世界节假日博览 第84期:世界太极拳和气功日

World Tai Chi and Qigong Day is an annual event held on the last Saturday of April each year. Its aim is to promote practices of Tai Chi and Qigong. In particular, followers of Tai Chi and Qigong hope to educate the world about the health benefits of

3.4 The world outside the window 窗外的世界

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the rooms only window. The other man had to spend all his ti

世界无烟日-今天你戒烟了吗

World No-Tobacco Day 世界无烟日 5月31日是世界无烟日（World No-Tobacco Day），自20世纪50年代以来，全球范围内已有大量流行病学研究证实，吸烟是导致肺癌的首要危险因素。为了引起国际社会对烟草

世界小史 第148期:坚固

Shih Huang-ti built it to protect China's many hardworking and peaceable peasants and townspeople from the wild tribes of the steppes, 秦始皇修建它是为了保护中国众多勤劳、爱好和平的农民和民众，使其免遭草原上野蛮部

世界小史 第122期:撤离埃及

Before he left Egypt to continue his campaign, he founded a new city by the sea and named it after himself: Alexandria. 在他撤离埃及继续作战之前，他在海边建立了一座城市并按他自己的名字命名：亚历山大。 It is sti

世界小史 第132期:罗马城

Romulus, so the myth goes, founded Rome. 这则神话说罗穆卢斯建立了罗马城。 They even had a date for it, 753 BC, and would later count the years from that date as the Greeks did from the Olympiads. 人们甚至说出建城的年代：公元

世界小史 第129期:亚历山大

Alexander never realized his great ambition of mingling the two peoples, 亚历山大的融合两个民族的伟大事业怎么也成功不了，亚历山大的融合两个民族的伟大事业怎么也成功不了， even though he handed out rich d

英语美文：什么是爱What is Love?

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds: What does love mean? The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think. When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldnt b

英语美文：Whatever love means 爱就是一切

Although neither or them remembered the occasion, Diana first met her future husband when she was just a baby. It happened during the winter of 1961, when twelve-year-old Charles, Prince of Wales, was visiting his mother's Sandringham retreat. At the

英语美文：爱如断臂

But what if I break my arm again? my five year-old daughter asked, her lower lip trembling. I knelt holding onto her bike and looked her right in the eyes. I knew how much she wanted to learn to ride. How often she felt left out when her friends peda

爱的奇迹 Keep on Singing

你是我的阳光，惟一的阳光，当天空灰暗时你能使我快乐伴随着小男孩稚嫩清澈的歌声，病床上的女婴有了反应，呼吸也变得均匀而平稳了。 Like any good mother, when Karen found out that another baby wa

爱在心头口要开

There was once a guy who suffered from cancer, a cancer that cant be cured. He was 18 years old and he could die anytime. All his life, he was stuck in his house being taken cared by his mother. He never went outside but he was sick of staying home a

我的爱 (My Love)

At first glance I would have never known the value that lied within you, For such a tender age of sixteen you don't often see the things in life that are so true. But then as I got to know you my heart just began to melt, For these were not normal fe

英语美文：爱只是一根线

Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to earn money in order to pay the high tuition for my brother and me. They dont act in the romantic ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In th

英语美文：人一生的爱

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return. But what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel. A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in

英语美文：爱的最大限度

特蕾莎修女在接受诺贝尔和平奖时曾说过：你能为促进世界和平做些什么呢?回家爱你的家人吧。 这是一个平凡的故事，也是一个感人的故事Freda Bright says, Only in opera do people die of love. It's true

人物:保罗·沃克留下的爱(1)

Paul Walker: The Love He Left Behind 保罗沃克：他留下的爱 Five years after his tragic death, the Fast and The Furious star's family and friends open up about his life as a dad, his adventurous spirit and how they keep his memory alive 这位《

为何大家都爱听老歌

为何大家都爱听老歌 It is a familiar complaint from those of a certain age: todays pop music is louder and all the songs sound the same. It turns out they are right. 年龄稍长的人都抱怨说：现在的流行音乐声音大，而且所有

为何大家都爱八卦

为何大家都爱八卦 Gossip is not only something women are adept at. 不止女人会八卦。 It is something that you find replete in the work circuit as well. Yes, thats right men are known to gossip too! But, why is it that people gossip at a

人人都爱雷蒙德第一季21

黛波拉太普通 一会知名心理学者因为出版新书需要来到雷蒙德家对黛波拉进行采访不过很快地这位学者发现了更有意思人于把普通黛波拉丢了一边。