21-05-16 拔牙 pulling teeth 的感觉不好受吧？在英语中，人们常用短语 like pulling teeth（像拔牙一样） 形容 某件事情很辛苦、很难做。 例句 Trying to get my students to speak in the lesson is like pulling teeth. 让我的学生们在课上发言简直太难了。 I keep phoning t...

15-05-27 What's so funny? 有什么好笑的。 Take you the whole day to come up with that? 这么长时间就想出了这个? Nonsense. Apparently somebody has to teach a lesson to these children! 不可能 看来我要给这群小孩好好上一课。 Your father meant for you to inherit hi...

15-01-14 Sunday after church, a Mom asked her very young daughter what the lesson was about. The daughter answered, Don't be scared, you'll get your quilt. Needless to say, the Mom was perplexed. Later in the day, the pastor stopped by for tea and the Mom as...

14-12-10 I should not take either the biggest or the most picturesque tree to illustrate it. Here is one of my favorites now before me, a fine yellow poplar, quite straight, perhaps 90 feet high, and four thick at the butt. How strong, vital, enduring! how d...

14-08-27 A well-know speaker started on his seminar（研讨会） by holding up a $20 bill in the room of 200. He asked,who would like this $20 bill. Hands started going up. He said, I'm going to give this $20 to one of you, but first, let me do this. He proceed...

12-12-02 英国剑桥的珀斯中学学生犯错后不会立即受到惩罚，而是得到十秒的自我开脱时间，如果能在十秒内用巧妙的言辞为自己犯错找到借口，便可免受惩罚。该校校长称，不会允许学生谎话连篇，但无伤大雅的善意谎言是可以接受的。 Telling a lie can get you on Santa's naughty l...

11-04-19 A Trip To China Come, little girl, I've got another dose for you. I fancy you won't take it as well as you did the last, but you will like it better after a while, said Dr. Alec, about a week after the grand surprise. Rose was sitting in her pretty...

10-07-13 Little League Coaching Pitchers When my only pitcher（投手，大水罐） went wild against the league's worst team, I knew we had a cushion, hell, ten runs at least. Time for a life-lesson. Like Zeus I towered over him on the mound and poured the positi...

09-09-30 Benjamin Franklin is remembered as an inventor, author, statesman, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. But all great people were kids once and got into mischief. In writing about his life, Franklin recalled a youthful event that he later...

09-09-15 A year after Lehman Brothers collapsed, a think-tank has warned the lessons of the crisis have not been learned. 雷曼兄弟银行倒闭一年之后，一个智囊团警告道，人们没有吸取此次危机的教训。 Lehman declared bankruptcy in the early hours of 15 September 2...