1. 但是这并没有阻止科学家在实验室发展人造大脑。今年奥地利的科学家仅从干细胞开始，成功地创造出等同于9个周大的婴儿的大脑。目前，这些大脑只有豌豆大小，也不能思考。阻止这些试验品发育成具有完全功能的大脑的因素是它们没有血液供给。

2. 如果您以前听过这句话，那就当我没说：一家未经考验，没有任何收入的社交媒体公司获得一个令人晕眩的的报价。不顾所有人的建议，那位自命不凡，二十出头的CEO拒绝出售。与此同时，不知从哪儿冒出来的竞争对手突然发起诉讼，言之凿凿地声称他们的创意被窃取了。

3. Sales of previously owned homes have slipped every month since July, according to the National Association of Realtors. That coincides with the surge in borrowing costs across the economy as a result of the Fed's signals about its bond-buying program.

4. 人命关天，安全至上。

5. Following the devaluation in mid-August, the renminbi rallied in September and October. Devaluation resumed in November, however, and the renminbi closed at its weakest level in three months at 6.4082 to the dollar yesterday. “Since October many countries around China have experienced some capital outflow, and China has had its share,” said Xie Yaxuan, an economist at China Merchants Securities in Shenzhen. “The strengthening dollar is bound to cause some repositioning into dollar assets.”

6. May the glow of New Year candle fill your heart with peace and pleasure and make your New Year bright.

应用

1. 1950年世界杯决赛，巴西1比2不敌乌拉圭，与冠军失之交臂。对现在的巴西球迷来说，那依然是一段令人痛楚的耻辱史。如今，贝尔蒙特老爷子已经85岁高龄，他希望能够看到祖国重拾桑巴荣耀。“我希望巴西再次夺冠。”他说。“这是我们的复仇之战，我很想去看。”

2. Total net profit for China’s commercial banks grew by 2.4 per cent last year, according to data from China’s bank regulator. Smaller banks saw increases in profit growth, while bigger banks slowed down.

3. 俄罗斯和北约(Nato)都呼吁缓和土耳其与荷兰的争执。

4. 伞上的链子可以系在狗狗的项圈或背带上。

5. 《大唐荣耀》

6. 根据花旗居屋(Citi Habitats)提供的数据，在布鲁克林拟于明年投放市场的6527套新出租屋中，有1442套分布在贝德福德-斯图文森(Bedford-Stuyvesant)、布什维克(Bushwick)和克林顿山(Clinton Hill)。就在不久前，这些社区都还被视为不热门的地区。

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2. Honestly if you want to laugh your way through a Netflix original movie, please just watch The Incredible Jessica James because it's a delightful romantic comedy that blows everything else out of the water.

3. If any movie can bridge the deep racial, generational and class divides in American life — at least for a couple of hours — it would have to be this revival of the ancient “Rocky” franchise. Sylvester Stallone, shuffling into the wise old trainer role, gives perhaps the loosest, warmest performance of his career. Michael B. Jordan, as Adonis Johnson, Rocky’s protégé (and the illegitimate son of his onetime rival and long-lost friend, Apollo Creed), continues his emergence as one of the vital movie stars of our moment. As for Mr. Coogler, with his second feature as a director he proves himself to be a true contender. (Read the review)