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米奇·阿尔博姆是美国的一位体育专栏的主持人，莫里·施瓦茨是他在大学里曾给予过他许多思想的教授，在米奇毕业十五年后的一天，他偶然得知莫里·施瓦茨身患了绝症,而且来日无多，那是一种类似于我们所相当熟悉《时间简史》的作者斯蒂芬·霍金所患疾病，这时老教授所感受的不是对生命即将离去的恐惧，而是希望把自己许多年来思考的一些东西传播给更多的人，于是老人唯一的学生米奇·阿尔博姆，相约每个星期二上课，在以后的十四个星期里，米奇每星期二飞越七百英里到老人那儿去上课，在这十四个星期里，他们聊到了人生的许多组成部分，如何面对他人，如何面对爱，如何面对恐惧，如何面对家庭，以及感情及婚姻，金钱与文化，衰老与死亡，最后一堂课便是莫里老人的葬礼，整个事情的过程，以及这十四堂课的笔记便构成了这本《相约星期二》。

读者能看到一个表面漠然中立的叙事者背后的模糊性和矛盾性：作为帝国叙事的一分子，作者的面纱之下隐藏着东方主义的政治文化观；作为一个关注人性的个体作家，他的面纱之下隐藏着他对爱的怀疑和渴求、对人性的嘲讽和宽容。2005年，该小说被改编成同名电影。内容简介：故事发生在英国的殖民地香港和中国内陆一个叫“湄潭府”的地方。女主人公凯蒂·费恩因为和香港助理布政司查理通奸，被丈夫瓦尔特（香港政府的细菌学家）发现后胁迫她去了霍乱横行的湄潭府，最终瓦尔特不幸染病死去，凯蒂回到香港，重投查理怀抱后羞愧不已，最终回到英国和父亲和解，并和父亲同往巴哈马群岛生活。从《面纱》一书中，读者能看到一个表面漠然中立的叙事者背后的模糊性和矛盾性：作为帝国叙事的一分子，作者的面纱之下隐藏着东方主义的政治文化观；作为一个关注人性的个体作家，他的面纱之下隐藏着他对爱的怀疑和渴求、对人性的嘲讽和宽容。

Ten time-honored tales—brimming with enchantment, whimsy and sly humor—offer hours of reading pleasure: "The Birth of Bran," "The Little Brawl at Allen," "The Enchanted Cave of Cesh Corran," "Becuma of the White Skin," "Mongan’s Frenzy," and five others.

英国作家狄更斯于1838年出版的长篇写实小说。该书揭露许多当时的社会问题，如救济院、童工、以及帮派吸收青少年参与犯罪等。该书曾多次改编为电影、电视及舞台剧。内容简介：奥利弗9岁时，孤儿院管事把他送进工厂。奥利弗抽签成了大家的代表，提出因吃不饱而增加口粮的要求，工厂便不愿继续收留他。奥利弗被卖到棺材店老板家。他参加出殡行列，行为举止使老板很满意。但年长学徒故意侮辱他过世母亲的人格，他忍无可忍，拔拳搏斗。老板家将他锁了起来。他星夜出逃，一连步行了7天，到达伦敦。少年杰克·道金斯把他带到破烂的窝藏匪盗的窟。贼首弗根见奥利弗聪明伶俐，便要他和杰克们一起上街偷窃。杰克失手被发现，奥利弗被人误抓进警局。弗根听说他被抓，便和另一贼比尔商议，决定由比尔情人南茜出面领回他。奥利弗得到书店老板的证明并无罪释放。被窃人是伦敦富翁布朗洛，因冤枉奥利弗很感歉疚，见他可爱可怜，便将他领回家。奥利弗得到老人宠爱。比尔和情人南茜将去送书的奥利弗绑回贼窟。布朗洛从孤儿院管事班布尔那儿拿到侄女留下的项坠，确定奥利弗是他外孙。比尔逼迫奥利弗出去偷窃，南茜很同情他，为了救他出险，趁比尔出门，便暗中把消息告诉布朗洛，约好时间带着奥利弗再见。事情被偷窃未遂的比尔发现，将南茜打死。布朗洛发现南茜惨死，便报告警局，随同警察直捣贼窟。捉贼声势浩大，比尔被击毙，奥利弗死里逃生，被布朗洛领回，祖孙团聚。

把高中英语3500个单词巧妙地编成40篇小故事，将单词放在文段中去理解，联系上下文，加以一定的推测。而且文章是连贯的、具象的，更加能够加深印象，提升记单词的效率。

There are works, and this is one of them, that are best begun with a portrait of the author. And here, indeed, because of a very natural misunderstanding this is the only course to take. Throughout these papers sounds a note, a distinctive and personal note, a note that tends at times towards stridency; and all that is not, as these words are, in Italics, is in one Voice. Now, this Voice, and this is the peculiarity of the matter, is not to be taken as the Voice of the ostensible author who fathers these pages. You have to clear your mind of any preconceptions in that respect. The Owner of the Voice you must figure to yourself as a whitish plump man, a little under the middle size and age, with such blue eyes as many Irishmen have, and agile in his movements and with a slight tonsorial baldness-a penny might cover it-of the crown. His front is convex. He droops at times like most of us, but for the greater part he bears himself as valiantly as a sparrow. Occasionally his hand flies out with a fluttering gesture of illustration. And his Voice (which is our medium henceforth) is an unattractive tenor that becomes at times aggressive. Him you must imagine as sitting at a table reading a manuscript about Utopias, a manuscript he holds in two hands that are just a little fat at the wrist. The curtain rises upon him so. But afterwards, if the devices of this declining art of literature prevail, you will go with him through curious and interesting experiences. Yet, ever and again, you will find him back at that little table, the manuscript in his hand, and the expansion of his ratiocinations about Utopia conscientiously resumed.

福尔摩斯在毫不知情的情况下，仅凭观察和推理就知道华生早晨去过邮局发电报；从华生递给他的一块表的现状，推论出这块表原来属于他哥哥，并把他的性格、生活轨迹和结局丝毫不差地说了出来。故事以摩斯坦小姐来访开始。她的离奇经历和收到的奇怪邀请理所当然地引起福尔摩斯的极大兴趣。随着他们的赴约，故事情节逐步展开，一个个谜团逐一解开，新的谜团又不断出现。这里，福尔摩斯的聪明才智获得充分表现的机会，同时也有挫折和失败相伴。最后，由抓获的凶手讲述案件的背景和来龙去脉。

又名《水妖记》，痴恋于骑士的涡堤孩为爱情宁愿舍弃容颜与生命，与骑士结成婚姻，却遭遇骑士爱情的背叛，最后化为泉水环绕爱人坟边。

Coralio reclined, in the mid-day heat, like some vacuous beauty lounging in a guarded harem. The town lay at the sea's edge on a strip of alluvial coast.