American versus Chinese Civilization Chapter 12. American versus Chinese Civilization (Continued) Chapter 13. Dinners, Banquets, Etc. Chapter 14. Theaters Chapter 15. Opera and Musical Entertainments Chapter 16. Conjuring and Circuses Chapter 17. Sports
AMERICA Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat英文原著 · 《America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat》
Wonning wan: where is thy, in what direction is thy home? "Wan" is an adverbial affix with the sense of Latin versus. Wood: wode: mad. Woolward: clothed only in wool. Wough: "wo and wough." First English - wo, wa, the cry of lament for evil. Wough, First English - woh, is the evil done; the first sense of the word is a swerving from the right line, then wrong and evil. Y- and I- as prefix = the participial prefix ge- (g being pronounced like y before the weak vowel e). So y-dight: y-granted: y-slaw: I-nocked.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
As to the book, it must speak for itself. Explanatory remarks do but detract from the ideas set forth. However, I wish to forestall two objections which will undoubtedly be raised. One is in reference to the essay on ANARCHISM; the other, on MINORITIES VERSUS MAJORITIES.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
Read an article on cottage VERSUS congregate system for housing dependent children. (We do need cottages! I wish you'd send us a few for a Christmas present.) And now at nine o'clock I'm sleepily beginning a letter to you. Do you know many young society girls who can point to such a useful day as that?英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
By the time they reached the Maison Vauquer he had tacked together a whole string of examples and quotations more or less irrelevant to the subject in hand, which led him to give a full account of his own deposition in the case of the Sieur Ragoulleau versus Dame Morin, when he had been summoned as a witness for the defence.英文原著 · 《Father Goriot》