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有一天孩子们在砾石坑中挖沙时发现了沙精。它已经几千岁了。当然了，沙精们可以帮人们实现他们的愿望，愿望每天只能实现一个，而且当太阳落山时一切也就结束了。安西娅、西里尔、罗伯特和简觉得这棒极了。他们的小弟弟还太小，不会许愿，而且大部分时间都呆在家里；可其他几个盘算着些激动人心的东西。可那又是什么呢？变得漂亮，富有，还是能像鸟儿一样飞翔？有时候想出真正的好望很困难，可是脱口说出“但愿……”却是很容易的，那时你就得到了并不真正想要的东西。这时沙精就不肯帮忙了。出了差错时它就生气地说：“为什么你不先想好了再说？” 而事情的确常出差错……

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 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of autobiography ever written.

《第二基地》（Second Foundation），是美国科幻作家艾萨克·阿西莫夫出版于1953年的科幻小说中篇集，“基地三部曲”的第三部。本书讲述了在骡攻占基地之后，骡和第一基地的遗民寻找“谜”一般的第二基地的传奇事迹，共由两个中篇故事组成。

讲述了一个小职员无缘无故受到审判，试图摆脱，但最终无法逃脱专制的强权，最后被秘密处死的故事。

哈利波特系列丛书已经被翻译成73种语言，共卖出了超过5亿本，俨然已成为一个世界级品牌。内容简介：一岁的哈利·波特失去了父母后，便来到了姨妈家，过着极其痛苦的日子。一直到十一岁生日那天，哈利一生的命运才发生了变化，他收到了一封神秘的信，被邀请去一个童话般的地方一一霍格沃茨魔法学校。哈利发现这里到处充满着魔力，他既找到了朋友，又学会了魔法和骑着飞天扫帚打魁地奇，还得到了一件隐形衣，他在这里生活得很愉快。但一块魔法石出现了，它将关系到世界的现在和未来。哈利在好朋友罗恩和赫敏的帮助下，突破了重重困难，保护了魔法石，终于拯救了世界。

    “绯闻女孩系列”讲述纽约上东区的上流贵族社会青少年的成长故事，他们年轻而富有、漂亮而聪明、世故而张扬；他们做作、虚伪；他们喝酒、滥交、相互勾心斗角、甚至吸毒已经成了喝白开水。复杂的生活环境、复杂的人性；但却感觉得到这是他们实实在在的生活，在繁华的面纱之下，也有触动人心的亲情、友情和爱情。     这是发生在绚烂繁华的纽约大都市中青春的故事，，里面充斥了当下的众多流行元素：电邮、短信等等，在书中你也会看到众多世界一流的各种名店、高级服装品牌、高级化妆品。

In case it may be supposed that the African episode in this book was suggested by recent events in the Transvaal, I desire to state that it was written four years before the Jameson raid occurred.  

With "Can You Forgive Her?" Trollope begins his masterful series of Parliamentary novels, but here he is concerned with the politics of love and the demands of society. Alice Vavasor, lovely, intelligent and just a bit prudish, is torn between two men -- the upright if plodding John Gray, and the evasive yet alluring George Vavasor. She has accepted and rejected their proposals of marriage, uncertain of her own worthiness and the worth of her love. Alice's dilemma makes for a sharp exploration of free choice, a woman's role in a constricted society, and self-examination to the point of emotional stalemate. Add to this the predicament, on a grander scale, of Lady Glencora Palliser, Alice's cousin. The energetic, vivacious and utterly charming Glencora is married to Plantagent Palliser, heir to a ducal throne, who is a man who finds passion in Parliamentary proceedings, not people. Glencora is still pining for the beautiful ne'er-do-well, Burgo Fitzgerald, whom she was forced to leave behind in order to marry as she had been groomed to. Glencora feels that her young marriage is a sham. She feels she cannot live a life without ardent love, that the future for her is bleak without a burning, almost tragic, passion. Here, Trollope examines a marriage in its first tentative stages (in the Palliser novels he gives us the most discerning and moving portrait of a marriage in literature), with all of the self-sacrifice, compromise and reluctant devotion that marriage entails. The novel's third subplot, involving Alice's aunt's choice between somewhat unsuitable suitors, provides a comic, yet still subtly touching, foil to the two main stories. Throughout, Trollope brilliantly evokes the power of society on its players, their private tumult, their public displays of decorum or disgrace. One scene in particular, at a fabulous ball, is among the most thrilling in literature, because Trollope manages to convey, amid the throngs of idle partygoers, the despair, the conflicted psychological motivations, the terror and anguish of two star-crossed lovers, Glencora and Burgo, whose passions are so different: hers a naive yet heartfelt romance, his a self-centered quest for an end to financial woe whatever the emotional cost and public scandal. Neither party is self-aware enough to change here, but one eventually learns to, and finds hope by overcoming the hestitation of commitment brought on by misdirected ardor. The only way to grow is through sacrifice, and fearless self-knowledge. The only way truly to live is through doing the next right thing, publicly and privately. Trollope takes us through the agonizing conflicts of his characters, drawn with a depth and nuance matched by few in literature. This is a towering achievement.