1. 12. Most Hopeful Sign At one point, you could feel the status quo shift as it became O.K. to talk about discrimination in the industry not just openly but also loudly. Viola Davis spoke out, as did Jennifer Lawrence, who went public about making less than her male co-stars. “I didn’t want to seem ‘difficult’ or ‘spoiled,’” she wrote in the newsletter Lenny, speaking for many, including those with far more modest paychecks.

2. Instead it ticked upward slightly to 8.3 per cent.

3. 中国依然是美国政府债券的最大持有人，10月份中国也减持到1.25万亿美元。

4. With respect to trade frictions between the two sides, I think we have gained good experience in addressing them.

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6. 另一名学员表示：这个项目让我的事业获得了巨大飞越，为我在毕业后马上就担任一个战略最高层管理职位做好了准备。

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1. The reading is just below economists' forecasts but it's not altogether surprising. When the People's Bank of China unexpectedly cut interest rates last month, some analysts said the move was likely a pre-emptive one and that a spate of weak data was likely ahead. Well, here it is.

2. The worries stretched from the global, such as Russian attempts to influence the US presidential election in 2016, to the local — concerns about users’ mental health and the drain on productivity as they drown in notifications and news feed posts.

3. 米尔德里德的女儿7个月前遇害，但凶手仍然逍遥法外，主角一怒之下做出了一个大胆的决定：买下了小镇入口三张广告牌并在张贴图片中抨击颇有威望的警长威廉?威洛比。威廉的副手官迪克逊是一个幼稚的妈宝男，有暴力倾向。迪克逊卷入这件事后，米尔德里德和小镇执法系统之间的较量变得愈发激烈了。

4. 如果你有幸拥有一份工作，那么想要辞掉这份工作的想法听起来是荒唐的。在失业率大多数有史以来的最高的今天，大多数人正在因为被聘用而感谢他们的幸运星。

5. Under these conditions, he argues, the Fed cannot only trigger crises itself; it can also increase the vulnerability of EMs to crises provoked by other factors.

6. In contrast to Hunter’s, her Piano co-star Anna Paquin’s Oscar seems to have no fixed abode, flitting between her sock drawer and on the floor next to her boots.

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1. 人类在过去50年的平均寿命比人类存在的20万年中的平均寿命要长的多。目前，人类的平均寿命是70岁，1950年的平均寿命是47岁，两者存在很大的差异。

2. 节目15 歌曲《甲板上的马头琴》，王宏伟

3. As part of its 2014 capital plan, the San Francisco, Calif.-based bank said it would increase its buybacks by 350 million shares, or a total of almost $17 billion. It also boosted its dividend rate by about 17% to $0.35 a share.