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出处:《双城记》by Charles Dickens 句子:"It was an interesting spectacle to see." 翻译:“看到这一幕真是有趣。” 出处:《呼啸山庄》by Emily Brontë 句子:"She had an interesting way of talking." 翻译:“她说话的方式很有趣。” 出处:《飘》by Margaret Mitchell 句子:"The conversation was intere...
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense, and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and prepossession, and suffer his reason and his feelings to determine for themselves:that ...
After the previous Palace of Westminster was destroyed by fire on 16 October 1834, the tower was the brainchild of Charles Barry’s new palace design. While Charles Barry designed the palace, Augustus Pugin designed the tower. Big Ben celebrated its 150 anniversary on 31 May 2009. Big Ben Vi...
It is often said that one person cannot make a difference, but on December 19, 1843, Charles Dickens released A Christmas Carol, with charitable donations skyrocketing seemingly overnight as the book became a best seller and sold out by Christmas Eve of that same year. A Christmas Carol has...
Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. — Charles Dickens 213 A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest — Winston Churchill 190 If you do good in secret, Allah will shower His...
—Charles Dickens “I have indeed lectured to all my nearest and dearest on the necessity of doing what you have agreed to do with good grace and a smile. The trouble is I am one of that common breed of human being who finds it very easy to strew noble little homilies far and wide...
Other notable characters he has portrayed include the poet John Donne in “Killing Me Softly”, the playwright Christopher Marlowe in “Anonymous”, and the novelist Charles Dickens in “The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery”. His ability to bring these characters to life has earned him ...
Maggie Smith, the beloved actress who starred as Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, reunited with her co-star Daniel Radcliffe in the 1999 adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel, David Copperfield. Smith played the role of Betsey Trotwood, the eccentric aunt of the titular ...
So ends the life of the eponymous hero’s mother in the opening of Charles Dickens’sOliver Twist(1838). Her infant son initially appears likely to follow in her footsteps: For some time he lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this world and the next: th...