14-04-17 The New Song W. S. Merwin For some time I thought there was time and that there would always be time for what I had a mind to do and what I could imagine going back to and finding it as I had found it the first time but by this time I do not know wh...

14-03-25 By the Way C. Dale Young You are right to point out that the agapanthus（爱情花） is not a lily, especially to one who so loves precision, but the agapanthus is also called Lily of the Nile, which surely could be seen as justification for calling it...

14-02-28 A blind ass, which had undertaken a long journey, wandered from the road into a forest. As the night came on, our foolish fellow went so far into the thicket（灌木丛） that it couldn't move either backward or forward; and even one who had eyes would...

13-12-12 Teacher: When was Rome built? Tom: At night. Teacher: Who told you that? Tom: You did. You said Rome wasn't built in a day....

13-10-10 A cat pounced on（猛扑向） a cock, and cast about for（寻找） some good excuse for making a meal off him, for cats don't as a rule to eat cocks, and she knew she ought not to. At last she said, You make a great nuisance（讨厌的人，麻烦事） of yourse...

13-07-25 The Sound of Sunlight Todd Davis On the far side of the canyon（峡谷） light is burning through two draws like water rushing into an empty riverbed. A canyon wren opens her mouth and a coyote（丛林狼） stops midtrail before vanishing among juniper....

13-06-25 Three women were changed into flowers which grew in the field, but one of them was allowed to be in her own home at night. Then once when day was drawing near, and she was forced to go back to her companions in the field and become a flower again, s...

13-04-09 One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice-- though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. Mend my life! each voice cried. But you didn't sto...

13-03-24 People who go to the toilet in the middle of the night are less productive at work, study suggests. 研究表明，半夜起床上厕所的人工作效率更低。 Getting up overnight to use the loo（厕所，洗手间） has a bigger impact on a person's work rate than asthm...

13-03-06 Chapter 1 Once upon a time there were two little kids named Jesse and Mary Sue. They were brother and sister. Their mom and dad had divorced years ago. And their dad now was seeing someone else. She was cruel to them behind their father's back. She...