Vietnam made preparations for the Lunar New Year with a fish release on Thursday. The tradition involves releasing fish called carps into rivers and lakes in the country a week before the holiday known as Tet officially begins.The tradition comes fro
Planned missions to the moon need to hurry up to avoid hitting one of the busiest periods for extreme space weather, according to scientists conducting the most in-depth ever research on solar storm timing.Scientists at the University of Reading stud
On September 7, 1930, Yuan Longping was born in Beijing. Fluent in English, his mother often read Friedrich Nietzsche's works to him. Influenced by his mother, Yuan Longping liked English, geography and chemistry at school. After graduating from
When the weather is bad or when the flu breaks out, we can let the kids do some fun things at home, which can be beneficial to kids.Reading out loudIf your children are young enough, don't forget to read books to them out loud! Few children disli
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a name that every lover of English literature will always remember and cherish. He is the pen father of the extraordinary detective Sherlock Holmes and a number of detective stories.Arthur chose to go to medical field and be
相信不少人都买过纸质英语词典,但除了偶尔查词翻一翻之外,大多数人都是将它们束之高阁。英语词典其实是非常好的阅读材料,如果只是用来查词就太浪费了。葛传椝先生在他的《向英语学习者讲话》当中对于词典有这样的论述:我在许多年以前惯常读完过《简明牛津词典》中的许多常用词的词条。我觉得那样做对于精通常用词和短语是很有帮助的。这种常用词和短语可能很容易被以英语为母语的男女孩子们随时学到。可是它们不大会被不在这方面作出特别努力的中国学习者学到。读词典中常用词的词条无疑是一个大大的助益。可见,英语词典确实可以拿来