• The First Well

    13-07-11 There once was a small kingdom around a lake. One very hot summer it did not rain and the lake dried up. People grew anxious and went to the king. It has not rained for so long. Our fields are barren(贫瘠的) ! said the farmers. There's no fish to...

  • 英语谚语的译法

    13-05-08 学好谚语,对于英语的提高非常有帮助,一些谚语如果能够做到信手拈来,会让你的文采增色不少。比较谚语的中文和英文,也会让你体会到不同文化之间很多道理都是相同的。有的智慧是如此的相似,简直如出一辙。不得不感慨人类之伟大。 Rome was not built in a day. 罗马...

  • 纸上谈兵

    11-12-14 In the Warring States Period, the State of Zhao had a famous general called Zhao She, whose son, Zhao Kuo, was very fond of reading books on military science and discussing strategy. He could recite military texts by heart, and when discussing warfa...

  • 三英战吕布

    11-11-07 Toward the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty(25-220), state power fell into Dong Zhuo's hand, a very cruel and manipulating person. Yuan Shao, the leader of an opposition force, led a punitive(惩罚性的) expedition to Luoyang, the capital. Dong Zhuo s...

  • 黄忠请战

    11-07-06 This is a story from Three Kingdoms. Huang Zhong, a veteran in the army of Shu, was one of its top five generals. Zhang He under Cao Cao had suffered one defeat after another. Cao Hong gave him a 5,000-strong army to attack Jiameng Pass. When Liu Be...

  • 金正银可能成为下一任朝鲜领导

    10-10-09 A top North Korean official has made the first public comments that leader Kim Jong-il is likely to be succeeded by his youngest son, Kim Jong-un. 一位朝鲜高级官员做出首次公开评论,称领导人金正日的职位非常有可能由他最小的儿子金正银继承。 Kim Jong-un...

  • 金正日之子被任命为将军

    10-09-28 North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's son, Kim Jong-un, has been appointed a general, the country's state media say. 朝鲜官方媒体称,领导人金正日之子金正云被任命为将军。 Kim Jong-il has nurtured a personality cult They also say Kim Jong-il has been reap...

  • 形形色色的“秘书”

    10-07-22 说起办公室里secretary,可能我们首先反应出的意思都是秘书,不过secretary可不仅仅有这一层意思,例如遇到下面这个句子要注意了: I chose the tall secretary where mother sat so often writing letters by a sunny window. 译这句话时要格外小心,否则就会把tall s...

  • The General and the Little Boy

    10-02-24 As a crowded airliner is about to take off, the peace is shattered(打碎,削弱) by a 5-year-old boy who picks that moment to throw a wild temper(脾气,性情) tantrum(发脾气,发怒) . No matter what his frustrated, embarrassed mother does to try t...

  • The Same Duties 相同的职责

    09-11-07 The Same Duties A retired four-star general ran into his former orderly, also retired, in a Manhattan bar and spent the rest of the evening persuading him to come work for him as his valet. Your duties will be exactly the same as they were in the ar...