To even the least sensitive and perceptive beholder the Morning Rose, at this stage of her long and highly chequered career, must have seemed ill-named, for if ever a vessel could fairly have been said to be approaching, if not actually arrived at, the sunset of her days it was this one. Offi...

作者：杨东明第一章跳着桑巴舞的太阳转弯的时候，杜晓强猛地打了几下方向盘，“老人家”腿脚不灵地闪摆着，冲过浅浅的路沟，没脸没皮地擦伤了路边一棵年轻貌美的小白杨。“双脚同时向下踩，踩下离器和制动踏板——”，杜晓强心里默念着口诀，煞住了车。只不过是春末夏初，天忽然就热了起来，吉普车里像是升了温的电烤箱...

　A few years ago, while I was writing Flood Tide, I realized that Dirk Pitt needed some help on a particular assignment, and so I dreamed up Juan Cabrillo.　Cabrillo ran a ship called the Oregon, on the outside pletely nondescript, but on the inside packed with state-of-the-art intelligence-gath...

Chapter One: THE PLAIN OF FEARThe still desert air had a lens-like quality. The riders seemed frozen in time, moving without drawing closer. We took turns counting. I could not get the same number twice running.A breath of a breeze whined in the coral, stirred the leaves of Old Father Tree. Th...

第1节：恋爱禁止学校(1)　　一间十分宽敞明亮的豪华客厅，檀香木桌子前，一只粗糙却明显带着贵气的手夹着一根正在燃烧的古巴名牌大雪茄缓缓地伸向放在桌子上的烟灰缸，一刹那间，客厅的门突然被猛地撞开了，夹着雪茄烟的贵手剧烈地抖动了一下，那支名牌古巴大雪茄烟差点掉到了地上。　　“老……老爷，不……不好……好...

译者：肖毛[作品简介]　　《天鹅的喇叭》的主要内容是：男孩萨姆无意中发现了生活在池塘边的一窝天鹅，小天鹅路易斯生下来不会像其他天鹅一样鸣叫，但是他凭着自己的毅力和勇气，在他的父亲和萨姆的帮助下，学会了吹小号和写字，并且以自己的音乐天赋赢得了人们的喜爱。在一个意外的情形之下，他救了自己一直爱恋着的雌...

原着：倪匡扫瞄校正：MRX********************************************************************　　　　　　　　　　　　　MRX无责任瞎扯区的写作范围很广，举凡科幻、冒险、推理、武侠、散文，都有发表相关著作至于武侠系列，嗯...不敢恭维，看不太下去，有点闷，连他改编还珠楼主的的蜀山剑侠传(紫青双剑录)小弟都看...

笛卡尔思想概览(代序)一、 早期文集二、 指导心灵的规则三、 世界(论光和论人)四、 方法导论五、 光学论六、 第一哲学沉思七、 按几何学方式证明上帝的存在和人的精神与肉体之间的区别八、 哲学原理九、 理性之光对真理的探求十、 人体及其功能之描述十一、 对一个纲要的评注十二、 论心灵的激情十三、 作者对沉思集几组...

憨氏主编成就人生的大法则：激励是一盏灯，再晦暗的心灵都能照亮！激励自己，激励同事，激励上司，激励下属！前言在我们的日常生活及工作中，良好的人际关系是成功的重要前提。而在每个人的内心深处，对于得到他人的肯定和鼓舞总是充满着强烈的渴望。亚伯拉罕·林肯曾经说过：“人人都需要赞美，你我都不例外。”而马克...

　　　　The wind blew hard and joggled the water of the ocean, sending ripples across its surface.Then the wind pushed the edges of the ripples until they became waves, and shoved the waves around until they became billows.The billows rolled dreadfully high: higher even than the tops of houses.So...

季羡林古今中外赞美读书的名人和文章，多得不可胜数。张元济先生有一句简单朴素的话：“天下第一好事，还是读书。”“天下”而又“第一”，可见他对读书重要性的认识。为什么读书是一件“好事”呢？也许有人认为，这问题提得幼稚而又突兀。这就等于问“为什么人要吃饭”一样。因为没有人反对吃饭，也没有人说“读书不是...

　　　　Minus 100 and COUNTING　　She was squinting at the thermometer in the white light ing through the window. Beyond her, in the drizzle, the other highrises in Co-Op City rose like the gray turrets of a penitentiary. Below, in the airshaft, clotheslines flapped with ragged wash. Rats and plu...

　　It was hot. The shallow place where I lay atop the desert ridge was like an oven, the rocks like burning coals. Out on the flat below, where the Apaches waited, the heat waves shimmered and danced. Only the far-off mountains looked cool.　When I tried to push out my tongue to touch my cracked...

　To William Howells　　　"Praise not the day until evening has e; a woman until she is burnt; a sword until it is tried; a maiden until she is married; ice until it has been crossed; beer until it has been drunk."　VIKING PROVERB　　"Evil is of old date."　ARAB PROVERB　　INTRODUCTION　THE IBN F...

　While ethnological material as used in this book is not intended to meet scholarly and scientific standards, the author wishes to acknowledge information derived from publications of Willard W. Hill, Leland C. Wyman, Mary C. Wheelwright, Father Berard Haile, Clyde Kluckhohn, and Washington Matt...

　　1975年的6月11日，崔智友出生于韩国釜山一户普通的四口之家。据说当智友的妈妈怀孕时，她梦到自己从苹果树上摘下一粒苹果，并揣在怀里，因此产下了智友。崔爸爸给她取名叫美香。因为经常搬家，年纪尚小的美香也随着家人东奔西走，从六年级开始，她才住在釜山，所以她从小就没有太多的娇气，而且培养了很好的适应能力...

　　OXFORD　　　　　　ONE　　THE DECANTER OF TOKAY　　　　　　Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen. The three great tables that ran the length of the hall were laid already, the silver and the glass catching what little...

　　序章银河系史概略　　西元二八○一年，政治统一中枢由太阳系第三行星地球，迁移至毕宿五（金牛座α）系第二行星德奥里亚。在那里发表银河联邦创立宣言的人类，同年改元为宇宙历元年，并开始向银河系的深处及边境，无止境地拓展开来。而到了西元三七○○年代之后，最显著的特征就是战乱迭起和秩序荡然，导致人类对外...

　　　　The spring rains had softened the ground, so Dunk had no trouble digging the grave. He chose a spot on the western slope of a low hill, for the old man had always loved to watch the sunset. "Another day done," he would sigh, "and who knows what the morrow will bring us, eh, Dunk?"　Well, ...

　CROOKS IN AMBUSH　IT was gala night in the city of Westford. Streets were strung with brilliant lines of colored electric lights. Store fronts were illuminated, throwing their brightness upon festooned posts and displaying the elaborate decorations of their own windows. Tourists, driving throug...