16-07-21 1. abide by(=be faithful to ; obey)忠于;遵守 2. be absent from 缺席，不在 3. absence of mind(=being absent-minded) 心不在焉 4. absorb(=take up the attention of)吸引的注意力(被动语态)be absorbed in 全神贯注于（近义短语：be engrossed in ; be lost in ;...

16-06-17 Scrapbook Kim Addonizio This is me, depressed out of my mind, frailing the banjo, spilling red wine on the white king-sized luckily-hotels-and-not-my- goose down comforter, this is me walking and waxing nostalgic through the girlish shadows of tall...

16-04-05 Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind. She remembered that both the crafty Jew and the brutal Sikes had...

15-12-09 IT would have made a Stoic smile to have seen me and my little family sit down to dinner. There was my majesty the prince and lord of the whole island; I had the lives of all my subjects at my absolute command; I could hang, draw, give liberty, and...

15-10-13 In spite of the whisky he had drunk at the Club, Flory had little sleep that night. The pariah curs were baying the moon--it was only a quarter full and nearly down by midnight, but the dogs slept all day in the heat, and they had begun their moon-c...

15-06-16 To talk of illusions, are't they great? Illusion or day dreaming help us to think of what we want to become in life. We literally see how life revolves us in that position. It's an entirely different world of pleasure, comfort and imagination. Most...

15-06-16 Every day is a new day in our life. There is much to do today. The early morning sun inspires us to start things freshly and put back our past. Only a handful of us make use of this fresh bunch of energy. In various walis of life this affects the wa...

15-06-15 Very well, I replied, very well, Madame, but let's spend a moment reasoning in terms of your own principles: what right have you to require that my conscience be as impregnable as yours when since childhood it has not been accustomed to vanquishing...

15-05-13 Nighthawk is a recurring thought that only seems to strike you late at night -- an overdue task, a nagging guilt, a looming and shapeless future -- that circles high overhead during the day, that pecks at the back of your mind while you try to sleep...

15-03-31 The Name of the Island Was Marriage Bruce Beasley I The name of the island was Island and the name of the Friday was Good. Sunflower roots lay smoked on a bed of moss over sea-flattened stones and sealed in a cedar box, like a tiny coffin on the chi...