Thousands of new words are invented each year. Most of these come from science. When scientists discover something new, if they do not have a word for...
The Olympic Games began in 776 B.C. in ancient Olympia. There are two mythological versions as to how they started. The first is the myth of Pelopas f...
The first Olympic event was the stadium race, a course of about 200m (1 stadium) which was the only event until 724 B.C., when the "diavlos"...
Ping-pong started as a friendly game, which was played for fun. No one knows who invented it. One story is that it started when two students at Cambri...
When you are in the U.S., you will find restaurants for every situation. If you're in a hurry, you may just want to grab some "junk food"...
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虽然最近在国内也相当盛行吃西餐，但是在内容和形式上，随著各餐厅的经营型态而纯”、杂”不等，繁”、简”不一，十分值得一谈。 美国的西餐，和欧洲许多国家也颇有不同。如果您到美国旅游，赴家庭宴会或在餐馆吃正餐”时，请先注意下列一般原则： 1. 男...
玩具是每个人一生中必不可少的，它伴随我们度过无忧无虑的童年，又在我们成年以后给予我们心灵上的慰籍和美好的回忆。近年来随着收藏热”的兴起，很多人也开始收集老玩具。那么世界上最古老的玩具在哪里呢？ A carved animal figurine found buried alongside...
1.red states/blue states（红州/蓝州） 共和党支持率较高的州在大选地图上用红色标示，蓝色则代表民主党 2.Two Americas（两个美国） 民主党候选人克里在大选中，指责现任总统布什的经济政策导致美国社会出现严重分化。克里说他眼里有两个美国：一个富人的美国和一个穷人的美国...
1. 第一个词是cock。这个词是一开始学英语就学到的基本词汇之一，大家都知道它是公鸡”的意思，可是在美语里，最好就不要用它了，因为它的意思早就不是 公鸡”了。在俚语里面，它指的是男性生殖器。比如你要说：他有两只公鸡。”，千万不要说：He has two cock...