11-11-09 One day a visitor from the city came to a small rural area to drive around the country roads, see how the farms looked, and perhaps to see how farmers earned their living. The city man saw a farmer in his yard, holding a pig up in his hands, and lif...

11-11-05 It's no wonder when 75 percent of Brits work 12 hour days - with 31 percent admitting to 30 minutes 'me-time' on an average day, a survey revealed. 调查发现，75%的英国女性每天工作12个小时，难怪31%的人平均每天只有30分钟的个人专属时间。 Their lives ar...

11-11-05 格林尼治时间以英国首都伦敦市郊格林尼治天文台命名，作为全球通用的时间参考标准已使用120多年。如今，这一以地球自转为依据的世界时可能由以原子振荡周期为依据的原子时彻底取代。 For more than 120 years, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) has been the international s...

11-10-18 影片对白 Man: Hey. What are you doing? Girl: Waiting for you. Come on. Alex: Sorry I'm late. Gigi: No, it's okay. I like a little time before a blind date. Prepare myself mentally, remind myself not to tell the story about my molars ... Alex: Gigi,...

11-10-10 In all one's lifetime it is oneself that one spends the most time being with or dealing with. But it is precisely oneself that one has the least understanding of. When you are going upwards in life you tend to overestimate yourself. It seems that ev...

11-09-19 精彩对白 Michael: You think the police is gonna come and get me? Leigh Anne Tuohy: I'd imagine the last thing they want at Hurt Village is bunch of cops snooping around . I swore I'd never ask this, but how'd you get out of there, Michael? Michael:...

11-08-28 A caesium（铯） fountain clock that keeps the United Kingdom's atomic time is now the most accurate long-term timekeeper in the world, according to a new evaluation of the clock that will be published in the October 2011 issue of the international s...

11-08-16 影片对白 Woman: Registration for the AP exam is due next week, so don't flake . Hey, Grace. I was thinking of putting together just a little test-prep group for the class...and I was hoping I could pick your brain about what to focus on...since you'...

11-07-10 Rebound job is a job you take knowing that it isn't long term, often due to an emergency situation where you know youre losing your current job. It provides a paycheck while you take your time looking for a better job. 跳板工作指你在接受时就知道不会...

11-07-10 Not Enough Time To Enjoy Life , or NETTEL, refers to the rising pool of households headed by two high-income-earning, full-time-working parents with dependent children. NETTEL（Not Enough Time To Enjoy Life，无暇享受生活，简称奈特尔）指夫妻为高收入...