14-03-26 Down The River A fortnight later, the boys were picking apples one golden October afternoon, and the girls were hurrying to finish their work, that they might go and help the harvesters. It was six weeks now since the new school began, and they had...

13-12-30 A team of material scientists, chemical engineers and physicists from the University of Pennsylvania has made another advance in their effort to use liquid crystals as a medium for assembling structures. In their earlier studies, the team produced p...

13-11-20 Aphrodite loved Adonis more than she did anybody else, for he was a brisk, lovely young hunter. She gave up her home at olympus and took to the woods. In the woods she dressed herself up like a huntress and kept the youth company all day long. With...

13-08-14 精彩对白 Robert: Busy? Cora: I'm just trying to sort out the wretched flower show. Robert: I've had a letter from Rosamond. Cora: Don't tell me: she wants saddle of lamb and all the fruit and vegetables we can muster. Robert: She enjoys a taste of h...

13-08-01 《清明》 （唐）杜牧 清明时节雨纷纷，路上行人欲断魂。 借问酒家何处有？牧童遥指杏花村。 万昌盛、王中英译（韵式aabb） The ceaseless drizzle drips all the dismal day, So broken-hearted fares the traveler on the way. When asked where could be found a tav...

13-04-03 Beekeepers and researchers nationally are reporting growing evidence that a powerful new class of pesticides may be killing off bumblebees. Now, research at the University of Pittsburgh points toward another potential cause: metal pollution from alu...

13-02-01 A team of scientists have described twenty four new species of dipterans（双翅类昆虫） belonging to Quichuana genus, of which only a further 24 species were known. The researchers, including two Spanish biologists, have been studying the forests of...

12-11-14 Each spring brings a new blossom of wildflowers in the ditches along the highway I travel daily to work. There is one particular blue flower that has always caught my eye. I've noticed that it blooms only in the morning hours, the afternoon sun is t...

12-11-14 At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. 每一个沐浴在爱河中的人都是诗人。 Where there is great love, there are always miracles. 哪里有真爱存在，哪里就有奇迹。 If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my...

12-08-06 Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sign. 夏天的飞鸟，飞到我的窗前唱歌，又飞去了。 秋天的黄叶，它们没有什么可唱，只叹息一声，飞落在那里。 A Tro...