13-09-05 Once upon a time lived a peasant and his wife, and the parson of the village had a fancy for the wife, and had wished for a long while to spend a whole day happily with her. The peasant woman, too, was quite willing. One day, therefore, he said to t...

13-07-30 In a certain village there once lived a man and his wife, and the wife was so idle that she would never work at anything; whatever her husband gave her to spin, she did not get done, and what she did spin she did not wind, but let it all remain enta...

13-04-23 Our tolerating ability is indeed way beyond our imagination. But not until the very critical moment will we realize our potential tolerating ability. There was a woman in the countryside who got married at the age of 18 and had to escape with her tw...

13-01-28 If you thought it was cold where you are at the moment then a visit to the Russian village of Oymyakon might just change your mind. 如果你觉得你现在所处的地方十分寒冷，那么到俄罗斯的奥伊米亚康村庄走一走，你或许会改变看法。 With the average temperatu...

12-10-18 At least 11 people have died and another 10 are missing after a landslide in northern Peru. 秘鲁北部发生泥石流灾害，至少11人死亡，另有10人失踪。 At least a dozen homes were swept away as mud and rocks crashed into the village of El Porvenir in the p...

12-07-13 Up to 200 people have been killed in an attack on the Syrian village of Tremseh, opposition activists say. 叙利亚反对派活动分子称，Tremseh村收到袭击，多达200人丧生。 Residents told the activists that the village, in Hama province, was attacked with...

12-06-08 In Times of Trouble The Dragon will Wake And Free the Village By making a Lake This little poem was etched into everybody's minds and sometimes appeared on tea towels and grandma's embroidery（刺绣） . The days went by slowly, quietly and most impor...

12-03-27 Ivan was a timid little man---so timid that the villages called him Pigeon or mocked him with the title Ivan the Terrible. Every night Ivan stopped in at the tavern（酒馆，客栈） which was one the edge of the village graveyard. Ivan never crossed th...

12-02-25 An entire village has been relocated in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan to protect tigers, officials say. 印度政府日前表示，为了保护数目急剧减少的老虎，已将位于该国北部拉贾斯坦邦的一座村庄整体迁移。 More than 350 people from 82 families in Um...

11-10-06 A University of Colorado Boulder-led team excavating a Maya village in El Salvador buried by a volcanic eruption 1,400 years ago has unexpectedly hit an ancient white road that appears to lead to and from the town, which was frozen in time by a blan...