• Something I didn't do 我没做的事

    14-08-21 Mother: What are you crying for? Tommy: Teacher kept me in for something I didn't do. Mother: Something you didn't do? What was it? Tommy: M-m-my lessons. 妈妈:你哭什么? 汤米:老师为了一件我没做的事把我留下了。 妈妈:一件你没做的事?什么事? 汤米...

  • She Ate All My Bait 她把所有的诱饵都吃了

    14-08-21 The young boy protested vigorously when his mother asked him to take his little sister along fishing. The last time she came, he objected, I didn't catch a single fish. I'll talk to her, his mother said, and I promise this time she won't make any no...

  • The First Old Man and the Hind

    14-08-07 I am now going to begin my story (said the old man), so please attend. This hind that you see with me is my wife. We have no children of our own, therefore I adopted the son of a favorite slave, and determined to make him my heir. My wife, however,...

  • 婴儿通过气味感受母亲的恐惧

    14-07-30 Babies can learn what to fear in the first days of life just by smelling the odor(气味) of their distressed mothers, new research suggests. And not just natural fears: If a mother experienced something before pregnancy that made her fear something...

  • Thinking Back 回忆

    14-07-29 We were gathered together, all ten of us, for our widowed mother's 80th birthday. The conversation was of early struggles, walking to work and saving up in clothing clubs, when my elder sister said, Of course, we were bound to be poor because we wer...

  • A portrait of God 上帝的画像

    14-07-21 A little boy was drawing a sketch with pencil and paper. When his mother asked what he was doing, he answered immediately and with considerable pride: I am drawing a portrait of God. Being surprised and afraid, his mother said: You cannot do that. N...

  • 英艺术家在准妈妈肚皮上作画

    14-07-20 英国《每日邮报》报道,艺术家凯莉普雷斯顿在准妈妈的肚皮上作画,以创造出属于妈妈们独特的孕期记忆,经她作画的孕妇已经有130多个。她设计的肚皮画既有鸟、动物,也有电影场景。画的内容多反映了准妈妈们最爱的书籍或是电影。 Who needs maternity clothes when your...

  • 巴西两岁女童竟因内马尔受伤流泪

    14-07-08 The people of Brazil are coming to terms with the back injury that will prevent Neymar from competing in the remainder of the 2014 World Cup, but no one is more upset than little Ana Bella Weiss. 7月5日内马尔背部受伤,无法参加世界杯余下赛事,巴西民...

  • A garbage collector 垃圾收集工

    14-07-02 John was ten years old, and he was a very lazy boy. He had to go to school of course, but he was bored there and tried to do as little work as possible. His father and mother were both doctors and they hoped that he would become one, too, when he gr...

  • Taken for Granted 理所当然

    14-06-17 THE SCHOOL HEALTH FORMS had been distributed to the students with an error -- the word Sex had been spelled with an o. One mother, filling out the form for her son, wrote in the blank next to Sox: Usually brown. 某学校发给学生的健康调查表里有个错别...