In the course of the next day the first of the usual betrothal visits were exchanged. The New York ritual was precise and inflexible in such matters; ...
On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.70年代初一个一月的晚上，克里斯廷·尼尔森在纽约音乐院演唱歌...
The suspicious-looking man drove up to the border, where he was greeted by a sentry. When the guard looked in the trunk, he was surprised to find six ...
A surge of adrenalin, a rush of blood, a thing of innocence and pain that lasts a lifetime Iremember the way the light touched her hair. She turned he...
There once was a famous professor, who always wrote the number 2 and 4 on the blackboard at the first course to his new students, and asked the studen...
On a pitch-dark night, a monk seeking the real Buddha was walking in a desolate village. In the also pitch-dark road, villagers were coming to and fro...
It was a cold night in Washington, D.C., and I was heading back to the hotel when a man approached me. He asked if I would give him some money so he c...
I had offered to watch my 3-year-old daughter, Ramanda, so that my wife could go out with a friend. I was getting some work done while Ramanda appeare...
一只杜鹃在树枝上发出阵阵哀啼，一只可爱的斑鸠听到了，便向它询问，希望能帮助它排忧解难。A cuckoo in a tree was crowing sorrowfully. Hearing this, a caring turtledove asked about her sadness in th...
The situation seemed hopeless.情况好像不可救药了。From the first day he entered my junior-high classroom, Willard P. Frank- lin existed in his own world, shutti...