2015世界大学排名TOP20：亚洲仅2所上榜

The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) publishes the only global university ranking that measures the quality of education and training of students as well as the prestige of the faculty members and the quality of their research without rely

职场减压妙计：主动降职

If job stress is wearing you down and you want more leisure time, but you can't -- or don't want to -- quit altogether, it can be easy to feel stuck. But there's an alternative to consider: a voluntary demotion. Plenty of professionals dream of scali

Puppies for Sale

A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls. He looked down into the eyes

4 Ways to Measure Your Standard of Living

4 Ways to Measure Your Standard of Living Standard of living should not equate to amount of spending. When I sat down to write an article on the countries with the highest standard of living, I thought it would be easy. But, how do you define standar

为何人类爱吃肉

为何人类爱吃肉 对多数人类来说，肉的味道非常美妙。众多的美食中，为何我们对它情有独钟呢？ It is no less remarkable for people today, even those of us whose tastes run more to sirloin. Because if you look at wh

研究表明:少吃肉并不是减肥的最好办法

Low-fat diets are not the best way to lose weight, a major study says today casting doubt on decades of health advice. 今天一项大型研究表明低脂肪饮食并不是最好的减肥方式，消除了数十年来人们对健康建议的疑虑。

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

There was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters. They slept in twelve beds all in one room and when they went to bed, the doors were shut and locked up. However, every morning their shoes were found to be quite worn through as if they had been da

It’s Never Too Late

Several years ago, while attending a communications course, I experienced a most unusual process. The instructor asked us to list anything in our past that we felt ashamed of, guilty about, regretted, or incomplete about. The next week he invited par

孤岛上的故事

孤岛上的故事 The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small， uninhabited island． He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him， and every day he scanned the horizon for help， but none seemed forthcoming． Exhausted， he eventu

How to Develop Running As a Lifestyle

How to Develop Running As a Lifestyle One of the greatest physical and mental challenges on the planet is to complete a Marathon. While the thought of running a little over 42 km is daunting, for most healthy people this is an achievable goal. The fi

研究：男人更爱看男人写的书

It is an inconvenient truth that some book fans will be quick to deny. 尽管一些书迷会迅速否决，但这是一个难以忽视的事实。 But according to a new survey, most people in Britain prefer to read books by writers of their own gend

211岁！ 世上最高龄夫妇共庆生日

A husband and wife who claim to be the world's oldest married couple have celebrated their joint birthdays - with a combined age of 211. 自称是世界上最年迈的夫妇庆祝了二人年龄合为211岁的共同的生日。 Karam Chand celebrated

研究显示:个子矮的男性和身材胖的女性赚钱较少

A new study from researchers at the University of Exeter found that short men and overweight women earn less than those who are taller and slimmer. Published in the British Medical Journal, the study involved genetic data from almost 120,000 people a

你的哥哥姐姐是否比你更聪明

Certain personality traits are often attributed to oldest, middle and youngest children. But a new study found that birth order itself had no effect on character, though it may slightly affect intelligence. 人们往往认为，某些性格特征是专

美文：善待别人

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教授飞机上写微积分 被误认为恐怖分子

An Ivy League professor aboard an American Airlines flight was questioned after a passenger mistook a math equation for Arabic and possible Islamic code for a terrorist attack. 一位常春藤名校的教授在乘坐美国航空的航班时，有乘客

奥巴马幽默拜年：山羊绵羊都要快乐

Below is the transcript of the Presidents video message: 以下是总统羊年祝福视频的文字稿： Michelle and I send our warmest wishes to everyone celebrating the Lunar New Year here in America and all around the world. Ill always remember

研究告诉你为什么蚊子总咬你

Does it seem like mosquitoes search you out specifically, maniacally biting you just to make you miserable? 你是不是发现自己特别招蚊子，经常被蚊子咬得很惨？ Blame your genes. 怪你的基因吧。 And your smelly feet. 还有你

Silence　沉默 （双语 有声）

Indeed, for a living being there is no such thing as true silence, for silence itself is a revelation of the mind and the heart, an echo of the soul of a different form. Some people use silence as a disguise of the emptiness of the head. Some use it

中国单身男性人数5年后将超澳人口

The number of Chinas single men could exceed the entire population of Australia in five years' time, a Fujian government statistician has calculated. 一名福建政府统计人员估计，五年之内，中国单身男性数量将会超过整个澳大