The Poor Clareby Elizabeth GaskellCHAPTER I.December 12th, 1747.My life has been strangely bound up with extraordinary incidents, some of which occurred before I had any connection with the principal actors in them, or indeed, before I even knew of their existence. I suppose, most old men are, like me, more given to looking back upon their own career with a kind of fond interest and affectionate remembrance, than to watching the events though these may have far more interest for the multitude
高中甫对于中国读者来说,卡萨诺瓦这个名字尽管近年来已相继有几本介绍他的书籍出版,他的自传亦有一个选本被译成中文,但依然还是陌生的,可整个欧洲对这个人却几乎是家喻户晓人人皆知。不论是大型的百科全书,小型的词典,甚至是家庭常备的字典,他的名字都成为一个词条,一个单字,因为卡萨诺瓦已成为“好色之徒”、“登徒子”、“浪荡公子”、“猎艳者”、“冒险家”的同义语了;近几十年来,诸多学者们更拓宽了对这位生活中的奇才,文学中的幸运儿的研究,从而形成了一个特有的学科:卡萨诺瓦学(Casanovastik)。他的那部卷帙浩繁的自传《我的一生》——共十二卷,全文如译成中文要超过二百五十万字——已无可争辩地在世界文学史上占有了一席之地。它的社会价值和认识价值已为学者们所公认。也正因此卡萨诺瓦身上除了一些不光彩的恶名,又有了作家的头衔了。...
碧杨树下,一群小孩子,在那里驱着牛,一路歌唱着。他们唱的虽然是一种信口无腔的调儿,却也觉得宛转可听。大家唱了一会儿,内中一个小儿,生得虎额龙姿,面目黧黑中,显出他奕奕的神态来。那一群小孩子里,有几个跳下牛来,去坐在草地上斗石子。正斗得起劲的当儿,忽听得一阵呐喊,那边跑过来十几个童子,手里各拿着柳枝向斗石子的一群孩子直打。这时,骑在牛上的黑脸孩子,也跳下牛背,口里大喝道:“你们恃着村中人多,便来欺负我们吗?”说罢,一手执着牛鞭,迎将上去,那坐在地上斗石子的几个小孩,也各折了一条树枝,发声喊,大家跟在后面去帮助。那方面十几个童子,经黑脸孩子上前一顿乱打,打得他们东倒西歪,有的抛下柳条逃走,有的抱头大哭起来。跟在后面的几个小孩子,见黑脸孩子得了胜,他们便一拥而上,将十几个童子,赶得走投无路,有甚至被打得鼻青脸肿、血污满面。黑脸小孩指东打西的,正在得意万分,早听得墙角上...
A BURLESQUE BIOGRAPHYTwo or three persons having at different times intimated that if Iwould write an autobiography they would read it when they got leisure,I yield at last to this frenzied public demand and herewith tendermy history.Ours is a noble house, and stretches a long way back into antiquity.The earliest ancestor the Twains have any record of was a friend ofthe family by the name of Higgins. This was in the eleventh century,when our people were living in Aberdeen, county of Cork, Engl
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The Rise and Progress of Palaeontologyby Thomas Henry HuxleyThat application of the sciences of biology and geology, whichis commonly known as palaeontology, took its origin in the mindof the first person who, finding something like a shell, or abone, naturally imbedded in gravel or rock, indulged inspeculations upon the nature of this thing which he had dug outthis "fossil"and upon the causes which had brought it intosuch a position. In this rudimentary form, a high antiquity may...
作者:阿来 我从乡下回城里,登上长途班车,看见一个熟悉的身影。事情就这样开始了。那人是我和妻子韩月在民族学院的同学,是个藏汉混血儿,名字叫做刘晋藏,而且,他还是韩月的初恋情人。 都说,女人永远不会忘记初恋情人,韩月是不是时常想起刘晋藏,我没有问过。我倒是一直想忘记这个人。我想就当没看见他。不想他却对我露出了灿烂的笑容。他的手热情有力,就像亲密朋友多年不见。 其实,我们之间并不存在什么亲密关系。读书时,我们不在一个系。虽然同是一个地方出去的,但他老子在军分区有相当职位,我跟这种人掺和不到一块。刘晋藏身上带着干部子弟常有的那种对什么都满不在乎的作派:有钱下馆子喝酒,频繁地变换女朋友,在社会上有些不正经的三朋四友。好多不错的女同学却都喜欢他们。韩月就是那些女同学中的一个。我知道韩月,是我们班上一个女同学为了刘晋藏跟她在咖啡屋撕扯了一番。韩月因为被扯掉一绺头发成了...
