May 2, 2004 06:05
20 yrs ago
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China
Such count for nothing
English to Chinese
Social Sciences
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After two more trips to Asia, he returned to the Arnold and was appointed its "keeper" in 1927. He and his wife died in a car accident in 1930--an ordinary end for someone who had survived so many hardships abroad. "Such count for nothing," he wrote, "since I have lived in nature's boundless halls and drunk deeply of her pleasures. To wander through a tropical or temperate forest with tree trunks more stately than a gothic column, beneath a canopy of foliage more lovely in its varied forms than the roof of any building fashioned by man . . . where does hardship figure when the reward is such?"
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这算不上什么
这算不上什么
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