Ali PachaBy Alexander Dumas, pereCHAPTER IThe beginning of the nineteenth century was a time of audacious enterprises and strange vicissitudes of fortune. Whilst Western Europe in turn submitted and struggled against a sub-lieutenant who made himself an emperor, who at his pleasure made kings and destroyed kingdoms, the ancient eastern part of the Continent; like mummies which preserve but the semblance of life, was gradually tumbling to pieces, and getting parcelled out amongst bold adventure
┌───────┐└───────┘ 沈涵一定是可可和小俏的第一个小爱人,而且是共同的小爱人。 所以,她们还是决定闭口不说。 晚上又是大维在U2酒吧的演出,可可总是在突然之间丧失安全感,她要拼命地找他,直到找到他才能够安心,她是多么地害怕他再次消失掉。而常常手机里传过来的声音一直是彬彬有礼的“您拨打的电话暂时无法接通,请稍后再拨”,于是稍后拨,还是无法接通,大维是在地下室排练,那个地方没有信号的,可可拨电话,抽烟,拨电话,抽烟,拨电话,抽烟,夜晚如逝,直到开始嗓子干涩,手机的充电电池用完了,卫生间里面充满了烟雾,她才往身体和衣服上喷了一点香水以后钻进被子里睡觉。这些事情时刻纠缠在可可的心头,她在内心里面对自己失望透顶。...
Confessio AmantisorTales of the Seven Deadly SinsBy John Gower, 1330-1408 A.D.PrologusTorpor, ebes sensus, scola parua labor minimusqueCausant quo minimus ipse minora canam:Qua tamen Engisti lingua canit Insula BrutiAnglica Carmente metra iuuante loquar.Ossibus ergo carens que conterit ossa loquelisAbsit, et interpres stet procul oro malus.Of hem that writen ous toforeThe bokes duelle, and we therforeBen tawht of that was write tho:Forthi good is that we also...
Anabasisby XenophonTranslation by H. G. DakynsDedicated To Rev. B. Jowett, M.A. Master of Balliol College Regius Professor of Greek in the University of OxfordXenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia to aid Cyrus, w
A Ward of the Golden Gateby Bret HartePROLOGUE.In San Francisco the "rainy season" had been making itself areality to the wondering Eastern immigrant. There were short daysof drifting clouds and flying sunshine, and long succeeding nightsof incessant downpour, when the rain rattled on the thin shinglesor drummed on the resounding zinc of pioneer roofs. The shiftingsand-dunes on the outskirts were beaten motionless and sodden bythe onslaught of consecutive storms; the southeast trades brought.
[正文:第一章 穿越] 最近我心情比较郁闷,原因是十几张红色炸弹毫不客气地一齐飞了过来。一大把年纪了仍是孤家寡人一个,看他们幸福美满让我脆弱的心灵受伤事小,而钞票大把大把地飞出去就事大了,一想到这就忍不住狠狠地咬了一口手中的面包,难道说我苦读了这么多年的圣贤书,到最后就是为了有面包啃?(轩:圣贤?唔,这两个字需要仔细斟酌斟酌……)再想想银行要还的贷款和唯一的亲人——奶奶病逝前欠下的一大笔债,我幽怨地看了一眼手中的面包,难不成接下去的日子都要日日与它为伍?想到这里顿时一股绝望涌上心头,怪不得李清照写出了那句词:此烦无计可消除,才下眉头又上心上……想想她当时一定也是碰到这种状况吧,唉,同病相怜ing(轩:你确定这句词是这么写的?咳……咳……吐血倒地中)。...
THE FROZEN DEEPby Wilkie CollinsFirst SceneThe Ball-roomChapter 1.The date is between twenty and thirty years ago. The place is anEnglish sea-port. The time is night. And the business of themoment isdancing.The Mayor and Corporation of the town are giving a grand ball, incelebration of the departure of an Arctic expedition from theirport. The ships of the expedition are two in numberthe_Wanderer_ and the _Sea-mew_. They are to sail (in search of theNorthwest Passage) on the next day, with the m