13-07-12 There was once on a time a maiden who was pretty, but idle（懒惰的） and negligent（疏忽的） . When she had to spin she was so out of temper that if there was a little knot in the flax（亚麻） , she at once pulled out a whole heap of it, and strewed...

13-06-27 Dear World: I bequeath（遗赠） to you today one little girl ... in a crispy（干净利落的） dress ... with two blue eyes ... and a happy laugh that ripples all day long and a flash of light blonde hair that bounces in the sunlight when she runs. I tru...

13-06-07 John was waiting for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn't, the girl with the rose. Thirteen months ago, in a Florida library he took a book off the shelf and found himself intrigued with the notes in the margin. The soft handwritin...

13-04-25 Master Pfriem was a short, thin, but lively man, who never rested a moment. His face, of which his turned-up nose was the only prominent feature, was marked with small-pox and pale as death, his hair was gray and shaggy, his eyes small, but they gla...

13-04-09 My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, a ceaseless quest for expression, skill, and experience. School was only a background to the supreme delight of lessons in music, dance, and dramatics, and the thrill of sojourns（逗留...

13-02-21 精彩对白 It's Friday the 4th of May, an historic day for Britain, a Conservative government led by Mrs. Thatcher is set to lead - Mrs Ghandi in India, but never in the West has there been a woman Prime Minister. The place that she has secured in Bri...

13-01-30 Girl: While I was going downtown on the tramcar（电车） this morning, the conductor came along and looked at me as if I hadn't paid my fare. Boy: Well,what did you do ? Girl: I looked at him as if I had. 女孩：今天早上我坐电车到市中心时，售票员走过...

13-01-30 Stopping in an unfamiliar barber shop for a shave, a young playboy took a fancy to the manicure（修指甲） gril and suggested dinner and a show that evening. The girl demurred（反对，抗辩） , I don't think I ought to, I'm married. Why don't you ask y...

12-12-26 From the very beginning, the girls family objected strongly to her dating this guy, saying that it had got to do with family background and that the girl would have to suffer for the rest of her life if she were to be with him. Due to familys pressu...

12-12-23 The lone survivor of one of the two Sandy Hook Elementary School first-grade classrooms where Adam Lanza allegedly shot and killed 20 children tricked the gunman by playing dead, the girl's pastor said. 在近日美国校园枪击惨案中，凶手亚当兰扎在桑迪胡...