ScaramoucheA Romance of the French Revolutionby Rafael SabatiniCONTENTSBOOK ITHE ROBEI. THE REPUBLICANII. THE ARISTOCRATIII. THE ELOQUENCE OF M. DE VILMORINIV. THE HERITAGEV. THE LORD OF GAVRILLACVI. THE WINDMILLVII. THE WINDVIII. OMNES OMNIBUSIX. THE AFTERMATHBOOK IITHE BUSKINI. THE TRESPASSERSII. THE SERVICE OF THESPISIII. THE COMIC MUSEIV. EXIT MONSIEUR PARVISSIMUS...
警报迅速地在东非的小镇马林迪译注:位于今东非肯尼亚共和国海岸线的中点,加 拉纳河(Galana River)河口。 传递开来。越过了海洋,跨过了珊瑚礁,好几片怪异的暴风云出现在海面上。渔民 们急急忙忙把圆木舟拉往安全的陆地。当乌云聚拢过来时,突然间一切变清楚了,那不是乌 云,而是船帆——一片接着一片的船帆,多得数也数不清。这些船首画着蛇眼的大船,每一 艘都 跟许多房子加起来一样大,而且数目多得像整个城市。船队迅速地移动,穿过蓝色的一望无 际的海洋,目标就是麻林地。当船只靠近时,船桅上彩色的大旗遮住了阳光,船舷上喧腾响 亮的锣鼓声震天动地。老百姓们聚集到港口,国王也到了,所有的工作都停止。这是什么样 的威胁势力?他们到底要的是什么?...
Alcibiades IIby Platonic ImitatorTranslated by Benjamin JowettAPPENDIX II.The two dialogues which are translated in the second appendix are notmentioned by Aristotle, or by any early authority, and have no claim to beascribed to Plato. They are examples of Platonic dialogues to be assignedprobably to the second or third generation after Plato, when his writingswere well known at Athens and Alexandria. They exhibit considerableoriginality, and are remarkable for containing several thoughts of
"FREE SHIPS MAKE FREE GOODS"_To the U.S. Minister to France_(ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON)_Monticello, Sep. 9, 1801_DEAR SIR, You will receive, probably by this post, from theSecretary of State, his final instructions for your mission toFrance. We have not thought it necessary to say anything in them onthe great question of the maritime law of nations, which at presentagitates Europe; that is to say, whether free ships shall make free...
周佛郎(ZHOU HAI-CHOU),高级工程师,教授;1970年毕业于重庆邮电学院 通信工程系,81年公派去美国新黑西哥州立大学计算机科学系进修,回国后在高等院校和电信行业工作, 90年代曾任加拿大高科技公司专家,和美国SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY大学教授。有多项具有国际水平的研究和发明专利。曾得到加拿大政府专项科研经费的支持。在中国,有发明专利14项;在美国,有一项发明专利;在加拿大,有软件版权43项;10年前,周教授开始潜心研究证券市场和证券交易,经过8年的探索,在证券理论上有两个发明专利,第一个提出了零风险博弈方法和理论。2003年在中国财政经济出版社出版了《零风险博奕理论》丛书。由于该套丛书数学公式过多,理论性过强,不利于普及。...
我喜欢站在办公室外面的阳台上,用眼睛在天空中寻找大雁,欣赏雁群展翅齐飞的姿态。同时,又想起唐朝刘禹锡的一首诗来,诗云:“自古逢秋多寂寥,我言秋日胜春朝。晴空一鹤排云上,便引诗情到碧霄。”可是我总以为刘禹锡写错了,天空中的那一只鹤应该是一排雁阵才对,要不,怎么可能排云而上呢?大雁南飞是一个团队合作的过程,是一群志同道合的伙伴互相协作、互相鼓励、直至实现共赢的过程。它们总是喜欢排成“一”字或“人”字飞行,在这种团队结构中,每一只鸟扇动的翅膀都会为紧随其后的同伴平添一股向上的力量。这样,雁群中的每个成员都会比一只单飞的大雁增加超过70%的飞行效率,从而能够支持它们顺利地到达目的地,完成长途的旅行。...
CATO THE YOUNGER95-46 B.C.by Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenTHE family of Cato derived its first lustre from hisgreat-grandfather Cato, whose virtue gained him such greatreputation and authority among the Romans, as we have written in hislife.This Cato was, by the loss of both his parents, left an orphan,together with his brother Caepio, and his sister Porcia. He had also a...
哈尔·奥斯汀一直以为:他会驾驶美国战斗机飞入苏联领空。对莫斯科和列宁格勒的首次飞行将是极不体面的,这两个城市有可能在美国核攻击中化为灰烬。这并非核战争狂式的幻想,这是他的工作性质。作为SAC (战略空军司令部)的一名侦察机飞行员,在20世纪50年代初期,若冷战达到白热化,依常规,他将是首批驾轰炸机飞入莫斯科的美军飞行员之一,并用大功率照相机拍摄地面的破坏状况。不管驻营何处,奥斯汀每周都会谨慎地回顾自己受命于紧急作战命令SAC的角色(紧急作战命令是假设第三次世界大战爆发之初的几个小时中SAC军事行动的绝密计划)。虽然每日的工作只是训练其他飞行员、教授他们飞行技巧,奥斯汀明白他的最终任务——驾机穿越核爆炸风暴,去摸清苏联首都周围预定的轰炸目标上还残留些什么,这简直难以想像。...
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENTHE METAL PIGby Hans Christian AndersenIN the city of Florence, not far from the Piazza del Granduca,runs a little street called Porta Rosa. In this street, just infront of the market-place where vegetables are sold, stands a pig,made of brass and curiously formed. The bright color has beenchanged by age to dark green; but clear, fresh water pours from the...
The Wheels of Chanceby H. G. Wells [Herbert George]THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTER IN THE STORYI.If you (presuming you are of the sex that does such things)if you had gone into the Drapery Emporiumwhich is really only magnificent for shopof Messrs. Antrobus & Co.a perfectly fictitious "Co.," by the byeof Putney, on the 14th of August, 1895, had turned to the right-hand side, where the blocks of white linen and piles of blankets rise up to the rail from which the pink and blue prints depend, you might h
《危险的爱恋》作者:季璃序新年废话之一章──二OO四年,岁末,恰好碰上了一波寒流,实在挺冷的,季璃坐在计算机前面打字,心里想着吃点心、睡觉,还有如何在过年前减掉两公斤,好储存一点过年时大吃大喝的本钱。呜……季璃被瞪了!咱们家詹大头目说最近忙书展的事情都快累疯了,哪里还有空管啥「奖状」?也对,最近咱们家很忙,参加书展是大姑娘上花轿头一遭,感觉从大头目到小编编,每个人都转得像陀螺一样,说起来好象令人挺同情的,所以「奖状」的事情,咱们就等明年再说啰!那……要是明年又办书展怎么办?各位亲爱的读者很聪明,顺延就对了!那要是年年都办书展呢?(总觉得已经看到袁某人「青损损」的脸了)那当然就是赶快去书展抢「好康的」,哪里还需要什么「奖状」呢?...