An Open Letter on TranslatingBy Dr. Martin Luther, 1483-1546Translated from:"Sendbrief von Dolmetschen"in _Dr. Martin Luthers Werke_,(Weimar: Hermann Boehlaus Nachfolger, 1909),Band 30, Teil II, pp. 632-646by Gary Mann, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Religion/TheologyAugustana CollegeRock Island, IllinoisPrefaceWenceslas Link to all believers in Christ:The wise Solomon says in Proverbs 11: "The people who withhold...
SHERLOCK HOLMESTHE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAINby Sir Arthur Conan DoyleTHE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAINI had intended "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" to be the last ofthose exploits of my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, which I shouldever communicate to the public. This resolution of mine was not due toany lack of material, since I have notes of many hundreds of casesto which I have never alluded, nor was it caused by any waning...
第一章旧日情怀岂能相忘我抑制不住自己的心跳,长得太像她了,特别是这双动人的眼睛,我双手颤抖地把杯子接住。“你怎么了?”年轻人终于忍不住问了句,“你是不是生病了?”“多管闲事!”我眼睛一瞪,没好气地说。他碰了一鼻子灰,讪讪扭过头,自言自语:“好人难当。”我突然意识到自己有些过分,我凭什么拿一个好心人发火,影响别人的情绪?我跟他道歉:“对不起,刚才那位空中小姐特别像我的一个朋友,所以我如此失态。”我把杯子放下,却没有喝的意思,回忆起刚才我看到的那双眼睛,长长地叹了一口气:“怎么走到哪里,都有她的影子?”他接口:“你这么想念她,你和她的感情一定很要好。”要好?我笑了。笑得很勉强。其中有多少酸甜苦辣的滋味只有我自己知道,可是现在连我都弄不明白。我们十几年的感情,仅仅为了一件事情马上可以灰飞烟灭,变得一点牵挂都没有。这件事情到底只是小事情,还是大事情?我们是有过很深很深的感情,曾经如...
THE WIFE OF A KING.IONCE, WHEN THE NORTHLAND was very young, the social and civicvirtues were remarkably alike for their paucity and theirsimplicity. When the burden of domestic duties grew grievous, andthe fireside mood expanded to a constant protest against its bleakloneliness, the adventurers from the Southland, in lieu of better,paid the stipulated prices and took unto themselves native wives. It...
Coral and Coral Reefsby Thomas H. HuxleyTHE subject upon which I wish to address you to-night is the structureand origin of Coral and Coral Reefs. Under the head of "coral" thereare included two very different things; one of them is that substancewhich I imagine a great number of us have champed when we were verymuch younger than we are now,the common red coral, which is used somuch, as you know, for the edification and the delectation of childrenof tender years, and is also employed for the p
Arial black 12Font Font Color Font Size Background ColorwhiteNew MoonByStephenie MeyerContentsPREFACE1. PARTY2 STITCHES3. THE ENDOCTOBERNOVEMBERDECEMBERJANUARY4. WAKING UP5. CHEATER6. FRIENDS7. REPETITION8. ADRENALINE9. THIRD WHEEL10. THE MEADOW11. CULT12. INTRUDER13. KILLER14. FAMILY15. PRESSURE...
动。“再过两个月,小杰和我就要离开这,一起去美国留学了。。。。虽然舍不得,但是我还是希望,能得到你们所有人的祝福!”圣诞节的哪天晚上,她这么宣布着,还送给了阿杰一把崭新的HEAD网球拍。-现在,挥舞在阿杰手里的球拍,一定就是她送的吧,毕竟用百得胶粘起的身首异处的球拍这种事情,再怎么说,都属于异想天开吧。“小茵!”美嘉推了推她,”君瑞在看你呢!”君瑞。。。。。小茵看向网球场的另一边,。果然,她正望象这边,看到她在看她,他微微一笑,银边眼镜反射出太阳的光芒。君瑞。这个优秀的男孩,从第一次见面起,他就对她那么温柔,总是小着容忍着她所有的固执,顽皮和蛮不讲理,总是默默的在她身边,当她冷的时候给予温暖,在她醉的时候给予依*。...
Letters to His Son, 1752by The Earl of ChesterfieldLETTERS TO HIS SONBy the EARL OF CHESTERFIELDon the Fine Art of becoming aMAN OF THE WORLDand aGENTLEMANLETTER CLVLONDON, January 2, O. S. 1752.MY DEAR FRIEND: Laziness of mind, or inattention, are as great enemies to knowledge as incapacity; for, in truth, what difference is there between a man who will not, and a man who cannot be informed? This difference only, that the former is justly to be blamed, the latter to be pitied. And yet how man
NUMA POMPILIUSLegendary, 8th-7th Century B.C.by Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenTHOUGH the pedigrees of noble families of Rome go back in exact formas far as Numa Pompilius, yet there is great diversity amongsthistorians concerning the time in which he reigned; a certain writercalled Clodius, in a book of his entitled Strictures on Chronology,avers that the ancient registers of Rome were lost when the city was...
John Ingerfield and Other Storiesby Jerome K. JeromeContentsTo the Gentle ReaderIn Remembrance of John Ingerfield and of Anne, his WifeThe Woman of the SaeterVariety PatterSilhouettesThe Lease of the "Cross Keys"TO THE GENTLE READER;alsoTO THE GENTLE CRITIC.Once upon a time, I wrote a little story of a woman who was crushedto death by a python. A day or two after its publication, a friendstopped me in the street. "Charming little story of yours," he...
【书名】女作家的爱情冒险 席绢【书籍简介】可是她们都很聪明的婉拒了出版社举办的书友签名会!别以为她们是因为长相“安全”才羞于见人,相反的,她们可都是大美人一个……不曝光的原因呢?会是怕情海生波?恐怕没有那么“单纯”吧!?该不会是……嘿!不可说!第一章读者眼中的女作家,似乎全都该是一个模样;她们不能长得太“安全”,身材最好是瘦瘦长长,不然娇小玲珑也好;全身上下一定得要充满一种叫做“气质”的东西,举手投足间有无可掩盖的书卷气。然后,在与读者交流时,最好带点欲言又止的神秘气息,好引起读者更大的好奇心!千万不要相信读者在信中所言:无论你是圆是扁,我们是因你的才华而爱你,勇敢的走出来吧!一旦你信以为真,你就死定了!因为曾有一畅销文艺作家在成名多时后,千呼万唤之下,怯生生的在封底印上自己的玉照——瞧瞧他人怎么说来着?直接一点的呼喊:老天!她这副尊容也敢见人?恶毒一点的便是:哎...
《挽歌》作者:吴泪正文 风雪夜归人叶飘枫从那个地方出来时,年方十九岁!十九岁的她一身素衣,冷冷的伫立在年关将至的大街上,冰清玉洁的模样,仿若白莲绽开!阴霾的天空下,她就那样的站着,长久的,悄无声息的,漠视着这繁华热闹的街道,漠视着每一道投向她的目光,好像她不属于这个人间一般。雪,就是在那个时候落下的,那是那一年里最大的一场雪,叶飘枫怎样也分辨不清,从她脸颊上缓缓融化的,那彻骨冰凉的水珠,到底是漫天飞舞的雪花呢,还是她辛酸的眼泪?这场年末的大雪,几乎改变了这座北方重镇的命运,也在冥冥之中延续了叶飘枫的人生,尽管这座城市最后还是不可避免的覆灭掉了,可叶飘枫的人生却还是一如既往的跌宕坎坷,仿佛那个年代一样,乱世永无尽头。...