He stood up and looked me in the eye, “I understand. You don’t know. So, it’s not an outright no. That’s good. So, promise me that you’ll think about it. It could very well be the making of you. Like it was for me.” I did think about it. A lot. I thought about...
“But,” said Dave, an expression of bafflement on his face, “why the hell did you ride your bike on the pavement at the very time you knew Chisholm would probably be there? You’d think you wanted to be……….” He stopped and stared hard at me. “You did, didn’t you?” ...
I immediately thought this was a great idea. One of the things I did not like about the recitals was that I was limited to playing just a couple of songs. Playing the piano at Carriage House seemed like a win-win situation because ...
Boxer and Clover would harness themselves to the cutter or the horse-rake (no bits or reins were needed in these days, of course) and tramp steadily round and round the field with a pig walking behind and calling out ‘Gee up, comrade!’ or ‘Whoa back, comrade!’ as the case might...
2 a : any dipteran fly called also true fly, two-winged fly b : a large and stout-bodied dipteran fly (as a horsefly) Geographical Definition Fly geographical name ˈflī river 650 miles (1046 kilometers) long in southern New Guinea flowing southeast into the Gulf of Papua More...
?欲望城市 (性hearts;爱hearts;专家凯莉布雷萧 并且勇于发问) “离情依依” 每年在纽约总会有一个时刻 There is a time of year in New York 即使第一片叶子尚未掉落 when even before the first leaf falls, 你都能感到季节的变换 you can feel the seasons click. 空气沁凉 夏天过去了 The air is ...
“We’re in a line? What for?” “Ferris wheel (摩天轮),” said the man. “Step right up and sit right down.” Before I knew it, I was sitting on a small seat that was hung in what seemed like outer space. As we reached the top, Chris was excited. He was totally ...
Suddenly as we looked at her we saw a dense143 black cloud of smoke shoot up from her, which hung like a monstrous144 tree upon the sky line. A few seconds later a roar like thunder burst upon our ears, and as the smoke thinned away there was no sign left of the Gloria Scott. ...
Like: “Where does a mountain climber keep his plane? In a cliff hanger.” Ha, ha. We hit some heavy turbulence as we approached Hiroshima. The A-bomb fell off the bomb rack. It started rolling around and could’ve gone off in the airplane. I jumped on it like it was a horse. ...
22.She hung her head like a dying flower. 她像是一朵枯萎的花低着头。 23. A house without books is like a room without windows. 没有书的房子,如同没有窗户的房间。 24.I remember the whole thing as if it happened yesterday. 整个这件事我记得很清楚,就仿佛是昨天发生似的。