Ben Price knew Jimmy’s habits. He had learned them while investigating the Springfield case.
本·普莱斯对基米的恶习了如指掌。当他在侦查春田案件时就掌握了所有这一切。
One afternoon Jimmy Valentine and his suitcase climbed out of a train in Elmore, a little town in Arkansas. Jimmy, looking like a student who had just come home from college, walked out of the station

guard came to the prison shoe shop where Jimmy Valentine was working and took him to the prison office. There the warden handed Jimmy his pardon, which had been signed that morning by the governor. He took it quietly; he was too tired to show excitement. He had been in prison nearly ten months and he had been sentenced to four years. True, he had e

A comic film for the New Year is supposed to bring laughter and happiness, but this is one that has made quite a few couples walk out of cinemas. And they're not laughing. They're ready to confiscate their spouse's cellphone.
  It is Chinese film director Feng Xiaogang's latest movie called, Cellphone.
  喜剧贺岁片应该带来笑声和快乐，但

The details of what is going on—the vole story, as it were—is a fascinating one. When prairie voles have sex, two hormones called oxytocin and vasopressin are released. If the release of these hormones is blocked, prairie-voles' sex becomes a fleeting affair, like that normally enjoyed by their rakish montane cousins. Conversely, if prairie vole

Disregarding the song of the birds, the green trees, and the smell of the flowers, Jimmy went straight to a restaurant. There he ordered a roast chicken and a bottle of white wine and a better cigar than the one the warden had given him. Then he walked slowly to the railroad station. He put a quarter into the hat of a blind man sitting by the do

每年的清明定在二十四节气的春分后的第十五天，清明节是子孙们去扫墓祭祖的节日，人们会带祭品前往祭祖，同时打扫和清理墓啤。今年(2005)的清明节是公历4月5日。
清 明 上 河 图
清明节的传统
    Ancestor worship is a Chinese tradition dating back

Scientists are finding that, after all, love really is down to a chemical addiction between people
科学家们发现爱情确实是人与人之间的一种化学成瘾现象。
OVER the course of history it

Sex stimulates the release of vasopressin and oxytocin in people, as well as voles, though the role of these hormones in the human brain is not yet well understood. But while it is unlikely that people have a mental, smell-based map of their partners in the way that voles do, there are strong hints that the hormone pair have something to reveal

These foolish things / 这些愚蠢的玩意儿
Of course, love is about more than just genes. Cultural and social factors, and learning, play big roles. Who and how a person has loved in the past are important determinants of his (or her) capacity to fall in love at any given moment in the future. This is because animals—people include

Cody started life weighing 24 ounces.
Due to extreme prematurity, our son had eye surgery to prevent blindness. As a result of the surgery, he lost peripheral vision in his right eye. And his near sightedness would mean glasses and close monitoring by an ophthalmologist for the rest of his life.
Such a small price to pay, in ou

Jazz And The Essence of America
　　Considering how jazz is transcribed in Chinese (jueshi), you may be misleds

The main content of American culture is the emphasize on individuals' value, the pursue of democracy and freedom, the promotion of deploitation(开拓, 经营) and competition and the need of realistic and practicality. Its core is individualism: self first, personal need first, pursue of individual benefit and enjoyment, emphasize on achieving individual

Nationalism can be defined as a deep sense of loyalty and devotion that one feels for one's own race and country. It is a set of emotions that is nurtured over thousands of
years. And as agrarian communities give way to modern urban societies, nationalism today has also evolved into a form that is quite different from the ancient one that we kn

What I saw was a great opportunity to provide computing technology in a more efficient way. That was the core idea of what became Dell Computer Corporation and that’s one we were stuck over ever since.
    I started the business with a simple question: how can we make the process of buying a computer better? The answer was: sell the co

"I was sure that I was to be killed. I became terribly nervous. I fumbled
　　[1] in my pockets to see if there were any cigarettes, which had escaped[2]
their search. I found one and because of my shaking hands, I could barely get it to my lips. But I had no matches, they had taken those. "I looked through the bars at my jailer. He