Lu Gusun (pictured) was the major compiler and editor of the New English-Chinese Dictionary, first published in the 1970s. The book is still available in the market after several revisions, with 10 million copies sold.
LONDON: Can you imagine lying down at a concert, enjoying your food and soft drink? And you don't need to dress formally - short pants, T-shirts and sandals will do.
To my friends wearing yellow (or blue, or red, or white) hardhats, I say thanks.
The voice of Xu Liping on the other side of the telephone was so weak that some of her words were barely audible. Xu, a 26-year-old lung cancer patient in Tianjin, has been hospitalized for her illness many times.
The noon sun is scorching the tar as the thermometer rises past 33 C. Traffic police assistant An Mo is sweating as she tries to keep order at Zhongguancun Bridge No 1, Haidian District, one of the busiest roads in Beijing.
We live near a "no-future" alley, which runs through a vast expanse of "no-future" flat houses and decaying buildings before joining a "no-future" road where pedestrians and vehicles are jammed day in and day out among stalls of construction materials.
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