Charlie Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. He flew 74 consecutive successful combat missions. However on his 75th mission, his F4Phantom fighter was destroyed by a surface-t...

  The family had just moved to Rhode Island, and the young woman was feeling a little melancholy on that Sunday in May. After all, it was Mother‘s Day -- and 800 miles separa...

绿色的草地，清新的空气，优雅的挥杆…… 颇富贵族气质的高尔夫球运动如今早已风靡全球。不过，您可知高尔夫球员最具传统特色的“灯笼裤”如何用英语表达？答：“Plus fours”（一款宽松、肥大...

  Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida a little boy decided togo for a swim in the old swimming hole behind his house。 In a hurry to dive into the cool wat...

  Ever feel that your relationship suffers from a unique brand of frustration, tension, distance, or any number of other troubling feelings? The reality is, there is struggle ...

几个人一起聊天，一不小心谈到了“拉登”，由“拉登”又谈到关乎“追捕-逃亡”的好莱坞影片，由“影片”又谈到“在逃犯”的种种表达。 “逃”，最简单的词莫过于“escape”，由此，“escaped co...

  He was in the first third grade class I taught at Saint Mary’s School in Morris, Minn. All 34 of my students were dear to me, but Mark Eklund was one in a million. Very nea...

  Early in the spring， about a month before my grandpa‘s stroke， I began walking for an hour every afternoon． Some days I would walk four blocks south to see Grandma and G...

When are you free? 你什么时候有空? Friday after 3:00. 星期五3点以后有空。 When are you available? 你什么时候有空？ That‘s a bad day for me. 那天我不行。 That day is fine. 那天...

Tucked away in our subconsciousness is an idyllic vision. We see ourselves on a long trip that spans the continent. We are travelling by train. Out the windows, we drink in the pas...