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When the great library of Alexandria burned, the story goes, one book was saved. But it was not a valuable book; and so a poor man, who could read a little, bought it for a few coppers.The book wasn't...
日期：2016-05-13
An American Indian tells about a brave who found an eagle's egg and put it into the nest of a prairie chicken草原鸡. The eaglet小鹰 hatched with the brood一伙,一窝 of chicks and grew up with them.All ...
日期：2016-05-13
Sam, an unemployed piano tuner, said it was only the second thing he had ever won in his life. The first thing was an Afghan blanket at a church raffle(抽彩售货) when he was 25 years old. But this was...
日期：2016-05-13
Have you not heard of the frog that lived in a shallow well? It said to a turtle(?? that lived in the East Sea, I am so happy! When I go out, I jump about on the railing(栏杆,扶手) beside the mouth of...
日期：2016-05-13
People appear to born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably(冷酷地,无情地) that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity(成熟,完备) gu...
日期：2016-05-13
A country maid was walking along with a can of milk upon her head, when she fell into the following train of reflections.The money for which I shall sell this milk will enable me to increase my stock ...
日期：2016-05-13
Mildred orme(榆木) , seated in the snuggest corner of the big front porch of the Kraummer farmhouse, was as content as a girl need hope to be.This was no such farm as one reads about in humorous ficti...
日期：2016-05-13
There was a handful of clay in the bank of a river. It was only common clay, coarse(粗糙的,下等的) and heavy; but it had high thoughts of its own value, and wonderful dreams of the great place which i...
日期：2016-05-13
Once upon a time, the son of Brahmadatta was ruling righteously(正直地,公正地) in Benares, in northern India. It came to pass(实现,发生) that the King of Kosala made war, killed the King of Benares, a...
日期：2016-05-13
During the 1850's, there was a lot of unrest in Taiwan, so the Emperor sent Xu Shuyan with soldiers to calm everything down. Tang Yian was sent along with him. Tang was anxious to find out how things ...
日期：2016-05-13
Qian Meixi recorded the story of Xue Qingguan, the goat butcher. He ran his own little store selling mutton and mutton soup. The fame of his delicious mutton soup spread far and wide(广泛地,到处) , br...
日期：2016-05-12
Once upon a time, King Brahmadatta was ruling in Benares, in northern India. The Enlightenment(启蒙运动) Being was born as his son, the prince. Being quite intelligent, he completed his entire educati...
日期：2016-05-12
Once upon a time in a place called Seri, there were two salesmen of pots and pans and hand-made trinkets(小装饰品) . They agreed to divide the town between them. They also said that after one had gone...
日期：2016-05-12
A very very long time ago, there were people wholived much longer than they do today. They lived many thousand years. At that time, the Enlightenment Being was born as a baby named Makhadeva. He lived...
日期：2016-05-12
Once upon a time a certain tradesman was leading a caravan(大篷车,旅行队) to another country to sell his goods. Along the way they came to the edge of a severe hot-sand desert. They asked about, and f...
日期：2016-05-12
