简介： In the morning， at six o'clock ， the servant went into Werther's room with a candle. He found his master stretched upon the floor， weltering in his blood， and the pistols at his side. He called ， he took him in his arms， but received no answer. Life was not yet quite extinct. The servant ran for a surgeon ， and then went to fetch Albert. Charlotteheard the ringing of the bell ： a cold shudder seized her. She wakened her husband ， and they both rose. The servant， bathed in tears faltered fo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： 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： 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： THE family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who, for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happen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>

简介： 某公司也许购置了能用钱买到的最好的安全技术，员工们也训练有素，每晚回家前把所有的秘密都锁起来，并从业内最好的保安公司雇用了保安，但这家公司仍然易受攻击。一些人可能遵从了专家所有最好的安全建议，安装了各种受推荐的安全产品，并十分谨慎的处理系统配置以及应用安全补丁，但他们仍然很不安全。人为因素在国会听证会前的一次证言中，我解释到我经常可以从企业获得密码口令或其他类似的敏感信息，只需假扮某人直接开口要就是了。人们对于绝对安全的渴望常常导致他们满足于虚假的安全感之中。想像一位负责任的可爱的屋主，他有一套麦迪科（译者注：Medico,知名品牌、价格昂贵）防撬锁装在屋子的大门上，以保护他的妻子、孩子和他的家。他觉得很心安，因为他把家庭保护的很好。但对于破窗而入和解开车库大门密码的闯入者呢？再安装一套强壮的安全系统么？虽然有用，但还是不够安全。无论防盗锁是昂贵还是便宜，屋主的安全仍然难以保障。为什么？因为人为因素才是安全的软肋。安全，通常情况下仅仅是个幻想，由其是轻信、好奇和无知存在的时候。二十世纪最受尊敬的科学家爱因斯坦这样说道：&ldquo只有两种事物是无穷尽的――宇宙和人类的愚蠢。但对于前者，查看详情>

简介： 每当我钻进被窝搂着海伦时，我都会想到这世界上再没有比在天寒地冻的夜里搂着自己的好女人更享受的事。　　20世纪30年代的时候还没有电热毯，或许是那时的人们觉得兽医比这些玩意儿都重要吧。总之，在凌晨时分新陈代谢到了最低点的时候，被迫从温暖的被窝中爬出来是最残忍不过的事了。　　幸而，自我结婚以后，这种寒夜出诊的苦差事已经在我记忆中淡出了，因为每当我像刚从北极回来似的爬回她身边时，她总是毫不畏惧地迎接我，用她的体温温暖我那冻得跟冰棒似的躯体。顿时，两个小时之内所发生的事情似乎都像梦那么不真实了。　　这天凌晨1点电话又响了。星期天凌晨听到这种尖锐的电话声是很平常的，因为周末一些晚睡的农人总会在睡前检查牲口，看看是不是要找个倒霉的兽医。　　这回是应海罗先生，他说话的时候总是用那单薄沙哑的声音一口气说完一个句子。　　&ldquo我的母羊有点毛病，你来一趟好吗？&rdquo　　&ldquo很严重吗？&rdquo每次半夜昏头昏脑地接到这类电话时，我都期待着对方愿意延到第二天早晨。不过这种奢望从未实现过，至少像应先生这种人是死也不会愿意的。　　&ldquo很糟，我想总得有个人过来瞧瞧。&rdquo　　看来查看详情>