CHARLOTTE TEMPLECHARLOTTE TEMPLEBY SUSANNA HASWELL ROWSON1- Page 2-CHARLOTTE TEMPLEPREFACE.FOR the perusal of the young and thoughtless of the fair sex, this Taleof Truth is designed; and I could wish my fair readers to consider it as notmerely the effusion of Fancy, but as a reality. The circumstances on which...
古代美女的服饰 或许是因为性别的缘故,我对生活中形形色色的女性尤为敏感,竟默默地为她们而喜、而忧、而乐、而叹。比如,一个肤色糙黑、粗布蓝衫的农妇从身边走过,她那干燥枯黄的发髻中隐隐露出一截桃红色的绒线绳,遮遮掩掩地跳出一丝亮色;比如一群穿着露脐短装,脚蹬十几公分厚底鞋,头发染成金色、红色、褚色的女孩,咧开抹了紫黑唇膏的嘴,夸张地、豪迈地喧闹;比如在旅途中,偶见一位浓妆艳抹、举止粗俗的少女与一位端庄娴静、灵慧含蓄的姑娘坐在一起;或者发现儿时的好友原本秀丽甜美的脸庞已被生活剥蚀得疲惫、冷漠、干枯……甚至女人们胡搅蛮缠的争吵,善良温柔的微笑,贬辱丈夫的尖刻,忍气吞声的哭泣,无怨无悔的痴情,追名逐利的轻浮,以“女”自居的慵懒,越出“女”字的沉重…… 9年前,我曾认真地探查和追溯中国女性数千年屈辱与风流的历史足迹,那是因为在医院里遇见一个长相俏丽的女孩,因为多次“人流”...
1. First SightThis was the time of day when I wished I were able to sleep.High school.Or was purgatory the right word? If there was any way to atone for my sins, thisought to count toward the tally in some measure. The tedium was not something I grewused to; every day seemed more impossibly monotonous than the last.I suppose this was my form of sleep—if sleep was defined as the inert statebetween active periods.I stared at the cracks running through the plaster in the far corner of the cafet
The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor HugoPREFACE.A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging about Notre-Dame, the author of this book found, in an obscure nook of one of the towers, the following word, engraved by hand upon the wall:~ANArKH~.These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic caligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a h
如果把一支蜡烛放进全黑的屋子,黑暗瞬间消失,屋里有了光明。但是,增加十支、百支或千支蜡烛,房间无非是变得越来越亮。但决定性的变化是第一支蜡烛,是它冲破了黑暗。下面的内容也许将成为燃亮你人生的第一支蜡烛。一、人的改变就在一瞬间人要改变自己,是一个渐进的、缓慢的过程,还是一种突变呢?很多人的答案是:人的改变是渐进的、缓慢的。如果你也抱有这种观念,我相信你的改变是很困难的。但哲学不是告诉我们事物的变化是由量变到质变吗?比如一个人要戒烟,如果你总认为戒烟是一个渐进的缓慢的过程,要逐渐的戒,我相信你永远也戒不了烟;你只有某天感觉再抽下去会得癌症,肺会完全烂掉,你才会痛下决断,马上采取戒烟措施,你也才有可能戒掉烟。...
Susy, A Story of the Plainsby Bret HarteCHAPTER I.Where the San Leandro turnpike stretches its dusty, hot, andinterminable length along the valley, at a point where the heat anddust have become intolerable, the monotonous expanse of wild oats oneither side illimitable, and the distant horizon apparently remoterthan ever, it suddenly slips between a stunted thicket or hedge of"scrub oaks," which until that moment had been undistinguishable...
Christian Scienceby Mark TwainCHRISTIAN SCIENCEPREFACEBOOK I of this volume occupies a quarter or a third of the volume,and consists of matter written about four years ago, but not hithertopublished in book form. It contained errors of judgment and of fact.I have now corrected these to the best of my ability and later knowledge.Book II was written at the beginning of 1903, and has not until nowappeared in any form. In it my purpose has been to present a character-...