15-11-04 Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) Egan's Proustian meditation on time, fame and music won the National Book Critics Circle and Pulitzer awards. Who's the goon of the title? Time is the stealth goon, the one you ignore because you are...

15-09-14 Oh, I sure am happy to see you, the little boy said to his grandmother on his mother's side. Now maybe Daddy will do the trick he has been promising us. The grandmother was curious. What trick is that? she asked. I heard him tell Mommy that he would...

15-09-07 Winston had woken up with his eyes full of tears. Julia rolled sleepily against him, murmuring something that might have been 'What's the matter?' 'I dreamt -' he began, and stopped short. It was too complex to be put into words. There was the dream...

15-09-06 Scientists from the University of Cambridge have developed a mother robot that independently builds its own baby robots and then tests their performances to inform the future design. 剑桥大学的科学家发明了一台母体机器人，它可以独立打造自己的婴儿机器...

15-09-06 I was six years old, my sister, Sally Kay, was a submissive three-year-old girl. For some reasons, I thought we needed to earn some money. I decided we should hire out as maids. Wevisited the neighbors, offering to clean houses for them for a quater...

15-09-06 Can I see my baby? the happy new mother asked. When the bundle was nestled in her arms and she moved the fold of cloth to look upon his tiny face, she gasped. The doctor turned quickly and looked out the tall hospital window. The baby had been born...

15-08-12 The lark, according to an ancient legend, was created before the earth, she could find for her no place of burial. She left her mother lying for five days. On the sixth day, she had no way out and bury her mother in her own head. So she got her cres...

15-07-30 Momager is a mother who manages the career of one or more of her children; a manager who performs the duties of a mother. 妈咪经纪人指负责管理自己孩子事业的妈妈，或者履行一些妈妈职责的经纪人。 For example: Kris Jenner is owning her reputation as a m...

15-07-07 Mother asks her son, Jim, if you have ten candies, and you eat four, then how many candies do you have? Ten. Jim says. Then, Mother asks. Yes, Mum. Four candies are in my stomach and six candies are out of my stomach. Four and six is ten, isn't it r...

15-07-07 Mary was an English girl, but she lived in Rome. She was six years old. Last year her mother said to her, You're six years old now, Mary, and you're going to begin going to a school here. You're going to like it very much, because it's a nice school...