...seeks to imprison it in the circle of her account-book. Do you remember my
wife? I saw Blanche little by little trying all her tricks. With infinite
patience she prepared to snare me and bind me. She wanted to bring me down to
her level; she cared nothing for me, she only wanted me to be hers. She w...
She continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters, in favour ofa man whom nobody cared anything about.她一直骂骂咧咧,说我们这财产要便宜了一个不知道从哪冒出来的这么个人,实在太残酷了。曹老师您...
...morning when I returned home. I tried to wake up my wife by ringing the doorbell, but she was fast asleep, so I got a ladder from the shed in the garden, put it against the wall, and began climbing towards the bedroo...
From the middle-class family perspective, much of this, understandably, looks far less like an opportunity to exercise more financial responsibility, and a good deal more like a frightening acceleration of the wholesale shift of financial risk onto their already overburdened shoulders.这里的a goo...
It is because I know how sweet and happy and pure the home of honest poverty is, how free it is from perplexing care, from social envy and emulations, how loving and how united its members may be in the common interest of supporting the family, that I sympathize with the rich man's boy and...
Researchers
thought they might be able to use those similarities to learn a dead language,
as long as they understood another language from the same "family".They
chose two dead languages that are over 3000 years old. One is Linear B, which they compared with
Greek. Linear B was first understood i...
...him in various ways; with barefaced
questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises; but he eluded the
skill of them all; and they were at last obliged to accept the second-hand
intelligence of their neighbour Lady Lucas. Her report was highly favourable.
Sir William had been delighted with ...
They moved in with a local family,
the Harrisons, and, like them, had little privacy, rare baths, and a blanket of
snow on their quilt when they woke up in the morning. Some mornings, Rosamond
and Dorothy would arrive at the schoolhouse to find the children weeping from
the cold. In spring, the snow...
...han it is today. I think there will be more tall buildings and most of the families will live in a big apartment. There will be a robot in each home. The robot will help us do the housework, and we have more time to relax. The students won’t go to school. They can study at home on computers.专家...