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n. 三，三个
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Overall, almost three in five people say they try to limit their usage of paper – including facial tissue and kitchen roll – to save money.

What do animals do? There are three main ways that animals survive the cold in winter: sleep, adapt or migrate.

The boat was carrying 32 people—25 Costa Ricans, four Americans and three Nicaraguans.

His team was hit by a snowmobile driver, injuring several dogs and killing a three-year-old male dog.

What about supply? The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.

They ate three meals regularly every dayThey were expert at cooking meals.

The result is falling water tables ( ' , 地下水位) in countries with half the world's people, including the three big grain producers—China, India and the U.S.

The report warns that 200 million poor workers are at risk of joining the ranks of people living on less than two dollars per day in the past three years.

Much of the criticism is directed at the British Airports Authority, which runs seven major airports, including the three main ones serving in London.

Over the past three decades, the industry has made some efforts to improve the quality of its offerings.

And in my position as a professor at three different colleges, the actual problems in educating our young people and older students have deepened, while the number of people hired—not to teach but to hold meetings—has increased significantly.

Three university students in Santiago, Chile, have developed a plant-powered device to charge their mobile phones.

They say it is healthier than green tea and could be sold for a price that is three to four times higher than the price of green tea.

The rock salt mine is one of three operated by Cargill with the other two in Louisiana and Ohio.

Last week, for example, Postmaster General Pat Donahoe announced plans to stop mail delivery on Saturdays, a move he says could save three billion dollars annually.

When Jonathan Swift proposed, in 1729, that the people of Ireland eat their children, he insisted it would solve three problems at once: feed the hungry masses, reduce the population during a severe depression, and stimulate the restaurant business.

Similarly, Americans' late nights, late mornings, and longest sleeps fall on three-day weekends.

Shouldn't preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans? Why would we want to outsource ( ' , 外包 ) this basic task, especially when outsourcing it is so harmful? When I talk about cooking, I'm not talking about creating elaborate dinner parties or three-day science projects.

If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories ( ' , 卡路里 ) outside the home.

I'm a mother of three, a teacher, and a developmental psychologist.

For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer's block—I was not able to produce anything for three years.

And he’s also the author of three books.

According to recent studies, digital divide has been caused by three major 32 elements: class, sex, and generation .

After new legislation demanded their removal from the roads, a low interest loan scheme was set up with three Egyptian banks so drivers could buy new cars.

And he's also the author of three books.

Even men and schoolchildren are swelling the ranks,among them my friend's three small grandsons.

Explaining what the data revealed, he said: "What you see is that even after three years, mental health is still better, which is unlike many other things that we think will make us happy." He observed that people living in green spaces were less stressed

figures show the number of male nurses has fallen in the last three years.

For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer's block— I was not able to produce anything for three years.

From the last three graduating classes, 16 seniors were admitted to MIT.

girls who graduate from single-sex schools are three times more likely to become engineers than those who attend coeducational schools.

If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories outside the home.

I'm a mother of three, a teacher, and a developmental psychologist .

In 1977, when he was 17 years old, James Terry Roach and two friends cruelly murdered three people.

It is situated on the Mediterranean Sea, and surrounded by France on three sides.

It seems likely, then, that the traditional three-stage life will evolve into multiple stages containing two, three or oven more different careers.

More than 1,000 years ago, they made three important geographical discoveries.

More than three fourths of government expenses are used for this purpose.

Moses spent three hours looking after the bees and was stung five times.

Much of the criticism is directed at the British airports Authority, which runs seven major airports, including the three main ones serving in London.

Participants were balanced across the three groups for age, sex, educational background, severity and duration of depression, and use of antidepressant.

Stawood Hotels and Resorts, which owns more than 1, 150 hotels in nearly 100 countries, plans to install the system in the next three months at two of its hotels in the USA.

The 50-year-old father of three and king to 17 million Dutch citizens calls flying a"hobby".

The boat was carrying 32 people—25 Costa ricans, four Americans and three Nicaraguans.

The New York State parks system wants to turn off the falls on the American side some time in the next two to three years to replace two 115-year-old stone bridges that allow pedestrians, park vehicles and utilities access to Goat Island.

