15-06-18 down in (at) the mouth 垂头丧气 from mouth to mouth 口口相传，广泛流传 put words in (to) someone's mouth 教人怎么说，诬指某人说过某话 stop someone's mouth 使某人缄默 take the words out of someone's mouth 抢先说某人想说的话 from the horse's mouth （...

15-06-12 Spellchecks are turning us into a nation of dunces with a third of adults failing to reach the expected spelling ability of an 11 year-old child, a shock study reveals. 拼写检查功能正将英国变成一个傻子的国度。一个研究惊人地发现，该国三分之一的成年人...

15-06-04 You might not need to remember those complicated e-mail and bank account passwords for much longer. According to a new study, the way your brain responds to certain words could be used to replace passwords. In Brainprint, a newly published study in...

15-04-13 After-wise means wise afterwards or too late - or in other words, the perfect term for describing that feeling of knowing exactly what you should have said (or done) after the opportunity to say it (or do it) has passed you by. 事后聪明是指事情过去...

15-04-02 At some point, probably 50,000 to 100,000 years ago, humans began talking to one another in a uniquely complex form. It is easy to imagine this epochal change as cavemen grunting, or hunter-gatherers mumbling and pointing. But in a new paper, an MIT...

15-01-15 Listening to Cuckoos Robert Adamson Two unchanging notes; to us, words -- always those high elongated notes. Red-eyed koels with feathered earmuffs, downward-ending notes that pour through a falling of night coming over the distances, words that don...

14-12-23 Weblish is a form of English that is used on the web (use of abbreviations, acronyms, small letters, absence of punctuation and hyphens etc.) 网络英语即在网络上使用的英语（如缩写、首字母缩写、小写字母、不使用标点符号和连字符等）。 Example: Blog, fol...

14-12-22 That if your vocabulary is limited your chances of success are limited. That one of the easiest and quickest ways to get ahead is by consciously building up your knowledge of words. The the vocabulary of the average person almost stops growing by th...

14-12-16 The F Bomb The oldest theories trace the expletive-to-end-all-expletives back to Norwegian fukka and Swedish focka, both meaning to copulate. 关于这个完爆所有其他咒骂语的词最早可以追溯到挪威语fukka和瑞典语focka，都是交配的意思。 Unfortunately, we do...

14-10-09 A WEEK passed, and no news arrived of Mr. Rochester: ten days,and still he did not come. Mrs. Fairfax said she should not be surprised if he were to go straight from the Leas to London, and thence to the Continent, and not show his face again at Tho...