22-02-18 1. come to senses: to begin to think in a sensible or correct way after being foolish or wrong. 在犯错之后想清楚，变理智 对比： figure out: to come to understand someone or something.（想出，解决，计算出，弄明白） 例句： Eventually the world will co...

21-11-17 fly off the handle难道是放飞自我？意思有点接近，但这个放飞自我可不是主动追求自由，而是被情绪牵着飞，也就是被情绪所支配。 fly off the handle就是指大发脾气；勃然大怒。 Ive never seen her fly off the handle like that before. 我以前从没见过她发这么大脾...

21-02-24 Instantly a sense of elation, tingling as an electric shock, surged over Stratton, and his grip on the Colt tightened. At last he was face to face with something definite and concrete, and in a moment all the little doubts and nagging nervous qualms...

16-02-15 Honeydew by Edith Pearlman Pearlman writes quiet stories about the blips of tumult . She's been writing short stories -- and only short stories -- for decades, chronicling the lives of earnest blue collar workers and whimsical academics. Most of the...

13-08-19 In a certain mill lived an old miller who had neither wife nor child, and three apprentices served under him. As they had been with him several years, he one day said to them, I am old, and want to sit in the chimney-corner, go out, and whichsoever...

13-04-16 We all, at one time or another, have pretended to be a rock star, singing and dancing along to our favorite song. Most of us have done this in the privacy of our own room when we were kids and as adults, in the privacy of our homes. Me? I love to do...

11-06-17 1. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. 这是苹果公司创始人、IT业最有影响力的人物之一Steve Jobs在斯坦福大学毕业典礼上致辞中的最后一句话，也是整个演讲的核心。他把对年轻人的期望全部包含到了这两个简单的句子中，鼓励学生们追求自己想要的生活。 直译：保持饥饿，保持愚...

11-01-05 One day a ten-year-old child asked his mother, Mom, what is a synonym（同义词） ? What? You even don't know what a synonym is? How foolish you are. When I describe you as foolish, I mean you're silly, stupid. Now you know what a synonym is ? Yes, a...