The patients were split into three groups: one group received only usual care from a physician while the other two groups received usual care from a physician plus one of two computerized CBT programs.

The three engineering students got the idea for the device while sitting in their school's courtyard.

The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.

The word serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole in an 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who 4twere always making discoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of.

These teams are trained annually using a framework known as the three Ps: people, property, product.

Three university students in Santiago, Chile, have developed a plant-powered device to charge their mobile phones.

Tunisia was targeted last year by three attacks that left 70 people dead and were claimed by Islamic State.

The summer after 7th grade, students spend three weeks on a college campus studying advanced math for seven hours a day.

The Math Olympiad Summer Training Program is a three-week math camp held by the Mathematical Association of America that leads straight to the international championship and is free for those who make it.

Some are pricey—a three-week intensive program can cost $4,500 or more—but most offer scholarships.

More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.

One useful way is to distinguish between three degrees of poverty—extreme poverty,moderate poverty, and relative poverty.

Unilever recently ran an interactive campaign for its Axe deodorant ( ' , 除臭剂), which kept viewers engaged for more than three minutes on average.

The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world, read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 and the World Development Summit in Johannesburg three years ago.

Only three states, with a combined population not much larger than that of Brooklyn, have unemployment rates below 5%.

But researchers are improving systems to measure a teacher's performance throughout the year, and, with three years of data, it's usually possible to tell which teachers are failing.

Gregg Rosen lost his job as a sales nearly three years ago and is still unemployed.

Earlier this year, British explorer Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.

But the study warns that it is teenagers who engage in all three of these practices in the extreme who are truly in jeopardy.

But advances in technology might make Antarctica a lot more accessible three decades from now.

At least three Russian stations are already operating in Antarctica, part of its effort to challenge the dominance of the American GPS, and new stations are planned for sites like the Russian base, in the shadow of the Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity.

As some countries expand operations in Antarctica, the United States maintains three year-round stations on the continent with more than 1,000 people during the southern hemisphere's summer, including those at the Amundsen-Scott station, built in 1956 at an elevation of 9,301 feet on a plateau at the South Pole.

And 29%, the invisible risk group, scored high on three in particular: They spent five hours a day or more on electronic devices.

So what I’ve done is I’ve taken Sternberg’s three elements of love: intimacy, passion and commitment, and I’ve listed out the different kinds of relationships you would have if you had zero, one, two or three out of the three elements.

So if you have all three of these, intimacy, passion and commitment, in Sternberg’s theory you have love.

She’s figured out that it will take her another three years to pay it off at 30 dollars a month.

Now what’s interesting about the theory is what do you have if you only have one out of three or two out of three? What do you have and how is it different if you have a different two out of three? What’s interesting about this kind of theorizing is it gives rise to many different combinations that can be quite interesting when you break them down and start to look at them carefully.

He argued that you don’t have love if you don’t have all three of these elements.

And he has a theory of love that argues that it’s made up of three components: intimacy,passion and commitment, or what is sometimes called decision commitment.

The lamp, the fixture, and the room, all three must work in concert for the true benefits of end users.

Nearly three-quarters of the first group guessed that Mr.

Based on my analyses of the data, of the factors that Chetty has highlighted, the following three seem to be most predictive of upward mobility in a given community:1.

According to the Centre for Strategic and International Studies,about three quarter of energy we use to move things, including ourselves, accomplishes no useful work.

"I'm trying three methods of breeding," Farrant says: conventional, genetic modification and gene editing.

"The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world," read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to t

After three years of working in a petrol station and doing unpaid work I still hadn't managed to get an entry level job.

And 29%, the "invisible risk"group, scored high on three in particular: They spent five hours a day or more on electronic devices.

And he has a theory of love that argues that it's made up of three components: intimacy,passion and commitment, or what is sometimes called decision commitment.

As an EU-funded effort, the search for salt-tolerant varieties of rice is taking place in all three countries.

As some countries expand operations in Antarctica, the United States maintains three year-round stations on the continent with more than 1,000 people during the southern hemisphere's summer, including those at the Amundsen-Scott station, built in 1956 at

Based on my analyses of the data, of the factors that Chetty has highlighted, the following three seem to be most predictive of upward mobility in a given community.

