晓义学习与关注

Lesson 41  Illusions of Pastoral peace  宁静田园生活的遐想 

The quiet life of the country ahs never appealed to me. City born and city bred. I have always regarded the country as something you look at through a train window, or somethi...

Lesson 29  Funny or not?  是否可笑？

Whether we find a joke funny or not largely depends on where we have been brought up. The sense of humour is mysteriously bound up with national characteristics. A Frenchman, for instance, might find...

Lesson 27  Nothing to sell and nothing to buy 不卖也不买？It has been said that everyone lives by selling something. In the light of this statement, teachers live by selling knowledge, philosophers by selling wisdom and priests by selling spiritual comfort. Though it ...

Lesson 23 One man's meat is another man's poison各有所爱 People become quite illogical when they try to decide what can be eaten and what cannot be eaten. If you lived in theMediterranean, for instance, you would consider octopus a great delicacy. You w...

Lesson 22  By heart  熟记台词

    Some plays are so successful that they run for years on end, In many ways, this is unfortunate for the poor actors who are required to go on repeating the same lines night after night. O...