12-10-26 Mr. Smith: Waiter, there's a dead fly in my soup. Waiter: Yes, sir, I know---it's the heat that kills it. 史密斯先生：服务员，我的汤里有一只死苍蝇。 服务员：是的，先生，我知道了，它是被烫死的。...

12-10-17 The humble fruit fly may have something to teach us about forgoing（放弃，停止） empty calories for more nutritional ones -- especially when we're hungry. While the flies initially prefer food with a sweet flavour, they quickly learn to opt for less...

12-10-15 When ancestral humans walked out of Africa tens of thousands of years ago, Drosophila melanogaster（果蝇） fruit flies came along with them. Now the fruit flies, widely used for genetics research, are returning to Africa and establishing new populat...

12-09-13 花谢花飞飞满天，红消香断有谁怜? 游丝软系飘春榭，落絮轻沾扑绣帘。 闺中女儿惜春暮，愁绪满怀无释处。 手把花锄出绣闱，忍踏落花来复去。 As blossoms fade and fly across the sky, Who pities the faded red, the scent that has been? Softly the gossamer floats...

12-08-03 While my friends attended their universities in great delight, I restarted my senior high school life. My spirit sank at the prospect of starting all over again. Surrounded by strange classmates, I felt like I was in a maze（迷宫） and was sorry for...

12-08-03 One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing. As the strong winds gusted against the kites, a...

12-07-25 Beginning with Yu the great, the Xia Dynasty had lasted about four hundred years before Jie became the supreme ruler. And that was in the 18th century BC. Jie was extremely tyrannical（残暴的） and dissolute（放荡的） . This aroused great resentment...

12-06-26 At an exhibition of the world's best swordsman, the third-place fencer（击剑者） took the stage. A fly was released, and with an arc of his sword he cut the fly in half. The crowd cheered. Then the second-place man sliced a fly into quarters. A hush...

12-01-18 Insects, equipped with complex compound eyes, can maintain a constant heading in their travels, some of them for thousands of miles. New research demonstrates that fruit flies keep their bearings by using the polarization（极化，偏振） pattern of na...

12-01-16 A previously un-named species of horse fly whose appearance is dominated by its glamorous（迷人的） golden lower abdomen has been named in honour of American pop diva（歌剧中的首席女主角） , Beyonc. According to the Australian National Insect Collec...