简介： 一 开场[祭司携一群乞援人自观众右方上，　　俄狄浦斯偕众侍从自宫中上。俄：孩儿们，老卡德摩斯的现代儿孙，城里正弥漫着香烟，到处是求生的歌声和苦痛的呻吟，你们为什么坐在我面前，捧着这些缠羊毛的树枝？孩儿们，我不该听旁人传报，我，人人知道的俄狄浦斯，亲自出来了。　　（向祭司）老人家，你说吧，你年高德劭，正应当替他们说话。你们有什么心事，为什么坐在这里？你们有什么忧虑，有什么心愿？我愿意尽力帮助你们，我要是不怜悯你们这样的乞援人，未免太狠心了。祭：啊，俄狄浦斯，我邦的君主，请看这些坐在你祭坛前的人都是怎样的年纪：有的还不会高飞；有的是祭司，像身为宙斯祭司的我，已经老态龙钟；还有的是青壮年。其余的人也捧着缠羊毛的树枝坐在市场里，帕拉斯的神庙前，伊斯墨诺斯庙上的神托所的火灰旁边。因为这城邦，像你亲眼看见的，正在血红的波浪里颠簸着，抬不起头来；田间的麦穗枯萎了，牧场上的牛瘟死了，妇人流产了；最可恨的带火的瘟神降临到这城邦，使卡德摩斯的家园变为一片荒凉，幽暗的冥土里倒充满了悲叹和哭声。　　我和这些孩子并不是把你看作天神，才坐在这祭坛前求你，我们是把你当作天灾和人生祸患的救星；你曾经来到卡德摩斯的城邦查看详情>

简介： 丰田眼前有一只狗。那不是干净的家犬，经历了反复的风雨泥泞，它的毛色已变灰，就像纯结的少年被世上的辛酸，痛苦蹂躏弄脏一样。丰田有种亲切感，甚至觉得那只狗就是自己。自己在公司的地位，不就和那只狗一样了吗？不，不对，我在年轻时也曾经受到重视，饮料罐的设计不也获得了一定的好评吗？是我提出了在罐装咖啡包装上贴上纯白标签的点子，再加上具有画龙点睛之效的深褐色线条的做法业大获好评。然而，随着年轻一辈的发言权越来越强，指名自己的工作逐渐减少，变得只剩下打杂或助理的工作。在所谓技术顾问这种有名无实的位置上，根本无法提出什么像样的意见，技巧日渐生疏。被公司开除时，甚至还被说&ldquo你的设计什么根本都只是模仿而已&rdquo。以前倍受疼爱，现在却浑身泥泞，是啊，我果然跟那只狗一样。他仔细一看，狗的脖子上还系着项圈，以前曾被某个家庭饲养，后来被抛弃了吗？或许家犬也有裁员制度，所以才会被丢弃。他沿着仙台车站一楼的通道，往北边走了十来米。头顶上延伸着的人行天桥，遮盖了天空。老狗在车站大楼的入口边上将身子缩成一团。丰田看了狗一眼，本来打算就这么走过去。因为他害怕一直盯着狗看，就像是看到了自己的未来。他发现有个奇查看详情>

简介： 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 frommentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small towit, a workhouse and in this workhouse was born, on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this查看详情>

简介： It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way&mdashin short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its nois查看详情>

简介： He laughed &mdash a large, wholesome laugh &mdash and this began a dissertation on the rights of a man to do what he liked with his own creations, which being a matter of purely professional interest, I will mercifully omit.Returning to the big chair, he, speaking of truth and the like in literature, said that an autobiography was the one work in which a man, against his own will and in spite of his utmost striving to the contrary, revealed himself in his true light to the world.&lsquoA good dea查看详情>

简介： When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which had enabled him to maintain and educate a family with all the advantages which money can give in this country. Mark was his eldest son and second child a查看详情>

简介： The date is between twenty and thirty years ago. The place is an English sea-port. The time is night. And the business of the moment is &mdash dancing.The Mayor and Corporation of the town are giving a grand ball, in celebration of the departure of an Arctic expedition from their port. The ships of the expedition are two in number &mdash the Wanderer and the Sea-mew. They are to sail (in search of the Northwest Passage) on the next day, with the morning tide.Honor to the Mayor and Corporat查看详情>

简介： On the evening of the 17th March 1859, Captain Craventy gave a fête at Fort Reliance. Our readers must not at once imagine a grand entertainment, such as a court ball, or a musical soirée with a fine orchestra. Captain Craventy&rsquos reception was a very simple affair, yet he had spared no pains to give it éclat.In fact, under the auspices of Corporal Joliffe, the large room on the ground-floor was completely transformed. The rough walls, constructed of roughly-hewn trunks of t查看详情>

简介： Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon `Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined,myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the 查看详情>

简介： 顺流而下坐慢船，由重庆顺流而下，我来到了涪陵。这是一个温暖，清爽的夜晚，在1996年八月的尾声。长江上星光闪烁，星光微弱，无法从黑色的水面反射出来。一辆学校派来的小车，载着我们从码头出发，沿着丛丛曲折的小路前行。城市在我们身边急速掠过，在星光之下，它显得黯淡，陌生。我们有两个人。我，27岁；亚当梅勒，22岁，我们还很年轻，是被派到这里来做教师的。之前我们几乎从未听闻过涪陵。我所知的，乃是这城市部分将因新近建设的三峡大坝而淹没，我还知道，涪陵许多年来，一直对外面的人封闭。除此，就没什么关于涪陵的信息了。半个世纪来，没有美国人在此生活过。后来，我碰到城里一些长者，他们还记得在1940年代住在这里的美国居民，在1949年共产党解放之前，而这些记忆又总是相当的模糊。在我们抵达时，这里还住有另一个外国人，一个德国人，他在一所当地中学教了一个学期。但我们只和他碰了一次面，其后不久他便离开了。在那之后，我们便是这小城中仅有的两个外国人。这里的人口大约二十万，以中国的标准来说只能算是小城。涪陵不通铁路。长期以来，它都是四川省的一个贫穷地区，公路状况很是糟糕。去哪儿你都得搭船，而多数时候，你哪儿也不会去查看详情>