An Ailing Father 一个生病的父亲 On the worst nights, Yang Heqing is awakened by the cold. His bunkroom is in a warehouse district in southern Beijing that is home to tens of thousands of migran...
A Desperate Village 一个绝望的村庄 The students in Shan's fourth grade class rose in unison as the teacher, Du Nengwei, tapped his pointer against his desk to start the lesson. 四年级的老师...
第一次在纽约时报上看到这篇文章,记得是在一个晴朗冬日的午后。懒懒的阳光穿过图书馆陈旧的木窗,洒落在一排排报纸杂志上,我正犹豫着该拿份什么...
Hungry prehistoric hunters, not climate change, drove elephants and wooly mammoths to extinction during the Pleistocene era, new research suggests. 在约一万年前的更新世,大象和猛犸象从...
China has revalued its currency, the yuan, and linked it to a basket of currencies—though it is not yet clear how far it will be allowed to rise. The move may ease trade tension with America, though...
There's no solid evidence that video games are bad for people, and they may be positively good 没有任何可靠证据证明电玩游戏有损于人们的身心健康,相反他们或许还能发挥一...
August 18, 2005—Call it x-ray vision for archaeologists. High- tech scans and computer modeling have offered scientists a noninvasive glimpse inside the delicate burial case of a millennia- old mumm...
Before you next flush the toilet, consider this: Scientists in Singapore have developed battery powered by(用…推动的) urine(尿). 下次冲厕所之前,请不要忘记下面的介绍:新...
Ever since Walt Disney immortalized(使…成为不朽) interspecies friendships and talking teapots, anthropomorphism (attributing human traits and emotions to animals or objects) has been a movi...
Chinese companies are energetically wooing[vt.争求] execs away from multinationals[跨国企业] 中国企业正积极从跨国公司挖掘高级主管。 By just about any measure, Aaron Tong was a...