日期：2012-01-11 The evening of the day on which I had taken my madman's resolution to depart in anger from all that was dear to me found me in that congenial spot. The light of the half moon fell ghostly through the foliage of trees in spots and patches, revealing... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-01-11 'What is all this nonsense, you devil?' I demanded, fiercely enough, though weak and trembling in every limb. 'It is what some are pleased to call jugglery（戏法，杂耍） ,' he answered, with a light, hard laugh. He turned down Dupont Street and I sa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-01-11 His presence led the conversation into other channels. He said little -- I do not recall anything of what he did say. I thought his voice singularly rich and melodious（悦耳的） , but it affected me in the same way as his eyes and smile. In a few mi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-01-11 Of one thing I am distinctly conscious: the man's presence at my side was strangely distasteful and disquieting -- so much so that when I at last pulled up under the lights of the Putnam House I experienced a sense of having escaped some spiritual p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-01-11 For a part of the distance between Auburn and Newcastle the road -- first on one side of a creek（小溪） and then on the other -- occupies the whole bottom of the ravine（沟壑，山涧） , being partly cut out of the steep hillside, and partly built up... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-28 Three days later I recovered consciousness in a hospital. As the memory of that tragic night slowly evolved in my ailing brain I recognized in my attendant Moxon's confidential workman, Haley. Responding to a look he approached, smiling. 'Tell me ab... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-28 Presently Moxon, whose play it was, raised his hand high above the board, pounced（突袭，猛扑） upon one of his pieces like a sparrow-hawk and with the exclamation（感叹，惊叫） 'check-mate!' rose quickly to his feet and stepped behind his chair. Th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-28 I had shrunk back and now stood a little to one side of the doorway and in shadow. If Moxon had looked farther than the face of his opponent he could have observed nothing now, except that the door was open. Something forbade me either to enter or t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-28 Yielding to an impulse to seek further light from him whom I now recognized as my master and guide, I had unconsciously turned about, and almost before I was aware of having done so found myself again at Moxon's door. I was drenched with rain, but f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-28 Somewhat to my surprise he laughed lightly and answered without hesitation: 'Nobody; the incident that you have in mind was caused by my folly in leaving a machine in action with nothing to act upon, while I undertook the interminable（冗长的） task... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-28 'Do you happen to recall Herbert Spencer's definition of life? I read it thirty years ago. He may have altered it afterward, for anything I know, but in all that time I have been unable to think of a single word that could profitably be changed or a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-28 'I do not explain them.' 'Because you cannot without affirming what you wish to deny, namely, intelligent co-operation, among the constituent elements of the crystals. When soldiers form lines, or hollow squares, you call it reason. When wild geese... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-28 The reply, coming with less than his customary delay, took his favourite form of counter-interrogation: 'With what does a plant think -- in the absence of a brain?' 'Ah, plants also belong to the philosopher class! I should be pleased to know some o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-28 Are you serious? -- do you really believe that a machine thinks?' I got no immediate reply; Moxon was apparently intent upon the coals in the grate, touching them deftly（熟练地） here and there with the fire-poker till they signified a sense of his... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-28 A sudden wind pushed some dry leaves and twigs（小枝） from the uppermost（至上的） face of the stone; I saw the low relief letters of an inscription（题词，铭文） and bent to read it. God in heaven! My name in full! -- the date of my birth! -- the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-28 A moment later a man's head appeared to rise out of the ground a short distance away. He was ascending the farther slope of a low hill whose crest was hardly to be distinguished from the general level. His whole figure soon came into view against th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-28 I observed in the herbage（草，草本） a number of weatherworn（风雨侵蚀的） stones, evidently shaped with tools. They were broken, covered with moss（苔藓） and half sunken in the earth. Some lay prostrate（俯卧的） , some leaned at various angles,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-28 For there be divers sorts of death -- some wherein the body remained; and in some it vanished quite away with the spirit. This commonly occurred only in solitude（孤独，隐居） (such is God's will) and, none seeing the end, we say the man is lost, or... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-09 I lay still in my berth（卧铺，停泊处） -- so still I hardly breathed. But the subject was evidently not displeasing to Doyle, and after a short pause he resumed: 'By the way, she is only an adopted daughter of the Harfords. Her mother was killed at... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-09 It was by lamplight that I awoke. I lay in a berth（卧铺，停泊位） amid the familiar surroundings of the state-room of a steamer. On a couch opposite sat a man, half undressed for bed, reading a book. I recognized the face of my friend Gordon Doyle,... 阅读全文>>