11-08-01 Arnold Schwarzenegger's childhood home in Austria has opened as a museum. 阿诺德施瓦辛格童年时期在奥地利居住的房子被作为一座博物馆。 The family lived in the first floor flat with no electricity or running water It came as the former Mr Universe, who...

11-07-14 Mr. and Mrs. Taylor had a seven year old boy named Pat. Now Mrs.Taylor was expecting another child. Pat had seen babies in other people's houses and had not liked them very much, so he was not delighted about the news that there was soon going to be...

11-05-26 Phebe's Secret Why do you keep smiling to yourself, Phebe? asked Rose, as they were working together one morning, for Dr. Alec considered house-work the best sort of gymnastics for girls; so Rose took lessons of Phebe in sweeping, dusting and bed-ma...

11-05-17 Working mothers want to earn a good salary, put a higher priority on getting some help around the house than at the office, and undervalue their work at home, surveys released on Tuesday showed. 本周二公布的最新调查显示，职场妈妈们想要赚得高薪水，更...

11-03-09 However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun（回避） it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may...

11-02-12 We lived on the banks of the Tennessee River, and we owned the summers when we were girls. We ran wild through humid（潮湿的） summer days that never ended but only melted one into the other. We floated down rivers of weekdays with no school, no rul...

10-11-27 Thanksgiving is the traditional day to count your blessings, but for some it is also the day to set the house on fire. 感恩节是细数恩典的传统节日，然而对某些人来说，这也是家中起火的日子。 There are more home fires on Thanksgiving than any other day...

10-11-22 I find it wholesome（健全的，有益健康的） to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome（疲倦的，厌倦的） and dissipating（消散） . I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so compa...

10-10-17 Women have fought hard for equality but a staggering 82 per cent still do the housework in their home, according to a revealing new study into Britain's cleaning habits. 一项有关英国人的清洁习惯的新研究惊人地揭示，尽管女性为实现平等进行了艰苦的斗争...

10-10-05 One day a lady saw a mouse running across her kitchen floor. She was very afraid of mouse, so she ran out of the house, got into a bus and went to the shops. There she bought a mousetrap（捕鼠器） . The shopkeeper said to her, Put some cheese in it...