- 简墨;ALICE WALKER;
<正> "To hell with dying." my father would say. "These childrenwant Mr. Sweet!" Mr. Sweet was a diabetic and an alcoholic and a guitar play-er and lived down the road from us on a neglected cotton farm.MY older brothers and sisters got the most benefit from Mr.Sweet, for when they were growing up he had quite a few years a-head of him and so was capable of being called back from thebrink of death any number of times—whenever the voice of my fa-
1994年07期 No.271 3-10页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 220K] - 杨芳林;William Saroyan;
<正> It was evening in Ithaca when Homer finally drew up infront of the telegraph office. The clock in the window said twominutes past seven. Inside the office Homer saw Mr. Spangler,the manager of the telegraph office, counting the words of a tele-gram which a tired-looking, troubled young man of twenty or sohad just handed him. As he came into the office, Homer listenedto Mr. Spangler and the young man. "Fourteen words collect." Spangler said. He paused a mo-
1994年07期 No.271 11-16页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 132K] - 夷则;Donald Barthelme;
<正> THE first thing the baby did wrong was to tear pages out ofher books. So we made a rule that each time she tore a page out ofa book she had to stay alone in her room for four hours. behindthe closed door. She was tearing out about a page a day, in the be-ginning,and the rule worked fairly well,although the crying andscreaming from behind the closed door were unnerving.We rea-soned that that was the price you had to pay,or part of the price
1994年07期 No.271 17-19页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 64K] - 佚林;Harry Farjeon;
<正> "I say, we seem a bit gloomy, don't we? exclaimed Todman.‘Who'll do something to cheer us up on our last night?' ‘Nothing's going to cheer me up.' said the pretty girl on thefootstool, transferring her dreamy eyes from the log fire to theyoung man standing by. ‘Christmas-Honeymoon-Dartmoor-it's been too perfect! And tomorrow it will be all over!' ‘Not over, Jessamy-just beginning,' the young man cor-
1994年07期 No.271 20-27页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 193K] - 张剑;
<正> 提起诗歌,人们自然会想到声步和韵律。诗歌之所以成为诗歌是因为它有独特的形式。诗歌的文字经精心排列而形成音乐性,经上下左右的组合而获得特殊效果。然而,诗歌也是由文字构成的,它要表达作者的意思和情感。也就是说,每一首诗,除了其固有的特性以外,都含有作者的意图,此所谓"诗言志"也。所以,每一首诗都有一个"可改写的意义"(paraphrasable meaning)。这就是我们所说的诗歌主题。那么,有没有无主题的诗歌呢?有,英文叫作nonsense verse。爱德华·李
1994年07期 No.271 33-35页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 92K] <正> either weak or corrupt. There was continuous power struggle inthe court, and the common people were badly oppressed and ex-ploited. What had happened at the end of the Qin and the WesternHan happened again: peasants rose in revolt in many parts of thecountry. One peasant army led by Zhang Jiao(张角)was active inNorth China. As a mark each fighter of the army wound a yellowturban around his head, and this gave the army a name: the Yel-
1994年07期 No.271 36-39页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 98K] - 炳和;
飞机上的乘务员一空姐儿们一是乘飞机旅行次数最多、时间最长、飞行距离最远的乘客,所以被称作THE MOST FREQUENTFLIERS。本文记述了乘务员们的工作及训练情况。
1994年07期 No.271 40-47页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 217K] - MICHAEL BOCIURKIW;晏小萍;
出国当保姆,对菲律宾妇女来说并非什么新鲜事,然而怎样使她们加盟这滚滚洪流的海外劳务大军之中而成为训练有素的阿妈?于是保姆培训学校便应运而生。那么妇女们在这种学校学些什么呢?
1994年07期 No.271 48-53页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 169K] - Bobbie Nelson;郭燕苹;
<正> Our grandmother would wake Willie and rile up in the morn-ing by throwing ice water on us. Mama might call our names onceor twice, but if our feet didn't immediately hit the floor, herewould come this flood of ice water. Usually I would jump out ofbed before the water struck -because I knew it was on its wayand I didn't like it-but some mornings she needed a whole pitch-er of water to get Willie up. Willie says he would have grown up
1994年07期 No.271 54-58页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 134K] - David;
<正> You touch on two topics: The Tonya Harding Affair and Bei-jingers in New York. Ladies first. So lets start with Tonya. I was brought up in England on such sporting slogans as"He" (meaning god) "marks not what you won or lost-but howyou played the game" (of life).And "Play up. play up and playthe game" (meaning play fair and be brave). This was originally
1994年07期 No.271 59-60页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 43K] - Tom Crabtree;侯毅凌;
<正> The German philosopher Nietzsche once said that we need liesin order to live. They console, evoke sympathy, hide and protect.They can also confuse, damage relationships, lead to a loss of trustand create a world in which nobody feels comfortable. People re-sort to lies to save face, to deliberately. mislead, to gain power.And lies are not always to do with words. You can live a lie.
