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原著作者｜赫尔曼·黑塞 * December wind sweeps through city streets * but cannot disperse the gloom in Harry Haller's heart * He is fifty years old * living alone in a small apartment * Bookshelves overflow with books * art reproductions hang on the walls * They are silent * just like him * * Harry stands at the window * watching twilight slowly consume the sky * In his pocket * a razor * cold * He...

原著作者｜加西亚·马尔克斯 * A book in Nobel Prize literature writes down every form of love * it is called Love in the Time of Cholera * * A man can keep changing bed partners * while keeping his first love pure in his heart * Six hundred and twenty lovers * but waited for one person for fifty-three years * At seventy-six years old * he returned to his first love * to fulfill that long waiting * I...

原著作者｜塞万提斯 * Don Quixote * * Four hundred years have passed * Why do we still talk about Don Quixote * * If you only see the jokes in him * You might have missed * The most touching idealism * In literary history * * The story begins with a fifty year old squire * His name was Alonso Quixano * He lived in a remote village * In La Mancha * * This man owned some land * But he was dirt poor *...

原著作者｜居斯塔夫·福楼拜 * She married twice * had affairs with two men * and died from arsenic * You must think she's a shameless woman * But Flaubert says no * this is a story about romance * * Emma was born into a wealthy farming family in rural France * Her father was a farmer * but he dreamed of making his daughter a noble * He sent Emma to a convent * At the convent * Emma read countless ro...

｜历史人物传记 * In the year 709 a baby boy was born in Chang'an city * His father gave him the name Zhenqing hoping he would become an upright gentleman * No one knew that this child would become a calligraphic master revered for a thousand years * Even fewer knew he would become the most steadfast loyalist of the Tang Dynasty * At the age of three his father suddenly passed away * A widowed moth...

原著作者｜玛格丽特·米切尔 * In the spring of 1861 at Tara plantation in Georgia the American South camellias were in full bloom * Seventeen year old Scarlett stood on the porch with her gray green eyes as cunning as a cat * Her waist measured only seventeen inches she was the slimmest girl in the county * Her father Ocrsley was an upstart who had won the plantation through gambling * Her mother El...

出自｜史记·孙子吴起列传 * During the Warring States period there was a general in the state of Qi named Tian Ji * He had a hobby horse racing * Every time he raced he bet a fortune * But every time he lost everything * * His opponent was King Wei of Qi * The ruler of the state * Tian Ji's horses were divided into three classes upper middle and lower * King Wei's horses were also divided into three...

原著出处｜战国策·楚策 * Have you ever regretted something * Thinking if you had made a different choice would the result be different * * Once there was a shepherd * He raised a flock of white and plump sheep * Every day he drove the flock to the hillside to graze * In the evening he drove them back to the sheepfold * * One morning he found a hole in the sheepfold * A neighbor saw it and said * Fi...

民间故事 * In 221 BC Emperor Qin unified the six states * He founded China's first unified dynasty * But the northern border was not at peace * * The Xiongnu cavalry came and went like the wind * They stole treasures * They captured the people * Villages cried in the flames * * In 215 BC Emperor Qin made a decision * To end the northern threat once and for all * * He appointed General Meng Tian as...

出自｜战国策·楚策 * There was a tiger in the forest * He was the king of all beasts * Every animal ran away when they saw him * * One day the tiger was hungry * He searched everywhere for prey in the forest * A fox jumped out from the bushes * The tiger pounced forward * And pinned the fox down with one paw * * The fox was terrified * But he quickly calmed down * His eyes darted around and he thou...

民间故事 * More than two thousand three hundred years ago after the Shang and Zhou dynasties before Qin unified the six states * The land of China experienced over five hundred years of war * The first three hundred years was called the Spring and Autumn Period * The last two hundred years was called the Warring States Period * * In the middle of the Warring States Period there was a boy named Men...

原著作者｜刘义庆《世说新语》 * In the late Eastern Han Dynasty * an autumn afternoon * Sunlight filtered through the courtyard paulownia trees * casting dappled shadows on the stone pavement * * Four year old Kong Rong * sat reading under the corridor * He wore simple clean clothes * His eyes showed a calmness beyond his age * * Just then * Father brought a plate of fresh pears * The golden pears...

