Chapter LVIII The time came for my departure from Tahiti. According to the gracious custom of the island, presents were ...
Above was the blue sky, and the stars, and all about the desert of the Pacific Ocean. A quotation from the Bible came to my lips, but I held my tongue, for I know that clergymen think it a little blasphemous when the laity poach upon their preserves. My Uncle Henry, for twenty-...
所属专辑:月亮与六便士【中英字幕】 声音简介 "The millsof God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small, " he said, somewhatimpressively. Mrs. Stricklandand Mrs. Ronaldson looked down with a slightly pious expression whichindicated, I felt sure, that they thought the quotation was from Holy...
The Moon and SixpenceChapter 56-58Chapter 56, P2031. 词汇及用法waylay v. 拦截P2041. 词汇及用法untrodden a. 人迹罕至的hornet n. 大黄蜂bedraggled a. 破烂的,破旧的unkempt a. 荒芜的,不整洁的stench n. 恶臭 the beastly stenchassail v. 袭击cheroot n. 方头雪茄烟composition n. 美术作品,艺术...
Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence for discussions of whether art can justify an otherwise apparently immoral life. Both use Paul Gauguin as an inspiration. With regard to Florence Nightingale, perhaps see Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians. It stresses Nightingale’s ambition and how ...
If the Truthful is the Beautiful, it is Beautiful to study even the Snobbish; to track Snobs through history, as certain little dogs in Hampshire hunt out truffles; to sink shafts in society and come upon rich veins of Snobore. Snobbishness is like Death in a quotation from Horace, which...
It involves an odd mixture of nouns for large natural phenomena (wind, sea, rain, water, moon, sun, star, stars, sunset, sunrise, dawn, morning, days, night, nights) and verbs that express a subjective relation (sang, laughed, dreamed, seeing, kiss, kissed, heard, looked, loving, ...
“There are more things in heaven and earth,” said Woodhouse–and Thaddy groaned at the quotation–“and more particularly in the forests of Borneo, than are dreamt of in our philosophies. On the whole, if the Borneo fauna is going to disgorge any more of its novelties upon me, I shou...
Mournful in the deepest degree, but too sacred for quotation here, were the numerous references to those miniatures of women worn round the necks of rough men (and found there after death), those locks of hair, those scraps of letters, those many many slight memorials of hidden tenderness. ...
Carroll and Chen (2004, 27). I’m borrowing their wording here. The quotation in context is about something different, viz., the fact that the background space–time is never in an equilibrium state because metauniverses can always be generated resulting in the further increase of entropy. ...