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1:1 [hgb]  当 犹 大 王 约 坦 ， 亚 哈 斯 ， 希 西 家 在 位 的 时 候 ， 摩 利 沙 人 弥 迦 得 耶 和 华 的 默 示 ， 论 撒 玛 利 亚 和 耶 路 撒 冷 。      [kjv]  The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.     [bbe]  The word of the Lord which came to Micah the Morashtite, in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah: his vision about Samaria and Jerusalem. 1:2 [hgb]  万 民 哪 ， 你 们 都 要 听 。 地 和 其 上 所 有 的 ， 也 都 要 侧 耳 而 听 。 主 耶 和 华 从 他 的 圣 殿 ， 要 见 证 你 们 的 不 是 。      [kjv]  Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the LORD from his holy temple.     [bbe]  Give ear, you peoples, all of you; give attention, O earth and everything in it: let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy Temple.

The book follows a young man named Tod Hackett who thinks of himself as a painter and artist, but who works in Hollywood as a costume designer and background painter. He falls in love with Faye Greener, an aspiring starlet who lives nearby. Between his work in the studio and his introduction to Faye's friends, he is soon interacting with numerous Hollywood hangers-on, including a cowboy who lives in the hills above the studios and works as an extra in cowboy movies, his Mexican friend who keeps fighting cocks, and Homer Simpson, a hapless businessman whom Faye is taking advantage of. The book ends with a riot at a movie premiere.

Even the coming of an autumn dusk could not subdue the color of this land. Shadows here were not gray or black; they were violet and purple. The crumbling adobe walls were laced by strings of crimson peppers, vivid in the torch and lantern light. It had been this way for days, red and yellow, violet-colors he had hardly been aware existed back in the cool green, silver, gray-brown of Kentucky. So this was Tubacca! The rider shifted his weight in the saddle and gazed about him with watchful interest. Back in '59 this had been a flourishing town, well on its way to prominence in the Southwest. The mines in the hills behind producing wealth, the fact that it was a watering place on two cross-country routes-the one from Tucson down into Sonora of Old Mexico, the other into California-had all fed its growth.

Here is the gripping original Western that set the standard for the genre. Natty Bumppo is the quintessential Western hero, a faultless arbiter of wilderness justice. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect-and the untouched forest.

The adventures of a dashing young prince who dispensed with protocol in selecting his wife. He hit upon the unique scheme of impersonating a barber in order to be perfectly free to choose the lady of his heart. The prince is actually Louis Phillipe de Valois, cousin of Louis XV of France, and certainly no gallant ever encountered more adventure in the pursuit of a bride.

《星球大战》的背景设置在英国伦敦，描绘的是“火星人”入侵地球、毁灭人类时触目惊心的景象。奇形怪状的火星人侵犯地球。他们凭借一种巨大的机器，横行无阻，用热射线、毒气和火箭杀害地球上的人类。村庄和城镇被毁灭，伦敦也难逃厄运。他们靠趿食其他动物和人的鲜血为生，不知疲劳困倦，而且无性别之分。他们征服了人类，成为世界的主人，迫使人类像动物一样生存。但是，由于他们缺乏对病菌的免疫力，最终一下子全死了；而人类因为能够适应地球的环境，继续生存下来。     威尔斯关于社会问题的描写，突出地体现在他的《星球大战》之中。     本书还收录了他的《拯救世界》。

从南部非洲返回英国生活的理查德·汉内回到他在伦敦的寓所，感到百无聊赖。然而，那天晚上他的公寓中来了一位不速之客。这名叫斯卡德的美国人发现有个代号为“黑石”的外国间谍组织，正准备刺杀首相从而引起混乱，然后窃取一份重要的国防军事情报。斯卡德因为追踪他们的成员，被对方发现后身处杀人灭口的险境。为阻止国防绝密文件落入德国人之手，与德国间谍展开了一场惊心动魄的搏斗。

The Kite Runner is a novel by Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, it is Hosseini's first novel,[1] and was adapted into a film of the same name in 2007. The Kite Runner tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who befriends Hassan, the son of his father's Hazara servant. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Taliban regime.

该书描写了一个立陶宛移民家庭—尤吉斯一家的悲惨遭遇。他们满怀憧憬从家乡来到美国寻梦，在芝加哥屠场区找到工作，以为美好生活将从此开始。不料灾难接踵而至，先是尤吉斯工伤失业，接着妻子奥娜被工头奸污，尤吉斯怒打工头而入狱，随后妻子难产死亡，幼小的儿子淹死。亲朋好友中男的流落街头，女的被逼为娼，美国梦演变为可怕的梦魇。更悲哀的是，这个万恶的资本主义机器不仅害得他家破人亡。作者辛克莱 ，更毒害了他的心灵。他自暴自弃，干起合伙抢劫的勾当，甚至还在屠场罢工时当上了工贼。所幸的是，在风起云涌的社会主义运动中，尤吉斯终于找到了人生的奋斗目标，他的阶级觉悟被唤醒。小说结尾时，他深信社会主义是唯一的出路，而这也正是辛克莱的信仰。