10-07-13 Love of Lines: Notes for an Apprentice Shingler Sara London The injuries are small ones, the blade（叶片，刀片） slips from the cedar（雪松） slat to the kneeling knee, or the plane slides off the shingle's edge and shaves the thumb knuckle（关节）...

10-06-02 If I never saw this kid again, Lord, I wouldn't be sorry! I thought. Tears clouded my eyes as I stood in our laundry room（洗衣间） . Clenched（紧握的） in both hands were new jeans and a shirt belonging to my 16-year-old stepson, Brett. The clothin...

10-06-02 It is the true test of how human we really are. How much we can accept in our fellow humans. And really how much we want to accept. If we accept too much does that make us strong. And if we don't accept enough does that make us weak. Or is it the ot...

10-05-31 Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is facing embarrassment over an internet film featuring explicit comments she made about sex and love as a young model. 法国第一夫人卡拉布吕尼-萨科奇早年当模特时的一段大胆谈性和爱情的露骨视频日前惊现网络，令其身陷尴尬。 Carla Bru...

10-05-26 Red roses were her favorites, her name was also Rose. And every year her husband sent them, tied with pretty bows. The year he died, the roses were delivered to her door. The card said, Be my Valentine, like all the years before. Each year he sent h...

10-05-03 Those in a serious relationship have long been warned about the dangers of the seven-year itch. But research has found couples risk running into trouble far earlier - thanks to the seven-month slouch. 已婚男女要警惕七年之痒说法由来已久。但一项调查发...

10-04-26 After 21 years of marriage, I discovered a new way of keeping alive the spark of love. A little while ago I had started to go out with another woman. It was really my wife's idea. I know that you love her, she said one day, taking me by surprise. Th...

10-04-12 Marjorie Baer used to joke about her retirement plans. She wasn't married and had no kids, but she didn't intend to be aloneshe and all her single friends would move into a fictional（虚构的，小说的） home she called Casa de Biddies. Instead, Baer d...

10-04-01 It's cold and damp in this kingdom of darkness. It covers us like a disease on our skin. They hold us hostage, the ones who call themselves the royals. Little Alana stared（凝视，注视） across the swampy（沼泽的，湿地的） desolate（荒凉的，无人烟的...

10-04-01 There had been four ages since the human world first came into being（形成，产生） . They are the Golden Age, the Silver Age, the Age of Bronze and the Age of Iron. The Golden Age was the best of all. It was an age when Kronus sat on the throne. Gen...