13-08-06 Finally, for the first time in my life, I was going to move into brand-new house and it was an absolute beauty. I spent hours upon hours walking up and down the hallway just looking at that sunken（沉没的） living room. I had never actually seen one...

13-06-07 Sunrise on the eastern coast is a special event. I stood at Dolphin's Nose, a spur jutting out into the Bay of Bengal, to behold the breaking of the sun's upper limb over the horizon of the sea. As the eastern sky started unfolding like the crimson...

13-05-22 I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. -- Henry David Thoreau When Thoreau wrote that line, he was thinking of the Walden Pond he knew as a boy. Woodchoppers and the Iron Horse had not yet greatly damaged the beauty of its sett...

12-12-07 King Pandion of Athens had two daughters, Procne and Philomela. When Athens was threatened by the wild men, King Tereus of Thrace came to its help. Out of gratitude King Pandion offered Tereus either of his daughters in marriage and the Thracian kin...

12-12-04 Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing. （Duane Dewel） 任何已婚男人都应该忘记自己犯下的错误没必要两个人都记得同一件事情吧。 Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to...

12-11-29 We all have days when we feel down in the dumps. Whether it's getting out of bed on the wrong side, having a stressful patch at work, the miserable weather, or just an inexplicably bad mood there are some easy tactics you can rely on to cheer up ins...

12-10-12 Collectibles have been a part of almost every culture since ancient times. Whereas some objects have been collected for their usefulness, others have been selected for their aesthetic beauty alone. In the United States, the kinds of collectibles cur...

12-10-09 Scanning the brains of people in love is also helping to refine science's grasp of love's various forms. Helen Fisher, a researcher at Rutgers University, and the author of a new book on love, suggests it comes in three flavours: lust, romantic love...

12-09-03 Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure（诱惑） of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so...

12-08-25 乌克兰国家艺术博物馆最近正在进行一个真人版的睡美人展览。事先选定的五位女性每人会在展厅睡三天，前来参观的男性如若亲吻了某位女性，而这位女性因此睁开眼睛的话，这两位就要结为连理。 If any of the five real-life sleeping beauties open their eyes when they...