21-03-20 It was a very great relief to Emma to find Harriet as desirous as herself to avoid a meeting. Their intercourse was painful enough by letter. How much worse, had they been obliged to meet! Harriet expressed herself very much as might be supposed, wi...

21-03-10 Heres a hotel worth writing home about: a company in Poland plans to build tourist accommodation under the sea. The structure can be towed to a suitable location and placed on supports on the sea bed. The Water Discus will be made up of an underwate...

21-02-27 每天急急忙忙的上下班已经是许多上班族生活的一部分，其中也有不少趣事，不过常年如此也给大家带来了不少的压力。 The daily journey to and from home and work is one of those things that many of us have to endure. Whether by train, bus, bike or on foot, its...

21-02-08 自2020年3月以来，英国已经几度实行全国性封锁，以控制疫情。在此期间，英国家长需要帮助孩子参与学校组织的线上课。但一些家庭没有足够的电子设备和良好的无线网络环境，所以不具备远程学习的条件。 Google Classroom, Zoom lessons and Microsoft Teams are some of...

21-01-24 WHEN it was all over, the long journey home, the quiet funeral, the first sad excitement, then came the bitter moment when life says to the bereaved: Take up your burden and go on alone. Christies had been the still, tearless grief hardest to bear,...

21-01-15 搭配 be left holding the baby 的字面意思是 不得不一个人带孩子，但它实际是在用这种家庭分工来比喻某人 不得不独自撑起一个困难的局面，接替别人做苦差事。这类困难的局面通常由他人引起，而那个人却又无能处理或拒绝承担责任。所以，如果某人 be left holding the...

21-01-11 1. I worked at a historic site once where I had to dress as a bison and be chased by hordes of 5 year olds in a bison hunt. Once after being killed in the bison hunt I was breathing too heavily from running. One of them yelled its alive and punched...

20-12-20 Uncle Alec did not object and, finding that no one had any claim upon the child, permitted Rose to keep it for a time at least. So little Dulce, newly equipped even to a name, took her place among them and slowly began to thrive. But she did not gro...

20-12-15 I watched them with a heavy heart as they left until they slowly disappeared. It was such a heart-wrenching sight! While I would be taking a convenient ride home, he would be trudging on foot along the highway, crossing several busy streets and down...

20-12-14 当一个句子中的主语与宾语一致时，宾语则可以用反身代词。其中，第一人称和第二人称的反身代词是由形容词性物主代词 my、your、our 等加上 -self 或 -selves 组成的。比如：myself、yourself、yourselves、ourselves。第三人称的反身代词则由人称代词 her、him、them...