14-11-05 Ever walked into a hotel room and smelled old cigarette smoke? While the last smoker may have left the room hours or even days ago, the lingering odors -- resulting from noxious residue that clings to walls, carpets, furniture, or dust particles --...

14-10-13 If you scold him, you are like a nanny to him; If he scolds you, it is because he cares for you. If you break your promise, you cannot be trusted; If he breaks his, he is forced to do so. If you smoke, you are a bad girl; If he smokes, he is a gentl...

14-09-04 Fox in a Tree Stump Judith Beveridge I gripped the branch and waited in a paddock that ran on over harder and harder earth. Leaving me with smoke and the stick to beat the fox, my uncle drove off. Terror barrel-rode through my stomach. I knew my unc...

14-07-08 Every year, wildfires clear millions of hectares of land and emit around 34-percent of global soot（煤烟，烟灰） mass into the atmosphere. In certain regions, such as Southeast Asia and Russia, these fires can contribute as much as 63-percent of reg...

13-12-30 Thousands of people in eastern El Salvador are leaving their homes after a volcano erupted on Sunday morning. 上周日上午，萨尔瓦多东部一座火山爆发，数千人被迫离开家园。 Some 300 communities live around the volcano. Residents in the coffee-producing...

13-07-25 Smoke and Mirrors Caki Wilkinson Back then, girls teased their hair, big bangs like loofahs（丝瓜） on their foreheads. Plumes. Somebody spiked the punch, they said, as if they'd wanted plain old punch. They shared their earrings, weed, and jeans, w...

13-06-25 Let no one ever say that a poor tailor cannot do great things and win high honors; all that is needed is that he should go to the right smithy（铁匠铺） , and what is of most consequence, that he should have good luck. A civil, adroit tailor's appre...

13-06-21 A study led by researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found for the first time that thirdhand smoke -- the noxious residue（残渣，剩余） that clings to virtually all surfaces long after the secondhand smoke from a cigarette has c...

13-05-22 People who are consistently exposed to both wood smoke and tobacco smoke are at a greater risk for developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD慢性阻塞性肺炎 ) and for experiencing more frequent and severe symptoms of the disease, as well...

13-02-01 大材小用：a great talent gone to waste 有时也作大才小用，这里译为a great talent gone to waste，除此之外，我们还常译为big talent wasted on a petty job; not do justice to one's talents。同类表达还有屈才（do work unworthy of one's talents）。大材等同于...