20-09-27 For a week the amount of virtue in the old house would have supplied the neighborhood. It was really amazing, for everyone seemed in a heavenly frame of mind, and self-denial was all the fashion. Relieved of their first anxiety about their father, t...

20-09-27 November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year, said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. Thats the reason I was born in it, observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on he...

18-05-05 The invisible poverty-stricken population, or the invisible poor , refers to people whose consumption exceeds their income. They usually live a quality life and spend a lot of money on food, clothing, gym, spas and other daily expenses, which leaves...

16-01-28 Poor mouth refers to someone who continually complains about a lack of money, often as an excuse for not contributing to charities, paying bills, etc. Poor mouth指那些老抱怨自己没钱、并以此为借口逃避付账单或者为慈善事业捐款的人，我们可以称之为哭穷鬼...

15-11-10 There lived a rich man named Guo in the State of Qi and a poor man named Xiang in the State of Song. The poor man came to the State of Qi to visit the rich man, and asked him about the way to get rich. The rich man in the State of Qi told him: I was...

15-06-19 UK managers are getting pay bonuses despite being underperformers, a new report suggests. 一份新的报告指出，在英国，管理者们即使业绩不佳，也依然能拿到奖金。 The research into the pay of 70,000 managers concluded that a third of those given bonuses w...

14-11-29 Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. 最好不要向它屈服。重整旗鼓花的时间是崩溃的十倍。 That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have ple...

14-09-10 Ma Liang liked drawing very much. But he was very poor, he had no money to buy food and drinks, how could he buy a pen to draw pictures? One day, an old man with a white came to Ma Liang. He gave him a pen to draw pictures. Before leaving, he said t...

14-08-18 However mean your life is, meet it and live it, do not shun（避免） 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...

14-05-19 Looking very unhappy, a poor man entered a doctor's consulting-room. Doctor, he said, you must help me. I swallowed a penny about a month ago. Good heavens, man! said the doctor. Why have you waited so long? Why don't you come to me on the day you s...