1. There were also shows that didn’t live up to early expectations but still had traction, most notably “The Affair,” on Showtime, which began as a Hamptons film noir and instead turned into a French art film. The crime may not be commensurate with the series’s punishingly slow pace and “Rashomon"-like storytelling, but the series picked up momentum — and suspense — in the final episodes.

2. Because of her success, she no longer lives anything resembling a normal life.

3. 7、 阿斯顿·马丁必须有。不止如此，还要在异国情调的赌场里挥金如土——一掷千金的男人很能吸引寻欢中的女性。常与女性周旋的邦德更擅长于此。

4. The two pleasure devices both made of bronze date back more than 2000 years to China's Han Dynasty (206 BC–220 AD).

5. 游戏平台：Xbox One

6. 限制措施开始见到成效。中国商务部周四表示，1月份中国企业对外非金融类直接投资金额同比下降了36%，至530亿元人民币（合78亿美元）。去年12月的同比降幅为39%。

应用

1. 5. 生活就像一个茶几，上面摆满了杯具和餐具。（杯具是“悲剧”的同音词，餐具是“惨剧”的同音词。）

2. "This film was about survival, adaptation and the triumph of the human spirit and more importantly it was about trust.”

3. 哈佛大学的一项研究证明，随着年龄增长，饮食可能会对你的记忆力有重要的影响。妇女医院的科学家们在《神经病学记事》发表的研究报告指出，食用含有大量饱和脂肪酸的食物（如红肉和黄油）的女性比正常饮食的女性记性更差。虽然研究人员暂时没有发现记忆力和饱和脂肪之间的确切联系，但是他们猜测饱和脂肪酸也许对基因有那么些影响。

4. Stock pickers encountered difficulty this year in part because of concentration at the top of the market. Just five stocks—Apple, Berkshire Hathaway, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, and Intel— accounted for 20% of the market’s gains. If you weren’t at least equally weighted toward them, you had virtually no shot at making up for missing their enormous, index-driving gains. A majority of the market’s stocks did not perform nearly as well. According to the Leuthold Group, only 30% of S&P 1500 stocks posted gains exceeding the index itself. You’d have to go back to 1999 to see anything like this.

5. 这笔交易令17岁的达洛伊西奥成为百万富翁。他在12岁时自学编写软件程序，他将一边继续学业，一边参与雅虎伦敦办事处的工作。

6. 此次内衣秀将在美国时间12月4日在CBS播出。

旧版特色

1. 6）乐意效劳：通过此句话的微妙提示所起的作用，可以使某一关键内容得到强化的效果。你乐意帮助别人。无论什么时候，他们需要你的帮助，你都在场。而且，你是乐意效劳的。

2. 历史学家希望解开有关理查三世的谜团，公开证据以反驳他杀害了两个年轻侄子的说法，重点关注他在位两年期间的成就，包括建立了保释制度和法律援助制度。

3. 本榜单另一个荣誉推荐的是《明日帝国》的主题曲。