16-02-16 Thirst Nikia Leopold The marigold has grown So dense with leaves and pungent blossoms, rain glances from it, missing the glazed pot. Even in this downpour, roots know drought, flowers wilt, the way we extend ourselves, obscuring our deepest needs, s...

16-01-28 Convinced your common sense is pretty sound? You might want to put it to the test with a new quiz. 你对常识了解的够多吗？可以通过下面这个测验测一测。 Quiz master Tom Dunbar, from Plymouth, has devised a seven question test with trick answers that's...

15-12-09 BUT first I was to prepare more land, for I had now seed enough to sow above an acre of ground. Before I did this, I had a week's work at least to make me a spade, which, when it was done, was but a sorry one indeed, and very heavy, and required dou...

15-11-13 Botany Sarah Holland-Batt After the rain, we went out in pairs to hunt the caps that budded at night: wet handfuls of waxtips and widows, lawyer's wigs, a double-ringed yellow. We shook them out onto gridded sheets, the girls more careful than the b...

15-09-29 Typhoon Dujuan, the 21st typhoon of this year, made landfall in east China's Fujian Province on Tuesday morning. 2015年第21号台风杜鹃周二上午在中国东部省区福建省登陆。 The storm hit the coastal city of Putian at around 8:50 a.m., packing winds of up...

15-09-17 Scientists from two laboratories plan to conduct tests of unusual precipitation that fell across the region in hopes of pinpointing the origins of so-called milky rain that has mystified residents. 来自两家实验室的科学家计划，化验西北地区降下的不同...

15-08-21 In recent years, many Chinese cities, including metropolises such as Beijing and Shanghai, have frequently been flooded during the summer rains partly because of their poor drainage systems. Heavy rain means streets and communities are awash, with p...

15-08-12 There was once a rich man in the State of Song. After a downpour of rain his wall began to rumple. If you don't mend that wall, warned his son, a thief will get in. An old neighbour gave him the same advice. But he paid no attention to it. That nigh...

15-07-22 Rain-triggered floods have swollen rivers in south China's Guangdong Province and threatened marine safety, local authorities warned Tuesday. 中国南部广东省地方政府周二发出警告，由暴雨引发的洪水已使河流泛滥、威胁海事安全。 Under the impact of a trop...

15-04-23 One year it did not rain for a long time in the State of Qi, and there was an extremely severe drought. Jing Gong, the King of Qi, was very worried. He wanted to offer sacrifices to the mountain deity to pray for rain. His prime minister Yan Zi said...