A heartfelt birthday message from Johnny Cash to his beloved wife June has been voted the greatest love letter of all time. 美国乡村音乐歌手约翰尼?卡什在爱妻生日时写下的一封情书被评选为史上最伟大的情书。 In the...
Thanks to a mix of different cultures and advancing technology, American slang has been rapidly evolving over the past years, with new expressions popping up and fading out regularly. The ease of communication in our digital age has allowed local coi...
你和老外沟通中闹过笑话或者误会吗?中西文化差异会造成两方人对某些事情的态度和做法的不同。加强沟通，彼此尊重，理解万岁。为了让你和老外轻松相处，这里总结出经常发生的10种误会...
近日，卷福因在访谈中使用含有种族歧视的词语coloured(有色人种)而饱受争议，尽管他本想强调英国演艺界中种族不平等的现象。用词有风险，同志需谨慎，例如，常见的special就往往含有贬义。...
在《破产姐妹》(Two Broke Girls)今年第四季第6集中，破产姐妹也玩起了风靡全球的airbnb，而她们的房客竟然是维密天使(Victorias Secret Angels)!那么airbnb和一般的酒店网站有什么区别呢?如何使用airb...
学英语的人多少都知道一些莎士比亚的名句，各类媒介也会传播不少据说出自莎翁的名言。可是，有些所谓的莎翁名言根本不是他说的。以下这12句就是代表。 1. When I saw you I fell in love and you...
各国间的文化差异巨大，我们自个儿行得通的礼仪到了西方就是另一回事啦!今天我们就来通过三个场景，了解一下中外文化间的一些不同吧~~ 第一幕：一位学校领导向教师们介绍新来的美国老...
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland地理篇 英格兰England：面积最大 苏格兰Scotland：首府为爱丁堡 Edinburgh 威尔士Wales：首府为卡迪夫(又译加的夫)Cardiff 北爱尔兰Northern Ireland：首府为贝尔...
学英语不仅是学习语言，也是学习文化。有些英语词汇因特定的历史背景有更丰富的文化内涵。比如，纽约为什么叫大苹果城?apple一词不仅指水果苹果，还有大城市、大城镇的意思。 1. You ha...
A fistful of dollars 第一把美金 The dollar is one of the most common currencies in the world used by the US, Australia, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand, and Singapore to name a few. The origin of the dollar, also the Slovenian tolar, is from a coin ca...
Zeuxis 你知道吗？史上3位笑死的名人 Zeuxis was a Greek painter who, according to legend was awesome at painting. Unfortunately none of his work has survived to the modern-day, but according to one source, during a painting competition the...
In royal families, the crown goes to the oldest child. That's theheir. The spare heir is the next child who would ascend thethrone should something happen to the heir. In the UK, whenWilliam becomes King, Prince George is the heir. His brother orsist...
On April 1, 1957 the British news show Panorama broadcast a three-minute segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland. The success of the crop was attributed both to an unusually mild winter and to the virtual disappearance of the...
Americans, as you may know, have a reputation for being talkative (a nicer word for loud). We tend to have a lot to say, and we tend to feel pretty comfortable saying it. Still, there are some taboo topics that even Americans don't like to discuss. S...
Easter is the Christian commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus as a religious holiday. Over the past year the spring equinox, the first full moon of the first Sunday after Easter. Church of Christ in the early years of the date of Easter, there h...