But in today's lecture, we'll look at three very interesting studies that hint at surprising abilities of human babies.

But now a systematic review and analysis of studies by Canadian researchers found that not only does pasta not cause weight gain, but three meals a week can help people drop more than half a kilogram over four months.

But the study warns that it is teenagers who engage in all three of these practices in the extreme who are truly in jeopardy.

During a month-long hospital trial,researchers asked 70 patients how they felt being around the robot and "only three or four said they didn't like having it around".

Earlier this year, British explorer Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.

Gregg Rosen lost his job as a sales nearly three years ago and is still unemployed.

He argued that you don't have love if you don't have all three of these elements.

Here we have three of the most important problems facing small businesses that I want to look at today.

In a 2005 study, psychologist Laurence Steinberg of Temple University and his co-author, psychologist Margo Gardner, then at Temple, divided 6 people into three age groups: young adolescents, with a mean age of 14; older adolescents, with a mean age of 19

In preparation for the celebration, a straw mat is placed on the table, along with a candle holder with seven candles, one black, three red, and three green.

In so doing, they can potentially get three citation—one each for the data and software, in addition to the paper itself.

Isaac Asimov evaded the whole notion of morality in devising his three laws of robotics.

It has consequences: South Africa's ongoing drought—the worst in three decades—will cost at least a quarter of its com crop this year.

Now, they are introducing new Barbies with three slightly different body shapes, while the original tall and thin Barbies would continue to be sold.

Now, we don't want to leave you with the impression that these three components always work together perfectly.

Once every three or four years, when conditions are right, the lake is covered with the pink birds as they stop flight to breed.

One study found that three in four respondents yelled at their computer.

Only three states, with a combined population not much larger than that of Brooklyn,have unemployment rates below 5%.

She says she is able to take Zumba exercise classes three times a week, work out on the treadmill(跑步机), and take long, brisk walks.

So if you have all three of these, intimacy, passion and commitment, in Sternberg's theory you have love.

So what I've done is I've taken Sternberg's three elements of love: intimacy, passion and commitment, and I've listed out the different kinds of relationships you would have if you had zero, one, two or three out of the three elements.

The children who had the lowest self-control when they were age three to ten, later on had the most health problems in their thirties, and they had the worst financial situation.

The next year, he won three gold medals in the winter Olympics, a record in ski racing that has never been topped.

The results of a recent experiment showed that professors can use standardized metrics to measure how well students do in three key areas: critical thinking, written communication, and quantitative literacy.

The robots in Asimov's fiction expose complications and loopholes in the three laws, and even when the laws work, robots still have to assess situations.

This description of roller-skating illustrates the three components of an attitude: affect, cognition, and behavior.

Three hundred years after her death, Merian will be celebrated at an international symposium in Amsterdam this June.

Three species of tilapia(罗非鱼) thrive there part-time.

Unilever recently ran an interactive campaign for its Axe deodorant(除臭剂), which kept viewers engaged for more than three minutes on average.

When her mother was interviewed, three weeks after her daughter's birth, she was asked if she was prepared for what might be a daunting task caring for her.

When people were encouraged to take at least three photos while they ate lunch, they were more immersed in their meals than those who weren't told to take photos.

A cup of coffee costs about three dollars and fifty cents, but the fun is free.

A photography exhibition held by Han Media to celebrate its founding in New York city on April 24, featuring three emerging Chinese photographers; yingxi Michael Shi, Haiyin lin and liming Guan, whose works have appeared in publications such as Vogue.

A son of immigrants, Chris stared learning English a little over three years ago.

A team of researchers trained three rhesus monkeys to associate 26 clearly different symbols consisting of numbers and selective letters with 0-25 drops of water or juice as a reward.

A three-week trial at Holborn last year found that the number of people using escalators at any time of could be raised by almost a third.

According to a review of evidence in a medical journal, runners live three years longer than non-runners.

As she looked up at the three new humans in her life small, medium, and large, she calculated, "the medium one is the sucker in the pack.

At first the price of single copies was seldom a penny-usually two or three cents was charged-and some of the older well-known papers charged five or six cents.

