21-02-24 How long she stood there staring fearfully at the empty window of the shed, Mary Thorne had no idea. She seemed frozen and incapable of movement. But at last, with a shiver, she came to herself, and bending out, drew in the heavy wooden, shutters an...
15-07-16 In a village in the mountain in front, there was a man named Wang Laowu notorious for his laziness. Everyone called him Lazy Laowu, but he never admitted he was lazy. Whenever someonecalled him Lazy Laowu, he would glare and say: Who is lazy? It is...
14-07-23 When I reached the top I found the brass dome and the statue exactly as the pilot had described, but was too wearied with all I had gone through to do more than glance at them, and, flinging myself under the dome, was asleep in an instant. In my dre...
14-06-20 IN the times of the Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid there lived in Bagdad a poor porter named Hindbad, who on a very hot day was sent to carry a heavy load from one end of the city to the other. Before he had accomplished half the distance he was so tired...
14-02-24 Bat falling upon the ground was caught by a weasel, of whom he earnestly besought his life. The weasel refused, saying, that he was by nature the enemy of all birds. The bat assured him that he was not a bird, but a mouse, and thus saved his life. S...
13-07-30 Orangutans might be the king of the swingers, but primatologists in Borneo have found that the great apes spend a surprising amount of time walking on the ground. The research, published in the American Journal of Primatology found that it is common...
12-09-17 A stowaway fell thousands of feet from a plane on to a quiet suburban street after apparently hiding in the landing gear. 英国某条安静的郊区街道近日从数千英尺的高空天降男尸,看起来死者是一名藏在飞机起落架上的偷渡者。 A stowaway fell thousands of fee...
12-07-13 Architects have designed an incredible 65-storey ' earth-scraper ' which plunges 300 metres below ground. The stunning upside down pyramid in the middle of Mexico City is designed to get around height limits on new buildings in the capital. 墨西哥建...
12-03-27 Hello! My name is Drizzle. I am a tiny water drop. Whew! The sun is heating me up! I am getting smaller and smaller. Oh! I am going up! Up! Up! Into a cloud! Whee! Look at them. They look just like me. It is really cool up here. I like this place. H...
11-03-09 In the thick of(在最激烈的时刻) whale season, researchers from Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shed new light on the wintering grounds of the humpback whale(座头鲸) . The...