Herodiasby Gustave FlaubertCHAPTER IIn the eastern side of the Dead Sea rose the citadel of Machaerus. Itwas built upon a conical peak of basalt, and was surrounded by fourdeep valleys, one on each side, another in front, and the fourth inthe rear. At the base of the citadel, crowding against one another, agroup of houses stood within the circle of a wall, whose outlinesundulated with the unevenness of the soil. A zigzag road, cutting...
1894年8月1日,日本帝国因朝鲜半岛冲突向中国宣战。战争持续至1895年4月,以中国割让台湾、澎湖列岛而告结束。1931年9月18日,日军入侵中国东北,扶持成立傀儡政府“满洲国”。1937年7月7日,日军在北平西南的宛平制造了卢沟桥事件,遂全面发动侵华战争,第二次世界大战亚太战区拉开帷幕。1937年7月30日,日军占领北平和天津。1937年8月13日,日本上海派遣军在上海北面的扬子江南岸登陆,三个月后上海失陷。1937年12月11日,日本中支那方面军的六个师团,由日军华中方面军司令松井石根指挥,在数百架战机、众多坦克、战舰的配合下,突进到中国国民政府的首都——南京的城墙之外。日军从水路、地面、空中向古老的南京城发动了无数次大规模的猛烈攻击,切断了所有退逃之路,把太阳旗插在了城郊附近的栖霞山、青龙山以及天印山等制高点上。...
狮子男孩:真相狮子男孩:失踪狮子男孩:追寻《狮子男孩Ⅰ》 第一部分《狮子男孩Ⅰ》 炎热的国度1一个炎热的国度里,一个睡意十足的男孩在凉爽而宽大的屋子里用力地揉着自己的鼻子。查理·艾山迪,这位狮子的救护者,沉船事件的幸存者,发明哮喘良药的科学家的儿子,马戏团里的资深演员,同时也是一位猫语者,已经酣睡了整整三天,这是因为他的身体和神经完全松弛了下来。最近的几个月里,他被人一路追赶,穿过了欧洲好几个国家,带着六只从马戏团逃出来的狮子回到了他们的非洲老家,另外,还拯救了一个被克隆的史前动物,帮助发动了一场革命,经历了一次沉船事件,击倒了仇敌并且目睹了他的仓皇逃跑,最终,还找到了被绑架的父母。为了找到父母,他经历了种种磨难。可以说,他现在是一个非常幸福的男孩。他有充分的理由大睡一觉。这场大觉让他恢复了元气,他开始在床上折腾起来。...
End of the Tetherby Joseph ConradIFor a long time after the course of the steamer Sofalahad been altered for the land, the low swampy coast hadretained its appearance of a mere smudge of darknessbeyond a belt of glitter. The sunrays seemed to fallviolently upon the calm seaseemed to shatter them-selves upon an adamantine surface into sparkling dust,into a dazzling vapor of light that blinded the eye and...
NOTES BY FLOOD AND FIELDPART IIN THE FIELDIt was near the close of an October day that I began to bedisagreeably conscious of the Sacramento Valley. I had been ridingsince sunrise, and my course through the depressing monotony of thelong level landscape affected me more like a dull dyspeptic dreamthan a business journey, performed under that sincerest of naturalphenomenaa California sky. The recurring stretches of brown andbaked fields, the gaping fissures in the dusty trail, the hard...
偶然的一份心情,在不经意的瞬间走进了脑海,想起曾经走过岁月的坎坷遭遇和幸福时光,只觉一点点喜、一丝丝乐、一片片伤痛和一份份失落的交替、交融,相辉相映,在每个人的世界中来来往往,于是萌发一种叛逆的冲动,一种尽释情怀想说点什么的愿望。特别地想为女性,为走进四十的不算是成功但也活得有滋有味又难免有些凄凉和孤独的女性说点什么,平日里说的零乱,于是就有了动笔的念头,于是就想对“女人四十豆腐渣”予以辩驳,想澄清这原则性、要领性的错误给四十女性所带来的恐惧、绝望、失落及对未来的伤感。纵观世界,四十女人的现实和幻觉中,美丽和魅力犹在,四十女人身上所散发的不属于青春但属于世界的光芒犹在,刚强与自信,母爱与责任感,贤淑而明事理为四十女人铸造着不可抗拒的魅力和磁力,不管你是男人还是女人,老人还是孩子,你无法不爱四十的女人。现实中、虚拟社会里,大男孩走进了成熟女性的生活,大男人需要成熟...
The Legacy of Cainby Wilkie CollinsToMRS. HENRY POWELL BARTLEY:Permit me to add your name to my name, in publishing this novel.The pen which has written my books cannot be more agreeablyemployed than in acknowledging what I owe to the pen which hasskillfully and patiently helped me, by copying my manuscripts forthe printer.WILKIE COLLINS.Wimpole Street, 6th December, 1888.THE LEGACY OF CAIN.First Period: 1858-1859.EVENTS IN THE PRISON, RELATED BY THE GOVERNOR....
Passages from an Old Volume of Lifeby Oliver W. HolmesPAGES FROM AN OLD VOLUME OF LIFE.A COLLECTION OF ESSAYSBY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMESCONTENTS:BREAD AND THE NEWSPAPERMY HUNT AFTER "THE CAPTAIN"THE INEVITABLE TRIALCINDERS FROM ASHESTHE PULPIT AND THE PEWBREAD AND THE NEWSPAPER.(September, 1861.)This is the new version of the Panem et Circenses of the Roman populace. It is our ultimatum, as that was theirs. They must have something to eat, and the circus-shows to look at. We must have something
Jeremyby Hugh WalpoleTO BRUCE FROM HIS LOVING UNCLECONTENTSCHAPTERI THE BIRTHDAYII THE FAMILY DOGIII CHRISTMAS PANTOMIMEIV MISS JONESV THE SEA-CAPTAINVI FAMILY PRIDEVII RELIGIONVIII TO COW FARMIX THE AWAKENING OF CHARLOTTEX MARYXI THE MERRY-GO-ROUNDXII HAMLET WAITS"It is due to him to say that he wasan obedient boy and a boy whose wordcould be depended on . . ."...
什么是“右翼”?“右翼”连同“左翼”一词起源于18世纪末法国大革命时期,分别指坐在议院右侧议席上的具有保守倾向的人士(相对的是所谓有激进倾向的“左翼”)。也就是说,法国的“右翼”指的是议会中的由政治倾向不同而形成的政治势力或政治派别。到了19世纪后期20世纪初的西方国家,右翼、左翼的区分带有国际性,并具有强烈的意识形态的、“主义”的色彩。“右翼”倾向于国家主义、民族主义、资本主义,“左翼”强调阶级和阶级斗争,信仰共产主义、无产阶级国际主义,这是现代意义上的左翼和右翼的基本涵义。而到了当代,随着资本主义民主政治的成熟,人们常用“右派”一词来指称保守派、强硬派势力,而“右翼”的涵义也相应地发生了变化,“右翼”是“右派”中的极端者。这种界定尤其符合日本当代社会的情况。...
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SERTORIUS130?-72 B.C.by Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenIT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortunetakes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences shouldspontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to bewrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, withsuch an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results....
The Man Who Could Not Loseby Richard Harding DavisThe Carters had married in haste and refused to repent at leisure.So blindly were they in love, that they considered their marriagetheir greatest asset. The rest of the world, as represented bymutual friends, considered it the only thing that could be urgedagainst either of them. While single, each had been popular. As abachelor, young "Champ" Carter had filled his modest placeacceptably. Hostesses sought him for dinners and week-end parties,...