20-03-18 很多人都分不清tortoise和turtle。 Many people are confused by the words tortoise and turtle. This is partly due to regional differences. In British English, turtles and tortoises are two different hard-shelled, egg-laying reptiles. The main difference...

15-05-08 A 90-year-old tortoise is going twice its normal speed after being fitted with a set of wheels. 一只90岁的乌龟装上车轮腿后，爬行速度达到了原来的两倍。 The animal, called Mrs T, was facing a grim future after a rat chewed off her two front legs while...

14-11-27 Zhuangzi was sitting by Pushui Rievr, fishing leisurely. Chu Weiwang, king of the state of Chu, sent two ministers to come to persuade him accepting the position of Prime Minister. Zhuangzi asked, It is heard that a holy tortoise which has been dead...

14-02-28 A tortoise and scorpion had contracted a great intimacy（亲密） , and bound themselves with such ties of friendship, that the one could not live without the other. One day these inseparable companions, finding themselves obliged to change their habi...

13-10-30 Jupiter was about to marry a wife ,and determined to celebrate the event by inviting all the animals to a banquet（宴会） . They all came except tortoise, who did not put in an appearance, much to Jupiter's surprise. So when he next saw the tortoise...

12-06-25 Staff at the Galapagos National Park in Ecuador say Lonesome George, a giant tortoise believed to be the last of its subspecies, has died. 加拉帕戈斯国家公园的工作人员称，世界上最后一只同种的巨型陆龟，孤单乔治，已经死亡。 Scientists estimate he was...

11-11-07 A HARE one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, who replied, laughing: Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race. The Hare, believing her assertion（断言，主张） to be simply impossible, assented to（同意） th...