It will all make sense if you assume that the author's head has exploded. The debris the author refers to is the contents of their head - since it exploded, it would have been splattered all over the walls. The author is therefore saying that the book contains all their thoughts and beliefs and so forth. By saying that their head exploded, they're implying that they learned something that caused their brain to malfunction catastrophically. Obviously, this isn't true - it's a joke.

Uh, yeah, I'm not really sure how to translate 德育属性 either. My best guess is: This article discusses the modern applicability of ancient proverbs in the context of morality and questions of inheritance. But my Chinese isn't very good, so I wouldn't trust me too much if I were you.

It means 'one print'. It's weirdly phrased, though. 'Individually popular prints' would sound more natural, and it would mean that the prints were popular on their own...

You wouldn't use 'during' during the summer you were talking about. You could say "Dean will be our college intern during the summer". Dean isn't of the summer - coming from summer, having properties of summer. He's an intern for the summer, an intern brought in for the purpose of summer. You might use 'in', but that would imply a regular position, which doesn't make sense for an intern.

Suppose you have to pay at least $10 each month. If you paid nothing in January, and then $5 in February, you would have missed two minimum payments in a row. If you paid nothing in January, $10 in February, and $5 in March, you would have missed two minimum payments, but not two minimum payments in a row. A payment that is returned is a payment that you give to the company, but then is given back to you for some reason. A payment beyond the next statement date is a payment that the company receives after the allowable period for payment has passed - in other words, you can't make January's payment in February.

I think the consensus is that they had something similar in Old English - the voiced palato-alveolar affricate dʒ, which you see in French as 'dj'. They didn't have the j/ʒ, however. Obviously, after the Norman conquest, the two languages merged to some extent and the ʒ found its way in through loan words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_phonology

‘Vis-à-vis’ means 'in relation to'. The writer means that because he or she has left the former guild of lodgers, Mrs. Bittle's advertisement of "Only Good People Here" is now more accurate.

Oh, gee. The difference between 'bound' and 'binding' might become clearer if different examples are used. These two are both very abstract. "The man bound the rock to the wall." "The man is binding the rock to the wall." In the first sentence, the man affixed the rock to the wall at some point in the past, and it might still be fixed to the wall, depending on what has happened since then. In the second, the man is actively keeping the rock on the wall. He might be gluing it there, in which case it will stay bound once he lets go, or he might just be holding it there. In the same way, the contract is actively binding the parties with obligations. The ship was sent to its destination from its home port, and so it is bound for its destination. As for your other questions... 'Forth' means 'forward'. It means that the contract puts the obligations out into the open. You can't exchange 'binding' and 'bound' in most cases, and definitely not in this case. It refers to the on board bill of lading.