勇敢的李万基
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In 1872, Phileas Fogg, an English gentleman, bets 20,000 pounds that he can travel around the world in 80 days. Remember, there were no airplanes or other types of high speed travel.
Fogg and his servant, Passepourtout, leave from London, England and travel across four continents on their trip. In India, they meet a beautiful princess and save her life. She joins them on the journey and falls in love with Phileas Fogg.
They are followed around the world by Detective Fix, who has mistaken Fogg for a bank robber. He causes the group lots of trouble and delays, and finally arrests Fogg on the last day of the journey.
The trip was also delayed by storms at sea, unfinished railroad tracks, and an Indian attack in the American West.
Do you think Phileas Fogg and his friends made it around the world in 80 days?
With all of the delays, the group thought they arrived back at London five minutes too late. However, the next day they discovered they were one day ahead of schedule. This was because they had travelled all the way around the world in an eastward direction, making them gain an extra day as they travelled across different time zones.
雾都孤儿Oliver Twist, one of the most famous works of Charles Dickens’, is a novel reflecting the tragic fact of the life in Britain in 18th century.
The author who himself was born in a poor family wrote this novel in his twenties with a view to reveal the ugly masks of those cruel criminals and to expose the horror and violence hidden underneath the narrow and dirty streets in London.
The hero of this novel was Oliver Twist, an orphan, who was thrown into a world full of poverty and crime. He suffered enormous pain, such as hunger, thirst, beating and abuse. While reading the tragic experiences of the little Oliver, I was shocked by his sufferings. I felt for the poor boy, but at the same time I detested the evil Fagin and the brutal Bill. To my relief, as was written in all the best stories, the goodness eventually conquered devil and Oliver lived a happy life in the end. One of the plots that attracted me most is that after the theft, little Oliver was allowed to recover in the kind care of Mrs. Maylie and Rose and began a new life. He went for walks with them, or Rose read to him, and he worked hard at his lessons. He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty.
How can such a little boy who had already suffered oppressive affliction remain pure in body and mind? The reason is the nature of goodness. I think it is the most important information implied in the novel by Dickens-he believed that goodness could conquer every difficulty. Although I don’t think goodness is omnipotent, yet I do believe that those who are kind-hearted live more happily than those who are evil-minded.
For me, the nature of goodness is one of the most necessary character for a person. Goodness is to humans what water is to fish. He who is without goodness is an utterly worthless person. On the contrary, as the famous saying goes, ‘The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose’, he who is with goodness undoubtedly is a happy and useful person. People receiving his help are grateful to him and he also gets gratified from what he has done, and thus he can do good to both the people he has helped and himself.
To my disappointment, nowadays some people seem to doubt the existence of the goodness in humanity. They look down on people’s honesty and kindness, thinking it foolish of people to be warm-hearted. As a result, they show no sympathy to those who are in trouble and seldom offer to help others. On the other hand, they attach importance to money and benefit. In their opinion, money is the only real object while emotions and morality are nihility. If they cannot get profit from showing their ‘kindness’, they draw back when others are faced with trouble and even hit a man when he is down. They are one of the sorts that I really detest.
Francis Bacon said in his essay, ‘Goodness, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of the Deity, and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.’
That is to say a person without goodness is destined to lose everything. Therefore, I, a kind person, want to tell those ‘vermin-to-be’ to learn from the kind Oliver and regain the nature of goodness.
