这是一个不起眼的地方。在退潮期间,褐色的泥浆被晒干后龟裂成一片片小方块,一眼看去,整个泥滩像被铺上一层砖瓦,给人一种怪异的感觉。泥滩上那条向远处的大海流淌的溪水已不再像一条小溪,只剩下一条沟,几乎是条裂缝,沟底汪着一小滩死水。潮水一来,这条沟又会被灌满。沟有两条倾斜的侧岸,上面的泥浆与其他地方的泥浆干的过程不一样,那里的泥片干得很彻底,焦干焦干的,像漂过白似的。看上去像黑白相间的拼图。这里就像任何一个货港,是一条工业化的风景线:大型停车场、金属保安栏网、头戴安全帽的人们、巨大的载货车在货物的重压下哼哼。坐落在坚实基础上的钢铁巨臂向大海伸去,去迎接货轮上的货物。起重架无声地转动,将货物抓起放下。铁路边上是一座座煤山,长长的货车丁丁当当地缓缓驶过,形成了背景的一部分。巨大的圆形仓库的两侧是白色的现代样式的办公楼,形成了背景的另一部分。空气中弥漫着一种永不消散的石油化...
Honore de Balzacby Albert Keim and Louis LumetTranslated from the French by FREDERIC TABER COOPERGENERAL NOTEOf all the books perhaps the one best designed for training the mind and forming the character is "Plutarch." The lives of great men are object-lessons. They teach effort, devotion, industry, heroism and sacrifice.Even one who confines his reading solely to biographies of thinkers, writers, inventors, poets of the spirit or poets of science, will in a short time have acquired an understa
琼瑶1 民国十年七月十日,安徽白沙镇。 梦寒第一次看到曾家那巍峨的七道牌坊,就是在这个夏天的早上。那天是她嫁到曾家的大喜之日。这个早上,她不止见到了名不虚传的“曾家牌坊”,她也见识了名不虚传的“曾家排场”。而且,也是这天早上,她第一次见到她的丈夫曾靖南,和她生命中的另一个男人,江雨杭。这个早上所发生的事,是她这一生永远永远也不会忘记的。 这天的白沙镇真是热闹极了。几乎全镇的居民都出动了,大家一清早就跑到曾家牌坊下面去等着,争先恐后地要看新娘子“拜牌坊”。新娘子拜牌坊,是曾家家族的规矩,任何其他地方都看不到的。曾家这七道牌坊远近驰名,不止是整个白沙镇的光荣,也是整个徽州地区的光荣。它们分别是功德坊、忠义坊、贞节坊、孝悌坊、贤良坊、廉政坊和仁爱坊。一个家庭里能拥有这么多的美德,并惊动许多皇帝下旨建坊,实在是太不容易。难怪这些牌坊成为曾家最大的骄傲,也难怪多年以...
从此以后他觉悟了,他重生了,他浪子回头他立地成佛了。他的生命多了一种意义......他要把有限的时间和生命投入到无限的跟我抬杠中去。不是冤家不聚头,我们之间的冤仇,从开学第一天算是结上了。最佳辩手最开始并不是最佳辩手,正相反,她小时候是那种别人说一句“我不跟你玩了”就哭得眼睛不是眼睛鼻子不是鼻子的人。但后来怎么就基因突变,兴风作浪了呢?这是有历史渊源的:1.她的家从成都搬到了重庆。2.她由小豆芽菜长成了胖冬瓜。3.她进了管理专业。其实第三条是最根本的。最佳辩手自从得知自己没有考上医学专业,被调剂到了一个什么什么管理专业,痛哭三天以后决定洗心革面重新做人,誓要把自己的口才锻炼到”山外青山楼外楼”。所谓”干一行爱一行”,最佳辩手这种敬业的精神在神州大地上打着灯笼都找不到,更不用说她高风亮节到学生时代就对专业死心塌地,大家快崇拜我吧!...
Epilogue IChapter 1SEVEN YEARS had passed by. The storm-tossed, historic ocean of Europe was subsiding within its shores. It seemed to have grown calm; but the mysterious forces moving humanity (mysterious, because the laws controlling their action are unknown to us) were still at work.Although the surface of the ocean of history seemed motionless, the movement of humanity was as uninterrupted as the flow of time. Various series of groups of men were joining together and separating; the causes
PHOCION402?-317 B.C.by Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenDEMADES, the orator, when in the height of the power which heobtained at Athens, by advising the state in the interest of Antipaterand the Macedonians, being necessitated to write and speak many thingsbelow the dignity, and contrary to the character, of the city, waswont to excuse himself by saying he steered only the shipwrecks of the...
Phantasmagoria and Other PoemsPHANTASMAGORIACANTO I - The TrystyngONE winter night, at half-past nine,Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,I had come home, too late to dine,And supper, with cigars and wine,Was waiting in the study.There was a strangeness in the room,And Something white and wavyWas standing near me in the gloom -I took it for the carpet-broomLeft by that careless slavey.But presently the Thing began...
The Pension Beaurepasby Henry JamesCHAPTER I.I was not richon the contrary; and I had been told the PensionBeaurepas was cheap. I had, moreover, been told that a boarding-house is a capital place for the study of human nature. I had afancy for a literary career, and a friend of mine had said to me, "Ifyou mean to write you ought to go and live in a boarding-house; thereis no other such place to pick up material." I had read something ofthis kind in a letter addressed by Stendhal to his siste
《正在发育》 不想成为另类自序:我是作家吗我想象中的作家是:满屋子都是纸,然后就疯头疯脑地写,脚上的袜子黑一只白一只,脚翘到桌子上,写一写就甩一甩头,还动不动就狂叫一声。小女子某日傍晚一不留神也成了作家。说来话长,在我七岁那年,小女的母亲不幸产生了让我当作家的念头。可那时小女跟一个文盲没有两样,但小女的母亲不顾“儿女”之情,在未擦干依然油腻的桌子上,连哄带骂地诱惑我吃了第一个“禁果”,她说:“当作家多容易,只需要一个破本子一个烂笔杆子就哗啦哗啦地赚钱。”我自幼受爸爸妈妈的教导,对钱情有独衷。于是我带着“壮士一去不复返”的表情,开始了我的写作生涯。当妈妈宣布我的第一个作品完成时,我郑重地在最后一个句号上描了又描。...
Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in Englandby Arnold Toynbee1884I IntroductoryThe subject of these lectures is the industrial and Agrarian Revolution at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The course is divided into three parts. The first deals with Adam Smith and the England of his time. It will describe England on the eve of the Industrial Revolution, and the system of regulation and protection of industry as it existed in 1760. It will give also an outli
第一部分:大道人生代序言:找到使命精神的觉醒是生存的真正目的;行为的改变是生命的真正动力!如何让自己的一生充实而富有意义?如何让自己精神快乐、物质富有、情感幸福、事业成功、身体健康?20年前,18岁的我做一名缝纫工时就在思考这些问题。尽管自己不断地努力,在5年后成长为一名总经理,但仍没有搞懂这些问题。在做CEO的第8年,我感到,为一家企业服务不如为多家企业服务,于是做起了企业管理顾问。做企业管理顾问的第3年,我又觉得办一所学校好像更符合心中的一个梦想,尽管这个梦想还很朦胧,于是就在接手一个企管个案的过程中,顺便在所在地——北国江城吉林市,开办了一所职业经理人学校。这时,我找到了人生使命——一个让自己的人生变得更加富有激情和责任感的生存理由——做一个帮助千百万人改善命运的人!从此,我的人生才真正发生了改变,正所谓:“福由心生,力从愿出。”...