人们的担忧。 Cumber said, "People can have fun, but both drivers and riders are responsible for paying attention while on the road. And never assume the driver is going to stop or see you". 坎伯说:“人们可以享受乐趣,但司机和骑行者都有责任在路上集中注意力。千万不要以为司机会停车或看到你”。【缺少答案,请补充】
What's the best way to teach children how to save and spend their money? 教孩子们如何存钱和消费的最佳方法是什么? You should make money a regular topic of discussion. It's best to start young. So it's instinctive rather than a scary subject. 你应该把钱作为一个经常讨论的话题。最好从小就开始讨论,这样钱就是一个本能的而不是可怕的话题了。 In our family, we talk openly about things like the budget for holidays, how taxes reduce your income, and how to shop around for the best deals. 在我们家,我们会公开讨论假期预算、税收如何减少收入以及如何货比三家以获得最佳优惠等问题。 Indeed. It's also essential to make money real for children through practical examples. 的确。通过实际例子让孩子们真正了解钱也很重要。 Working out how much we save using discount pizza coupons, for example, is much more relevant than abstract sums. 比如,算出我们使用披萨折扣券能省多少钱,这比抽象的金额更有意义。 We also give our kids pocket money, and the amount they get is linked to chores, such as putting the bins out and emptying the dishwasher. 我们还给孩子们零花钱,他们得到的零花钱数额与家务劳动挂钩,比如倒垃圾桶和清空洗碗机。 We do that, too. And it's paid according to their age, £2 for each year. So they can see some progression. 我们也这样做,而且是根据他们的年龄支付的。每年增加两英镑,这样他们就能看到钱的数额在增长。 Teaching them to save is important. We opened the savings account when
Welcome to Books in Review. Our guest today is John Banks, the author of the bestselling new book. Glad to be here, Jane. 欢迎来到《书评》。我们今天的嘉宾是约翰·班克斯,他是畅销新书《奖励成功》的作者。很高兴来到这里,简。 Your book has sold 2,000,000 copies. But before we discuss why it’s getting so much attention, let’s talk about your background. 您的书已经卖出了200万册,但在我们讨论它为何受到如此多的关注之前,让我们先来谈谈您的背景。 You’re an economist and spent two decades teaching at universities? 您是一位经济学家,并在大学里教了20年书? I spent 25 years as a professor actually, and then for the last 10 years, I’ve worked as a political consultant, advising politicians at the national level about problems in our country. 实际上,我当了25年的教授。然后,在过去的10年里,我一直在做政治顾问,就我们国家的问题向国家层面的政治家提供建议。 You discuss three of those problems in the book, improving public education, reducing our nation’s health care burden, and increasing personal savings. 您在书中讨论了其中的三个问题,即改善公共教育、减轻国家医疗负担和增加个人储蓄。 But your ideas about education are the most controversial. 但您关于教育的观点是最有争议的。 Absolutely. A lot of people think I’m trying to punish students who aren’t doing well, when actually my goal is to give all students more incentive to succeed. 当然。很多人认为我在试图惩罚成绩不好的学生,而实际上我的目标是给所有学生更多成功的动力。 I’m not sure I agree with you. Your proposal to pay cash rewards to students who get good grades is a particular problem. 我不太同意您的观点。您提出给取得好成绩的学生支付现金奖励的建议就是一个特别的问题。 What about students who don’t get good grades? It seems like you’re blaming them for not succeeding when poor performance in school isn’t the child’s fault. 那成绩不好的学生呢?您似乎在责怪他们没有取得成功,而学习成绩差并不是孩子的错。 But my proposal is not just to reward students with good grades, but also students who show improvement. 但我的建议不仅仅是奖励成绩好的学生,还包括有所进步的学生。 Okay. Another criticism of the plan is the cash rewards themselves. Where will the money come from? 好吧,对该方案的另一个批评是现金奖励本身。钱从哪里来? If students do better, we’ll spend less on schooling. So in the end, the rewards will pay for themselves. 如果学生表现得更好,我们花在学校教育上的钱就会减少。所以,到头来,奖励的钱会自己给自己买单。 What about now? How will we fund the rewards in the meantime? 那现在呢?在此期间,我们如何为奖励提供资金? Well, by increasing taxes or moving money from other areas of the budget into education. 嗯,通过增加税收或将预算中其他方面的资金转入教育。【缺少答案,请补充】
I met three different people today, and each time, when I asked, “How are you?” The reply was exactly the same, “I’m busy”. 今天我遇到了三个不同的人,每次当我问“你好吗?”得到的回答都一模一样——“我很忙”。 Honestly, I hear the same answer from the vast majority of people I meet. 老实说,我从我遇到的大多数人那里听到了同样的答案。于是我开始思考:“你猜怎么着?每个人都很忙!” I’m busy, you’re busy, everybody’s busy. So you being busy doesn’t make me sympathetic at all. Because “busy” is the state of the world. 我很忙,你很忙,大家都很忙。所以,你忙碌并没有让我产生任何同情心。因为“忙碌”就是这个世界的现状。 So I’m launching a campaign to stop people complaining about being “busy”. 因此,我发起了一场运动,让人们停止抱怨“忙碌”。这听起来可能很残酷,但事实是,没有人在乎。 In a busy world, “being busy” doesn’t stand out, nor does it mean productive, creative, accomplished, or professional. 在一个忙碌的世界里,“忙碌”并不会脱颖而出,也不意味着有成效、有创造力、有成就或很专业。 Steve Maraboli once said, “When someone tells you they are too busy… It’s not a reflection of their schedule; it’s a reflection of YOUR spot on their schedule”. 