>Double 11 shopping spree
火爆'雙十一'線上消費旺
Chinese shoppers spent big over the Singles' Day shopping festival, showing the country's strong economic recovery following the COVID-19 epidemic.
今年的"雙十一"購物節(jié)火爆的消費景象反映了我國經(jīng)濟在新冠肺炎疫情后出現(xiàn)強勁復蘇。
Sales on Alibaba's e-commerce platform Tmall hit 498.2 billion yuan during the annual online shopping spree which started on Nov 1. At the shopping peak, 583,000 orders were made in a single second on Tmall, setting a new online shopping record.
阿里巴巴旗下電商平臺天貓雙11全球狂歡季(11月1日至11日)總成交額4982億元，訂單峰值每秒58.3萬筆，創(chuàng)下在線購物新紀錄。
More than 800 million shoppers, 250,000 brands and 5 million merchants participated in this year's shopping spree, according to Tmall.
天貓方面表示，今年天貓"雙十一"吸引了超過8億消費者、25萬品牌、500萬商家共同參與。
E-commerce giant JD.com also scored big in the shopping extravaganza, with sales topping 243.1 billion yuan between Nov 1 and 2:26 pm on Wednesday, surpassing total sales of 204.4 billion yuan last year.
電商巨頭京東也在今年"雙十一"創(chuàng)下佳績，自11月1日0點到11月11日14點26分，該平臺成交額突破2431億元，超過了去年"雙十一"2044億元的累計成交額。

>Stop passing the buck
多地叫停家長批改作業(yè)
The education authority in Northeast China’s Liaoning province has joined a handful of others in banning teachers from asking parents to grade students' homework after the practice sparked an outcry on social media platforms.
教師把作業(yè)推給家長改的做法在社交媒體平臺上引發(fā)不滿后，遼寧省教育廳近日出臺文件嚴禁"學生作業(yè)家長改"，此前已有多地教育部門叫停了這種做法。
Teachers at primary and middle schools who do not grade students' homework themselves will not be eligible for promotion or awards, according to the guideline issued by the provincial education department on Tuesday.
根據(jù)遼寧省教育廳11月10日出臺的文件，對于不親自批改作業(yè)的中小學教師，一律取消職務(wù)晉級、評先評優(yōu)資格；
Teachers will not be allowed to use the WeChat or QQ messaging apps to assign homework or assign punitive or repetitive homework, the guideline said.
嚴禁教師在微信群、QQ群等布置家庭作業(yè)；嚴禁布置懲罰性、重復性作業(yè)。
In a video posted on Sina Weibo recently, a father in East China’s Jiangsu province blasted teachers for asking parents to grade children's homework in a parent-teacher WeChat group before exiting the group.
近日新浪微博上的一則視頻中，江蘇一名父親在家長和老師溝通的微信群中抨擊老師要求家長批改作業(yè)的行為，并憤而退群。
The video quickly sparked an angry reaction toward the teacher and an outpouring of support from parents, with the hashtag "all it needs to break a grown-up is a parent-teacher WeChat group" being viewed more than 760 million times.
該視頻立刻引發(fā)網(wǎng)友對這位老師的批評以及家長們一邊倒的支持，話題"壓垮成年人只需一個家長群"的瀏覽量超過7.6億人次。

>Chinese people gain in height
中國平均身高增長最快
A recent report in the medical journal Lancet says Chinese people have been gaining in height in the past 30 years.
醫(yī)學雜志《柳葉刀》最近的一份報告稱，在過去30年里，中國人的身高一直在增加。
The report says the average height of 19-year-old Chinese males is 175.7 centimeters, making them the fifth tallest in Asia and the tallest in East Asia; the average height of Chinese females is 163.5 cm, the tallest in the region.
報告稱，19歲中國男性的平均身高為175.7厘米，位列亞洲第五、東亞第一；19歲中國女性的平均身高為163.5厘米，位列東亞第一。
More importantly, from 1985 to 2019, the average height of Chinese males saw the biggest rise among all 200 countries and regions surveyed, while that of women ranked third.
更重要的是，從1985年到2019年，在接受調(diào)查的200個國家和地區(qū)中，中國男性的平均身高增幅最大，女性的平均身高增幅位居第三。
The Netherlands has the tallest average height on Earth. The average 19-year-old man stands at 183 cm, while women of the same age are typically 172 cm.
荷蘭是世界上平均身高最高的國家，19歲男女的平均身高分別為183厘米和172厘米。
The study concluded that social, nutritional, and environmental factors at home, school and within the community were all crucial to the healthy growth and development of children through to adolescence.
研究得出結(jié)論稱，社會、營養(yǎng)和家庭、學校以及社區(qū)內(nèi)的環(huán)境因素對兒童到青春期的健康成長和發(fā)展都至關(guān)重要。

>NASA photos up for auction
NASA珍貴照片在線拍賣
A rare photograph of US astronaut Neil Armstrong on the surface of the moon is among thousands of space photographs in a collection up for auction at Christie’s.
佳士得拍賣行將拍賣數(shù)千張?zhí)照掌渲邪绹詈絾T尼爾?阿姆斯特朗拍攝于月球表面的一張罕見照片。
The more than 2,400 photographs document NASA's “golden age of space exploration” and is the most comprehensive such collection ever to come to auction, Christie’s said.
佳士得指出，這套照片集有超過2400張照片，記錄了美國宇航局“太空探索的黃金時期”，是拍賣史上最全面的此類收藏。
The sale’s top lot is an unreleased photograph of Neil Armstrong, taken during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 when he became the first human to set foot on the moon.
最昂貴的作品預估是尼爾?阿姆斯特朗的一張未公開的照片。1969年，登月第一人阿姆斯特朗在阿波羅11號任務(wù)期間拍攝了這張照片。
The photograph is expected to go for $39,000.
據(jù)佳士得估計，這張照片的拍賣價格將達3.9萬美元(約合人民幣25.8萬元)。
A photo Buzz Aldrin took of himself during the 1965 Gemini XII mission is considered to be the first space selfie.
巴茲?奧爾德林在1965年的雙子座12號任務(wù)中獨自拍攝的一張照片被認為是史上第一張?zhí)兆耘恼铡?br>Other items up for auction include Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s and images of Mars, the Red Planet.
其他拍品包括20世紀60年代和70年代的阿波羅任務(wù)中拍攝的照片以及火星的圖像等。
Christie’s online auction runs from Nov 6-20, 2020.
這場在線拍賣會將從11月6日持續(xù)到20日。

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