日期：2012-05-03 French President Nicolas Sarkozy will make a brief stopover in Beijing to meet his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on Thursday. 法国总统尼古拉萨科齐周四将在北京短暂停留会晤中国国家主席胡锦涛。 报道中的brief stopover即短暂停留。Stopover一词意为中途停留... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-03 Libyan government tanks and snipers put up scattered resistance but there was little sign that the rebel offensive was meeting any coordinated opposition. 利比亚政府军的坦克和狙击兵进行了零星的抵抗，但是没有迹象表明反对派力量遇到了任何有组织的抵抗。... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-03 New home front opens up in divorce While some people complain about having to discuss divorce even before tying the knot, the Supreme People's Court said the new rulings are aimed at heading off disputes over the property ownership in divorce cases.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-03 Addressing over 6,000 people who gathered in Oslo's Spektrum arena for the memorial service , Norwegian King Harald V told the nation of 5 million people that Norway would surmount its pain. 在悼念活动上，挪威国王哈拉尔五世向围聚在奥斯陆斯佩克特姆音... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-03 The project attracted much online debate after Lu Xingyu, the project's executive chairwoman and secretary-general, was found to be the daughter of Lu Junqing, chairman of the World Eminence Chinese Business Association. It's hard to avoid suspicion... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-05-03 US vice-president Joe Biden and his guests ordered five bowls of noodles with fried bean and meat sauce, ten steamed stuffed buns, a cucumber salad, a yam salad, a potato salad and some coca-cola, costing 79 yuan ($12) at a local Beijing noodle rest... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-23 China's railway system, after increasing the speeds of trains six times since 1997 and opening more high-speed rail lines in recent years, has hit the brakes . 自1997年以来铁路6次提速，并开启多条高速铁路线路后，中国铁路系统开始刹车了。 报道中的hit t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-23 A house bought by parents and registered under their child's name remains the personal property of the child even after the child gets married, according to a judicial explanation issued by China's Supreme People's Court. 根据最高人民法院发布的司法... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-23 Prime Minister David Cameron blamed the worst riots in Britain for decades on street gang members and opportunistic looters and denied government austerity measures or poverty caused the violence in London and other major English cities 英国首相卡梅... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-23 After the initial exchange of fire , an ROK Defense Ministry spokesman said: The situation is now stable. After we fired back, there was no further response from the DRPK. We are still on alert. 第一轮交火后，一位韩国国防部新闻发言人说：目前形势稳定... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-23 China's first aircraft carrier set out on a low-profile sea trial Wednesday, its first journey under the Chinese flag. 周三，中国第一艘航母低调出海试航，开启了它在中国国旗下的处女航。 文中的sea trial就是试航，试航主要测试船舶的机动性能及是否适航，一... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-23 According to the website of the Central Meteorological Station, the tropical storm Muifa weakened to a depression at about 2 am in Northeast China's Liaoning province, after making landfall in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). 根据中... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-23 Once upon a time, the favorite word was brainstorming, which meant coming together in a positive way to create a storm of great ideas or solve a problem. Now the word is blamestorming , a negative word, which means everyone is blaming everyone else... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-17 Last chance undies is your last pair of clean underwear, reminding you that this is your last chance to wear any unless you get your laundry done. (Source: urbandictionary.com) 应急内衣是指你的最后一套干净的内衣，穿上这套内衣就意味着如果你不想裸奔的... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-17 Choice anxiety is induced by the need to choose between similar options and is increasingly being recognized as a problem for individuals. 当你面临太多相似的选择，无法决定的时候产生的焦虑感就叫选择焦虑（choice anxiety），现在越来越多的人有这种困扰，... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-17 An elevator pitch (or elevator statement) is a short summary used to quickly and simply define a product, service, or organization and its value proposition. The name elevator pitch reflects the idea that it should be possible to deliver the summary... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-17 A paliday is a holiday in which you rely on the goodwill of your friends or family to feed and house you in their own home. And in the recent tough financial climate, the paliday appears to be increasingly popular, as people search for alternative w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-05 Slacklining is a balance sport that uses nylon webbing tensioned between two anchor points. Slacklining is distinct from tightrope walking in that the line is not held rigidly taut. (Source: Wikipedia) 在固定的两点之间拉条尼龙绳，然后在绳子上面行走... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-05 Text purgatory is the mental suffering you go through when you are waiting for a response to a flirtatious text. 给心仪的人发了邀约短信后，在等待对方回复的那段时间里所经历的那种焦急等待的煎熬就叫text purgatory（暂译等短信的煎熬）。 Purgatory本来是一... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-05 Soap grafting is the act of attaching an almost completely used piece of soap to a new, unused piece because it is now too small to be conveniently used but you also don't want to waste it. 如果你觉得快用完的小片肥皂滑滑得不好拿，但是丢掉又太可惜，... 阅读全文>>