富爸爸、穷爸爸(英文版)Rich Dad and Poor Dad INTRODUCTION There is a Need Does school prepare children for the real world? Study hard and get good grades and you will find a high-paying job with great benefits, my parents used to say. Their goal in... [阅读全文]
哈利波特7|哈利波特与死圣英文版 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows AUTHOR=J. K. Rowling PUBLISHER=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC COPYRIGHT=Copyright a169 2007 by J. K. Rowling The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit... [阅读全文]
Our story begins in 1965, on a hot afternoon in August. FADE IN EXT. IOWA LANDSCAPE - DA Rolling green hills, lush farmland, vast open space. Not a house or sign of life in sight. On a long dusty road, a TRUCK is driving across the screen. Clouds of... [阅读全文]
Shanghai Paradise When I was a little girl, I always dreamt about flying to Shanghai. I would fly high, as high as the Oriental Pearl Tower, and I would live at the attic of that tower, to look from my window, and to wait for my prince to walk t... [阅读全文]
Chapter 07 THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
HESTER PRYNNE went, one day, to the mansion of Governor Bellingham, with a pair of gloves, which she had fringed and embroidered to his order, and which were to be worn on some great occasion of state;... [阅读全文]
Chapter 06 PEARL
WE have as yet hardly spoken of the infant; that little creature, whose innocent life had sprung, by the inscrutable decree of Providence, a lovely and immortal flower, out of the rank luxuriance of a passion. How st... [阅读全文]
Chapter 05 HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
HESTER PRYNNE'S term of confinement was now at an end. Her prison-door was thrown open, and she came forth into the sunshine, which, falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if meant f... [阅读全文]
Chapter 04 THE INTERVIEW
AFTER her return to the prison, Hester Prynne was found to be in a state of nervous excitement that demanded constant watchfulness, lest she should perpetrate violence on herself, or do some half-frenzied mis... [阅读全文]
FROM this intense consciousness of being the object of severe and universal observation, the wearer of the scarlet letter was at length relieved, by discerning, on the outskirts of the crowd, a figure which irresistibly took possession of her though... [阅读全文]
Chapter 02 THE MARKET-PLACE
THE grass-plot before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a certain summer morning, not less than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of Boston; all with their eyes intentl... [阅读全文]
SWORD OF THE YUEH MAIDEN
This is the only short story wrote by Jin Yong. Because of its short length, you can't really see Jin Yong's full talent at story-telling. However, this translation can give you some idea of what a martial arts story is... [阅读全文]
Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present. When we got back from church, I went into the kitchen of the manor-house, where Mary was cooking the dinner and John cleaning the knives, and I sa... [阅读全文]
The manor-house of Ferndean was a building of considerable antiquity, moderate size, and no architectural pretensions, deep buried in a wood. I had heard of it before. Mr. Rochester often spoke of it, and sometimes went there. His father had pur... [阅读全文]
The daylight came. I rose at dawn. I busied myself for an hour or two with arranging my things in my chamber, drawers, and wardrobe, in the order wherein I should wish to leave them during a brief absence. Meantime, I heard St. John quit his roo... [阅读全文]
He did not leave for Cambridge the next day, as he had said he would. He deferred his departure a whole week, and during that time he made me feel what severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable man can inflict on one who... [阅读全文]
It was near Christmas by the time all was settled: the season of general holiday approached. I now closed Morton school, taking care that the parting should not be barren on my side. Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully;... [阅读全文]
When Mr. St. John went, it was beginning to snow; the whirling storm continued all night. The next day a keen wind brought fresh and blinding falls; by twilight the valley was drifted up and almost impassable. I had closed my shutter, laid a mat... [阅读全文]
I continued the labours of the village-school as actively and faithfully as I could. It was truly hard work at first. Some time elapsed before, with all my efforts, I could comprehend my scholars and their nature. Wholly untaught, with faculties... [阅读全文]