Many Americans are familiar with The Little Prince, a wonderful book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. This is a whimsical(异想天开的) and fabulous(寓言般的) book and works as a children’s story as well as a thought-provoking(发人深省的) adult fa...
Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kin...
Almost all the English names of the solar system come from the names of gods in either Greek or Roman mythology(神话). Mercury(水星) is named after the Roman god of travel, because it appears to move so quickly across the sky. Venus(金星)...
\\\\\\\"When you thought I wasn’t looking… I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator, and I immediately wanted to paint another one. I saw you feed a stray(迷路的) cat, and I learned that it was good to be kind to animals...
Ruth Hins owns a grocery store(杂货店) and bakery(面包店) in the Rio de Janeiro favela of Cantagalo, where she used to live. She is one of 35.5 million Brazilians who have moved from humble beginnings into the middle class since 2003. Another 20 m...
Triplets(三胞胎) Aliah, Steven and Aiden Tarabokija take part in the annual Halloween Ragamuffin Parade in Hoboken, N.J., Oct. 31. Buck Condill of Arthur, Ill., walks on the North Lawn of the White House, decorated for a Halloween celeb...
1. According to a news story, if global warming continues, in 20 years the only chance we'll have to see a polar bear is in a zoo. So in other words, nothing is going to change. 2. Snow was falling heavily the day I decided to visit a car d...
More than 5 million people die each year from smoking, many of them in developing countries. And Dr. Thomas Frieden says fewer than ten per cent of the world's nations are doing enough to prevent it. The head of the Centers for Dise...
If you're reading this post(公告，帖子) at work, chances are that your computer is running Windows XP. But Microsoft really, really wishes that wasn't the case — and it's taking an incremental(增加的) step to make its wish come true. ...
What wonderous life in this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mo...
Joris Kivits from the Netherlands(荷兰) contributed "Puzzled" to the competition. Brit Paul Hoggard sculpted this elephant using a technique called "soft pack," which means he didn't use any forms when packing the sa...
"It was more than 20 years ago, but it still haunts me," says Bryan E. Bledsoe, a clinical professor of emergency medicine at the University of Nevada School of Medicine. "I made a mistake that may have cost a woman her life." B...
A new study has added another piece to the puzzle(谜团) as scientists learn more about how the brains of blind people work. Researchers are learning how the blind still get to use the part of the brain normally devoted to(专心于) vision. Years ...
Next month, the ex-Beatle would have been 70. Here, one of his confidantes(女性知己) reflects on his enduring importance. John Lennon on his return from honeymoon with Yoko Ono. In two weeks' time, on 9 October 9, John would have been 70. O...
Let's hear it for curves! OneStopPlus.com celebrated a variety of shapes by producing the first-ever plus-size-only runway show during New York Fashion Week Spring 2011. Designers sent 36 spring trend looks down the runway, from lace and den...
看视频，语音脚本填空。口语跟读，提供纯正的口语训练环境。How to make yourself indispensable(不可缺少的) at work and avoid getting laid off? No one is____1____ (免疫的) togetting the axe(被解雇) – especially in an economic downturn. But you can certai...
People make their way through debris(残骸) left by a mudslide(泥石流) in Mianzhu, Sichuan province on Monday, Aug. 16. Heavy rains in western China have killed dozens more adding to the more than 1,500 people who have died in flooding and lan...
duck有“躲避、闪开、忽然低头或弯腰”的意思。 ...
I have to agree that the first lady's____1____ (假期)trip to a pricey(昂贵的) resort(度假胜地) in Spain in a week when we are ____2____ (使想起) that nearly 1 out of 10 Americans is still unemployed — well, that is not...
Doctors warn patients with lung(肺) and heart disease to stay indoors during hot weather. Dr. Kausalya Pendyal tells her patients in Richmond, Virginia before they go outside to check the Air Quality Index(大气质量指数)—a governmen...