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Today’s news stories are:
今日提要:
A longer life for coffee drinkers?
英國研究者們發現喝咖啡的人壽命更長
Beef farmers happy cows
菜牛飼養主關心奶牛安康
Here the words and phrases for you to learn
下面是你可以學習的單詞和短語
vices
壞習慣
welfare
福利,安康
We really do take our coffee seriously here.
我們倫敦人真的很把喝咖啡當回事。
In London, its no longer a drink associated with lifes vices such as cigarettes or alcohol.
在這裡,人們不再把喝咖啡與吸菸、喝酒等生活惡習聯繫在一起。
vices: bad habits
壞習慣
We really do take our coffee seriously here.
我們倫敦人真的很把喝咖啡當回事。
In London, its no longer a drink associated with lifes vices such as cigarettes or alcohol.
在這裡,人們不再把喝咖啡與吸菸、喝酒等生活惡習聯繫在一起。
Researchers at Imperial College London monitored half a million people over 16 years – the effects of coffee were noticeable.
倫敦帝國理工學院的研究人員們在對五十萬名調查對象進行了16年的密切觀察後發現喝咖啡對他們產生的效果是顯而易見的。
Men who drank coffee, on average, lived an extra three months, women an extra one month.
在被調查的對象中,喝咖啡的男性比不喝咖啡的男性平均多活了三個月,而喝咖啡的女性則比不喝咖啡的女性平均多活了一個月。
When his father died in 2011, Jay Wilde took the responsibility of running the family farm.
傑·懷爾德自2011年父親去世之後,擔負起了經營家庭農場的責任。
For years, he has been concerned about the welfare of his cows
多年以來,他一直很關心自家農場奶牛的安康
welfare: health and happiness
福利,安康
When his father died in 2011, Jay Wilde took the responsibility of running the family farm.
傑·懷爾德自2011年父親去世之後,擔負起了經營家庭農場的責任。
For years, he has been concerned about the welfare of his cows and the environmental impact of beef farming.
多年以來,他一直很關心自家農場奶牛的安康以及菜牛養殖對環境的影響。
Today, hes doing something about it.
如今,他在為自己的這些擔憂和顧慮做出行動。
Instead of sending animals to slaughter, he has given away his herd of cattle to an animal sanctuary.
他並沒有把這些動物送去宰殺,而是把牛群捐給了一家動物收容所。
輕鬆玩轉語法!原來學習語法如此簡單~