15-08-27 The stars of popular sitcom The Big Bang Theory top the new list of the highest-paid actors on television. 情景喜剧《生活大爆炸》的明星成为电视行业收入最高的演员。 According to Forbes, Jim Parsons, who plays Sheldon Cooper in the sitcom, tops the li...

15-08-17 It's being reported that billionaire George Soros' fund has sold off most of it stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. 据报道，亿万富翁乔治索罗斯的基金会已将其掌握的中国电商巨头阿里巴巴集团的大部分股份售出。 Soros Fund Management sold off around...

15-08-05 Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. has been named the world's top-earning actor by Forbes. 钢铁侠扮演者小罗伯特唐尼被福布斯杂志提名为世界上收入最高的男演员。 The 50-year-old earned an estimated 80 million US dollars between June 2014 and June 2015. Thi...

15-07-06 I'm sorry, Madam, but I shall have to charge you twenty dollars for pulling your boy's tooth. Twenty dollars! Why, I understand you to say that you charged only four dollars for such work! Yes, but this youngster yelled so terribly that he scared fo...

15-05-25 U.S. tech giant Hewlett Packard is going to sell a 51 percent stake in its China-based server business to Tsinghua Holdings for 2.3 billion U.S. dollars. 美国科技巨头惠普将其中国服务器业务51%的股份以23亿美元出售给清华控股。 The deal creates a joint...

15-03-26 The New Development Bank , to be headquartered in Shanghai, will have an initial authorized capital of 100 billion US dollars, and its initial subscribed capital of 50 billion dollars will be equally shared among founding members, according to the F...

15-02-27 UnionPay says its cross-border transactions surged during Spring Festival, rising nearly 50 percent year on year. 中国银联表示，春节期间跨境交易量显著增长，年同比增长几乎50%。 The total volume of transactions at home and abroad through China UnionPa...

14-07-09 A man took his son to have an aching tooth pulled by the dentist. When it had been drawn, the man was asked to pay ten dollars for it. Ten dollars! he exclaimed surprised and said to the dentist, I know you only charge two dollars for pulling a toot...

14-03-12 An old lady who was very deaf and who thought everything too dear, went into a shop and asked the shopman, How much this stuff? Seven dollars, Madam, it is very cheap. The lady said, It is too much, give it to me for fourteen. I did not say seventee...

13-07-30 East India was besieged（包围） by an enemy who would not retire until he had received six hundred dollars. Then the townsfolk（市民） caused it to be proclaimed by beat of drum that whosoever was able to procure the money should be burgomaster（市...