not long after an old chinese woman came back to china from her visit to her daughter in the states, she went to a city bank to deposit the us dollars her daughter gave her. at the bank counter, the clerk checked each note carefully to see if the money was real. it made the old lady out of patience.
at last she could not hold any more, uttering. "trust me, sir, and trust the money. they are real us dollars. they are directly from america."
feeling of youth
no young man believes he shall ever die. it was a saying of my brother's, and a fine one. there is a feeling of eternity in youth, which makes us amend for everything. to be young is to be as one of the immortal gods. one half of time indeed is flown-the other half remains in store for us with all its countletreasures; for there is no line drawn, and we see no limit to our hopes and wishes. we make the coming age our own-
the vast, the unbounded prospect lies before us.
death. old age. are words without a meaning. that paby us like the idea air which we regard not. others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them-we "bear a charmed life“, which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. as in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward-
bidding the lovely scenes at distance hail!
and see no end to the landscape, new objects presenting themselves as we advance; so, in the commencement of life, we set no bounds to our inclinations. nor to the unrestricted opportunities of gratifying them. we have as yet found no obstacle, no disposition to flag; and it seems that we can go on so forever. we look round in a new world, full of life, and motion, and ceaseleprogress; and feel in ourselves all the vigor and spirit to keep pace with it, and do not foresee from any present symptoms how we shall be left behind in the natural course of things, decline into old age, and drop into the grave. it is the simplicity, and as it were abstractedneof our feelings in youth, that (so to speak) identifies us with nature, and (our experience being slight and our passions strong) deludes us into a belief of being immortal like it. our short-lives connection with existence we fondly flatter ourselves, is an indissoluble and lasting union-a honeymoon that knows neither coldness, jar, nor separation. as infants smile and sleep, we are rocked in the cradle of our wayward fancies, and lulled into security by the roar of the universe around us0we quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the more-objects prearound us, filling the mind with their magnitude and with the strong of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
This kind of feeling that I have, ladies and gentlemen, is when it feels like it, smells like it, and looks like it , it's all coming from a scene to be remembered, a scene to recall and to cherish.
Today, we live in a world of prosperity but still threatened by so many new problems. On the one hand, tourism, as one of the most promising industries in the 21st century, provides people with the great opportunity to see everything there is to see and to go any place there is to go. It has become a lifestyle for some people, and has turned out to be the driving force in GDP growth. It has the magic to turn a backward town into a wonderland of prosperity. But on the other hand, many problems can occur - natural scenes aren't natural anymore. Deforestation to heat lodges are devastating Nepal. Oil spills from tourist boats are polluting Antarctica. Tribal people are forsaking their native music and dress to listen to U2 on Walkman and wear Nike and Reeboks.
All these appalling facts have brought us to the realization that we can no longer stand by and do nothing, because the very thought of it has been eroding our resources. Encouragingly, the explosive growth of global travel has put tourism again in the spotlight, which is why the United Nations has made 20xx the year of ecotourism, for the first time to bring to the world's attention the benefits of tourism, but also its capacity to destroy our ecoenvironment.
Tommy is turtle. He has no daddy, no mummy and no friends.
Tommy 是一隻烏龜。他沒有爸爸、媽媽和朋友。
He is crying. A bird comes. She says: “I can fly. Let’s fly!”
他在哭。一隻小鳥過來了。她說：“我會飛，讓我們一起飛吧。”
Tommy says: “ no,no, I can’t fly!”
Tommy 說：“不，不，我不會飛。”
A rabbit comes. He says: “ I can jump. Let’s jump!”
一隻兔子過來了。他說：“我會跳。讓我們一起跳吧。”
Tommy says: “no, no. I can’t jump!”
Tommy說：“不，不。我不會跳。”
A monkey comes. He says:“I can climb the tree. Let’s climb the tree!”
一隻猴子過來了。他說：“我會爬樹。讓我們一起爬樹吧。”
Tommy says: “ no, no. I can’t climb the tree!”
Tommy說：“不，不。我不會爬樹。”
A duck comes. He says: “I can swim. Let’s swim!”
一隻鴨子過來了。他說:“我會游泳，讓我們一起游泳吧!”
Tommy smiles: “ we are friends!”
Tommy笑了：“我們是朋友!”
The Flood
Towards the end of the Age of Bronze the human world became very cruel.
Men grew hungry,impolite and her rightn or law was respected any longer,and the rule of hospitality was sed up in human form,Zeus visited Arcadia andThessaly,and disliked the deadly wrongs of men decidedto clear the earth of them out hesitation he released therainy south wind and called upon the heartless Poseidon to the whole world sank in a vast ocean, and the entire humanrace disappeared in the unheard of flood,all but two poor Thessalians .
These were an old childless couple,kind and faithful and contented with man was called Deucalion and his wife of Prometheus,Deucalion had been warned beforehand by his father of the coming flood and made himself a the roaring flood came the couple hid themselves init and floated for nine days until it touched land again on Mt Parnassus.
The once active world presented a frightening was all death and ing lonely and unsafe,the old coupleprayed to the gods for help.A sage instructed them to cast the bones of their mother about son of the wise Titan, havingguessed the true meaning of the mysterious command, started throwing stones behind him. A miracle occurred. The stonesthat the man cast became men;the stones that the woman threwturned into e then,people appeared on the land Heroic Age had begun.
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