Soda and mint — the two flavors everyone wants combined. 苏打水和薄荷——所有人都想把这两种东西混在一起。 Well, like it or not, Tic Tac has done just that with its new limited-edition Tic Tac Coca-Cola breath mints. 不管你喜不喜欢，嘀嗒糖公司已经做到了，推出了新的限量版Tic Tac可口可乐薄荷糖。 According to Tic Tac, the unique combo will have fans “enjoy a revitalizing taste experience which combines the refreshment of Coca-Cola with…
How many times have you flipped to the back of a company’s annual report or 10-K and found yourself blankly staring at dozens, or even hundreds, of pages of numbers and tables? 你有多少次直接翻到一家公司的年终报告或10-K表格的最后，结果发现自己盯着几十页甚至几百页的数字和表格都懵了？ You know that these should be important to your investment decision, but you’re not quite sure what they mean or where to…
Chances are high that you’ve heard such things: 你应该听过这样的论断吧： Don’t indulge yourself in safety. That’s like boiling a frog in warm water. It will slowly kill you and you won’t even notice it. 不要贪图安逸的环境，那是温水煮青蛙，会在不知不觉中杀死你； You should get out of your comfort zone. Go for some challenges. Only by doing that can you grow stronger. 走出自己的舒适区，去接受挑战，这样才能变强；…
What should you never say to a British person? 哪些话绝对不要对英国人说？ When I studied abroad in the UK, every room came equipped with an electric kettle for making tea. 当我在英国读书的时候，每个宿舍房间都配有一个煮茶用的水壶。 I foolishly asked the British students, “Why do you need a kettle? Can’t you just make your tea in the microwave?” 我当时傻里傻气地问我的英国同学：“你们为什么要用水壶？不能直接用微波炉来泡茶吗？” Their response: 而他们的反应是： At…
龙的英语是dragon，音标：英 [ˈdræɡən]美 [ˈdræɡən]。在西方dragon的本意是凶残的有翼巨兽、恶魔、悍妇等，想要表达中国的龙可以说Chinese dragon。 常用短语： dragon tree 龙血树 sea dragon 海龙 dragon beam 枪式小梁 dragon tanker 巨型油轮 dragon dance 舞龙 例句示范： No one came into Dragon King Temple without breaking into a cold sweat. 谁进得龙王庙不捏一把冷汗？ Dragon Boat Festival this year, we put Artemisia argyi home, wrap dumplings. 今年的端午，我们家挂上艾叶，包好粽子。 It is customary to eat Zongzi during…
Imagine today in 2029 – 10 years from now. 想象一下，如果现在是十年后，2029年 You will still be you, 你还是你自己 except you will have changed. 不过你已经有所改变 Think back the 2009 version of you 回想一下2009年的你 and I bet you will struggle to recognise that person. 我相信，你一定几乎认不出那个人了 Regardless of whether you are consciously changing 无论你是否意识到自己的变化 – you are changing whether you…
You died on a Saturday morning. And I had you placed here under our tree. 你星期六早上走了，我就把你埋在了我们俩种的树下。 And I had that house of your father bulldozed to the ground. 我还把你爸爸的破房子全给推倒了。 Momma always said dying was a part of life. I sure wish it was. 妈妈常说死亡是人生的一个部分，我真希望生命中没有死亡。 Little Forrest is doing just fine. He’s about to start school…
In pet-loving nations such as Australia, nobody likes the idea of dogs churning out litters in squalid conditions or sitting homeless in a shelter. 在澳大利亚等喜爱宠物的国家里，没人喜欢看到狗狗在肮脏的环境里制造垃圾，或者无家可归地呆在收容所里。 Responsible dog owners are therefore strongly encouraged to desex their pets, through programs such as national desexing month and low-cost surgery schemes. In some places in Australia, it is even…
A group of researchers in America have done a survey . 美国的一群研究人员做了一项调查。 They asked a lot of people what their greatest regret is. 他们询问了很多人，问这些人最大的遗憾是什么。 And according to the statistics they got, 75% of the people said it’s that they didn’t work hard enough when they were young and as a result they had achieved nothing.…
The word but is one of the seven coordinating conjunctions in English (the others are and, or, so, for, nor, and yet). It’s used to connect two statements that contrast or contradict each other in some way. but是英语中七个并列连词之一（其他连词是and，or，so，for，nor，and yet）。它被用来连接两个在某种程度上相互对比或矛盾的陈述。 For example, learning English is difficult but fun! But getting into the specifics of such commonly…