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A Life for a Life(以“命”抵命)
2023-12-05The English author,Richard Savage,was once living inLondon in great poverty.In order to earn a little money he hadwritten the story of his life,but no...
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Dumas(仲马)
2023-12-05One day a man was taunting Alexandre Dumas,the greatFrench novelist,with his ancestry. Why,” snarled the fellow,you are a quadroon;yourfather wa...
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Horne Tooke(霍恩·图克)
2023-12-05George Ⅲ asked the once wellknown wit, Horne Tooke,whether he could play cards. Your Majesty,” replied Tooke, I am a mere childwhere cards are c...
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Bishop Creighton(克莱顿主教)
2023-12-05Creighton was going along a West End square when hesaw a little fellow trying to reach the knocker of a large house. Can't you reach up so high?&r...
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Hogarth(霍迦斯)
2023-12-05The great painter was asked,one day to paint a picture ofPharaoh crossing the Red Sea”.A little while after the picture had been commenced,a hit...
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Wilberforce(威尔伯佛斯)
2023-12-05Wilberforce stood for Parliament on one occasion, and hissister helped him with his election campaign. The Bribery andCorruption Acts had not been fra...
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Boy, Oh Boy
2023-12-05When they're together, my five-year-old son and his cousin tend to cause mayhem. one Saturday, I put my foot down. "All right, you two,"...
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I Can't Let Him Get Away
2023-12-05A male crab met a female crab and asked her to marry him. She noticed that he was walking straight instead of sideways. Wow, she thought, this crab is...
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Hasty Interruption
2023-12-05The fine-furniture store where I work has been in business since the 1920s.Recently I received a call from a woman who wanted to replace some chairs f...
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It's a Puzzlement
2023-12-05I asked a colleague of mine how he liked the shirt his daughter had given him as a gift. "The color and the design are nice," he said. "...