• perma-youth 由整容手术来维持的外表

    16-04-20 Perma-youth (also seen as permayouth) is appearance of youthfulness maintained over time by using cosmetic surgery; or a person who maintains such an appearance. Perma-youth指的是由整容手术来维持的青春永驻的外表或面貌,也可以指青春永驻的人。这个词由...

  • Different idea 想法不同

    16-03-10 A young man and his girlfriend were sitting together imagining their happy life in the future. The young man said, How free and happy it would be, if we were two little birds, then we could fly out into the great world and build our nest in the top...

  • Oliver Twist 雾都孤儿 - Chapter 15

    16-02-18 In the obscure parlour of a low public-house, in the filthiest part of Little Saffron Hill; a dark and gloomy den, where a flaring gas-light burnt all day in the winter-time; and where no ray of sun ever shone in the summer: there sat, brooding over...

  • Hanover Square

    16-01-13 Can it really be sixty-two years ago that I first saw you? It is truly a lifetime, I know. But as I gaze into your eyes now, it seems like only yesterday that I first saw you, in that small caf in Hanover Square. From the moment I saw you smile, as...

  • generation pause 暂停的一代

    16-01-08 Generation pause refers to young adults who are not able to do things previously typical for their age group such as buy a home, start a family and have kids because they are short of money. 暂停的一代指到了一定年纪,却因为没有钱而无法像前辈人那样买...

  • Not Your Mama's Chili

    15-12-10 A young cowboy walks into the town cafe. He sits at the counter and notices an old cowboy with his arms folded, staring blankly at a full bowl of chili. After fifteen minutes of just sitting there staring at it, the young cowboy bravely asked the ol...

  • 芬兰年轻人陪老人聊天可以减房租

    15-12-04 Helsinki is offering young people the chance to rent a cheap apartment in an old people's home, if they agree to spend time socialising with the elderly residents. 芬兰首都赫尔辛基将允许年轻人以低廉的租金租赁养老院公寓,前提是他们要陪老人聊天。 The...

  • 年轻人最爱嫉妒彼此

    15-11-18 Older women have often been portrayed as green-eyed monsters, envying the young and hankering after their own lost looks. 年纪大的女人通常都被描述成爱嫉妒的人,她们嫉妒年轻女子,渴望拥有自己曾经的姣好容貌。 But it is actually the young who are the m...

  • Burmese Days 缅甸岁月 Chapter 18

    15-11-12 After the row overnight Ellis was looking forward to a week of baiting Flory. He had nicknamed him Nancy--short for nigger's Nancy Boy, but the women did not know that--and was already inventing wild scandals about him. Ellis always invented scandal...

  • 必须亲身经历才能体会的道理 中

    15-09-23 Make Your Health a Priority, Not an Option Once you get into your late 20s and early 30s your body is going to start losing metabolism and energy. You're going to start hurting and going to bed earlier. Start eating better and exercising. Don't thin...