18-05-14 Chinas long-standing policy of giving children discounts based on their height has once again triggered controversy, with many parents calling for an age-based approach, reports Chinanews.com. 中新网报道，中国长久以来根据孩子身高给予票价优惠的政策再...

16-06-02 Shapes 身材 Curvaceous 有曲线的（用于女性） Chiseled 轮廓分明的（用于男性） Rotund 浑圆的 Plump 圆胖的 Well-built 健美的 Hair 头发 Straight 直（发） Curly 卷（发） Cropped 短（发） Black 黑色 Auburn 红褐色 Blonde 金（发） Brunette 深褐色 Height 身高...

13-09-02 The average height of men has risen by almost 11cm since the mid-19th century, experts have found. 专家发现，从19世纪中期至今，男性平均身高增加了近11厘米。 Data was collected on hundreds of thousands of men from 15 European countries. For British me...

13-07-26 The taller a postmenopausal woman is, the greater her risk for developing cancer, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Height was linked to cancers o...

12-12-04 Short people should pray for a return to the Seventies fashion of stack heels, for the power of jealousy depends on how tall you are, the British weekly New Scientist says. Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and University...

12-07-13 Architects have designed an incredible 65-storey ' earth-scraper ' which plunges 300 metres below ground. The stunning upside down pyramid in the middle of Mexico City is designed to get around height limits on new buildings in the capital. 墨西哥建...

11-11-26 美国IBM全球商业服务部门一位产品专家表示，女性鞋跟高低的流行趋势可以反应经济的走势，鞋跟越高就表示经济不景气。 What do shoes say about the economy? Perhaps a lot. In the 1920s, low-heeled flapper（苍蝇拍，轻佻女子） shoes gave way to high-heel pumps...

11-02-11 In the 1980s, one young lady issued a public pronouncement dismissing（解散） all men under the height of 1.70 meters as handicapped. It was met with an avalanche（雪崩） of responses from virtually all unmarried women in the nation. After making pe...

11-01-03 A large collaborative（合作的，协作的） study has added to the growing list of genetic variants that determine how tall a person will be. The research, published by Cell Press on December 30 in the American Journal of Human Genetics, identifies unco...

10-02-24 The ability of the Kangaroo The zoo built a special eight-foot-high enclosure for its newly acquired kangaroo, but the next morning the animal was found hopping around outside. The height of the fence was increased to 15 feet, but the kangaroo got o...