[21] I moved into the slow lane, next to the dreaded edge, and swept around the terrifying curve. I kept my eyes riveted on the road directly ahead. Down and down I went. The curve seemed like it would never end. But all the way down the mountain I felt love encircling me, keeping me safe from my fear and guiding me.
[22] Finally I came

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At the end of the party, he invited her to have coffee with him, she was surprised, but due to being polite, she promised. 
They sat in a nice coffee shop, he was too nervous to say anything, sh

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　　Ann and Fatima did not want to marry the rich man because his bear

Once there were two mice. They were friends. One mouse lived in the country; the other mouse lived in the city. After many years the Country mouse saw the City mouse; he said, "Do come and see me at my house in the country." So the City mouse went. The City mouse said, "This food is not good, and your house is not good. Why do you live in a hole

There once was a young man named John George who had grown up in a quiet pleasant town, had been quietly mediocre in most things he'd tried, and even had a nice quiet family business waiting for him when he came of age. When he turned twenty-one and reflected on his life thus far, he was highly disappointed, for John's one really serious desire

A country maid was walking along with a can of milk upon her head, when she fell into the following train of reflections. “The money for which I sha

The Baby Eagle Story
Once upon a time there was a baby eagle living in a nest 1)perched on a cliff overlooking a beautiful valley with waterfalls and streams, trees and lots of little animals, 2)scurrying about enjoying their lives.
The baby eagle liked the nest. It was the only world he had ever

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In order to suppress those who were against her, Wu Zetian, the empress of the Tang Dynasty (618-907), appointed a few merciless persons to be judges. Two of them were extremely brutal; one was called Zhou Xing and the other was called Lai Junchen. They killed many upright civil and military officials as well as ordinary people by framing up cas

An Amazing Way to Deal With Change In Your Work & In Your Life
DR SPENCER JOHNSON
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Each of us has our own idea of what Ch

　 Long ago in a small, faraway village, there was a place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit. When he arrived, he hounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail wagging as fast as it could. To his gr

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王子复仇记
This is the sad story of Hamlet, young Prince of Denmark, whose father died two months before the story begins. Hamlet' s father was King of Denmark and Hamlet was his only son. The king died a strange death while he was sleeping in the garden of his castle. It was believed that he had been bitten to death by a poisonous

The Golden Fleece
　　king athamus of northern greece had two children， phrixus and helle．after he left his first wife and mar ried ino，a wicked woman，the two children received all the cruel treatment that a stepmother could devise ，at one timethe kingdom was ruined by a famine．ino persuaded her credulous husband into believing that his son，phr

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　　One day Little Red Coat said, "I want to show my red coat to Grandmother."
　　Grandmother lived in a hut. The way to the hut was through the forest.
　　The girl’s mot

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The Young Donkey
Once upon a time there was a king and a queen who were rich and had all they wanted except that they had no children. The queen bewailed this day and night, saying: "I am like a field on which nothing grows. "At last God granted her wish, but when the baby was born it didn't look like a human child: it was a little donke

The Seven Ravens
英汉对照
There was a man who had seven sons, but he had no daughter, greatly though he longed for one. At last his wife told him that they could again expect a child and, sure enough, when it was born it was a baby girl. There was great rejoicing, but the child was weak and puny, so weak that it had to be christened

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"My shield is so strong that nothing can pierce it through."
　　He also sang praises of his spear.
　　"My spear is so strong that it can pierce through anything."
　　"What would happen," he was asked, "if your spear is used to pier

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　　Have you not heard of the frog that lived in a shallow well? It said to a turtle that lived in the East Sea, "I am so happy! When I go out, I jump about on the railing beside the mouth of the well. When I come home,I rest in the holes on the broken wall of the well. If I jump into the water, it comes up to