11-08-11 Bill was in actual fact, not so much a man of the world, as a man of Basford and Hartshill, but here was a life lived in an extraordinary richness of simplicity, a wealth of minute experience and also, I always felt, a whole ocean of experience that...

11-08-05 Nigeria's Ogoniland region could take 30 years to recover fully from the damage caused by years of oil spills, a long-awaited UN report says. 一份期待已久的联合国报告称，尼日利亚奥格尼地区常年的漏油问题可能需要花费30年时间才能彻底清理干净。 The Ogon...

11-08-05 No matter what you do, remember you do it for yourself, then you have nothing to complain. 无论做什么，记得为自己而做，那就毫无怨言。《流金岁月》 A real graceful lady never shows off what she has. She would never tell people what books she has read,...

11-07-25 A little over a decade ago, the worlds population stood at 6billion. By the end of October, it will reach 7 billion. 十多年前，世界人口达到了60亿。而到今年十月底，这个数字将会变成70亿。 With five babies being born every second, 78 million people are...

11-07-15 The UN General Assembly has admitted South Sudan as its 193rd member. 联合国大会承认南苏丹为其第193个成员国。 South Sudan's Vice-President Riek Machar (r) was warmly greeted in New York South Sudan is the first country to join the UN body since Mont...

11-06-29 Rossendorf set a new world record for magnetic fields with 91.4 teslas. To reach this record, Sergei Zherlitsyn and his colleagues at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory Dresden (HLD) developed a coil（线圈） weighing about 200 kilograms in which ele...

11-06-29 New research by the University of Warwick and Humboldt university shows that the frequency of wars between states increased steadily from 1870 to 2001 by 2% a year on average. The research argues that conflict is being fed by economic growth and the...

11-06-21 In the Warring States Period, Duke Wei of Qi neglected state affairs, for the first three years of his reign, giving himself over to dissipation（浪费，损耗） . One of his ministers, Chun Yukun who had a good sense of humour, said to him: 'There is...

11-06-14 Gaza's unemployment rate was among the world's highest, at 45.2% in late 2010, the UN has found. 联合国统计发现，加沙的失业率是世界上最高，在2010年底达到45.2%。 Real wages meanwhile fell by more than a third, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Pales...

11-06-12 Peter dozed off while his teacher was talking. Teacher: Peter! Tell us, what's the biggest in the world? Peter: Well, well....eyelids.... Teacher: What? Eyelids? Peter: Yes, sir. Because as soon as I shut my eyes, the eyelids cover everything of the...