美国西部探险 第2期:印第安人

Chapter One The First Americans: The Indians 第一章 最早的美国人：印第安人 The American Indians came from Asia about 40,000 years ago! 美国印第安人大约从4万年前来自亚洲！ They crossed the Bering Strait. Then they went d

美国西部探险 第1期:美国的诞生

The American West By Gina D.B.Clemen 《美国西部探险》作者Gina D. B. Clemen A Nation is Born. 一个国家诞生了。 Population: about 250 million people. States: 50. 人口：约2.5亿人。州：50个。 Important Rivers: Mississippi and

走进牛津大学 第44期:每周与导师见一面

Another similarity between Oxford and Cambridge is their special method of teaching. 牛津大学和剑桥大学的另一个相似之处在于它们特别的教学方法。 The principal teaching method at Oxbridge colleges is the supervision or tuto

走进牛津大学 第45期:本是同根生

Both of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge were founded more than 800 years ago. 牛津大学和剑桥大学都建立于800多年前。 Competitions between them also have a long history, 它们之间的竞争也有很悠久的历

走进牛津大学 第46期:诞生天才和首相的名校

The Rugby League Varsity Match is a ruby league game played annually in March. 橄榄球联盟对抗赛是一种每年3月举行的橄榄球联盟比赛。 Until 2010, it has been contested for only 30 years, and Cambridge leads the series 16 to 13,

吹小号的天鹅 第101期:比林斯(4)

A policeman hurried to the scene and started to hold the crowd back. 一个警察赶到了出事现场，把人群往后推。 Stand back! he shouted. The swan is wounded. Give him air! 退后！他大喊，这只天鹅受伤了。让他透透气！

吹小号的天鹅 第102期:比林斯(5)

Call an ambulance! screamed the lady. 叫救护车！那个女士尖叫。 I'll have to take that money to the station house, said the policeman. 我要把这些钱带到警察局去，那个警察说， This is a complicated case. Anything that invo

吹小号的天鹅 第103期:比林斯(6)

Well, said the little boy, I was very thirsty, 好的，这个小男孩说，我当时很渴， and so I wanted to go to a candy store and get something to drink. 所以想去一家糖果店买点饮料喝。 Just tell what you saw, please, Alfred, s

动物农场Animal Farm 第8章(2)

All orders were now issued through Squealer or one of the other pigs. 现在所有的命令都是通过斯奎拉，或者另外一头猪发布的。 Napoleon himself was not seen in public as often as once in a fortnight. 拿破仑自己则两星期也

动物农场Animal Farm 第8章(1)

A few days later, when the terror caused by the executions had died down, some of the animals remembered-- 几天以后，这次行刑引起的恐慌已经平息下来后，有些动物才想起了 or thought they remembered--that the Sixth Commandme

动物农场Animal Farm 第8章(3)

Friend of fatherless!/ Fountain of happiness!/ Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on/ Fire when I gaze at thy/ Calm and commanding eye,/ Like the sun in the sky,/ Comrade Napoleon! 孤儿之至亲！/ 辛福之源泉！/ 赐给食料的的恩

【时间旅行者的妻子】92

I run my hands over her hair and come away with a small handful of snow that melts immediately. Whats wrong? Clare takes in the untouched food, my uncheerful demeanor. Youre sulking because theres no mayo? Hey. Hush. I sit down on the broken old La-Z

【时间旅行者的妻子】91

My mom wears lipstick, eye liner, mascara, blush, and eyebrow pencil to go to the dry cleaners. Dad is much as he always is, tall, spare, a quiet dresser, a wearer of hats. The difference is his face. He is deeply content. They touch each other often

【时间旅行者的妻子】90

She was wearing dark lipstick and I insisted on going to bed with her lip prints on my cheek. I remember her sitting on a bench in Warren Park while my dad pushed me on a swing, and she bobbed close and far, close and far. One of the best and most pa

【时间旅行者的妻子】89

CHRISTMAS EVE, ONE ALWAYS CRASHING IN THE SAME CAR Saturday, December 24, 1988 (Henry is 40, Clare is 17) HENRY: Its a dark winter afternoon. Im in the basement in Meadowlark House in the Reading Room. Clare has left me some food: roast beef and chee

【时间旅行者的妻子】01

THE TIME TRAVELERS WIFE a novel by Audrey Niffenegger Clock time is our bank manager, tax collector, police inspector; this inner time is our wife. J. B. Priestley, Man and Time LOVE AFTER LOVE The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yo

【时间旅行者的妻子】02

HENRY: How does it feel? How does it feel? Sometimes it feels as though your attention has wandered for just an instant. Then, with a start, you realize that the book you were holding, the red plaid cotton shirt with white buttons, the favorite black

【时间旅行者的妻子】03

Sometimes you feel euphoric. Everything is sublime and has an aura, and suddenly you are intensely nauseated and then you are gone. You are throwing up on some suburban geraniums, or your fathers tennis shoes, or your very own bathroom floor three da

【时间旅行者的妻子】04

I find myself in crowds, audiences, mobs. Just as often I am alone, in a field, house, car, on a beach, in a grammar school in the middle of the night. I fear finding myself in a prison cell, an elevator full of people, the middle of a highway. I app

【时间旅行者的妻子】05

THE MAN OUT OF TIME Oh not because happiness exists, that too-hasty profit snatched from approaching loss. But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps call