The Way of All Fleshby Samuel ButlerCHAPTER IWhen I was a small boy at the beginning of the century I remember anold man who wore knee-breeches and worsted stockings, and who usedto hobble about the street of our village with the help of a stick.He must have been getting on for eighty in the year 1807, earlierthan which date I suppose I can hardly remember him, for I was bornin 1802. A few white locks hung about his ears, his shoulders werebent and his knees feeble, but he was still hale, and
The Story of a Mineby Bret HarteUDO BRACHVOGEL, Esq.,Whose clever translations of my writings have helped to introduceme to the favor of his countrymen, both here and in Germany, thislittle volume is heartily dedicated.BRET HARTE.New York, December, 1877.THE STORY OF A MINECHAPTER IWHO SOUGHT ITIt was a steep trail leading over the Monterey Coast Range. Conchowas very tired, Concho was very dusty, Concho was very much...
1.高贵之贼郑革新这辈子怎么也没有想到自己还能作一回贼!偷的偏偏是自己的领导——国商银行总行吴副行长的家!!他曾经是国商银行总行资产资产保全部的副主任,现在也是国商银行光照市分行下管近万名员工、风光无限的行长! 他有着一米八左右的大个子,四十五六岁,短而粗的胖脖子撑着一颗硕大的西瓜状脑袋;稀疏的头发已经花白;大方脸上,一张大而厚的嘴唇下面,生着一个又大又方的下巴;一对细小的眼睛,埋在鼓鼓囊囊的大眼泡里,熠熠地环顾着四周。 此时,西服革履的他,依然是个大行长的派头,没有一点贼的模样。当然,亲自作贼的不是他,亲自踩道的自然却非他莫属。因为,只有他知道吴副行长家位于北京市金融街公寓小区哪一栋小楼哪一单元的哪一套房间;只有他知道看似严密的银行高档小区其实是银行自管的,没有保安、没有监视设备,并且管理无序;只有他知道吴副行长一大家子人现在正在光照市游山玩水呢!其北京...
A UNITARIAN CREED_To Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse__Monticello, June 26, 1822_DEAR SIR, I have received and read with thankfulness andpleasure your denunciation of the abuses of tobacco and wine. Yet,however sound in its principles, I expect it will be but a sermon tothe wind. You will find it as difficult to inculcate these sanativeprecepts on the sensualities of the present day, as to convince anAthanasian that there is but one God. I wish success to both...
世界上真有个叫翠湖的地方,市区就在湖的旁边,微雨的天气,翠湖很美,淡云寒烟,碧水连天。慧馨中学的时候,曾经在这个小城一所名叫“翠湖里”的中学读过书,只有半年,是因为父母离异的关系,半年后又因为母亲再一次春天离开,随母亲去了另外个城市。慧馨学校毕业后,选择回翠湖市就业,工作是父亲联系的,在银行,待遇不是特别坏。每天上班,慧馨用单车代步,受不了公车的拥挤,还有等公车的滋味比较讨厌,久候不至,心烦意乱,觉得人都会变老。骑单车,在湖边公路踩二十分钟,快点的话只要十五分钟,就可以到工作的地方,沿途清风徐来,甚是写意。最美的是在六七月,湖面莲叶田田,嫩粉纯白嫣红,星星点缀。有一次,大雨,慧馨根本顾不得雨大如珠,撑了把伞,孤单单站在湖边,呆看眼前的一片迷离,莲叶翻卷,淋得一身透湿。回家换衣服洗澡,然后又觉得自己很神经,吃着泡面笑了半天。...
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchiefby James Fenimore CoopoerCHAPTER I.Certain moral philosophers, with a due disdain of the flimsy foundationsof human pride, have shown that every man is equally descended from amillion of ancestors, within a given number of generations; therebydemonstrating that no prince exists who does not participate in theblood of some beggar, or any beggar who does not share in the bloodof princes. Although favored by a strictly vegetable descent myself, the...
