21-01-21 I ran away from a circus, began Ben, but got no further, for Bab and Betty gave a simultaneous bounce of delight, and both cried out at once, - Weve been to one! It was splendid! You wouldnt think so if you knew as much about it as I do, answered Be...

20-12-20 Rose did read and digest, and found her days much richer for the good company she kept, for an introduction to so much that was wise, beautiful, and true could not but make that month a memorable one. It is not strange that while the young man most...

20-12-20 Please could I say one word? was the question three times repeated before a rough head bobbed out from the grotto of books in which Mac usually sat when he studied. Did anyone speak? he asked, blinking in the flood of sunshine that entered with Rose...

20-11-24 英国国家统计局（ Office for National Statistics ）公布了 2018 年最受欢迎的婴儿名字。他们发现，一部名为《浴血黑帮》（ Peaky Blinders ）的电视剧激发了一些人给孩子起名字的灵感。 Aida and Arthur might be gaining popularity, but they havent managed to kn...

20-11-21 正在谈论某人的时候，他/她恰好就出现了，真是说曹操，曹操到。这个汉语俗语用来形容的就是这种情景。在英文中，也有一个很地道的表达来谈论同样的情况，talk of the devil。有些时候人们用speak of the devil来表达相同的意思。《简明英汉词典》则给出了更为全面的解...

20-11-11 WHERES Polly? asked Fan one snowy afternoon, as she came into the dining-room where Tom was reposing on the sofa with his boots in the air, absorbed in one of those delightful books in which boys are cast away on desert islands, where every known fr...

20-11-11 POLLY soon found that she was in a new world, a world where the manners and customs were so different from the simple ways at home, that she felt like a stranger in a strange land, and often wished that she had not come. In the first place, she had...

20-09-28 I cannot feel that I have done my duty as humble historian of the March family, without devoting at least one chapter to the two most precious and important members of it. Daisy and Demi had now arrived at years of discretion, for in this fast age b...

20-09-28 At three oclock in the afternoon, all the fashionable world at Nice may be seen on the Promenade des Anglais - a charming place, for the wide walk, bordered with palms, flowers, and tropical shrubs, is bounded on one side by the sea, on the other by...

20-09-28 Mrs. Chesters fair was so very elegant and select that it was considered a great honor by the young ladies of the neighborhood to be invited to take a table, and everyone was much interested in the matter. Amy was asked, but Jo was not, which was fo...