13-05-29 It was Christmas 1961. I was teaching in a small town in Ohio where my twenty-seven third graders eagerly anticipated the great day of gifts giving. A tree covered with tinsel（金属箔） and gaudy（俗丽的） paper chains graced one corner. In another...

13-03-24 英国大专院校招生服务机构负责人表示，申请大学学位课程的男生比例下降或让男生在教育方面处于弱势地位，从而影响其社会生存状况，因为大学毕业生的收入通常都高于未接受高等教育的普通员工。 UK universities are setting targets to recruit more men as male studen...

13-03-18 HK Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying (CE) said the government is willing to communicate with all parties, and is not intending to brainwash the students by introducing Moral and National Education (MNE). 香港特区行政长官梁振英表示，政府愿意与各界进行...

13-03-15 WANG JINGWU, NPC deputy and director of the Guangzhou branch of the People's Bank of China Nowadays, children only want to be officials and civil servants. Very few of them want to become scientists. 而现在的孩子，都想当官、当公务员，对科学家有向往...

13-01-25 As college costs continue their stubborn rise, and with work harder to come by during an anemic economic recovery, some students are resorting to a rather unusual measure in order to pay their college bills. 在美国当前经济复苏势头疲软的形势下，大学...

13-01-15 The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around, when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find wrinkled, little old lady beaming up...

12-12-26 One day, an expert in time management was speaking to a group of students and, to drive home（使人理解） a point, used an illustration those students will never forget. As he stood in front of the group of overachievers（成绩超过预料的学生） he said...

12-12-12 Targeting a generation of students considered spoiled and selfish, a Chinese college runs a morality bank to encourage good deeds. 针对被惯坏和自私的一代学生，中国一所大学开办了道德银行来鼓励好人好事行为。 文中的morality bank就是指道德银行，是储蓄学...

12-12-02 英国剑桥的珀斯中学学生犯错后不会立即受到惩罚，而是得到十秒的自我开脱时间，如果能在十秒内用巧妙的言辞为自己犯错找到借口，便可免受惩罚。该校校长称，不会允许学生谎话连篇，但无伤大雅的善意谎言是可以接受的。 Telling a lie can get you on Santa's naughty l...

12-11-16 Thermoelectric devices, which can harness temperature differences to produce electricity, might be made more efficient thanks to new research on heat propagation（传播，繁殖） through structures called superlattices. The new findings show, unexpecte...