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• 1.A Life-Saving Cow
• Six consecutive days of spring rain had created a raging river running by Nancy Brown's farm. As she tried to herd her cows to higher ground, she slip...
• 2.后来居上
• Ji An lived at the time of Emperor Wudi of the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D.24). He was respected for being upright and just and for daring to sp...
• 3.邯郸学步
• Tradition has it that more than 2,000 years ago, there lived a young man in the Shouling area of the State of Yan. As his name is not known, we just c...
• 4.Gift for the lover
• Once upon a distant time, people made love by giving up some part of their bodies to their lovers. Everyone possessed leather bags into which their ma...
• 5.Larry's Lawn Chair Ride
• Larry Walters' boyhood dream was not an unusual one: He wanted to fly. What was unusual, though, was the way he fulfilled it. After finishing school, ...
• 6.兔死狗烹
• During the Spring and Autumn Period (770－476BC), there were two famous senior officials in the State of Yue. The King of the Yue named Gou Jian didn'...
• 7.玩火自焚
• During the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC), prince Zhou Xu of the State of Wei killed his brother and became the new emperor. Zhou Xu was a tyra...
• 8.歧路亡羊
• One neighbor of Yang Zi-a famous scholar lost a sheep. He asked all his relatives and friends and Yang Zi's servant for help. Yang Zi asked, Why do yo...
• 9.亡羊补牢
• During the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), the State of Chu not very powerful. The king and the important court officials were dissolute（放荡的）...
• 10.图穷匕现
• In the end of the Warring States Period (475－221 BC), there was a strong country named Qin. It wanted to annex（获得，并吞） other countries to unite...