12-07-02 Popularly dubbed the book of life, the human genome is extraordinarily difficult to read. But without full knowledge of its grammar and syntax（语法，句法） , the genome's 2.9 billion base-pairs of adenine（腺嘌呤） and thymine（胸腺嘧啶） , cytosin...

12-06-30 A supermarket manager committed suicide after the two families he had been hiding just ten miles apart for more than two decades discovered his secret double life. 英国一位超市经理在过去20多年中分别和两位女子组建家庭，而且两个家只相隔10英里。事情败...

12-06-27 Swallows may have gone, but there is a time of return; willow trees may have died back, but there is a time of regreening; peach blossoms may have fallen, but they will bloom again. Now, you the wise, tell me, why should our days leave us, never to...

12-06-27 Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience. How right they were. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, ex...

12-06-19 The lives of most men are determined by their enviroment.They accept the circumstances amid which fate has thrown them not only resignation but even with good will. They are like streetcars running contendedly on their rails and they despise the spr...

12-06-16 Hello, everybody! Everybody, please have a seat. Welcome to the White House, and congratulations to the Super Bowl Champion New York Giants. We've got some members of Congress and members of my administration who are here today and rabid（狂暴的） G...

12-06-08 I first heard this story a few years ago from a girl I had met in New York's Greenwich Village. Probably the story is one of those mysterious bits of folklore（民间传说） that reappear every few years, to be told a new in one form or another. Howeve...

12-06-01 Do you believe in life after death? the boss asked one of his employees. Yes, Sir. the new recruit replied. Well, then, that makes everything just fine, the boss went on. After you left early yesterday to go to your grandmother's funeral, she stoppe...

12-06-01 At a court the judge is interrogating a mugger（行凶抢劫者） but gets into difficulty because the mugger is a foreigner who doesn't speak English. Don't you speak English at all? the judge asks. Only a few words, replies the mugger. What words do yo...

12-05-24 Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a book-lover or merely you are there to buy a book as a present. You may even have entered the shop just to find shelter from a sudden shower. Whatever the reason, you can soon become t...