Well, we'll explore this topic in more detail shortly, but first a quiz question. In which year was 'snowflake' one of Collins Dictionary's words of the year? Was it… a) 1996 b) 2006 or c) 2016?

好的，将会很快探讨这个主题更多细节，但是首先是今天的测试问题。哪一年" snowflake" 被收录入当年的柯林斯词典？是a) 1996年 b) 2006年 还是 c) 2016年？

Mr Ortberg used to run Rockwell Collins, which supplied Boeing with electronics.

奥尔特伯格先生曾经营克韦尔柯林斯公司，该公司为波音公司提供电子产品。

Klein Collins High School, great to see you watching from Spring, Texas.

克莱因柯林斯高中，很高兴看到你在德州斯普林收看节目。

For NPR News, I'm Luke Rania, in Fort Collins, Colorado.

NPR新闻，记者卢克·拉尼亚, 科拉多州柯林斯堡发回的报道。

And he joins us via Skype from Fort Collins, Colorado.

今天，他通过Skype从科拉多州的柯林斯堡连线。

Cheyenne, Wyoming's capital and the largest town was founded on the plains of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, just like the big cities in Colorado further to the South, like Fort Collins, Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo.

怀俄明州首府、最大的城镇夏延建立在落基山脉丘陵地带的平原上，就像科拉多州更南边的大城市一样，如柯林斯堡、丹佛、科拉多斯普林斯和普韦布洛。

Today's story getting a 10 out of 10, we're taking a trip to a library in Fort Collins, Colorado, where a copy of the book " Ivanhoe" was returned more than 100 years late.

来到今天的“新闻最后一分钟”，要去到科拉多州弗特科林斯的一家图书馆，那里有一本名叫《艾凡赫》的书超过100年了才被还回去。

The Collins English Dictionary defines soft skills as the " desirable qualities for certain forms of employment that do not depend on acquired knowledge: they include common sense, the ability to deal with people, and a positive flexible attitude."

《柯林斯英语词典》将软技能定义为“不依赖于获得的知识的某些就业形式的理想品质：它包括常识、人打交道的能力和积极灵活的态度。”

In her own kitchen with 4 students and initially, two of them her own kids. Gradually, more and more students join the Marva Collins school.

就在她的厨房里 开始只有四个学生 其中两个是她的孩子 逐渐地 越来越多的学生进入了Marva Collins学校。

In the new version out of the Collins Official Scrabble Words List, which now allows some 2015 slang, spellings and technology terms

在新版的柯林斯官方拼字游戏单词表中, 目前加入了2015年的一些俚语, 拼写和专业术语。

A resident of Fort Collins, Colo., the 72-year-old Wagoner is in the fastest-growing labor participation cohort: workers age 65 and over.

72岁的瓦格纳是科拉多州柯林斯堡的居民，其所属的65岁及以上的工人，是人数增长最快的劳动者群体。

The author meets landscape painter Wilkie Collins, who has a gift for mystery writing and whom Dickens admires greatly.

作者遇到了风景画家威尔基·柯林斯，他具有悬疑写作的天赋，狄更斯非常钦佩他。

Helen Newstead, head of language content at Collins Learning.

柯林斯学习语言内容负责人海伦? 纽斯特德说道。

Of course, I asked in which year was snowflake one of Collins Dictionary's words of the year.

当然，之前问玻璃心这个词是哪一年被评为科林斯词典的年度单词的。

In which year was snowflake one of Collins Dictionary's words of the year?

玻璃心这个词是哪一年被评为柯林斯词典的年度单词的？

The next day at Longbourn, Mr Collins proposed marriage to Elizabeth.

第二天在朗伯恩， 科林斯先生向伊丽莎白求婚。

The U.S. for instance has 800,000 seed deposits in a lab in Fort Collins, Colorado.

例如，美国在科拉多州柯林斯堡的一个实验室中存放着 800,000 颗种子。

The experience that UTC is illustrative Last year after adding Rockwell Collins to its pattern.

联合技术公司的经历具有代表性，去年在将其模式扩展到克韦尔柯林斯之后。

Thomas is up next in Fort Collins, Colorado.

接下来是来自科拉多州柯林斯堡的托马斯。

Emery and Tate from Fort Collins, Colorado.

来自科拉多州柯林斯堡的埃默里和泰特。