1. As for the worst job of 2013? Newspaper reporter bumped last year's loser, lumberjack, for the ignominious distinction.

2. 参与本次突袭犯罪活动的警察说，他们还发现了牛百叶、软骨和其它早已过期的动物器官，这些都是从邻国越南走私来的。警方共查处非法肉类20吨。

3. For a few years, Namibia's dollar has been depreciating against many currencies, providing affordable opportunities for travel. The best-priced flights generally avoid South African and European school-holiday times, especially late December and January.

4. 7）让我来唱黑脸：想找一种婉转的批评方式？将对话转变为一场操练，你在其中扮演被孤立的一方，执行一项职能：戳穿（对方言语中的）逻辑漏洞及其攻击计划中的漏洞。你使用此条策略，一定要强调一点，千万不要在这些观点中掺杂个人情绪。

5. 未来数年时间内，截止2018年，支出将上升至1.3万亿美元。而1000亿美元的丙型肝炎药物支出及同等的癌症治疗费用，还有780亿美元的糖尿病治疗费用都将是构成支出上升的因素。

6. 国家大学排行榜单数量从去年的38份上升到42份。新加入的榜单包括阿根廷、墨西哥、巴基斯坦和罗马尼亚大学排行榜。

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1. 随着我国对稳定经济的新驱动力的投资增加，2016年我国的科技研究与试验发展经费达1.57万亿元，增长10.6%，是2014年以来最快的年增速。

2. 今年年底10年期美国国债收益率会突破3%吗？

3. Lopez Short is the name of the game, judging from the red carpet looks of Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez. Both divas went for thigh-high dresses to show off their gams4, with strategically cut out neck and shoulder detail, but where Beyoncé opted to stand out in fire engine red, J. Lo went for soft and satiny earth tones.

4. The World Health Organization this year declared H1N1 a global epidemic. Fortunately, it is much less threatening than people previously believed, and newly introduced vaccines seem to have quelled lingering fears.

5. 1. Choosing a job based on compensation alone

6. Much of the boost in exports came from shipments to the US, which grew for the first time since March at an annualised rate of 6.9 per cent to $36.8bn. Among other destinations that swung back to growth last month was the the EU, shipments to which rose 5.1 per cent to $29.9bn, as did those to Japan, by 3.2 per cent to $12.2bn.

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2. Washington's twin-obsessions in election year 2010 will be to create jobs and cut the deficit. Little will be accomplished on either count.

3. 的确，这种兴奋会导致上述团体的成员做出不切实际的声明。一些比特币开发者和投资者宣称，五年内，各大银行将接受比特币。比特币钱包Blockchain公司首席运营官彼得o史密斯承认，上述说法有些夸张。史密斯表示：“我听到很多预测称，很快全世界都将使用比特币，这些预测大都不现实。我们正试图做的，是一个相当大胆的生态系统，所以这将需要很长的时间。”