14-08-07 Turn over a few more pages, answered the head. The king went on turning, still putting his finger in his mouth, till the poison in which each page was dipped took effect. His sight failed him, and he fell at the foot of his throne. When the physicia...

14-08-07 There was once upon a time a king who had a son who was very fond of hunting. He often allowed him to indulge in（沉溺于） this pastime, but he had ordered his grand-vizir always to go with him, and never to lose sight of him. One day the huntsman r...

14-08-07 You must know, sire, that my father was Mahmoud, the king of this country, the Black Isles, so called from the four little mountains which were once islands, while the capital was the place where now the great lake lies. My story will tell you how t...

14-07-21 A self-important lion in the jungle tried to make his mastery clear to all. He was so confident that he paid no attention to the smaller animals and went right up to a bear. He asked the bear, Who is the king of the jungle? The bear replied, Of cour...

14-06-24 Tian jiu, a Mohist, wanted to express his general plan for governing the country to King Hui of the state of Qin. He had stayed in state Qin for three years, but had not gotten an opportunity to meet the king. Someone told this to the king of the st...

14-06-24 A countryman from the state of Lu sent to king Song Yuangong two knots that were difficult to untie. The king posted a notice to find people with wisdom to undo the knots, but nobody could undo them. Later one of Er Shou's students untied one of the...

14-06-20 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...

14-06-10 A person of the state of Wei claimed that he could carve a figure of a rhesus monkey on a sour jujube（枣子） thorn. The King of the state of Yan believed what he said and gave him a good salary. A blacksmith heard all this and called on the king an...

14-06-04 King Chulin, the king of the state of Chu, was very found of officials with slender waists. So in order to curry favor with（巴结，拍马屁） the king, all the officials strived to control the amount of food they had. Some of them even had only one me...

14-06-03 The Spanish cabinet is to discuss the next steps in the process of King Juan Carlos's abdication and the accession of his son, Crown Prince Felipe. 西班牙内阁成员正在商讨胡安卡洛斯一世的退位与其子费利佩王储登基的进一步行动。 Spanish newspapers publi...