British Surnames 英国人的姓氏 The men and women of Anglo-Saxon England normally bore one name only. 英国的安格鲁撒克逊人无论男女通常只有一个名字。 Distinguishing epithets were rarely added. 有区别作用的称号很少加...
Decline of Reading 阅读的衰退 We have a crisis on our hands. 我们正面临着危机。 You mean global warming? 你是指全球变暖问题？ The world economy? 世界经济问题？ No, the decline of reading. 不，是阅读衰退的问题。...
A Collective Style of Living 集体生活方式 The way in which people use social space reflects their social relationships and their ethnic identity. 人们利用社交空间的方式反映出他们的社会关系和他们的种族身份。 Early i...
Forms of Communication 交流方式 Clearly if we are to participate in the society in which we live we must communicate with other people. 很明显，我们要参与我们所生活的这个社会，我们就必须与其他人进行交流。 A great...
Sending Children to School 送孩子上学 Sending a child to school in England is a step which many parents do not find easy to take. 在英格兰，送孩子上学对于家长来说并不容易。 In theory, at least, the problem is that there are...
Marriage Partnerships 婚姻关系 Traditionally, the woman has held a low position in marriage partnerships. 从传统上讲，婚姻伴侣关系中女人的地位较低， While her husband went his way she had to wash, stitch and sew. 当她丈夫出...
Archaeopteryx 始祖鸟 Scientists have determined that Archaeopteryx,the earliest known bird,was definitely birdbrained,meaning no disrespect. 科学家已经确定，已知最古老的鸟类始祖鸟的确是鸟的脑子，这么说并不是对它不...
A Country's Standard of Living 国家的生活标准 The standard of living of any country means the average person's share of the goods and services which the country produces. 任何国家的生活标准意味着人均占有这个国家生产的商品...
Liberating the Modern Woman? 解放现代妇女？ Many of the home electric goods which are advertised as liberating the modern woman tend to have the opposite effect,because they simply change the nature of work instead of eliminating it. 许多在广...
When It's Light Out, You're Out 去室外玩耍吧 Television can be a wonderful learning tool. 电视能成为很好的学习工具。 Thirty-odd years ago, Sesame Street ,The Electric Company and Mr. Rogers'Neighbourhoodhelped my sons learn to read...
Foreign Motorists 外国司机 The chief problem in coping with foreign motorists is not so much remembering that they are different from yourself,but that they are enormously variable. 应对外国司机问题的主要困难不是要记住他们与你...
The Habits of the Solitary 习惯性孤独 My bones have been aching again,as they often do in humid weather. 和平常一样遇到天气潮湿，我的骨头又疼起来了。 They ache like history:things long done with, that still remain as pain. 疼...
Maybe Geniuses Just Got Lucky 也许是运气造就了天才 Life is unfair, as even the Bible acknowledges. 生活是不公平的，这一点甚至连《圣经》也不加否认。 We can't all hit a baseball like DiMaggio or sing like the Beatles. 不...
Confidence Game 家庭主妇停止工作后丧失信心 In California on a business trip last month,I met a mom with two kids who'd graduated from business school in the late 1990s. 上个月，在加利福尼亚的一次商务旅行中，我遇见了一...
Aging Populations 人口老龄化 What is making the world so much older? 是什么让全世界的人口日益老龄化？ There are two long-term causes and a temporary blip that will continue to show up in the figures for the next few decades. 这是...
