15-06-15 Oh, Monsieur, I said to him, to what limits you do carry your villainy! To the ultimate periods, Roland answered; there is not a single extravagance in the world in which I have not indulged, not a crime I have not committed, and not one that my doc...

15-05-28 Hong Kong ranked the world's second most competitive economy, up from the fourth place last year, according to the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) World Competitiveness Yearbook 2015. 瑞士国际管理学院2015年全球竞争力年鉴显示...

15-05-08 Hi everybody. Wednesday is Earth Day, a day to appreciate and protect this precious planet we call home. And today, there's no greater threat to our planet than climate change. 2014 was the planet's warmest year on record. Fourteen of the 15 hottest...

15-04-24 Wantrapreneur is a pejorative slang word for a person who wants to be an entrepreneur, but has either not made the full commitment or is pursuing the endeavor in a haphazard manner. 创想家是对想当企业家，但又没有全身心投入或是以一种随随便便态度对待...

15-04-17 Tomorrow is a special day: Microsoft's 40th anniversary. Early on, Paul Allen and I set the goal of a computer on every desk and in every home. It was a bold idea and a lot of people thought we were out of our minds to imagine it was possible. It is...

15-04-14 By this time I was tramping the streets again. The sight of a tailor-shop gave me a sharp longing to shed my rags, and to clothe myself decently once more. Could I afford it? No; I had nothing in the world but a million pounds. So I forced myself to...

15-04-14 Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In the interval he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and there are few things of which he stands in more fear than of the absence of noise. Even his convers...

15-04-14 Please, my dear, be so generous as to let me have a little world of my own. If you find me scrawling on a piece of paper, please don't peep over my shoulders. It may be that I'm venting some pent-up feelings, long dennied expression, or trying to co...

15-04-08 Liu Xiang's career started as a high jumper. Mr. Sun Haiping encouraged him to move up to hurdles. Without him, Liu's career would have come to a halt as his parents had withdrawn him from the sports school. 刘翔最开始是一名跳高运动员。他后来的教练...

15-04-07 Infants have innate knowledge about the world and when their expectations are defied, they learn best, researchers at Johns Hopkins University found. In a paper to be published April 3 in the journal Science, cognitive psychologists Aimee E. Stahl a...