14-11-14 The loss of eyesight, often caused by retinal degeneration, is a life-altering health issue for many people, especially as they age. But a new development toward a prosthetic retina could help counter conditions that result from problems with this c...

14-10-27 bank of mum and dad - a person's parents regarded as a source of financial assistance or support 父母银行：被孩子视作财政支持的父母 bro hug - another term for 'man hug' and is used to describe two males embracing 哥们儿拥抱：也可以说是man hug，就是...

14-07-18 Shark's Tooth Joshua Mehigan At twilight on the beach I found a shark's tooth. After three days of looking, and then not, I stepped onto the sand, and there it was. It happened as I twisted loose a shoe, impatient to shake off the week's bad luck, a...

14-07-09 One day a kind man met a panicky little boy in his neighbor-hood when he was going home from his office. He noticed that the boy seemed to have fought with other boys. He kindly said: Why do you have a black eye, little man? I am sorry to see that?...

14-06-30 There be none of the affections, which have been noted to fascinate or bewitch（施魔法，蛊惑） , but love and envy. They both have vehement（激烈的） wishes; they frame themselves readily into imaginations and suggestions; and they come easily into...

14-06-17 Your eye could someday house its own high-tech information center, tracking important changes and letting you know when it's time to see an eye doctor. University of Washington engineers have designed a low-power sensor that could be placed permanen...

14-02-26 Robins in Love William Logan Branched like an artery, the dying oak leafs out with February robins. This is their layover（中途停留） month, down to the Keys and back. True snowbirds! A man with a .45 and a measured eye could pick them off one by on...

14-01-22 Eye broccoli refers to an unattractive person. This is the physical antithesis of eye candy, a phrase that first starting appearing in print in the mid-1980s and refers to visually appealing persons or effects used to draw mass attention. (Source: W...

13-12-26 Double Floor Kay Ryan The dual pupiled frog eye can scan for food and trouble above and below the water at once. Many forms of doubleness serve local purposes lulling（使平静） us to the essential focal baffling inherent in experience how the splits...

13-12-23 A new optical device puts the power to detect eye disease in the palm of a hand. The tool -- about the size of a hand-held video camera -- scans a patient's entire retina（视网膜） in seconds and could aid primary care physicians in the early detect...