案例一：
once there was a very rich man. he lived in a beautiful house, and had a beautiful garden. the rich man had a blue beard: so he was called “blue beard”.
near the rich man's house there lived a poor woman. she had three sons and two beautiful girls. the name of one of the girls was ann; the name of the other was fatima. blue beard wanted to marry one of the girls, but the girls did not want to marry blue beard.
案例二：
a han folktale
a little over two hundred years before our era, the first emperor of the chin dynasty ascended the throne under the name of shih huang. this emperor was very cruel towards his subjects, forcing people from every part of the country to come and build the great wall t
o protect his empire. work never stopped, day or night, with the people carrying heavy loads of earth and bricks under the overseers' whips, lashes, and curses. they received very little food; the clothes they wore were threadbare. so it was scarcely to be wondered at that large numbers of them died every day.
三年级英语小故事there was a young man, named wan hsi-liang, among those who had been pressed into the service of building emperor shih huang's great wall. this wan hsi-liang had a beautiful and virtuous wife, whose name was meng chiang-nu. for a long, long time after her husband was forced to leave her, meng chiang-nu had no news of him, and it saddened her to think what he must be suffering, toiling for the accursed emperor. her hatred of the wicked ruler grew apace with her longing for the husband he had torn from her side. one spring, when the flowers were in bloom and the trees budding, when the grass was a lush green, and the swallows were flying in pairs in the sky, her sorrow seemed to deepen as she walked in the fields, so she sang:
案例三：
there are a lot of things magical in china: the people, the culture, the stories. sometimes ordinary things seem magical, but in reality, they aren't. it usually takes a great fool to transform the ordinary into magically nothing.
in a small village deep in the heart of china, the local tax collector was feared. he taxed the villagers often. if they had no money, he took their possessions. and when possessions were of no interest to the tax collector, he would beat the taxpayers.
one day, a poor man entered the village. he had heard of the tax collector and his terrible ways. the poor man was carrying a plant that had many beautiful green leaves. the tax collector stopped the poor man before walking any further and told him he had to pay entrance fee if he wanted to walk through the village. the poor man said he had no money, but only the magic tree he was carrying. the tax collector, intrigued, asked what kind of magical tree it was. the poor man explained that it would make the holder of the leaves invisible. the tax collector snatched the tree from the poor man while striking him across the face. the poor man fell to the ground and was left in the dust of the tax collector's horse.
that night, the tax collector picked a leaf from the magic tree and held it up to his forehead. "wife," he asked, "can you see me?"
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