The Austrian capital of Vienna (Wien), with a population of more than 1.6 million, is a city forever implanted into the international imagination as a dreamy place of cream-filled pastries(奶油馅饼) and angelic choir boys, of prancing white horse...
悉尼城位于澳洲东海岸，是一个生机勃勃而又美丽宜人的城市。 Sydney, located at the east coast of Australia, is a lively city and it calles to everyones imagination. Its famous for its Opera house and the Sydney harbour Bridge...
-One story about Jack, an Irishman, who was not allowed into Heaven because he was stingy with his money. So he was sent to hell. But down there he played tricks on the Devil (Satan), so he was kicked out of Hell and made to walk the earth forever ca...
公历一年有12个月，但不少人并不知道12 个月的英语名称的来历。公历起源于古罗马历法。罗马的英语原来只有10 个月，古罗马皇帝决定增加两个月放在年尾，后来朱里斯*凯撒大帝把这两个月...
At a local supermarket, two women push half-filled grocery carts. The ladies are good friends, but they couldn't be more different. One is a stay-at-home housewife who loves to create culinary masterpieces from scratch. The other is a training superv...
第一个词是cock。这个词是一开始学英语就学到的基本词汇之一，大家都知道它是公鸡的意思，可是在美语里，最好就不要用它了，因为它的意思早就不是公鸡了。在俚语里面，它指的是男性生...
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，中国你哪儿都可以去。...
The Greek press is in raptures after the opening ceremony for the Athens Olympics. Many papers splash the event right across their front page, crowning their photos with a single, simple headline. But for a few, the doping controversy which has engul...
President Niyazov of Turkmenistan has ordered the construction of a palace made of ice in the heart of his desert country, one of the hottest on earth. It is the latest in a series of colossal building projects instigated by the all-powerful presiden...
Ask anyone to name a well-known classical musician of modern times and it's a pretty safe bet that one name in particular will crop up repeatedly. Yo-Yo Ma, probably the world's greatest living cellist, is enjoying a level of popularity almost unprec...
人之初 性本善 性相近 习相远Men at their birth, are naturally good. 人生之初，禀性（本来）（都）是善良的，解释： 英语译成汉语时，主语Men 与 at their birth 合起来一起译，起状语的作用；而 natur...
tier on tier...On all this, the earth had been piled...and was thickly planted with trees of every kind that, by their great size and other charm, gave pleasure to the beholder...The water machines(raised) the water in great abundance from the river,...
Want to know which candidate a woman is likely to support for president? Look at her ring finger. It may sound like the start of a joke, but the fact is most married women say they'll vote for US President Bush. By nearly 2-to-1, unmarried women say...
The Aphrodite of Melos is made of[1] marble and represents vivdly the goddess Aphrodite. This statue had earned it's name the Venus de Milo or Venus de Melos, because in 1820, a peasant had found it on the Greek island of Melos and it was named after...
On 26 May 1928, at a meeting in Amsterdam, the Fifa congress decided that a new tournament open to all its members should be played. A year later in Barcelona it was agreed that Uruguay, the Olympic champions and the era's footballing superpower, sho...
