2012-02-06 所属栏目:英语故事

2012-02-06 所属栏目:英语故事

2012-02-03 所属栏目:英语故事

I start walking south again. I pass the Palazzo Borghese, a building that has known many famous tenants, including Pauline, Napoleon's scandalous sister, who kept untold numbers of lovers there. She

2012-02-03 所属栏目:英语故事

She was out of her own bed at the first sound of his voice; and bending over his pillow immediately, sang him to sleep again. Mrs Wickam shaking her head, and letting fall several tears, pointed out t

2012-02-03 所属栏目:英语故事

'Is your Uncle's child alive?' asked Berry.
“您舅舅的女儿活着吗？”贝里问道。
'Yes, Miss, she is alive,' returned Mrs Wickam with an air of triumph, for it was evident. Miss Berry e

2012-02-03 所属栏目:英语故事

There's a power struggle going on across Europe these days. A few cities are competing against each other to see who shall emerge as the great twenty-first-century European metropolis. Will it be Lon

2012-02-01 所属栏目:英语故事

I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. I'm always studying, flipping through my index cards while I walk around the city, dodging local pedestrians. Where am I getting the brain space to

2012-02-01 所属栏目:英语故事

Why, he's not ugly when he's awake,' observed Berry.
“唔，他醒着的时候也不难 看，”贝里评论道。
'No, Ma'am. Oh, no. No more was my Uncle's Betsey Jane,' said Mrs Wickam.
“是的，夫人。啊

2012-02-01 所属栏目:英语故事

'Not if it should happen to have been a tame bull, you little Infidel?' said Mrs Pipchin.
“如果碰巧这是一头温顺的牛，那么您也不相信吗，您这个不信神的小先生！”皮普钦太太说道。
As Paul had not

2012-02-01 所属栏目:英语故事

Which I can attempt to translate as: 我的译文如下：Come on, come on, come on, Albertini, come on . . . OK, OK, my boy, perfect, brilliant, brilliant . . . Come on! Come on! Go! Go! In the goal! There

2012-01-30 所属栏目:英语故事

But it was generally said that Mrs Pipchin was a woman of system with children; and no doubt she was. Certainly the wild ones went home tame enough, after sojourning for a few months beneath her hospi

2012-01-28 所属栏目:英语故事

'It's a very nasty one,' said Paul.
“这是个很讨厌的房屋，”保罗说道。
'There's a worse place in it than this though,' said Mrs Pipchin, 'where we shut up our bad boys.'
“可是这里还有比

2012-01-28 所属栏目:英语故事

This much I do know—I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions. By the time I left for Italy, my body and my spirit were depleted. I felt like t

2012-01-21 所属栏目:英语故事

One obvious topic still needs to be addressed concerning my whole pursuit of pleasure thing in Italy: What about sex? 关于我在意大利追求快乐一事，显然还有件事得提提：性的问题怎么说？ To answer that qu

2012-01-20 所属栏目:英语故事

The Castle of this ogress and child-queller was in a steep by-street at Brighton; where the soil was more than usually chalky, flinty, and sterile, and the houses were more than usually brittle and th

2012-01-19 所属栏目:英语故事

The amount of pleasure this eating and speaking brought to me was inestimable, and yet so simple. I passed a few hours once in the middle of October that might look like nothing much to the outside ob

2012-01-19 所属栏目:英语故事

'Oh! Exclusion itself!' said Miss Tox.
“啊！不合条件的孩子它是不收的！”托克斯小姐说道。
There was something in this. Mrs Pipchin's husband having broken his heart of the Peruvian mines was go

2012-01-18 所属栏目:英语故事

For me, though, a major obstacle in my pursuit of pleasure was my ingrained sense of Puritan guilt. Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is very American, too—the insecurity about whether we have

2012-01-17 所属栏目:英语故事

Sometimes I wonder what I'm doing here, I admit it. 我承认，有时候我不了解自己在这里做什么。While I have come to Italy in order to experience pleasure, during the first few weeks I washere, I felt a

2012-01-17 所属栏目:英语故事

'Who is Mrs Pipchin, Louisa?' asked Mr Dombey; aghast at this familiar introduction of a name he had never heard before.
“皮普钦太太是谁，路易莎？”董贝先生问道，他对这样随随便便地介绍一位他以前从

2012-01-16 所属栏目:英语故事

Mrs Chick was afraid to say limbs, after Mr Dombey's recent objection to bones, and therefore waited for a suggestion from Miss Tox, who, true to her office, hazarded 'members.'
在董贝先生刚才对骨

2012-01-16 所属栏目:英语故事

Luca is a tax accountant. An Italian tax accountant, which means that he is, in his own description, "an artist," because there are several hundred tax laws on the books in Italy and all of them contr

2012-01-13 所属栏目:英语故事

I've also become friends with a cool couple named Maria and Giulio, introduced to me by my friend Anne—an American painter who lived in Rome a few years back. Maria is from America, Giulio's from t

2012-01-13 所属栏目:英语故事

'With your usual happy discrimination, my dear Paul,' resumed Mrs Chick, 'you have hit the point at once. Our darling is altogether as stout as we could wish. The fact is, that his mind is too much

2012-01-13 所属栏目:英语故事

I needed to make some friends. So I got busy with it, and now it is October and I have a nice assortment of them. I know two Elizabeths in Rome now, besides myself. Both are American, both are writers