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There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. There once was a very large lake here, the largest lake in Texas. That was over a hundred years ago. One hundred and ten years ago, Green Lake was the largest lake in Texas. It was full of clear cool water, and it sparkled like a giant emerald in the sun. It was especially beautiful in the spring, when the peach trees, which lined the shore, bloomed with pink a...

英文敘述 Stanley’s father is an inventor. To be a successful inventor you need three things: intelligence, perseverance, and just a little bit of luck. Stanley’s father is smart and has a lot of perseverance. Once he starts a project he will work on it for years, often going days without sleep. He just never has any luck. Stanley’s great grandfather made a fortune in the stock market. He lost his...

英文敘述 Sachar enjoyed school and was a good student, but it wasn't until high school that he really became an avid reader. After high school, he attended Antioch College in Ohio. His father died during my first semester, and he returned to California to be near his mother. During that time, he had a short but surprisingly successful career as a door-to-door selling cleaning products. He then ret...

英文敘述Duke Zhe did as he promised. He spoke of Magistrate Tiger to the imperial family. As the summer was ending, Magistrate Tiger received an invitation from the Imperial Palace and he was invited to go to the emperor’s Mid-Autumn Moon Festivities. One of the activities in the festivities was riddle guessing, and Magistrate Tiger managed to secure the riddles before the festival. So one day he...

英文敘述 The marriage was opposed by the governments of the United Kingdom . Religious , legal, political, and moral objections were raised. As the British monarch, Edward was the nominal head of the Church of England, which at this time did not allow divorced people to remarry in church if their ex-spouses were still alive. For this reason, it was widely believed that Edward could not marry Simps...

英文敘述 Once there was a powerful magistrate. Because he always seemed to be roaring-at his servants, his wife, and even his children, everyone called him Magistrate Tiger. Magistrate Tiger’s son and daughter knew that their father was always working to become more powerful and that he even hoped the emperor himself would acknowledge him. The only people Magistrate Tiger did not roar at were his...

英文敘述 Edward the eighth was born in 1894, son of George the fifth. He was a very charismatic and popular prince. However there were some character flaws. He had no sense of public duty, 沒有公共服務的使命感。 He just wanted to party, sleep with women. He also saw himself more as a German than a British subject. He spoke fluent German, spent a lot of time in Germany. He was always very sympathet...

英文敘述 In the summer of 1978, two friends opened a makeshift ice cream parlor in an abandoned gas station in northern Vermont. Using a single five-gallon ice cream maker, they churned out batch after batch of wacky flavors like Chunky Monkey and Heath Bar Crunch. In the decades that followed, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield built Ben & Jerry’s into a legendary ice cream company, with more tha...

英文敘述 So who is this mysterious guest? Madam Chang does not look like any woman Rendi has ever seen before. Her features are fine and smooth, as if she were carved from ivory, and the light in her dark eyes make them shine like stars. Madam Chang has a gift in storytelling. She tells one story after another, and gradually her stories will transform the lives of people in this town, including Re...

英文敘述 The novel opens with young Rendi’s having stowed away in a merchant’s cart. The moon has been missing for weeks, and every night, sorrowful moans can be heard in the air, but it seems that only Rendi has noticed these. As soon as the merchant discovers Rendi hiding in his cart, he throws him out and abandons him at a remote village of Clear Sky. Just like that, Rendi becomes the chore boy...

英文敘述 June Huh enrolled in a class taught by the famed Japanese mathematician Hironaka, who won the Fields Medal in 1970. Hironaka was charismatic, and Huh quickly fell under his sway. For the first time, Huh witnessed research mathematics unfolding in real time. Hironaka’s lectures weren’t polished as in other undergraduate courses, where the answers already worked out. Huh loved the suspense...

英文摘要 When June Huh was younger, he had no desire to be a mathematician. He was born in 1983 in California, where his parents were finishing graduate school. The family then moved to Seoul, South Korea, when Huh was around 2 years old. There, his father taught statistics, his mother taught Russian language and literature. School was excruciating for him. He loved to learn but couldn’t focus or...

故事摘要 At the age of eighty, Hetty Green lived like a pauper in an unheated apartment. To save the cost of heating her food, she ate only cold eggs and onions. In order to save more money, Hetty wore newspapers instead of underwear. She had only the bottoms of her dresses cleaned. A very poor person, you say? No, Hetty was one of America’s richest women. Hetty Green was born in 1835, in a rich s...

英文敘述 So how did Jimmy Chin go from being simply an outdoor adventure junky to a world renowned outdoor adventure photographer? He said in an interview, “ I never studied photography; I didn’t take any classes in photography. I actually had a friend who wanted to be a photographer show me how to use his camera while we were on a climb in Yosemite. I took a photo with it and he was trying to sel...

英文敘述 Pellegrin said that photography is not actually about taking pictures-taking pictures is incidental. It’s a by-product, in a sense, of everything else. What you are doing is giving form-photographic form-to a thought, to an opinion, to an understanding of the world, of what is in front of you. And so if we think in these terms, then you have to improve the quality of your thoughts. Pelleg...

故事摘要 Once a long long time ago, a family grew famous for their happiness. Even though aunts and uncles, cousins and grandchildren lived together, there was never a cross word or unhappy noise. Stories of their happiness spread like seeds in the wind, sprouting and blooming everywhere, until finally even young Magistrate Tiger heard of them. When Magistrate Tiger first heard of the happy family...

故事摘要 Like the Forbidden City, the City of Bright Moonlight is divided into the outer city and the inner city. The king lives in the inner part which is heavily guarded by soldiers. With the help of the buffalo boy, Minli manages to find the king and asks him for the borrowed line. At first the king says that he’s not sure what the borrowed line is that Minli is looking for but he thinks he can...

故事摘要 Before they get to Never Ending Mountain, Minli needs to reach the City of Bright Moonlight, and once there, she’s supposed to find the Guardian of the City. When Minli finds him, she’s supposed to ask for the borrowed line, which is something she will need when she gets to Never Ending Mountain. But it’s not so easy to find the Guardian of the City, aka the king. When Minli and the Drago...

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