14-05-29 Cats eat more during the winter and owners should give their pet more food during this time, University of Liverpool research has found. Researchers from the University's School of Veterinary Science, in collaboration with colleagues at the Royal Ca...

14-04-16 A penny-pinching farmer didn't want his hired hand to stop working. One morning, he told the farmhand（农场工人） , It's such a nuisance（讨厌，麻烦） to come in from the field, wash up for lunch and take time to eat. Why don't we save time and eat...

13-11-18 There was once a very old man, whose eyes had become dim, his ears dull of hearing, his knees trembled, and when he sat at table he could hardly hold the spoon, and spilt the broth（肉汤） upon the table-cloth or let it run out of his mouth. His son...

13-11-18 Once upon a time there was a man who did nothing but gamble, and for that reason people never called him anything but Gambling Hansel, and as he never ceased to gamble, he played away his house and all that he had. Now the very day before his credit...

13-10-25 最近发表的一篇研究表明：分享或关注网上食物的照片会使得我们对食物的满意程度下降。实验显示，某种食物的图片看到的越多，人们越不喜欢吃那种食物。 Problem: On the scale of problems, pictures of food on the Internet is firmly first-world. And that is almos...

13-10-16 A jackal（豺，走狗） who was going to be eaten by a lion. The jackal said to the lion: No, please, you can't eat me! You can't eat me! This will be a great mistake. If you eat me, that'll be terrible, that will be a disaster, that will be the end of...

13-10-06 Warning Instagrammers: you might want to stop taking so many pictures of your food. New research out of BYU finds that looking at too many pictures of food can actually make it less enjoyable to eat. Turns out your friend's obsession（痴迷，困扰） w...

13-04-25 There was once a poor shepherd-boy whose father and mother were dead, and he was placed by the authorities in the house of a rich man, who was to feed him and bring him up. The man and his wife, had however, bad hearts, and were greedy and anxious a...

13-01-31 A father said to his sons: Tomorrow your mother is going to bake a pie. Who is going to eat it? The oldest son replied: Father, I'll eat it all! The father then said: Tomorrow I'm going to butcher a pig. Who is going to eat it? The same son answered...

13-01-15 People who eat quickly until full are three times more likely to be overweight, a problem exacerbated by the availability of fast food and the decline of orderly dining habits, Japanese researchers said on Wednesday. The findings, published in the B...