16-01-06 I WAS now in the twenty-third year of my residence in this island, and was so naturalised to the place and the manner of living, that, could I but have enjoyed the certainty that no savages would come to the place to disturb me, I could have been co...

15-08-18 What Just Happened? Sara Berkeley Tolchin 'What just happened, and where does it leave us?' 'Same place,' he said, but that's not true. We are in a different place now, this place is new, we've never been here before, the air's a different shape, no...

15-07-15 The first Disney resort in Chinese mainland will open next year in Shanghai, Walt Disney Co said on Wednesday. 迪斯尼公司周三宣布，中国大陆首家迪斯尼乐园将于明年在上海开业。 The project consists of Shanghai Disneyland, two hotels, a shopping mall, r...

14-12-10 Porch Pew in Summer -- for Brian and Wilbur Frink Richard Robbins Never a prayer for some place more than this, wild turkeys in the field where old years blaze each December into new, where grandkids roam the drive now, in charge of cat, daisy, spon...

14-11-06 When you get to where you were intending to go, you forget why you were going there in the first place, which is destinesia . Not to be confused with being stoned, destinesia often occurs during working hours, and is the cause of much frustration....

14-09-28 MR. ROCHESTER, it seems, by the surgeon's orders, went to bed early that night; nor did he rise soon next morning. When he did come down, it was to attend to business: his agent and some of his tenants were arrived, and waiting to speak with him. Ad...

14-09-05 Prepared as Clyde was to dislike all this, so steeped had he been in the moods and maxims antipathetic toanything of its kind, still so innately sensual and romantic was his own disposition and so starved where sex was concerned, that instead of bei...

14-06-05 Work Ryan Teitman Some mornings, the clouds settle rooftop low, holding us in place like a specimen slide. I spend my days wondering how a hammer weighs the hand that holds it, or how the starlings apron（围裙，停机坪） the stoplights at Alcatraz an...

14-05-14 I was born, Commander of the Faithful, in Bagdad, and was left an orphan while I was yet a very young man, for my parents died within a few days of each other. I had inherited from them a small fortune, which I worked hard night and day to increase,...

13-12-23 Jennifer: Jean, look at the time! It's 5 o'clock. Time to go home. Are you coming out for a drink after work? Jean: Sure, 我们一起去楼下的酒吧喝上一杯如何？ Jennifer: Great idea, I love it there. It's very handy working six floors above one of the b...