【英语时差8，16】出人意料的“鸿孕当头”

Thinking of Juno as just a teenage comedy would be a truly patronizing misstep. The movie centers on the emotional uncertainties of a 16-year-old girl, transforming an outwardly mundane storyline into something extraordinarily affecting and laugh-out

【英语时差8，16】右耳，左耳

Don: Say something, Yael. Say whatever you want, but talk directly into my right ear. Y: You're a nut. D: Okay. Now say the same thing in my left ear. Y: Sure thing. You're still a nut. Now what on earth is this about? D: Hold up. Now sing something

【英语时差8，16】外婆担心外孙被宠坏

Dear Annie: My daughter allows her 8-year-old son to stay up late at night, watch adult TV and eat lots of sweets. She strongly resents any suggestion that this is not a good thing. The 15-year-old son spends a vast amount of time text messaging, lis

【英语时差8，16】独自入眠

Nobody likes being lonely. As it turns out, loneliness can be unhealthy as well. The study was done by psychologist John Cacioppo at the University of Chicago. He had thirty three male college students and twenty one female students spend five nights

【英语时差8，16】英伦青年登陆台北铁马环球挑战

After 10 months of cycling and traveling by other means 14,000 kilometers halfway across the world, two young British men completed their incredible challenge last month with a climb to the top of the tallest building in the world－Taipei 101. The m

【英语时差8，16】胎记

Don: I have the weirdest looking mole under my arm. Yael: Hold it. Put that arm back down. I don't want to see your weird mole. Why don't you just tell me what's weird about it? D: Well, it's not a round dot like my other moles, but more like a flesh

【英语时差8，16】大鸟

It's time once again for the Moment of Science Pop Quiz. Ready? Here goes. Do birds have teeth? Sure, you can laugh, but what's the answer? No? Maybe? Have you ever looked? In fact, the correct answer is: not any more. Some modern day birds have ridg

【英语时差8，16】犯罪现场调查

Amoment of crime scene investigation Ya?l: Hi Don, what are you... Don: Shh! I'm watching my favorite TV police drama: Crime Lab! Y: Oh, cool. Hey, what's that guy doing? D: Y'know Ya?l, you do have the right to remain silent... Y: Why is he spraying

【英语时差8，16】鹦鹉背出住址顺利返家

When Yosuke the parrot flew out of his cage and got lost, he did exactly what he had been taught－recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help. Police rescued the African gray parrot last month from a neighbor's roof in the city of Naga

【英语时差8,16】摒弃严厉的「管教」方式

'Stop Beating Kids!' read the darkly inked headline. After studying the results of a survey it conducted among 250 schools and 1,550 students, the Humanistic Education Foundation (HEF) found as many as 88% of our junior high schools still use some fo

【英语时差8,16】世上最大的恐龙住在世间最繁华的都市

Where else would the world's biggest dinosaur live, but in the world's trendiest town? Live may be stretching it a bit. Brachiosaurus brancai has been dead for 150 million years, but he remains impressive, towering more than 13 meters over visitors t

【英语时差8,16】根据真实故事拍摄的决胜21点

The movie 21 offers the appealing notion that success is just a matter of number crunching and calculation. Learn to count the cards in Las Vegas and you'll never struggle for money again. There's a catch: You have to be an exceptional MIT student. D

【英语时差8,16】同胞争宠（上）

If you grew up with a brother or sister, you probably know what sibling rivalry is like. For a spotted hyena though, sibling rivalry is a matter of life and death. Spotted hyena mothers usually have twins. They give birth in a private burrow where th

【英语时差8,16】中国选手花样滑冰夺冠-上

Chinese figure skaters Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo rolled back the years to win China's first gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics on Monday. Their victory came as a fairytale ending to a story that seems more like a Hollywood movie than rea

【英语时差8,16】如何得知地球在24小时之类自转一周的呢？-上

The earth turns on its axis every 24 hours-or so were taught. But, before we had pictures from space, how would we prove it to someone? The rising and setting of the sun and stars in the sky provide pretty strong evidence, but not absolute proof, sin

【英语时差8,16】什么时候喂乳最利于宝宝睡眠-上

Parents of young infants know just how rare and valuable uninterrupted sleep can be. As it turns out, the timing of breast milk production may help play a role in facilitating sleeping in an infant. Some mothers express breast milk during the day and

【英语时差8,16】鸡蛋变身术

Have you ever wondered how heating an egg white turns that uncooked clear goo into an opaque gel? Well, that transparent goo is made of mostly water and proteins. Each protein is a long strand of amino acids that you can think of as a string of green

【英语时差8,16】坚果还是种子？

Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut Sometimes You Really Are One! Y:Hey!Don.What's that you are eating? D:Mix-nuts Yael.Would you like some? Y:Can I see them first? D:Sure! Y:I hate to tell you this ,Don.But there are no nuts in this can. D:There are peanu

【英语时差8,16】中国选手花样滑冰夺冠-下

To add to the drama the pair had been the lowest-ranked competitors going into the competition due to their lengthy absence from the ice. But against all odds their superb short programme score from Sunday was enough to see them win the overall compe

【英语时差8,16】猫咪和颜色

Cats And Colors You can look at that quilt your cat is curled up on and see a patchwork of greens, blues, and yellows. Your cat, however, cannot see color variation in the quilt. And here is why. Both humans and cats depend on the back layer of the e