The Wars of the Jewsor History of the Destruction of JerusalemBy Flavius JosephusTranslated by William WhistonPREFACE1. (1) Whereas the war which the Jews made with the Romans hath been the greatest of all those, not only that have been in our times, but, in a manner, of those that ever were heard of; both of those wherein cities have fought against cities, or nations against nations; while some men who were not concerned in the affairs themselves have gotten together vain and contradictory sto
日子轻快一如沙漠中的夜风,瞬间已是千里,不过是一次受伤后的休息,草原上的草儿已经枯萎了三次,胡杨林的叶子黄了三次。三年多时间,一千多个日日夜夜,随着狼群,从漠北流浪到漠南,又从漠南回到漠北。打闹嬉戏中,我似乎从未离开过狼群,与阿爹在一起的六年似乎已湮没在黄沙下,可惜……只是似乎。沉沉黑夜,万籁俱静。篝火旁,我和狼兄一坐一卧,他已酣睡,我却无半丝睡意。白日我再次看到匈奴军队,三年中的第一次,措手不及间隆隆马蹄声惊醒了尘封多年的过去。九年前,西域。一个人躺在沙漠中,我盯着他的眼睛,他也盯着我。有蜥蜴从他脸上爬过,他一动不动。我好奇地用爪子轻拍了拍他的脸颊,他依旧没有动,但微不可见地扯了下嘴角,好像在笑。...
经过十多天的疾驰,我与飞马终于赶到了熊谷,没想到熊谷是我看到仅次于自由岛的一个风景明媚的好地方,要山有山要水有水。一条溪流穿过熊谷,远远可见,有几只体形庞大的棕熊在河边捕鱼,身边数只小熊在水中戏耍。一尾鲜美的大鱼被抛上岸去,鱼颇为不甘的在空中扭动着身体,粼粼水光反射着阳光分外诱人。"吧嗒,"鱼落在岸边,几只小熊兴奋的"嗷嗷"叫着奔上岸来,厚实的熊掌按在鱼的脑袋上,一尾大鱼瞬间被分成几块,吃完了鱼,带着一嘴鱼鳞的小熊又欢蹦着向河中奔去。众熊有懒洋洋的躺在柔软的草地上,半眯着眼假寐,有立起上肢够树上的野果,几只半大的熊靠在树上蹭痒,小熊们三五一群,有戏耍的,有爬树的,有跟在母亲旁边睡大觉的。...
我知道有多少人喜欢韩寒,甚至也知道他们为什么喜欢韩寒。因为,我也喜欢韩寒。有同事曾认真地问我:“以你的年龄和资历,当真喜欢韩寒?”我想了一下,同样认真地回答:是的,我喜欢这个孩子,喜欢他的作品。四年前一个春天的傍晚,我见到了挑染了几缕棕色头发的韩寒。比我想像的瘦些,黑些,很酷。看他奔跑的样子,真的很像一个英俊的“狼孩儿”。“我认真地拜读了你的作品。”韩寒的目光倏地停留在了我的脸上,眼睛一闪一闪的,虽有一点羞涩,但泛着执拗的光芒。“看到了什么?”他问。“灵气!虽然《三重门》的故事没有什么特别,大概是属于麦琪的礼物之类吧,但语言表达实在是太好了,够语录级啦……”我自顾自地传达了我对他作品的全部看法。韩寒的目光在长发下面慢慢暗了下去,看得出他不满意我对他故事的评价,但他最终什么也没有说,只是不好意思地笑了笑,样子很可爱。...
The Confessions of a Summer Colonistby William Dean HowellsThe season is ending in the little summer settlement on the Down Eastcoast where I have been passing the last three months, and with eachloath day the sense of its peculiar charm grows more poignant.A prescience of the homesickness I shall feel for it when I go alreadybegins to torment me, and I find myself wishing to imagine some form ofwords which shall keep a likeness of it at least through the winter; some...
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in 1899 at Oak Park, a highly respectable suburb of Chicago, where his father, a keen sportsman, was a doctor. He was the second of six children. The family spent holidays in a lakeside hunting lodge in Michigan, near Indian settlements. Although energetic and successful in all school activities, Ernest twice ran away from home before joining the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter in 1917. Next year he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front and
前 言:大国的兴衰 一流国家在世界事务中的相对地位总是不断变化的。主要原因有二:一是各国国力的增长速度不同;二是技术突破和组织形式的变革,可使一国比另一国得到更大的优势。例如,公元1500年以后问世的帆动力远洋炮舰和大西洋贸易的繁荣,就使欧洲各国受益不同,一些国家的发展速度比另一些国家快得多。同样,后来开发的蒸汽动力及其依赖的煤炭和金属资源,大大增强了一些国家的力量。一些国家的生产力一旦得到提高,便自然能比较容易地在平时承受大规模扩军备战的负担,能在战时保持和供养庞大的陆军和舰队。这种说法听起来似乎具有浓厚的重商主义色彩,但财富通常是支撑军事力量的基础,而要获取和保卫财富又总是需要军事力量。然而,如果一个国家把它的很大一部分资源不是用于创造财富,而是用于军事目的,那么,从长远来看,这很可能会导致该国国力的削弱。同样,如果一个国家在战略上过分扩张(如侵占大片领土和进...
_New England Reformers__A Lecture read before the Society in Amory Hall,__on Sunday, 3 March, 1844_Whoever has had opportunity of acquaintance with society in NewEngland, during the last twenty-five years, with those middle andwith those leading sections that may constitute any justrepresentation of the character and aim of the community, will havebeen struck with the great activity of thought and experimenting....
Philosophy of Natureby HegelTable of ContentsPreliminary§ 192 Nature has presented itself as the idea in the form of otherness.§ 193 Hence nature exhibits no freedom in its existence, but only necessity and contingency.§ 194 Nature is to be viewed as a system of stages, in which one stage necessarily arises fromthe other.§ 195 Nature is, in itself a living whole.§ 196 The idea as nature can be named mathematics, physics, and physiology....