• 英语中十二个月名称的来历

    16-01-28 January January is named after the Roman god Janus, who presided over doors and beginnings - appropriately enough, for the beginning of the year (though this is, as you will discover, not as straightforward as it seems). Indeed, Janus was usually de...

  • 英国取复名的新生儿开始增多

    15-08-28 The double-barrelled first name has long been a hit in America; since names such as Mary-Lou and Betsy-Ann first became popular in the Fifties. 取复名在美国一直很风靡,在五十年代,像玛丽-卢和贝特西-安这样的名字就开始流行了。 While the trend for addi...

  • 伦敦女子为解封脸书账户改名字

    15-07-20 A woman has told how she has been forced to change her name by deed poll to match her ridiculous Facebook pseudonym after being locked out of her account. 一名女子讲述了为解封脸书账户,她不得不通过单务契约将自己的真实姓名改成当年注册的雷人用户名的遭...

  • Justine 淑女的眼泪 Chapter 62

    15-07-20 The honest Monsieur de Corville had not heard this tale without profound emotion; as for Madame de Lorsange in whom, as we have said, the monstrous errors of her youth had not by any means extinguished sensibility, as for Madame de Lorsange, she was...

  • 似乎最有可能欺骗感情的名字

    15-05-30 A warning for you if your partner is a Megan or a Nathan - apparently they're the most likely to cheat. 如果你的伴侣叫梅根或者南森,我不得不警告你了似乎他们是最有可能欺骗感情的人。 That's according to an online company which matches married people w...

  • 找到爱情的关键似乎只在于名字

    15-03-08 Forget your chat-up lines and ditch the expensive aftershave, because scientists say the secret to dating is far simpler. The key to finding love is all in a name, it seems. 忘掉你的搭讪台词,放下那些昂贵的须后润肤露吧,科学家表示,约会的秘密比这简...

  • 瑞士公司收费2.1万镑为孩子起名字

    15-02-12 These days it seems that giving your baby some ridiculously weird name has become the norm. 现在,似乎给孩子起个稀奇古怪的名字是司空见惯了。 Names like John, James and Emma are out, and monikers inspired by celebrities and their offspring are in. Ac...

  • The Naming of Things

    14-12-09 Bubba's sister is pregnant and is in a bad car accident, which caused her to fall into a deep coma. After nearly six months, she awakens and sees that she is no longer pregnant. Frantically, she asks the doctor about her baby. The doctor replies, Ma...

  • Law, Schmaw!

    14-11-19 Two small boys, not yet old enough to be in school, were overheard talking at the zoo one day. My name is Billy. What's yours? asked the first boy. Tommy, replied the second. My Daddy's an accountant. What does your Daddy do for a living? asked Bill...

  • The important things life teaches you

    14-11-12 During my second month of nursing school, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a careful student and had breezedthrough the questions until I read the last one: What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school? Surely this was some kind...