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🎁 中英文稿：
Keyboards don’t exactly spring to mind when you think of high-tech innovations, especially now that we have voice and even gesture controls for our gadgets. Still, a new device out of the Georgia Institute of Technology is taking typing in a smart direction.
當提到高科技創新時很少有人想到鍵盤，尤其是現在許多電子產品已經具備了語音甚至手勢操控功能。不過，美國喬治亞理工學院研究的一項新裝置正在將鍵盤操控引向智慧的方向發展。
The Georgia Tech researchers have developed an intelligent keyboard that captures information about the force and length of keystrokes. They say these patterns are unique to different typists and could lead to a new type of biometric security, locking out anyone who doesn’t type like you do.
喬治亞理工學院的研究人員開發了一個可以捕獲按鍵力度和長度資訊的智慧鍵盤。他們表示，這些鍵盤模式對每個打字員都是獨特的，它或可引導一種新的生物識別安全性能，將那些打字類型與主人不同的人都“拒之門外”。
The keyboard can also power itself using something called contact electrification. It generates current when your fingertips touch the keys, which are coated with an electrode material. So we’re talking about a wireless keypad that never needs batteries.
通過“接觸起電”鍵盤還可以為自己充電。當你的指尖觸鍵時它便會產生電流，當然它塗有電極材料。也就是說，這將是一個完全不需要電池的無線鍵盤。
The researchers published a paper about their intelligent keyboard in the journal ACS Nano.
研究人員發表了一篇與此智慧鍵盤相關的論文在《美國化學學會奈米》雜誌上。

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Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English. I‘m Alice...
大家好，歡迎收聽六分鐘英語。我是愛麗絲。
… and I’m Finn. Hello.
大家好，我是芬恩。
Hello, Finn. You’re off on holiday tomorrow, aren’t you?
你好，芬恩。明天你就要去度假了是嗎？
I am and you know, and I’m dreading it. I hate flying!
是的，但我有點害怕。我討厭坐飛機！
Do you? I didn’t know you had a phobia – and that means a strong and unreasonable fear of something.
是嗎？我不知道你還有恐懼症。恐懼症是指對某事物持有強烈的不正常的恐懼。

🍎 原來賈伯斯是這麼想問題的 🍎
　　
❣ 1.看世界
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
你想賣糖水來度過餘生，還是想要一個機會來改變世界?
(The line he used to lure John Sculley into becoming Apple's CEO)
❣ 2.生命與死亡
Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new。
死亡很可能是生命最好的唯一的創造。死亡是生活改變的原動力，送走老一代，為新一代開闢道路。
❣ 3.成功
If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next。
如果你成功地完成了一件事，那你應該再做一些其他值得喝彩的事兒。不要在上一件事上徘徊太久，想想接下來該做什麼。
❣ 4.初學者的心態
There's a phrase in Buddhism, 'Beginner's mind.' It's wonderful to have a beginner's mind。
佛教中有一句話：初學者的心態。擁有初學者的心態是件了不起的事情。
❣ 5.財富
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me。
能否成為墓地裡最富有的人，對我而言無足輕重。重要的是，當我晚上睡覺時，我可以對我自己說：我們今天完成了一些美妙的事。

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🎁 中英文稿：
Ring-tailed lemurs are a chatty lot. They vocalize to exchange information. And they also communicate via a veritable smorgasbord of stinky secretions they use to mark their territory and advertise their romantic availability. But male lemurs, which have more scent glands than do females, are really masters of musk—because they sometimes mix their smelly secretions to produce a veritable bouquet of stank. And now researchers have a better idea why.
環尾狐猴們就是話嘮。它們發聲就是為了交換資訊。而且它們也是用臭味的分泌物進行交流，這分泌物它們一般用作標記領地以及散發它們的求愛宣言。但雄性狐猴可比雌性狐猴的氣味腺要多，它們才是真正的制香高手——因為它們常常混合它們那些臭味的分泌物然後弄出一些臭氣十足的混合氣。現在研究人員們已經對它們這麼做的原因有了進一步的瞭解。
Male lemurs sometimes use the scent glands on their wrists to mark tree branches and saplings. Other times, they double down, rubbing their wrists against glands on their chests to create a foul and funky fusion. This special blend can then be smeared over objects or wiped onto their tails, which the males wave at their rivals in a display that scientists refer to as a “stink fight.”
雄性狐猴有時候用四肢關節塗抹氣味腺體上的分泌物到樹枝和嫩枝上做標記。其餘時間它們就重複躺下，用關節塗抹腺體上分泌物到胸部並製造出一種惡臭混合物。這種特殊混合物隨後就可以被用於塗抹在一些物體或者它們的尾巴上，在雄性們向它們的敵人揮舞時起到交流的作用，科學家們對此解釋為臭氣戰。
But why create such a custom combination? Perhaps adding the oily exudate from the chest alters the information conveyed by the wrist. Or maybe it acts as a kind of preservative that makes the wrist signal longer lasting.
但是為什麼要特別調製出這種混合臭呢?或許加入了從胸部分泌出的油狀物後，可以改變關節塗抹到的臭氣所代表的資訊。又或者這種油狀物起到一種防腐保存的作用，以便關節沾染的信號物質能夠持續較長時間。
To find out, researchers gathered secretions from a dozen ring-tailed lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina. They then presented male lemurs with wooden dowels that were doused with either the wrist fragrance, the chest scent, or a mixture of the two. And they found that males spent more time sniffing the stick with the mixture, which suggests that the fragrant combination does contain more interesting information than the solo scents alone.
為了找尋答案，研究人員們從北卡萊羅納州的杜克狐猴中心採集 了12只環尾狐猴的分泌物。然後它們把分別帶有關節塗抹氣味，胸部氣味，以及兩者混合氣味的木釘放到雄性狐猴面前。結果他們發現雄性狐猴在混合氣體的棍子前流連並且嗅探，這提示我們混合氣確實比單獨的氣味含有更多更有趣的資訊。