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A renovated ferry, nicknamed “Shanghai Duck,” was given a roaring thumbs-down after it made its first appearance on the waters of Huangpu yesterday.

8月23日晚8：00第4轮中国汉字听写大会全民听写测试火爆开启。第四场听写大会由来自北京市一零一中学、安徽省合肥市第五十中学、福建省厦门双十中学、宁夏回族自治区唐徕回民中学四个代表队进行比拼。最后安徽代表队获胜，冲入半决赛。

At Wild Duck Lake resort in Kunming, Yunnan province, employees demonstrate kung fu fighting over water, using wires, Aug 19, 2013. Visitors can also try the moves from kung fu films.
8月19日，工作人员在昆明野鸭湖度假区展示威亚“水上漂”。体验者可以在专业人员的指导和保护下吊上威亚，体验武侠剧中“飞”的感觉。

A "fat finger" trading incident involving more than 7.2 billion yuan ($1.17 billion) at Everbright Securities Co Ltd on Aug 16, 2013 exposed regulatory flaws and weak links in the workings of the nation's capital markets. Regulators are still investigating the trading error.

On Aug 19, 2013 shows an announcement on the email web pages of Yahoo China. Yahoo China said in the announcement that it decided to shut down its email service on Aug 19.

After Typhoon Utor slammed into the region with high winds and torrential rain, more than 19,000 houses destroyed and 7,000 damaged in Guangdong of South China.

Grandmother holds a card calling for the legalization of gay marriage and she explains her grandson's sexuality

Train service of Guangzhou Railway Station, a rail hub in South China, has been suspended after landslides blocked a railway artery linking Guangzhou and Beijing, Guangzhou Railway Corporation said on Sunday.据广州铁路公司消息，因暴雨滑坡，京广线粤北段部分被阻断，逾八万人滞留广州火车站。
The company could not confirm when the train service could resume.该公司暂时无法确定铁路线何时能恢复。
More than 80,000 passengers would not be able to board their trains, according to the company's estimates.据该公司估计，超过八万名铁路旅客无法上车启程。
Landslides cut off the Guangdong section of Beijing-Guangzhou Railway as downpours have been drenching northern part of Guangdong province for days, the railway company said.铁路公司说道，由于连日暴雨导致山体滑坡，京广铁路粤北段被阻塞。
Passengers were told not to come to the railway station as there would be no train to board.铁路旅客已被告知不要前往火车站，因为现在不提供登车服务。

Located 73 kilometers from downtown Beijing, it is the essence section of the Great Wall. This well-preserved section was built about 1,400 years ago and reconstructed later under the Ming Dynasty. It joins the Juyong Pass in the west and Gubeikou in the east. The strategic importance of Mutianyu was obvious, as many battles took place there. The famous JiankouGreat Wall is located in the west of it. Besides, it features a splendid view because of a plant coverthat reaches 90 percent. In addition, it is equipped with a world-class cable car and provides entertainments, offering more fun to visitors.

As part of an effort to improve treatments for life-threatening illnesses, a team of scientists have created rabbits that glow in the dark.为了促进研究治疗危害人类疾病的方法，近日一组科学家培育出了一种会在黑暗中发光的荧光兔。
Their efforts produced two rabbits out of a litter of eight that went from being a normal, fluffy white to glowing green in the dark. The rabbits were born at the University of Istanbul as part of a collaboration between scientists from universities in Turkey and Hawaii.这一窝一共有八只兔子，其中两只从正常的毛绒绒白兔变成了在黑暗中发绿光的荧光兔。这两只兔子是在伊斯坦布尔大学诞生的，由土耳其和夏威夷大学的科学家合作研发。
The rabbits glow to show that a genetic manipulation technique can work efficiently, though the specific color is more cosmetic than scientific. "The green is not important at all – it's just a marker to show the experiment can be done successfully," said University of Hawaii associate professor Stefan Moisyadi.这些荧光兔子的成功培育，表明基因操作技术是可行的，尽管这个颜色只是个表象，并不具有多大的科学意义。“绿色一点都不重要——这只是表明实验可以成功进行，”夏威夷大学副教授斯特凡·莫伊斯雅迪说。
To produce the glowing effect, researchers injected jellyfish DNA into a mother rabbit's embryos. Those altered embryos were then inserted back into the mother. Similar experiments have resulted in glowing cockroaches and cats.为了产生这种荧光效果，研究人员在一只母兔的胚胎中注入了水母的DNA，之后再把这些变异的胚胎植回母体。类似的实验还曾培育出荧光蟑螂和荧光猫。
Eventually, the researchers hope the technique can lead to new ways to produce medicines, Moisyadi said. The rabbits are expected to have the same life span as their non-glowing counterparts, but Moisyadi said he understands people can object to this kind of experimentation involving live animals.莫伊斯雅迪表示，最终，研究人员希望这项技术可以用于生产药物。这些兔子的寿命预计将会和普通兔子一样，但是莫伊斯雅迪说他理解人们可能会反对这种活体动物实验。