One day a white girl from America, Becky, lay on the beach to take a break from swimming in the sea. Then she fell asleep. When she woke up, the sun went down already. She was so hungry that she walked into a restaurant near the beach. She picked a chair by the window and sat...
The best co-manager of all time, Linda, and I were on a continuous hiring spree one summer. Occasionally our micromanaging VP would insist on sitting in, which was always a disaster. The position required a mix of medical and physiology knowledge as well as financial and business acumen. It...
But a few hours later, the neighbors reported that our brick chimney had ___, and it was sitting on our living room, ___ a hole in the roof between two skylights (天窗). We wouldn’t be allowed to return home ___ September 17th. I climbed upstairs, and looked toward the hole ...
一人站起来,然后坐在安乐椅上(People A person standing up then sitting down in an easy chair) [6700] 综合音效库 / 人(People) / 一人(People A person) 电子大弹道导弹飞过(Electronic Large ballistic missile passing overhead) [6700] 综合音效库 / 电子(Electronic) / 其他(other) 音乐铃声宫. ...
That last bit of time after the Tom Petty concert was over, sitting with my new wonderful friends, enjoying the last of the weekend. Regrets Regret seems like a strong word, but I can’t think of a better way to describe it.
My Mom stepped off to I don’t know where, to give us space to work I guess. My Dad went to sit in his chair in the living room, not too far from where I was sitting with Yoda. I began to run through my repertoire of songs and then moved in with the closer of “Caboose.”...
Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible (看见). Her window was clean! ___I had been criticizing (批评) her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window. That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked ...
“The man you were sitting with. He is chairman of the Board of Churchill Downs.” I could hardly believe it. I was buying, offering a free breakfast, and feeling pity for one of the world’s richest and most powerful men! My few minutes with Mr. Galbreath changed my life. Now I ...
He found Edward sitting on the sofa, with the sheets and pillowcases folded neatly next to him. "I set out a couple of towels for you in the second- floor bathroom and found an extra toothbrush," Alan said. "If you want them." "Thanks," Edward said, echoing in his empty chest. ...
At my own wedding reception, I saw my wife’s grandma, who was about 98, very slowly and with a terrible sense of inevitability fall sideways off her chair. She remained in a sitting position but just slooowly tilted sideways til she was on the floor, still in the exact same pose. ...