日期：2012-12-13 A microsleep is an episode of sleep which may last for a fraction of a second or up to thirty seconds. Often, it is the result of sleep deprivation, mental fatigue, depression, or hypersomnia. For the sleep-deprived, microsleeping can occur at any t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-13 According to a new study, people whose surnames start with letters late in the alphabet may be the fastest to buy. What could possibly explain this weird phenomenon, which the study authors dubbed the last-name effect ? The research didn't provide a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-13 Many technicians routinely hang numerous devices such as cell-phones, personal organizers, leatherman multitools, pocket knives, flashlights, walkie-talkies, even miniature computers from their belts. When many of these devices are worn at once, the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-13 If you are an avid soccer fan, then youll be well aware of all the tense, nail-biting feelings that mysteriously occur when your team has a match. Youre in the dying minutes, your strikers have missed chance after chance, and the opposition is now t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-13 The term fat finger, often in combination with fat-finger syndrome , is used as slang to refer to making an error in or on (something) by hitting the wrong key or button, or accidental inaccuracy in the fine motor movements of one's extremities. 胖... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-13 Social bubble (or interpersonal bubble) describes the situation in which people seem to have a wide range of social connections, but when it comes to real friendship, few remain in the circle. Following the wave of financial bubble and real estate b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-13 Peer pressure can happen when we are influenced to do something we usually would not do, or we are stopped from doing something we would like to do. This may be because we want to be accepted by our peers. 我们受同辈影响做一些我们平时不会做的事情，... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-12 The term babymoon comes from the more traditional term honeymoon, which is a vacation taken by a newlywed couple after their wedding ceremony. The original meaning of babymoon is a period of time that parents spend bonding with a recently-born baby.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-12 Your desk speaks volumes about who you are, and can even mark you out as suitable or not for your company. Thats what we called desk psychology . 你的办公桌能透露关于你的很多信息，甚至能看出你是否适合待在目前的这个公司。这就是我们所说的办公桌心理。... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-12 Marriages in modern society are like French fries produced on restaurant assembly lines, coming and going in the twinkle of an eye. There is flash marriage and flash divorce. Young men and women may get married soon after their first date, and then... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-03 Makeup can be a powerful tool in helping you look slim. Just look at any celebrity. Most do not look like they do on their own. Their makeup and hair really change how their faces look and draw attention to their best features. You can use some of t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-26 在国内看到各大品牌鏖战商场，倩碧、贝玲妃、雅诗兰黛等众彩竞芳，POLO、GAP互不相让。到了美国一看，原来倩碧是美国小护士，贝玲妃也就和多年前老少通吃的霞飞一级别。而在国内风靡的POLO也是大卖场上挂着的。总之，在这样的背景下，美国人在日常生活中倒不是特别注重... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-26 在国外学习的主题之一是学习、工作，主题之二就是参加各种聚会了。在欧美的大学，每周甚至每天都会有层出不穷的官方或者非官方聚会，当然多数是AA制的。想要把这些聚会都混下来，没有相当的体力、空闲时间和经济实力是不可能的。然而这些聚会能带给人什么呢？一口流利... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-26 电子时代，人越来越不自由，无论社交还是工作，都明显地电子化了，这在中国、美国都是一样的。不过在美国学习、工作的时候听到的几个生造词，倒是把这种电子时代的焦灼诠释得恰到好处。比如闲的时候是twuilt，而忙起来的话，每周例会的迟到借口除了尿遁，还有 digitall... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-09 The e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has launched a video-shopping service that will start next month. 电子商业巨头阿里巴巴集团，将于下个月推出一项视频购物服务。 文中的video shopping就是指视频购物，是指通过dynamic image（动态图像）识别技术... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-09 Hollywood showed some love for its history at the Oscars on Sunday, giving its best film award and four others to silent movie The Artist in a ceremony that recalled why cinema is special to so many people. 周日举行的奥斯卡颁奖典礼重温了电影对于许多... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-09 Warmedy is a blend of warm and comedy, which refers to a comedy that features warm-hearted, family-oriented content. It applies to both movies and television shows, although the latter is where it originated. Warmedy（温情喜剧）是warm（温馨）和comed... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-09 Hackerazzi are cybercriminals who hack into the email accounts of celebrities to access and exploit their private information. Hackerazzi derives from paparazzi, a term for photo journalists who doggedly pursue celebrities to take candid pictures an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-09 Shutter men is a term from South Korea, referring to men who makes less money than their wives, and whose only responsibility is to raise and lower the shutter of their wives shops. Shutter men（卷帘门男人）是来自韩国的一种说法，指那些挣钱没有老婆多... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-09 Visual harassment describes a situation that men are embarrassed to be around with women who are wearing over-revealing clothes in summer. They dont know where to look at, especially in a crowded place, and they might be considered as a pervert when... 阅读全文>>