1. Nicolas Cage certainly bucks a lot of trends. He once told media that, for residency reasons, the award he won for the 1996 film Leaving Las Vegas was “in a truck somewhere moving through Louisiana”. Apparently, one of the ways the authorities determine if you’re a resident or not – in what must be the most niche of tests – is to ask where your Academy Award is.

2. n. 青少年

3. 小女孩名叫Neshama Spielman，来自耶路撒冷。她是4年前在“圣殿山筛选项目”中发现这个护符的。该项目旨在检查从神圣犹太教遗址移来，未经考古检测过的泥土。当年，Spielman只有8岁。

4. 大型企业PMI为53.1，比上月下降0.7个百分点；中型企业PMI为49.8，回落1.3个百分点，意味着进入轻度收缩。小型企业PMI为49，下降0.4个百分点，意味着收缩加剧。

5. 根据全球最大航运公司马士基航运公司(Maersk Line)的数据，从汽车到集装箱运输的纺织品，1月中国对巴西出口同比下降60%，而通过集装箱进入拉美最大经济体的总进口量减半。

6. One might expect that online programmes would appeal proportionately more to women than full-time programmes due to their flexibility. How-ever, data from the 2016 rankings show that women account for 30 per cent of enrolled students compared with 35 per cent for full-time programmes.

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1. In the meantime, the sheer total of bitcoin-related startups that launched in 2014 demonstrates bitcoin’s momentum. There is no definitive listing of every single bitcoin startup, but 2014 almost certainly saw the launch of more of them than in any year prior. Data that AngelList sent to Fortune confirms that. In 2011, five bitcoin startups listed themselves on AngelList. In 2012 that number grew to 13. In 2013 it jumped to 193, and last year it exploded to 566. (But not all startups register on AngelList immediately, if at all.) In addition, on January 8 the total number of daily bitcoin transactions hit an all-time high, as Barry Silbert eagerly tweeted.

2. 吉尔莫?德尔?托罗是讲故事的大师，今年他执导的《水形物语》又是一部带给观众的现实童话。故事背景设置在1962冷战时期的美国。埃莉萨（莎莉?霍金斯饰）在一个政府名下的实验室工作，那里戒备森严，她常常深陷孤独，感觉受困于隔绝人群的生活。然而，埃莉萨和同事塞尔达（奥克塔维亚?斯宾塞饰）发现了实验室里一个机密实验，此后她的生活就被彻底改变了。

3. 10. 《结果》(Results)，导演：安德鲁·布西内斯克(Andrew Bujalski)。

4. 创造一个学习空间

5. 2. Mobile overtakes the web.

6. 华盛顿：到十月份底，印度减持美国政府债券到775亿美元，尽管作为世界上最大经济体的美国的经济在稳步的上升。

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1. 5. Life is like a coffee table: it’s got tea sets and dinnerware all over it. (beiju, 杯具, is a homophone for tragedy, 悲剧, and dinnerware, canju, 餐具, a homophone for disaster, 惨剧).

2. We took further steps to implement the Internet Plus action plan and the national big data strategy.

3. The 60-episode TV drama was adapted from a novel Legend of Princess Pearl published in 2007. It focuses on the protagonist Shen Zhenzhu’s romance with her husband and their efforts to protect the country.