日期：2013-01-24 A kiddie ride is a coin-operated amusement ride for small children. Kiddie rides are commonly available in amusement parks, malls, hotel game rooms and outside supermarkets and discount department stores. Kiddie ride是一种供儿童玩耍的投币式娱乐设备... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-24 A starter marriage is a first marriage that lasts five years or less and ends without the couple having any children together. The term, a play on the expression starter home, appears as one of the footnotes in Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel Generati... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-24 Soft-sided luggage refers to an employee whose talent and multi-tasking abilities allows him or her to take on assignment after assignment. They, like soft-side luggage, seemingly expand to handle the workload. Of course, they completely collapse on... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-24 A purple state is a state with a vote which is typically closely divided between Democratic and Republican candidates at election time. As a result, such states can become important areas for electoral contests, with candidates fighting to get the m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-24 New guy gene is the internal mechanism that triggers extra politeness in new employees until they're up-to-speed on office politics. 新人基因（new guy gene）指新入职的员工自带的一种本能反应，让其在新的工作环境表现得更加有礼貌，直到他们能完全了解所在... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-24 Phonesia may refer to a) The affliction of dialing a phone number and forgetting whom you were calling just as they answer. b) Getting to the end of a list of options on a recorded helpline number, only to forget which option one wanted; forcing the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-24 Herding cats is an idiomatic saying that refers to an attempt to control or organize a class of entities which are uncontrollable or chaotic. It implies a task that is extremely difficult or impossible to do, primarily due to chaotic factors. Herdin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-24 Neither a bull or bear market, a deer market is characterized by low activity, with timid investors waiting for a sign of which way the market is going to end up moving. 鹿市，当然不是牛市，也不是熊市。鹿市的特点是股票买卖活动平缓，谨慎的投资者都在... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-24 A data shadow refers to the sum of all the small traces of information that an individual leaves behind through everyday activities. A data shadow is a minute pieces of data created when someone emails, updates social media profiles, swipes a credit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-16 Zhang Datong, 64, has been stripped of his post as vice-principle of the No 2 Middle School affiliated with East China Normal University and is under investigation for his alleged behavior that violated the teachers' code of morality , school author... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-16 The draft, as the nation's first gender equality regulation, granted five days of parental leave for both parents of a child younger than age 3 in its first version last October and extended the leave to 10 days in its second version last December.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-16 The bill also includes an article requiring agencies and employers to follow the principle of equal pay for equal work when negotiating payment for their contractors . 该草案还包括以下条例：劳务派遣单位及用工单位在协商劳务派遣工的工资时应遵守同工同... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-16 Jiaolong has enabled China to join the ranks of countries with deep-dive technology. The United States, Japan, France and Russia currently lead the world in the development of deep-sea technology . 蛟龙号让中国成为掌握深潜技术的国家之一。目前，在深... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-16 The Smart Defense notion was first broached by NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in February 2011 in response to the financial constraints facing the transatlantic community and the yawning gap in defense capabilities between Washington a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-16 A convicted pedophile will be offered chemical castration for the first time in South Korea, local media reported Tuesday. 韩国媒体周二报道，韩国将对一名恋童癖罪犯实施化学阉割，这是韩国首次动用此刑。 上面报道中的chemical castration就是化学阉割，是对... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-16 Britain's Queen Elizabeth hosted a Diamond Jubilee lunch for 26 kings and queens on May 18th, 2012. 英国女王伊丽莎白二世5月18日设午宴款待26国的国王与王后，以庆祝自己登基60周年。 上面报道中的Diamond Jubilee就是钻石庆，即60周年纪念。以前人们在纪念结婚... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-16 China launches electronic passports - Meng Hongwei, vice minister of public security, said at a launching ceremony for the passport that it was designed according to international standards, featuring anti-counterfeiting technology and intelligent c... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-28 A carbon-based error refers to a problem with a computer or a program that is caused by the user rather than the machine. All life on earth depends on carbon, which forms the molecular bonds that make life possible. Therefore, to say that an error i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-28 A brown bag seminar or session is generally a training or information session during a lunch break. Brown bag is a symbol for meals brought along by the attendees, or provided by the host. In the USA, those are often packed in brown paper bags. Brow... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-28 The cocktail party effect (also known as selective attention) is the phenomenon of being able to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, much the same way that a partygoer can focus on a... 阅读全文>>