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Chinese homeless man Cheng Guorong became an unlikely sex symbol after he was forced on to the streets when he was fired from his job and robbed of his savings.

中國流浪漢程國榮變成一名令人想不到的性感象徵，在他被解僱、又被搶走積蓄而被迫流浪街頭後。

He always cheats on women.（他超會劈腿。）

最討人厭的就是會劈腿的人了！這些人在同時間與不同人交往，腳踏兩條船甚至N條船。但英文的「劈腿」不可以直譯成split legs喔，要表達這樣的意思，可以說：He/She likes to cheat on…，其中cheat意思是「不忠；不貞」，也可以說：He’s cheating on you.（他背著妳劈腿）、He’s not faithful.（他不忠）、或者 He’s two-timing you.（他背著妳腳踏兩條船），其中的two-time是動詞，意為「欺騙配偶、情人等」。

為何聽別人講手機會心生不悅？科學家已經找到答案。美國康乃爾大學的科學家表示，不論在辦公室、火車上或任何公共場合，聽到旁人用高分貝的音量講手機，話講一半（halfalogue=half+dialogue的合體字）比完整的對話更耗費注意力和專注力。 

蘋果公司登上全球科技業市值第一寶座後，發生iPhone 4收訊不良的「天線門」（Antennagate）事件，再加上台灣蘋果官網將原價近5 萬元的Mac Mini 8G8誤標為不到2萬元，蘋果非但不認賠道歉，反而不聞不問，凸顯大廠的傲慢，在發生這兩起事件後不禁令人懷疑，為何企業在登頂後容易摔跤？

A group of Benedictine nuns who live in complete seclusion in the South of France are set to become divas of pop after signing a deal with Universal Music, the leading record company behind Lady Gaga and Amy Winehouse.

一群住在法國南部、完全與世隔絕的本篤會修女即將成為流行音樂女伶，因為她們已和環球音樂公司簽下合約，女神卡卡與艾美懷絲等歌星都是這家重要唱片公司的旗下藝人。

U.S. pop star Lady Gaga is known for her skimpy outfits and sexually-charged performances, but she says she fears having sex with a partner could deplete her artistic energy.

美國流行歌壇巨星女神卡卡以衣不蔽體及表演充滿性愛意味而著稱，但她表示，她擔心與伴侶作愛，可能會耗盡自己的藝術能量。

A man who threw a shoe at Israel’s chief justice, knocking her off the bench, was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in jail.

一名朝以色列最高法院首席大法官丟鞋子、將她從座位上打落地的男子，週三被判處入獄3年。

Having a good network of friends and neighbours boosts survival chances by 50%, US researchers believe. The Brigham Young University team came to this figure by number-crunching data from nearly 150 studies looking at survival odds and social networks.

美國研究人員相信，有一大群好朋友與鄰居，可以讓存活率提高50%。楊百翰大學團隊透過近150份觀察生存機率與社會網絡的研究所得來的龐大數據，得出這個結論。

A couple who booked a romantic holiday to Sydney, Australia, ended up in Sydney – Canada.

一對訂了澳洲雪梨浪漫假期的情侶，結果來到加拿大的雪梨。

Two Moscow officials face bribery charges following a car chase in which one of them allegedly threw bundles of roubles out of the window, Russian authorities say.

兩名莫斯科官員在一起飛車追逐後，面臨賄賂罪指控，其中一人據說還把數綑盧布丟出車窗外，俄羅斯當局表示。

30-year-old hunky sex education teacher Benedict Garrett owned up to his secret life after pupils discovered on internet that he was already a stripper called Johnny Anglais. He confessed that he rakes in cash filming raunchy titles and said："I’m not ashamed."

30歲、身材健美性感的性教育老師賈瑞特，在學生從網路上發現他過去是名為安格萊斯的脫衣舞男後，坦白了自己的秘密生活。他承認他拍鹹濕A片賺錢，而且說「我並不以為恥」。

當身邊的好友告訴你好消息時，要如何表達對他們的稱讚？以前的人會說「你很棒、你很了不起」，現代人則會說「你好屌」。英文有類似的說法嗎？當然有！若你是古代人，可以說：You’re amazing（amazing是「令人驚豔」）、You’ re incredible!（incredible是「極妙的；令人驚奇的」），若你是像「周董」般的新新人類，則可以說：You’ re really something!（你真有兩把刷子），更酷的說法則是 You rock!

A：I just got a supermodel’ s phone number and got into the final ten of the "One Million Star" singing contest! （我剛剛要到了一個名模的電話，而且也入選了「超級星光大道」的前十強！）

It seems almost Kafkaesque： Ten safety deposit boxes of never-published writings by Franz Kafka, their exact contents unknown, are trapped in courts and bureaucracy, much like one of the nightmarish visions created by the author himself.

這幾乎就是卡夫卡式的小說情節：十個裝有作家卡夫卡從未出版作品、但實際內容無人知曉的保管箱，被困在法庭與官僚制度裡動彈不得，就像卡夫卡本人所創造出的夢魘式景象一樣。

A teenager collapsed during his marriage to a cow he had earlier been caught having sex with after claiming it had flirted with him.

一名青少年在他與一頭母牛成親時昏倒，他先前被人逮到與這頭牛做愛，他宣稱是這頭牛對他調情。

Having a big head may help protect against the worst ravages of dementia, say researchers. They found that people with Alzheimer’s with the largest craniums had better memory and thinking skills than patients with smaller skulls.

研究人員說，頭大可能有助對抗失智症的摧殘，他們發現，罹患阿茲海默症而頭骨較大者，記憶力與思考能力比頭骨較小的病患佳。

An Ontario man charged with driving without a license said he has not had a license in 30 years because he forgot to renew it.

一名被控無照駕駛的安大略省男子表示，他30年來都沒有駕照，是因為他忘記換新照。

Indonesia’s Muslims learned on Friday they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country’s highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa.

在該國的最高伊斯蘭機構週五表示，其對麥加方向的指示實際上是讓人民面對非洲後，印尼的穆斯林才知道他們一直往錯誤的方向祈禱。

His works have been scrutinised and debated for more than 2,000 years by the greatest minds in history. But it turns out the Greek philosopher Plato still has a few surprises up his sleeve.

他的作品已被史上最偉大的思想家們審視、辯論了2千多年。但結果發現，這名希臘哲學家還隱瞞了一些令人意外的東西。

世界就是這麼不公平，女人是「大一嬌，大二俏，大三拉警報，大四沒人要」，男人卻是越老越值錢？「老牛吃嫩草」在社會上處處可見。英文常用robbing the cradle來形容老的一方「搶搖籃」。當然，也可形容老牛吃嫩草的「老牛」是a cradle robber（搖籃奪取者），都很貼切！

A： Tom is in his 60’s, and he married a 23-year-old woman. （老湯60幾歲了，還娶了個23歲的女人。）

美聯社報導，被譽為有史以來最敏銳的廣域紅外線探測器「WISE」，是「Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer」的簡稱，它將在地球上空500公里軌道進行9個月的飛行任務，預計可以觀測約20萬顆小行星群的大小和位置，並蒐集哈伯太空望遠鏡可能遺漏的資訊，包含棕矮星、恆星間的小行星、塵雲等，由於溫度很低或表面反照率很低，因此只能在紅外波段偵測到這些天體。科學家希望透過這些數據，可以判斷天體的數量及可能對地球構成的威脅。