14-04-16 The City Mouse comes to visit his old friend, the Country Mouse, who lives in the country, They have't met for a long time, so they are very happy to see each other. The city Mouse gets off the city bus. Welcome, my old friend! I am so happy to see...

14-03-31 There are many ways to tour the Chinese capital. A better approach is to savor it like a stick of candied haws, one haw at a time and with long intervals to relish the flavor, rather than like a big apple that you bite off simply because it's good f...

13-11-06 The Italian government has announced it will begin to limit the number of large cruise ships that pass through Venice. 意大利政府宣布将开始限制通过威尼斯的大型游艇的数量。 Environmentalists have protested against the ships in recent years, saying th...

13-11-02 In an example of the challenges water-strapped Western cities will face in a warming world, new research shows that every degree Fahrenheit of warming in the Salt Lake City region could mean a 1.8 to 6.5 percent drop in the annual flow of streams th...

13-05-29 I went to three cities to play during last summer holidays. They are Beijing, Dalian and HuHehot. I went to Beijing more than eight times. Beijing is the capital of China. Its a big city. I am very familiar with Beijing. It takes an hour and forty m...

13-03-05 Ghana's President John Mahama has launched a project to build a $10bn IT hub near the capital, Accra, within three years. 加纳总统约翰马哈马宣布启动一项价值100亿美元的工程，该工程将于三年内在首都阿克拉附近建设一座IT中心。 An IT university will be bu...

13-03-04 Medellin, in Colombia, has been named the world's most innovative city. 哥伦比亚城市麦德林被誉为世界上最具创新的城市。 Medellin, once known for being the stronghold of the Medellin drugs cartel, beat Tel Aviv and New York. The institute said Medelli...

13-01-28 Even if you live more than 1,000 miles from the nearest large city, it could be affecting your weather. In a new study that shows the extent to which human activities are influencing the atmosphere, scientists have concluded that the heat generated...

13-01-18 Once there were two mice. They were friends. One mouse lived in the country; the other mouse lived in the city. After many years the Country mouse saw the City mouse; he said, Do come and see me at my house in the country. So the City mouse went. Th...

13-01-15 Many details and trifles（琐事） in life appear to be neglected by us in a bustling urban life. Some people attribute it to the fickle（浮躁的） ambience over the whole city. Some think that our passion has been ironed out by invariably tedious（沉...