2008-01-21 所属栏目:英语故事

Napoleon 'tried to learn English' Napoleon wanted to be read the London papers Napoleon Bonaparte was keen to learn English whil

2008-01-21 所属栏目:英语故事

Admiral Horatio Nelson's one-sleeved undershirt, possibly the only piece of the British war hero's clothing still in private hands, will be auctioned off next month in London, Sotheby's said on Fri

2008-01-21 所属栏目:英语故事

Maradona owns up to 'Hand of God' Argentinian football legend Diego Maradona, seen here in June 2005, admitted f

2008-01-21 所属栏目:英语故事

Rags to Riches
从街头流浪汉到百万富翁
Chris Gardner tells 20/20 how he worked to move himself from a life of homelessness to a successful life as a bus

2008-01-21 所属栏目:英语故事

(据说这是篮球明星迈克·乔丹与电影明星爱迪·默菲在赌场的真实经历)大西洋赌城的一个周末，一个老太太玩老虎机赢了一桶25分的硬币。她决定休息一会，和丈夫到酒店餐厅共进晚餐。进餐厅前，老太太要将

2008-01-21 所属栏目:英语故事

Camilla marks first festival with Britain's royal family 　 Britain's Camilla Duchess of Cornwall and Prince of Wales (R) receive flowers from well wishe

2008-01-21 所属栏目:英语故事

British "Angle of the Beach" named Child of the Year 　 Tilly Smith, 10, of Britain, who is credited with saving 100 lives by alerting people o

2008-01-21 所属栏目:英语故事

Laila Ali inherits her father's profession There are numerous similarities between Muhammad Ali and his 23-year

2008-01-21 所属栏目:英语故事

Sophia Loren Mini Biography
　　索菲亚·罗兰，这个名字是激情与魅力的同义词，是光耀夺目的影坛巨星。半个世纪以来，她以动人的风采、卓越的演技给人们留下七十多部影片，被授予奥斯卡终身成就奖。从一个

2008-01-21 所属栏目:英语故事

George Soros -- the financial crocodile George Soros wants to be the Bono of the financial world. The speculator whose assault on sterling ejected Britain from the European ex

2008-01-21 所属栏目:英语故事

Ted Turner --the founder of CNN 　The walls of Ted Turner's international headquarters，14　floors above downtown Atlanta，are lined with Oscar statuettes．If you tr

2008-01-21 所属栏目:英语故事

Some Stars Suffocate in Fame It’s lonely at the top. And never before has the isolation

2008-01-21 所属栏目:英语故事

Put the effort in every day As a young boy, I grew up with my eight siblings in a tin-roofed shack in Summerfield, Louisiana. I didn't see my circumstance as an obstacle, even

2008-01-21 所属栏目:英语故事

Boy's Heartsongs Mattie Stepanek is wheeling around his living room like any 11-year-old boy on an electric scooter. But Mattie's "scooter" is his life station - a

2008-01-21 所属栏目:英语故事

Back from the Brink 　 影星与死神擦肩而过 We know Jason Priestley as t

2008-01-20 所属栏目:英语故事

The Mask Forever —Jim Carrey Jim Carrey has become one of the most recognized faces in the world —and it is precisely because of his face that he has achieved such fame. His rubbery l

2008-01-20 所属栏目:英语故事

To the Top — Fidel Ramos As a young boy, Ramos watched his congressman-father chop wood and plant vegetables to feed his family. Once prominent in the northern province, the Ramos Ⅱ.Although

2008-01-20 所属栏目:英语故事

ABOUT THE FIELDS—MARADONA “We” could not win the World Cup, since no British team had even qualified for the finals in the USA. So the British media decided to restage the gloriou

2008-01-20 所属栏目:英语故事

FOR BLOOMING IN WARDS—NIGHTINGALE In May 1857 a Commission to study the whole question of the army medical service began to sit. The price was high. Florence Nightingale was doing this grueli

2008-01-20 所属栏目:英语故事

MACHINE MAD — HENRY FORD Growing up on a remote Michigan farm. Henry Ford knew little of all this — but he soon showed signs that he belonged to a new generation of Americans interested

2008-01-20 所属栏目:英语故事

HOW TO ACT 007—SEAN CONNERY “My name is Bond—James Bond,” Sean Connery informed the world’s movie-goers in 1962. In seven Bond films over a span o

2008-01-20 所属栏目:英语故事

The God in Youth: Michael Jordan There were already signs that he had a good deal of talent. Harvest Smith, a classmate and close friend who in those days played basketball with him practically eve

2008-01-20 所属栏目:英语故事

MARILYN MONROE’S FINAL DAYS The last few weeks of Marilyn’s life were not just a straight drug-induced run to the grave. Some days she was able to pick herself up, and Truman Capote, lu

2008-01-20 所属栏目:英语故事

Winston Churchill :His Other Life My father, Winston Churchill, began his love affair with painting in his 40s, amid disastrous circumstances. As First Lord of the Admiralty in 1915, he was deepl

2008-01-20 所属栏目:英语故事

The Warders and Me — Nelson Mandela In any prisoner’s life is not the minister of justice, not the commissioner of prisons, not even the head of prison, but the warder in one’s se