1. Despite the overall upward trends in financing, the amount of capital raised by women-owned businesses has historically lagged when compared to men. For example, in the first half of 2013, women made up only 16 percent of businesses seeking funding, with only 24 percent of the women receiving angel funding, Plum Alley, an online e-commerce platform for female entrepreneurs, recently launched a crowdfunding platform specifically focused on helping women innovators get to the next level. And as the first platform of its kind in the exploding crowdfunding space (expected to hit $3.98 billion next year), we can certainly expect Plum Alley to play a big role in the entrepreneurial landscape for women in the year to come.

2. 粮食指数下滑约3%。

3. 伞上的链子可以系在狗狗的项圈或背带上。

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5. Market watchers were forced to digest the reality of negative 2.9% GDP for the first quarter of the year. All of a sudden, everyone’s forecasts seemed too rosy—or at least too smooth—compared to the lumpy reality. This led to a raft of second-guessing on the timing of the Fed’s eventual exit from its bond-buying stimulus program. We went from confidence to WTF? in a space of a few weeks, with all the asset class rotations and market corrections that come along with a fresh bout of uncertainty.

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1. Warm hearted wishes for a happy New Year filled with all your favorite things.传统佳节之际，献上殷殷祝福，祝新年万事如意！

2. A powerful earthquake struck off Japan's southern coast on May 30, prompting fears in China of a catastrophe similar to the tsunami and Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown that followed the 2011 Japanese quake. In the end, no fatalities or major damage were reported.

3. 答：英雄是一个不想成为英雄的人。英雄是那种明明完全可以选择，但却选择在那个时刻承担起责任的人。那就是英雄所要做的事。举个例子，在911实践中，飞机上的一些乘客曾经和恐怖分子搏斗。在福岛辐射泄露实践中，有些人前往当地试图修理核电站，并且因此而死。但他们必须这么做。他们是英雄。他们想要的并不是“当英雄”，而是承担责任，做正确的事。

4. His eloquent defence of equality came after a year of faltering progress on gay marriage in the US and as arguments rage about the lack of diversity among the people running the Silicon Valley companies, including Apple, who shape so much of our culture.

5. A hilarious video showed the swaying crowds singing Can’t Take My Eyes Off You and Hey Baby to the laughing young woman in Bordeaux.

6. 7. Cannes' 'year of women' didn't go so well

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1. "这是波多黎各的历史时刻"，50岁的何塞·达维拉，他从力挺罗塞略的政党上挥舞大旗一边说着。"总督是我们岛上的希望，也是受苦的人民的希望"。

2. 去年，CPI指数上涨在一月时达到峰值2.5%，随后在剩下的时间里在2%以下波动。

3. 贝南克(Bernanke)说今年晚些时候的经济将会走强，所以到时候他可以松开油门，也就是“在今年晚些时候开始减弱刺激性的量化宽松(QE)计划”。对此麦嘉华(Marc Faber)笑了。没错，他笑了。