Many ages had now passed away since the Phoenix had been seen in the world. At last he again appeared. Immediately al the different kinds of animals, both birds and beasts, flocked around him.
Astonished at his beauty, they stared and admired, and broke out into great praise. But in a short time, the wisest and most prudent(谨慎的) amongst them began to look upon him with an eye of compassion, and they sighed,"O unhappy phoenix! Fate has been hard to him. He has neither mate nor friend. He will never know the pleasure of loving, or of being loved."
Many many years ago, in the State of Song, there was a city gate. Outside the gate was a moat with fishes that lived a quiet and happy life there.
One day the tower above the city gate caught fire and the people of the city were alarmed. Even the fishes in the moat could hear the gone.
"What's the noise about?" the fishes wondered. "I must go and find out," said one curious black carp. When he saw the tower on fire, he hurried back to tell his mates. "Swim all you could! Swim all you could! Swim for life!" He cried to his fellow-fishes. "The city gate is burning!"
So all the fishes except the carps started to swim away. One arrogant carp even laughed at the other fishes. "Don't laugh," said the kind black carp. "You really ought to swim away, too, in good time."
"Why should I?" asked the arrogant carp. "It's only their city gate on fire, what's it got to do with me in the water?" The fire spread very fast and the firemen had used up all the water in the city. But it was still burning. So they fetched waster from the moat.
At long last, the fire was put out, but the moat had also gone dry, leaving a few sorry carps in their dying struggle. This tale likens the city gate fire to disasters that do not seem to concern us but that can spread and involve even the innocent.
A man lost his axe, and began to suspect the son of his neighbor to have the appearance of a thief no matter from what angle he looked at him.
After a period of time, he found his axe when was digging his well. From then on, when he saw him again, he found the son of his neighbor did not like a thief in any way, such as the way of walking, his look, the way of talking, manner, and so on.
Meng jiu is a kind of bird that lives in the south. It always makes its delicate nest with beautiful feathers, and fastens the nest to the spikes of reeds(芦苇).
Whenever there is a big wind, the nest always falls to the ground when the reeds break. All the eggs and young birds are killed. Disaster happens not because the nest Meng Jiu makes is not fast enough, but the reed that the nest is fastened to is too weak.
分析英语构词对我们进行英语单词的记忆非常有帮助,准确定义词根和词缀,可以帮助我们分析出每个新词和生词是怎样产生的,其意义是如何演化出来的,这样知其然又知其所以然地来记忆词汇,当然可以达到事半功倍的效果了。词根词缀记忆法口诀:前缀改变词义,后缀改变词性。例如:词根“it”表示“go”的意思。怎么记?乍一看可能会抓狂,但只要想想“exit”就好办了,出口的用处是让人go out,即有“exit= go out”,而前缀“ex”=“out”,所以剩下的“it”=“go”;再看“visit”,参观的意思是走一走,看一看,即有“visit = go & see”,而“vis = see”(我们知道vision是“视力”,visual是“视觉”),所以剩下的“it”还是“go”的意思。
China has been a powerful country for the most part of the past three thousand years.China is now rising again.Why is that so surprising to people?History is the best evidence.The rise of China is just a matter of when,not if.Plus,do you want $100 jeans?Do you want $200 shoes?Do you want $3000 computers?If the answers are NO,you'd better thank China and appreciate the benefits that it brings to your daily life. 中国在过去3000年历史中大部分时间当中都是个强大的国家.中国现在再次崛起,为什么人们会感到如此奇怪?历史是最好的证明.中国崛起只是个时间问题,而不是是否能崛起的问题.另外,你希望卖100美元一条的牛仔裤,200美元一双鞋,3000美元的电脑吗?如果不愿意,你必须要感谢中国,感谢中国为你日常生活做出的贡献.