thatyouworetillitwasthreadbare,youwouldalsosaytoapieceofclothingyouneverworeonce “thankyouforteachingmethatthiscolordoesn?tlookgoodonme”.Youwillappreciatetheroles ofallthethingsthathavecometoyouandexperienceappreciationforallofthem.Throughthis experience,youwillrediscoverthetruththatyouhavebeensupportedbysomanyt...
Elaine Sullivan was an active seventy-one year old living on her own in Chicago. One day while getting ready to take a bath, she slipped and fell, striking her head and mouth on the side of the tub. Her neighbors realized they hadn’t seen her all day and called the paramedics, who...
One Sunday morning, I was riding a bicycle along the pavement to meet my friends by appointment when a car ran into a street lamp pole. The car was seriously damaged with flames shooting out from it. I, together with several passers-by...
it was only natural that they should be there a good hour before there was any chance of Mother s train arriving, even if the train were punctual, which was most unlikely.
It is an important history book as well as a piece of literary work. Alfred’s third contribution is that he created a style of Anglo-Saxon prose which was not obscure. 871年,阿尔弗雷德成了威赛克斯之王,他对英国文学的贡献包括以下三个方面:①一些具有教育价值的拉丁文书籍被翻译成西撒克逊方言。
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‘I should not dislike a walk here with the miller’s Christine,’ said one— and they flew past. “The flowers scented the air; every breath of air was hushed; it seemed as if the sea were a part of the sky that stretched above the deep valley. A carriage rolled by. Six people ...
“Moby-Dick” by American writer Herman Melville, for instance, was reduced to: “A whale of a tale about the one that got away.” As it turned out, the joke was on us. How could a single sentence convey the essence (精髓) of a masterpiece with over five hundred pages? Blinkist, ...
It was after the Castella shop went bust. Ki-Tek and family stack food onto their already mountainous plates as they move along the buffet line. They’re at a large budget restaurant frequented by BUS AND TAXI DRIVERS. Ki-Woo makes sure no one is listening before -- KI-WOO We’...
His house on Lake Huron was purchased by parents of one of my Detroit classmates. So I often played near and sometimes in that huge dark house made of large dark logs with the largest porch I’d ever seen at the top of Cliff Road. Guest was always closely connected to the place. It...