美国大学经济资助

How College Financial Aid Works

除了购房以外，父母及其子女所面临最大的财政项目可能就是筹划大学费用。对于美国的孩子来说，四年的大学现在需要花费数万美元，将来还有逐渐递增的趋势。如果想要自己的子女获得高学历，身为父母的您一定很想知道如何能够攒够足够的钱，将子女送进他/她们梦想已久的大学。阅读>>

Next to buying a house, planning for college expenses can be one of the biggest financial projects that parents and their children undertake. Four years of college costs tens of thousands of dollars, and it is increasingly easy to break into the hundreds-of-thousands range, especially for advanced degrees. Parents, you've probably wondered just how you can manage to send your child to the college or university that he or she has dreamed about and earned the right to attend. Read>>

美国信用评分面面观

How Credit Scores Work

我们申请信贷的原因有很多，可能是买辆新车、购置房屋、电脑，也可能是申请学生贷款。然而，您知道吗？如果您想要实现这些愿望，都要取决于一个特殊的数字。这就是信用评分：一个三位数字。阅读>>

­ We apply for credit for many reasons -- maybe it's to buy a new car, house or computer or get a student loan. Did you know, however, that there is a special number that can determine whether you can do these things, or at least how much it will cost you? Your credit score is a three-digit number that can do just that.
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面包制作方法

您可能每天都会吃面包，您甚至可能知道如何自制面包。但您是否曾经将面包制作看成是一门手艺呢？阅读>>

You probably eat bread every day. You may even know how to make your own bread. But have you ever thought about bread as a technology? Read>>

我们为什么要吃面包？就从这个问题谈起吧。与之相比，我们吃干麦粒可能会更方便；或者，我们可以把小麦磨成面粉，将水和面粉和在一起后，直接吃面糊即可；再或者，也可以将面糊倒在桌面上，让面糊风干成为轻脆的薄面片。但我们并没有那样做，这主要是因为面包的口感要好得多，将其制成三明治时口感也同样很好。面包水分适中（既不像面糊那样湿，也不像风干的薄面片那样干）、松软可口（不像干麦粒）。可口美味的面包是使用面粉通过生物化学技术制成的！
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Why do we have bread? That's a great place to start. We could just as easily munch on dry wheat kernels instead. Or we could grind the wheat into flour, mix the flour with water and eat it as a wet mush. Or we could pour the mush out on a table and dry the mush into thin brittle sheets. But we don't do that, mainly because bread tastes a lot better, and it also works a lot better for sandwiches. Bread is moist (not wet like mush or dry like dried mush), soft (unlike wheat kernels), spongy and delicious. Bread is a bio-chemical technology for turning wheat flour into something tasty! Read English Version>>

情绪压力及其疗法

How Stress Works

导致情绪压力的原因有很多，例如单位的工作量太大，或是所爱的人去世等等。有些时候，情绪压力是自己强加的，例如当我们强制自己凡事都要做到尽善尽美时，情绪压力就会随之产生。还有些时候，情绪压力来自于外部，我们对它无能为力。不管原因如何，情绪压力都会对我们的身心造成严重伤害。阅读>>

Emotional stress can come from a variety of sources -- from too much work at the office to the death of a loved one. Sometimes stress is self-imposed, such as when we put pressure on ourselves to perform perfectly in every situation. Other times, stress comes from the outside, and we have no control over it. Regardless of its origins, however, stress can take a serious toll on body, mind, and soul. Read>>

 复印机工作原理

How Photocopiers Work

走进任何一家公司的办公室，几乎都可以看到一台复印机，机器前还有人在排队等候使用。 对大多数企业而言，无论企业大小，复印机都已变成标准办公设备，就象企业需要配备办公桌椅一样。阅读>>

Walk into almost any business office, and you'll probably find a photocopier ("copier") with a line of people waiting to use it. For most businesses, small or large, the copier has become standard equipment, much like having a desk to work at and a chair to sit in. Read English Version>>

Is the sound on vinyl records better than on CDs or DVDs?

