10-07-17 Vuvuzela has been voted the word of the World Cup by global linguists who said Monday the tournament will be best remembered for the name of South Africa's deafening trumpet. 南非世界杯上球迷吹奏的喇叭呜呜祖拉于本周一获评本届世界杯的主题词,语言学家...
10-07-17 In a bid to plug dwindling domestic consumption by tapping into overseas markets, some of Japan's big-name retailers are telling their employees to start speaking English -- or find another job. 为开拓海外市场,弥补日益减少的国内消费,日本一些知名零...
10-05-15 想要到中国旅游,经济又不太宽裕的老外们注意了:中国部分家庭从上月起开始提供英语课程换免费住宿服务,只要每天能够保证至少两小时的英语交流时间,来中国旅游的老外便可以在提供该服务的中国家庭免费住宿。 Travelers can choose to exchange their language for fr...
10-04-29 One of the earliest known writing systems came from India, probably around 2500 BC. Unfortunately, we can't read the Harappan(哈拉帕的) writing yet. But we know people were using this writing to mark their property, so other people couldnt steal i...
09-12-11 It is love that makes the world go round. And it is also love that has such power to overcome all difficulties. So we say: Love will find a way. As smile is a facial expression showing pleasure, affection喜爱,感情 , and friendliness, it is the comm...
09-11-28 Concerns over the environment and terrorism have not only affected how people lived in the past decade but also their language, with global warming and 9/11 topping a list of the most used words of the 2000s. 过去十年,对于环境问题和恐怖主义的担忧不...
09-11-12 If humans are genetically related to chimps(黑猩猩), why did our brains develop the innate(天生的,固有的) ability for language and speech while theirs did not? Scientists suspect that part of the answer to the mystery lies in a gene called FOXP...
09-11-09 From their very first days, newborns' cries already bear the mark of the language their parents speak, reveals a new study published online on November 5th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. The findings suggest that infants begin picking...
09-09-30 A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the composer is utterly depend...
09-09-02 Thousands of ethnic Hungarians have demonstrated in Slovakia, to protest against a new law that limits the use of minority languages there. 数千匈牙利族人在斯洛伐克举行示威,抗议限制少数民族语言的一项新法律。 The law against minority languages in Sl...