日期：2009-03-20 您是不是曾经在自己的作文或日记中描述过动物的叫声？在文学作品或影视中一些借助动物的声音渲染出来的气氛也同样扣人心弦。因此学会表达动物的声音就说明你的写作 水平又有进展啦。先来看看我们最常见的小动物，在英语里它们是怎么叫的呢？ 猫和狗是人类最亲近的朋友... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-20 Peng Fei, an 11-year-old boy of Jiangjin, Chongqing municipality in Southeast China, saw a man stealing money from an old man on a bus. Stop, you pickpocket, he shouted. The thief grabbed the boy by the throat and slapped him hard. All the other peo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-20 To translate a word from one language to another is easy; to translate a context is hard. The New York Times (NYT) carried an article in its May 4 book review that called Guo Jingming the most successful writer in China. That must have pleased milli... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-18 Chinese youths who live, study and work in Western and other foreign countries surprised the world last month when they staged rallies to roar their anger at the Western media's biased reports about the situation in Tibet and the Beijing Olympic Gam... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-18 Olympic volunteers are now brushing up on their etiquette and so am I. In a Beijing university classroom last week I joined 200 students who were studying the dos and don'ts of dealing with foreigners. I learnt a few lessons myself. OK guys, what ar... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-18 Earlier this month, I was in Guangzhou for a forum on modern literature. The participants hailed mostly from academic institutions and media organizations, but you wouldn't know that if you had only heard their self-introductions. They sounded like... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-17 Before the smoke and dust surrounding the South China tiger photos taken in Shaanxi province settled, someone claimed to have successfully photographed the big cat - widely believed to be extinct in China - in Hunan province. This time, unlike the s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-17 A media report last week of how an elderly woman foiled a robbery attempt and even saved the wounded burglar's life has triggered debates among netizens. Li Jianhua, a retired teacher from Weihai, Shandong province, was attacked by a burglar in her... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-17 In 1995, the Reichstag building in Berlin was wrapped in white sheets by the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude as an art project. Recently, a building in the city of Zhangjiajie, Hunan province, seemed to be wrapped in red sheets. The intention was... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-17 任何语言都有语体之分，有高雅的、通俗的、粗野的，还有俚语、公文用语及术语等。文学作品中，作家通过不同的语体来刻画人物的性格特征，更是常用的方法。翻译时，必须审其雅俗，量其轻重，论其褒贬，即要注意同义词之间有不同的语体色彩、使用范围及程度，这样，才能... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-16 Translation used to be a serious academic endeavor but now it has become a heavily market-oriented industry, and one in great disorder. Since China began to open itself to the outside world about 30 years ago, exchanges with foreign countries have b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-16 蝴蝶效应是指在一个动力系统中，初始条件下微小的变化能带动整个系统的长期的巨大的连锁反应。这是一种混沌现象。对于这个效应最常见的阐述是：一个蝴蝶在巴西轻拍翅膀，可以导致一个月后德克萨斯州的一场龙卷风。 这句话的来源，是由于这位气象学家制作了一个电脑程序... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-16 The Americans have a saying: George Washington slept here. Now, imagine if every place where Washington ever slept were turned into a museum and honored with a grand public memorial ceremony on his birthday, death anniversary, Memorial Day and - wha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-16 The new year is a time for resolutions promises you make to yourself for the days ahead. Adults usually resolve to lose weight, exercise more or give up smoking. Youths who play sports can make resolutions, too. Here are some to think about for 2008... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-16 In the angry protests sweeping across cyberspace against certain Western media outlets' distortion of the facts in the Lhasa riots, Chinese netizens repeatedly posted a slogan that had been forgotten in China for nearly 30 years: Down with imperiali... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-15 What's in a name? More specifically, what's in the spelling of a place name? Should the Chinese capital be spelt Beijing or Peking? In a survey jointly conducted by China Youth Daily and Sina.com, a vast majority - 81 percent - opposed the old spell... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-15 钱钟书是我国博通古今中外的大学问家、作家。学术巨著《管锥篇》博大精深；长篇小说《围城》脍炙人口。他还是《毛泽东选集》英译本定稿人。为了使读者进一步欣赏钱钟书的英语文采，现把钱钟书给林书武的三封英语信刊登出来，边加汉译，同时，做些必要的注解方便各位：... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-15 My column in last week's issue of this newspaper triggered an intense response from readers, who posted their comments online. My sincere thanks go to them all, whether proponents or opponents, whose remarks enlightened me in different ways and on d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-15 图表作文是BEC考试中常出的题型。对于如何描述图表，很多学习常感到困难。下面是一些常用的描述图表的句型，供大家参考。 31. This may serve to explain, at least in part, the mirror image of the two lines. 32. Perhaps the most telling feature of the chart i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-03-15 图表作文是BEC考试中常出的题型。对于如何描述图表，很多学习常感到困难。下面是一些常用的描述图表的句型，供大家参考。 1. At a slower rate 2. It reflects the great differences that exist between 3. These figures were overwhelmingly greater than the corre... 阅读全文>>