• The Tale of the Sun

    14-12-18 A long, long time ago, the earth was in complete darkness. There was no sun, only the moon and some stars. This was before people, when giant animals roamed the earth. They were much bigger than animals today. Dinewan the Emu and Bralagah the Brolga...

  • 夸父追日

    14-12-03 Kua Fu tried his best to chase the sun. When he arrived at the place where the sun set, he had to turned around, as he could not bear the thirst, and came to the Yellow River and the Wei River. In one breath, he quaffed up all the water in both rive...

  • 田父献曝

    14-12-03 A peasant in the state of Song led an extremely hard life for he was destitute, depending on worn sackcloth to defense the chill of winter. After the spring arrived, the peasant ploughed in the field. When he got tired and rested on the ridge of the...

  • 太阳光对人体的三重伤害

    14-10-22 The most obvious effects of too much sun exposure are cosmetic, like wrinkled and rough skin. Some damage, however, goes deeper -- ultraviolet light can damage DNA and cause proteins in the body to break down into smaller, sometimes harmful pieces t...

  • A Beautiful Flower

    14-10-13 This happened many summers ago. There was a young flower in a desert where was always dried and sad-looking. It was growing by itself, enjoying everyday and saying to the Sun When shall I be grown up? And the Sun would say Be patient. Each time I to...

  • 科学家发现测定太阳活动周期的新线索

    14-09-04 Approximately every 11 years, the sun undergoes a complete personality change from quiet and calm to violently active. The height of the sun's activity, known as solar maximum, is a time of numerous sunspots, punctuated with profound eruptions that...

  • 秋天的落日

    14-06-25 We had a remarkable sunset one day last November. I was walking in a meadow(草地,牧场) , the source of a small brook(小溪,小河) , when the sun at last, just before setting, after a cold gray day, reached a clear stratum(地层) in the horizon,...

  • 口服防晒霜首次问世

    14-05-25 据报道,随着世界首款口服防晒霜问世,带着成瓶的防晒霜去海边度假的日子即将一去不复返。 The days of carrying bottles of suncream to the beach could be over, as the world's first drinkable SPF is launched. Harmonised H20 UV claims to provide holidaymake...

  • 小儿辨日

    14-05-20 In the middle of Confucius's travel round all the states, he saw two children arguing with each other. He stopped and asked them what they argued about. One child said, I think the sun is closer to us when it first rises in the morning, and farther...

  • A Flower in the Desert

    14-04-16 This happened many many summers ago. There was a young flower in the desert where all was dry and sad looking. It was growing by itself, enjoying every day. She asked the sun When shall I be grown up? And the sun would say Be patient. Each time I to...