3 Balance of Nature 自然平衡 All the different plants and animals in a natural world are in a state of balance. This balance is achieved by the plants and animals interacting with each other and with their non-living surroundings. An example of a...
2 The Village School 乡村小学 By Charles Dickens Little Nell looked round the room as she took her seat. There were a couple of forms, notched and cut and inked all over; a small deal desk perched on four legs, at which no doubt the master sat, a...
1 A Psalm of Life 《人生颂》 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 朗费罗 What the Heart of the Young Man said to the Psalmist. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! for the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what the...
20 Work 工作 It is physically impossible for a well-educated, intellectual, or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts; as physically impossible as(1) it is for him to make his dinner the principal object of them. All healthy peopl...
19 The Burglar In Hyde Park 海德公园里的窃贼 L.G. Alexander L．G．亚历山大 Loud shouting in the distance made us look up. This was nothing unusual for Hyde Park, for many people come here on a Sunday to air their views, and shouting is...
18 The Story Of A Fire 火灾见闻 Jacob August Rits 雅各布里斯 Thirteen years have passed since, but it is all to me as if it had happened yesterday, -- the clanging of the fire-bells, the hoarse shouts of the firemen, the wild rush and terror...
17 An October Sunrise 十月的日出 Richard Doddridge Blackmore 理查德D布莱克默 I was up the next morning before the October sunrise, and away through the wild and the woodland. The rising of the sun was noble in the cold and warmth of it; p...
16 A Man's A Man For A' That 人总是人，不管那一切 Robert Burns 罗伯特．彭斯 Is there for honest poverty That hings his head, an' a' that ?(2) The coward slave, we pass him by We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, an' a' that, Our...
15 Journey To The Bottoms Of The Pacific Ocean 到太平洋底的旅行 L.G. Alexander L．G．亚历山大 The journey two naval officers made some time ago to the very deepest point on the earth makes us realize how much of the world still remains...
14 Address To His Troops 乔治华盛顿对部队的演说 George Washington 乔治华盛顿 The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call...