1994年07期 No.271 61-64页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 108K] - Elaine Dutka;石恩;
本文为去年奧斯卡奖外语片评比中的一个侧面,我们从中可以了解奧斯卡奖外语片从选定到入围、到提名再到获奖的一点情况。
1994年07期 No.271 65-66页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 50K] - Pico Iyer;简墨;
<正> Every one of us knows the sensation of going up, on retreat, toa high place and feeling ourselves so lifted up that we canhardly imagine the circumstances of our usual lives, or all thethings that make us fret. In such a place, in such a state, we startto recite the standard litany: that silence is sunshine where corn-pany is clouds; that silence is rapture, where company is doubt;that silence is golden, where company is brass.
1994年07期 No.271 67-70页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 105K] - Tom MeArthur;贺欧;
<正> Tom McArthur, linguist and lexicographer, is editor of theOxford Companion to the English Language and the scholarlyjournal English Today. At his home in Cambridge, he spoke withNewsweek's Daniel Pedersen and Deborah Curran. Excerpts;
1994年07期 No.271 71-73页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 80K] - 云峰;
许多人认为西方人,尤其是美国人在性方面比较随便。然而美国的统计调查却说明美国人大部分还是比较严肃地对待爱情和婚姻的("most stay faithful to each other")。那些盲目崇拜西方、游戏爱情与婚姻的人不妨反思一下。
1994年07期 No.271 74页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 26K] <正> IF EVEREST were a person-and Tibetans call it the God-dess Mother of the World-it might feel a bit put L1pon, OnMay 10th, 38 people tottered to the top, took a quick look at theview and scrambled down again, They included climbers fromAmerica, Britain, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Ko-rea. This was the highest number reaching the summit of theworld's highest mountain in one day, beating the previous record
1994年07期 No.271 75页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 30K] - JOHN STEINBACK;夷则;
<正> I guess it is true that big and strong things are much lessdangerous than small soft weak things. Nature(whatever that is)makes the small and weak reproduce faster. And that is not trueof course. The ones that did not reproduce faster than they died,disappeared. But how about little faults, little pains, little wor-ries. The cosmic ulcer comes not from great concerns, but fromlittle irritations. And great things can kill a man, but if they do
1994年07期 No.271 76页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 20K] - MARIA CERESA;申明;
<正> They squirm, eat household garbage and a box of 1, 000might soon cost $ 61. Red striped tiger worms and their voracious appetite for
1994年07期 No.271 77-78页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 39K] - 易草木;
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1994年07期 No.271 79页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 14K] - 应天;
<正> Still busy with the toast and marmalade, the motorist of the21st century is already prepared for the day's drive. From thebreakfast table a remote control has opened the garage door, un-locked the car and set the air conditioning; a split-level system,giving cool air to the face and warmth to the feet, with pre-chosentemperatures. Our drive lives in Hastings and has a business call in
1994年07期 No.271 80-84页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 96K] - 纪边;
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1994年07期 No.271 90页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 10K] - MICHAEL LEUNIG;吴希仁;
<正> DEAR God. Help and guide the television stations, radio stations,newspapers and magazines. It now seems there are too many ofthem and controlled by too few people, but bless them anyway inthe hope that not too much awfulness results from their vain andpetty struggles for the largest share of the market. Protect the viewers, the listeners and the readers from theexcesses of this struggle, from the deceitful gimmicks, the
1994年07期 No.271 94页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 16K] - 樱南;
<正> PROBLEM:I am 16 and sometimes I think lire is not worth liv-ing. My problem is that boys call me ugly and never seem to likeme. When I go to dances I'm never asked to dance,and I'm al-ways left out of everything. I can talk to boys but can't flirt withthem, The school holidays are the loneliest time of the year forme. I just sit at home and do nothing, I'm really not all that shyand can't understand why boys hate me that much.
1994年07期 No.271 95页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 23K] - 柳晴;
<正> Dandelions in spring are joyful things. Their bright yellowblooms poke up in unexpected places. They sometimes carpet awhole field with living sunshine. Dandelions are "pushy." They grow fast, and they grow big.They will kill any grass growing around them and shove aside anytiny flower plants trying to grow near them. And dandelions don't give up easily. Dig them all up one
1994年07期 No.271 96-97页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 68K] 下载本期数据