11-09-03 The popular saying would have us believe that gentlemen prefer blondes. But while the old adage may trip off the tongue, according to new findings, it no longer holds weight. 流行的说法让我们相信男士们更钟爱金发女郎。尽管这句老话脍炙人口，但新研究发...

11-08-27 Cash-strapped hospitals are banning hundreds of women from having a caesarean birth, it emerged today. 有消息称，由于医院资金紧张，英国成百上千位孕妇被禁止剖腹产子。 A number of NHS trusts have said they will only give the go-ahead for a c-section i...

11-08-20 Via Dolorosa Traci Brimhall We have been telling the story wrong all along, how a king took Philomela's tongue after he had taken her body, and how the gods turned her into a nightingale（夜莺） so she could tell the night of her grief. Even now the...

11-07-05 影片对白： Basil: There. I'll fetch us some drinks. Henry's aunt: Find her a good husband who knows how to behave to a woman. Henry: The only way to behave is to make love to her if she's pretty and to someone else if she's plain. Excuse me. Cigaret...

11-07-04 There was once a wife so jealous that when her husband came home one night and she couldnt find hairs on his jackets she yelled at him, Great, so now youre cheating on me with a bald woman! The next night, when she didnt smell any perfume, she yelle...

11-06-09 WITHIN a short walk of Longbourn lived a family with whom the Bennets were particularly intimate. Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to t...

11-06-08 A man is driving up a steep, narrow mountain road. A woman is driving down the same road. As they pass each other, the woman leans out of（把身体探出） the window and yells PIG!! The man immediately leans out of his window and replies, WITCH!! They...

11-06-01 What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. 越该做的事，就越急不得。 A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. 女人的思维很有跳跃性：从仰慕到爱慕，从爱慕到结婚都是一眨眼间的事。 W...

11-05-30 This is a story from Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio. Mr Sun of Luoyang married the daughter of a magistrate（地方法官） . About twenty days after the wedding, his wife died of illness. Sun was extremely sad. One rainy day, an average-looking girl...

11-05-27 I don't like to inquire（询问，查究） too curiously into your affairs, said the lady to her husband. But something's been bothering me for days. So? said the husband, Tell me all about it. You got a letter last Friday, the lady said. It was perfumed...