卡罗•奥诺德,加拿大记者,居住在伦敦,曾为加拿大的《环球邮报》、《国家邮报》及英国的《卫报》和《经济学家》等报刊撰文。《放慢生活脚步》 总序导 语我们生活在一个讲求速度的时代。我们周围的世界比以往任何时候的变化发展都要快。我们竭尽全力使自己更有效率,力求每一天、每一小时、每一分钟乃至每一秒钟能做更多的事情。自工业革命将世界变得高速运转以来,对速度的崇拜就将大家逼到了崩溃极限。挣扎在精疲力竭的边缘,身体和心里不断在提醒我们:我们的生活节奏已经失控。《放慢生活脚步》一书追溯了我们与时间之间愈来愈令人窒息的关系的历史,并就生活在人类亲手缔造的追求加速的文化之中所必须面对的困境提出了对策。为什么我们总处于匆忙之中?解决时间病的方法是什么?放慢速度是否可能?甚至是否值得?意识到我们追随无情的速度所付出的代价后,全球的人都在试图补偿他们以往失去的时间,放慢节奏,以便生活...
South Sea Talesby Jack LondonCONTENTSThe House of MapuhiThe Whale ToothMauki"Yah! Yah! Yah!"The HeathenThe Terrible SolomonsThe Inevitable White ManThe Seed of McCoyTHE HOUSE OF MAPUHIDespite the heavy clumsiness of her lines, the Aorai handled easily in thelight breeze, and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outsidethe suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water, a circle of...
Juanaby Honore de BalzacTranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley)DEDICATIONTo Madame la Comtesse Merlin.JUANA(THE MARANAS)CHAPTER IEXPOSITIONNotwithstanding the discipline which Marechal Suchet had introducedinto his army corps, he was unable to prevent a short period oftrouble and disorder at the taking of Tarragona. According to certainfair-minded military men, this intoxication of victory bore a striking...
第一集 盘龙之戒 第一章 小镇的早晨乌山镇,玉兰大陆第一山脉‘魔兽山脉’西方的芬莱王国中的一个普通小镇。朝阳初升,乌山镇这个小镇上依旧有著清晨的一丝清冷之气,只是小镇中的居民几乎都已经出来开始工作了,即使是六七岁的稚童,也差不多也都起床开始了传统性的晨练。乌山镇东边的空地上,早晨温热的阳光透过空地旁边的大树,在空地上留下了斑驳的光点。只见一大群孩子,目视过去估摸著差不多有一两百个。这群孩子分成了三个团队,每个团队都是排成几排,孩子们一个个都静静地站在空地上,面色严肃。这群孩子最北边一个团队的孩子大概六岁到八岁。而中间的一个团队,差不多是九岁到十二岁,最南边的则是一群十三岁到十六岁的少年。...
"破空斩!"手中闪烁着白光的钢刀飞快地舞成一圈圈有如涟漪的刀圈,以雷霆万钧之势迎头劈向面前桀桀怪笑的魔妖,轰声隆隆地撕裂了前方的大地。在强大的刀威之下,地面上的碎石与沙粒纷纷浮飞而起,仿佛要一刀斩断空间的杀气,立即让魔妖鲜血四迸,惨叫一声,重重倒地。甲士仰面朝天,冷冷长笑*^÷^*,一跃而上坐骑……"当!"屏幕左下角弹出一行字:"老大,我又挂了(╯︿╰)"笨!透过网吧中的昏暗光线,孙衡向右边斜睨,而他的兄弟张凡正隔了三个座位向他苦笑。哗!好冷好酷的眼神哦张凡看着孙衡冷酷的眼神羡慕加钦佩*@ _@ *真不愧是老大。当初的决定果然是英明的*^ο^*!要不是自己慧眼识英先下手为强,现在哪能轮到自己当老大的贴心死忠换帖兄弟啊!(虽然老大从没正式承认过但那肯定是因为他害羞别看他高高壮壮的)……...
SHERLOCK HOLMESTHE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOLby Sir Arthur Conan DoyleTHE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOLWe have had some dramatic entrances and exits upon our small stageat Baker Street, but I cannot recollect anything more sudden andstartling than the first appearance of Thorneycroft Huxtable, M.A.,Ph.D., etc. His card, which seemed too small to carry the weight ofhis academic distinctions, preceded him by a few seconds, and then...
这是来自黄土高原的愤怒与哭泣!为供儿子上大学,贫困的父母几年间辗转卖的血可以装满两个汽油桶,儿子却在学校冒充包工头的独生子挥霍无度、荒废学业。终于有一天,苦熬苦撑的父母发现了真相,不思悔改的儿子竟大骂父母冷酷无情。人们不禁要问:父母的爱心和学校的教育为何结出这么一枚苦果?"他说父亲是包工头,家里很有钱"2001年12月30日,青海省乐都县马厂乡甘沟滩村村民陈邦顺接到大儿子小良的班主任西安某学院郭老师的来信。郭老师要家长马上到学校去一趟。小良于1997年考上该学院电子自动化专业,按理说这年应该毕业了。10个月前,小良离开家,说要去深圳参加招聘会,可是一去便几个月无音信。陈邦顺夫妻一直满怀希望地盼着大儿子参加工作的好消息。...
The Conflictby David Graham PhillipsIFour years at Wellesley; two years about equally divided among Paris, Dresden and Florence. And now Jane Hastings was at home again. At home in the unchanged housespacious, old-fashionedlooking down from its steeply sloping lawns and terraced gardens upon the sooty, smoky activities of Remsen City, looking out upon a charming panorama of hills and valleys in the heart of South Central Indiana. Six years of striving in the East and abroad to satisfy the re
Noto, an unexplored corner of Japanby Percival LowellFrom you, my dear Basil, the confidant of my hopes toward Noto, Iknow I may look for sympathy now that my advances have met with suchhappy issue, however incomplete be my account. And so I ask you tobe my best man in the matter before the world.Ever yours,Percival Lowell.Basil Hall Chamberlain, Esq.Contents.I. An Unknown.II. Off and On....
The Home Book of Verse, Volume 4by Burton Egbert StevensonPART IVFAMILIAR VERSE, AND POEMSHUMOROUS AND SATIRICBALLADE OF THE PRIMITIVE JEST"What did the dark-haired Iberian laugh at before the tall blondeAryan drove him into the corners of Europe?" - Brander MatthewsI am an ancient Jest!Palaeolithic manIn his arboreal nestThe sparks of fun would fan;My outline did he plan,...