公元2002年2月15日,一个地球人都该记住的日子,特别是居住在中国江苏省南京市建邺区的刘左同志。 刘左同志原来不叫刘左,叫刘佐。也就是说他爹妈生他的时候压根儿就没想过有一天这小子会当个领袖什么的,最多不过是辅佐别人而已。辅佐之类的那是古代的说法,现在统一叫助手。所以刘左还是比较幸运的。如果名字叫成刘助手,那实在是很难听。还没施拳脚呢已经被定了性了——永远是助手——真是无聊。不过刘左没叫成刘佐的原因是因为此人上小学的时候脑子里缺根弦,考试写名字永远会忘记写单立人旁。名字写错的考卷会被扣分,扣到小学毕业的时候,父母忽然想通了,干脆趁小升初的时候改名。从此刘左同志终于可以正大光明地叫刘左了。不幸的是上中学的时候开始考政治,大家把阶级斗争政体国体之类的背得滚瓜烂熟,难免拿刘左的名字开心。偏不让他左,都喊他“右派”。...
兰京醉梦封印一帘恶梦第十回一帘恶梦第十回兰京 努尔哈赤的兴兵伐明七大恨已成历史云烟,兰京的鸳鸯蝴蝶七大梦也将在《醉梦封印》做个终结。为何要选“七”作为此一系列的集数呢? “七”在兰京的信仰中有特别的意义。上帝创造天地后在第七日安息,耶稣教导门徒要饶恕别人七十个七次,他被钉上十字架后在死前说了七句话。布莱德彼特甚至主演过一部阐明圣经上人类七大罪的电影(中译:火线追缉令)。 不独宗教上处处充满“七”的存在,我们的生活周遭也遍布着这个数字。北斗有七星,彩虹有七色,战国有七雄,就连白雪公主身旁也有七个小矮人。中国神话中有七仙女,民间流传着七世夫妻的故事,救人一命更是胜造七级浮屠,一次世界大战中的英籍阿拉伯传奇英雄劳伦斯,亦以“智能七柱诗”作为回忆录之名。...
The Financierby Theodore DreiserChapter IThe Philadelphia into which Frank Algernon Cowperwood was born was a city of two hundred and fifty thousand and more. It was set with handsome parks, notable buildings, and crowded with historic memories. Many of the things that we and he knew later were not then in existencethe telegraph, telephone, express company, ocean steamer, city delivery of mails. There were no postage-stamps or registered letters. The street car had not arrived. In its plac
Old Christmasby Washington IrvingBut is old, old, good old Christmas gone? Nothing but the hair ofhis good, gray, old head and beard left? Well, I will have that,seeing that I cannot have more of him.Hue and Cry after Christmas.CONTENTSCHRISTMASTHE STAGE-COACHCHRISTMAS EVECHRISTMAS DAYTHE CHRISTMAS DINNERA man might then beholdAt Christmas, in each hallGood fires to curb the cold,And meat for great and small.The neighbours were friendly bidden,...
A History of Science, Volume 1by Henry Smith Williams, M.D., LL.D.ASSISTED BYEDWARD H. WILLIAMS, M.D.IN FIVE VOLUMESVOLUME I.THE BEGINNINGS OF SCIENCEBOOK I.CONTENTSCHAPTER I. PREHISTORIC SCIENCECHAPTER II. EGYPTIAN SCIENCECHAPTER III. SCIENCE OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIACHAPTER IV. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ALPHABETCHAPTER V. THE BEGINNINGS OF GREEK SCIENCECHAPTER VI. THE EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHERS IN ITALYCHAPTER VII. GREEK SCIENCE IN THE EARLY ATTIC PERIODCHAPTER VIII. POST-SOCRATIC SCIENCE AT ATH
赶月街,是我们小时候最喜欢的一件事。 在我的故乡云南大理,每到农历三月十五都有一个盛大的集会——大理三月街。小的时候每到三月街期,我们都要穿上节日的衣裳跟着我的老保姆,坐着小马车从下关去大理古城外赶三月街。 在苍山脚下,一片绿草如茵的缓坡上,帐篷连着帐篷,人欢马叫,草药芳香,在三月街上,我第一次看见了穿各式各样民族服装的人们。来自苍山洱海的白族乡亲是三月街上的主人,每年他们都要在这里购买农具、生活用品和茶叶、药材,同时出售自家的农产品和骡马。从剑川来的白族木匠在三月街上出售精美的木雕门窗,弹着三弦,一边唱着白族民歌,一边卖货。从洱海东岸过来的白族渔民出售鱼虾和各类干果,那些海东女人的头饰特别艳丽。从昆明城里来的汉族人主要是来卖百货的,在他们的帐篷里可以买到上海产的缝纫机和各种棉布、手表、手电筒和文化用品。从大小凉山过来的彝族人披着黑色的察尔瓦披风,到三月...
