2010-03-12 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

The inevitable triumph of the Bric countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – has become almost a commonplace observation in business. Even if a few too many exotic chickens are being counted bef

2010-03-12 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Top European Union officials hit back on Thursday at criticism from Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, who has accused Brussels of pushing ahead with rules to regulate managers of hedge funds and ot

2010-03-12 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

US shoppers are regaining their taste for the national brand groceries that some steered away from during the recession, providing evidence of an improvement in consumer confidence.Kroger, the largest

2010-03-12 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Failure has always been a fundamental part of a market economy. When markets work, they do so because new ideas are constantly being tried out. Most fail. Those that succeed cause older ideas to fail

2010-03-11 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

The tome has sold 170,000 copies since it was released by Tokyo publisher Discover21 in early 2008. The authors urge young singles to actively seek a spouse: Just sitting back and waiting for the righ

2010-03-11 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

继上次日本宅男娶动漫人物为妻事件之后，韩国又一御宅男做出雷人举动：娶个枕头当老婆！小编不禁感叹，这年头，要结个婚有那么难吗！？ Lee Jin-gyu fell for his 'dakimakura' - a kind of large, huggable pillo

2010-03-11 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

The Seoul-based Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported Sunday that a survey on Internet use shows that the Net is more than a convenience, it's a "fundamental right."Conducted jointly by the Korean Institute

2010-03-11 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

This year's ceremony promised something for everybody. So why did it feel like it was meant for nobody?
今年的奥斯卡本来打着全民娱乐的口号，怎么又食言了呢？The ratings for the Oscar will continue to

2010-03-11 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

When Kent M. Keith was a Cub Scout in the 1950s, he had a great urge to do good deeds and pile up merit badges. Was it altruism? Ambition? A chance to feel better about himself? Was he really making a

2010-03-11 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Just how far does the euro have to fall before Europe actually becomes reasonable?Anyone travelling to the old continent from the U.S. in recent years has learned the hard way how expensive it is. The

2010-03-11 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Fred Hu, Greater China chairman for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and one of its longest-serving China executives, is leaving his post at the Wall Street bank, a Goldman Sachs spokeswoman said.Hu will

2010-03-11 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

In the Chinese art market, it pays to be old.This is the lesson from the 2010 list of the top living artists from China ranked by the value of their works sold at auction over the last year. The list,

2010-03-11 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

China Mobile has agreed to pay Rmb39.8bn ($5.8bn) for a 20 per cent stake in Pudong Development Bank, closing a deal that unsettled investors when news of it started leaking two weeks ago.In an attemp

2010-03-11 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Chinese real estate prices accelerated last month, rising by their fastest pace in two years despite government efforts to cool the market amid fears of a looming property bubble.Prices of commercial

2010-03-10 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

近期，一项研究结果称，睡眠时间关乎腰围，如果年轻人睡眠过少或过多，腰身脂肪在一段时期后会明显增加。
Younger adults who get either little sleep or a lot of it may see a greater expansion in their waist

2010-03-10 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Dale Welch走进位于弗吉尼亚州的一家星巴克，腰上别着手枪的他点了一杯香蕉星冰乐外加一份肉桂小面包。他称至少有一位顾客忍不住再次打量了一下他的枪，但咖啡师们并未做出偷看的举动。
Dale Welch recently walked

2010-03-10 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

新的一年开始了。在家闲晃了漫长寒假的学生们返校后总会出现这个老问题--春季学期开始后，学生们总要重新适应校园生活--而这个过程则被他们称为“假日忧伤”或“节后综合症”。THE new year always brings an old pr

2010-03-10 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

早期教育对宝宝的健康成长至关重要。从宝宝出生起，爸爸妈妈面临的一大课题就是怎样才能让自己的宝宝更聪明。要知道，宝宝首先是用自己的五官感觉认识和发现这个世界的，所以从最初，家长们就要让宝宝多动脑、多动手

2010-03-10 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Toyota Motor Corp. said Tuesday that the Prius involved in a highly publicized acceleration incident on a California freeway along with hundreds of thousands of others will be recalled to prevent floo

2010-03-10 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Do the rich pay their 'fair share' in taxes?That question is sure to underline much of the political debate in the coming years as the government looks to fill its vast budget hole.Those on the poli

2010-03-10 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

The number of cosmetic-surgery procedures in the U.S. sagged for the second year in a row in 2009, according to an annual survey released Tuesday by a plastic surgeons' association.There were 10 mill

2010-03-10 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Wang Fengying peeks into the room where the video cameras are waiting for her – and then runs down the hall, trailing public relations people, in search of a place to change her dress.Ms Wang, 40, is

2010-03-10 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the usual rules of workplace seniority did not seem to apply to workers in their twenties and early thirties. The dotcom boom was empowering this cohort of youngster

2010-03-10 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Last week a development charity press office sought my support for a “Robin Hood tax”. The idea of the tax – “turning a crisis for the banks into an opportunity for the world” – is that “a tiny

2010-03-10 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Chinese lawyers have filed a complaint on behalf of more than 170 consumers against Hewlett-Packard, requesting that the Chinese government order a recall of allegedly faulty notebook computers.The mo