The Mid-Autumn is a very important Chinese festival. It falls on the 15th day of August. A few days before the festival, everyone in the family will help to make the house clean an...

  If we look at the sky on a perfectly fine summer‘s day we shall find that the blue colour is the most pure and intense overhead，and when looking high up in a direction opp...

  We had moved from Cairo to Mt. Vernon, Illinois, away from my grandmother when I was eight years old. I missed her terribly. I was told I was her favorite grandchild; she wa...

当你想表达'这是事情的真相'时，你首先会想到用什么词呢？Truth? Inside information?都不地道，是lowdown!   'Lowdown'这个词通常用来指'事情的真相'或外界不知道的'内幕消息'，它有时会...

    That strange, gut-wrenching feeling you have is not the sushi you had for lunch. It‘s your soul trying to give you a nudge to do something. A word for that feeling ...

     Once upon a time a wolf was lapping at a stream. When he looked up, he saw a lamb drinking a little lower down.  'There’s my supper,' he thought. 'I w...

Man‘s youth is a wonderful thing: it is so full of anguish and of magic and he never comes to know it as it is, until it has gone from him forever. It is the thing he cannot bear ...

在我们平时的口语中，'废话'这个词是出现频率相当高的，那英语中'废话'用什么词表达最地道呢？很简单，是'noise'！ Noise在词典中的解释有'nonsense; empty talk'，它的原意是'噪音'，在这里...

I’m willing to bet that there’s something you’ve always wanted to do. It could be that you’ve always wanted to write a novel.  Maybe you want to visit Africa or want to se...

I looked at my beautiful Christmas tree and sighed. It was time. The New Year was a week old and my tree still stood in the corner of our room with its collection of memories proud...