17-01-03 Hi everybody. This weekend, well dedicate the newest American icon on our National Mall - the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Its a beautiful building, five stories high and some 70 feet below the ground, situated just acros...

16-12-15 A decade after co-starring in the Oscar-nominated blockbuster The Banquet, Chinese A-list actress Zhang Ziyi and veteran actor Ge You have reunited in an upcoming espionage thriller, The Wasted Times. 中国一线女演员章子怡与资深演员葛优将联手出演间谍...

16-08-08 By now you should know the Harry Potter drill. 现在你应该了解《哈利波特》正确的打开方式了。 Purchase the book, stay up all night reading, feel all of your feelings and tweet about it. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child came out to much fanfare over t...

16-05-06 Mr William was deaf, but he didnt like people to know this. One evening he asked some friends to dinner. While they were sitting together after dinner, one of his friends told a funny story. Everyone laughed, and Mr William laughed, too. He said, Th...

16-03-02 Couldn't put it down. Literally. I neglected other duties for 36 hours. Excellent continuation of the story. Again, fascinating view of drivers of species survival seen through a different cultural lens, somewhat alien to my Western background. I di...

16-02-22 I love listening to my great-grandma's stories, so I didn't object when she started to tell me a story about one of her strange experiences over a glass of iced tea My Great-Great Grand-dad died in 1918 at the age of 48 when he fell off of a gallopi...

13-10-11 Canadian author Alice Munro has won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. 加拿大作家爱丽丝门罗获得2013年度诺贝尔文学奖。 Making the announcement, Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, called her a master of the contemporary short...

13-04-18 片段对白 Sarah: No. No way, I'm not going out with this guy. Carol: Just call him. Say hello. He's in my book club. Sarah: Why is there a woman in this picture? Carol: It's his wife. They're separated, but he didn't want to go to the trouble of phot...

13-04-08 Starting a new book is a risk, just like falling in love. You have to commit to it. You open the pages knowing a little bit about it maybe, from the back or from a blurb（大肆宣传） on the front. But who knows, right? Those bits and pieces aren't al...

12-10-31 《红楼梦》的书名在其170多年的英文翻译历史中曾出现九种译法，但大多译为Dream of the Red Chamber（红色阁楼之梦），以及A Dream of Red Mansions（红色宅院之梦）。九大英文译本中，唯独霍克斯将其定名为 The Story of the Stone （石头记），笔者认为只有他翻译正...