The Dominion of the Airby J. M. BaconCHAPTER I. THE DAWN OF AERONAUTICS."He that would learn to fly must be brought up to the constant practice of it from his youth, trying first only to use his wings as a tame goose will do, so by degrees learning to rise higher till he attain unto skill and confidence."So wrote Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, who was reckoned a man of genius and learning in the days of the Commonwealth. But so soon as we come to inquire into the matter we find that this good Bishop was borrowing from the ideas of others who had gone before him; and, look back as far as we will, mankind is discovered to have entertained persistent and often plausible ideas of human flight. And those ideas had in some sort of way, for good or ill, taken practical ...
Author :Issue : 总第 26期Provenance :卡利吉时报Date :Nation :Translator :龚如仲 当您与人握手,手持酒杯或是一边说话一边做手势时,可曾注意到您内心深处的秘密正通过双手暴露出来。 假如,为了找个合适的工作,您不得不接受招聘单位有关人员的口头审查。在您谈话之时,请不要两手相握,也不要捏弄拇指、坐立不安地玩着钥匙圈或是给手表上弦,这些动作表明您缺乏自信、过分紧张。最好的办法是稳稳地坐在那儿,把手随便地放在自己的大腿上,这样会给人一种镇静自若、轻松自如的气氛。与此同时,请注意观察那位审查者的双手。倘若他说话做手势时是手掌伸开、手心朝上,那么他可能是个直爽、诚实的人。此时,您若根据他的手势来相应变换自己的手势,你们之间即可进行顺利交谈,而且会给他留下良好印象。如果这位审查者一边说话,一边用手指着您,那么这个人可能相当自负,与这种人谈话,您最好双手合十,手指顶着下巴,并以...
Author :Issue : 总第 126期Provenance :《解放日报》Date :1991.7.26Nation :Translator :陶猛 自从传言有人在萨文河畔散步时无意发现金子后,这里便常有来自四面八方的淘金者。他们都想成为富翁,于是寻遍了整个河床,还在河床上挖出很多大坑,希望借助它找到更多的金子。的确,有一些人找到了,但另外一些人因为一无所得而只好扫兴归去。 也有不甘心落空的,便驻扎在这里,继续寻找。彼得·弗雷特就是其中的一员。他在河床附近买了一块没人要的土地,一个人默默地工作。他为了找金子,已把所有的钱都押在这块土地上。他埋头苦干了几个月,直到土地全变成坑坑洼洼,他失望了——他翻遍了整块土地,但连一丁点金子都没看见。 六个月以后,他连买面包的钱都快没有了。于是他准备离开这儿到别处去谋生。 就在他即将离去的前一个晚上,天下起了倾盆大雨,并且一下就是三天三夜。雨终于停了,彼得走出小木屋,发现眼前的土...
HIGH-WATER MARKWhen the tide was out on the Dedlow Marsh, its extended drearinesswas patent. Its spongy, low-lying surface, sluggish, inky pools,and tortuous sloughs, twisting their slimy way, eel-like, towardthe open bay, were all hard facts. So were the few green tussocks,with their scant blades, their amphibious flavor and unpleasantdampness. And if you choose to indulge your fancyalthough theflat monotony of the Dedlow Marsh was not inspiringthe wavy lineof scattered drift gave an unpleasant consciousness of the spentwaters, and made the dead certainty of the returning tide a gloomyreflection which no present sunshine could dissipate. The greenermeadowland seemed oppressed with this idea, and made no positive...
Lecture VIIITHE DIVIDED SELF, AND THE PROCESS OF ITS UNIFICATIONThe last lecture was a painful one, dealing as it did with evilas a pervasive element of the world we live in. At the close ofit we were brought into full view of the contrast between the twoways of looking at life which are characteristic respectively ofwhat we called the healthy-minded, who need to be born only once,and of the sick souls, who must be twice-born in order to behappy. The result is two different conceptions of the universeof our experience. In the religion of the once-born the world isa sort of rectilinear or one-storied affair, whose accounts arekept in one denomination, whose parts have just the values which...
杀手·猫胎人1(本章字数:5040 更新时间:2006-11-9 16:28:01)1.「从来没见过这种事。」是啊,谁倒楣见过这种事?川哥蹲在尸体旁,即使戴著口罩,还是可以闻见死者的恐惧。很讽刺。第一现场,竟是一台车身漆著「救人第一」的救护车。氧气罩粗糙地用胶带黏在死者口鼻上,不知是大量的汗水浸润了胶带,还是死者生前最后的挣扎,致使氧气罩脱落了一半。心电图机器接引到死者裸露的胸口,画面当然只剩下一条水平的绿线。死者双手、双脚都被手铐铐在手扶栏杆上,大字形的受难姿势,但凶手却「贴心」地在她的左手臂插入点滴软管,用生理食盐水短暂维系她痛苦的生命。吊在上方的点滴袋只消耗了一半,其馀的一半因为死者血管僵缩、血液凝固,无法顺畅地输入尸体内,逆染成了粉红色的汤水。...
