17-05-06 Facebook says it is working on technology to allow us to control computers directly with our brains. 脸书称,他们正致力于研发一项技术,使人们可以直接通过自己的大脑控制电脑。 It is developing silent speech software to allow people to type at a rate o...
16-07-17 Britons are pulling on budgie smugglers to go wild swimming, discussing starter marriages at stupid oclock and sipping craft beer while planning their next elimination diet. 英国人去野外游泳的时候会穿上budgie smugglers(指男士紧身泳裤),在stupid oc...
16-06-24 Are you at a disadvantage at work simply because of your vocabulary? 你是否仅仅因为措辞不当而在职场身处劣势? Melody Wilding, who coaches high-achieving, ambitious women to overcome the emotional challenges of success, believes you could be. In a re...
16-06-22 In the doorway of my home, I looked closely at the face of my 23-year-old son, Daniel, his backpack by his side. We were saying good-bye. In a few hours he would be flying to France. He would be staying there for at least a year to learn another lan...
16-06-03 A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true. 自我实现预言指的是直接或间接导致预言本身实现的一种预测。 In other words, a positive or negative prophecy, strongly held belief, or delusion -- decla...
16-04-24 Now you can travel anywhere and be able to communicate - genius! 现在你可以走遍世界沟通无忧了太有才了! The new IconSpeak Global communication tee is SO simple we cant quite believe it didnt exist before now. Think about it: how easy would it be if...
16-04-03 Six minutes to six, said the clock over the information booth in New Yorks Grand Central Station. The tall young Army lieutenant lifted his sunburned face and narrowed his eyes to note the exact time. His heart was pounding with a beat. In six minut...
16-03-17 It was no unfit messenger of death, who had disturbed the quiet of the matron's room. Her body was bent by age; her limbs trembled with palsy; her face, distorted into a mumbling leer, resembled more the grotesque shaping of some wild pencil, than t...
16-07-11 It took me a long time to learn where he came from. The little prince, who asked me so many questions, never seemed to hear the ones I asked him. It was from words dropped by chance that, little by little, everything was revealed to me. The first ti...
16-02-18 'Hallo!' cried a loud, hoarse voice, as soon as they set foot in the passage. 'Don't make such a row,' said Sikes, bolting the door. 'Show a glim, Toby.' 'Aha! my pal!' cried the same voice. 'A glim, Barney, a glim! Show the gentleman in, Barney; wa...