• 元妃省亲

    11-04-18 This is an episode from the novel A Dream of Red Mansions. Just as the whole family was busy prepasring the birthday ceremony for Jia Zheng, Jia was summoned(传唤,召集) to report to the imperial court. His family did not know why and felt uneasy...

  • Southern Hospitality

    11-04-04 An American friend has invited you to visit his family. You've never been to an American's home before, and you're not sure what to do. Should you take a gift? How should you dress? What time should you arrive? What should you do when you get there?...

  • 现代母亲的家庭压力更大

    11-03-12 Being a mother is apparently not like it was in the good old days. 现在做妈妈显然不像在过去的美好时代那么轻松了。 Todays parents yearn for(渴望) the golden age that their own mothers enjoyed in the 1970s and 1980s, researchers found. Mothers have...

  • 如何获得幸福感?

    11-03-12 The pursuit of lasting happiness has long been a subject of interest for scientists and surveys alike. 长时间以来,对持久幸福感的追求一直是科学家和许多相关调查关注的目标。 But what makes us really happy and what lasting benefits does happiness have?...

  • Splitting Ice

    11-03-02 Splitting Ice Kay Ryan Like standing on splitting(极快的,爆裂似的) ice one foot on one one on the other piece. Distressed(痛苦的) like the family of man at the divorce of the plates: some cast into a suddenly new world as though having sinned;...

  • 调查:男性更想要孩子

    11-02-20 It was always women who wanted to settle down and start a family, while men dragged their heels... or so we thought. 一般来说女人们才想生个孩子,稳定下来,而男人们总是尽力拖延。至少我们是这么认为的。 These days, it seems the ladies are being beaten...

  • 突尼斯流放总统本·阿里的家人被捕

    11-01-20 Some 33 members of ousted Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's family have been held, state TV says. 突尼斯国家电视台称,大约33位流放总统扎因阿比丁本阿里的家人被捕。 Protesters want the unity government to exclude members of Mr Ben Ali's RCD...

  • 专家建议情侣进行婚前“配对测试”

    11-01-08 A British family law firm is urging couples to take a compatibility quiz before getting married or deciding to live together. 英国一家家庭法律事务所建议情侣们在结婚或决定同居之前先做个配对测试。 Bross Bennett's compatibility test(兼容性测试) focus...

  • 长孙得女 英国女王当上曾祖母

    11-01-03 英国女王伊丽莎白二世的长孙彼得菲利普斯夫妇本周三喜得千金,使得现年84岁的英国女王第一次当上曾祖母。 Queen Elizabeth, 84, became a great-grandmother for the first time when the wife of her grandson Peter Phillips gave birth to a baby girl, Buckingham...

  • 当代女性生育率有史最低

    10-12-14 Childlessness has reached record levels among a generation of women wrestling with the pressures of careers, mortgages and rocky relationships. 这一代女性不仅要与事业、房贷和不稳定的情感关系等多重压力做斗争,她们无子女的比例也达到了有史以来的最高水...