【书名】这个未婚妻很难搞【作者】谢上薰【链接】xs8/love/21748/index.html序 在我家田宝宝心目中,我大概是个有点迷糊的妈妈吧! 我的记性不算好,常会忘东忘西,比如电灯忘了关就要上楼,或忘了帮他做某件事情,然后他会提醒我,我都直接告诉他说:“妈妈头脑不太好,忘记了,你要提醒妈妈喔!” 我觉得让孩子明白父母的缺点或弱点,并不是一件可耻的事。既然我们可以无条件的包容自己的孩子,我相信孩子也会包容父母的不完美。 果然,这反而激发出他的责任感,电灯忘了关,他会抢着帮忙说:“妈妈,你头脑不好,我帮你关。”虽然被他消遣了一句,还是很高兴啦!而且,他会有一种“我也帮得上妈妈”的骄傲感。...
本世纪初,在由“全球经济一体化”概念引发的一片“重组”、“并购”风潮中,一个“异端”概念——团队——便成了世界上最流行的关键词。一个团队就是一个群体;一个群体就是一条龙;一条龙的强弱与否看什么?龙头!所谓龙头,团队的最高管理层是也!团队最高管理层要做的事多得是。诸如前景规划、运行策略、绩效评估、人力资源、权力分配等等等等,要把这么多里里外外的事情都做得人人满意,光靠团队的首领——“一号人物”一个人去完成,这怎么可能?于是以团队为本的“老子天下第二”的角色——便在“一号”光圈的呵护下——在各类大大小小的团队中登台亮相。鉴于这种角色在团队中“一人之下,众人之上”的地位,我们姑且赠予“二号人物”的称谓。...
小丁坐在窄窄的满是烟头烫痕的木桌边,用左臂撑着脑袋,几次想张大嘴巴惊叫上几声。当然最终没有声音,他只是重复着张大、张大、再张大的动作。小酒吧里光线暗淡,几个脸色发青的服务小姐聚在他身后不远的吧台边,用四川云阳口音激烈地说着什么。小丁精力不集中的时候,他感觉自己就被她们没完没了的谈话拖拽而去,然后又被随手扔到了去云阳的路边。小丁站起身来向门口过去。经过吧台的时候,那几个小姐忽然安静下来,其中一个警觉地转过身,盯着他,抹了重重的口红的一张大嘴张开着。小丁不解地也看了看她,然后向门口又迈了一步。这会儿那个大嘴的姑娘再也抑制不住地叫了起来:你还没付钱呢!小丁没答理她,又走了一步来到门口,伸手拉开了门。一阵热浪扑面而来,正是夏日的正午,从终日不见天日的小酒吧望出去,这个城市亮得刺眼,不多的几个行人都把舌头长长地拖在外面,哈哧哈哧地喘气。小丁看了一会儿,一松手,弹簧门自动闭...
A treatise on Good Worksby Dr. Martin Luthertogether with theLetter of Dedicationby Dr. Martin Luther, 1520INTRODUCTION1. The Occasion of the Work. Luther did not impose himself asreformer upon the Church. In the course of a conscientiousperformance of the duties of his office, to which he had beenregularly and divinely called, and without any urging on hispart, he attained to this position by inward necessity. In 1515...
The City of DomesA Walk with an Architect About the Courts and Palaces of the PanamaPacific International ExposItion with a Discussion of Its Architecture -Its Sculpture - Its Mural Decorations Its Coloring - And Its Lighting -Preceded by a History of Its Growthby John D. BarryTo the architects, the artists and the artisans and to the men ofaffairs who sustained them in the cooperative work that created anexposition of surpassing beauty, unique among the expositions of the...