• cannot tell good from bad 狗咬吕洞宾

    21-11-15 狗咬吕洞宾是一句中文谚语,常用来形容一个人缺乏识别能力,不分好歹(cannot tell good from bad),具有贬义。 吕洞宾是中国民间神话中八仙(Eight Immortals)之一。传说神兽哮天犬(Howling Celestial Dog)私自下凡作乱(descend to earth and attack human being...

  • self-licensing 自我纵许

    15-12-08 Self-licensing is the unconscious tendency to allow yourself to do something bad after you have done something good. 自我纵许指做了一些好事之后会无意识地允许自己做点不好的事。 Imagining yourself as doing good can sometimes lead to bad things. You ea...

  • Good news and bad news

    15-11-24 There is the story of a pastor who got up one Sunday and announced to his congregation: I have good news and bad news. The good news is, we have enough money to pay for our new building program. The bad news is, it's still out there in your pockets....

  • guybernation 避男期

    15-09-25 Guybernation is a slang term used to describe how a woman would go into hiding because of a relationship with a guy that went bad, she is said to be in guybernation when she is taking time off from looking for another guy. 避男期是一个口头俚语,指女...

  • 经历10年时间没变质的月饼

    15-09-21 Mr. Fang, a resident in Hangzhou, southeast China's Zhejiang province has found that a box of mooncakes in his home have not gone bad after 10 years. 中国浙江省杭州市一位居民方先生在家中发现一盒月饼,这盒月饼经过10年时间没有变质。 The label on the b...

  • Bad Dreams

    13-07-11 I had another bad dream, she told her fianc. It was about you again. You and your ex-girlfriend were kissing. I yelled at you to stop it. You looked right at me, and then you laughed at me! She laughed, too. Then you both went back to kissing. I tri...

  • 美好生活从学会感激开始

    13-04-08 If you are feeling that life just cannot be any worse for you, it can be challenging to think positive thoughts. When we are stressed, depressed, upset, or otherwise in a negative state of mind because we perceive that bad things keep happening to u...

  • 怎么说“真人不露相”

    10-11-17 假如你去眼镜店配眼镜,你买了一副特别高级的水晶石镜片,却配了一个塑料镜框。当你戴上这副眼镜的时候,估计没几个人能看出来它们真正的价值所在。这就是我们今天要说的这个最新表达 good lenses, bad frames ,好镜片,赖镜框,真人不露相。 Good lenses, bad frames...

  • 政治家左右手的使用可反映其正反观点

    10-07-30 In laboratory tests, right- and left-handers associate positive ideas like honesty and intelligence with their dominant(显性的,支配的) side of space and negative ideas with their non-dominant side, says Daniel Casasanto of the Max Planck Institut...

  • Complete retirement 'bad for you' 完全退休“对健康不利”

    09-10-15 Giving up work completely on retirement could be bad for your health, US research suggests. 美国研究显示,放弃工作完全退休可能对健康不利。 Keeping active after retirement may boost health The study of 12,189 people found retirees who take on tempora...