• 画蛇添足

    15-09-29 In the past a family in the State of Chu made sacrificial offers to their ancestors, and after that they rewarded the people who helped in the ceremony with the pot of wine used in it. There were many helpers but only one pot of wine. Who should dri...

  • 葡萄酿酒废料可用于制作生物燃料

    15-08-21 The solid waste left over from wine-making could make a competitive biofuel, University of Adelaide researchers have found. Published in the journal Bioresource Technology, the researchers showed that up to 400 litres of bioethanol could be produced...

  • 忘乎所以

    15-07-16 The gorillas in the valleys in the south often lived together in groups of several tens. They were fond of drinking wine, and even fonder of imitating man's behavior. People knew very well their habits and often put wine or distiller's grains on the...

  • 天帝赐酒

    15-07-16 One day, deities from various places came to pay homage to the Emperor of Heaven. The emperor gave his minister in charge of wine cups the following order: Register the names of the deities first, then bestow wine upon them. The minister registered...

  • 预先形成的观念严重影响大脑实际反应

    15-04-30 When consumers taste cheap wine and rate it highly because they believe it is expensive, is it because prejudice has blinded them to the actual taste, or has prejudice actually changed their brain function, causing them to experience the cheap wine...

  • The Wine

    15-02-25 The Wine Michael Metivier When the townspeople gave the teenaged Buddha a glass of wine so delicious he grew to an unthinkable size and froze into a blue statue that shielded the town from a wave that broke upon his back and would have swept away th...

  • The Story of the Barber's Sixth Brother 1

    14-06-11 There now remains for me to relate to you the story of my sixth brother, whose name was Schacabac. Like the rest of us, he inherited a hundred silver drachmas(古希腊的银币名) from our father, which he thought was a large fortune, but through ill-l...

  • 狗猛酒酸

    14-06-10 A person of the state of Song ran a wine store. The wine was very good, and was fairly priced, and he was very kind to other people. But there was very few customers coming to his store. So later his wine became sour(酸的,发酵的) . The wine store...

  • 富含白藜芦醇的饮食未必使人更长寿

    14-05-14 A study of Italians who consume a diet rich in resveratrol(白藜芦醇) -- the compound found in red wine, dark chocolate and berries -- finds they live no longer than and are just as likely to develop cardiovascular disease or cancer as those who ea...

  • Faithful John

    14-02-24 There was once on a time an old king who was ill, and thought to himself, I am lying on what must be my death-bed. Then said he, Tell Faithful John to come to me. Faithful John was his favourite servant, and was so called, because he had for his who...