15-09-07 In the game of wheat genetics, Jorge Dubcovsky's laboratory at UC Davis has hit a grand slam, unveiling for the fourth time in a dozen years a gene that governs wheat vernalization, the biological process requiring cold temperatures to trigger flowe...

15-07-22 China's largest low-cost carrier Spring Airlines is planning to raise 4.5 billion yuan or 735 million U.S. dollars to buy 21 Airbus A320 jets. 中国最大的廉价航空公司春秋航空计划筹集45亿元人民币（7.35亿美元）购买21架空客A320。 The Shanghai-listed com...

15-03-30 The water level of the famous Baotu Spring in Jinan, east China's Shandong Province, has dropped to its alarm level of 27.60 meters over the past eight days. 中国山东济南趵突泉的水位在过去八年间已下降至警戒水位27.60米。 People visit the Baotu Spring...

15-03-18 Spring is coming, spring is coming, Birdies, build your nest; Weave together straw and feather, Doing each your best. Spring is coming, spring is coming, Flowers are coming too: Pansies, lilies, daffodillies, Now are coming thought Spring is coming,...

14-07-15 Tears from the sky, Softly falling. In the morning, It breaks my dreams. Wake the grass up, Let the sun hide. Thou are singing Or thou are weeping? Xi-li... xi-li... Raining to my heart. One drop after another. Again and again restart. We have been...

14-05-15 Wind conditions during spring migration may be a predictor of apparent annual survival and the timing of breeding in yellow warblers, according to results published May 14, 2014, in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Anna Drake from Simon Fraser Un...

14-03-14 1. no spring chicken 不再年轻 表示青春已逝，人已经不再年轻了。 例：That actress is no spring chicken, but she does a pretty good job of playing a twenty-year-old girl. 那位女演员已经不年轻了，不过她演20几岁的小姑娘还演得挺不错。 2. put years on 显老...

13-11-12 Phantom spring refers to exceptionally warm fall or winter weather that causes plants or animals to act as though spring has arrived. 暖潮指的是秋冬出现的异常温暖的天气，使得植物或动物的表现好像春天到来了一样。 It's called a phantom spring where the...

13-10-31 In the temperate zones, vegetation follows the change of the seasons. After a winter pause, plants put out new growth in spring. Research has now brought a new correlation to light: The colder the winter, the earlier native plants begin to grow agai...

13-06-05 Sweet day,so cool,so calm,so bright! The bridal of the earth and sky The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; For thou must die. Sweet rose,whose hue angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. S...