• Fairyland 2

    13-03-06 Chapter 4 So the next morning they told everyone they had to go, they had to go warn their dad. So they said their goodbyes and were off but then Julia's mom stopped them and asked if they would take Julia with them, they said they would and then he...

  • 学好汉译英 谨记“八戒”

    12-10-31 一、戒望文生义,机械直译 这多半是初学者犯的毛病,他们易于被表面现象所迷惑。 黄牛(yellow cowox前误后正,下同) 黄鹂(yellow bird oriole) 黄瓜( yellow meloncucumber) 紫菜(purple vegetable laver) 红木(red woodpadauk) 红豆杉(red firChinese yew) 黑社会(bla...

  • 真菌处理过的现代提琴堪比史特拉第瓦里提琴

    12-09-10 A good violin depends not only on the expertise of the violin maker, but also on the quality of the wood that is used. The Swiss wood researcher Professor Francis W. M. R. Schwarze (Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technolo...

  • 入木三分

    12-05-08 Wang Xi-zhi is one of the most famous calligraphers(书法家) during the Eastern Jin Dynasty of China. When he was very young, he practiced his art every day and never stopped. Later he absorbed the strong points of all the other schools of calligra...

  • The Star-Child 6

    12-02-07 Now this wood was very fair to look at from without, and seemed full of singing birds and of sweet-scented flowers, and the Star-Child entered it gladly. Yet did its beauty profit him little, for wherever he went harsh briars(荆棘) and thorns shot...

  • To Spring

    11-09-23 Again the wood, and long with-drawing vale, In many a tint of tender green are dressed, Where the young leaves unfolding scarce conceal Reneath their early shade the halfformed nest Of finch or wood-lark; and the primrose pale, And lavish cowslip,...

  • 青变菌基因组定序成功

    11-01-25 The genome of the fungus that helps mountain pine beetles infect and kill lodgepole pines(美国黑松) has been decoded in a University of British Columbia study. Also known as blue stain fungus for the stain it leaves in the wood of infected trees,...

  • Wood Fire 森林之火

    10-09-14 Wood Fire One woman lectured her best friend on the nature of the male animal. Husbands are like wood fires; they go out if left unattened. Does that mean, asked the other, that they make ashes of themselves? 森林之火 一名妇女向她最好的朋友大谈雄性...

  • 木材贵霉菌基因被成功解码

    10-07-20 An international team including Empa researcher Francis Schwarze has sequenced the genome of the common split gill(沟壑,溪流) mushroom, Schizophyllum(裂褶菌属) commune, a widely distributed fungus which grows on and decomposes(分解,腐烂) woo...

  • Love of Lines: Notes for an Apprentice Shingler

    10-07-13 Love of Lines: Notes for an Apprentice Shingler Sara London The injuries are small ones, the blade(叶片,刀片) slips from the cedar(雪松) slat to the kneeling knee, or the plane slides off the shingle's edge and shaves the thumb knuckle(关节)...