15-07-29 Working life can be stressful, with all that smiling and all those expressions. To help with this gigantic problem, a Chinese service company has implemented a No-Face Day , where employees can wear a mask to relieve them from the stress of faking f...

15-07-20 In the low-ceilinged canteen, deep underground, the lunch queue jerked slowly forward. The room was already very full and deafeningly noisy. From the grille at the counter the steam of stew came pouring forth, with a sour metallic smell which did no...

15-07-20 Winston was dreaming of his mother. He must, he thought, have been ten or eleven years old when his mother had disappeared. She was a tall, statuesque, rather silent woman with slow movements and magnificent fair hair. His father he remembered more...

15-07-07 John is not a good student. He always sleeps in the class. Today he sleeps again. John! Teacher says angrily. What? What's wrong? John is awaken. Why do you make a face? It's classroom. Look! Everyone is laughing. Teacher says. No one is laughing. T...

15-06-18 lead someone by the nose 控制某人，牵着某人的鼻子走 pay through the nose 花大价钱，被敲竹杠 turn up one's nose (at) 轻视，瞧不起，嗤之以鼻 under someone's (very) nose 在某人面前，当着某人的面 as plain as the nose on your face 显而易见，一清二楚 bite...

15-04-02 The fifth was thirty-two; she was four months pregnant; with an oval, somewhat melancholic face, large soulful eyes; she was very pale, her health was delicate, she had a harmonious voice but the rest seemed somehow spoiled. She was naturally libert...

15-03-10 Angela Garvin's alarm goes off at 6.30am every day. As a legal adviser, she has to be up early, and has a strict skin regime to get through. 安吉拉加文每天早上6点半被闹钟叫醒。作为一名法律顾问，她必须早起，而且还必须留足时间进行严格的护肤程序。 Firs...

15-02-15 All of our worst nightmares have been realized. The term duck face has gained the legitimacy that can only be awarded by an entry into OxfordDictionaries.com, meaning that frenemie of yours that keeps quacking it up for the camera can continue to do...

15-02-08 We've all been told you should never judge a book by its cover. Now one creative agency has found a way to prevent that from ever happening by creating a cover that judges you. 常言道，仅凭书的封面无法判断一本书的好坏。如今，一家创意公司就找到了一种...

15-01-16 New Year's Eve has come and gone, and I'm not at all stoked to see the pictures of myself from that night. It's not because I was captured doing something compromising, I just hate seeing myself on camera. 12.31来了又去，而我见到那晚自己的照片并不兴...