日期：2020-03-16 The Allens, Thorpes, and Morlands all met in the evening at the theatre; and, as Catherine and Isabella sat together, there was then an opportunity for the latter to utter some few of the many thousand things which had been collecting within her for... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 The progress of Catherines unhappiness from the events of the evening was as follows. It appeared first in a general dissatisfaction with everybody about her, while she remained in the rooms, which speedily brought on considerable weariness and a vi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 In spite of Udolpho and the dressmaker, however, the party from Pulteney Street reached the Upper Rooms in very good time. The Thorpes and James Morland were there only two minutes before them; and Isabella having gone through the usual ceremonial o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 Half a minute conducted them through the pump-yard to the archway, opposite Union Passage; but here they were stopped. Everybody acquainted with Bath may remember the difficulties of crossing Cheap Street at this point; it is indeed a street of so i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2020-03-16 The following conversation, which took place between the two friends in the pump-room one morning, after an acquaintance of eight or nine days, is given as a specimen of their very warm attachment, and of the delicacy, discretion, originality of tho... 阅读全文>>

日期：2017-04-26 The next day was rainy and dark. Rain fell on the roof of the barn and dripped steadily from the eaves. Rain fell in the barnyard and ran in crooked courses down into the lane where thistles and pigweed grew. Rain spattered against Mrs. Zuckermans k... 阅读全文>>

日期：2017-04-26 After that, the little prince climbed a high mountain. The only mountains he had ever known were the three volcanoes, which came up to his knees. And he used the extinct volcano as a footstool. From a mountain as high as this one, he said to himself... 阅读全文>>

日期：2017-04-26 The little prince crossed the desert and met with only one flower. It was a flower with three petals, a flower of no account at all. Good morning, said the little prince. Good morning, said the flower. Where are the men? the little prince asked, pol... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-08-18 I can see that, replied Wilbur. He gave a jump in the air, twirled, ran a few steps, stopped, looked all around, sniffed the smells of afternoon, and then set off walking down through the orchard. Pausing in the shade of an apple tree, he put his st... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-08-18 The barn was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it smelled of manure. It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows. It often had a sort of peaceful smell -- as though noghing bad could... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-08-18 Fern loved Wilbur more than anything. She loved to stroke him, to feed him, to put him to bed. Every morning, as soon as she got up, she warmed his milk, tied his bib on, and held the bottle for him. Every afternoon, when the school bus stopped in f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-08-18 Wheres Papa going with the ax? said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast. Out to the hoghouse, replied Mrs. Arable. Some pigs were born last night. I dont see why he needs an ax, continued Fern, who was only eight. Well, s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-08-18 When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth. I have not been altogether honest in what I have told you about the lamplighters. And I realize that I run the risk of giving a false idea of our planet to those who do n... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-08-18 So then the seventh planet was the Earth. The Earth is not just an ordinary planet! One can count, there 111 kings (not forgetting, to be sure, the Negro kings among them), 7000 geographers, 900,000 businessmen, 7,500,000 tipplers, 311,000,000 conce... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-08-18 The sixth planet was ten times larger than the last one. It was inhabited by an old gentleman who wrote voluminous books. Oh, look! Here is an explorer! he exclaimed to himself when he saw the little prince coming. The little prince sat down on the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-08-18 The fifth planet was very strange. It was the smallest of all. There was just enough room on it for a street lamp and a lamplighter. The little prince was not able to reach any explanation of the use of a street lamp and a lamplighter, somewhere in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-07-11 The fourth planet belonged to a businessman. This man was so much occupied that he did not even raise his head at the little princes arrival. Good morning, the little prince said to him. Your cigarette has gone out. Three and two make five. Five and... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-07-11 The next planet was inhabited by a tippler. This was a very short visit, but it plunged the little prince into deep dejection. What are you doing there? he said to the tippler, whom he found settled down in silence before a collection of empty bottl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-07-11 The second planet was inhabited by a conceited man. Ah! Ah! I am about to receive a visit from an admirer! he exclaimed from afar, when he first saw the little prince coming. For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers. Good morning, said the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2016-07-11 He found himself in the neighborhood of the asteroids 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, and 330. He began, therefore, by visiting them, in order to add to his knowledge. The first of them was inhabited by a king. Clad in royal purple and ermine, he was seate... 阅读全文>>