The fish never changed his course nor his direction all that night as far as the man could tell from watching the stars. It was cold after the sun went down and the old man's sweat dried cold on his b
My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table；but I am no more interested in such tilings than in the contents of the Daily
Thus chastened in spirit, quiet in mind and surrounded by proper company, one is fit to enjoy tea. For tea is invented for quiet company as wine is invented for a noisy party. There is something in th
Third, half of the art of making tea lies in getting good water with a keen edge; mountain spring water comes first, river water second, and well water third; water from the tap, if coming from dams,
These rafts were of a shape and construction to the crookedness and extreme narrowness of the Neckar. 这些木筏的形状和结构都适用于内卡河道弯曲和极狭窄的特点。 They were from fifty to one hundred yards long, and they gradually ta
Their lives are mainly spent not in memory but in expectation; 他们不是生活在对往昔的回忆中，而是生活在对未来的盼望中： for expectation refers to the future, memory to the past, and youth has a long future before it and a short
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. 走入孤独，远离书斋，如同远离社会一样重要。 I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. 纵然无人在我身旁，当我读书或写作时，并非独处一隅
One hundred fathoms down a marlin was eating the sardines that covered the point and the shank of the hook where the hand-forged hook projected from the head of the small tuna. 在一百英寻的深处有条大马林鱼正在吃包住钓钩尖端
In a true tea lover, the pleasure of handling all the paraphernalia is such that it is enjoyed for its own sake, 凡真正爱茶者，单是摇摩茶具，已经自有其乐趣。 as in the case of Ts'ai Hsiang, who in his old age was not able
"Eat it a little more," he said. "Eat it well." “再吃一些吧，”他说。“美美地吃吧。” Eat it so that the point of the hook goes into your heart and kills you, he thought. Come up easy and let me put the harpoon into yo
If Pisa be the seventh wonder of the world in right of its Tower，it may claim to be，at least，the second or third in right of its beggars. They waylay the unhappy visitor at every turn，escort him to ev
When the landlord learned that I and my agents were artists, our party rose perceptibly in his esteem；we rose still higher when he learned that we were making a pedestrian tour of Europe. 当旅店老板得知我和我的代
The next morning, I'd ferry across the river to Pukou，and，from there，catch an afternoon train for Beijing. 第二日上午便须渡江到浦口，下午上车北去。 Father said he was too busy to go and see me off at the railway station,
A cricket shrills in the grass. 一只蟋蟀在草丛中长鸣。 I think of poets and musicians. 我想起了诗人和音乐家。 Of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and of Shakespeare, whose Lorenzo declaims in The Merchant of Venice, How sweet
Grazing the right-bank dike and aiming carefully for the middle arch of the stone bndge below; 顺流而下，擦过堤岸的右侧边缘，小心地对准下游石桥的中孔滑下。 I watched them in this way,and lost all this time hoping to see one of the
When he came near the train，I hurried out to help him by the hand. 到这边时，我赶紧去搀他。 After boarding the train with me, he laid all the tangerines on my overcoat, and patting the dirt off his clothes，he loo
I felt approaching footsteps. I stretched out my hand as I supposed to my mother. Some onetook it, and I was caught up and held close in the arms of her who had come to reveal allthings to me, and, mo
As I glanced at Mark to see how he was doing, he winked at me. When I walked back to Mark's desk and removed the tape, his first words were, "Thank you for correcting me, Sister." 我瞟了瞟马克看他有什么反应，结果看到他朝
He held the line against his back and watched its slant in the water and the skiff moving steadily to the north-west. 他攥住了勒在背脊上的钓索，紧盯着它直往水中斜去，小船呢，不停地朝西北方驶去。 This will kill him, the old man thought. He
And was more startled when I heard a second affirm, with great vehemence, that if the Emperor of Germany was not going off, he should like him better than either of them. 然后，我又听到第二个人斩钉截铁地说，如果德国皇帝不退位的话
