Little Britainby Washington IrvingWhat I write is most true...I have a whole booke of caseslying by me which if I should sette foorth, some grave auntients(within the hearing of Bow bell) would be out of charity with me.NASHE.IN the centre of the great city of London lies a smallneighborhood, consisting of a cluster of narrow streets andcourts, of very venerable and debilitated houses, which goesby the name of LITTLE BRITAIN. Christ Church School and...
这些大家伙是怎么被训练出来的?看着跳跃着的虎鲸那令人惊叹的表演,3000多名观众目瞪口呆、屏息静气。这是海洋世界沙姆表演馆里的一幕情景。看台上所有人的眼睛都牢牢地盯着那些庞然大物和它们的训练师们,所以没有人注意到他们中间一个穿着蓝衬衫和卡其布裤子的男子脸上复杂的表情。每当那些鲸鱼的精彩跳跃引起观众雷鸣般的掌声和欢呼声时,这个男子的眼睛里就会闪现出惊异和兴奋的光彩,可在其他时候,他的脸却总是阴沉着,目光也似乎在茫然地注视着远方。韦斯·金斯利(WesKingsley)是到奥兰多来参加一个商务研讨会的。会议日程上安排了一些给与会者到户外放松、打高尔夫或游览当地名胜的时间,于是他决定去举世闻名的海洋世界公园看看,让自己可以暂时忘却烦恼。...
事情发生得实在太突然了,几乎就是一眨眼的工夫,一场交通血案就发生了。出事地点在省国道78公里处,也就是由省城通往边阳市岔路前一千米处的一个下坡道上,死者是边阳市的市长高中信和他的司机魏勇。据目击者说,高市长的奥迪车刚下坡时,行速很快,就在这时,前面的一辆康明斯大货车突然一个急刹车,奥迪车猝不及防,只听见“哧”的一声,小车钻进了大货车的车厢底下,随之,发生了一系列不轻不重的追尾事故。待后面车上的人下来,已经停下了一长串车。大家纷纷围过来观看,奥迪车已经被撞得稀烂,车中的两个人已被撞得血肉模糊。有人认出了奥迪车的车号是边阳市市长高中信的,就立即给边阳市打报警电话。一时间,道路拥挤,交通堵塞,名震全省的“2?23”交通大案就这么发生了。...
400 BCTHE OATHby HippocratesTranslated by Francis AdamsI SWEAR by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius, and Health, andAll-heal, and all the gods and goddesses, that, according to myability and judgment, I will keep this Oath and this stipulation- toreckon him who taught me this Art equally dear to me as my parents, to...
The Dynamiterby Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift StevensonTO MESSRS. COLE AND COX, POLICE OFFICERSGENTLEMEN, - In the volume now in your hands, the authorshave touched upon that ugly devil of crime, with which it isyour glory to have contended. It were a waste of ink to doso in a serious spirit. Let us dedicate our horror to actsof a more mingled strain, where crime preserves some featuresof nobility, and where reason and humanity can still relish...
The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the action of worms withobservations of their habitsby Charles DarwinINTRODUCTION.The share which worms have taken in the formation of the layer ofvegetable mould, which covers the whole surface of the land inevery moderately humid country, is the subject of the presentvolume. This mould is generally of a blackish colour and a fewinches in thickness. In different districts it differs but littlein appearance, although it may rest on various subsoils. T
1我初次见到苏抑卮教授,是在1978年的秋天。那时候,我终于离开远在郊外的小工厂,踏进盼望已久的大学门槛,对用功读书有着无限的热情。我向往着成为陈景润那样的人物,在学问的蓝色海洋里做出一番作为。记得是在一场雨后,秋老虎的余威已不复存在,天高气爽,我捧着祖父最新出版的一本旧作,在学校宿舍区向人打听苏教授家的确切位置。尽管我所在的这所大学,历史悠久,人数众多,是全国著名的高等学府之一,但是宿舍区的脏乱,至今回想起来,仍然让人感到恐怖。我的手里捏着写有地址的小纸条,可是挂在大楼上的红底白字搪瓷标牌,都让小孩用弹弓给射坏了。这是文化大革命留下来的典型场景,原来的蓝底白字的标牌,由于容易让人联想到国民党的青天白日,在运动初期都换了象征革命的粉红底色。看上去仿佛是有计划的破坏,因为所有的射击,都是以让人认不出标牌上的编号为目的。粉碎“四人帮”已经两年了,科学的春天正在来临,但是这个庞大的宿舍区,还保留着...
A Discourse on MethodDISCOURSE ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCESby Rene DescartesPREFATORY NOTE BY THE AUTHORIf this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six Parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences; in the second, the principal rules of the Method which the Author has discovered, in the third, certain of the rules of Morals which he has deduced from th