• Visiting Stanley Kunitz

    10-12-08 Visiting Stanley Kunitz Michael Longley I have flown the Atlantic To reach you in your chair. Cuddling(拥抱) up, we talk about Flowers, important things, And hold hands to celebrate Spring gentian's heavenly (Strictly speaking) blue. You grow anem...

  • 英国最受欢迎婴儿名字-Oliver Olivia

    10-10-30 After a 14-year reign, Jack has lost its stranglehold on the title of England and Wales' top name for newborn boys, replaced by Oliver. Oliver最近获选英格兰和威尔士最受欢迎的新生男孩名字,而在之前14年间,这一殊荣一直为Jack占据。 Olivia was the most...

  • What's your name? 你叫什么名字?

    10-07-19 What's your name? A very strict officer was talking to some new soldiers whom he had to train. He had never seen them before,so he began:My name is Stone, and I'm even harder than stone,so do what I tell you or there'll be trouble. Don't try any tri...

  • A Girl's Name 女孩的名字

    10-06-29 A Girl's Name When our daughter was born, we named her Myles, after my beloved late(已故的) father, despite family warning that the name was too masculine(男性的) . Years later, when I felt she was old enough to understand, I explained to Myles,...

  • The Name of a Poet 诗人的名字

    10-05-28 The Name of a Poet Our teacher was telling us about a new system of memory training being used in some schools today. It works like this, she said. Suppose you wanted tore member the name of a poetRobert Burns, for instance. She told us to think of...

  • 男性化名字有助女性从事司法业

    09-11-21 美国最近一项研究发现,名字偏男性化的女律师和女法官比那些有传统女性化名字的女性同行更加成功。这项研究分析了一个人在司法行业的成就与其名字男性化程度之间的关系。研究发现,名为卡梅隆的女性成为法官的几率比叫苏的女性高出两倍,而名为布鲁斯的女性成为法官的...

  • My Korean name

    09-11-04 My grandfather left Korea to live with us in New York when he was almost eighty years old. My parents fixed up the attic(阁楼) so that he had his own room. He wore traditional Korean clothes: shiny vests(背心) with gold buttons, and puffy(肥大...

  • How did the teddy bear got its name?

    09-09-30 Can you bear it? The famous teddy bear is more than 100 years old, and got its name from a United States president. In 1902, President Theodore Teddy Roosevelt took a trip to the American South to help work out a land disagreement between Mississipp...

  • Damien and Myra most mistrusted names: UK poll 英国最不吉利

    09-09-27 Damien, Myra and Carrie are Britain's most feared and mistrusted names due to superstitious and dark associations, according to a survey on Monday. Damien, Myra and Carrie are Britain's most feared and mistrusted names due to superstitious and dark...

  • Nepalese site named after Lumley 尼泊尔景点以Lumley命名

    09-08-02 A popular tourist site in Nepal has been renamed in honour of actress Joanna Lumley and her father. 尼泊尔一处著名旅游景点以女演员Joanna Lumley和她父亲的名字命名以示尊敬。 Ms Lumley has been visiting veterans in the foothills of the Himalayas Local...