日期：2010-05-26 Considering it simply as an excursion（短程旅行，远足） , George Scott thought, leaning over the side of the canal-boat and looking at the shadow of the hills in the water, his plan for spending his summer vacation might be a success, but he was not... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-05-17 Saturday. I am almost a whole day old, now. I arrived yesterday. That is as it seems to me. And it must be so, for if there was a day-before-yesterday I was not there when it happened, or I should remember it. It could be, of course, that it did hap... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-05-17 In the year of our Lord, 1867, there came to work at No. 145 Broadway a thin, prematurely old and gray young man of not more than twenty-six years. No one seemed to know anything about him, and he soon dropped into our ranks and came and went day af... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-04-01 There had been four ages since the human world first came into being（形成，产生） . They are the Golden Age, the Silver Age, the Age of Bronze and the Age of Iron. The Golden Age was the best of all. It was an age when Kronus sat on the throne. Gen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-03-05 In the song Dynasty (960-1279), there was a scholar whose name was Wen Tong and who styled himself Yuke. He was not only admired by others for his great learning, but also enjoyed widespread renown（声誉，名望） for his bamboo drawing. Every day the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-03-05 Two mayors（市长） made a bet on the outcome of the Vegetable Bowl, the annual football game between their high school teams. If Arvadas team lost, the mayor of Arvada would send the mayor of Boulder ten pounds of sliced potatoes, ready for frying.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-24 As a crowded airliner is about to take off, the peace is shattered（打碎，削弱） by a 5-year-old boy who picks that moment to throw a wild temper（脾气，性情） tantrum（发脾气，发怒） . No matter what his frustrated, embarrassed mother does to try t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-01-04 There was once a farmer. His land was hilly多坡的，丘陵的 ; the soil was not the best. He had a cow that wasn't giving much milk; he had chickens who were laying few eggs. The place looked run-down: barn and fences needed repair. The farmer and his... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-12-21 Novelist Sinclair Lewis was supposed to deliver an hour-long lecture to a group of college students who planned to be writers. Lewis opened his talk with a question: How many of you really intend to be writers? All hands went up. In that case, said... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-12-11 There is a story of a thief who satisfied the material needs of his family by stealing money from unsuspecting travelers. When he realized that what he was doing was not ethical道德的，伦理的 , he went to a holy man and asked for help. He told him t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-12-11 Three old men were sitting on the wall of Kilmilik Pier码头，桥墩 with their backs to the sea and their faces to the village and the sun. Suddenly there was the sound of a sail flapping in the wind, and a little white yacht游艇，快艇 swung around th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-11-26 In 1999, Ryan Hreljac (hurl-jack) and Jimmy Akana became pen pals（笔友）. They lived on two continents, thousands of miles apart. Their lives could not have been more different. Ryan lived with his family in Kemptville, Canada, while Jimmy, an orph... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-11-26 Long, long ago there lived far away in India a woodcutter（伐木工，樵夫） called Subha Datta and his family, who were all very happy together. The father went every day to the forest near his home to get supplies of wood, which he sold to his neighb... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-09-30 Can you bear it? The famous teddy bear is more than 100 years old, and got its name from a United States president. In 1902, President Theodore Teddy Roosevelt took a trip to the American South to help work out a land disagreement between Mississipp... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-09-30 I curiously watched my grandmother open the yellowing paper packet with painstaking care. When she untied the knots, a cluster of strange, shriveled off-white orbs fell into her hands. These seeds were all that remained of the life she had left behi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-09-30 Some arguments are not easy to settle. For example, many people say Rebecca and Abigail Bates were real heroes of the War of 1812. Others think thats just not so. What did Rebecca and Abigail do? They saved their town from a British warship. At leas... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-09-30 In the conflict between Cronus and Jupiter, Prometheus had adopted the cause of the Olympian deities. To him and his brother Epimetheus was now committed the office of making man and providing him and all other animals with the faculties necessary f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-09-30 The story (absurd enough!) is that Jupiter made the first woman and sent her to Prometheus and his brother, to punish them for their presumption in stealing fire from heaven; and man, for accepting the gift. This first human of the fair sex was name... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-09-30 This is a story of the time when humans first walked the earth. And in those days they did not wear clothes, for they did not know how to weave cloth. One day, the god Matai decided to teach the art of weaving to one person. The god taught a girl ca... 阅读全文>>

日期：2009-09-30 One day, Tanemahuta, guardian of the forest noticed that his children the trees were starting to sicken, because they were being eaten by insects. He discussed this with his brother, Tanehokahoka, the guardian of the birds of the air, and Tanehokaho... 阅读全文>>