English has long padded out its vocabulary by adopting so-called "loan words (外来词, wài lái cí)" from other languages, or as fiction reviewer James Nicoll put it, our beloved vernacular "follows other ...

BEIJING, April 6 (Xinhua) -- "When brothers are of the same mind, they can cut through metal." Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has cited this Chinese ...