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你寫一封英文email要多久?英文email寫作其實有一些共通格式(format)，把一些經典句型記熟，寫一封詢問意見、安排行程的信，只要三、五分鐘就夠了。

1. 問候
l How have you been?

有讀者說，自己英文不好，寫會議記錄常不知如何下筆、抓不到重點、卡卡的。寫英文會議記錄的關鍵在，找到一個對的format (格式)，把內容填進去。熟悉以下的字彙和格式，開會後半小時內，你就能有條不紊地整理寫出會議紀錄。

會議記錄英文叫做meeting minutes/minutes of meeting，很多老外直接用minutes，當老外說"Can you take minutes?" 意思是請你做會議記錄。做會議記錄還可以用keep minutes。

Constantly thinking about the next workout? Upset about missing a exercise class? Fitness experts say more is not always better and overworking a workout can sap strength and invite injury.

常常在想下次的運動嗎？錯過一堂運動課就心情不好？健身專家表示，多不見得就好，過度運動可能會傷害健康與招致受傷。

"We have fit people and deconditioned people who overdo it," said Geralyn Coopersmith, national director of the Equinox Fitness Training Institute.

Whether it is photos, personal status or unwanted comments, most Americans think people ’overshare’ personal information online and a third admit not everything they post is true.

不管是照片、個人狀態還是多餘的評論，大多數美國人認為人們在網路上「過度分享」了個人訊息，3分之1的人承認自己上網發表的東西並不全是真的。

A survey for Intel Corporation on mobile etiquette and digital sharing showed that 90 percent of Americans think too much is being divulged, and nearly half feel overwhelmed by all the data that is out there.

Grasshoppers who die frightened leave their mark in the Earth in a way that more mellow ones do not, US and Israeli researchers said.

驚恐而死的蚱蜢會以一種方式在泥土留下牠們的影響，而較平和而死的蚱蜢則不會，美國與以色列的研究人員指出。

"So, indeed this sounds a little bit weird," lead author Dr Hawlena said in an audio interview posted on the journal Science’s website.

Research by academics at two universities have concluded that the common belief of lying eyes is a myth.

兩所大學學者的研究總結，認為眼睛會透露是否說謊的一般想法是迷思。

Many psychologists think when a person looks up to their right they are likely to be telling a lie and glancing up to the left is said to indicate honesty. However, the experts from Edinburgh University and Hertfordshire University carried out tests and found the theory to be wrong.

It turns out that Harry was right when he told Sally that men can’t be ’just friends’ with women.

哈利告訴莎莉，男人無法和女人「只是朋友」，結果他是對的。

Researchers have found that men’s friendships with the opposite sex are driven by sexual attraction, regardless of whether they are single. Women, however, are more likely to consider their friendships with men as platonic.

It is a myth that we are at our most miserable at the beginning of the week, according to academics. People’s moods on Mondays are actually no worse than on any other week day barring Friday, a survey found.

根據學者說法，我們在一週開始這天最難熬的說法是迷思。一份調查發現，除週五外，人們週一的心情其實不比其他週間日還糟。

The popular fixation on the idea of "Blue Monday" should be given the status of a "cultural myth", the team behind the new findings wrote in the Journal of Positive Psychology.