其实一直觉得西方人的食物都挺贫乏的。感恩节刚吃完火鸡、圣诞又接着吃，总不至于新年还吃吧?于是老外们就开口啦，我们新年可是有“幸运食物”的!那么这些“幸运食物”到底是哪些食物呢?   自己煮一餐幸运食物，给自己来年添点运气。 For.... [阅读全文]

The old year, for better or worse, is gone for good. The new year has begun with fresh promise. Here's our chance to start again at just accomplishing what we resolve to. Happy New Year! 2009年，不论好与坏，都要成为过去时了。新年里，会有新的希望。新.... [阅读全文]

编者按：新年新气象，各个民族都有自己的一套办法来送旧年、迎新岁。说起我们中国新年你可能聊得头头是道，那么西方国家的新年习俗你又知道多少呢？ 1. 新年来个“北极熊跳”！ On New Year's Day, people in certain countries gather on beaches and.... [阅读全文]

CHINA will impose sanctions on U.S. firms that sell weapons to Taiwan and suspend military exchange visits with the United States in protest over planned U.S. arms sales to Taiwan worth US$6.4 billion.    The announcements were made afte.... [阅读全文]

Reed recently had a chance to interview one of his favorite authors--Gary Paulsen!  Gary Paulsen has written more than 175 books, three of which were Newberry Honor winners: Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room. Read Gary's answers to Reed's .... [阅读全文]

GREECE was wooing China to buy up to 25 billion euros (US$35 billion) in government bonds, a move that underlines China’s growing financial power, as Greece struggles to fund soaring public debt, the Financial Times reported yesterday.  &.... [阅读全文]

  Luke Dollar, National Geographic Emerging Explorer, conservationist and scientist, has spent many years in Madagascar studying lemurs and a predator called the fossa. In recent months, he has taken on another crucial role as the lead for Na.... [阅读全文]

Matty Sallin's alarm clock wakes a sleepyhead with the aroma of sizzling bacon. Photograph by Matty Sallin   When Matty Sallin, 34, was working on a degree in art and technology at New York University, he got an interesting assignment in e.... [阅读全文]

A new anti-fur poster, released by PETA, shows (L-R) country singer Carrie Underwood, U.S. first lady Michelle Obama and talk show hosts Oprah Winfrey and Tyra Banks.[Agencies.... [阅读全文]

  奥巴马在即将上任之际，写了封公开信给两个尚未成年的女儿。 亲爱的玛丽亚和萨莎： 这些是我想要让你们得到的东西：在一个梦想不受限制、无事不能成就的世界中长大，长成具慈悲心、坚持理想，能帮忙打造这样一个世界的女性。我要每个孩子都有和你们一样的机会.... [阅读全文]

  Christmas with love 　　Everytime, when I close my eyes I can't see the light of heaven 　　Though, I can't deny there's God who have created this earth 　　Day by day, month by month 　　I'm very interested 'bout the light of heaven.... [阅读全文]

  The great MIT economist Paul Samuelson died today, at age 94. The NYT, in its obituary, calls him "the foremost academic economist of the 20th century," which sounds about right. Samuelson's Foundations of Economic Analysis, a rewo.... [阅读全文]

  Remarks at USA Pavilion at Shanghai Expo Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Shanghai, China November 16, 2009 在上海世博园美国馆建设现场的致辞 美国国务卿 希拉里·克林顿 中国 上海 2009年11月16日 Thank you. Thank you so mu.... [阅读全文]

As countries begin emerging from the global financial crisis, France is proposing to measure progress in a new way - one that includes happiness and well being, as well as traditional economic benchmarks.... [阅读全文]

世界银行行长佐利克与中国总理温家宝会见之后表示，他同意中国应该继续扩张经济，而不是从当前刺激经济的支出努力中开始实施退出战略。 .... [阅读全文]

经济合作与发展组织星期三报告说，工业化国家的失业率仍在增加，而且有可能在明年达到近10%的历史最高水平，尽管不断有报道说，很多工业化国家正在走出几十年来最严重的经济危机。 .... [阅读全文]

爱思英语编者按:达赖30日晚抵达台湾，随即搭高铁南下，据台湾TVBS新闻31日消息，大批台湾民众守住高铁站对达赖呛声，他们不但拿布条纸板，甚至还拿出了五星红旗抗议。 "No Dalai Lama -- Only food and beds wanted" and "(He) only talks -- no fund-r.... [阅读全文]

英语广场编者按：　9月3日，，国家食品药品监管局批准北京科兴生物制品有限公司生产的甲型H1N1流感病毒裂解疫苗注册申请，科兴公司正式获得疫苗生产批准，并开始批量生产。 The decision could boost the global fight against A(H1N1) influenza, as most experts had.... [阅读全文]

口袋里有点闲钱的人注意了，你们有五天机会在巴黎距地面50米的高空享用最美味的法国大餐。此次空中用餐活动由法国一家生活和美食杂志组织发起，从上周五持续至本周二。活动所提供的午餐和晚餐均由巴黎的顶级厨师们烹制。.... [阅读全文]

Revellers fight with tomato pulp during the annual "Tomatina" (tomato fight) in the Mediterranean village of Bunol, near Valencia, August 26, 2009.[Agencies] Click for more photos.... [阅读全文]

In Houston, Texas, thousands of students are returning to school to discover a new rule: no "sexting" -- the distribution of nude or semi-nude photographs or videos by text message..... [阅读全文]

President Barack Obama put his political worries to one side and followed the traditional American call to "Go West" as he and his wife and daughters visited the Grand Canyon..... [阅读全文]

The Mona Lisa, one of the world's most famous paintings, has been recreated with 3,604 cups of coffee - and 564 pints of milk.The different colours were created by adding no, little or lots of milk to each cup of black coffee..... [阅读全文]

The motion said: "High heels may look glamorous on the Hollywood catwalks but are completely inappropriate for the day-to-day working environment."(Agencies)  .... [阅读全文]

美国总统贝拉克•奥巴马日前盛赞迈克尔•杰克逊是一位杰出艺人，他才华出众，但是个人生活却充满悲剧色彩。奥巴马在上周四接受采访时说：“作为一名娱乐明星，他的非凡天赋给很多人带来无尽的欢乐，我很高兴看到人们因此而怀念他。” .... [阅读全文]

Every year we celebrate Children's Day on 1st June, it is a grate day to us because children are the future custodians of the nation, and thus providing them with a good family, social, and educational environment is a goal ardently worked for by ev.... [阅读全文]

A girl, all smiles, holds a bunch of zongzi, pyramid-shaped rice ball snacks, upon the coming Dragon Boat Festival in Jiaxing, east China's Zhejiang province, May 6, 2009. Zongzi is a traditional food the Chinese eat on the .... [阅读全文]

        Astronauts aboard the space station celebrated a space first on Wednesday b.... [阅读全文]

Hundreds of Japanese students whose schools have been closed this week to contain a swine flu outbreak have instead flocked to karaoke parlours with their friends, club operators said. .... [阅读全文]

An Austrian businessman is raffling off his luxury home and will use the proceeds to help fund microcredits in the Third World, the daily Der Standard reported on Monday..... [阅读全文]