22-12-21 The Ascot mansion perched atop a hill at the end of a long driveway. But as the hansom cab carried the Kingsleighs up the drive, Alices eyes were drawn instead to the rambling woods lining the road. Leaning forward in excitement, she recognized the...

15-03-02 A little boy got on the bus, sat next to a man reading a book, and noticed he had his collar on backwards. The little boy asked why he wore his collar that way. The man, who was a priest, said, I am a Father. The little boy replied, My daddy doesn't...

14-11-13 Dill left us early in September, to return to Meridian. We saw him off on the five o'clockbus and I was miserable without him until it occurred to me that I would be starting toschool in a week. I never looked forward more to anything in my life. Ho...

14-11-11 The term orange-collar refers to the theme color of China's largest online shopping website, Taobao.com, and has been generalized to include people who make a living by doing jobs related to e-commerce. 橙领的橙，取自淘宝橙色系，橙领指通过淘宝联盟赚...

14-03-31 President Xi Jinping appeared at Saturday's state banquet hosted by the Dutch royal family in a formal traditional Chinese suit, which experts say displayed the leader's national pride and confidence in Chinese culture. 3月22日，在荷兰王室举行的国宴...

14-01-22 No Collar refers to the new, exponentially emerging class rising up in America consisting of often over-qualified but unemployed persons. 无领人士指的是美国新兴且迅速壮大的一个阶层，通常是资历过高但却没有工作的人。 Example: A: Hey dude, don't you wo...

12-07-13 Fuel collar refers to those either in the travel industry or who very regularly travel as a part of their job, i.e. door to door salesmen, field salesmen, airline pilots, etc. They spend the bulk of their time traveling, consuming quite amount of fu...

11-09-07 An open-collar worker refers to a person who does jobs at home that once required an office setting. Open-collar worker（字面意思为开领工人）指把家当办公室，在家里上班的人，即自由职业者。 Home-based entrepreneurship is attracting growing numbers of...