Westward Ho!by Charles KingsleyTOTHE RAJAH SIR JAMES BROOKE, K.C.B.ANDGEORGE AUGUSTUS SELWYN, D.D.BISHOP OF NEW ZEALANDTHIS BOOK IS DEDICATEDBy one who (unknown to them) has no other method of expressing hisadmiration and reverence for their characters.That type of English virtue, at once manful and godly, practicaland enthusiastic, prudent and self-sacrificing, which he has triedto depict in these pages, they have exhibited in a form even purer...
前言在巴黎,一位并不轻率的朋友很认真地向我们解释,教会曾焚烧了大量令人尴尬的手稿。他肯定地说:“丹·布朗说的是真相。”另外一位朋友也对我们肯定地说:列奥纳多·达·芬奇(Léonard de Vinci)真的属于一个教派。一位在大家心目中一向是通情达理的女教师在一次晚餐中断言:卢浮宫的金字塔毫无疑问地具有一种隐藏的,甚至是魔鬼般的含义。她的邻桌争着肯定地说:“显然,抹大拉的马利亚(Marie Madeleine)是耶稣的情人。”另一位宾客则因人们竟能如此地践踏福音书而义愤填膺。所有人都在寻思,列奥纳多是不是一个炼金术士 ① 和盗尸者,圣殿骑士团 ② 的成员是不是真是异教徒 ③ ,女神祭祀仪式是不是确实有过。《达·芬奇密码》的效应在全面发挥,与此同时,游客川流不息地参观着《蒙娜丽莎》(La Joconde)和圣叙尔皮斯教堂(Saint-Sulpice)的日晷。...
"作为校园文化的一部分,作为记录着年轻人梦想与激情的音乐篇章,校园民谣,以真诚与纯洁为标志,给人们(尤其是年轻人)留下了青春的证明与印迹。而如今,这证明与印迹,却在商品大潮的滚滚红尘中,日渐变得模糊和遥远,我们,甚至很难听到一些旋律清新、富有校园味道的声音了。" 校园民谣是校园歌曲,还是"校园+民谣"或者只是一种商业标签?1. 曾经校园年华,离开校园后的不久,静下心来,审视校园民谣 逝去的校园民谣(上) 逝去的校园民谣(中) 逝去的校园民谣(下)2. 台湾风潮:《外婆的澎湖湾》、《童年》……或许可以说来自台湾的"校园歌曲"是更早形式上的校园民谣,我们可以注意到,台湾的这类歌曲更为朴素,较少有爱情因素,或者说更有"童谣"的味道,而正是爱情因素使我们的校园民谣带上了一种风花雪月的情绪与伤感。...
The Life of William Carey, Shoemaker & Missionaryby George SmithPREFACEOn the death of William Carey In 1834 Dr. Joshua Marshman promised to write the Life of his great colleague, with whom he had held almost daily converse since the beginning of the century, but he survived too short a time to begin the work. In 1836 the Rev. Eustace Carey anticipated him by issuing what is little better than a selection of mutilated letters and journals made at the request of the Committee of the Baptist Mis