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約十二隻四足立式衝浪板參賽者被牠們的主人帶到里約熱內盧的巴拉海灘外，為了第二屆年度賽事練習，人狗組成的隊伍繞著浮標較勁。

「這個點子源自當我站在浪板上，而我的狗被繫在海灘。我告訴自己：『天哪！牠想來水裡！』因此我把牠放在浪板上，而牠也很愛，」活動發起人馬可．薩內利說。

About a dozen four-legged practitioners of stand-up paddle boarding took to the waves with their human owners off Rio de Janeiro’s Barra Beach, practicing for a second annual competition in which canine-human teams race around buoys.

“The idea started when I was on my board and my dog was tied up on the beach. I said to myself, ’Man he wants to come to the water!’ so I put him on the board and he loved it,” said Marco Sarnelli, the event organizer.

兩名捷克人讓被手機時代所淘汰的電話亭重現生機，他們把電話亭改造為迷你圖書館，首座電話亭圖書館最近在布拉格一所醫院正式設立。

在這座紅色電話亭裡的書架上，IKEM醫院的病人可以找到各種類型的書，包括美國犯罪小說家葛里遜的作品、捷克和俄羅斯書籍，以及英國傳記作家莫頓的作品《黛安娜：她的真實故事》等。

Two Czechs have breathed new life into telephone booths made obsolete in the cellphone age, converting them into mini libraries with the first installed at a Prague hospital recently.

On the shelves of the red booth, patients of the IKEM hospital will find a plethora of genres, including works by US crime writer John Grisham, Czech and Russian titles and biographer Andrew Morton’s Diana: Her True Story.

嚴重脹氣的乳牛同時「撇風」，在猛烈爆炸中炸毀一棟建築物。

警方說，德國中部拉斯多夫鎮九十頭腸胃脹氣的乳牛所排放的甲烷氣體，在一座牛棚內引發爆炸。

Dairy cows with a serious case of flatulence have simultaneously “broken wind” and blown up a building in a fiery explosion.

No doubt there were all sorts of “whoever smelt it dealt it” accusations flying around amongst the herd afterwards.

Best documentary went to the crowd-pleasing backup singer ode “20 Feet From Stardom” (聚光燈外二十呎). One of its stars, Darlene Love, accepted the award singing the gospel tune “His Eye Is on the Sparrow”: “I sing because I'm happy/ I sing because I'm free.”

Disney's global hit “Frozen” (冰雪奇緣) won best animated film, marking — somewhat remarkably — the studio's first win in the 14 years of the best animated feature category. (Pixar, which Disney owns, has regularly dominated.) The film's hit single, “Let It Go,” won best original song.

Leto passed around his Oscar to members of the press backstage, urging them to “fondle” it. The long-haired actor, who has devoted himself in recent years to his rock band 30 Seconds to Mars, gravely vowed: “I will revel tonight.”

Cate Blanchett took best actress for her fallen socialite in Woody Allen's “Blue Jasmine” (藍色茉莉), her second Oscar. Accepting the award, she challenged Hollywood not to think of films starring women as “niche experiences”: “The world is round, people!” she declared to hearty applause.

LOS ANGELES -- Hollywood named the brutal, unshrinking historical drama “12 Years a Slave” (自由之心) best picture at the 86th annual Academy Awards.

Steve McQueen's slavery odyssey, based on Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir, has been hailed as a landmark corrective to the movie industry's virtual blindness to slavery, instead creating whiter tales like 1940 best-picture winner “Gone With the Wind” (飄). “12 Years a Slave” is the first best-picture winner directed by a black filmmaker.

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與蘋果 Pippin 相反的是老舊的 Colecovision 遊戲機，也就是托馬森的祖父母送給他第一個電玩遊戲一年之後，在他聖誕樹下出現的那個遊戲機。托馬森的祖父母誤以為他的爸媽已經買到了當年是搶手貨的遊戲機。那到現在仍然是他父母送過他最好的禮物。

托馬森表示：「那是我的初戀，所以我對它很有感情。」但他也表示 Colecovision 的遊戲也算好玩，很少有許多遊戲機都會出現的倉卒設計且平庸的爛遊戲。他指出：「它們看起來很好玩，玩起來也很順手。以當時來講，音效算還不錯，也就是以八○年代的嗶嗶聲和光點效果來說的話。」

At the other end of the spectrum is the old Colecovision unit like the one that appeared under the Christmas tree one year after his grandparents gave him his first game for it. They had mistakenly believed his parents had gotten their hands on the video game system, which was a hot item that year. It stands to this day as the best present his parents ever gave him.

"It's my first love, so it's sentimental," Thomasson said. But the games also were quality, with very little of the "shovelware" — mediocre, rushed releases — typical of many systems, he said. "They looked good, they played good. For the time they sounded good," he said, "for the bleeps and blips of the '80s."

紐約男子因擁有一萬零六百零七款電玩遊戲，保有金氏世界紀錄

也許是因為他在十二歲那年的聖誕節，才第一次得到電玩遊戲《宇宙復仇者》，然後又足足等了一年才拿到搶手的 Colecovision 遊戲機來玩，麥可托馬森才會如此堅決想要將每款他能找到的電玩遊戲和遊戲機弄到手。

New York man's 10,607 video games secure Guinness title

清楚地瞭解某人或某事。

註：get 有時可用 have 來代替。

當複合名詞是以「字 of 字」(如 bottle of wine) 的型態出現時，第一個字永遠是該複合名詞的主要字。例如：

• I bought Bruce two can of beers, but he only drank one. (我買給布魯斯兩罐啤酒，但他只喝了一罐) (誤) － 應為 two cans of beer。
• Diana drank three cup of coffees last night. (戴安娜昨晚喝了三杯咖啡) (誤) － 應為 three cups of coffee。

當複合名詞是以「[容器]ful」(如 bucketful, cupful, handful) 的型態出現時，該複合名詞是在 -ful 的後面加 s 來構成複數。例如：