Love Your Mom (Excerption)感恩母亲（节选）Those Teenage Years少年岁月When you were 13, she suggested a haircut that was becoming. 你13岁，她建议你把发型剪得体。 You thanked her by telling her she had no taste. 你报答她，对...
With enough of a flourish to guarantee the class's attention, he went to the front of the room, near one edge of the board. Then, clearing his throat, he drew a coathook right near one of the protruding nails. He proceeded to hang his coat and hat on...
A Math Teacher's Story数学老师的魔法Years ago, I was taking an algebra class over the summer, and had a teacher who liked to reminisce about his past with funny stories. He relates that he had been a math teacher in the Air Force, where it was...
Nails in the Fence篱笆上的钉子There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. 从前有一个小男孩脾气很...
And now the iron hook fell at his feet, and the fireman stood upon the step with the rescued lad in his arms, just as the pentup flame burst lurid from the attic window, reaching with impotent fury for its prey. The next moment they were safe upon th...
The Story of a Fire烈火雄心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 of the streets; then the great hush that...
Congratulations恭喜升天For a long time Dr. Jackson had wanted to get a permanent job in a certain big modern hospital, and at last he was successful. He was appointed to the position that he wanted, and he and his wife moved into a new house. The...
Tit for Tat针锋相对An American lady traveling in England some years ago, got into an compartment of a smoking carriage where an Englishman was smoking a pipe. For a short time she sat quietly expecting that the Englishman would stop smoking. But...
Legal Advice法律咨询费Mitchell Palmer was a young lawyer. One day, a neighbor entered his office and asked: What could I do if another man's dog entered my yard and killed one of my chickens?密切尔伯默先生是个青年律师。有一天，他...
Courteous Retort礼貌的反击A learned scientist was attending a dinner, and as cigars were being indulged in one of the guests began to deride philosophy. He went on rudely to express the opinion that philosopher was but another way of spelling fo...
