日期：2014-11-06 Viewbicle refers to a cubicle workspace with a view through a window. The term is a blend of view and cubicle, a cubicle is a partially enclosed workspace, separated from neighboring workspaces by partitions that are usually 5-6 feet (1.5-1.8 m) tal... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-06 Trustafarian is a young person from a wealthy background whose trust fund enables him or her to eschew conventional attitudes to work, dress，etc. 信托自由儿是那种来自富裕家庭的年轻人。他拥有的信托基金让他可以不用遵循世俗的工作态度和衣着方式。 A tru... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-06 15 is said to be the number of pounds that many students gain in their first year of college; and freshman 15 is the often observed phenomenon of weight gain among first year college students. 据说，之所以会出现15这个数字是因为很多学生在大一这一年体... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-06 No-nup agreement is a legal agreement made by two people who intend to live in a committed relationship but not to marry that defines the terms of their living arrangement and the disposition of their sole or shared property in the event of their pa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-06 Trypophobia is a revulsion and fear of objects with clusters of small holes think beehives, ant holes, and in particular lotus seed heads. 密集恐惧症就是指对有密集小孔的物体感到恶心和恐惧，类似物体有蜂窝、蚁窝，尤其是莲蓬。 The name for this phobia... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-06 Have you ever stood at a bus shelter and longed to take the weight off your feet, only to be presented with the unpleasant prospect of some kind of metal contraption for leaning on? If you've then wondered how anyone could possibly get comfortable u... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-06 An energy-saving haircut is a mainly short haircut that would reduce power consumption regarding hair driers or water. 节能发型是一个可以减少吹风机和水的能源消耗的短发。 The Japanese government has called on companies and households to drastically r... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-06 Kinesophobia: Pathological fear of motion The root of this word is kinein, Greek for to move. 运动恐惧症：对运动无法控制的恐惧 这个词的词根是kinein，是希腊语中移动的意思。 Kathisophobia: Fear of sitting down The Greek kathizein means to sit down. 静... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-11-02 If you really are sick, don't come to work and spread your germs around the office. But if you just want to stay home, go with, I'm running a fever, rather than one of these ridiculous excuses. 1. I just put a casserole in the oven. 2. My plastic su... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-27 Most of us are familiar with the concept of the 'helicopter parent' who hovers anxiously over their child's every move. But now a new parenting type has been identified - and experts say ' snowplough parents ', who clear every obstacle from their ch... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-27 Divorce makeover is the reinvention of a recently divorced woman from hairstyle, costumes to everything around her. 离婚变装就是女性在离婚后从头到脚的一次改变，从她的发型、她的服装到她周围的一切。 Recent survey says a woman's 'divorce makeover' cost... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-27 Friending means to act as the friend of someone or to include (someone) in a list of designated friends on a person's social networking site. Friending的意思是做某人的朋友或者将某人在社交网站上加为好友。 The word comes from a term coined by Shakespe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-27 Dish envy is the sudden, intense longing and regret derived from watching a particularly appetizing dish being delivered to a nearby table, and realizing that one has made an inferior menu selection. 邻桌嫉妒就是看到一盘特别美味的菜肴被服务员端到旁... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-27 Pay-as-you-app is a mobile phone payment model where users purchase data allowances for a predefined collection of apps, the model charges users different rates for data consumed by different apps. Pay-as-you-app是一种新的手机付费模式，手机用户可以... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-27 One of the biggest stunts online and in social media right now had very low-key beginnings on the professional golf circuit. 目前在网络和社交媒体上最风靡的行为其实是在专业高尔夫球场上低调开始的。 The so-called ice-bucket challenge -- dump ice water... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-27 Defensive eating is strategically consuming food for the sole purpose of preventing others from getting it. 防守型吃法就是指技巧性地吃东西，只为防止他人来抢夺。 It would frighten others if you choose to lick your food or the peripheral circle of you... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-27 Empty legs are private jet flights where there happens to be nobody on-board, at least not until you come in. Private jet charter firms, realizing that their aircraft have to return to base at some point and often do so without the human cargo they... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-27 Aaron Ramsey's Celebrity Death Goal Curse refers to a series of coincidences linked to League team Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey that when Ramsey scores a goal, someone famous dies. 拉姆塞定律指的是与英超球员阿隆拉姆塞相关的一系列巧合，即只要这位阿森纳队优... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-27 The ice cream headache , often called a brain freeze, is actually referred pain from the roof of the mouth which you feel coming from the temple area of your forehead when you suck cold beverages through a straw, sucking the liquid directly onto the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-27 Heart's heat stroke is the condition where you are prone to heat stroke in summertime not physically, but psychologically, in the form of short temper and difficulty in staying calm. High-risk groups include white-collar workers under pressure and p... 阅读全文>>