• Climb the Walls

    15-09-14 Oh, I sure am happy to see you, the little boy said to his grandmother on his mother's side. Now maybe Daddy will do the trick he has been promising us. The grandmother was curious. What trick is that? she asked. I heard him tell Mommy that he would...

  • First Time Ushers

    15-08-31 A little boy in church for the first time watched as the ushers passed around the offering plates. When they came near his pew, the boy said loudly, Don't pay for me, Daddy. I'm under five....

  • Children's Sermon

    15-08-31 One Easter Sunday morning as the minister was preaching the children's sermon, he reached into his bag of props and pulled out an egg. He pointed at the egg and asked the children, What's in here? I know! a little boy exclaimed. Pantyhose!...

  • 徐若瑄近日生下一名男婴

    15-08-18 Taiwan star Vivian Hsu announces on Facebook that she has given birth to a boy, her first child with husband Sean Lee. 台湾明星徐若瑄在Facebook上宣布生下一名男婴,这是他与丈夫李云峰的第一个孩子。 The new parents have named him Dalton Lee. The baby w...

  • Nineteen Eighty-Four 一九八四 Part 1, Chapter 5

    15-07-20 In the low-ceilinged canteen, deep underground, the lunch queue jerked slowly forward. The room was already very full and deafeningly noisy. From the grille at the counter the steam of stew came pouring forth, with a sour metallic smell which did no...

  • 利比里亚发现埃博拉病毒新病例

    15-07-01 Liberian authorities have quarantined two households after the corpse of a 17-year-old boy who had been infected with Ebola was found. 利比里亚某地发现一具17岁男孩的尸体,该男孩生前曾感染埃博拉病毒,当局因此隔离了两户家庭。 It is the first recorded...

  • 加拿大九岁男孩给各国领导人写信

    15-06-24 A nine-year-old boy from Morden, Manitoba, Canada, has taken up the lost art of letter writing and he's not writing to just anyone, he's written to every world leader for whom he could find a mailing address. 加拿大马尼托巴省莫登的一名九岁男孩重拾起...

  • Justine 淑女的眼泪 Chapter 46

    15-06-15 Together with this man I was deploring the double misfortune of which he was the victim when he proposed we continue our way. Thanks to your attentions I feel a little better, said Roland; night is approaching, let's get on to a house which should b...

  • 跟baby相关的习语和表达 1

    15-06-08 baby-kisser 从字面上看,该词是吻婴儿的人。但实际上这是送给政坛人士的一种特别称谓,即政客的别名。Baby-kisser们为了争取民众支持、捞取选票,不惜花大量的时间与精力去讨好民众,时时刻刻笑脸相迎,见到母亲们抱着baby时也会故作姿态抢过baby来kiss一番,以示与民...

  • Neither 都不是

    15-06-04 It was local election time and the candidate was visiting all the houses in his area. At one house a small boy answered the door. Tell me, young man, said the politician. Is your Mommy in the Republican Party or the Democratic Party? Neither, said t...