SHERLOCK HOLMESTHE SCANDAL IN BOHEMIAby Sir Arthur Conan Doyle1To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heardhim mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses andpredominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotionakin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly,were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. Hewas, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machinethat the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himselfin a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, savewith a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the...
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如果台湾没有李敖…… 何飞鹏 十几岁年轻的时候,没有机会认识李敖,只能偷偷地读他写的《传统下的独白》,感觉李敖似乎颠覆了所有学校中所受的教育。 那时候所知的李敖,是个一袭长袍、特立独行的台大学生,学问足以与大师胡适往来、论战,无疑是个梦中的未来英雄。 这个未来英雄,并没有按照我年轻时的想像,成为体制内认同的当代大师、思想家、文豪或者史学家(年轻的我,对体制有高度敬畏,当然李敖是体制外的英雄毋庸置疑),接下来只有断断续续的印象:与《文星》纠缠不断的官司,退出江湖卖牛肉面去,成为思想犯坐牢,出狱后复出江湖,与名女人胡茵梦结婚、离婚,继续放言高论,与当权者斗争,办《求是报》,以一人之力办报,其文字的产量,最令身为记者的我由衷佩服。 这些远观(无缘认识前)的片断,串成了对李敖的想像——-个当代具有“特异功能...
这个称呼,早不再用了。我倒觉得它好,大有义理在内。不肯用的原因大约有二:一是嫌它“文”了,不够“白话”标准。二是认为那“官”不对头——怎么读的人就必定是个做官的不成?太封建……错会意了。“看官”与“官儿”无涉——比如就像曹雪芹笔下写的赖嬷嬷教训她儿子赖尚荣:“……别说你是官儿了,就横行霸道的!”不是那种“官”。“看官”一语除了是为语气尊敬,更含有深义:您是判断是非好坏的审“官”者,或者是弹劾坏人劣迹的御史、按察的“大员”,请来评判我这拙作,是高是下,是美是丑……此之谓“官”之义也。可是如果我将这篇“代序”题为“致看官”,不但无恩领我心意,反倒引起讥嘲或误解。世上的事,一涉“文词”,一涉中华汉字语文,遇上简单化对待的人,事情往往麻烦很大,问题横生,表达起来可就难如人意,也难惬己衷了。讲明鄙怀以后,请允许我称您为“看官”,而不敢呼叫什么“读者”。...
徐志摩简介 徐志摩(1897~1931)现代诗人、散文家。名章垿,笔名南湖、云中鹤等。浙江海宁人。1915年毕业于杭州一中、先后就读于上海沪江大学、天津北洋大学和北京大学。1918年赴美国学习银行学。1921年赴英国留学,入伦敦剑桥大学当特别生,研究政治经济学。在剑桥两年深受西方教育的熏陶及欧美浪漫主义和唯美派诗人的影响。1921年开始创作新诗。 1922年返国后在报刊上发表大量诗文。1923年,参与发起成立新月社。加入文学研究会。1924年与胡适、陈西滢等创办《现代评论》周刊,任北京大学教授。印度大诗人泰戈尔访华时任翻译。1925年赴欧洲、游历苏、德、意、法等国。1926年在北京主编《晨报》副刊《诗镌》,与闻一多、朱湘等人开展新诗格律化运动,影响到新诗艺术的发展。同年移居上海,任光华大学、大夏大学和南京中央大学教授。1、志摩的诗雪花的快乐沙扬挪拉一首这是一个懦怯的世界去吧为要寻一个明星...
娃哈哈算不算一个奇迹?很多人对于娃哈哈的了解,来自于娃哈哈的产品,因为在中国任何一个最角落的鸡手小店,你都可能发现娃哈哈的产品。很多人理解的娃哈哈领导人宗庆后,是一个带有神秘色彩的神话人物。可口可乐前总裁杜达夫曾说过:将来可口可乐在中国惟一的对手可能是来自娃哈哈的挑战。宗庆后运筹娃哈哈的方法被人们称为“宗式兵法”,而娃哈哈的企业运作模式又被人们称为“娃哈哈模式”。“娃哈哈模式”在一个神话破灭的时代创造了一个企业崛起的新神话,其核心的价值理念和企业方法,是了解中国市场现状的一把钥匙。站在思想者的角度看娃哈哈,看宗庆后,你就会获得更多对于中国市场和中国企业的感悟,而作为一个中国市场中的参与者,宗庆后以及他所带领的娃哈哈,是站在跨国公司同一个台阶上,用中国的和世界上的眼光来看待自己以及自己的竞争对手。一个能和可口可乐较量的企业,一定有它的独到之处和别人所没发现的秘密。...
