21-10-04 A long time ago, there was a young man named Billy. Billy inherited the warm and good characteristics of his father. My father had such a good personality. He was the horse-keeper of a funeral carriage. 很久以前，有个年轻人叫比利。比利继承了他父亲脾...

21-05-26 一贫如洗，字面意思是穷得像用水洗过似的，什么都没有（so poor as if everything had been washed away）。形容十分贫穷，可以翻译为be utterly destitute，poor as a church mouse或poor and bare to the bones。 例句： 他死时家里一贫如洗。 When he died, his fam...

21-03-20 Time passed on. A few more to-morrows, and the party from London would be arriving. It was an alarming change; and Emma was thinking of it one morning, as what must bring a great deal to agitate and grieve her, when Mr. Knightley came in, and distre...

16-12-24 A former fork-lift truck driver has set up a business that charges people up to 35 to smash household items. 斯潘塞从前是一名铲车司机，他创建的这项业务可供人们打砸各种家居用品，最多收取顾客35英镑。 The bizarre attraction - in a disused church - offe...

16-11-05 The worlds tallest church tower is being destroyed by drunken revellers whose urine is eroding the Gothic building. 世界最高的教堂塔楼都快被狂欢醉鬼们的尿给毁了，这座哥特式建筑正日夜遭受尿液的腐蚀。 The skyline of the German city of Ulm, which sits...

16-07-29 Otherhood D. A. Powell I spent a long time preparing to be an other. Evening classes at the church in the basement with my partner (he wanted to be an other too) panting on the floor. Breathe. Breathe. We didnt fit in with the other others. But we w...

16-03-09 I had just moved to San Antonio, Texas. I had gotten a job working for the tour bus service that would take tourists on a short tour of the city's historic places and would end up at the Alamo. It was near closing time and I was driving back from my...

16-01-23 A 16m-high glass church in the shape of a high-heeled shoe has been built in Taiwan, apparently in a bid to attract more women. 台湾建了一座高16米的水晶高跟鞋教堂，以吸引女性游客。 A huge glass... what? Yes, you read that right: a glass church, shap...

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....

15-08-31 It was Palm Sunday and, because of a sore throat, five-year-old Johnny stayed home from church with a sitter. When the family returned home, they were carrying several palm brances. The boy asked what they were for. People held them over Jesus' head...