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How well do you know New York City? It’s not just talking Grand Central and the Brooklyn Bridge. Do you know where Jackie O lived and how to reach the Bronx Zoo by subway? Do you know the difference between Peter Minuit and Peter Stuyvesant?

你對紐約市有多熟？所謂的熟可不只是知道大中央車站與布魯克林橋。你知道美國前第一夫人賈桂琳．歐納西斯以前住在哪嗎？你知道怎麼搭地鐵去布朗克斯動物園嗎？你知道彼得．米紐伊特（譯註：向美洲原住民買下曼哈頓島的北美荷蘭殖民地新尼德蘭的總督）與彼得．史蒂文森（譯註：新尼德蘭殖民地末代總督）的差別嗎？

This is no Facebook quiz. These questions are from the ultimate test of New York knowledge：the city’s test to license sightseeing guides.

The presence of a romantic partner during painful medical procedures could make women feel worse rather than better, researchers say. A study involving 39 couples found this increase in pain was most pronounced in women who tended to avoid closeness in their relationships.

研究人員說，經歷痛苦的醫療程序時，有伴侶在，女性可能會感覺較差，而不是感覺較好。39對伴侶參與的研究發現，傾向在關係中避免親密的女性，感覺痛苦的情況最顯著。

Researchers from University College London, King’s College London and the University of Hertfordshire say there has been very little scientific research into the effects of a partner’s presence on someone’s perception of pain, despite this being common medical advice.

The world’s oldest person says 117 years doesn’t seem like such a long time.

全世界最老人瑞說，117年的歲月似乎不像是那麼長的時間。

Misao Okawa, the daughter of a kimono maker, made the comment Wednesday, at a celebration a day before her 117th birthday.

找不到字的時候，很多人就會硬塞一個thing進來。英文表達著重明確，例如：

我要告訴你的事很重要。
（冗贅）The thing I’d like to tell you is important. 

A floral odor was described by people with one version of a gene as aromatic, but by those with a different variation as sour.

一種花的味道被擁有一類基因的人形容為芳香，卻被其他擁有不同變種基因的人形容為是酸臭的。

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who can smell the roses and those who can’t. Our ability to smell certain odors appears to be hardwired genetically.

Human ancestors may have been capable of using tools much earlier than previously thought.

人類祖先使用工具的能力可能遠比之前認定的還早。

Scientists said an analysis of fossil hand bones of the species Australopithecus africanus that lived in southern Africa about 3 million to 2 million years ago indicated this human forerunner could use its hands in ways very much like modern people.

Happiness nose dives as you hit middle age - but only if you live in the affluent West, according to experts.

人到中年時幸福感驟降－－但只有生活在富裕西方社會才會，專家指出。

Using world survey data, the Lancet study authors found life satisfaction followed a predictable trajectory depending on where people lived.

New York’s leaders were on the defensive after shutting down America’s biggest city for a snowstorm that failed to meet expectations here after forecasters warned of a storm of potentially historic proportions.

在氣象預報人員警告此地將出現可能創下歷史紀錄的暴風雪、結果卻未如預期後，紐約的領導人為了因應暴風雪而關閉這座全美最大城市的決策辯駁。

Before the heavy snows even reached New York City on Tuesday, officials closed schools, shut down bridges and tunnels, canceled commuter rail service and, for the first time ever in a snowstorm, closed the sprawling subway train system. A travel ban was put in place, and drivers were subject to arrest.