12-09-20 Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has opened the country's first gold refinery, which officials say is one of Africa's largest plants. 苏丹总统奥马尔巴希尔开启国内第一个冶金厂，官员称这是一座非洲最大的工厂。 The refinery has a daily production capaci...

12-09-11 I have in my hands two boxes which God gave me to hold. He said, Put all your sarrows in the black box, and all your joys in the gold. I heeded his words, and in the two boxes both my joys and sarrows I stored. But though the gold became heavier eac...

12-08-09 During the Warring States Period (475-221BC), there was a man called Yue Yangzi in State Yue. One day he saw a piece of gold on the road and picked it up. He took it home and gave it to his wife. But his wife was not happy. The virtuous（善良的） wo...

12-08-07 Team GB are hoping to secure the two gold medals which will allow them to surpass the tally of 19 won in Beijing. 英国队有望再夺两枚金牌，这将使其超越北京奥运会19枚金牌的记录。 Sir Chris Hoy is going for a GB record sixth Olympic gold - other GB cyc...

12-08-02 Ruben Limardo won the men's individual epee to earn Venezuela only their second Olympic gold medal ever. 鲁本利马度获得男子单人击剑冠军，这是委内瑞拉历史上的第二枚奥运会金牌。 The 26-year-old beat Norwegian Bartosz Piasecki 15-10 at the ExCel. South...

12-07-27 A team of researchers from Tel Aviv University has uncovered a hoard（贮藏物） of real-life buried treasure at the Crusader castle of Arsur (also known as Apollonia), a stronghold located between the ancient ports of Jaffa and Caesarea, in use from...

12-07-17 Currently, large doses of chemotherapy are required when treating certain forms of cancer, resulting in toxic side effects. The chemicals enter the body and work to destroy or shrink the tumor, but also harm vital organs and drastically（彻底地） af...

12-03-28 The Indian government has said it will review a new tax on unbranded gold jewellery. 印度政府称将重新考虑向无品牌黄金首饰征收新税的决定。 Shops have been closed in some parts of India since the levy was announced in the federal budget on 16 March. H...

12-03-09 'What, is he not solid gold?' said the Swallow to himself. He was too polite to make any personal remarks out loud. 'Far away,' continued the statue in a low musical voice,'far away in a little street there is a poor house. One of the windows is ope...

12-02-07 All rare and costly materials had certainly a great fascination for him, and in his eagerness to procure them he had sent away many merchants, some to traffic for amber with the rough fisher-folk of the north seas, some to Egypt to look for that cur...