Take Away English 随身英语 14 May 2012 China: world-class 中国成为最聪明的国家 Vocabulary: education and success 词汇: 教育与成功 图片1 Is China the world's cleverest country? China achieved 'remarkable' results in the Pisa int...
Facebook wedding 脸书婚礼 Vocabulary: Business 词汇: 商业 The founder of Facebook ended a busy week, which saw his company valued at $106bn after a stock market flotation, by getting married. Mark Zuckerberg, who's the CEO of the world's most...
China: too old to get rich? 中国：致富太老了吗？ As China's economy has grown bigger, its population has grown older. But is China growing too old, too fast? The one-child policy has caused a decline in the birth rate, while the average age...
Determined to succeed 下定决心要成功 What's the most challenging thing you have ever achieved? This week Claire Lomas, a 32-year-old British woman, achieved the remarkable feat of finishing the London Marathon. What made this achievement all t...
Rich and rude 上流人更易欺骗撒谎 It's official rich people really are stuck-up, at least according to one recent piece of research. A series of studies into unethical behaviour across the social classes has shown that posh people are more li...
Be brainy, be bilingual 双语能增强大脑能力 Learning a second language can boost brain power, scientists believe. US researchers from Northwestern University say bilingualism is a form of brain training - a mental work out that fine-tunes the...
Long live men, say data 男人也长寿 In the battle of the sexes women have always won - at least when it comes to cheating death. Although they used to be called the fairer sex, they tend on average to live several years longer than men. However,...
Shakespeare vs the world 多种语言莎翁剧 All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players... This famous quote from As You Like It describes perfectly a festival starting today, which celebrates that play's famous author. As pa...
An offer you can't refuse? 在公共场合求婚 Recently a man proposed in front of 20,000 people at London's Olympic Stadium. Charity mascot Wendell Raphael, 40, was shown on the big screen at a test event saying: Bindi Bhambra, will you marry me?...
Titanic remembered 缅怀泰坦尼克号 The 100th anniversary of the ship they said would never sink has been remembered in a number of special events this week. It was on the night of April 15th 1912 that the world's largest ship, Titanic, struck a...
