A dream of immortality 成为不朽的梦想 It is only too easy to consider yourself immortal after you have imbibed rather too freely. This is the cautionary tale of jimmy anderson. Anderson started out on his alcoholic binges at quite an early age. Almo...
An ignominious end 可耻的下场 Professor randall, an illustrious volcanologist, pursued his discipline with a passion that went well beyond ordinary scientific enquiry. He even had to park his car out in the street, as his garage was stacked up to th...
icy encounters 不友好的相遇 As the viking princess, that magnificent cruise liner, slowly made her way along the icy waters to the north of iceland, the travellers were admiring the growing number of icebergs and the polar ice sheet looming in the d...
living at the edge of the desert 住在沙漠边缘 You dont need a humanistic education in order to become a herdsman. Tending camels is a humble occupation, not at all well suited to hypersensitive individuals, such as myself, camels are quite arrogant...
awakening from a nightmare Angry hordes of combatants advancing across the horizon, hovercrafts are at the hub of the action, their mighty engines howling as they move forward in a horizontal array of power, ever trying to stay out of the line of en...
Adventures in the second grade 二年级时的冒险 At high school, mikes homespun humour was the cause of much laughter. If truth be known, though, many of his oft repeated stories soon began to ring a little hollow. Still, the lack of respect shown by h...
Nowhere to hide 无处躲藏 Supported by the most powerful military hardware ever assembled, a heterogeneous force of soldiers from a large number of nations is hiking across the most inaccessible terrain, hewing its way across any obstacle that may st...
Hegemony to rule for evermore? 霸权主义要永远统治下去吗？ The US-led military campaigns in yugoslavia during the 1990s heralded the beginning of a new age of hegemony. Recent advances in military technology have served to heighten an already high de...
Childhood dreams come back to haunt me 童年的梦重又萦绕我心头 Running along the brook, down to the hatchery, what heavenly joy this was when school was over! We would play in the hay, the constant tweeting of the hatchlingsa constant background symp...
Habitat harmony 栖息地的融洽 Habitat n.（动、植物的）产地，栖息地 Haggle v.争论，讨价还价 Hail n.冰雹 vt.致敬，向欢呼 Hallmark n.标志，特征 Hallucination n.幻觉 ，幻想 Halt vt./n. （使）停止 Hamburger n.汉堡包 Hamper vt.妨碍，使困难 Handful n.少数，...
