2010-01-12 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

An everyday watch can pull double-duty as a compass.
普通的手表可以用作指南针。

First­, you'll need a non-digital watch in working condition and a sunny day. Hold your watch with the f

2010-01-12 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

一月十日，纽约地铁上即将出现很多没穿裤子的乘客哦。到底是传说中的地铁雷人客再现还是早上出门太急忘了穿裤子呢？其实是因为他们在庆祝一个节日：无裤日What in the world is No Pants Day?
到底什么叫无裤日？

2010-01-12 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Sexting and your kids: Strategies for parents to reduce the risk网络和科技的迅猛发展使人们的生活更加便捷，但“性短信”等各种“黄祸”也污染了孩子们纯净的世界。如今，青少年发送性短信的比例大幅攀升，让家

2010-01-11 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Basic questions from children about the planet, outer space and the human body leave most parents unable to give a correct answer, according to a survey of 2,500 parents. It also reveals some of the s

2010-01-11 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

在新华社《瞭望东方周刊》发布的中国“最具幸福感城市”中，杭州再度居首。The city of Hangzhou again tops a list of the 10 'happiest cities' in China, published by Oriental Outlook magazine, which is af

2010-01-11 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Are you sick of the word "networking" yet? It seems to be on everyone's lips -- all those millions of people just like you who are looking for a new job.
你是不是已经厌倦了“建立关系网”这个说法？似

2010-01-11 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

No occupation is immune to an annoying co-worker who has the unparalleled ability to take a pleasant work environment and turn it into an excruciating experience for everyone else.
职场上总免不了有一

2010-01-11 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

对于一个热衷时尚的女孩来说，究竟什么才是她梦寐以求的工作呢？模特？不，或许那只属于身材瘦削的节食女孩。可以确定她们的答案之一是时尚造型师。
For a girl who's interested in fashion, what would be the

2010-01-08 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

A 14-year-old could become the youngest student at Cambridge University in Britain in more than two hundred years.
一个14岁的孩子可能会成为英国两百多年来最小入剑桥的学生。Arran Fernandez, who has bee

2010-01-08 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Two stories seeem to sit at the heart of it all. The first is technology: the explosion in self-expression that we have witnessed has only been made possible by the boom in ways of transmitting though

2010-01-08 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Creatures including dolphins, monkeys, fruit bats and even ants are all capable of selflessly coming to the rescue of others, researchers found.
研究者发现，包括海豚、猴子、果蝠、甚至蚂蚁在内的各种生

2010-01-08 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

A PARTIAL solar eclipse will be seen in Shanghai on the afternoon of January 15, when the first annular eclipse in China in 22 years and the longest in the world for the next 1,000 years will be visib

2010-01-08 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Olivia Burrell, a 32-year-old Canadian gospel singer, was fed up with living in Lilliputian studio apartments in Tokyo where she could see (and smell) her kitchen from her bed.
32岁的加拿大福音歌手奥

2010-01-08 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

由于中国部分地区持续遭遇数十年来最寒冷的天气，有关部门警告说，可能出现供电短缺问题。
Authorities warned of potential power shortages as parts of China continued to struggle with some of the coldest w

2010-01-08 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

3D科幻史诗片《阿凡达》在俄罗斯上映还不到三周，就已经成为该国有史以来最成功的影片，截至目前的票房收入为5,550万美元。
Less than three weeks after 'Avatar' hit theaters, the high-tech science fiction

2010-01-08 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

听说过这样一则笑话：一个外宾想上厕所，便对翻译说：“I wonder if I can go somewhere?”(我可以方便一下吗？)而翻译却把somewhere误解为“某处”，因而回答道“Yes, you can go anywhere in China.”(行，中国你哪

2010-01-08 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

放鞭炮Many boys explode firecrackers on the Lantern Festival everyyear. 许多男孩子每年在元宵节放鞭炮。 We go out to see a lion and dragon and set off some fireworks. 我们出去看看舞龙狮和放鞭炮。 They

2010-01-08 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

The Transatlantic accent, also called a Mid-Atlantic accent, is a way of speaking English that is halfway between American and British. It makes you sound like you have a good education but no one ca

2010-01-08 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

我的美女朋友请我在她外出的时候帮她照看一下她的两只猫。我说：“当然可以。” 我想，“帮她看看猫有什么难的呢？”她走之前对我说其中一只猫卢卡斯每天要吃两个药片，并且要给它涂抗生素软膏以止痛。“没问题!”我

2010-01-07 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

If you made any new year resolutions you have probably broken them by now. So why not make another? Almost everyone makes at least one health- related resolution. Usually it's to lose weight, take mo

2010-01-07 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

美国反捕鲸组织“海洋守护协会”在去年冬天新近购入高科技“蝙蝠船”，在最近的捕鲸季节中与日本船只发生激烈冲突，试图阻止捕鲸船的恶劣行为。而近日，这艘蝙蝠船同日本捕鲸船在南极海域相撞后沉没，所幸没有造成人

2010-01-06 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Called the Nexus One, Google will unveil the handset at its Silicon Valley headquarters in America tomorrow, and the device is set to go on sale there from January 12. A UK launch date has not yet bee

2010-01-06 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

News that Ye Li, wife of Houston Rockets center Yao Ming, is pregnant obviously has attracted great attention at home and abroad. 休斯顿火箭队中锋姚明的妻子叶莉怀孕的消息已经在国内外都引起了极大关注。

2010-01-06 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

A marine biologist says he has discovered a new crab species off the coast of southern Taiwan that looks like a strawberry with small white bumps on its red shell.一位台湾海洋生物学者宣布他在台湾南部海

2010-01-06 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

China's new year's resolution: Buy more overseas assets, especially resources.
中国的新年决定是：购买更多海外资产，特别是自然资源。Sound familiar? It's the same resolution China made last year, an