• pet sitter 宠物保姆

    14-03-27 A pet sitter is a contracted service provider who takes care of a pet at its own home. The term comes from baby-sitter. 宠物保姆(pet sitter)指签订了雇佣合同,在宠物家中提供照看服务的人。该词源自于婴儿保姆(baby-sitter)一词。 The professional pet-...

  • A Change of Heart

    14-03-25 A Change of Heart R. T. Smith Sunday night a widow in Winslow, Arkansas came home to find an owl's fully detailed profile printed on her patio door as clear as a photographic plate, and it startled her -- wings spanned wide and outsized eyes, the fe...

  • My Sister's Fingers 我妹妹的手指头

    14-03-12 Teacher: Kevin, why are you late this time? Kevin: Please sir, I bruised(擦伤) two fingers knocking in a nail at home. Teacher: I don't see any bandages. Kevin: Oh, they weren't my fingers! I told my little sister to hold the nail. 老师:凯温,这...

  • 伍迪·艾伦的养女称曾被其性侵

    14-03-07 The adopted daughter of Woody Allen has renewed claims the filmmaker sexually abused her as a child in 1992. 伍迪艾伦的养女重新发表声明,称伍迪艾伦曾在1992年对她进行性侵,当时她还是个孩子。 In an open letter, Dylan Farrow accuses Mr Allen of molesti...

  • Clamor

    14-02-26 Clamor Nick Norwood The mill's non-stop noise, a whir and a clangor(叮当声) , follows him home, over the bridge and up the hill, while at his back it goes on wheezing, chuffing lint through manifold(多方面的) windows, into the village with the l...

  • The Pack of Ragamuffins

    14-02-24 The cock once said to the hen, It is now the time when our nuts are ripe, so let us go to the hill together and for once eat our fill before the squirrel takes them all away. Yes, replied the hen, come, we will have some pleasure together. Then they...

  • motherism 全职妈妈歧视

    14-02-11 Motherism is a growing prejudice against stay-at-home mums which suggests that full-time mothers are unintelligent, unattractive and just plain lazy because they're not in formal employment. This entrenched lack of respect can mean that relative to...

  • 史铁生《我与地坛》翻译节选

    14-01-24 我在好几篇小说中都提到过一座废弃的古园,实际就是地坛。许多年前旅游业还没有开展,园子荒芜冷落得如同一片野地,很少被人记起。 In a number of my stories, I've referred to an antiquated park: in fact, this is the Temple of Earth Park. Some years ago, bef...

  • Clever Hans

    14-01-23 The mother of Hans said, Whither away, Hans? Hans answered, To Grethel. Behave well, Hans. Oh, I'll behave well. Good-bye, mother. Good-bye, Hans. Hans comes to Grethel, Good day, Grethel. Good day, Hans. What dost thou bring that is good? I bring n...

  • I'm the Devil 魔鬼的妹夫

    14-01-23 A woman whose husband often came home drunk decided to cure him of the habit. One Halloween night, she put on a devil suit and hid behind a tree to intercept him on the way home. When her husband came by, she jumped out and stood before him with her...