13-12-19 Fire Sermon Robert Gray The lissome（柔软的） bay is silvered slightly, in its supine lightness; a stocking-textured water takes the morning's cerise（樱桃色） . But soon, between the headlands, sea and sky are solid blues that have closed, almost s...

13-12-06 Scientists from Rice University and the University of Bremen's Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) in Germany have combined cutting-edge experimental techniques and computer simulations to find a new way of predicting how water dissolve...

13-09-16 One day, Sammy went for a walk in the mountains. He found a stone. It looked like a big egg. He took it home and put it by the window. One morning, Sammy heard a noise. The stone broke open. It was really an egg! A small animal climbed out and looke...

13-06-26 原文： 他自以为这信措词凄婉，打得动铁石心肠。谁知道父亲信来痛骂一顿：吾不惜重资，命汝千里负笈，汝埋头攻读之不暇，而有余闲照镜耶？（钱钟书 - 《围城》） 译文： Since he felt the wording of the letter was sad and entreating enough to move a heart of st...

13-05-08 学好谚语，对于英语的提高非常有帮助，一些谚语如果能够做到信手拈来，会让你的文采增色不少。比较谚语的中文和英文，也会让你体会到不同文化之间很多道理都是相同的。有的智慧是如此的相似，简直如出一辙。不得不感慨人类之伟大。 Rome was not built in a day. 罗马...

12-11-28 My grandfather took me to the fish pond on the farm when I was about seven, and he told me to throw a stone into the water. He told me to watch the circles created by the stone. Then he asked me to think of myself as that stone. You may create lots...

12-11-16 A University of Toronto-led team of anthropologists has found evidence that human ancestors used stone-tipped weapons for hunting 500,000 years ago -- 200,000 years earlier than previously thought. This changes the way we think about early human ada...

12-11-14 Two men walked slowly, one after the other, through the shallow water of a stream. All they could see were stones and earth. The stream ran cold over their feet. They had blanket packs on their backs. They had guns, but no bullets; matches, but no f...

12-10-31 《红楼梦》的书名在其170多年的英文翻译历史中曾出现九种译法，但大多译为Dream of the Red Chamber（红色阁楼之梦），以及A Dream of Red Mansions（红色宅院之梦）。九大英文译本中，唯独霍克斯将其定名为 The Story of the Stone （石头记），笔者认为只有他翻译正...

12-09-17 在科技发达的今天，连墓碑也可以智能化了。英国一家丧葬机构推出一款配有二维码的墓碑，对逝者身份感兴趣的吊唁者只要用智能手机扫描二维码，手机屏幕上就会出现一个关于逝者生平、照片、视频以及亲友悼词的网页。 A funeral home in Britain is attaching tiny digita...