With Parliament in recess, we don't hear much from our political masters. 在国会休会期间，政治精英们没有发表太多言论， MP's, as well as many business leaders, are on holiday. 议员和商界领导正在度假。 I hope they have...
With Mitt Romney's presidential nomination confirmed in a barnstorming acceptance speech two days ago, 米特罗姆尼两天前的提名巡回演讲进一步巩固了他总统候选人提名的身份。 the race to the White House is now well under w...
Some of the parents I know with teenage children who use cannabis are fairly relaxed about what's happening. 在我认识的父母中，有些并不在意孩子吸食大麻。 It isn't doing any harm, one tells me, Alcohol's much worse. 这又没什么...
In a pre-flight news conference in the summer of 1969 1969年夏天，在一次飞行前的新闻发布会上 Neil Armstrong said, I think we're going to the moon because it is in the nature of the human being to face challenges. 尼尔阿姆斯特朗说...
Earlier this week Sir Elton John expressed anxieties about how his young son, Zachary, might be treated when he goes to school. 本周早些时候，艾尔顿约翰爵士坦言自己对儿子扎卡里的担心， He fears he might face bullying becau...
If a butterfly flutters its wings, so chaos theory goes, it can cause the path of a tornado to change, and so the reverberations can be felt across the world. 混沌学理论提到，如果一只蝴蝶煽动翅膀，卷风的路线会因其改变，全...
What is a Caucus-race? asked Alice during her adventure in Wonderland. The Dodo explained. 什么是会议式赛跑？爱丽丝在梦游仙境中问到。渡渡鸟解释道。 First you mark out a racecourse, though the shape of it doesn't really mat...
A few years ago my middle son who was around seven years old at the time, had cycled away from home without telling anyone. 几年前，七岁左右的儿子一声不吭地骑车离开了家。 It was a mild summer evening and there were many childre...
Tomorrow, the verdict is expected in the highly controversial trial of three members of the punk band Pussy Riot, 明天，将判决极具争议的朋克乐队暴动猫的三名成员， who have been jailed for staging what they described as a polit...
Whatever happened to the silly season? 今年的新闻饥荒期是怎么回事？ You know, that time of the year when the wisdom of the 1st century poet Horace is adopted by news editors, 新闻饥荒期，众所周知，就是每年记者们对公元...
