• 美国脑癌患者自行结束生命倡导“死亡权”

    14-11-07 美国死亡权倡导组织Compassion Choices周日宣布,29岁脑癌患者布列塔尼梅纳德服药结束了自己的生命,她选择按照自己的意愿过完剩下的日子。在发现自己的治疗无法挽救自己的生命时,梅纳德和家人决定迁至俄勒冈州波特兰市,那里有《尊严死亡法》,允许身患绝症、剩下不...

  • A Half-wit 一个傻子

    14-04-15 A young man was considered a half-wit in the village. Wherever he was offered a choice between a dime and a nickel, he always chose the nickel. When this had gone on many times, a kind old man told him that a dime was worth twice as much as a nickel...

  • 责任 自由 选择

    13-04-08 I love choices. I love to walk around in bookstores-not because I can buy all the books, but because I could buy one book, and I have so many to choose from. I like buffets(自助餐) . I rarely get to go to them, but when I do, the first thing I do...

  • Iridescent ties

    13-01-17 Wading through unwanted sales leftovers in search of new spring buys can be tedious(沉闷的) . Enter the back-to-work tie, a style fix with minimum fuss(小题大做) that is both useful in the long-term and justifiable in the short. Fretting about a...

  • A Simple Day

    13-01-08 To wake up in the morning, knowing I am still alive, To know I have a choice each day, starting afresh, To find joy in every day, acknowledging simple pleasures, To live in the present moment, eagaging my awareness, To count the blessing in life, be...

  • 我总能选择

    12-08-14 I believe that I always have a choice. No matter what I'm doing. No matter where I am. No matter what is happening to me. I always have a choice. Today I am sitting at my computer, speaking these words through a microphone. Although I have spent my...

  • Choice anxiety Choice anxiety

    12-04-17 Choice anxiety is induced by the need to choose between similar options and is increasingly being recognized as a problem for individuals. 当你面临太多相似的选择,无法决定的时候产生的焦虑感就叫选择焦虑(choice anxiety),现在越来越多的人有这种困扰,...

  • 研究:人们往往只看中眼前利益

    10-04-01 When faced with a choice that could yield(出产,屈服) either short-term satisfaction or longer-term benefits, people with complete information about the options generally go for the quick reward, according to new research from University of Texas...

  • 去泰国还是希腊度假?多巴胺说了算

    09-11-13 People constantly make complex decisions, from the more mundane(现世的,世俗的) which restaurant to go to for dinner or which movie to go seeto the more profound(深奥的,深厚的) whether to have kids or not. Now, a new study published online on N...

  • The Choice of Word 选词

    09-09-29 The Choice of Word One day, John was back home after work. He found that his wife was shaking their daughter who was only half a year old. She said Da-Dy to the baby many times. John felt very happy because he thought his wife chose the word Dady to...