史蒂夫·马拉波利曾经说过:“当有人告诉你他们太忙’的时候,这并不是他们日程安排的反映,而是反映了你在他们日程安排中的位置”。 Donna Lynn Hope has also remarked, “Busy doesn’t mean better. I’ve never envied a busy person-the one who likes to point out their busy lives to others”. 唐娜·林恩·霍普也说过:“忙碌并不意味着更好。我从不羡慕忙碌的人——那些喜欢向他人炫耀自己的忙碌生活的人”。 The reality is, nobody’s too busy-It’s just about priorities. So the next time someone asks you how you are, maybe respond differently. 事实是,没有人真的太忙——只是事情的轻重缓急而已。所以,下次有人问你过得怎么样时,也许可以换一种方式回答。 In my experience, the “I’m busy” response is really covering up the fact that they’re not actually accomplishing their real purpose. 根据我的经验,“我很忙”这个回答其实是在掩盖一个事实,那就是他们并没有实现自己真正的目标。 And “being busy” is the lie they tell themselves about why they can’t achieve it. 而“忙碌”则是他们对自己说的一个谎言,用来解释为什么他们无法实现目标。【缺少答案,请补充】
More and more people are taking up extreme sports like snowboarding, skateboarding, mountain biking, and many more. Why are these sports becoming so popular? 越来越多的人开始参与极限运动,如滑雪板运动、滑板运动、山地自行车等。为什么这些运动变得如此受欢迎? One thing that extreme sports do better than perhaps anything else is to help you stop being afraid. 极限运动可能优于其他任何运动的一点就是帮助你消除恐惧。 It may sound strange to say that their main function is to induce fear, but after a time, your fear response to other things in life will be dramatically reduced. 说它们的主要功能是减少恐惧,听起来可能有些奇怪。但一段时间后,你对生活中其他事物的恐惧反应就会大大降低。 After all, if you can jump out of a plane or off a bridge, then you can face anything else easily. When doing extreme sports, you have to become more focused. 毕竟,如果你能从飞机或桥上跳下,那你就能轻松面对其他任何事情。在进行极限运动时,你必须变得更加专注。 You'll be pushed to your limits. And if you aren't focused, you'll make dangerous mistakes. 你会被推到极限,如果你不集中注意力,你就会犯下危险的错误。 Learning to be this focused when enjoying extreme sports will help you to be focused at work, keeping you more productive and ultimately more successful. 在享受极限运动的过程中学会专注,将有助于你在工作中保持专注,使你更加高效,最终取得更大的成功。 It's great to stay fit and healthy, but standard exercise routines and sports only work the same muscles repeatedly. 保持身体健康固然很好,但常规的锻炼方式和体育运动只是反复锻炼同一块肌肉。 With extreme sports, you'll be working entirely different muscles, and that means you get an all-over workout. 在极限运动中你会锻炼到完全不同的肌肉,这意味着你将得到全面的锻炼。 Extreme sports also burn a lot more calories than other sports. Skateboarding, for example, can burn as many as 500 calories per hour. Basketball burns around 300 in the same time. 极限运动也比其他运动消耗更多的卡路里。例如,滑板每小时可消耗多达500卡路里的热量。而篮球运动在相同时间内可消耗约300卡路里。 When you find that you can overcome the physical or mental challenges involved in extreme sports, you'll feel superhuman and your self-confidence will be at an all-time high. 当你发现自己可以克服极限运动中的身体或心理挑战时,你会感到自己是个超人,自信心也会达到前所未有的高度。【缺少答案,请补充】
Most of us have been in teams or organizations where we've had conflict with the people that we're working with around the ideas or decisions that we're discussing. 我们中的大多数人都曾在团队或组织中,围绕我们正在讨论的想法或决策,与一起工作的人发生过冲突。 Conflict is natural. We all bring different life and work experiences to the table. We all have different personality preferences and tendencies. 冲突是正常的。我们每个人都带着不同的生活和工作经历。我们都有不同的个性偏好和倾向。 We're not all going to have the same ideas on how to approach policies, programs, or problems. 对于如何处理政策、计划或问题,我们的想法也不尽相同。 But too often we get caught in this place where conflict is perceived to be negative - something we want to avoid so that we can maintain the harmony of our workplace. 但是,我们常常会陷入这样一种境地,即我们认为冲突是不好的——我们想要避免冲突,以保持工作场所的和谐。 This could be because some people want to avoid conflict at all costs, after all they still have to work together. But this kind of artificial harmony isn't the answer. 这可能是因为有些人想要不惜一切代价避免冲突,毕竟他们还要一起工作。但是这种人为的和谐并不能解决问题。 Productive conflict is a vital part of teams and organizations that want to push forward and do more. 富有成效的冲突是那些想要推进和做更多事情的团队和组织的一个重要组成部分。 Without conflict, we're often stuck in this artificial harmony where people don't express potentially innovative ideas for fear that they may start conflict with others. 没有冲突我们往往会陷入这种人为的和谐之中,人们因为害怕与他人发生冲突而不敢表达潜在的创新想法。 But if you're in a place where you have a basis of trust, conflict can be extremely productive. It can lead to increased innovation and greater trust on teams. 但是,如果你处于一个有信任基础的地方,冲突可以非常富有成效。它可以提高团队的创新能力的信任度。 It may be an uncomfortable process, but good leaders and healthy teams recognize that productive and healthy conflict is an important part of how they function. 冲突这个过程可能让人不舒服,但是好的领导者和健康的团队都会认识到,富有成效和正常合理的冲突是团队运作的一个重要组成部分。【缺少答案,请补充】
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