13-08-05 When I was a kid, I remember my dad used to sing an old, WWI song, Pack up your Troubles, while he was getting dressed for work in the morning. The lyrics from the chorus of the song play in my head often when I'm packing for a trip - Pack up your t...

13-07-10 Defying 30 mph gusts and temperatures down to minus 22 F, NASA's new polar rover recently demonstrated in Greenland that it could operate completely autonomously（独立自主地） in one of Earth's harshest environments. The robot known as GROVER, which...

13-07-10 Edward Wellman bade good-bye to his family in the old country headed for a better life in America. Papa handed him the family's savings hidden in a leather satchel. Times are desperate here, he said, hugging his son goodbye. You are our hope. Edward...

13-06-20 One of the greatest sources of unhappiness, in my experience, is the difficulty we have in accepting things as they are. Without judgment, without wishing for otherwise. When we see something we don't like, we wish it could be different we cry out f...

13-06-16 英国政府打算出资100万英镑寻找能够解决世界最大难题的人，而至于什么才是世界当前面临的最大难题，则由民众来决定，或许是寻找石油替代品，也可能是生产低成本食品。 David Cameron is offering 1 million of taxpayer's cash to anyone who can solve the world's bi...

13-06-08 Lean Lisa was of a very different way of thinking from lazy Harry and fat Trina, who never let anything disturb their peace. She scoured everything with ashes, from morning till evening, and burdened her husband, Long Laurence, with so much work tha...

13-06-05 Have you thought about what you want people to say about you after you're gone? Can you hear the voice saying, He was a great man. Or She really will be missed. What else do they say? One of the strangest phenomena of life is to engage in a work tha...

13-06-05 I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome（乏味的） and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the mo...

13-06-05 If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill, Be a scrub in the valley -- but be The best little scrub by the side of the rill; Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a bush be a bit of grass -- And some highway happier make. If you can'...

13-06-03 As luck would have it, he was caught by the teacher again. 不幸的是，他又一次被老师逮个正着。 She held the little boy by the right hand. 她抓着小男孩的右手。（这里用by与用with意思区别很大。） Are you there? 等于句型：Do you follow me? If you think h...