答案是模拟录制和数字录制是不同的。黑胶唱片是模拟录制，而CD和DVD是数字录制。让我们来看看下图。就本质而言，原声就是模拟信号。数字录制以一定频率（对于CD，每秒 44,100 次）抓取模拟信号的快照，并以一定精度来量化每次快照（CD是16位，这意味着其值必须是65,536个可能值之一）。阅读博闻网>>

The answer lies in the difference between analog and digital recordings. A vinyl record is an analog recording, and CDs and DVDs are digital recordings. Take a look at the graph below. Original sound is analog by definition. A digital recording takes snapshots of the analog signal at a certain rate (for CDs it is 44,100 times per second) and measures each snapshot with a certain accuracy (for CDs it is 16-bit, which means the value must be one of 65,536 possible values). Read in Howstuffworks>>

**本文适用于美国广播电视网播出的情景喜剧和电视系列剧。若想了解真人秀节目，请阅读电视真人秀面面观。

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** This article applies to sitcoms and dramas on American network television. Stay tuned for How Reality Shows Work.

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您是不是想过，如果一部喜剧讲的是一位患有幽闭恐怖症的糕点师在晚上兼职做脱衣舞娘，那一定很有意思。您的妹妹觉得描述有透视能力的图书管理员用她的超能力干坏事的电视肯定很受欢迎。您觉得自己的想法还不错——最近播出的电视剧使尽了浑身解数，您看了也觉得不过如此。您在浏览最近一期的《电视指南》时，不禁感慨“这样的电视剧我也编得出来”。在剧情转折时，您的朋友总是大喊大叫求您告诉他下面会发生什么。您总是知道什么时候剧情要急转直下——也许您就有创作电视剧的天赋，不过怎么把想法变成现实呢？阅读>>

So, you think it would be great to see a TV comedy about a claustrophobic cupcake baker who moonlights as an exotic dancer. And your sister has an idea about a clairvoyant librarian who uses her powers for evil. You don't think your ideas are half bad -- the new TV season has hit full swing, and you're simply not impressed. As you skim the latest issue of TV Guide, you think, "I could do this." After all, your friends are always yelling at you for revealing plot twists. And you've never been wrong about when a show takes a turn for the worse -- but how do you make an idea into reality? Read English Version>>

 在仔细阅读了如何编写剧本后，下一步该怎么做呢？现在我们要谈的就是怎么能 让广播电视网选中您的作品。

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So, you've followed our instructions in How Writing a TV Show Works, and now you're ready to take the next step. You got the concept out of your head, onto paper and into treatment form with a catchy title and logline. Now we'll talk about how to get it to the networks.

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谁不爱看情景喜剧？幽默诙谐的剧情总让我们开怀，朗朗上口的主题歌总让我们情不自禁地跟着哼唱,熟悉的旋律总在心头萦绕：“Here's the story of a lovely lady, ……Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale……Where everybody knows your name.”（美国20世纪70年代情景喜剧《布雷迪家庭》（The Brady Bunch）的主题曲）。不仅如此，有些经典台词也成为了流行的时尚用语（比如“Yadda, yadda, yadda”，该词来自意第绪语，20世纪90年代电视剧《宋飞正传》（Seinfeld）热播后流行起来，意为“等等”，“没完没了”），而剧中人物的喜好也影响了我们的品味（比如Cosmopolitan，一种鸡尾酒，美国电视剧《欲望都市》（Sex and the City）中四个女主角的最爱）。毋庸置疑，情景喜剧是美国电视产业的支柱。但您有没有想过：情景喜剧从何而来？情景喜剧究竟是什么？又是谁开创了情景喜剧？

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We've all seen sitcoms, laughed with them and probably even sung along to their theme songs. We occasionally find their jingles running through our heads: "Here's the story of a lovely lady," click, "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale," click, "Where everybody knows your name." Their catchphrases pepper our vernacular: "Yadda, yadda, yadda." And their characters' tastes even influence what we drink -- cosmopolitans anyone? Who wouldn't agree that the backbone of American television is the sitcom? But did you ever wonder where sitcoms come from, what makes a sitcom a sitcom and who actually comes up with this stuff?

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表面看来，溜溜球只是个极为简单的玩具：无非就是一段绳子连着一个线轴。但一到行家手里，它就变得异常奇妙。熟练的溜溜球玩家能让溜溜球向各个方向飞出，悬停在半空中，然后迅速收回掌内。这些普通绳子和木头（或塑料）就仿佛有了生命！

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On the surface, the yo-yo is an incredibly simple toy -- it's really nothing but a spool attached to a length of string. But in the right hands, it can be something extraordinary: An accomplished yo-yoist can send the yo-yo flying out in all directions, make it hover in mid air, then snap it back into his or her palm. Ordinary string and wood (or plastic) are brought to life!

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