Don't you think it may be a little premature? I can't help thinking that your evidence is not complete. Lestrade knew my friend too well to disregard his words. He laid down his pen and looked curiously at him. What do you mean, Mr. Holmes? Only that...
Holmes had recovered his equanimity, though I still seemed to detect gleams of amusement in his expression. Dear me, this is a very sad development, Watson, is it not? said he. And yet there are singular points about it which hold out some hopes for...
Dear me! Dear me! he said at last. Well, now, who would have thought it? And how deceptive appearances may be, to be sure! Such a nice young man to look at! It is a lesson to us not to trust our own judgment, is it not, Lestrade? Yes, some of us are...
If you're ever reading a book or watching a movie and get the distinct feeling you've come across the story before or even better, can predict exactly what's going to happen next there could be a good reason for that. 如果你在读书或者看电影时...
1. The Lovely Bones By Alice Sebold; 400 pages 1. 《可爱的骨头》，艾丽斯西伯德著（400页） Because Susie made us trust -- and cry for -- a ghost. 推荐理由：（女主人公）苏西让我们信任一缕孤魂，并为之哭泣。...
两位夫人，一个葬礼，零滴眼泪。 闻君有两意，故来相决绝。卓文君《白头吟》 2. Disputes between nations. Sorrow among families. 两国争端，万家苦难。 边庭流血成海水，武皇开边意未已。杜甫《兵车...
TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitiou...
THE ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical. It is not pretended that these laws and customs existed in England in the sixth century; no, it is only pr...
Chapter 1 - Camelot CAMELOT -- Camelot, said I to myself. I don't seem to remember hearing of it before. Name of the asylum, likely. It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. The air was full of the s...
IT is my considered view that no one can invent fictional characters without first having made a lengthy study of people, just as it is impossible for anyone to speak a language that has not been properly mastered. Since I am not yet of an age to in...
