2010-03-19 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

It began as just one of those niggling everyday frustrations.
灵感源于日常生活中常见的那些让人头疼的琐事。But a design student's determination to end the 64-year reign of the unwieldy three-pin elec

2010-03-19 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

While it's the voters ultimately deciding who will win the title of "American Idol" each season, the judges' input can't be ignored.
美国偶像冠军头衔花落谁家，终极裁决者虽然是观众，但评审的影响也不

2010-03-19 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

1. S—Simplify. A great life is the result of simplifying your life. People often misinterpret what simplify means. It's not a way to remove work from your life.When you focus on simplifying your lif

2010-03-19 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

如果你正考虑给自己的孩子取个特立独行的名字，比如贾兰德(Garland)或马尔科姆(Malcolm)，那我劝你三思而后行。名字特别的孩子往往更难进入大公司的高层，蹲监狱的几率反而会大一些。 If you are pondering giving y

2010-03-19 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Obese children as young as age 3 show signs of an inflammatory response that has been linked to heart disease later in life, researchers said, in a finding that is likely to further stoke concerns abo

2010-03-19 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Lenovo is rethinking the ThinkPad.For years, the iconic laptop brand, originally created by IBM, has been known for solid construction and great keyboards, but with a boxy black design and relatively

2010-03-19 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

On Friday we discussed fairness in divvying up household tasks, but what about in dividing decision-making authority?A half-century ago, this wasn't complicated. For the most part men's and women's

2010-03-19 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

China is often accused of all but destroying its environment in the name of economic growth. But the same naked capitalism that has poisoned Chinese skies and waterways is hard at work in the streets

2010-03-19 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

German investors in the world's biggest observation wheel face large potential losses after a creditor seized control of the project in Beijing – a rotating viewing platform designed to trump the Lo

2010-03-19 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

The head of China Mobile has called on Apple to include Beijing's home-grown standard for third-generation mobile services in the next generation of the iPhone, underscoring the growing pressures on

2010-03-19 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Guangdong, China's biggest export centre, announced yesterday it would raise the provincial minimum wage by an average of more than 20 per cent.The move comes amid worries about inflation in China an

2010-03-18 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

受去年感恩节车祸及后来的性丑闻影响而一直处于休赛状态的老虎伍兹于本周二正式宣布复出，称将参加4月5日到11日在奥古斯塔高尔夫俱乐部举行的美国名人赛。他在声明中表示，在告别高尔夫这么长的一段时间后，他觉得自

2010-03-18 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

自去年12月份的“泼墨门”事件以来，章子怡一直被各种责难缠身。经过两个多月的沉默，章子怡于 3月12日凌晨接受《中国日报》独家专访，详细回答捐款风波中网友提出的各种质疑。章子怡否认有“诈捐”或其他违法行为，

2010-03-18 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

作为世界上出生率最低的国家之一，日本近几年不断推出鼓励生育的举措。近日，日本东京某区的区长决定下个月带头回家休产假，希望能够体会到养育孩子的重要性和可能遇到的困难，并为广大男士树立榜样，鼓励他们参与到

2010-03-18 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

These days, when everyone seems to have a Facebook friend, is LinkedIn or can Google themselves, it's hard to remember the old days, before the dot-com revolution.现在，似乎每个人都在Faebook上交过朋友

2010-03-18 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

根据《公共科学图书馆•综合》(PLoS ONE)上一项对9,000名1966年生于芬兰的人的研究，在很小的时候就能在无人帮助的情况下站立行走的孩子进入青春期后，会比那些较慢达到相关“动作发展指标”的孩子更健壮。身体

2010-03-18 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

A new piece of research suggests that men who have regular features are likely to stay in better mental shape throughout their lives.一份新的研究报告称五官端正的男士在其一生中精神状况可能保持得更加良好

2010-03-18 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

误区一：Expensive Products are Better Because the Ingredients are Better.贵的产品更好，因为成分更好。All cosmetics contain standard cosmetic ingredients. They can't contain anythingelse, as drugs do,

2010-03-18 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

近日，美国CNNmoney.com通过调查选出了“全美50个最棒的工作”，其中系统工程师名列榜首。这些工作是如何选出来的呢？CNN Money和payscale.com合作，先从 7000 多个职位中挑出 260 个年薪中位数在 65,000 美元（44.3

2010-03-18 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Is it too late to save your retirement?For many, the answer is surely yes. News out this week shows that 29% of those who have already retired have saved nothing at all to support themselves, while on

2010-03-18 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

The fall 2010 collections may offer the best clothes for working women since Yves St. Laurent introduced the sleek 'Le Smoking' pantsuit in 1966.In Milan, Gucci, Jil Sander, Etro, Marni, Dolce & Gab

2010-03-18 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Google certainly deserves credit for being willing to try--and fail--at new things.Data out Tuesday suggests Google's much-hyped smart phone, the Nexus One, is so far something of a flop. Sales for i

2010-03-18 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

BYD is a stock engineered to outperform: it's Chinese, it's green, and Warren Buffett loves it. Last year the Shenzhen-based battery-maker turned automaker, whose Hong Kong shares are 28 per cent-ow

2010-03-18 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Tencent, the world's third-largest internet company by market capitalisation, said yesterday that China's crackdown on mobile text messaging was starting to hurt its business.The warning by the comp

2010-03-17 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

It may come as a shock to husbands fond of accusing their wives of frittering the family finances on shoes and handbags, but a study has found that women are in fact better at budgetingthan men.一项研