Ben, had got in touch, he'd moved to England with his mum when he was three and it had been 13 years since I'd last seen him.

But before I go, I'd like to invite you out for dinner — just to thank you for all the help you gave me during my three-month research work here.

But good news is that there're really only three kinds of decisions you need to make about color in your home: the small ones, the medium ones, and the large ones.

But I don't like the idea of paying three months for an empty apartment, either.

By January 26, Billy and three other children had died.

By year three, the rabbits and the groundhog were back.

During my second year at the city college, I was told that the education department was offering a "free" course, called thinking chess, for three credits.

From my experience, there are three main reasons why people don't cook more often: ability, money and time, money is a topic i'll save for another day.

Go straight ahead and walk about three blocks.

Guy Harvold, 24, had picked up the students and three course leaders from Gatwick Airport, and they were travelling to Bournemouth to meet their host families.

Here are three tips for great cooking on a tight schedule.

I go back years ago, when we lived in a three-room house, when we got up before daylight and worked till after dark to make ends meet.

I live in the city now, and my paperboy is a lady named edna with three kids.

I still have three terms to go until I'm done.

I suppose about two or three times a week.

I was searching for these three western lowland gorillas I'd been observing.

If anyone had told me three years ago that I would be spending most of my weekends camping.

If you take the medicine more than three times a week, you may get a rebound headache, which is far more severe than tension headaches.

In the new trial, which will be launched from April 18, one of three "up" escalators will be standing only, with a second banning walking at peak times.

It lasts three hours each time.

It took three years to complete and was built using an interesting method.

It's been three weeks since he first started going, so macy and I are pretty used to it now.

It's much faster, for example, to shop for groceries at a quarter to three than to stand in line during the after-work rush.

Join us as actress Tina Chen recounts the fascinating story of three generations of her mother's family and their contributions to the history of China.

Keep in mind that in a fifteen-minute office hour which is how long these things usually last, two or three questions are usually the most you'll have time to discuss.

Many of our conversations are gossip, I have noticed three effects of gossip: It can hurt people, it can give gossipers a strange kind of satisfaction, and it can cause social pressures in a group.

My mother will be living alone most of the time for three years in my absence.

Of the nineteen recognized polar bear subpopulations, three are declining, six are stable, one is increasing, and nine lack enough data.

On mu recent visit, I help a lively three-month-old twin that had been rejected by its mother.

Only three hundred and fifty dollars.

She suspected that one of her three daughters —then ten, eight, and six— had picked it up, but the girls said they hadn't.

Summer has not even started yet, but temperatures have reached 40 degrees centigrade in the past three days.

The electronic waste stream is increasing three times faster than traditional garbage as a whole.

The last time we met them was at our wedding three years ago.

The low point of the sheet must be centered directly over, and no more than three inches above, the cup.

The musician along with his band members has given ten performances in the last three months.

The poem was just three short sections.

The ship was the endurance, a small, tight, norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take sir Ernest shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists, 27 men in all, to the southernmost shore of antArctica's weddell sea.

The three letters present viewpoints on real source of road danger.

The three-month, 1, 900-mile journey from Paris to warsaw is dubanchet's way of raising awareness of food waste in Europe and throughout the world.

Their destination is the fiery food and bbq festival which is held over a period of three days every march.

Their expanding business became a large corporation in 1996, with three generations of Ans working together.

Then on Wednesday, that's the 16th, all classmates have to hand in three student photos.

There are three main types of cryptography.

Three days later, a hurricane hit the coast near cornwall.

Three days later, in the middle of the night, he heard joe's voice.

Three weeks ago, I witnessed a small near-disaster a few miles west of here.

Three years ago, schools in edina, minnesota, changed the start time from 7:25 am to 8:30 am.

To construct a working still, use a sharp stick or rock to dig a hole four feet across and three feet deep.

To make a wise selection, you should know how to distinguish among three kinds of print dictionaries: pocket, desk, and unabridged.

Today all three generations regard the move to a success, giving them a closer relationship than they would have had in separate cities.

Two at most and you can keep them for three weeks.

Wonderful news...to me, anyway! I've been offered a job for three years as an assistant to Prof. Hayes from Birmingham University.

