16-02-16 Lights Mark Irwin swimming the earth at dusk and prickling the distance of the near town. In the jigsaw puzzle of the falls I could feel a fine mist. Driving I think of it now -- snapping those last pieces in -- and how history makes things small. T...

16-01-21 This year's four hundredth anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare is not just an opportunity to commemorate one of the greatest playwrights of all time. It is a moment to celebrate the extraordinary ongoing influence of a man who - to borro...

16-01-13 Memorial Dave Smith Today on the 17th fairway I stepped over the gutted, dried out corpse, not quite the length of my arm once, now more papery shell than any fish, and yet moccasin still. The triangular head had been halved, a six-iron maybe, swung...

16-01-10 Twitter is reportedly planning to abandon its famous 140-character limit and allow tweets up to 10,000 characters long. 据报道，推特计划废除推文140字符的限制，允许字符数最多可达1万。 The proposed 71-times increase in the limit, allowing tweets of ro...

16-01-09 People who frequently swear are more likely to have a bigger vocabulary than their clean-tongued peers, research revealed. 研究发现，经常说脏话的人要比说话文明的同龄人拥有更大的词汇量。 A colourful tongue does not mean the talker is lazy or uneducat...

15-10-21 Aspire to inspire before you expire. ~~~~~ My wife and I had words, but I didn't get to use mine. ~~~~~ Frustration is trying to find your glasses without your glasses. ~~~~~ Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forget...

15-09-23 Life is Hard When you're a teenager, you're just at the beginning of your life's lessons. Life is the toughest teacher you will ever have. Life is a cruel teacher. She gives the test first, then the lesson. Life will throw everything that it can at...

15-09-07 He was lying on something that felt like a camp bed, except that it was higher off the ground and that he was fixed down in some way so that he could not move. Light that seemed stronger than usual was falling on his face. O'Brien was standing at hi...

15-09-07 They had done it, they had done it at last! The room they were standing in was long-shaped and softly lit. The telescreen was dimmed to a low murmur; the richness of the dark-blue carpet gave one the impression of treading on velvet. At the far end...

15-08-31 If you're hangry and some manspreading rando is riling you up, these snackable definitions should help, mkay? 要是你正饿怒呢，一个奇葩又在地铁上大爷式占座把你惹毛了，这些快餐词说不定能帮上一点忙，你说似吧？ The latest slang phrases added to OxfordDi...