The ideas were ridiculous, but once Matson's students equated failure with innovation instead of defeat, they felt free to try anything.

She and her husband Elliott along with Harold "Matt" Matson started the toy company Mattel.

她和他的丈夫艾略特和哈罗德一起开了一家玩具公司MATTEL。

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About the author: John Matson is an associate editor at Scientific American focusing on space, physics and mathematics.

关于作者：本文作者约翰马特森是“科学美国人”的一位副编辑，重点关注空间学、物理学以及数学学科。

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Stay tuned for Earth year 2, as Curiosity keeps rolling along.-John Matson

继续关注好奇号第二年的探测吧。

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So your smartphone could help make us all smarter.-John Matson

所以说你的智能手机能让我们更聪明。

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The old Canadian road is a long last travel between the Canadian Provice of Quebec, and Maye and the northeast corner of Unite States.

过去加拿大的路是一段很长的位于加拿大魁百克省和梅省和美国的东北角之间的路途。

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All her family were good people, and after she left us, her daughter Maye Hightower came to work for Mother and stayed thirty more years until Mother died.

她全家人都心地善良。她走后，她女儿梅耶。海塔尔又来替母亲干活儿，而且一待就是30多年，直到把母亲送走为止。

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So maye played a critical role in spawning ( literally) some of the great inventions of our time& and was an entrepreneurial role model.

所以说，在当今时代一些伟大的发明诞生过程中，梅耶发挥了关键的作用，而且她本人也是一位创业模范。

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Maye renovated it and rebuilt her practice.

她对办公室进行了重新装修，再次创办了自己的公司。

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For$ 1,000 a month, maye did research at University of Toronto while taking courses to verify her South African credentials.

为了每个月1000美元的收入，梅耶一边在多伦多大学（University of Toronto）做研究，一边上课，来证明她在南非取得的资质。

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In Canada, maye had to start from scratch.

在加拿大，梅耶不得不从零开始。

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All the while, maye managed to build out her dietitian business.

与此同时，梅耶的营养师公司也有所起色。

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Deputy Michael Parham stopped 47-year-old Ricardo Alfonso Cerna for a traffic violation, only to have Cerna open fire, shooting him twice in the abdomen.

副警长迈克尔·帕勒姆因为交通违章拦下了47岁的里卡多•阿方索•塞尔纳的车，但这却使塞尔纳对他开火，在他的腹部射了两枪。

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Walter Parham reports on south China's taste for wildlife.

沃尔特•巴翰报道中国南方对野生动物的嗜好。

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In CBI, language is the means to gain information rather than the ends of learning. This concept of learning is considered more natural, for it is the same as the way we acquire our mother tongue ( Peachey, 1999).

学习者把语言作为获得信息的手段而不是作为学习的目的，这种教学理念被认为是发展语言能力更为自然的一种方式，与我们最初学习母语的方式相一致（Peachey，1999）。

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Therapist Frank Pittman believes virtually all cheaters deeply regret straying.

治疗学家弗兰克·皮特曼认为，几乎所有的婚姻背叛者都会为自己的出轨深感后悔。

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Christopher Pittman did not have the most stable life.

克里斯托弗·皮特曼的生活远称不上稳定。

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A fully fit Pittman is regarded as Australia's best chance of a track medal in Athens.

身体状态良好的皮特曼是最有希望获得径奖牌的澳大利亚选手。

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Insectivorous bats are the top predators of night-flying insects, including mosquitoes: Dr. Reeder estimated that for every million bats killed by white-nose syndrome, 692 tons of insects go undevoured each summer.

猎食昆虫的蝙蝠是夜行昆虫包括蚊子的头号天敌：里德估计，每有100万只蝙蝠死于白鼻综合症，一个夏季就会有692吨昆虫不能被消灭。

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Dr. Reeder and her colleagues have shown that bats with white-nose come out of hibernation twice as often as healthy bats.

里德和同事们也发现，染上白鼻病的蝙蝠从冬眠中苏醒的次数是健康蝙蝠的两倍。

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In Washington, President Pierce announced the appointment of Andrew Reeder to be governor of the Kansas territory.

在华盛顿，皮尔斯总统宣布任命安德鲁-瑞德为堪萨斯地方长官。

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