...寻求原文出处】Returning to a book
you’ve read many times can feel like drinks with an old friend. There’s a
welcome familiarity—but also sometimes a slight suspicion that time has changed
you both, and thus the relationship. But books don’t change, people do. And
that’s what makes t...
... she could speak English. Her mother had travelled widely in her youth and liked literature very much. After being educated by her mother and by a Chinese teacher, Pearl S. Buck went to school in Shanghai at the age of fifteen. She continued her education in the United States at a Woman’s College ...
...he seemed singularly disconsolate. He looked woebegone and yet ridiculous, like a man who has fallen into the water with all his clothes on, and, being rescued from death, frightened still, feels that he only looks a fool. Turning round, he stared at me, but I perceived that he did not see me. His r...
...home father was out of the labor force for a year. Even that percentage is likely inflated by men thrust into their caretaker role by a downsizing. This is simply not a large enough group to reduce the social stigma (污名) and force other adjustments necessary to supporting men in this decision, e...
...where before it became exhausted. Suddenly a raft
appeared, looking rather like Noah's ark, carrying the whole family, a few
hens, the dogs, cat, and bird in a
cage. We realized that they must have become unduly frightened by the rising
flood, for their house, which had sound foundations, would have...
...ancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream. Baskerville sat for a long time his eyes fixed upon it, and I read upon his eager face how much it meant to him, this first sight of that strange spot where the men of his blood had h...
...navirus and other reasons, it has put big investment-grade firms like AT&T on a “longer leash”.《经济学人》上的句子。我认为other前省略了for，有网友说because of other reasons这样搭配是可以的。我在网上搜了，外国人认为这样用累赘...
...ous fruit. Then the
cocoa-nuts would be ripe for picking, and her cousins (like all the natives,
Ata had a host of relatives) would swarm up the trees and throw down the big
ripe nuts. They split them open and put them in the sun to dry. Then they cut
out the copra and put it into sacks, and the wom...
...ounce. You should listen to experts.
By experts, I mean those who are less likely to make pronunciation mistakes.
When listening to them, pay attention to words that sound strange.
Strange,because you pronounce the same words differently. When you come across
such words, check a dictionary to confir...
...or the manager to blow the whistle. After a while the whistle blew. It waslike throwing a basket of chum into a tank of sharks. I told my wife that if we obtained a bike, fine, but if we did not, I was OK with that too.As the number of the bike boxes began to gradually decrease, I saw my opportunit...
...rles Darwin, Mark Twain, Oliver Goldsmith, and William Butler Yeats all disliked school. So did Winston Churchill, who almost failed out of Harrow, an elite British school. About Oliver Goldsmith, one of his teachers remarked, "Never was so dull a boy." Often these children realize that th...
... do with the makeup of your household.Generation Xers with young families, like my wife
and I, can still find it convenient to have a home phone rather than providing
a mobile phone for every family member. That said, to be honest the only people
who ever ring our home phone are our Baby Boomers par...
...get no more than hints into a character that interested me so much. It waslike making one's way through a mutilated manuscript. I received the impression of a life which was a bitter struggle against every sort of difficulty; but I realised that much which would have seemed horrible to most people ...
...home father was out of the labor force for a year. Even that percentage is likely inflated by men thrust into their caretaker role by a downsizing. This is simply not a large enough group to reduce the social stigma (污名) and force other adjustments necessary to supporting men in this decision, e...
...nbsp;has found that people are twice aslikely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in emails. The fact that emails are automatically recorded—and can c...