13-05-08 The last thing I want to do is to hurt you. But it's still on the list. 直译：在这个世界上，我最不愿意做的事就是伤害你，但是这件事仍在我的考虑之列。 意译：我真不想伤害你，但你也别逼我。 Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting...

12-12-31 A 'dad' is tenth most popular Christmas list request for children with youngsters happy to forgo the latest iPad, toy or new pet, a survey has found. 一项调查发现，老爸成为最受孩子欢迎的圣诞节礼物之一，排在孩子圣诞节心愿单的第十位。孩子们情愿为此放...

12-07-13 An encore is an additional performance added to the end of a concert, from the French encore, which means again, some more; multiple encores are not uncommon. Encores originated spontaneously, when audiences would continue to applaud and demand addi...

12-07-04 All top performers establish priorities. Helen Gurley Brown, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, always keeps an issue of the magazine on her desk. Whenever she's tempted to fritter away（一点点地浪费） time, doing something that doesn't contribute to...

12-06-03 The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the US. 美国国土安全部近日应要求公开了用于监控...

11-09-28 Bucket list refers to a list of activities and achievements that a person hopes to accomplish in his or her lifetime. This phrase comes from the idiom to kick the bucket, meaning to die, which has been in the language since at least 1785. Bucket lis...

10-11-17 UN cultural organisation Unesco has added France's traditional gastronomic meal to the world's intangible heritage list at a committee meeting in Kenya. 在肯尼亚召开的委员会会议上，联合国教科文组织将法国传统美食列入世界非物质遗产。 Unesco said Franc...

10-08-22 Harvard retains the crown as top university for the eighth year in an annual ranking of the world's universities which is dominated by the United States but shows China's performance improving. 一项世界大学年度排名日前出炉，哈佛大学连续第八年高居排...

10-03-27 第二次世界大战时期著名的辛德勒名单私人珍藏版近日在一家名为Momentsintime.com的网站标价150万英镑出售，卖家表示此次拍卖采取先到先得的方式交易，不会进行竞价。 One of the original versions of the Schindler's List is being put on sale for 1.5million. The...

10-01-08 Singer Susan Boyle has narrowly missed out on topping the best seller list of 2009 but has spent a sixth week on top of the US album chart. 歌手苏珊波伊尔错失登入2009年畅销唱片榜榜首的机会，但是却连续六周保持美国唱片排行榜榜首位置。 Susan Boyle was...