1. Joss Whedon came up with the idea of Firefly while he was on a non-working vacation. He was reading a book called The Killer Angels which told the story of soldiers in the Battle of Gettysburg. Whedon was attracted to the idea of the difficulty of the soldiers' everyday lives. He liked that the author focused on the mundane details of how people survived when they didn't have all of their needs conveniently met by modern technology and commercialism.

2. 大力改造提升传统产业。

3. 不会。这笔被誉为史上最大规模的首次公开发行(IPO)，是沙特实际领导人穆罕默德本萨勒曼(Mohammed bin Salman)宏大经济重组计划的基石，因此沙特阿美IPO肯定会成行。该公司的股票将在沙特本国的证交所上市。不过，此次IPO计划在国外的部分不太可能是一次公开发行。唐纳德特朗普正在为纽约游说，伦敦也在全力以赴争取。香港和东京也在沙特的考虑之中。但沙特会转而选择非公开售股，或者在晚于预期的时间在国外上市。

4. 周二，萨尔州成为德国第一个禁止外国政客拉票的地区。德国数个地方议会基于消防安全等技术原因，取消了土耳其部长们原计划的拉票集会。

5. 他表示：“价格走低对利润下滑影响加剧”。

6. 对于该行业规模有多大，众说纷纭，但高盛(Goldman Sachs)的数据表明，在2012至2014年期间，该行业的贷款规模从60亿元人民币增长至830亿元。

应用

1. You qualify as a type D personality if you scored 10 or higher on both Negative Affectivity and Social Inhibition scales.

2. There are 27 companies that are dropped from the list this year, including AT&T, IBM, Siemens and Xerox.

3. 凯莎与死亡金属之鹰乐队联合创作了《Let‘Em Talk》（《让他们说去吧》）这首流行朋克风格的歌曲，它以吉他原声为主导，是一首能够瞬间引爆全场的经典之作。

4. 苹果公司可以推出一款售价2,000元人民币（330美元）的迷你iPhone，这样就能和联想（Lenovo）、华为（Huawei）、中兴（ZTE）和酷派（Coolpad）的旗舰产品相抗衡了。

5. Simply bend one end of the product around yourself or the back of your seat and bend the other end into a secure position for your head. You can even use the hand to hold your device for movie time.

6. 乔治王子获得满分，因为他对加拿大总理特鲁多傲慢的击掌回了一记冷眼。

旧版特色

1. Social networking platforms, including Weibo and mobile app WeChat, proved to be the best tools for cyberstars to magnify the power of communication, making it possible to create an industry that combines advertisements, e-commerce and fans.

2. Meanwhile, 78 percent of the civil service jobs offered this year are posts at county or district levels, as the central government seeks to steer more college graduates to jobs at city and county levels, he said.

3. 你倾向于隐藏自己的感情吗？