Perhaps it had something to do with living in a dark cupboard, but Harry had always been small and skinny for his age. He looked even smaller and skinnier than he really was because all he had to wear were old clothes of Dudley's and Dudley was about four times bigger than he was. ...
AIl cats are animals, but not all animals are cats. 所有的猫都是动物,但并不是所有的动物都是猫。5. Friends can be old. 朋友可以是年长的。 讲解 can,情态动词,意为“可能”,在这里表推测,其后可接动词原形。其否定形式为can't...
for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I...
In the age-old debate of cats vs. dogs, score one for cats. A recent study finds that cats are more into fetching than we ever imagined, narrowing the gap between these two beloved pets in terms of interactive play. The researchers analyzed data from over 80, 000 pet owners to u...
It was a host of the stone age that we were accompanying to battle—we with the last word of the gunsmith's art from St. James' Street and the Strand. We had not long to wait for our enemy. A wild shrill clamor rose from the edge of the wood and suddenly a body of ap...
"Age is my alarm clock, "the old man said."Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day? " "I don't know, "the boy said."All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard." "I can remember it, "the old man said."I'll waken you in time." "I do not...
an elderly Tokyo man named Nakata veers from his calm routine by murdering a stranger. An unforgettable character, beautifully delineated by Murakami, Nakata can speak with cats but cannot read or write, nor explain the forces drawing him toward Takamatsu and the other characters. 编辑推荐 《村上...
“Step to the head of the line. You’ll see the greatest little wonder of the space age.” Encyclopedia and Gil each gave Bugs a dime. Then they looked. They saw a figure no bigger than a paper clip. “What a fake!” whispered Gil. “The glass isn’t a window. It’s my ...
”And she began thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age as herself, to see if she could have been changed for any of them. ‘I'm sure I'm not Ada,’she said,‘for her hair goes in such long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all; and...
The grown-ups' response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a ...