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音频 臣密言：臣以险衅，夙遭闵凶。生孩六月，慈父见背。行年四岁，舅夺母志。祖母刘悯臣孤弱，躬亲抚养。臣少多疾病，九岁不行，零丁孤苦，至于成立。既无伯叔，终鲜兄弟；门衰祚薄，晚有儿息。外无期功强近之亲，内无应门五尺之僮。茕茕孑立，形影相吊。而刘夙婴疾病，常在床蓐；臣侍汤药，未...
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音频 先帝创业未半而中道崩殂，今天下三分，益州疲弊， 此诚危急存亡之秋也。然侍卫之臣不懈于内，忠志之士忘身于外者，盖追先帝之殊遇，欲报之于陛下也。诚宜开张圣听，以光先帝遗德，恢弘志士之气，不宜妄自菲薄，引喻失义，以塞忠谏之路也。...
A Child's Christmas in Wales
音频 One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking...
Work, Labor, and Play
音频 So far as I know, Miss Hannah Arendt was the first person to define the essential difference between work and labor. To be happy, a...
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
音频 Before the swallow, before the daffodil, and not much later than the snowdrop, the common toad salutes the coming of spring after his...
Golden Fruit
音频 Of the fruits of the year I give my vote to the orange. In the first place it is a perennial–if not in actual fact, at least in the...
The Death of the Moth
音频 Moths that fly by day are not properly to be called moths; they do not excite that pleasant sense of dark autumn nights and...
People
音频 E. M. Forster: from (1927) We may divide characters into flat and round. Flat characters were called “humours” in the seventeenth...
Lucidity, Simplicity, Euphony
音频 I have never had much patience with the writers who claim from the reader an effort to understand their meaning. You have only to go...
A Defence of Detective Stories
音频 In attempting to reach the genuine psychological reason for the popularity of detective stories, it is necessary to rid ourselves of...
