11-03-11 Toy boy has come along in the last 10 or 15 years. It's British slang, from the 1980s. It refers to an attractive young man being kept as a lover by another person, by an older person, thats the crucial thing: the older person is keeping the younger...

11-03-11 May-December romance refers to a romantic pairing where one person is significantly older than the other. The age difference is at least a decade, but often more. The phrase comes from the younger person being in the spring of his or her life (i.e.,...

11-03-08 I am a teacher! I am a teacher, first, last, always! The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) Jean Brodie (Maggie Smith) 我是一名教师！我是一名教师，这是我最初的选择，最终的归属，也是一生一世的责任。 《简布罗迪小姐的青春》玛姬史密斯扮演的简布罗迪 I will...

11-01-19 脑子这个词在中文里用处不少，我们可以说一个人have brains有脑子，也就是说这个人有想法；我们也可以说一个人have not a brain in ones head没脑子，那就是说这个人想法太简单、太单纯。还有一类人我们可以说他们死脑子或死脑筋，意思是说这类人思想不灵活，不肯接受...

11-01-05 Mother to daughter: What kind of person is your new boyfriend? Is he respectable（值得尊敬的） ? Of cause he is, Mom. He's thrifty（节约的，茂盛的） , doesn't drink or smoke, has a very nice wife and three well-behaved children....

11-01-04 The hair color of an unknown perpetrator（犯罪者） who has committed a crime will soon no longer be a secret for forensic（法院的） investigators. Erasmus MC scientists, in collaboration with their Polish colleagues, have discovered that DNA can be...

11-01-04 火星文、脑残体一直以来都是颇受争议的话题。也不知是哪个有才的孩子首先创造了这样神奇的文字组合法，害的成年人看了个个摇头，同龄人用了个个拍手。不过，据说好像英文里也有这样的语言呢，他们叫 leetspeak ，看来这文化是越来越互通了哦。 This term nao can ti, m...

10-11-17 假如你去眼镜店配眼镜，你买了一副特别高级的水晶石镜片，却配了一个塑料镜框。当你戴上这副眼镜的时候，估计没几个人能看出来它们真正的价值所在。这就是我们今天要说的这个最新表达 good lenses, bad frames ，好镜片，赖镜框，真人不露相。 Good lenses, bad frames...

10-11-17 如果要说到网络对生活的重大影响，我认为人们社交方式的改变一定要算在其中。网络似乎把很多不可能变为了可能，相隔千里的两个人可以通过网络相识，然后成为好朋友，甚至发展成为恋人。由此，曾经的blind date已经有点过时了，现在的人们都原意先视频一下，然后来个 ne...

10-11-08 A person with six children or a person with $6 million, who is better satisfied? Why? The person with six children of course. Because the one with $6 million wants more. 一个有六个孩子的人和一个有600万美元的人，谁更满足？为什么？ 当然是有六个孩子的...