20-09-28 It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. Amy was learning this distinction through much tribulation, for mistaking enthusiasm for inspiration, she attempted every branch...

20-09-16 Where was Dan? In prison. Alas for Mrs Jo! how her heart would have ached if she had known that while old Plum shone with Christmas cheer her boy sat alone in his cell, trying to read the little book she gave him, with eyes dimmed now and then by th...

16-02-18 About noon next day, when the Dodger and Master Bates had gone out to pursue their customary avocations, Mr. Fagin took the opportunity of reading Oliver a long lecture on the crying sin of ingratitude; of which he clearly demonstrated he had been g...

16-02-18 The coach rattled away, over nearly the same ground as that which Oliver had traversed when he first entered London in company with the Dodger; and, turning a different way when it reached the Angel at Islington, stopped at length before a neat hous...

15-01-09 It was toward four o'clock in the afternoon when we entered the forest. Until then Saint-Florent had not once contradicted himself: always the same propriety, always the same eagerness to prove his sentiments for me; I should not have thought myself...

14-09-11 As Hortense well knew Clyde was pressing more and more hungrily toward that ultimate condescension on herpart, which, though she would never have admitted it to him, was the privilege of two others. They were nevertogether any more without his insis...

14-06-26 Man: Doctor, I'm getting very forgetful. Doctor: I see, Mr. Brown. Won't you take a chair? Man: Thanks, take a what? Doctor: A chair. Now, when did you first notice this trouble? Man: What trouble?...

14-01-09 Down Brakes The greatest people have their weak points, and the best-behaved boys now and then yield to temptation and get into trouble, as everybody knows. Frank was considered a remarkably well-bred and proper lad, and rather prided himself on his...

11-12-06 It's never good news when your business adviser calls out of the blue（突然地） and says, Wes, we need to talk. That's what happened to me one spring morning not long after I'd arrived at my office. I own a small agency that handles speaking engagem...

09-09-25 Trouble has flared as world leaders gather in the US city of Pittsburgh for the G20 summit. 世界首脑汇聚美国城市匹兹堡参加G20峰会期间，麻烦不断。 Thousands of extra police are on duty in Pittsburgh Reports said riot police used pepper gas and fired...