• The Nitty Gritty Dictionary

    15-05-21 ADULT: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle. BEAUTY PARLOR: A place where women curl up and dye. CANNIBAL: Someone who is fed up with people. CHICKENS: The only animals you eat before they are born and after...

  • conversation wall 谈话墙

    15-05-11 When you're trying to make a conversation with a girl/guy you met recently, either A) online B) via text message or C) in person, and she/he responds to any of your questions with blank stares, one letter text messages using the words: oh, cool, or...

  • True Love

    15-04-29 An ancient Hebraic text says: love is as strong as death. It seems that not everyone experiences this kind of strong love. The increasing probably, crime and war tells us that the world is in indispensable need of true love. But what is true love? L...

  • The Four Freedoms

    15-04-29 In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in h...

  • closet psycho 不易察觉的神经质

    15-04-24 When you first start to date someone and they seem normal but as time goes on their craziness comes out. 当你最开始和某人约会时,他/她们看上去很正常,但随着时间的推移,他们疯狂的一面开始显露出来。 Adam: I thought Susan was a cool person until I move...

  • 3-minute passion 三分钟热度

    15-04-13 3-minute passion is a Chinese saying which refers to a person having a limited passion or a passion that doesn't last long toward something/someone that he/she liked/loved/had passion about. 三分钟热度是个中国俗语,指的是一个人对他喜欢、或者有热情的...

  • 鹬蚌相争,渔翁得利

    15-04-09 鹬蚌相争,渔翁得利 这个成语我们可以翻译成:a quarrel which benefits only a third party 或者借用英语中一句相应的俗语:When shepherds quarrel, the wolf has a winning game。这句俗语翻译成中文,也有螳螂捕蝉,黄雀在后的意思。借用英语中的固定表达法来翻译...

  • 世界年龄最大者大川美佐绪离世

    15-04-01 Misao Okawa, a Japanese woman who had been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living person, died at the age of 117 on Wednesday morning at a nursing home in Osaka, local media reported. 大川美佐绪吉尼斯世界记录认可的世界上年...

  • Justine 淑女的眼泪 Chapter 14

    15-03-03 Oh! Monsieur, I responded, weeping, you would deprive an unfortunate of her fondest hope were you to wither in her heart this religion which is her whole comfort. Firmly attached to its teachings, absolutely convinced that all the blows leveled agai...

  • 法律英语:Insurance 保险

    15-01-15 Insurance companies insured ships and their cargoes against loss at sea. 保险公司为船舶和船货承保了海损险。 Mr. Rodman is the most heavily insured man in the world, carying $4,000,000 insurance on his life. 罗得曼先生是世界上投保最多的人,为自己投了...