13-07-09 There was a lady from the countryside who came to the city and checked into a hotel. Then she said to the bellman, I refuse to take a tiny room like this, with no window and no bed in it! You can't treat me like a fool just because I don't travel mu...

13-06-08 A poor wood-cutter lived with his wife and three daughters in a little hut on the edge of a lonely forest. One morning as he was about to go to his work, he said to his wife, Let my dinner be brought into the forest to me by my eldest daughter, or I...

13-05-02 There are two brothers, aged four or five years old, as the bedroom windows are closed all day, and they think the house is too dark to see outside the bright sun, feel envy. Brothers on the discussion, said: We can put together a little outside in....

13-04-10 Once a superintendent of schools was visiting a three-room school. One room was very noisy, so the man grabbed a tall boy who had been standing up talking. He took the boy into another room and stood him in the corner. Five minutes later, a smalll b...

13-04-07 In a television show or radio program, a controversial or exciting segment designed to get people talking about the show is called watercooler moment . 在电视或广播节目中，那些提前设计好的较具争议性或者很精彩的节目片断通常会成为人们的谈资（即我们平...

13-03-22 In a large town there was an old woman who sat in the evening alone in her room thinking how she had lost first her husband, then both her children, then one by one all her relations, and at length, that very day, her last friend, and now she was qu...

13-02-25 I personally experienced the wisdom of that understanding right after my first book was published. Like many authors, I envisioned hundreds of bookstore customers lining up for me to benevolently（仁慈地） sign copies for them. I'm afraid to say, it...

13-01-31 Mr. Brown came to an inn on a very cold day, and could get no room near the fire. He called to the hostler（马夫） to fetch a peck of oysters, and give them to his horse. Will your horse eat oysters? said the hostler. Try him, said Mr. Brown. Immedi...

13-01-17 The bustle of the hospital was a welcome distraction as I opened my new patient's chart and headed for her room. My son, Eric, had just brought home a disappointing report card, and my daughter, Shannon, and I had argued again about her getting a dr...

13-01-17 It is a multinational company director of planning of recruitment. After each, finally only three outstanding. Last time, three applicants before examination were enclosed in a room with the monitor. Inside the room of supplies, but no telephone hri...