陈 颐2000年夏秋之际,我用近一个月的时间,走遍美国中西部农业区。在小麦、水稻、大豆、玉米、棉花田间,在猪圈、牛棚、马厩里,在美国庄稼人的办公室、库房、粮仓、家中,在与他们的交谈中,我不断地了解着美国农民的生存方式。农业商人:杰克种稻、养牛、开公司,家有5万亩土地,信奉“几分耕耘,几分收获”。秋日早晨的阳光洒满牧场,我站在牛圈高高的木栏旁,看着杰克和南西夫妇俩骑着两匹枣红色的马,从牧场飞奔归来。杰克是一个现代美国牛仔。“我们每天一大早就要把牛放出去早锻炼,然后再让它们自己散步、休息、吃草。我有500头牛,它们的生活很有规律。今天要给牛打针,注射疫苗。”杰克看着牛群,眼睛里露出自豪的神色。...
TWICE-TOLD TALESETHAN BRANDA CHAPTER FROM AN ABORTIVE ROMANCEby Nathaniel HawthorneBARTRAM THE LIME-BURNER, a rough, heavy-looking man, begrimedwith charcoal, sat watching his kiln, at nightfall, while his littleson played at building houses with the scattered fragments ofmarble, when, on the hill-side below them, they heard a roar oflaughter, not mirthful, but slow, and even solemn, like a wind shaking...
Tour Through the Eastern Counties of Englandby Daniel DefoeI began my travels where I purpose to end them, viz., at the Cityof London, and therefore my account of the city itself will comelast, that is to say, at the latter end of my southern progress;and as in the course of this journey I shall have many occasions tocall it a circuit, if not a circle, so I chose to give it the titleof circuits in the plural, because I do not pretend to have...
四月是从我的一枚金牌开始的。我叫何有力,十九岁,文庙中学高三的高材生,每天做着同样的事:上学、读书、解题。我家住偏僻的驷马巷,家境贫寒,还买不起电脑和电话。但这不妨碍我锁定的大学是清华。我自信清华将是我一生的转折点,而憨厚、木讷的父母,也把晚年的幸福寄托在我的高考上。我晓得自己是个不会辜负他们希望的好孩子,埋头念书,对气候的变化,世界的动荡,流行歌曲的花样翻新,从不放在心上。四月初,我参加了一个也夫杯全球华人子弟物理大奖赛,获得了金牌。我本来应该是去香港领奖的,可是因为萨尔氏病毒在香港像雨点子一样满天飞,我们就去不了香港了。金牌直接乘坐着飞机,寄到了我们文庙中学,由老校长颁发给了我。他对我说,“娃娃,你的翅膀长硬了,你就好好去飞吧。”...
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1866-1875By Albert Bigelow PaineVOLUME I, Part 2: 1866-1875LIVTHE LECTURERIt was not easy to take up the daily struggle again, but it wasnecessary. [Clemens once declared he had been so blue at this periodthat one morning he put a loaded pistol to his head, but found he lackedcourage to pull the trigger.] Out of the ruck of possibilities (hisbrain always thronged with plans) he constructed three or four resolves.The chief of these was the trip around the world; but th
《女性魅力修成手册:游戏规则女人来定》第1节:自序第2节:女性就该善变第一章女性就该善变1、时代在变,女性也要善变21世纪是急速变化的社会,无论是学校教育还是社会大众生活,都受到计算机普及后带来极大的转变,可以说信息化的计算机和网络已经成为生活中的必需品。举凡生活中,大大小小的问题,总是让我们不断地在作抉择,选定下一个目标。我们就在这种不断地选择和学习的社会当中成长、生活着。所以21世纪的时代,是让我们以具有创意性的态度与自主独立的判断力生活,这也是21世纪被称为知识经济社会、信息化社会的原因,过去的女性是以专业的主妇角色存在,但现在,家庭主妇角色的时代已经过去了。在21世纪,不管是女性或男性,都可以通过在家工作来参与社会生活,所以,若是以传统观念认为男性和女性的角色是不同的,这已经是落伍了。现在在工作职场上工作的女性人数逐渐增加,而在家里帮忙做家事的男性人数也在增加中。就...
第一章 命运风景: 去势或毁灭的星辰 Sent your soul underground Where tears roll down Where tears roll down Drew the blade way too low Was shackled by your honest Made a mess, I guess I should have known That life was lust and liberty Not a chance mutation or the last temptation Laid so low for so long, so low ——Tears for Fears Laid So Low...
The Cruise of the Dolphinby Thomas Bailey Aldrich( An episode from The Story of a Bad Boy, the narrator being TomBailey, the hero of the tale.)Every Rivermouth boy looks upon the sea as being in some way mixedup with his destiny. While he is yet a baby lying in his cradle, hehears the dull, far-off boom of the breakers; when he is older, hewanders by the sandy shore, watching the waves that come plungingup the beach like white-maned sea-horses, as Thoreau calls them;...