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Considering it simply as an excursion（短程旅行，远足） , George Scott thought, leaning over the side of the canal-boat and looking at the shadow of the hills ...

Saturday. — I am almost a whole day old, now. I arrived yesterday. That is as it seems to me. And it must be so, for if there was a day-before-y...

In the year of our Lord, 1867, there came to work at No. 145 Broadway a thin, prematurely old and gray young man of not more than twenty-six years. No...

There had been four ages since the human world first came into being（形成，产生） . They are the Golden Age, the Silver Age, the Age of Bronze and the Age o...

In the song Dynasty (960-1279), there was a scholar whose name was Wen Tong and who styled himself Yuke. He was not only admired by others for his gre...

Two mayors（市长） made a bet on the outcome of the Vegetable Bowl, the annual football game between their high school teams. If Arvada’s team lost,...

As a crowded airliner is about to take off, the peace is shattered（打碎，削弱） by a 5-year-old boy who picks that moment to throw a wild temper（脾气，性情） tant...

There was once a farmer. His land was hilly多坡的，丘陵的; the soil was not the best. He had a cow that wasn't giving much milk; he had chickens who were...

Novelist Sinclair Lewis was supposed to deliver an hour-long lecture to a group of college students who planned to be writers. Lewis opened his talk w...

There is a story of a thief who satisfied the material needs of his family by stealing money from unsuspecting travelers. When he realized that what h...