You bought it from us on May 1st, only three weeks ago.

Youth sport has the potential to accomplish three important objectives in children's development.

We are fortunate that is it, because new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations.

This DNA can reveal genetic information about only one or two ancestors, even though, for example, just three generations back people also have six other great-grandparents or, four generations back, 14 other great-great-grandparents.

The Federal circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the court’s judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is weather it should” reconsider” its state street Bank ruling.

You can, Mr.Menand points out, become a lawyer in three years and a medical doctor in four.

He finally took that post at a major financial institution three years later.

There are three reasons for the public-sector unions’ thriving.

Two of the three objecting Justice-Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas-agreed with this Constitutional logic but disagreed about which Arizona rules conflicted with the federal statute.

This top-down conception of the fashion business couldn’t be more out of date or at odds with the feverish would described in Overdressed, Elizabeth Cline’s three-year indictment of “fast fashion”.

On a five to three vote,the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona's immigration law Monday-a modest policy victory for the Obama Aministration.

In Arizona v.United States,the majority overturned three of the four contested provisions of Arizona's controversial plan to have state and local police enforce federal immigration law.

Two- and three-dimensional maps are helpful tools in planning excavations, illustrating how sites look, and presenting the results of archaeological research.

There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated subject, then a three-year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the bar exam.

But the Nobel Foundation’s limit of three recipients per prize, each of whom must still be living, has long been outgrown by the collaborative nature of modern research—as will be demonstrated by the inevitable row over who is ignored when it comes to acknowledging the discovery of the Higgs boson.

This could add value to their businesses in three ways.

Previous studies on CSR have had trouble differentiating these effects because consumers can be affected by all three.

First two hours , now three hours—this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight , at least at some major U.airports with increasingly massive security lines.

To the horror of some who expected a Greek Revival twin of the Treasury Building to be erected on the other side of the White House, the elaborate French Second Empire style design by Alfred Mullett was selected, and construction of a building to house all three departments began in June of 1871.

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century-the period when the United States emerged as an international power.

But the Nobel Foundation's limit of three recipients per prize, each of whom must still be living, has long been outgrown by the collaborative nature of modern research—as will be demonstrated by the inevitable row over who is ignored when it comes to ack

Critics make three main arguments against gene patents: a gene is a product of nature, so it may not be patented; gene patents suppress innovation rather than reward it; and patents'monopolies restrict access to genetic tests such as Myriad's.

Dr Kroo and his team modeled what would happen if three passenger jets departing from Los Angeles San Francisco and Las Vegas were to assemble over Utah,assume an inverted V-formation, occasionally change places so all could have a turn in the most favour

first two hours, now three hours一this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight, at least at some major U.S. airports with increasingly massive security lines.

Formerly it lasted three days, but by the 1980s it more commonly lasted a day and a half.

It takes about three weeks to a month to notice any significant changes in your weight due to altering your training program.

More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those initial doses were of the Flumist nasal spray type, which is not recommended for pregnant women, people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties, hear

Mr.Roth has three community-college students enrolled in a work-placement program, with a starting wage of $13 an hour that rises to $17 after two years.

On a five to three vote, the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona's immigration law Monday-a modest policy victory for the Obama Administration.

Some Congress members are trying to block the plan, and at least a dozen industry groups, four states, and three environmental groups are challenging it in federal court.

The Federal Circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the courts judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is whether it should "reconsider" its State Street Bank ruling.

The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first

The three Ds—death, debt and divorce—still deliver works of art to the market.

There are three reasons for the public-sector unions' thriving.

These pauses typically occur at about three per second, and the eyes then jump to another spot, until several important points in the image are registered like a series of snapshots.

To the horror of some who expected a Greek Revival twin of the Treasury Building to be erected on the other side of the White House, the elaborate French Second Empire style design by Alfred Mullett was selected, and construction of a building to house al

We are fortunate that is it, because building new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations.

You won't be eating out a lot, but save your pennies and once every few months treat yourself to a set lunch at a good restaurant —￡1.75 a week for three months gives you ￡21 — more than enough for a three course lunch at Michelin-Starred Arbutus.