女生叫 Helen 是什么意思?

2022年1月30日

Helen 这个英文名的寓意是“光明”,源自希腊神话中的人物海伦。在希腊神话中,海伦是一位美丽的女子,她的美貌引发了一场特洛伊战争。

英语词源(etymology)

词源趣谈 | the Ashes “灰烬杯”

2022年1月30日

如今,英格兰和澳大利亚之间的板球系列对抗赛被称作“灰烬杯”(The Ashes)。即便澳大利亚赢得了系列对抗赛,“灰烬杯”也仍然留在英格兰。

短篇小说 | The Muse's Tragedy

2022年1月28日

He was almost certain, at all events, that he had been thinking of Mrs. Anerton as he sat over his breakfast in the empty hotel restaurant, and that, looking up on the approach of the lady who seated herself at the table near the window, he had said to himself, "_That might be she_."

短篇小说 | The Mission of Jane

2022年1月27日

LETHBURY, surveying his wife across the dinner table, found his transient conjugal glance arrested by an indefinable change in her appearance.