日期：2014-09-05 Chapter 5 David comes home We decided that Alan would stay hidden in the fields, while I walked to Queensferry to find Mr Rankeillor. Alan promised not to come out until he heard me return. In order to be sure that it was me, he taught me to whistle... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-05 Chapter 4 Escape through the heather We had no time for conversation. Come! Alan said,and started running along the side of the hill, keeping low to the ground. I followed him like a sheep. We ran and ran, faster than I had ever run before, and my h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-05 Chapter 3 David is alone It was a cold night, so I could not sit down to rest. In stead, I walked up and down on the beach, trying to keep warm. There was no sound except the crash of the waves. I felt very lonely and afraid. In the morning I climbe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-05 Chapter 2 Kidnapped When I woke up in darkness, my head was hurting badly, and I was unable to move my hands or feet. I could hear the sailors shouts and the sound of the wind and the waves. The whole world seemed to go up, up, up, and then down aga... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-04 Chapter 1 David meets his uncle It was early in the month of June, 1751, when I shut the door of our house behind me for the last time. All my life I had lived in the quiet little village of Essendean, in the Lowlands of Scotland, where my father ha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-04 Some detachments rapped at each door, then disappeared into the houses. It was occupation after invasion. Then the duty commences for the conquered to show themselves gracious toward the conquerors. After some time, as soon as the first terror disap... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-04 For many days now the fag-end of the army had been straggling through the town. They were not troops, but a disbanded horde. The beards of the men were long and filthy, their uniforms in tatters, and they advanced at an easy pace without flag or reg... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-26 But, said the genius, if I grant you the delay you ask, I am afraid that you will not come back. I give you my word of honour, answered the merchant, that I will come back without fail. How long do you require? asked the genius. I ask you for a year... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-26 Sire, there was once upon a time a merchant who possessed great wealth, in land and merchandise, as well as in ready money. He was obliged from time to time to take journeys to arrange his affairs. One day, having to go a long way from home, he moun... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-07-23 Entering one of the doors which was standing open I found myself in a vast hall where forty young ladies, magnificently dressed, and of perfect beauty, were reclining. As soon as they saw me they rose and uttered words of welcome, and even forced me... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-07-23 Scarcely had I finished when, looking out to sea, I saw the vessel heading for the island, and, feeling that it would be useless for me to protest my innocence, I again concealed myself among the branches of a tree that grew near by. The old man and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-07-23 When I reached the top I found the brass dome and the statue exactly as the pilot had described, but was too wearied with all I had gone through to do more than glance at them, and, flinging myself under the dome, was asleep in an instant. In my dre... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-07-23 We all remained where we were quaking with anxiety, when the ground opened in front of us and a black and white cat leapt out, its hair standing on end, and miauing frightfully. At its heels was a wolf, who had almost seized it, when the cat changed... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-07-23 A monkey! exclaimed the Sultan. Yes, sire, answered the officials. They were written by a monkey in our presence. Then bring me the monkey, he replied, as fast as you can. The Sultan's officials returned to the ship and showed the royal order to the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-07-23 Yes, sire, answered the dervish; if I am not mistaken, it is the illness of the princess which has procured（获得） me this honour. You are right, returned the Sultan, and you will give me fresh life if you can by your prayers deliver my daughter fr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-07-23 Alas, answered the princess, I am too weak even to hold the sabre. And supposing that I had the strength, why should I put an innocent man to death? You condemn yourself by your refusal, said the genius; then turning to me, he added, and you, do you... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-07-23 I had been a wood-cutter for more than a year, when one day I wandered further into the forest than I had ever done before, and reached a delicious green glade, where I began to cut wood. I was hacking at the root of a tree, when I beheld an iron ri... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-07-23 Persecuted by ill-fortune, and stricken with grief, there seemed to be only one means of safety left to me. I shaved my beard and my eyebrows, and put on the dress of a calender, in which it was easy for me to travel without being known. I avoided t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-07-23 As I had promised I prepared to do as I was told, and giving my hand to the lady, I escorted her, by the light of the moon, to the place of which the prince had spoken. We had barely reached it when he joined us himself, carrying a small vessel of w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-07-23 They then turned to the porter to see if he could explain the mystery, but the porter was no wiser than they were themselves. At length the Caliph could contain his curiosity no longer, and declared that he would compel the ladies to tell them the m... 阅读全文>>