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在中国，送礼物有什么禁忌呢？

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Arabic basic greeting

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¿Estás hasta las narices de algo? ¿Estás hasta las narices de tu compañero o compañera de trabajo? Esto pasa a veces ...

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你能猜猜”哭成狗“，”领头羊“，”驴唇不对马嘴”什么意思吗？在本集全中文播客里，Karen介绍了几个中文里和动物有关的表达。一起来看看吧！


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(全中文) 马嘴？哭成狗？这些和动物有关的表达太搞笑了！

Tea and the Industrial RevolutionA Cambridge professor says that a change in drinking habits was the reason for the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Anjana Abuja reports

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Alan Macfarlane, professor of anthropological science at King’s College, Cambridge has, like other historians, spent decades wrestling with the enigma of the Industrial Revolution. Why did this particular Big Bang – the world-changing birth of industry-happen in Britain? And why did it strike at the end of the 18th century?

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Macfarlane compares the puzzle to a combination lock. ‘There are about 20 different factors and all of them need to be present before the revolution can happen,’ he says. For industry to take off, there needs to be the technology and power to drive factories, large urban populations to provide cheap labour, easy transport to move goods around, an affluent middle-class willing to buy mass-produced objects, a market-driven economy and a political system that allows this to happen. While this was the case for England, other nations, such as Japan, the Netherlands and France also met some of these criteria but were not industrialising. All these factors must have been necessary. But not sufficient to cause the revolution, says Macfarlane. ‘After all, Holland had everything except coal while China also had many of these factors. Most historians are convinced there are one or two missing factors that you need to open the lock.’

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