13-02-21 精彩对白 Twenty-four-year-old Miss Margaret Roberts lost her bid to win a seat in Parliament today, but she has put new life into the Dartford Conservative Association. Winning candidate Mr Dodds had better watch out, this bright young woman is on h...

13-01-23 Good evening, everybody! said the teacher, Donna. Where is everybody? That was sort of a daily joke by Donna. Usually the class started with only two or three students present, and then filled up as the minutes went by. It was summertime. Summer sch...

13-01-23 A basketball game ended abruptly Saturday afternoon when 18-year-old Damon Miller was fatally shot at a recreation center. The gunman, who called himself Ace, ran south on Oak Street after the shooting and remains at large（未被捕的） . Miller was p...

13-01-23 Two mayors made a bet on the outcome of the Vegetable Bowl, the annual football game between their high school teams. If Arvada's team lost, the mayor of Arvada would send the mayor of Boulder ten pounds of sliced potatoes, ready for frying. If Boul...

12-12-29 Before they closed my father's casket（棺材，骨灰盒） , I left him with a gift. After all he had given me, it was the least and best I could do. He passed away the day I got my 1,000th career hit, in the final game of the 2002 season, so at his side...

12-12-11 Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure（诱惑） of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so...

12-11-14 Game-playing may help intelligence analysts with the serious business of identifying biases that can cloud decision-making and problem-solving during life or death situations, according to researchers. Analytic exercises conducted by researchers at...

12-10-25 Scientists report that they can predict who will improve most on an unfamiliar video game by looking at their brain waves. They describe their findings in a paper in the journal Psychophysiology. The researchers used electroencephalography (EEG) to...

12-08-25 美国新泽西州大西洋城的一家赌场日前对14位赌客提起诉讼，称赌客玩百家乐时用的八副牌未经洗牌，由此，其赢得的150多万美元应为非法所得。 A US casino is suing 14 gamblers after eight card decks had not been shuffled properly, resulting in winnings of more t...

12-08-03 Great Britain men's handball team put in a strong first-half performance against Argentina, but still suffered their third Olympic defeat in a row. 英国男子手球队在与阿根廷队上半场比赛中表现强劲，但仍遭遇了奥运三连败。 The Brits competed valiantly i...