日期:2016-05-30 Following the much hyped A4 Waist, viral trend -- in which Chinese woman posted photos of themselves to prove they were as skinny as an A4 sheet of paper -- the iPhone6 Legs have taken the Chinese internet by storm this week. 继大热的A4腰后,i6腿本... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-30 Hunt and peck (two-fingered typing), also known as search and peck or Eagle Finger, is a common form of typing, in which the typist presses each key individually. Hunt and peck(或者two-fingered typing、search and peck、Eagle Finger)都指一种常见的... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-30 We sometimes use multitasking to distract ourselves from what really needs to be done. In other words, we are becoming multicrastinators , people who procrastinate by performing multiple non-work tasks simultaneously. 有时候,我们会通过多个任务来分... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-30 A fun sponge refers to a joyless or grumpy person who soaks up all the fun out of an event or situation, in a way a normal sponge sucks up liquid around it. Fun sponge指无趣又坏脾气的人,能够吸干周遭环境中的一切乐趣,就像海绵吸干周遭的水分一样。 这... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-26 A soda tax , sugar tax or soft drink tax is a tax or surcharge on soft drinks specific to the promotion of reduced overall sugar consumption. 糖税是指针对软饮料征收的一种税收或附加费,目的是使人们减少对含糖饮品的摄入。 In most forms the tax is desig... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-26 Weve all done it. Run upstairs to get your keys, but forget that it is them youre looking for once you get to the bedroom. Open the fridge door and reach for the middle shelf only to realise that we cant remember why we opened the fridge in the firs... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-26 Pester power is a childs ability to affect their parents marketing decisions, often through the use of nagging, or pestering. 儿童消费力指的是儿童影响其父母消费决策的能力,通常通过唠叨和纠缠不休达到让父母购物的目的。 The phrase is used to describe t... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-26 The bikini bridge is a term for the space you get between your bathing suit bottom and your hip bones when you lie down. 比基尼桥,是指(身材纤瘦的女生穿上比基尼后躺下时)比基尼式泳裤与髋骨形成的桥状空间效果。 There are even facetious comments poste... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-26 Deadline drive refers to the strong motivation you feel when a deadline is drawing closer. The closer you get to a deadline the more motivated you are to complete the assigned work. Your procrastination will disappear, and all kinds of ideas will co... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-26 Head of the European Space Agency, Johann-Dietrich Woerner has revealed ideas for an international Moon Village that combines the capabilities of space-faring nations around the world. 欧洲航天局(ESA)的负责人约翰-迪特里希韦尔纳已经公布了国际月球村... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-26 LOLTM , an abbreviation of laugh out loud to the maximum, is a term used to express a great deal of humor where a simple LOL cannot get the message through. This term can also be used as a word to end a texting conversation. LOLTM是laugh out loud to... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-26 20世纪90年代,加州伯克利大学的Paul Wink提出,自恋者应该分为两种类型:自大暴露狂(Grandiosity-Exhibitonism)和脆弱敏感型(Vulnerability-Sensitivity)。 As it turns out, there are some striking similarities between the popular understanding of introve... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-26 Headphone OCD is a condition where you want the two earphones on a headset on the correct ears, that is, the left side is on left ear and right side is on right ear. If you put them in the wrong ears, you would feel very uneasy and would stop what y... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-26 Youve probably suspected for a while that youre a People Pleaser . Every time you go out with that friend you no longer really want to keep in touch with. Or every time you agree to babysit your cousins dog (even though youre not much of a fur-lover... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-08 The mere-exposure effect is a psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them. 曝光效应这种心理现象指的是人们容易对熟悉的人或事物产生好感。 In social psychology, this effect... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-08 A window looker refers to someone who compulsively looks into windows of buildings, stores or parked cars to check out their hair, their teeth, and everything about their appearance. People who usually behave like this are either having a strong sen... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-08 Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety in situations where the sufferer perceives the environment to be dangerous, uncomfortable, or unsafe. 广场恐惧症是一种焦虑症,具体表现为在特定环境下感到危险、不适或不安。 These situations c... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-08 A guy-cry film is a film that generally addresses a male audience, but has strong emotional material. Sports films are important to the guy-cry genre, but sports action is not necessarily essential to qualify a film as a genuine guy-cry. War movies... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-08 Web glow refers to the perfect look one appears in online photos, while in real life, they are probably not so attractive as they diaplayed. Normally, they will use digital tools of face beautification before posting any photos online. Thats where t... 阅读全文>> 日期:2016-05-08 It is a question that prompts much debate - what is the best way for a smoker to quit? 到底什么是最佳戒烟方式?人们对这一问题一直存在争议。 Some people advocate the method of cutting down gradually to a point where you no longer need and desire the... 阅读全文>> |
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