15-07-20 With the deep, unconscious sigh which not even the nearness of the telescreen could prevent him from uttering when his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. Then...

15-07-17 Three in five people have a secret that they dread others finding out, a survey has revealed. 调查显示，每五个人中就有三个人深藏一个害怕被别人发现的秘密。 And researchers found the average person has at least one secret that they have been carrying...

15-07-09 1. That whole fingertip length rule in grade school was your worst nightmare. 2. Pants are never long enough, so you have to shop at specialty stores. 3. You were the tallest person in your grade until at least sophomore year of high school. 4. Pare...

15-07-01 Each of us has, in our nose, about six million smell receptors of around four hundred different types. The distribution of these receptors varies from person to person - so much so that each person's sense of smell may be unique. In research recentl...

15-06-23 Neandertals became extinct about 40,000 years ago but contributed on average one to three percent to the genomes of present-day Eurasians. Researchers have now analyzed DNA from a 37,000 to 42,000-year-old human mandible from Oase Cave in Romania an...

15-06-23 Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings. They did it by killing all those who opposed them. If you can stay calm while all around you there's chaos, then you probably haven't completely understood the seriousness of the situation. Doin...

15-06-16 Routines are the unwritten alogrithms, followed by each one of us, everyday in life. Routines is a chain of events, which never changes their order, once it is prioritized. Following the routines is a schedule of events. For a student it would be wr...

15-06-15 Then the baroness drew me aside. Therese, says she, am I in error? are you not the person I saved from the Conciergerie ten years ago? have you entirely forgotten your Dubois ? Little flattered by this discovery, I however replied to it with politen...

15-05-28 I love and am used to keeping a distance with those changed things. Only in this way can I know what will not be abandoned by time. For example, when you love someone, changes are all around. Then I step backward and watching it silently, then I see...

15-05-25 The world's oldest-known person, Jeralean Talley, has turned 116. 世界已知最长寿的人，杰瑞兰塔利，已年满116岁。 Talley was born on May 23, 1899, in Georgia, USA. She moved to Michigan in 1935 with her husband, who died in 1988. According to the Gero...