A : Are you free on Nov. 20?
B : Yes. Why?
A : I am getting married and would like you to come to the wedding reception.
B : Congratulations. You’ve kept that very quiet, I haven’t even met your fiance.
A : 你11月20號有空嗎？
B : 有啊。怎麼了？
A : 我要結婚了，想邀請你參加我的結婚喜宴。
B : 恭喜。不過你也太低調了吧，都沒見過你的未婚夫呢。
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Russian scientists are poring over the stunningly well-preserved bones of an adult woolly mammoth that roamed the Earth at least 10,000 years ago, after local inhabitants discovered its remains in the shallows of a north Siberian lake. Part of its skull, several ribs and foreleg bones, some with soft tissue still attached to them, were retrieved from Russia’s remote Yamal peninsula above the Arctic Circle on July 23. Scientists are still searching the site for other bones. Similar finds in Russia’s vast Siberian region have happened with increasing regularity as climate change warming the Arctic at a faster pace than the
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A: We got to the store just in the nick of time. Look at the size of the line. B: How many lottery tickets should we buy? A: Four. Four tickets: four times the luck. B: Um. . . I’m not sure the math checks out, but it’s true the more tickets we buy, the higher the chance we have of winning. A: Come on, come on. What’s the hold up? B: Looks like the person at the front of the line can’t decide on his numbers. Couldn’t he have made up his mind while waiting in line? A:
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