14-05-03 Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Monday took to the pages of the People's Daily, to encourage people in China to do more for the poor. 微软创始人比尔盖茨周一在《人民日报》上呼吁为穷人提供更多帮助。 China has many successful entrepreneurs and business...

14-01-25 微软创始人、世界首富比尔盖茨近日在接受采访时表示，到2035年世界上将几乎没有贫穷的国家，那些贫穷的国家将会从富裕的邻国伙伴们的创新受益。 As snowy Davos becomes engulfed in the hustle and bustle of another World Economic Forum, Microsoft (MSFT) founder...

14-01-09 The Dramatic Club While Jack was hopping gayly about on his crutches, poor Jill was feeling the effects of her second fall, and instead of sitting up, as she hoped to do after six weeks of rest, she was ordered to lie on a board for two hours each d...

13-11-25 Once there was a miller who was poor, but who had a beautiful daughter. Now it happened that he had to go and speak to the King, and in order to make himself appear important he said to him, I have a daughter who can spin straw into gold. The King s...

13-11-13 In olden times, when the Lord himself still used to walk about on this earth amongst men, it once happened that he was tired and overtaken by the darkness before he could reach an inn. Now there stood on the road before him two houses facing each ot...

13-10-28 A Postscript My Dear S.: - As inquiries like your own have come to me from various friendly readers of the Sketches, I will answer them en masse and in printed form, as a sort of postscript to what has gone before. One of these questions was, Are th...

13-10-24 A poor man had a wooden image of a god, to which he used to pray daily for riches. He did this for a long time, but remained as poor as ever, till one day he caught up the image in disgust and hurled（用力投掷） it with all his strength against the...

13-07-30 There were once two brothers, the one rich, the other poor. The rich one, however, gave nothing to the poor one, and he gained a scanty（吝啬的） living by trading in corn, and often did so badly that he had no bread for his wife and children. Once...

13-07-30 There was once a poor woman who had a son, who much wished to travel, but his mother said, How canst thou travel? We have no money at all for thee to take away with thee. Then said the son, I will manage very well for myself; I will always say, Not...

13-07-12 There was once on a time a little girl whose father and mother were dead, and she was so poor that she no longer had any little room to live in, or bed to sleep in, and at last she had nothing else but the clothes she was wearing and a little bit of...