日期：2011-11-11 China has no plan for military expansion as its development of national defense is for its own security, a Navy testing base commander of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) said last Friday. 中国人民解放军海军测试基地司令员上周五表示，中国没有军事扩... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-08 The term supertasker is given to individuals able to successfully accomplish two or more tasks at oncea quality possessed by less than 2.5 percent of people. Supertasker（超级工作者）这个词是用来指代那些能够同时成功完成两件以上任务的人，具备这种素质... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-08 Downager is Generation Y in attitude but not in age. You often hear that young people are the early adopters of technology but actually the study shows that the baby boomers spend more on technology than any other generation. They're using the techn... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-08 Britains mothers are turning into a nation of mousewives - by using home computers to boost their household income during the recession. 英国的妈妈们正在往鼠标主妇的角色迈进，在经济衰退期，鼠标主妇们纷纷利用电脑赚钱补贴家用。 In between running the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-11-08 A poll commissioned by the China Youth Daily in April 2010 found that 83 percent of the 2,072 respondents admitted having problems writing characters, forgetting how to write traditional Chinese characters literally, take pen, forget character or ch... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-10-26 With the development of the Internet and other sources of instantaneous information, many people strive to gain at least a working knowledge of many different subjects. They are so-called pancake people , they no longer concentrate their energies on... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-10-26 The worried well are everywhere: an estimated one in four GP appointments is now taken up by someone who has absolutely nothing wrong with them. 疑病症患者真是无处不在：据估计，普通门诊预约中有四分之一是被身体毫无异样的人占据的。 The term worried we... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-10-26 Telefingers gloves are touch sensitive gloves that are made by threading the thumbs, pointer fingers and middle fingers with conductive material，they allow wearers to use touchscreen devices while keeping their hands warm. Telefingers gloves（触屏... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-10-26 Nanobreak is typically a very short, i.e. overnight holiday, preferably somewhere quite exotic, which is becoming increasingly popular amongst people in the UK who want or need a holiday despite the credit crunch and despite having very little free... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-10-11 When an ordinarily active verb is deliberately twisted into passive form, it often implies the helplessness of the person in controlling his own fate. College graduates can be job hunted, ordinary people's opinions can also be represented. 如果一个... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-10-11 Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday called for changes in the education bureaucracy , a problem that plagues China's development of education. 上周六，温家宝总理提出要进行教育体制改革，教育体制问题是中国教育发展过程中的一个困扰。 在上面的报道中，educatio... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-10-11 Up until today, China's political and economic system has yet to be perfected, and the China model is evolving based on world and Chinese experiences. 直到今日，中国的政治和经济体制仍需要进一步完善，中国模式正在世界和本国的经验基础上不断发展。 文中... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-10-11 I hope that the administrative rankings of colleges will be removed, Wen said during an online chat with Internet users on gov.cn and xinhuanet.com. 温家宝总理在于中国政府网和新华网网友在线交流时说：我希望可以取消高校中的行政级别。 文中的administrat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-10-11 The report by the National Development and Reform Commission acknowledged the limitations of the registered unemployment rate and said it may not represent the overall situation. The surveyed unemployment rate will be in place in 2011, the report ad... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-10-11 The upcoming National People's Congress (NPC) and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) sessions in early March will materialize further the country's platforms on such key issues as income distribution, energy and resource pric... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-28 Old head refers to one who ranks in age and experience, especially when in social groups, e.g. a tenured member of an office. Old head指年龄和经历都很资深的人，尤其适用于某些社会团体中，比如，某个（政府）办公室的终身成员，也就是我们所说的（几届）元... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-28 OCUD (Obsessive Cellphone Use Disorder) describes a person who continually talks on their cellphone in public, while driving, checking out, or eating in a restaurant. OCUD（全称Obsessive Cellphone Use Disorder，手机过度使用症）指一个人一直在用手机打... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-28 The phrase aha moment was coined by the German psychologist and phenomenologist Karl Buhler a little over a hundred years ago. He meant it as a peculiar, pleasure-oriented experience within the course of thought that pops up with the sudden insight... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-28 Mid-day crisis refers to the situation when one is in a desperate need for a siesta because they become extremely tired in the afternoon and coffee isn't cutting it any longer, or when it's the middle of the day, and you realize you have a lot to do... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-07 To upcycle something is to take a used object and adapt it in an innovative way to a new function. Unlike recycling, which usually involves breaking down the material an object is made from, before it is made into something else (thereby using more... 阅读全文>>