Kissing helps us assess potential partners if, like a Jane Austen heroine, we cannot wait forever for Mr Darcy to come along, a study suggests.
研究顯示，親吻有助於我們評估可能的伴侶，如果我們像（英國小說家）珍奧斯汀書裡的女主角一樣，沒辦法永遠等待達西先生到來。
Scientists believe kissing helps people judge the quality of a potential mate through taste, smell and fitness.
The wearable computing craze went to the dogs with startup Whistle introducing a smart pendant that tracks physical activity levels and sleep patterns in canines.
穿戴式電腦風尚吹到狗狗身上，新創公司「哨子」推出一種可追蹤狗狗身體活動程度與睡眠模式的智慧型掛件。
"Whistle was inspired by my love of dogs," co-founder and chief executive Ben Jacobs said as his pooch, Duke, darted about a dog park near the company’s office in San Francisco.
There have been more than one thousand planets confirmed outside our Solar System, but only a few are within star clusters.
在我們的太陽系之外確定有逾千顆行星，但很少位於星團。
Using the European Southern Observatory’s （ESO） HARPS instrument, researchers have found three new planets in the star cluster Messier 67.
Saudi Arabia’s feared religious police entered a public park in the Gulf Kingdom and told women to stop using swings, an act that drew applause and criticism by viewers of a picture showing the men warning some women at the swings.
沙烏地阿拉伯令人畏懼的宗教警察走入這個波斯灣王國的一座公共公園，告訴婦女停止使用鞦韆。看了這群男人在鞦韆處警告一些婦人的照片的人，對警方此舉有稱讚、有批評。
The picture went viral on social networks in Saudi Arabia before it was published by newspapers showing two men from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice warning women against using the swings.
A bomb exploded in a bustling food market in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Wednesday, killing one person and wounding 13 others, officials said.
巴基斯坦東部城市拉合爾週三在熙來攘往的食品市場發生爆炸案，殺死1人、13人受傷，官員說。
The blast hit Anarkali bazaar in the old city area of Lahore, Pakistan’s second-largest city and capital of relatively peaceful Punjab province.
A couple who root for Ohio State say they’ve made sure their baby daughter embraces their football allegiance by giving her a name that implies automatic fandom： Scarlet Gray.
一對支持俄亥俄州立大學美式足球隊的夫妻說，他們已設法確保女兒也完全接納他們對俄亥俄州立大學的美式足球隊的忠誠，方法就是為剛出生的女兒，取一個帶有自動成為粉絲的名字：「猩紅灰」（譯註：猩紅灰是俄亥俄州立大學的代表顏色；女嬰名為「猩紅灰」為意譯，若採音譯則為「史嘉莉．葛蕾」）。
And those are the colors that Justin and Kim King’s 3-month-old daughter wears as her family watches Saturday games on their big-screen television.
A disgruntled viewer is suing Japan’s national broadcaster for mental distress caused by an excessive use of words borrowed from English.
一位心有不滿的觀眾控告日本的國家電視台過度使用英語外來詞，令他精神飽受折磨。
Hoji Takahashi, 71, is seeking 1.4 million yen in damages from NHK.
Two Czechs have breathed new life into telephone booths made obsolete in the cell phone age, converting them into mini libraries with the first installed at a Prague hospital recently.
兩名捷克人讓被手機時代所淘汰的電話亭重現生機，他們把電話亭改造為迷你圖書館，首座電話亭圖書館最近在布拉格一所醫院正式設立。
On the shelves of the red booth, patients of the IKEM hospital will find a plethora of genres, including works by US crime writer John Grisham, Czech and Russian titles and biographer Andrew Morton’s "Diana： Her True Story".
