14-06-17 Jack: My daughter's music lessons are a fortune to me. John: How is that? Jack: They enabled me to buy the neighbor's houses at half price. 杰克：我女儿的音乐课对我来说是一笔财富。 约翰：怎么说？ 杰克：这让我用半价买下了邻居的房子。...

14-05-28 US housing price growth slowed to just 0.2% in the first three months of 2014, latest figures show. 最新数据显示，2014年第一季度美国房价增长速度减缓至0.2%。 According to the SP/Case-Shiller index, the slowdown in growth compared with the previous qu...

14-04-23 Mistakes and errors are the disciplined true which we advance in life（渐老） . Mistakes are great teachers. Success comes to those who are willing to risk making mistakes in the pursuit of their goals and aspirations, and who are able to learn from...

14-03-27 Ukraine's interim government says it will raise gas prices for domestic consumers by 50% in an effort to secure an International Monetary Fund (IMF) aid package. 乌克兰临时政府将家庭燃气价格提升50%以确保实施国际货币基金组织的援助项目。 An official a...

14-03-20 Econnoisseur is one who insists on the highest quality at the lowest price. 羊毛党是那些坚持以最低的价格买到最高品质商品的精明消费者。 Example: Being an econnoisseur I bought the ten dollar chilean wine instead of the fifty dollar french. 精明的我选...

14-01-22 Cheappuccino refers to any of the wide variety of flavored coffee drinks offered at convenience stores such as Circle K or 7 Eleven that can be purchased for less than half the price of a Starbucks cappuccino. 廉价咖啡指的是像Circle K或7 Eleven这样...

13-12-06 十一月为坚信黄金价值的投资者带来了新的不利消息：该月黄金价格下降6%，是6月以来单月下降最多的月份，使2013年度的黄金投资形式更为严峻，也结束了长达13年的黄金市场繁荣。黄金价格今年已经下跌了25%，是自2000年以来的首次。 November brought more bad news for b...

13-11-14 A diamond known as the Pink Star has sold for $83m at auction in Geneva - a record price for a gemstone. 一颗名为粉红之星的宝石在日内瓦的一场拍卖会上以8300万美元价格成交创造了宝石价格的历史之最。 The moment the Pink Star diamond was sold for a recor...

13-11-13 This is a story about the well-known millionaire, John D. Rockefeller, and was told by a friend of his. This friend said that though Rockefeller gave away millions, he was very mean about small sums of money. One day he went to stay at a hotel in Ne...

13-11-11 As fur coats and Swiss watches fall out of vogue among China's elites facing a corruption crackdown, another luxury sector is quietly thriving. The second-hand luxury market has seen a jump this year, according to a survey of stores by Fortune Chara...