原著出处｜《宋史·司马光传》 * In the Northern Song Dynasty seven year old Sima Guang was playing in the courtyard * The sun was shining several children were chasing and laughing around the rockery * A butterfly flew by the children ran after it smiling * * In a corner of the courtyard there stood a large water vat * It was filled with water the surface reflecting the blue sky * * One child climbe...

原著作者｜玛格丽特·亨利 * For four hundred years they have never been tamed * * On Assateague Island in the middle of the Atlantic a herd of wild horses still runs free just like their ancestors did * * Free to run free to love free to die * * No one knew where they came from until a storm revealed the secret * * In the sixteenth century a Spanish galleon broke apart in a violent storm * * The hor...

原著作者｜弗兰克·鲍姆 * Dorothy lived on the Kansas prairie * There was only gray * Gray houses * Gray grass * Gray sky * Even the sun was gray and hazy * * Her only friend every day was a little black dog named Toto * She often held Toto and said * I want to go to a colorful place * * That afternoon the sky suddenly turned dark green * The tornado was coming * Dorothy held Toto and hid in the hou...

说文解字系列 * In this series Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters today we explore the character for face or noodles * Nine thousand years ago in the distant Fertile Crescent someone discovered a miraculous seed * It was the first time humanity found wheat golden wheat stalks shimmering under the sun * That seed crossed mountains and rivers journeying for six thousand five hundred years bef...

原著作者｜安娜·休厄尔 * Long long ago on a quiet country meadow a black foal was born * His coat shone like the night and a small white star rested on his forehead * His mother stood beside him looking down with calm steady eyes * She taught him to be kind and to remember that gentleness was not fear * The foal grew among grass and sunlight the world felt whole and safe * He learned to run and to...

｜The Trumpet of the Swan 原著作者｜E B White * Mist rises over the lake * Reeds sway softly in the wind * * The swan father draws his wings close * And guards the nest * * Shells crack open * One by one the cygnets crawl out * * The last one lifts his head * Opens his beak * But no sound comes * * His brothers and sisters cry and splash * Water sprays onto his face * * He can only nod * Then shak...

原著作者｜E. B. White * In New York inside an ordinary house * the Little family welcomed a child * * He was very small * he looked like a mouse * but he could speak and read * and he wore human clothes * * The parents were not afraid * they gave him a name * Stuart Little * * Every morning * he sat at the table * using tiny dishes * to eat breakfast * * His mother fixed his collar * his father pr...

原著作者｜E B White * The farm was quiet in the early morning * Mist slowly moved along the ground * * Inside the pigpen * a newborn pig * struggled to stand * and fell down again * * The man looked at it * shook his head * and said this kind of pig would not live * * The axe was already raised * when a little girl suddenly stood in front of him * * She said * it has not had a chance yet * * She h...

民间寓言｜Folk Tale * At dusk * a charcoal fire rose in the yard * * Lamb meat sizzled on the iron rack * fat dripped into the fire * the flames jumped and danced * * The father stood beside the grill * turning the meat slowly * the smell spread through the air * * He lowered his head and said to the child * Go * invite your friends * come and eat the lamb together * * The child nodded * and ran o...

原著作者｜博多·舍费尔 * Kira was an ordinary little girl * Her family was average and her parents always argued about money * She wanted a new bike and a trip to America but didn't know how to do it * Later Kira saved an injured little dog * She named the dog Money * To her surprise Money could actually talk * And Money knew a lot about wealth and money rules * After Money got well he stayed with...

原著作者｜Robert T Kiyosaki * In Hawaii sunlight rests on a quiet street * A young boy grows up with two fathers * One father wears clean clothes leaves home on time and believes in school * The other sits in a small old shop hands rough rarely talks about school * The same questions receive very different answers * * The poor dad says study hard get a good job earn a steady salary * It sounds saf...

原著作者｜奥诺雷・德・巴尔扎克 * In the early nineteenth century, in central France, there was a small town called Saumur * It was not prosperous, but it produced wine * And it also produced a certain kind of people, those who believed only in money for their entire lives * * Monsieur Grandet was the most successful among them * He made his fortune by speculating on land during the Revolution * By...

原著作者｜歌德 * It is a pain you and I know well * You know you should not miss him * But you cannot take your eyes off him * You know this love has no end * Yet you stand still refusing to move * It is not that you do not understand * You just cannot accept the cruel truth * that he does not belong to you * Maybe you are not Werther * But late at night you have been him * That was the age of twe...