The More Loving One W.H.Auden       Looking up at the stars, I know quite well ,     That， for all they care,  I can go to hell,  &...

1 TMI 'TMI' ('too much information'), a slang expression indicating that someone has divulged too much personal information and made the listener uncomfortable. 说话的人说了太多别...

大约八百年前，shrimp这个字首先是用来指那些个子矮小的人，后来人们才把虾称为shrimp。现在人们还是经常叫个子矮小的人为shrimp。 例如： Basketball is a game for tall people. But once in ...

    I have been sleeping all alone, You have been staring in my dreams. I want to kiss you，my baby, I want to kiss you tonight.   My love, You ar...

语言本是人们沟通的工具，没有性别之分，但由于男女的社会分工、性格特色、生理特点不同，每一种语言都深深地打上了性别的烙印。在国外，有部分社会语言学家，专门研究语言与性别的关系。美国有...

Friends     A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.     There‘s always going to be people that hurt you，so what y...

前几天我们刚说过一个关于'愚笨'的表达-- dumbbell, 刚巧有同学询问chowderhead的涵义。Chowderhead也是'傻瓜、笨蛋'，但与dumbbell相比，chowderhead的侮辱意味更浓，更偏重于方言，尤见于波士...

A Forever Friend     'A friend walk in when the rest of the world walks out.'     Sometimes in life,     You find a special friend; &...

我们生活中的大多数事物都是可以用由多到少，由强到弱这样的梯度词来度量的。一个经典的例子就是，根据基督教的理论，罪恶也是有严重和轻微之分的。有我们所熟知的七宗'不可饶恕的大罪'：pride...

    The Rainy Day     Henry Wadsworth Longfellow     The day is coldand dark, and dreary;     It rains, and the wind is ...