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Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English, I’m Rob and with me is Neil.
大家好，歡迎來到BBC 6分鐘英語，我是Rob，我的搭檔是Neil。
Hello.
大家好。
Today we’re talking about class. This is something of an obsession with British people; it’s something they talk about and think about all the time! So Neil, what class are you – lower, middle or upper?
今天我們討論下階層的話題。對英國人來說這是有些困擾的；是他們一直在談論和思考的事情！Neil，你屬於哪個階層呢—低收入階層、中產階層還是富有階層？
I suppose if you look at my background, you could say I am middle class.
我想如果你瞭解我的背景，你會說我是中產階層了。
Yes, me too – middle class. So we belong to a social group that consists of well-educated people, who have good jobs and are neither very rich nor very poor.
是的，我也是中產階層。因此我們屬於這樣一個階層--這個階層的人都受過良好的教育，有一份較好的工作，他們既不富裕也不貧窮。

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Hello I’m Rob. Welcome to 6 Minute English. I’m joined today by Finn. Hi Finn.
大家好，我是Rob。歡迎來到BBC6分鐘英語。今天和我一起的是Finn。你好Finn。
Hi Rob.
Rob你好。
Today we’re talking about a subject that many of us have experienced – it’s living at home, particularly when we’re grown up and in our twenties. Finn, what age were you when you left home?
今天我們討論的話題我們很多人都經歷過--在家裡住，尤其是當我們二十多歲長大的時候。Finn，你離開家的時候多大？
I was 18 and I’d just finished school, I was really, really excited to see the world! So I left home quite young.
18歲，我剛畢業，而且當時我真的真的很興奮看到外面的世界！我離家的時候比較小。
Well, I left home at the age of 18 too, to go to university, and I never looked back!
好吧，我也是18離家的，去上大學，並且再也沒回頭!

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A triple bacon cheeseburger seems like a heart attack on a plate. So how can polar bears thrive on their version, seal blubber? Turns out they’ve stocked up on genes that let them clear fats from their blood. That’s according to a study in the journal Cell. [Shiping Liu et al,Population Genomics Reveal Recent Speciation and Rapid Evolutionary Adaptation in Polar Bears]
一個三層培根芝士漢堡看來像是餐盤上引發心力衰竭的元兇。那麼，北極熊是如何處理他們吃的高熱量食物的呢？原來，它們存積了（某種）基因讓它們能夠清除血液中的脂肪。以上出自《細胞》期刊。【shiping Liu等著，《以北極熊為例，以動植物總群基因學揭示近代物種的快速進化適應性（進程）》】。
Polar bears are well adapted to life on the sea ice. Up to half their body weight’s fat, which gives them extra insulation and buoyancy, and provides them with a ready source of energy. 
北極熊對生活在海面冰層具有良好適應性。重占體重一半的脂肪層給北極熊提供了額外隔離保護和浮力。同時，脂肪層也是北極熊重要的/主要的能量來源。 But how can an animal so fat also be so fit? Researchers compared the genomes of polar bears with those of brown bears, and found that polar bears have accumulated genetic changes that boost their heart health and fat metabolism. One gene in particular, called ApoB, helps move cholesterol out of the blood—where it causes problems in humans—and into cells.
但是，動物是如何做到在肥胖和健康並存的？研究人員把北極熊和棕熊的基因組進行了對比，發現北極熊的累積基因變化促進了它們的心臟健康和脂肪的新陳代謝。特別要指出的是一種叫ApoB的基因，它有助於把血液中，會給人類帶來健康隱患的膽固醇轉移到細胞中。
These genomic changes happened quickly, evolutionarily speaking. Polar bears and brown bears diverged from a common ancestor less than half a million years ago. But if that seems super speedy, the ability to digest lactose didn’t spread through human populations until we domesticated cows, just 10,000 years ago. A moooving testament to the power of natural selection. —Karen Hopkin。
這些帶有物種進化意義的基因變化通常發生得迅速。北極熊和棕熊從共有祖先，到兩者發生（基因）分歧，期間不足一百年時間。 但是，如果這（進程）看起來非常迅速，那從人類馴養乳牛到 ‘人類有能力消化乳糖’（這種認知）的普及，那也僅有一萬年時間。（以上其實）都是自然選擇力的持續見證。 
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⇉⇉ 形容皮膚的詞彙盤點 ⇇
　　　
天氣變冷，保養皮膚也面臨更大的挑戰，想要白皙水潤的美肌就要多下功夫。變美的同時，溫習下這些形容皮膚的詞彙也不錯～
　　
1. fair: 白皙的
➲ She has fair skin.
　她皮膚白皙。
2. ruddy: 紅潤的
➲ Her face was ruddy and healthy-looking. 
　她面色紅潤，看上去很健康。
3. dewy: 水潤的
➲ The make-up artist has revealed all her dewy skin secrets.
　化妝師毫無保留地分享了她保持皮膚水潤的秘訣。

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🎁 中英文稿：
Dark matter is that mysterious stuff that apparently accounts for some quarter of the mass and energy in the universe.
暗物質是一種占宇宙構成近四分之一的神秘物質。
And for one small wannabe-galaxy, dark matter may have been a lifesaver.
對於自封的銀河系來說，暗物質就像是一名“救生員”。
It's called the Smith Cloud. Astronomers think it's a failed dwarf galaxy that lacked the requisite mass to produce stars.
這種星系又被命名為“史密斯雲”。天文學家認為它是不成器的矮星係，因缺乏必備的質量而不足以產生恆星。
Many millions of years ago the cloud seems to have collided with the Milky Way and passed through the disk of our galaxy.
幾百萬年以前，這種“史密斯雲”星係就曾與銀河係發生碰撞，並曾穿過了我們銀河系的銀盤。
A new computer simulation finds that the cloud should have been ripped to shreds. That it survived is evidence that it's protected—by a shell of dark matter.
一種新的電腦模擬系統發現這種“史密斯雲”星系本應該已經被撕成碎片。然而它能倖存下來就是有效說明暗物質在保護它的證據。

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Welcome to another episode of 6 Minute English with me Feifei.
歡迎和我一起來到新一期BBC 6分鐘英語，我是Feifei。
And me Neil.
還有我Neil。
We’re talking about pay and what people earn today and Neil have you brought a salary fact to get us started?
我們將討論薪酬和目前人們掙多少錢的話題。Neil，一開始，你有給大家帶來薪酬結果嗎？
I have! The United Nations International Labour Organisation or the ILO has been looking at earnings around the world, and they’ve worked out the average person’s monthly salary.So, how much do you think it is?
帶來了！聯合國國際勞工組織（The United Nations International Labour Organisation ）或簡稱ILO組織一隻在世界各地調查人們的收入，並且已經計算出人們人均月工資。你認為應該是多少？
How much does the average person earn? What, in dollars?
人均月收入？是按美元算嗎？