日期：2014-06-20 For seven days I hurried on, resting only when the darkness stopped me, and living chiefly upon cocoanuts, which afforded me both meat and drink, and on the eighth day I reached the seashore and saw a party of white men gathering pepper, which grew... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-20 When the sun rose I crept down from the tree with hardly a hope of escaping the dreadful fate which had over-taken my comrades; but life is sweet, and I determined to do all I could to save myself. All day long I toiled with frantic（狂乱的） haste... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-20 Turning away from the sea we wandered miserably inland, finding as we went various herbs and fruits which we ate, feeling that we might as well live as long as possible though we had no hope of escape. Presently we saw in the far distance what seeme... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-20 It was a huge piece of fresh meat, and as I stared at it several more pieces rolled over the cliffs in different places. I had always thought that the stories the sailors told of the famous valley of diamonds, and of the cunning way which some merch... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-20 The next day Hindbad, dressed in his best, returned to the voyager's house, and was received with open arms. As soon as all the guests had arrived the banquet（宴会） began as before, and when they had feasted long and merrily, Sindbad addressed the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-20 From time to time we landed at various islands, where we sold or exchanged our merchandise（商品，货物） , and one day, when the wind dropped suddenly, we found ourselves becalmed（平静的） close to a small island like a green meadow, which only ros... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-20 IN the times of the Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid there lived in Bagdad a poor porter named Hindbad, who on a very hot day was sent to carry a heavy load from one end of the city to the other. Before he had accomplished half the distance he was so tired... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-11 Worshipful sir, he began, this Mussulman whom you desire to hang is unworthy of death; I alone am guilty. Last night a man and a woman who were strangers to me knocked at my door, bringing with them a patient for me to cure. The servant opened it, b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-11 But when he had got over the first shock he began to think of some way out of the difficulty, and seizing the hunchback in his arms he carried him out into the street, and leaning him against the wall of a shop he stole back to his own house, withou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-11 In the kingdom of Kashgar, which is, as everybody knows, situated on the frontiers of Great Tartary, there lived long ago a tailor and his wife who loved each other very much. One day, when the tailor was hard at work, a little hunchback（驼背） cam... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-11 He waited as he was told, but instead of the lady there entered a huge black slave with a sword in his hand. Approaching my brother with an angry countenance（面容，表情） he exclaimed, What business have you here? His voice and manner were so terri... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-11 The next day she will complain to her mother of the way she has been treated, which will fill my heart with joy. Her mother will come to seek me, and, kissing my hands with respect, will say, My lord (for she could not dare to risk my anger by using... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-11 As long as our father lived Alnaschar was very idle（懒散的） . Instead of working for his bread he was not ashamed to ask for it every evening, and to support himself next day on what he had received the night before. When our father died, worn out... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-11 Twenty years passed by, and my brother was still living with the Barmecide, looking after his house, and managing his affairs. At the end of that time his generous benefactor（恩人，施主） died without heirs, so all his possessions went to the princ... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-11 There now remains for me to relate to you the story of my sixth brother, whose name was Schacabac. Like the rest of us, he inherited a hundred silver drachmas（古希腊的银币名） from our father, which he thought was a large fortune, but through ill-l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-22 She then returned to her private apartments, where she told the Princess Haiatelnefous all that had happened, as well as her plans for the future, and begged her assistance, which her friend readily promised. Next morning she ordered the prince to b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-22 As soon as they were gone the prince returned to the cottage to bid farewell to his old friend, and to thank him once more for all his kindness. But the old man was at his last gasp, and had barely murmured his confession of faith when he expired. C... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-22 At night the whole town was filled with rejoicings, and with much pomp the Princess Haiatelnefous (this was the name of the king's daughter) was conducted to the palace of the Princess Badoura. Now Badoura had thought much of the difficulties of her... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-22 In this fashion he was led on by hill and dale through the entire day, and when night came the tiresome creature roosted on the top of a very high tree where it could rest in safety. The prince in despair at all his useless trouble began to think wh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-05-22 Now you shall choose. Shall I cure the princess in her own presence, or shall I do it from here without seeing her? The eunuch（阉人） , who had expressed many contemptuous（轻蔑的） doubts as they came along of the newcomer's powers, was much surpr... 阅读全文>>