THE HAUNTED HOTELA Mystery of Modern Veniceby Wilkie CollinsTHE FIRST PARTCHAPTER IIn the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a Londonphysician reached its highest point. It was reported on goodauthority that he was in receipt of one of the largest incomesderived from the practice of medicine in modern times....
Part the Second.THE MARCH OF TIME.V.ADVANCING from time past to time present, the Prologue leaves thedate last attained (the summer of eighteen hundred andfifty-five), and travels on through an interval of twelveyearstells who lived, who died, who prospered, and who failedamong the persons concerned in the tragedy at the Hampsteadvillaand, this done, leaves the reader at the opening of THE...
THE ENCHANTED CANARYIONCE upon a time, in the reign of King Cambrinus, there lived atAvesnes one of his lords, who was the finest manby which Imean the fattestin the whole country of Flanders. He ate fourmeals a day, slept twelve hours out of the twenty-four, and the onlything he ever did was to shoot at small birds with his bow andarrow.Still, with all his practice he shot very badly, he was so fat andheavy, and as he grew daily fatter, he was at last obliged to give up...
【书名】迷路【作者】席绢【书籍简介】据说,她很难追,尤其讨厌商界男人,目标只锁定学者、律师、医师、设计师等特定职业。 她的确美得无可挑剔,家世又和他匹配得上,虽然不学无术,但他还是追求了她,也得到了她……明知他是她最讨厌的所谓商人,却仍是傻傻的禁不起他的诱惑—— 他英挺贵气、精明干练,是所有女人都会爱上的优质男人,她以为他们会成为一对恩爱的绝配夫妻……但,他们在七夕情人节当晚分手了,他提出的,说是他们不适合。该死的不适合!这是什么状况?才刚分手,她就迫不及待找着了替代他的男人,还……那么亲昵!怪的是,他心里竟泛起了一阵酸……莫非,他这次的判断错误?她其实不是他所认为的言语乏味、不学无术的千金小姐?她是故意误导他?...
你正经历着一生中最为重要的阶段。爸爸想说一些有助于你将来的话。你好!我可爱的女儿,我有很多话想对你说。也许你认为你已经长大了,父母的话都是唠叨,不过爸爸倒认为你正处于一生中很重要的起步阶段。在你将要迈入人生的时候,我作为爸爸应该说说对你的将来有帮助的话。爸爸要用自己的人生经历告诉你,我认为对你有用而且很重要的内容,不要担心那会又长又乏味,我用简短的书信方式告诉你,你可以慢慢看。 人生的基础是从小学开始的。因此,现在正是你接受人生教育的重要时期。 听过“时间是金子”这句话吗?它的意思是要珍惜时间,不要浪费时间。说起来容易,但做起来可就难了。为什么呢?因为很多人都没有学会如何珍惜时间,所以你要从现在开始懂得时间的宝贵,好好安排你所拥有的时间。 你知道爸爸是非常喜欢读书的,在我的生活中,无论什么时候,书都是我最要好的朋友。爸爸那么喜欢看书正是从小学养成的习惯...
玄奘 为了探求佛法真理,玄奘只能以卑微姿态来藐视大唐的出国禁令。公元629年,他不太风光地偷渡出境后,开始了“乘危远迈,策杖孤征”的求法历程。历时4年抵达印度那烂陀寺,刻苦研修5年,在曲女城法会上获得了佛教的最高称号“大乘天”和“解脱天”,然后于公元645年携带657部“真经”十分风光地返抵长安。一部《大唐西域记》不仅记述了玄奘亲历的110国和得自传闻的28城邦,也是玄奘孤独心灵俯瞰尘世的记录。这部文化游记多次激发起我考察玄奘之路的冲动,没想到机会真的来了。1991年初,我接到了为联合国教科文组织拍摄草原丝绸之路的任务。虽说是用镜头记录中亚不同时代的文化历史层面,这里面毕竟夹杂着一串从唐朝走出来的脚印。在以后的采访拍摄中,经常与玄奘处于同一空间,虽然相隔了1300多年,却经常涌起一种莫名的激动,让我分不清历史与现实。天色苍茫,我必须赶路了。...
(中国工程院医药与卫生工程学部院士、中华医学会会长、中华医学会呼吸分会主任委员、广州呼吸疾病研究所所长、广州科学技术协会主席、广州医学院教授)很高兴这部在美国、欧洲和许多国家都极受欢迎的医学普及著作被译林出版社引进到中国来。健康问题一直是人们最关心的话题之一,因为在环境污染严重、工作和生活节奏加快的今天,尤其需要重视健康。当然,人类寿命的延长和生命质量的提高有赖于医学科学和技术整体水平的进步,许多疾病正在得到有效治疗或最终治愈。但是,人类社会在享受医学进步的同时,也面临着医疗费用的大幅度增长这一问题。我们需要记住,“最好的医生是你自己”,这句古希腊名医希波克拉底的话,我诚恳地希望每个人都能真正理解这句话。...
Charmides and Other Poemsby Oscar WildeContents:CharmidesRequiescatSan MiniatoRome UnvisitedHumanitadLouis NapoleonEndymionLe JardinLa MerLe PanneauLes BallonsCanzonetLe Jardin Des TuileriesPan: Double VillanelleIn The ForestSymphony In YellowSonnets:Helas!To MiltonOn The Massacre Of The Christians In BulgariaHoly Week At GenoaUrbs Sacra AeternaE Tenebris...
一点翠钿,被遗落在了芍药花栏的栏杆前。这个小小的场景,很容易就被人忽略而过,实际上,自它产生以来,也确实一直被忽略着。单从字面上,我们就不难猜测出,“翠钿”是一种女人用的首饰,因此,好像一切都很明白,没什么可多说的,这里呈现的只是一个“绮艳”的场面而已,而“绮艳”,一向就是文学创作的大忌。让我们还是赶紧从这个冷僻的角落掉转目光,去关注那些真正具有研究价值的重大主题……但是,且住,有人应该注意到,事情并不像我们想当然的那么简单,在花蕊夫人的《宫词》中,出现过这样一位宫女的形象:“翠钿贴靥轻如笑,玉凤雕钗袅欲飞。”谜底因此而破解了:花蕊夫人词意中的翠钿,并不是“泛指”,不是在笼统地指称一般的首饰,她笔下的对象非常明确。这里所涉及的,是当时流行的一种特殊的化妆风气,正所谓“素面已云妖,更著花钿饰”(杜光庭《咏西施》),在中国历史上曾经有很长一段时期,女性们流行用各种各...
The Essays of Montaigne, V10by Michel de MontaigneTranslated by Charles CottonEdited by William Carew Hazilitt1877CONTENTS OF VOLUME 10.VII. Of recompenses of honour.VIII. Of the affection of fathers to their children.IX. Of the arms of the Parthians.X. Of books.XI. Of cruelty.CHAPTER VIIOF RECOMPENSES OF HONOURThey who write the life of Augustus Caesar,[Suetonius, Life ofAugustus, c. 25.] observe this in his military discipline, that he was...
Murad the Unlucky and Other Talesby Maria EdgeworthContents:IntroductionMurad the UnluckyThe Limerick GlovesMadame de FleuryINTRODUCTIONMaria Edgeworth came of a lively family which had settled inIreland in the latter part of the sixteenth century. Her father atthe age of five-and-twenty inherited the family estates atEdgeworths-town in 1769. He had snatched an early marriage, whichdid not prove happy. He had a little son, whom he was educating...