15-09-07 He did not know where he was. Presumably he was in the Ministry of Love, but there was no way of making certain. He was in a high-ceilinged windowless cell with walls of glittering white porcelain. Concealed lamps flooded it with cold light, and the...

15-08-20 A facepalm is the physical gesture of placing one's hand flat across one's face or lowering one's face into one's hand or hands. The facepalm is a gesture which is common in many cultures, and even sometimes seen in chimpanzees! Facepalm指的是用手捂...

15-08-18 In the Place des Vosges William Wenthe Hid below the rooflines' ridge, the sun had raised a sort of alpenglow along the brick facades across the square. Eyes down, reading, I was unaware, until the ring, forgotten on my hand, began to glow; with ros...

15-07-30 Surgeons at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) joined with colleagues from Penn Medicine recently to complete the world's first bilateral hand transplant on a child. Earlier this month, the surgical team successfully transplanted donor h...

15-06-23 Kangaroos prefer to use one of their hands over the other for everyday tasks in much the same way that humans do, with one notable difference: generally speaking, kangaroos are lefties. The finding, reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology...

15-06-09 Parable Sandra Beasley Worries come to a man and a woman. Small ones, light in the hand. The man decides to swallow his worries, hiding them deep within himself. The woman throws hers as far as she can from their porch. They touch each other, reliev...

15-05-17 Researchers are developing ways of generating emotions through the sense of touch, smell and taste that could lead to what the designers are calling 9D TV. 研究者们正致力于研究通过触感、嗅觉和味觉来产生情感的方法，也就是制造所谓的9D电视。 While curr...

15-02-08 A Swedish company has implanted microchips in its staff which allows them to use the photocopier, open security doors and even pay for their lunch. 瑞典一家公司将微型芯片植入员工体内。通过这些芯片，员工们可以使用打印机、打开安全门，甚至买午餐。 Arou...

14-12-08 Jem, I said, are those the Ewells sittin' down yonder? Hush, said Jem, Mr. Heck Tate's testifyin'. Mr. Tate had dressed for the occasion. He wore an ordinary business suit, whichmade him look somehow like every other man: gone were his high boots, l...

14-11-13 You can just take that back, boy! This order, given by me to Cecil Jacobs, was the beginning of a rather thin time forJem and me. My fists were clenched and I was ready to let fly. Atticus had promised mehe would wear me out if he ever heard of me f...