14-12-18 This story happened during the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC). There was once an old man named Meng who lived in the southern part of the country with his wife. One spring, Meng sowed a seed of bottle gourd in his yard. The bottle gourd grew up bit by bi...

14-11-11 Events have been held in Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. 德国正在举办各种活动庆祝柏林墙推倒25周年。 The opening of the border by the Soviets, allowing people to pass back and forth between occupied east and west...

14-10-23 Hum Joshua McKinney When I smelled green through the blur where its wings were, felt the whir of their arc, heard the red of its ruby throat-scales, tasted the dart of its forked tongue afloat in the foxglove -- my only desire was to tell you. My we...

14-06-26 Osama Bin Laden, a Canadian, and President Bush were walking down the street when they saw a golden lamp. They rubbed it and a genie（妖怪，鬼） came out and said, I will grant each one a wish that's 3 together. The Canadian said, I am a father and...

14-06-23 Always Something Peter Fallon There's always something -- a trail of bindweed（旋花类植物） trumpeting September the length of field wall and worn fences; that clamp of silage（青贮） an ember（灰烬，余烬） on the left as you leave here, smouldering...

14-01-24 A long time ago, there was a young man called Wang Qi. When he heard that there were many immortals in Mount Lao, he went there at once. 从前，有一个年轻人名叫王七，听说崂山上有很多仙人，就前往崂山访道。 There was a Daoist who still looked young alt...

13-09-29 苏格兰将于明年9月18日举行公投，决定是否结束与英格兰长达三个世纪的联合，成为独立的国家。在距离公投还有一年的时候，苏格兰的四位工匠却已着手开始修复曾经阻隔双方的边境墙哈德良长城。 The wall runs for more than 80 miles across the hills of northern Brita...

13-05-17 A mouse once took a bite out of a bull's tail as he lay dozing. The bull jumped up in a rage and, with his head low to the ground, chased the mouse right across the yard. The mouse was too quick for him, however, and slipped easily into a hole in th...

12-05-16 Anthropologists working in southern France have determined that a 1.5 metric ton block of engraved limestone（石灰岩） constitutes the earliest evidence of wall art. Their research, reported in the most recent edition of the Proceedings of the Natio...

12-02-29 Mobile phones currently on the market are capable of showing high quality images and video, but the phones' small size sets insurmountable（不能克服的） limits on screen size, and thus the viewing experience. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland...