15-11-24 Jack Ma, founder of Chinese Internet giant Alibaba, is in talks to buy a stake in the South China Morning Post (SCMP) newspaper, people familiar with the matter have told a major Chinese news site. 相关人士透露，阿里巴巴创始人马云正在与《南华早报》...

14-07-18 A boy was wondering about a photograph in a newspaper. It showed a group of happy and cheering children carrying schoolbags with the caption at the bottom: On Their Way To School''. It must be mistaken, I bet. They must be on their way home after sc...

14-07-09 Things were really getting worse after the war. Life became so difficult that a lot of people lived in want（在贫困中）. A newspaper had published an advertisement for a man in want of tires: Owner of a truck would like to correspond with a widow wh...

14-07-02 Mr. Smith lived in the country, but he worked in an office in the big city, so five days a week he went to work by train every morning and came home the same way. One morning he was reading his newspaper on the train when a man sitting behind him, w...

14-06-17 Wife talking to her husband, who reads newspaper all day: I wish I were a newspaper so I'll be in your hands all day. Husband: I wish that too, so I could change you daily. 妻子对每天都读报纸的丈夫说，我希望我是一份报纸，这样我整天都能在你手中。 丈...

14-06-12 We all know that the Internet has killed the traditional newspaper trade, right? After all, until the general population started interacting with the web in the mid-90s, the newspaper business was thriving -- offering readers top notch（大腕，拔尖的...

14-05-15 In a surprise move, the New York Times newspaper has announced that it has replaced executive editor Jill Abramson with immediate effect. 《纽约时报》出人意料地宣布，立即撤掉执行编辑吉尔阿布拉姆松的职务。 Dean Baquet, 57, the paper's managing editor...

14-05-08 An op-ed , abbreviated from opposite the editorial page, is a newspaper article that expresses the opinions of a named writer who is usually unaffiliated with the newspaper's editorial board. These are different from editorials (which are usually un...

14-04-08 Our university newspaper runs a weekly question feature. Recently, the question was: Whose autograph would you most want to have, and why? As expected, most responses mentioned music or sports stars, or politicians. The best response came from a fre...

14-04-08 The phone rang in the obituary（讣告） department of the local newspaper. How much does it cost to have an obituary printed? asked the woman. It's five dollars a word, ma'am, the clerk replied politely. Fine, said the woman after a moment. Got a pen...