The Nabobby Alphonse DaudetTranslated by W. BlaydesINTRODUCTIONDaudet once remarked that England was the last of foreign countries to welcome his novels, and that he was surprised at the fact, since for him, as for the typical Englishman, the intimacy of home life had great significance. However long he may have taken to win Anglo-Saxon hearts, there is no question that he finally won them more completely than any other contemporary French novelist was able to do, and that when but a few years since the news came that death had released him from his sufferings, thousands of men and women, both in England and in America, felt that they had lost a real friend. Just at the present moment one does not hear or read a great deal about him, but a similar lull in critici...
目 录作者:明镜 前传 风城少年序第一章 废物皇子第二章 云雾玄天第三章 绝天洞中第四章 天锤地炼第五章 弱肉强食第六章 皇后之威第七章 上善归真第八章 慧真论势第九章 卫夺归天第十章 风雨升龙 第十一章 绝天神殿(上)第十二章 绝天神殿(下)第十三章 神殿疑云第十四章 云雾之巅第十五章 母子相会第十六章 和光同尘第十七章 佛光普照第十八章 太后心疑第十九章 卫恒入京第二十章 大道冲虚第二十一章 忍辱持戒第二十二章 风城铁卫第二十三章 驿站遇刺第二十四章 移花接木第二十五章 计中连环第二十六章 初见伊人第二十七章 惊艳一战第二十八章 流水之憾第二十九章 谭门女子第三十章 无盐丑女 第三十一章 初露心声第三十二章 逐鹿宣仁第三十三章 壮志初露第三十四章 君子之约第三十五章 收服猛将第三十六章 欲望平原...
The Cruise of the Jasper B.by Don MarquisTO ALL THE COPYREADERS ON ALL THE NEWSPAPERS OF AMERICACHAPTER IA BRIGHT BLADE LEAPS FROM A RUSTY SCABBARDOn an evening in April, 191-, Clement J. Cleggett walked sedatelyinto the news room of the New York Enterprise with a drab-coloredwalking-stick in his hand. He stood the cane in a corner,changed his sober street coat for a more sober office jacket,adjusted a green eyeshade below his primly brushed grayish hair,unostentatiously sat down at the copy desk, and unobtrusivelyopened a drawer.From the drawer he took a can of tobacco, a pipe, a pair ofscissors, a paste-pot and brush, a pile of copy paper, a penknifeand three half-lengths of lead pencil....
Seraphitaby Honore de BalzacTranslated by Katharine Prescott WormeleyDEDICATIONTo Madame Eveline de Hanska, nee Comtesse Rzewuska.Madame,Here is the work which you asked of me. I am happy, inthus dedicating it, to offer you a proof of the respectfulaffection you allow me to bear you. If I am reproached forimpotence in this attempt to draw from the depths of mysticism abook which seeks to give, in the lucid transparency of ourbeautiful language, the luminous poesy of the Orient, to you theblame! Did you not command this struggle (resembling that ofJacob) by telling me that the most imperfect sketch of thisFigure, dreamed of by you, as it has been by me since childhood,...
——1966年7月我是上月中旬和馆中几个领导同志一同调去集训的沈从文是研究员,无领导职务。因身体关系,上星期被调回来参加学习。回来后,看过三半天大字报,才明白馆中文化大革命运动,在中央派来的工作组正确领导下,已搞得热火朝天。象我这么一个微不足道的人,诸同志好意来帮助我思想改造,就为特辟专栏,写了几十张大字报,列举了几百条严重错误,我应当表示深深的感谢。因为首先想到的是,一切批评总在治病救人。我若真是牛鬼蛇神,自然是应当加以扫除的。但自然也感到十分痛苦,巨大震动,因为揭发我最多的是范曾,到我家前后不会过十次,有几回还是和他爱人同来的。过去老话说,十大罪状已够致人于死地,范曾一下子竟写出几百条,若果主要目的,是使我在群众中威风扫地,可以说是完全作到了。事实上我本来在群众中就并无什么威风,也不善于争取任何威风,只想在毛主席领导的新中国,平平实实做一个文物工作者。前十年,我的...
《从1000到10000》找一份自己喜欢且胜任的工作(1) ◎ 阿凡提示 在选择职业时,不能忽视的一点就是,不要因为外界的因素而找工作,说白了,就是找一份自己喜欢且胜任的工作才算得上是好工作,这是非常重要的。能否发挥自己的才能,找到适合自己的位置,是能否在职场上大放异彩的第一步! ◎ 阿凡说事 对于一个成绩优异、爱好广泛而又多才多艺的大学生来讲,毕业之后从事什么样的工作似乎不应该是问题。我的朋友文达就是这样想的。毕业前夕,他过得十分从容,看着同学们为找工作四处奔走,疲惫不堪的样子,他不以为然。对于未来,他没有精打细算过,但是他想天生我材必有用,命运之神一定会对他康慨相助的。 就这样,毕业后,文达回到家乡,在一家乡级中学当了教师。每天伴着青山绿水,听学生们朗朗书声,秋夜孤灯夜读,这种田园牧歌式的乡村教师的生活使他内心充满宁静与祥和的美感。然而,好景不长,半年后,他开...