如果说，calculus（微积分）还有一层含义，即表示日常最令人痛之欲绝的“结石”，您会不会很很惊异？calculus（微积分）和calculus（结石）之间从词源上讲有无联系呢？今天的“词海拾贝”可以帮...

A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! for the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life ...

讲flotsam and jetsam（船只残骸；废弃物）之前，能否先来回顾一段Rose（罗丝）的伤心回忆：“当14号救生艇向我们驶过来的时候，一束手电筒的光在水面上扫过，照亮着漂浮的碎片，令人伤感的残骸...

Yes, punctual to the time, thou‘er here again As still thou art:--though frost or rain may vary And icicles blockade the rockbird‘s  aery Or  sluggish   snow&...

SPRING Thomas Nash Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year‘s pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing, Cuckoo...

初看garnish的两种释义 -- 给食物加装饰、扣押债务人的财产，真让人有点“丈二和尚摸不着头脑”，毫无干系的两种意思怎么能体现在一个词身上呢? 先说garnish表示“给菜肴加装饰”，这个我们比较...

先说说lead-swinger的渊源，它最初的含义实在与“装病”相差千里。看到图片上这位手提“测深锤”的船员了吧？lead-swinger指的就是他们。Lead在这里指“测海深的铅锤”，船在浅水区搁浅时，测探...

Things do not change;we change.sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. think it over…… Today we have higher buildings and wider highways,but shorter temperaments and narrow...

先来看prelude（前奏，序幕），interlude（幕间休息）和 postlude（尾奏）这三个词的渊源。 单词Interlude 最早出现在14世纪，指在大型活动间歇时上演的短剧或幽默节目；到了17世纪它用来指戏剧...

An Inkwash Painting① Guo Moruo The sea was a ghastly② dark blue.The gentle waves licking at the shore gave forth a humming sound like that of fish in shoals. All that forebod...