There is a Lady Sweet and Kind -Anonymous 有一位小姐甜美又温柔 -无名氏 There is a lady sweet and kind, was never face so pleas'd my mind; 有一位小姐甜美又温柔，从来没有人像她那样让我着迷； I did but see her passi...
I had a black dog. His name was Depression. 我有一条黑狗，它名叫抑郁。 Whenever the black dog made an appearance, I felt empty and life just seemed to slow down. 每当这条黑狗出现时，我就感到空虚，生活似乎也慢了下来...
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; 我的爱人没有阳光一般明亮的眼睛，也远远没有赛过珊瑚的红唇； If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wir...
She Walks in Beauty 她走在美的光彩中 by Lord Byron 乔治戈登拜伦 She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies; 她走在美的光彩中，像夜晚皎洁无云而且繁星漫天； And all that's best of dark...
Must all good things really come to an end? 天下真的没有不散的宴席？ This weekend we must steel ourselves to say farewell to London 2012, 本周末，我们必须坚定地对伦敦2012告别。 and I think it'd be fair to say that for a l...
Certain appalling events in history stay with us in the form of particular images 某些可怕的历史事件陪伴我们的是特定的图片， and in the case of the Hillsborough disaster the image that sticks in my mind is that of fans being pull...
Two weeks ago a young Christian girl, Rimsha Masih was detained in Pakistan near the capital Islamabad. 两周前，一名年轻的基督教女孩里姆沙马希赫在巴基斯坦首都伊斯兰马巴德附近被捕。 The girl who is in her early te...
With Parliament in recess, we don't hear much from our political masters. 在国会休会期间，政治精英们没有发表太多言论， MP's, as well as many business leaders, are on holiday. 议员和商界领导正在度假。 I hope they have...
With Mitt Romney's presidential nomination confirmed in a barnstorming acceptance speech two days ago, 米特罗姆尼两天前的提名巡回演讲进一步巩固了他总统候选人提名的身份。 the race to the White House is now well under w...
Some of the parents I know with teenage children who use cannabis are fairly relaxed about what's happening. 在我认识的父母中，有些并不在意孩子吸食大麻。 It isn't doing any harm, one tells me, Alcohol's much worse. 这又没什么...
In a pre-flight news conference in the summer of 1969 1969年夏天，在一次飞行前的新闻发布会上 Neil Armstrong said, I think we're going to the moon because it is in the nature of the human being to face challenges. 尼尔阿姆斯特朗说...
Earlier this week Sir Elton John expressed anxieties about how his young son, Zachary, might be treated when he goes to school. 本周早些时候，艾尔顿约翰爵士坦言自己对儿子扎卡里的担心， He fears he might face bullying becau...
If a butterfly flutters its wings, so chaos theory goes, it can cause the path of a tornado to change, and so the reverberations can be felt across the world. 混沌学理论提到，如果一只蝴蝶煽动翅膀，卷风的路线会因其改变，全...
What is a Caucus-race? asked Alice during her adventure in Wonderland. The Dodo explained. 什么是会议式赛跑？爱丽丝在梦游仙境中问到。渡渡鸟解释道。 First you mark out a racecourse, though the shape of it doesn't really mat...
A few years ago my middle son who was around seven years old at the time, had cycled away from home without telling anyone. 几年前，七岁左右的儿子一声不吭地骑车离开了家。 It was a mild summer evening and there were many childre...
