2009-08-27 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

How does the typical rich family in China live their lives and spend their cash?
典型的中国富裕家庭是如何生活、如何消费的？ The folks at the Hurun Report, the Chinese wealth trackers and luxury publi

2009-08-27 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

IN talking about Harvard students, many people automatically refer to Bill Gates with his dark framed glasses and a colored check shirt – in a word, fashion-free.However, a recent freshman male beaut

2009-08-26 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Anna Sui's collections take you on a creative journey that is unparalleled in the world of fashion. Mixing vintage styles with her current cultural obsessions, she effortlessly makes hip and exuberan

2009-08-26 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

There is no shortage of media coverage about the rich becoming less rich, including today's Times piece.
媒体从来不缺关于富人财富缩水的报导，包括最近《泰晤士报》上的一篇文章。But even as the vast ma

2009-08-25 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Shanghai and Beijing are becoming new lands of opportunity for recent American college graduates who face unemployment nearing double digits at home.
对那些面临着本国近两位数失业率的美国大学毕业生来说

2009-08-25 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Nokia has pledged to strike back at Apple and produce mobile phones that will compete effectively with the US technology company's iPhone.
诺基亚(Nokia)誓言反击美国科技公司苹果(Apple)，将生产出可以与

2009-08-24 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

在今年夏季的课堂上，杰里提(Kevin Gerrity)的商学院教授要求他进行角色扮演：如果他是一家银行的首席执行长，他会如何应对本轮金融危机？哥伦比亚大学商学院这个练习是前雷曼兄弟(Lehman Brothers)一名管理人员在哥

2009-08-24 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

As CEO of MediaCom, it’s my job to hold onto our best people and keep them happy and motivated. Today, when challenges to morale threaten around every bend, this task is harder than ever. Nonetheless

2009-08-24 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

A new study suggests that people from different cultures read facial EXPRESSIONS differently.
最新研究显示，不同文化背景的人们对脸部表情的理解存在不同。East Asian participants in the study focused mo

2009-08-24 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

South Korean retailers are stocking their shelves and shop windows to cater to the tastes of “dried-fish woman” and “herbivore man”.
韩国零售商正在商店的货架上和橱窗里放上迎合“鱼干女”和“食草男

2009-08-21 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Now most of the workers and public servants work from 9 am to 5 pm. Some of them even work from 8 am or 8:30 am to 5 pm. However, according to the global Internet survey done by the UK Sleep Council,

2009-08-21 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Angry residents of an English village blocked the driver of a Google Street View car who was filming the neighbourhood, saying they feared he would encourage burglaries, a report said.
据报道，一辆谷

2009-08-21 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Harvard University and Princeton University again topped the annual ranking of U.S. universities published by U.S. News and World Report magazine, reflecting a year of little change on the influential

2009-08-20 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Out of work for months? Prevent your professional skills from atrophying by taking steps to brush up.
赋闲在家已有数月？通过采取一些措施自我提高，你可以避免职业技能出现退步。In July, five million peo

2009-08-20 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

1. 对于结婚70后：When they mean to marry, they want to marry with a virgin.80后：As long as we have true love, we do not mind whether she is a virgin or not.90后：Does marriage need feeling? Do we nee

2009-08-20 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

LAST week, a customer service area in the well-known Forbidden City in Beijing opened for business – with a bowl of noodles going for 30 yuan. Many people questioned the sense of someone selling over

2009-08-19 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Many of us, because of our busy schedules, complain about too little time with our spouses or partners. Here's a typical day: dealing with the hectic morning routine, getting the kids off to school,

2009-08-18 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Our children, of course, are priceless. But they do have a cost: about a quarter-million dollars.
我们的孩子当然是无价之宝。但养育他们确实是需要成本的：大约25万美元。A new government report estimated

2009-08-18 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

迈克尔•杰克逊(Michael Jackson)的财产管理人说，自5周前开始处理这位已故歌手的事务迄今，他们已通过营销、商品授权和影片交易获得了8,000万美元的收入。律师布兰卡(John Branca)和音乐管理人士麦克莱恩(John

2009-08-17 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Times are tough in Monaco.
摩纳哥的日子有点不好过了。According to the Wealth Bulletin's latest list of the World's Expensive Streets, prices on Avenue Princesse Grace (still the priciest street in

2009-08-17 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

公司新标识的价值Apple - A chic redesign
苹果——时尚的新设计

Talk about a makeover. Just imagine what an iBook or iPhone would look like with this image on it: definitely not as chic.
什么叫彻

2009-08-17 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

Chinese restaurant syndrome is the popular slang for allergies or adverse reactions that some people claim they get after eating food containing the flavour-enhancer monsodium glutamate, or MSG, that

2009-08-14 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

This afternoon, I walked over to Bloomberg headquarters at 58th and Lex to hear an author, a former Goldman Sachs (GS) managing director named Sharon Meers, talk about high-achieving men and women and

2009-08-13 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

A British design company have launched a new product to help children concentrate at school--pre-chewed pencils.
一家英国设计公司最近推出一款新产品，以帮助孩子们集中精力学习，它就是“被咬过的铅笔”。

2009-08-13 所属栏目:英语阅读|英语阅读理解

深夜，大家终于都睡着了，只剩下洗碗机嗡嗡地响着，我把一切都收拾完毕，变成了一个“沙发土豆”。我将其称之为内疚的快乐。
Late at night, when everyone is finally asleep, the dishwasher is humming along an