伊拉克战争使人们大饱眼福,全球电视首次直播真实的战场和战争,美军长驱直入,势不可挡,伊军节节败退,溃不成军,25天激战之后,共和国卫队神秘消失,美军兵不血刃占了巴格达。“看不懂的战争给人们留下了一个个难解的谜团。针对萨达姆的战争结束了,但伊拉克人民反抗外来侵略游击战和巷战却刚刚开始”。当时我面对摄像机的这番感言因为美军的长驱直入而受到不少网友和观众的炮轰,许多专家也认为我的观念过于陈旧。战后一年的伊拉克,我们看到了什么?刚刚推翻了独裁者却又迎来了占领军的伊拉克战乱不止,战后重建没有进展,美国西方式的民主自由不但没有实现,侵犯人权的虐俘事件却屡屡发生。一场遍及伊拉克全境的反抗侵略、反抗占领、争取民族自决、自立和自治的斗争正在如火如荼地展开。“以美军强大的军事实力,推翻萨达姆政权,占领伊拉克领土,还是很容易做到的,这是一...
总 序内容简介一刀能割出多少爱医学院里,英俊潇洒的落拓处男卓左右22年未近女色,于心急火燎中陡然发镖,岂不知家境不凡的清纯小女生宁一早已悄悄注意上他了。解剖室里的猝然邂逅,一个是拔刀相“助”,一个是金屋藏“娇”,均暗暗种下情愫,远胜过山盟海誓。然而被贸然阉割的尸体又引发出连环命案的谜局,阴差阳错中,卓左右牵涉其中,又被卷入更深的情感纠纷……案中案,情中情,离奇情节,鲜言辣语,既有快意的爆笑,也有缠绵的泪水。总 序作者简介作者介绍卓左右,当初取这名是希望能够卓尔不群,踏入社会则左右逢源,万没想到是在真实生活里左右碰壁。他起始专为自己喜欢的人写作,不料一发不可收拾,成为文坛上横空出世的一匹搞笑黑马。其作《一刀能割出多少爱》《向作文开炮,不许放空枪》等皆以深厚生活阅历为底蕴,语言风趣,让人爆笑之后留有深思。...
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE OF NAPOLEON, V4BY CONSTANTPREMIER VALET DE CHAMBRETRANSLATED BY WALTER CLARKCONTENTS:CHAPTER XXIII. to CHAPTER XXXI.CHAPTER XXIII.It was the 2d of January, 1805, exactly a month after the coronation,that I formed with the eldest daughter of M. Charvet a union which hasbeen, and will I trust ever be, the greatest happiness of my life. Ipromised the reader to say very little of myself; and, in fact, how could...
参加WTO后民商法律的国际接轨中国政法大学校长-江平 2002年04月27日 11:35——江平主持人:会当凌绝顶,一览众山小,圣凯诺·世纪大讲堂。我们经常说经济全球化,但是法律应该不应该全球化呢,今天我给大家请来了中国政法大学的老校长江平先生,由他给我们讲一讲“参加WTO后民商法律的国际接轨”。好,现在江先生就坐在他应该坐的位置上,大家鼓掌。尽管大家都知道江平先生在法学界,现在我们称之为“泰斗”。但是很多不学法律的人,他不大了解您,所以要通过我们以下这段对话,让大家大致了解一些您的情况。 这样我先把您的简历给调出来了,简历上这么说:江平,1930年生于大连。一段就过去了,这段没有什么意义。下面是说中学时代,是在一所教会中学读书,屡屡参加学潮。后来进入燕京大学新闻系读书,依然参加学潮。又一段过去了,是学生时代。下面开始是教授时代了。1951年江先生留学莫斯科大学法律系。问题就开始出来了。19...
The Enchanted BluffWe had our swim before sundown, and while we were cooking oursupper the oblique rays of light made a dazzling glare on the whitesand about us. The translucent red ball itself sank behind thebrown stretches of cornfield as we sat down to eat, and the warmlayer of air that had rested over the water and our clean sand bargrew fresher and smelled of the rank ironweed and sunflowersgrowing on the flatter shore. The river was brown and sluggish,...