19-02-22 Emojis are usually reserved for text messages or chatting online, but now some drivers will be able to add them onto their car number plates. 表情符号通常出现在短信息或网上聊天内容中，不过如今，一部分司机还可以把表情符号用在车牌上。 In an unpreceden...

16-02-12 Bill Gates has revealed how he used to keep tabs on his employees by memorising all of their number plates to see when they were arriving and leaving the office. 比尔盖茨近日自曝曾把所有员工的车牌号都熟记下来，以此来监视员工的上下班时间。 The Micros...

15-05-20 Believe it or not, there was a time when restaurants served food on plates. Not a wooden board or a slate, but on a simple piece of crockery. 不论你相信与否，世界曾经有过碟子做餐具的时代，而不是木板、石板或简陋的陶器。 The plate was usually white an...

14-12-30 The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen has announced a car purchasing restriction requiring buyers to get new car plates by lottery or auction. 中国南方城市深圳发布汽车限购令，买家需通过摇号或者拍卖才能获得汽车牌照。 The announcement does come as a b...

13-03-21 Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have found a layer of liquefied molten rock in Earth's mantle that may be acting as a lubricant（润滑剂） for the sliding motions of the planet's massive tectonic plates. The discover...

10-06-12 为了鼓励顾客合理点餐、减少浪费，澳大利亚一家名为Wafu的日本餐馆推出了一项新店规：顾客用餐完毕后如果有食物剩余，将被罚款，并拒绝该顾客再次光顾。如果顾客能够将所点食物全部吃完，将能享受全单七折的优惠。 An Australian restaurateur（餐馆老板） fed up with...

10-03-24 A new model of the Earth, 20 years in the making, describes a dynamic（动力的，动态的） three-dimensional puzzle of planetary proportions. Created by University of Wisconsin-Madison geophysicist Chuck DeMets and longtime collaborators（合作者，投资...

10-03-23 The sizes of the portions and plates in more than four dozen depictions（描写，叙述） of the Last Supper painted over the past 1,000 years have gradually grown bigger and bigger, according to a Cornell University study published in The International...