日期：2016-04-20 Inbox rot means to neither accept, nor decline a friend request from someone on social networking sites. This strategy is used in situations when you dont want to accept someones friend request, but you also dont want to be rude by declining them. I... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-04-04 1. Being financially independent 2. Being happy most of the time 3. Being trusted by your friends 4. Being organised and efficient 5. Being a good mum 6. Having a partner who is devoted to you 7. Keeping in good shape 8. Making people laugh 9. Being... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-03-30 Email courier is an individual who gets out of their chair and approaches someones desk or workstation in a work environment almost immediately after sending them an email, usually to make sure that the email has been received and that they can get... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-03-30 蒙娜丽莎综合症--- MONA LISA hypothesis 是取英语Most Obesities kNown Are Low In Sympathetic Activity（意即大多数的肥胖是由交感神经不够活跃而造成的）的首字母而拼成的名字。换言之，瘦不下去是因为消耗人体热量的交感神经活动低下。 Obesity is considered a w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-03-30 Zero-tasking means being, not doing. It means taking 60 minutes and just doing nothing. Simply rest, relax, de-stress and de-load (the opposite of overload). It means just breathing -- in and out, over and over -- and marveling at the fact that you... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-03-30 Buffet momentum is the lack of self-restraint one experiences after having started eating at a buffet. This phenomenon causes a person to consume above and beyond what comprises a regularly sized meal. This feeling usually occurs in the first fiftee... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-03-30 If the thought of a math test makes you break out in a cold sweat, Mom or Dad may be partly to blame. 如果想到数学测验会让你出一身冷汗，你的爸妈可能要承担些责任。 The researchers believe the link between parents math anxiety and childrens math perfo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-03-30 Pedestrian face-off is an awkward situation in which two pedestrians, who are on a collision course with each other, are repeatedly unsuccessful in averting one another. As one person moves to their right, the other person moves to their left and vi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-03-30 Do you have a crick in your neck, a sore shoulder, or an aching back? Maybe your eyes are dry, your vision is blurry at the end of the day, or you have a persistent headache that just wont quit? These are all symptoms of digital eye strain , reporte... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-03-30 Moaning about ones schedule has become, for some, a mark of social status. Were not speaking here about the kind of busyness associated with scraping by near the poverty line, of course, but rather the kind associated with lives of material privileg... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-03-30 The clean eating movement has taken the world by storm in recent years. 近些年，饮食健康运动风靡全球。 The desire to eat more healthily can veer into an obsession, with rising numbers of people - mainly women in their 30s - suffering from orthorexia... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-03-30 The newly coined term Grey Gapper describes people who are 55 and over, and who have decided to take a gap year. Gap years are normally associated with young people and students, who are taking a break from education to backpack around the world, st... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-16 Iceberg tweeting refers to posting a note to Twitter where the visible text is only a small part of the overall message. 冰山推文是指在推特上发布一条推文，可以看到的文字只是整条信息的一小部分。 其实，这个所谓的冰山推文与我们日常使用的长微博功能非常... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-16 Roadgeek refers to a person who is passionate about roads, including road maps, road construction, the history of roads, and road travel. 道路迷是指一个人非常酷爱道路，对道路图、道路建设、道路历史和道路旅行等都钟爱有加。 Roadgeeks go by many other n... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-16 Digital amnesia refers to the inability to remember basic things, such as telephone numbers, dates, how to get somewhere without a GPS, or how to do math without using a calculator, etc. as a result of over-reliance on mobile phones and the Internet... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-16 Spooning peacefully in a double bed, this pair could be any normal couple on a Sunday morning. But revisit the scene an hour later and Jackie Samuel, a University of Rochester graduate student, will be curled up in the arms of another man. 一对夫妻... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-02-16 If the adoration of cute baby animals could be converted into electricity, the world would finally have a clean source of renewable energy, and all war would end. Unfortunately, that's not possible, and instead we just have to come up with new words... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-28 Gastrophysics refers to the theories and experimental methodologies of physics applied to food, cooking, and eating. 美食物理学是指将物理理论和试验方法应用于食物、烹饪和饮食方面的学问。 这个词是由gastronomy（美食学，烹饪法）和physics（物理）组合而成... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-01-28 Feelin' yourself refers to the state of having a sense of self-confidence. You are so pleased with the way you look that you would like to show it through everyday actions. What's more, you assume that others would think the same way. Feelin' yourse... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-12-28 A service increasingly popular with boutiques, perfume profiling is designed to help clients discover the right fragrance for them. 香水配对是精品店里日益红火的一项服务，旨在帮助客人发现合适的香水。 Corny as it sounds, finding the right scent can be... 阅读全文>>