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Four friends were arguing over whose dog was the smartest. The first man, an engineer, called to his dog, T Square, show your stuff. The dog trotted over to a desk, pulled out a paper and pencil, and drew a perfect triangle. The next guy, an accounta

Let’s Run through the Rain

A little girl had been shopping with her Mom in Wal-Mart. She must have been 6-years-old, this beautiful red-haired, freckle-faced image of innocence. It was pouring outside. The kind of rain that gushes over the top of rain gutters, so much in a hur

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兴趣是最好的老师 Interest Is the Best Teacher

When I learned English, I felt so hard, because no matter hard I tried, I just could not understand the grammar. One day, my sister asked me why was I so confused with English, I told her I did not know, I was so afraid of it. Then she asked me to wa

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An ant and a fly were contending heatedly who was of greater importance．The fly was the first to begin：Can you possibly compare with my endowments？When a sacrifice is made，I am the first to taste the entrails that belong to the Gods．I pass

The Man Born to be King

The Man Born to be KingⅠ There was once a king who had great power and was very rich. One day a little old man came to his court. This old man had clear blue eyes. People said that he had the power to read the lives of men in the stars. The King sa

A Natural Process

A man enters a barbershop for a shave. While the barber is foaming（涂上泡沫） him up, he mentions the problems he has getting a close shave around the cheeks. I have just the thing, says the barber, taking a small wooden ball from a nearby dra

最难做的事

The day my fianc fell to his death, it started to snow, just like any November day, just like the bottom hadn't fallen out of my world when he freefell off the roof. His body, when I found it, was lightly covered with snow. It snowed almost every day

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月亮和六便士 第四十一章(3)

Why should I? he asked. 为什么我要内疚？ Let me put the facts before you. You were dying, and Dirk Stroeve took you into his own house. He nursed you like a mother. 让我把事情的经过向你摆一摆。你病得都快死了，戴尔克施特

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Chapter III He waked up late next day after a broken sleep. But his sleep had not refreshed him; he waked up bilious, irritable, ill-tempered, and looked with hatred at his room. It was a tiny cupboard of a room about six paces in length. It had a po

【英文短篇小说】Debarking（3）

Why dont you come to dinner? Zora phoned one afternoon. Im making spring spaghetti, Brunys favorite, and you can come over and meet him. Unless you have Bekka tonight. No, I dont, Ira said mournfully. What is spring spaghetti? Oh, its the same as reg

【英文短篇小说】SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK（1）

SOMETIMES THEY COME BACK Jim Norman's wife had been waiting for him since two, and when she saw the car pull up in front of their apartment building, she came out to meet him. She had gone to the store and bought a celebration meala couple of steaks,

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You'll Soon Get Used to It 你不久就会习惯的 An man died and left his son a lot of money. But the son was a foolish young man, and he quickly spent all the money, so that soon he had nothing left. 一个人死了，留给他儿子一大笔钱。

英语小达人 279 A Letter from Mom

A Letter from Mom 妈妈写来的信 Dear Son, 亲爱的儿子 I'm writing this slow 'cause I know you can't read fast. We don't live where we did when you first left. Your Dad read in the paper that most accidents happen within 20 miles of home, so

委内瑞拉扩军

CARACAS, July 15 (Xinhua) -- The Venezuelan government on Monday expanded its army-led Safe Homeland Plan to four more states. Interior and Justice Minister Miguel Rodriguez launched the security plan simultaneously to the states of Nueva Esparta and

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My computer is broken This morning my father is go back home.He play computer after 3:00. At 6:50,I get up.I open computer.I found my computer is broken.Don't open .My father is coming,but he not very can play computer.We don't know how to do.My fath

英语美文：独一无二的你

I will never forget the lesson which Mr. Li gave us. One day Mr. Li was speaking to us in our school meeting room. He began his speech by holding up a $100 bill. He asked, Who would like this $100 bill? 我难以忘怀李老师给我们上的那一课。