2011-12-21 所属栏目:英语故事

There are spontaneous conversation classes everywhere. Today, I was sitting on a park bench when a tiny old woman in a black dress came over, roosted down beside me and started bossing me around about

2011-12-21 所属栏目:英语故事

'I told you, Louisa, that she would certainly be found,' said Mr Dombey, looking slightly over his shoulder at that lady, who wept in company with Miss Tox.
“我跟你说过，路易莎，一定会找到她的

2011-12-19 所属栏目:英语故事

Walter was not very long in mounting to his lofty garret and descending from it, but in the meantime Florence, overcome by fatigue, had sunk into a doze before the fire. The short interval of quiet, t

2011-12-19 所属栏目:英语故事

I've been trying to read through one newspaper article every day, no matter how long it takes. I look up approximately every third word in my dictionary. Today's news was fascinating. Hard to imagin

2011-12-19 所属栏目:英语故事

In every major city in the Western World, some things are always the same. The same African men are always selling knockoffs of the same designer handbags and sunglasses, and the same Guatemalan music

2011-12-15 所属栏目:英语故事

The first meal I ate in Rome was nothing much. Just some homemade pasta (spaghetti cabonara) with a side order of sautéed spinach and garlic. (The great romantic poet Shelley once wrote a horrified l

2011-12-15 所属栏目:英语故事

'Ah! True! More shame for him,' thought Walter. After a minute's pause, during which he had been looking down upon the gentle patient little face moving on at his side, he said, 'The strangest man

2011-12-14 所属栏目:英语故事

As they stood deliberating in the street, a man passed them, who glanced quickly at Walter as he went by, as if he recognised him; but seeming to correct that first impression, he passed on without st

2011-12-14 所属栏目:英语故事

A few weeks later, I am living in Italy.数星期后，我住在意大利。I have quit my job, paid off my divorce settlement and legal bills, given up my house, given up my apartment, put what belongings I had

2011-12-13 所属栏目:英语故事

I thought for a while, then pulled out a notebook and wrote this petition: 我想了一会儿，而后抽出一本笔记本，写下这封请愿书：Dear God. 亲爱的神：Please intervene and help end this divorce. My husband

2011-12-12 所属栏目:英语故事

The spring of 2003 brought things to a boiling point. A year and a half after I'd left, my husband was finally ready to discuss terms of a settlement. Yes, he wanted cash and the house and the lease

2011-12-12 所属栏目:英语故事

Now, I'm the kind of person who, when a ninth-generation Indonesian medicine man tells you that you're destined to move to Bali and live with him for four months, thinks you should make every effort

2011-12-12 所属栏目:英语故事

Mr. Clark stood rapt in amazement: observing under his breath, I never saw such a start on this wharf before. Walter picked up the shoe, and put it on the little foot as the Prince in the story might

2011-12-09 所属栏目:英语故事

'Now then! 'said this man, happening to turn round. 'We haven't got anything for you, little girl. Be off!'
“喂！”这个人碰巧在这时转过身来，说道，“我们没什么给你的，小女孩，走开吧！”

2011-12-08 所属栏目:英语故事

Then he asked if he could read my palm. I gave him my left hand and he proceeded to put me together like a three-piece puzzle. 而后他问我能否看看我的手相。我让他看左手，而后他将我组合起来，就像拼图。"

2011-12-07 所属栏目:英语故事

In the meantime, though, I had to go on this trip to Indonesia. 不过，我同时得去一趟印尼。Which happened, again, because of a magazine assignment. Just when I was feeling particularly sorry for myself

2011-12-07 所属栏目:英语故事

With a lighter heart, but still sore afraid, Florence felt herself released, and tripped off to the corner. When she reached it, she looked back and saw the head of Good Mrs. Brown peeping out of the

2011-12-07 所属栏目:英语故事

In hurriedly putting on the bonnet, if that may be called a bonnet which was more like a pad to carry loads on, she caught it in her hair which grew luxuriantly, and could not immediately disentangle

2011-12-07 所属栏目:英语故事

The other notable thing that was happening during that time was the newfound adventure of spiritual discipline. Aided and abetted, of course, by the introduction into my life of an actual living India

2011-12-06 所属栏目:英语故事

'I'm not a going to keep you, even, above an hour,' said Mrs. Brown. 'D'ye understand what I say?'
“我把您留在这里的时间连一个钟头也不会超过，”布朗太太说道，“我的话您听明白了吗？”

2011-12-06 所属栏目:英语故事

For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian—a language I find more beautiful than roses—but I could never make the practical justification for studying it. Why not just bone up on the French or Rus

2011-12-05 所属栏目:英语故事

Something roared like thunder. The earth shook a little and we heard the "rat-a-tat-tat" of gunfire. "Father!"Hassan cried. We sprung to our feet and raced out of the living room. We found Ali hobblin

2011-12-05 所属栏目:英语故事

She was a very ugly old woman, with red rims round her eyes, and a mouth that mumbled and chattered of itself whenshe was not speaking. She was miserably dressed, and carried some skins over her arm.

2011-12-02 所属栏目:英语故事

I read it to him in the living room by the marble fireplace. No playful straying from the words this time; this was about me! Hassan was the perfect audience in many ways, totally immersed in the tale

2011-12-02 所属栏目:英语故事

Oh, but it wasn't all bad, those few years . . . 但那几年也并非全是坏事……Because God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies (or however the old adage goes), som