16-02-18 The offence had been committed within the district, and indeed in the immediate neighborhood of, a very notorious metropolitan police office. The crowd had only the satisfaction of accompanying Oliver through two or three streets, and down a place c...

15-11-13 Botany Sarah Holland-Batt After the rain, we went out in pairs to hunt the caps that budded at night: wet handfuls of waxtips and widows, lawyer's wigs, a double-ringed yellow. We shook them out onto gridded sheets, the girls more careful than the b...

15-09-30 Continuity mistake: Just before the Indominus Rex ambush, in one shot the Asset Containment Unit trooper Meyers is equipped with a laser-rifle. In the next, she's equipped with a cattle prod. This happens at least 4 times. Revealing mistake: When th...

15-09-05 The number of China's single men could exceed the entire population of Australia in five years' time, a Fujian government statistician has calculated. 一名福建政府统计人员估计，五年之内，中国单身男性数量将会超过整个澳大利亚人口。 There are likely to...

15-06-08 bottle baby 抱着瓶子的宝宝是什么意思？告诉你吧，这个习语指的是酒鬼。酒鬼每天抱着酒瓶，这么一联想非常好记。 例句： The bottle babies sat there, waiting to be thrown out at closing time. 酒鬼们坐在那，等着关门时被赶走。 babe in the woods Babe就是婴儿...

15-05-30 Girls have more firmly embraced digital literacy and formats such as Facebook, email and text message, while boys are more comfortable with traditional printed media such as comics, manuals and newspapers, according to a study published by the Natio...

15-05-15 Some mischievous boys were playing on the edge of a pond, and, catching sight of some frogs swimming about in the shallow water, they began to amuse themselves by pelting them with stones, and they killed several of them. At last one of the frogs pu...

15-03-25 A top parenting expert has warned mothers that being too possessive of their sons and not letting men be strong father figures can be detrimental to their boys' upbringing. 一位高级育儿专家提醒各位母亲，对儿子的占有欲过强，父亲高大的形象难以树立，会...

15-03-19 A couple had two little boys, ages 8 and 10, who were excessively mischievous. They were always getting into trouble and their parents knew that, if any mischief occurred in their town, their sons were probably involved. The boys' mother heard that...

15-03-17 Two boys are playing hockey on the pond on Boston Common, when one is attacked by a vicious Rottweiler. Thinking quickly, the other boy took his hockey stick and managed to wedge it down the dog's collar and twist, luckily breaking the dog's neck an...