15-03-02 A thief in Paris planned to steal some paintings from the Louvre Museum. After careful planning, he got past security, stole the paintings, and made it safely to his van. However, he was captured only two blocks away when his van ran out of gas. Whe...

14-11-25 The chief Constable applied for an order of mandamus directing the justices to rehear the case. 警察局申请获得履行职务令，以命令法官重新审理该案。 The confession was extracted under torture by the police. 供认是警方严刑逼供得到的。 The police are cl...

14-10-21 There was a person of the state of Chu who feared ghosts very much. After knowing this, a thief climbed on the top of wall of his yard, and mimicked the sound of ghost. He was very happy to find the host didn't dare to look out and was afraid of gho...

14-10-17 When Chen Xiang served as the head of the Pucheng county, Fujian province in Song Dynasty, he once arrested a group of suspects, but could not tell which one was the thief. He called together all the suspects and told them, A bell in a temple can te...

16-03-26 Washington was the first president of the U.S. He was very clever even when he was still a 12-year-old-boy. Once a thief stole some money from Uncle Post, Washington's neighbor. The door of the house was not broken, and things in the room were in go...

14-09-03 One day, a thief broke into Picasso's home. The housekeeper caught sight of the thief the moment he ran away. She picked up the pencil and paper to scrabble（乱涂） a portrait of him. At the same time, Picasso who was sitting at the balcony saw the...

14-06-04 Mencius said, Suppose a person steals a hen from his neighbour each day. And someone expostulates（劝诫） him, saying, 'what you do is not decent.' The thief says, 'Then I will steal less, one hen each month. And I will stop doing this next year. Is...

14-05-30 An old man who lived in the country had given his two sons very strange names. He named his elder son Thief, the younger one Hit. One day Thief had just stepped out of the door when something occurred to his father. To call him back, his father shou...

14-04-15 An old man cut himself a bundle of faggots（柴草） in wood and started to carry them home. He had a long way to go, and was tired out before he had got much more than half-way. Casting his burden on the ground, he called upon Death to come and relea...

09-09-25 A painting by surrealist Rene Magritte worth 750,000 euros (675,000) has been stolen in broad daylight from a Belgian museum, curators say. 比利时博物馆馆长称，一副价值75万欧元的超现实主义画家Rene Magritte的作品在光天化日之下被偷走。 Magritte's pers...