Firstly, and most importantly, don't put your chopsticks upright in the rice bowl. Instead, lay them on your dish. The reason for this is that when people die, family members give them a bowl of rice with a pair of chopsticks sticking out. So if you...
Help foreign guests at formal dinner 中国餐桌礼仪 With the Spring Festival just round the corner, your mouth might already be watering at the thought of the coming banquet. 春节就要到了。节日里自然少不了聚餐。一想到宴会上的...
Hints for Those That Would Be Rich 致富之道 The use of money is all the advantage there is in having Money. 有钱的唯一好处就在于用钱。 For six pounds a year you may have the use of one hundred pounds if you are a man of known prudenc...
The World As I See It 我的世界观 My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a lone trav...
The Gettysburg Address 葛底斯堡演说 Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 八十年前，我们的先辈在这...
Balzac as Handwriting Expert 手迹专家巴尔扎克 Balzac, the famous French writer, was a man of great talent. But he himself was proud of his ability to tell a person's character by his or her handwriting. He often told his friends that he could...
Lenin-Spoken English 学说英语 We thought we knew the English language, having even translated a whole book from English into Russian, when we were in Siberia. I learnt English in prison from a teach-yourself book, but had never heard a work of it...
Beethoven-Pure Joy 完美的快乐 I must live almost alone like one who has been banished, I can mix with society only as much as true necessity demands. If I approach near to people a hot terror seizes upon me and I fear being exposed to the danger...
You Are a Marvel 你是一个奇迹 Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of Franc...
Things Dog Must Try to Rmember狗们一定要记住的事情1. The garbage collector is NOT stealing our stuff. 1. 收垃圾的人并不是要偷我们的东西。 2. I do not need to suddenly stand straight up when I'm lying under the coffee table....
