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Zuma in court for home improvement 南非總統公款私用上法庭
Horses don’t like ‘long faces’ 馬不喜歡看到“憤怒面孔”
文字稿
South Africa’s Constitutional Court is considering whether the president Jacob Zuma should pay back some of the $23m of taxpayers’ money spent on refurbishing his private home. His lawyers say he will repay all improvements to his ranch that were not security related.
南非的憲法法院正在考慮該國總統雅各佈•祖馬是否應該賠償一部分納稅人的錢。他挪用兩千三百萬美元進行私宅翻新。他的律師說，祖馬將償還安保范圍之外的所有農場改進費用。
One particular animal species holds the title of man’s best friend but horses… they’ve been living alongside humans for 6,000 years. A new study shows that adapting to our world has changed the way they think because British scientists have discovered that domestic horses can recognise our facial expressions. The animals were measurably more stressed by angry faces.
有一種特殊的動物享有瞭人類最佳朋友稱號, 但馬已經和人們共同生活瞭六千年。一項新的研究顯示，馬作為動物在適應人類世界的過程中已經改變瞭其固有的思維方式。英國的科學傢發現，傢畜馬能夠識別人的面部表情。看到憤怒的面孔會增加它們的精神壓力。
詞匯
refurbishing
翻新、裝修
adapting
適應
練習
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refurbishing / adapting
1. It’s an old house but it will look really nice after you __________ it.
2. Warm winters and big hurricanes. Should we try to __________ to extreme weather brought about by climate change?
答案
1. It’s an old house but it will look really nice after you refurbish it.
2. Warm winters and big hurricanes. Should we try to adapt to extreme weather brought about by climate change?
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