22-08-29 望月怀远 张九龄 海上生明月，天涯共此时。 情人怨遥夜，竟夕起相思。 灭烛怜光满，披衣觉露滋。 不堪盈手赠，还寝梦佳期。 VIEWING THE MOON, THINKING OF YOU Ying Sun译 As the bright moon shines over the sea, From far away you share this moment with me. For...

21-11-29 A moments glance was enough to satisfy Catherine that her apartment was very unlike the one which Henry had endeavoured to alarm her by the description of. It was by no means unreasonably large, and contained neither tapestry nor velvet. The walls w...

16-11-15 An Indian barber has come up with a novel technique to give people haircuts using just a burning candle. 印度一位理发师想出理发奇招，用燃烧的蜡烛给顾客理发。 Dasharath Kumar, 28, is now the most demanded barber in his small village in Gulbarga in Ka...

16-03-17 The old man had gained the street corner, before he began to recover the effect of Toby Crackit's intelligence. He had relaxed nothing of his unusual speed; but was still pressing onward, in the same wild and disordered manner, when the sudden dashi...

15-08-04 From somewhere at the bottom of a passage the smell of roasting coffee -- real coffee, not Victory Coffee -- came floating out into the street. Winston paused involuntarily. For perhaps two seconds he was back in the half-forgotten world of his chil...

14-03-10 Charles Dickens, the famous English novelist, wrote a great many books. He had a cat of which he was very fond. She was a fine Persian cat with pure white fur. One evening, as he was absorbed in reading one of his favorite books by a candle-light, t...

13-01-15 Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. (Strong) 与其诅咒黑暗，不如燃起蜡烛。（斯特郎） A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. (J. Burroughs) 一个人可以失败许多次，但是只要他没有开始...

13-01-15 The hostess moved to a new house. Not until she finish putting things in order, was the power suddently cut. It was very dark in the room. Somebody knocked at the door as soon as the hostess touched the candle and match. Opening the door, she found...

11-02-12 A man had a little daughteran only and much-loved child. He lived for hershe was his life. So when she became ill, he became like a man possessed, moving heaven and earth（竭尽全力） to bring about her restoration to health. His best efforts, howeve...