衛報的“聖誕禮物”指南：一份介紹

The Guardian Christmas gift guide: an introduction

Bored of the same old present suggestions from the same old companies? Fed up with designer names and plastic tat? Us too. Kate Carter introduces our brand new interactive guide, full of unique ideas for friends, family and furry beasts

對老是同樣式公司的老式送禮建議感到不耐煩嗎？厭倦了設計師名和塑料製品？我們也一樣。凱特·卡特介紹了我們全新的交互式指南，為你的朋友，家庭和毛茸茸寵物充滿獨特的想法

10大社群媒體病態習慣

10 unhealthy social media habits

By Michael Sebastian | Posted: October 15, 2012 

This is your brain on social media:

It’s 3 p.m. You’re sitting through another meeting that’s so dreary and dull it’s got you doubting your chosen professional when suddenly—BING!—an alert sounds on your phone: Someone mentioned you in a tweet.

十種運用所有格符號(撇號)的規則

10 rules for using the apostrophe

Source: By Laura Hale Brockway | Posted: October 24, 2012

Last week, I tackled a controversial topic—the comma.
上星期 我著手一份爭議的題目 — 逗號

There are definite rules for its use, but many writers use commas subjectively, leading to disagreement (and acrimony) whenever writers or editors discuss this modest punctuation mark.

他有明確的使用規則 , 但是很多作者很主觀的使用;每當作家和編輯討論這審慎的標點符號; 常導致不同意的爭論(以及 激烈)

Pets at Home(寵物之家)增長速率高人一等

Pets at Home growth a cut above

Animal retailer and grooming salon Pets at Home boasts profits and turnover leap, raising hopes for bumper Christmas

寵物用品零售商和居家照護寵物沙龍利潤和營業額的飛躍，提升了對聖誕節豐收寄予厚望

Source : The Guardian  Staff and agencies  Friday 2 November 2012 20.27 GMT

Pets at Home offers worm treatments and grooming parlours for pampered pooches. It has 313 stores and plans to open more. Photograph: Craig Borrow /Newspix/Rex

寵物之家提供的蠕蟲病毒治療和起居照料嬌養的愛犬。它擁有313家門店，並計劃開設更多。圖片來源：克雷格借用/ Newspix /雷克斯

迪士尼併購盧卡斯製片的星際大戰

Disney buys Star Wars maker Lucasfilm from George Lucas

From: BBC 

31 October 2012 Last updated at 11:22 GMT

George Lucas signs away his Star Wars empire to Disney's Robert Iger

喬治·盧卡斯將他的“星際大戰帝國”簽署給迪士尼的羅伯特·伊格爾（Robert Iger）