日期：2010-05-21 An Encounter in the Dark LONDON -- to a slave -- was a sufficiently（充分地，足够地） interesting place. It was merely a great big village; and mainly mud and thatch（茅草，浓密的头发） . The streets were muddy, crooked（弯曲的，歪的） , unpaved. Th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-04-30 IT'S a world of surprises. The king brooded（沉思，孵） ; this was natural. What would he brood about, should you say? Why, about the prodigious（巨大的，惊人的） nature of his fall, of course -- from the loftiest place in the world to the lowest; f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-04-02 The Yankee and the King Sold as Slaves WELL, what had I better do? Nothing in a hurry, sure. I must get up a diversion（转移，消遣） ; anything to employ me while I could think, and while these poor fellows could have a chance to come to life（苏醒... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-03-18 Sixth Century Political Economy HOWEVER, I made a dead set at him, and before the first third of the dinner was reached, I had him happy again. It was easy to do -- in a country of ranks and castes. You see, in a country where they have ranks and ca... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-03-18 Dowley's Humiliation WELL, when that cargo arrived toward sunset, Saturday afternoon, I had my hands full to keep the Marcos from fainting（不省人事，昏厥） . They were sure Jones and I were ruined past help, and they blamed themselves as accessorie... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-01-04 I have just returned from a visit to my landlord, Mr Heathcliff. I am delighted with the house I am renting from him. Thrushcross Grange is miles away from any town or village. That suits me perfectly. And the scenery here in Yorkshire is so beautif... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-12-15 Marco WE strolled闲逛，漫步 along in a sufficiently indolent无痛的，懒惰的 fashion now, and talked. We must dispose of about the amount of time it ought to take to go to the little hamlet小村庄 of Abblasoure and put justice on the track of those mur... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-12-15 The Tragedy of the Manor-House AT midnight all was over, and we sat in the presence of在面前，有某人在场 four corpses尸体 . We covered them with such rags抹布，破布 as we could find, and started away, fastening the door behind us. Their home must be... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-12-15 The Smallpox Hut WHEN we arrived at that hut at mid-afternoon, we saw no signs of life about it. The field near by had been denuded of剥光，除光 its crop some time before, and had a skinned look, so exhaustively had it been harvested and gleaned收集... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-12-15 Drilling the King ON the morning of the fourth day, when it was just sunrise, and we had been tramping an hour in the chill寒冷的 dawn, I came to a resolution决议，决心 : the king MUST be drilled; things could not go on so, he must be taken in hand... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-12-15 The Yankee and the King Travel Incognito ABOUT bedtime I took the king to my private quarters住处，营房 to cut his hair and help him get the hang of熟知某物的用法 the lowly raiment衣服 he was to wear. The high classes wore their hair banged across t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-11-11 Chapter 26 - The First Newspaper WHEN I told the king I was going out disguised as a petty freeman to scour the country and familiarize myself with the humbler life of the people, he was all afire with the novelty of the thing in a minute, and was b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-11-11 Chapter 25 - A Competitive Examination WHEN the king traveled for change of air, or made a progress, or visited a distant noble whom he wished to bankrupt with the cost of his keep, part of the administration moved with him. It was a fashion of the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-11-11 Chapter 24 - A Rival Magician MY influence in the Valley of Holiness was something prodigious now. It seemed worth while to try to turn it to some valuable account. The thought came to me the next morning, and was suggested by my seeing one of my kn... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-11-11 Chapter 23 - Restoration of the Fountain SATURDAY noon I went to the well and looked on a while. Merlin was still burning smoke-powders, and pawing the air, and muttering gibberish as hard as ever, but looking pretty down-hearted, for of course he h... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-11-11 Chapter 22 - The Holy Fountain THE pilgrims were human beings. Otherwise they would have acted differently. They had come a long and difficult journey, and now when the journey was nearly finished, and they learned that the main thing they had come... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-11-11 WHEN I did get to bed at last I was unspeakably tired; the stretching out, and the relaxing of the long-tense muscles, how luxurious, how delicious! but that was as far as I could get -- sleep was out of the question for the present. The ripping and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 20 - The Ogre's Castle BETWEEN six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple -- man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook. Right so came by and by a knight rid... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 19 - Knight-Errantry as a Trade SANDY and I were on the road again, next morning, bright and early. It was so good to open up one's lungs and take in whole luscious barrels-ful of the blessed God's untainted, dew-fashioned, woodlandscented a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-10-08 Chapter 18 - In The Queen's Dungeons WELL, I arranged all that; and I had the man sent to his home. I had a great desire to rack the executioner; not because he was a good, painstaking and paingiving official, -- for surely it was not to his discred... 阅读全文>>