There was once a man went out to look for a job. As he was passing his neighbour's house, an important piece of paper fell out of the man's pocket.
His neighbour happened to be looking out of the window. Seeing the piece of paper fall, he thought, “What a disgrace!That guy deliberately let that fall out of his pocket. He's trying to mess up the front of my house, and he's being sneaky about it, too!”
But instead of going out and saying something, the neighbour planned his revenge .
That night, he took his wastepaper basket and went to the man's house. The first man also happened to be looking out of the window, and saw what happened. Later, when he was picking up the papers dumped on his porch, he found the important piece of paper he had lost. It was torn into dozens of pieces. He thought that his neighbour had not only picked his pocket, but had had the cheek to mess up his doorway with rubbish.
He didn't want to say anything . Rather, he started plotting his revenge. That night he phoned a farmer to make an order of ten pigs and a hundred ducks. He asked they be delivered to his neighbour's house.
Of course, the next day, his neighbour had quite a bit of trouble trying to rid himself of so many animals and their accompanying waste.
Sure that this had been a wicked trick pulled by his neighbour, as soon as the second man had gotten rid of the pigs and ducks, he again started planning his revenge.
And so it went on.
They continued trying to get their own back on each other, and each time their acts of revenge got bigger and more ridiculous. The dropping of that single piece of paper ended up with a rock band, a fire siren, the driving of a lorry into a garden fence, the throwing of a hail of stones at windows, the firing of a canon, and finally the dropping of a bomb which destroyed both men's houses.
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我市疾控部门通报,XX商场三楼老年装柜台员工吴某某,于2月14日被确诊为新型冠状病毒肺炎患者。为防止病毒扩散,保护广大市民的健康,请于2月10日10:00-17:00到过XX商场三楼服装区的居民,及时主动扫一扫下方二维码进行个人信息登记。如感觉身体难受,请与XX社区工作站联系,并自行按照传染病防治相关规定采取防范措施。居民不主动登记并造成后果的,将依法严惩。望居民朋友相互周知!
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在这场 的疫情中,不少人重新捧起了那些“沉重的书籍”,比如加缪的《鼠疫》、马尔克斯的《霍乱时期的爱情》、普雷斯顿的《<血疫--埃博拉的故 事》、毕淑敏的《花冠病毒》……这些疫病灾难类文学作品,或虚构,或纪实,都受到了格外的关注。
人类总是渴望平安,但灾难却从未远离过人类社会。从文学创作的角度来说,无论是虚构还是非虚构的作品,很多都是写照现实。从病毒的肆虐 到市井的人间百态,由此产生了极具张力的纠葛:荒诞、无奈、疼痛、分离、真诚、牺牲、成全、坚守....正是在感同身受的情感里、在 的思考中、在意味悠长的警醒里,文学与心灵产生了共鸣,虚构与非虚构的界限被打破。这是疫情文学当下流行的精神意义,也是灾难作品长久不衰的现实价值。
毫无疑问,或许从中读出了苦难。一场疫情,侵害的不仅是人的身体,更有心灵上成年累月的伤痛。加缪写道,“鼠疫带来的梦魇将永远萦绕奥兰人的心头,如这荒谬的世界。”尽管《鼠疫》里的世界是荒诞的,但人们对疾病的恐惧是真实的,对死亡的悲伤是真切的。( ) 在眼下这场史无前例的疫情中,许多同胞失去了生命,一些家庭遭受了重创……铭记那些犯过的错、经历的痛、面临的困,才能让逝者长眠,让心灵永恒。
不出预料,也会从中萌生起反思。在灾难中思索人性与文明,是这些有关疫情的文学作品中永恒的主题。每一次灾难都是一场噩梦,关键是梦醒时分的沉淀与洞察。在雅典历史学家修昔底德《伯罗奔尼撒战争史》中,不仅洞悉了灾难之后人性的凋谢和制度的败坏,更用史家的冷峻记录下了灾情。比瘟疫更可怕的是灵魂的沉沦。越是灾难降临的时刻,越需要呼唤文明之光、坚守人性本质。
但请相信,定能从中寻觅到希望。灾难,是人类无奈的“悲怆奏鸣曲”,也是闪烁人性光辉的“命运交响曲”。悲凉之外总是维系着希望。当方舱医院里跳起久违的舞蹈,当各地工厂中响起机器的轰鸣,当援鄂医疗队受到至高的礼遇……蓦然发现,我们不只有 的悲伤,还有高风亮节的精神,更有坚韧不拔的意志。
What would it be like to walk on Mars? If you could build the highest building in the world,what would it look like? Do you dream of being the next J. K. Rowling? This summer, you can experience all of these things, and more. All you need is an Internet connection and your imagination.
A recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that kids spend an average of 1 hour and 29 minutes online each day. Many kids like to use that time to chat with friends, play games or check emails. But the next time you get on the Web, try exploring the world instead. “With the Internet,you can go back 11,000 years in time,or go 11,000 kilometers across the planet.” said Russell, Web search expert of Google. “The whole scope of history and the world is open to you.”
There is a wealth of information to be found online. For example, if your family is going on vacation somewhere, do a quick online search on the area before you even get in the car. “What's the background of the place; what's the history?” says Russell. “I like to tell my kids, ‘Whenever you have a question, whenever you have a doubt, search it out.'”
Ready to launch a virtual journey of your own? Here are a few starting points to get you thinking and to help you on your way. You can invite your parents along for the ride, too. Always ask for permission before downloading programs and software onto your computer. And check with a parent or an adult before visiting any new Web site.
Navigate the world in 3D with Google Earth. Begin in outer space and zoom (快速移动) into the streets of any city, from Hong Kong to San Francisco. Or visit ancient monuments, watch the changing rainforests over time, and dive underwater to explore tropical reef.
With the Moon in Google Earth tool, you can walk in Neil Armstrong's famous footsteps. Take a guided tour of the moon's surface with Armstrong's fellow shuttle mate astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
When you're exploring that part of the solar system, hop on over to the Red Planet with Google Mars. There, you can move very quickly around the surface and see images from the Mars Rovers.
We didn't always live on Mango Street. We moved a lot. The house on Mango Street is ours, and we don't have to pay and worry about the landlord being . But even so, it's not the house we thought we'd get.
We had to leave the flat on Loomis quick because the water broke and so on. We had to use the next door and carried water over. That's why we moved into the house on Mango Street, far away, on the other of the town.
My parents always told us that one day we would into our own house. We would have a basement, at least three washrooms, a big yard and grass growing without a . But the real house on Mango Street is and red with steps in front. Out back is a small for the car we don't own yet.
BEIJING—World-renowned Oxford and Cambridge have come to China to attract top-rank postgraduate students in cooperation with the China Scholarship Council.
Oxford made its first (appear) at the China Scholarship Council's annual International Graduate Scholarship Fair, opened on Saturday in Beijing. The school wants to encourage excellent Chinese students to consider Oxford can offer for their academic and professional careers.
“The students (come) well-prepared with specific questions and were serious about the chance,”said Sherwood,director of graduate admissions and funding at Oxford,who will make two stops for the fair in Wuhan and Shanghai.
The University of Cambridge has attended the fair since first session in 2009,and stresses that it would continue to invest to train students to be problem solvers.
Cambridge and Oxford present at the fair in competition for best and brightest,Osterfield and Sherwood agree that the two universities (usual) have more interest in cooperation competition,except in their traditional annual boat race.
The book a series of lectures.