As a crowded airliner is about to take off, the peace is shattered（打碎，削弱） by a 5-year-old boy who picks that moment to throw a wild temper（脾气，性情） tant...
Two mayors（市长） made a bet on the outcome of the Vegetable Bowl, the annual football game between their high school teams. If Arvada’s team lost,...
In the song Dynasty (960-1279), there was a scholar whose name was Wen Tong and who styled himself Yuke. He was not only admired by others for his gre...
There had been four ages since the human world first came into being（形成，产生） . They are the Golden Age, the Silver Age, the Age of Bronze and the Age o...
In the year of our Lord, 1867, there came to work at No. 145 Broadway a thin, prematurely old and gray young man of not more than twenty-six years. No...
Saturday. — I am almost a whole day old, now. I arrived yesterday. That is as it seems to me. And it must be so, for if there was a day-before-y...
Considering it simply as an excursion（短程旅行，远足） , George Scott thought, leaning over the side of the canal-boat and looking at the shadow of the hills ...
In a small pretty village in Nottingham shire（郡） there formerly lived a respectable Squire（乡绅，大地主）, who excelled（优于，超过） all his friends in amusements ...
All the songs of the east speak of the love of the nightingale（夜莺） for the rose in the silent starlight night. The winged songster（歌手，诗人） serenades（小夜...
Harry was so lazy that although he had nothing else to do but drive his goat out to graze（放牧） every day, he still heaved（发出） many a sigh（叹息） when he g...