14-10-17 A nightingale was sitting on a bough of an oak and singing, as her custom was. A hungry hawk presently spied her, and darting to the spot seized her in his talons. He was just about to tear her in pieces when she begged him to spare her life: I'm no...

14-08-01 It already won a top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, but Richard Linklater's groundbreaking Boyhood is being talked about for the ultimate movie accolade, an Oscar. 理查德林克莱特凭借呕心沥血之作《少年时代》在今年斩获柏林电影节最佳导演银熊奖，同...

14-07-29 Little Albert came home from school with a new book under his arm. It's a prize, mother, he explained. A prize? What for, dear? For natural history. Teacher asked me how many legs an ostrich has, and I said three. But an ostrich has only two legs. I...

13-07-31 精彩对白 Jesse: We haven't talked about this yet, but are you dating anyone? You got a boyfriend waiting on you back in Paris or anything like that? Celine: No, not right now. Jesee: But you did. Celine: We broke up six months ago. Jesse: Six months...

12-10-17 Hilary Mantel has won the 50,000 Man Booker Prize for her novel Bring up the Bodies, the sequel to Wolf Hall, which won the prize in 2009. 希拉里曼特尔凭小说Bring up the Bodies赢得布克文学奖五万英镑，这部小说是2009年获该奖的小说Wolf Hallo的续集。 Ma...

12-04-01 The search is on in the US for the winners of the world's biggest ever lottery jackpot - $640m. 世界上迄今最大的彩票6.4亿美元在美国开出，目前尚未有人申领该奖金。 Three tickets have now been announced as sharing the massive prize, with the winners in...

11-12-06 Sculptor Martin Boyce, whose works include artificial trees and a leaning litter bin, has won the Turner Prize. 雕刻家马丁博伊斯获得特纳奖，他的代表作有人造树和倾斜的垃圾箱。 Glasgow-based Boyce accepted the modern art award at the Baltic gallery in...

11-10-09 This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to three women - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian Leymah Gbowee and Tawakul Karman of Yemen. 今年的诺贝尔和平奖被授予三位女士利比里亚总统爱伦约翰森希尔丽夫、利比里亚人莱马博韦...

11-06-09 Serbian-American author Tea Obreht has won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Tiger's Wife. 美籍塞尔维亚作家Tea Obreh以其处女作《老虎的妻子》获得橘子小说奖。 The 25-year-old, who is the youngest author to scoop the honour, was...

10-04-14 Britain's Got Talent star Faryl Smith and Pope Benedict will compete for a prize at the Classical Brit Awards, which takes place next month. 《英国达人》明星法瑞尔史密斯与教皇本笃十六世将于下月角逐英国古典音乐奖。 Faryl Smith (l) is the youngest art...