17-04-27 Good morning, everyone. Thank you for coming out today. Yesterday, as you all know, was the launch of our 2017 budget, and Id like to say a few words about that before I take your questions. Weve delivered a budget that takes a realistic look at the...

17-04-25 The countrys new middle class consists mainly of the post-80s generation, according to a survey conducted by zhaopin.com, a job recruitment website. 智联招聘的一项调查显示，中国的新兴中产阶级主要是80后一代。 The study classifies those earning betwee...

16-06-08 Hi everybody. Last summer, I got a letter from a woman named Elizabeth Paredes from Tucson, Arizona. Elizabeth is the mom of a 3-year-old boy, and an assistant manager at a sandwich shop. She earns about 2,000 a month, and she routinely works some 5...

16-02-17 One afternoon while I was talking to a professor, my two-year-old daughter Melissa, wandered into a nearby classroom. There was a math class in progress and, to my dismay, Melissa sat down in the front row. When I went in to get her, the instructor...

16-02-15 Near and Distant Neighbours: A New History of Soviet Intelligence Jonathan Haslam A detailed appraisal of how the Soviet Union handled undercover operations from the communist revolution in 1917 until the end of the cold war. The most gripping chapt...

16-02-04 三等九级 three classes and nine ranks 大贵族、大活佛和高级官员 nobles, Living Buddhas and senior officials 上等人命价为与尸体等重的黄金 The value of the life of a person of the upper class was measured in gold according to his weight. 下等人命价仅值...

15-07-07 A teacher asked her class: Is the sentence 'The ox and the cow are in the fields' correct? Most of the children said: Yes, it is all right! And only one little boy said: No, it is not correct. The lady must be mentioned first. 一位老师问班上的学生：...

15-06-05 11-year-old child prodigy Tanishq Abraham is in the news for graduating from college with not one, not two, but three different degrees. The talented kid from California made headlines last year as well, for completing high school at the age of ten...

15-05-06 Texas AM Galveston professor Irwin Horwitz would like to fail his entire class -- close to three dozen students in total -- but the school is blocking him from doing so. 德克萨斯州农工大学加尔维斯顿分校的欧文霍维茨教授想让整个班（约36名学生）不及格...

15-03-30 The dean of Engineering had once walked into a class, and said Good Morning. The whole class chorused Good Morning. Hi, you are freshmen, aren't you? he asked. One student bolder than the others asked him how he knew. Well, he said. When I say 'Good...