14-10-15 The innocuous-sounding euphemism white gloves generally refers to a middleman or outfit that launders dirty or corrupt money under a seemingly legitimate front - dirty hands concealed by a pair of white gloves. 听起来不褒不贬的委婉语白手套指充当黑钱...

16-03-26 Washington was the first president of the U.S. He was very clever even when he was still a 12-year-old-boy. Once a thief stole some money from Uncle Post, Washington's neighbor. The door of the house was not broken, and things in the room were in go...

14-09-15 【金钱】 Quid Equal to ￡1. The word doesn't change in the plural, so ￡50 is fifty quid。 一英镑。这个词没有复数形式，所以50英镑就是fifty quid。 Skint, Broke Poor or lacking money 很穷、没钱 E.g. I can't come to the restaurant as I'm skint this wee...

14-09-11 True to her promise, the following day Hortense returned to Mr. Rubenstein, and with all the cunning of hernature placed before him, with many reservations, the nature of the dilemma which confronted her. Could she, byany chance, have the coat for o...

14-09-11 The result of all this on Clyde was to cause him to think more specifically on the problem of the sexes than heever had before, and by no means in any orthodox way. For while he condemned his sister's lover for thusruthlessly deserting her, still he...

14-09-07 A monkey in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh has rained down banknotes on people, reports say. 印度北部喜马偕尔邦的一只猴子向人们撒钱。 Surprised holidaymakers in the scenic pine forest of Shimla, the state capital, ran around, collecti...

14-08-27 If you woke pup this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week. If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agon（苦恼） of torture, or the...

14-08-06 There are two kinds of pain, the sort of pain that makes you strong or useless pain, the sort of pain that's only suffering. 痛苦分两种，一种让你变得更强，另一种毫无价值，只是徒添折磨。 And a person's character isn't determined by how he or she enjo...

14-07-31 Have you thought about what you want people to say about you after you're gone? Can you hear the voice saying, He was a great man. Or She really will be missed. What else do they say? One of the strangest phenomena of life is to engage in a work tha...

14-07-21 1. Join your retirement plan at work. It's the easiest way to save because money is automatically deducted from your paycheck, he says. If your employer doesn't offer a retirement plan, if you're not eligible to participate in it or if you're alread...