日期：2011-08-24 One morning, manager asked me going to deliver a heavy water feature. He said: This water feature is very heavy, you should be careful and I'll find a pair of boots for you. What size do you wear? Number six. Ok! Let me go to find. A few minutes lat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-24 In a distant country, there was a boy. He looked after sheep. But the boy was bored. One day, he ran to the village. He shouted, Wolf, wolf. Come and help! The people ran to the hill. But there was no wolf. The people went home. The next day, the bo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-24 A beautiful girl lived in Luoyang. There was a very tall pagoda（宝塔） in the city. One day, it was very hot. The girl sat under a big tree. Suddenly a big wind came and took her into the sky. The girl's family was very sad. When the girl opened he... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-24 Mr. tiger is the king of the forest, so he looks down upon everything in the world. One day, Mr. Frog sees Mr. tiger. I'm stronger than you. says Mr. Frog. What? You are stronger than me? Let's have a match. Who can jump over the river . says Mr. ti... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-24 There was a cat. Its name is Maomao. It liked to eat bread and fish. One day, a fish said to it, Maomao, do you want to eat bread? I can help you. Maomao was very happy. But then the fish said, You are going to give me something, too. What? Oh, that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-13 I handed Bill his specs（眼镜，规格） , and he peered at the dog, tutting to himself as he did so. Aye, Old Bram, lying out in the yard. Waiting for his life to start up again. He shook his head, wistfully. Lay out yonder, just outside the door ther... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-13 aThere was an ironic fragment of truth in what the lady said. The thing was, the dog only accepted Bill as a temporary companion - of course it did not understand the fact that Bill's brother was never coming home. It continued waiting for him. Wait... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-13 What d'you think? Ross asked eventually. It's obvious, I replied, There must have been a hole in the rain clouds - probably one, oh - a foot by a foot and a half, what you saw ... But I didn't get chance to complete my smart response. He switched on... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-13 I think I know why the cats don't go in his yard. I might even know what happened when Bingo went to bite Bill. I propped myself up on my elbow（肘部） , and cast a sceptical gaze through the darkness at him. Go on then, what is it? I asked, and cou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-13 He even began to tremble a little in his hind legs. Within an instant, Bingo had gone from driven and manic（狂躁的） to unsure, and needing comfort. Bill ended up stroking Bingo, who nuzzled against his legs, and rolled over anxiously. Barrie! call... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-13 I only had Dad's account of what happened next, as it was out of sight of the window on to our yard. He was firmly of the opinion that Bill had bitten off more than he could chew, and that Bingo was about to do the same. Dad took up a position of sa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-11 I subconsciously（潜意识地） thought it odd to see Bill any where outside his home - I had actually never seen him anywhere but within about 10 yards of his house. He rarely ventured even outside of his backyard domain, but the fuss next-door but tw... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-11 His other characteristic, we soon learned, was tenacity（韧性，固执） . Bingo was not going to be put off by the mere fact of his home now being taken over by strangers - he would not leave. Though he never actually got into the house, his intention... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-11 Bill was in actual fact, not so much a man of the world, as a man of Basford and Hartshill, but here was a life lived in an extraordinary richness of simplicity, a wealth of minute experience and also, I always felt, a whole ocean of experience that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-11 Bill would tell us stories of his work, of holidays, of his biggest adventure, which involved travelling across the Irish Sea to the Isle of Man in stormy seas. He had been young with men who still lived a few doors from him. He would tell us how, a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-11 Dogs had only played walk on parts in my family. As far as I was concerned the all defining object in a house was a television. There was one in Bill's house. It stood like a lonely, redundant sentinel（哨兵） in a dank corner of his empty living ro... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-11 Bill was a retired, life long bachelor. He lived alone in the small terraced house（连栋房屋） next door but two from us. On a number of occasions, I visited Bill's house, and it seemed that it hadn't really changed much from the 50s. There were hin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-03 Once upon a time, there was a little boy. His name was Ben. On his first birthday, his parents got him a soft brown teddy bear. The little baby boy carried his teddy bear with him everywhere he went. At night he always got the teddy bear sleeping ne... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-15 One day the Mountain man said to the Sea man, I have never tried fishing in my life. I'd like to go fishing in the sea at a time. So why don't you exchange your fishing rod（钓杆） for my bow and arrows and try to go hunting in the mountain? If you... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-26 A king had three sons whom he loved equally well, and he did not know which of them to appoint as king following his own death. When the time came for him to die he called them to his bed and said, Dear children, I have thought of something that I w... 阅读全文>>