• 广东发布防洪预警

    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...

  • Do not throw good things away 不要把好东西扔掉

    15-07-06 A man was going to the house of some rich person. As he went along the road, he saw a box of good apples at the side of the road. He said, I do not want to eat those apples; for the rich man will give me much food; he will give me very nice food to...

  • 楚人涉澭

    15-07-06 Once upon a time, the State of Chu planned to attack the State of Song. But the Yong River was the natural barrier against its surprise attack at night. To overcome this obstacle, the State of Chu sent men to secretly measure the depth of the Yong R...

  • 抱婴投江

    15-06-09 Once upon a time, a man passing by a river noticed that a grown-up man was going to throw a child he carried in his arms into the river. At this moment, the child was frightened, crying loudly and shouting in confusion. The passer-by asked: Why are...

  • 湖南建立湘江新区

    15-05-25 Authorities in Hunan's capital Changsha have established this country's latest state-level new area. 湖南省会长沙建立了中国最新的国家级新区。 The Xiangjiang New Area covers 490 square kilometers in Changsha. It's situated on the west bank of the Xia...

  • 望洋兴叹

    15-05-25 When autumn came, all the water in the large and small rivers rose higher and flowed into the Yellow River. The surface of the River at once appeared much wider. On one side of the bank, one couldn't see the cattle and sheep on the opposite side. Th...

  • Even the Ohio Can Change

    15-03-31 Even the Ohio Can Change Rick Campbell The river I grew up on was rank with oil. Shoreline stones gleamed slick-blue and nothing in the river was worth a slug of scrap metal: carp and catfish, sick, riddled with chemical blood. My river was for barg...

  • Adam Home from the Wars

    15-03-31 Adam Home from the Wars Sean Bishop Yes, when the orchard's dolled up in pastels and the finches scrawl cursive across the sky and the big moon sags like a tit o'er the meadows, I'll trade in my Glock for a pocket of dew. And the wars will stop. And...

  • 夸父追日

    14-12-03 Kua Fu tried his best to chase the sun. When he arrived at the place where the sun set, he had to turned around, as he could not bear the thirst, and came to the Yellow River and the Wei River. In one breath, he quaffed up all the water in both rive...

  • 方舟济河

    14-11-27 There were two boats sailing on the river. If an empty boat clashed into them at this time, the people on the boats would not be angry even they were narrow-minded. But, under another circumstance, if that boat carried one or more people instead of...