• 为什么蓝牛仔常用橙色线缝接

    12-05-18 The orange thread traditionally used to sew Levi Strauss blue jeans was intentionally selected to match the copper rivets(铆钉) that doubled the durability of the jeans. Levi Strauss, however, neither envisioned this particular use for copper rive...

  • 知更鸟蛋壳颜色影响幼鸟受关心程度

    12-05-15 A male robin(知更鸟) will be more diligent(勤勉的) in caring for its young if the eggs its mate lays are a brighter shade of blue. Queen's University biology professor Bob Montgomerie has been studying robins on and off for 25 years and has a pa...

  • 加尔各答要让城市全面蓝化

    12-02-25 人口一千四百万的印度大城加尔各答,要让城市全面蓝化。从政府到民间建筑、市内出租车到名胜古迹,全部都要换穿天蓝色的衣服。 Calcutta's chief minister has ordered the city of 14 million residents to be painted sky blue, taking inspiration from the new Ind...

  • 仙女座星系发现超亮蓝色恒星

    12-01-12 Peering deep inside the hub of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a large, rare population of hot, bright stars. Blue is typically an indicator of hot, young stars. In this case, however, the stellar odditi...

  • Online Blue Army 网络蓝军

    11-12-27 The development of China's Online Blue Army unit is for improving the defense capabilities of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), a Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. 国防部一位发言人上周三表示,组建网络蓝军是为了提高解放军的国防...

  • The Blue Day Book

    11-09-23 Everybody has blue days. These are miserable days when you feel lousy(讨厌的) , grumpy, lonely, and utterly exhausted. Days when you feel small and insignificant, when everything seems just out of reach. You cant rise to the occasion. Just getting...

  • Visiting Stanley Kunitz

    10-12-08 Visiting Stanley Kunitz Michael Longley I have flown the Atlantic To reach you in your chair. Cuddling(拥抱) up, we talk about Flowers, important things, And hold hands to celebrate Spring gentian's heavenly (Strictly speaking) blue. You grow anem...

  • Jonathan, O Jonathan

    10-11-26 Jonathan, O Jonathan Margaret Avison The spokes of sun have pronged and spun: a bowling barrowpaddle-wheelor rein(缰绳,驾驭) held taut(拉紧的,整洁的) . Careening early this morning shod hooves flaked the loose tiles. Sky opened. Horning farnes...

  • 香港将拍卖千禧年蓝宝石

    10-04-07 A rare and flawless blue diamond is to be offered for auction in Hong Kong. 一颗罕见的、无瑕疵的蓝宝石将在香港被拍卖。 The blue diamond is rare, flawless and fancy vivid The diamond, originally from the De Beers(德比尔斯) Millennium Collection, is...

  • 新年前夜 罕见“蓝月”现身

    10-01-03 天文学家表示,12月31日晚上,北美、欧洲和非洲国家的人们将看到本月的第二轮满月,即人们所说的蓝月,而东半球的人们则有望观赏到本年度最后一次月偏食。据科学家介绍,在天文历法中,当一个月出现两次满月时,第二个满月就被赋予一个充满神秘浪漫色彩的名字蓝月(Blu...