CHAPTER V THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES
Every one is acquainted with the first phase of this battle; a beginning which was troubled, uncertain, hesitating, menacing to both armies, but still more so for the English than for the French.
It had rained all night, the

CHAPTER IV A
Those persons who wish to gain a clear idea of the battle of Waterloo have only to place, mentally, on the ground, a capital A. The left limb of the A is the road to Nivelles, the right limb is the road to Genappe, the tie of the A is the hollow road to Ohain from Braine-l'Alle

CHAPTER III THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815
Let us turn back,--that is one of the story-teller's rights,-- and put ourselves once more in the year 1815, and even a little earlier than the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took place.
If it

CHAPTER II HOUGOMONT
Hougomont,--this was a funereal spot, the beginning of the obstacle, the first resistance, which that great wood-cutter of Europe, called Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his axe.
It was a chateau; it is no

Volume II Cosette
BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO
CHAPTER I WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his co

负责饥民救助的联合国世界粮食计划署(UN's World Food Programme)正草拟定量配给食品的救援计划，以应对农产品价格不断攀升的状况。
The UN’s agency responsible for relieving hunger is drawing up plans to ration food aid in response to the spiralling cost of agricultural commodities.
世界粮食计划署正进行紧急会谈，以便决定如果短期内没有新的捐助，应暂停哪种救助。
The World Food Programme is holding crisis talks to decide wh

未来数周中国各家银行将发布2007年创纪录的利润，这与其外国同行形成鲜明的对比——在信贷危机之后，外国银行被迫进行了大笔减记。
Chinese banks will announce record profits for 2007 in coming weeks in contrast with their global counterparts, which have been forced into large write-offs in the wake of the credit crisis.
不过，随着全球经济放缓的影响蔓延至中国，以及中国政府试图为经济降温并遏制通胀的不断上升，2008年的挑战将大得多。
But 2008 will be

看越狱，学英文
其实我老早就有这个想法了，大家看越狱的时候，应该可以不只是看它的剧情，感动于它的精彩，顺手其实还可以学一下老外日常生活中的经典表达，地道的习惯用法，对学生朋友们提高口语表达能力应该很有帮助（专业习惯，看什么都想往英语学习上想）。
所以发这么一个帖子，望版主千万别删。如果之前有过类似的帖子，应该是英雄所见略同，或实属巧合，我拾人牙慧，决无踢馆之嫌。
发这帖子纯属交流，决无卖弄，望高手看了表见笑，各位有所心得一起跟上来，大家一起学习，共同进步，如有解释不妥之处，望高手不吝赐教。
我先来一贴，抛砖引玉，从最近的217开始
1、I will be there!
一开始，前情提要中，Sucr

预计韩国金融监管机构不会在4月份的最后期限之前及时批准汇丰(HSBC)以63亿美元收购韩国外换银行(KEB)的交易，这使得人们对汇丰在这个亚洲第三大银行业市场的扩张计划产生了质疑。
South Korea’s financial regulators are not expected to approve HSBC’s $6.3bn acquisition of Korea Exchange Bank in time for an April deadline, raising doubts about the group’s plans to expand in Asia’s third-largest banking market.
如果未能获得监管机构批准，

由于越南政府试图通过控制纸币发行量来遏制通胀的做法造成了越南货币——越南盾的严重短缺，该国的外资企业正为此头疼。
A severe shortage of dong, Vietnam’s currency, has been causing headaches for foreign businesses in the country as the government tries to control inflation by reining in the supply of notes.
上周，越南政府被迫特许摩根士丹利(Morgan Stanley)以2.17亿美元支付方式，支付了收购越南石油天然气总公司财务公司(PetroVietnam Finance C

What do these people have in common: Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, comedian and actor Steve Martin and former Attorney General Janet Reno? 前美联储主席艾伦?格林斯潘，喜剧演员斯蒂夫?马丁和前首席检察官詹尼特?里诺之间有什么共同点?
None of these highly successful people ended up pursuing a career relative to their college major. Reno was a chemistry major, Greenspan studied m

In the meantime, Fin was very melancholy, and did not know what to do, or how to act at all. Cucullin was an ugly customer to meet with; and, the idea of the "cake" aforesaid flattened the very heart within him. What chance could he have, strong and brave though he was, with a man who could, when put in a passion, walk the country into ea

"God save all here!" said Fin, good-humouredly, on putting his honest face into his own door.
"Musha, Fin, avick, an' you're welcome home to your own Oona, you darlin' bully." Here followed a smack that is said to have made the waters of the lake at the bottom of the hill curl, as it were, with kindness and sympathy.

In truth, the people wondered very much why it was that Fin selected such a windy spot for his dwelling-house, and they even went so far as to tell him as much.
"What can you mane, Mr. M'Coul," said they, "by pitching your tent upon the top of Knockmany, where you never are without a breeze, day or night, winter or summer, and

What Irish man, woman, or child has not heard of the great and glorious Fin M'Coul? Not one, from Cape Clear to the Giant's Causeway, nor from that back again to Cape Clear. And, by-the-way, speaking of the Giant's Causeway brings me at once to the beginning of my story. Well, it so happened that Fin and his men were all working at the Causeway, in