中文:
《百万英镑》读后感
金子，黄黄的，发光的，宝贵的金子！这东西，只要那么一点儿，就可以使黑的变成白的，丑的变成美的，错的变成对的，卑贱的变成尊贵的，老人变成少年，懦夫变成勇士……这就是马克吐温笔下《百万英镑》的真实写照。
《百万英镑》描述了一个流落伦敦的美国人亨利·亚当，他遇上两名打赌的伦敦亿万富翁，从而得么一张百万英镑的支票。亨利饥肠辘辘，去了一家饭店，老板见他像个穷光蛋，打发他到角落里，侍者也觉得他没钱付，当他结账时，所有人都惊呆了，支票却是一百万！于是他被当成了一个行为古怪的百万富翁，不仅吃饭免了单，临走时老板还对他两次90度的鞠躬！
由于衣衫破旧，他准备做一套衣服，在服装店内，营业员将他一个推给另一个，最后被推到了成衣间。小店员极为势利，给他一件很不合身的衣服打发他，结账前还讽刺他一番。当亨利拿出百万英镑时，小店员竟哭了起来！老板知道后，为亨利免单量身订做了48套一年四季在各种场合穿着的衣服！
马克·吐温着重揭露了当时社会金钱至上的拜金主义，钱！成了衡量一切的标准！非常可笑的是，当一名开玩笑的英国贵族将支票藏起来后，股市大跌，人们开始怀疑亨利是否有支票，众人都来拆他的台。一个贵族骂了亨利，衣服也被收走，可是，当支票又重新回到亨利的手中时，那位贵族马上又笑逐颜开说：“上帝保佑您！”衣服又原封不动送了回来。其实这种现象在我们现实社会中又何尝没有，有的情节比这种说话变卦、态度变卦更加严重！一些医生为了钱，可以为病人做不必要的检查，给病人吃不必要的药，把假的弄得比真的还认真！在这种丧失医德、人性的医生眼里，金钱比生命更可贵！这种行为不知比《百万英镑》中的现象要恶劣多少倍！最近看到一则新闻，中考优秀生被冒名顶替，由于顶替人的父亲有钱，便可以使自己的子女冒名顶替别人，不仅分数顶替，姓名、身份、户口……全部被替代了。受害者十余年沦落为黑户在外打工，因为是黑户备受欺凌，另一个却能受教育、拿工资……十余年后再查此事，法庭上除冒名者外，共九个被告：母校、班主任、教育局、公安局等等，也就是说，冒名者父亲的金钱驱使他们干出了这种违纪、违法、有愧于良心和道德的事来！
不管如何爱钱，不要丢掉做人最基本的诚实的本性；不管怎样爱钱，不要抛弃道德、良知；不管怎样爱钱，不要伤害别人；不管怎样爱钱，必须通过正当途径来获得！
英文:
Gold, yellow, glittering, precious gold! This thing, as long as so little, you can make black into white, ugly into a beautiful, a wrong thing right, the humble into a distinguished, elderly into a teenager, cowards become a warrior ... ... This Mark Twain is the pen "millions of pounds" in a true portrayal.
"Millions of pounds" describes an American living in London, Henry Adams, who met in London two billionaires bet to get a check Mody a million pounds. Henry hungry and went to a restaurant owner to see him like a pauper, sent him into a corner, the waiter also feel that he had no money to pay, when he was closing time, everyone was shocked, and check it is 1 million! So he was as an eccentric millionaire, not only to avoid a single meal, and before leaving when his boss is also the two 90-degree bow!
As the clothes worn, he was prepared to do a set of clothes in a clothing store, the salesperson will push him to another, finally pushed to the clothing rooms. A small staff is extremely snobbish and give him a very fitted dress to kill him, and checkout ago, he was some irony. When Henry took out millions of pounds, small shopkeepers actually cried! The boss know that, in order to avoid a single tailor-made Henry, 48 sets of four seasons in a variety of occasions, wear the clothes!
Mark Twain exposes the society at that time focused on the supremacy of money worship of money, money! Has become the standard measure of all! A very funny thing is, when a joke of the British aristocracy hide check, the stock market crash, people began to wonder whether Henry's check the crowd have come to demolish his own station. An aristocrat Henry scolded, clothes have been taken away, but, when checks again Back to the Henry's hands, who once again smiling noble, said: "God bless you!" My clothes are also sent back unchanged. In fact, the reality of this phenomenon in our society, then why not, some of the plot to speak than this volte-face, volte-face more serious attitude! Some doctors for the money, you can do for patients unnecessary tests, unnecessary drugs to patients to eat to false than true also seriously confused! In such a loss of medical ethics, human nature in the eyes of doctors, money is more precious than life! Such acts do not know than the "millions of pounds" in the phenomenon of how many times to be bad! Recently saw a news, an outstanding student in the examination have been an imposter, because the replacement's father money so that their children will be able to impersonate other people, not only scores replacement, name, identity, account ... ... have all been replaced. Victims reduced to black households more than ten years out to work, because it is the humiliation of black households, and the other was able to access to education, are paid more than ten years after the investigation ... ... the matter, the court except someone else's except for a total of nine defendants: his alma mater, class teacher, the Education Bureau, Public Security Bureau, etc., that is, someone else who's father's money to urge them to do out of this discipline, illegal, ashamed to face the conscience and moral thing to!
No matter how the love of money, do not lose the basic honesty of the nature of a man; in any case for money, do not abandon morality, conscience; anyway love money, do no harm; anyway love money, must be obtained through the proper channels!
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