Older women have often been portrayed as green-eyed monsters, envying the young and hankering after their own lost looks. 人们常将老妇人形容成碧眼妖魔,因为她们对年轻貌美的女孩心存嫉妒,对自己逝去的容颜无限追思

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

AS IT IS 2015-09-12 Rare Giant Panda Celebrates Her Birthday 大熊猫白云在加州动物园庆祝其24岁生日 Giant panda Bai Yun celebrated her 24th birthday this week at the San Diego Zoo in California, where she has lived since 1996. Her care

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年VOA慢速英语(九)月

An eight-year-old girl from Australia is well on her way to building a successful business empire after it was revealed that her playful videos, featuring her easy-to-follow confectionery recipes, are bringing in around $127,000 a month in ad revenue

发表于:2019-01-21 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

Current plans to raise the retirement age are not bold enough 目前提高退休年龄的计划不够大胆 PUT aside the cruise brochures and let the garden retain that natural look for a few more years. Demography and declining investment returns a

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At the age of 12, most girls are battling with their parents to get their ears pierced, learning the ropes at senior school and preparing for life as a teenager. 12岁的年纪,大多数的小女孩都还在向父母争取打耳洞的机会,努力适

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(147) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

台湾女30岁自己结婚 Chen Wei-yih has posed for a set of photos in a flowing white dress, enlisted a wedding planner and rented a banquet hall for a marriage celebration with 30 friends. But there is no groom. Chen will marry herself. Uninspire

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Twelve years ago I was broken. I had just ended a 29-year marriage, sent my only kid off to college, and was left broke and unemployed, left with the cats and the dog to feed. Not exactly my life plan. I was alone for the first time in my life and fi

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(35) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

A 14-year-old Chinese boy overcame two of humankind's most dreaded fears--getting stuck in an elevator and getting homework done, in a single night thanks to his quick-witted character. 日前,一名14岁的中国少年,在一个晚上的时间内克

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(168) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

17岁少年成孤身环球航海最年轻的人 A 17-year-old US mariner steered his battered sailboat into a Southern California harbour on Thursday to complete a gruelling 13-month voyage and become the youngest person to sail around the worl

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(161) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

As of today, Im retired from work and life. What do I mean? I mean that Ill no longer work or live life as conventional society deems me to. Ill no longer concern myself with monetary needs, societal statuses, creating a lifetime of achievements, mat

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(97) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

He may be younger than their children but one of Britain's brainiest children has been hired by a university to help adults with their sums. 最近英国一个非常聪明的孩子被一所大学聘用,让他教大人们计算--而他的年龄可能比

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(44) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Children can make some pretty lofty statements and grand promises. And an 8-year-old boy who promised to get his dad his dream car was no exception but then he actually made good on his word. 孩子们会许下重大承诺,一名8岁的男孩也不例

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

During your first years in the workforce, you can expect to have a huge learning curve not just about the details of your job, but about broader issues of how to manage your career and operate successfully in an office. How do you deal with difficult

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Nationwide is raising its age limit for people paying off mortgages by 10 years to 85, in the latest sign of the impact of rising house prices on buyers. 英国房价上涨的影响再显现:全英房屋抵押贷款协会近日将英国居民还清房

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It's no secret that men tend to see younger women as more attractive, but according to a graph based on data from OKCupid?dating profiles, women tend to be most attracted to men who are around their same age. But the case is drastically different for

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The story of Liu Minghui, an 8-year-old boy living in Ruijin, Jiangxi province, recently caught many people's attention after it was discovered that Liu can make about 10,000 wontons in a single day. 刘明辉是一个住在江西瑞金的8岁男孩,

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Life is filled with regrets. Ask anyone around you what their regrets are and they usually have no difficulty coming up with many items on their regret list。 And for some reason our twenties are ripe for a field of regrets. 人生总是充满遗憾。

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英语美文

We're all heard of fat cats, but Sprinkles here may be America's weightiest tipping the scales at an more than a shocking TWO STONE. 我们都听说过肥猫,但是这只名叫斯普林克斯的猫咪可能是全美最肥的它的体重比惊人的两

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Liu Lin, a sophomore at Chengdu University, made a big decision this August. She decided to taken her 93-year-old grandmother from their hometown and live with her in a rented room just off campus. 成都大学大二学生刘琳在今年8月份做出了

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KANPUR: Swimming wonder Shraddha Shukla, popularly known as Nanhi Jalpari, will spread her clean Ganga message by covering 550-km distance between Kanpur and Varanasi in 70 hours. 为了呼吁大家保持恒河的干净,游泳奇人沙得拉舒克拉

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