在濒临海边的一间房子里，雷文斯克罗夫特将军夫妇双双毙命，是凶杀，还是自杀？两具尸体之间有一枝左轮手枪，枪上的指纹已经模糊，这件事情似乎与将军年轻漂亮的女秘书有关。 Crime novelist Ariadne Oliver again turns to Hercule Poirot, this time to solve a case the police consider closed. Olivers interest in the murder-suicide of General and Lady Ravenscroft is more than academic: Celia Ravenscroft is her goddaughter. This is one of Poirot's most daunting cases even ...(展开全部)

《大象的证词》讲述了：赫尔克里·波洛伫立于崖顶。多年之前，这里发生了一起悲剧性的事故；更令人惊疑的是，随后又有一对夫妻双双陈尸于此——两人均中枪身亡。可他们究竟死于何人之手？莫非是二人约定自杀？还是一时冲动犯罪？抑或残忍的谋杀？波洛回溯遥远的往事，走进旧罪那长长的阴影之中…… With the help of Detective Poirot, mystery writer Ariadne Oliver must solve a murder from her past--before the tragic piece of history repeats itself.

《大象的证词》讲述了：赫尔克里·波洛伫立于崖顶。多年之前，这里发生了一起悲剧性的事故；更令人惊疑的是，随后又有一对夫妻双双陈尸于此——两人均中枪身亡。可他们究竟死于何人之手？莫非是二人约定自杀？还是一时冲动犯罪？抑或残忍的谋杀？波洛回溯遥远的往事，走进旧罪那长长的阴影之中…… With the help of Detective Poirot, mystery writer Ariadne Oliver must solve a murder from her past--before the tragic piece of history repeats itself.

在濒临海边的一间房子里，雷文斯克罗夫特将军夫妇双双毙命，是凶杀，还是自杀？两具尸体之间有一枝左轮手枪，枪上的指纹已经模糊，这件事情似乎与将军年轻漂亮的女秘书有关。 Crime novelist Ariadne Oliver again turns to Hercule Poirot, this time to solve a case the police consider closed. Olivers interest in the murder-suicide of General and Lady Ravenscroft is more than academic: Celia Ravenscroft is her goddaughter. This is one of Poirot's most daunting cases even ...(展开全部)

Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs. Frans Johanssons The Medici Effect shows how breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into a new, u...(展开全部)

Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs. Frans Johanssons The Medici Effect shows how breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into a new, u...(展开全部)

埃莉诺·罗斯福（1884—1962），富兰克林·罗斯福总统夫人，政治家、外交家和作家，推动建立美国青年代表大会，出任第二次世界大战后美国首任驻联合国大使。去世时，她被视为“世界上最受尊敬的女性之一”。1999年，她被排在盖洛普20世纪最受推崇的人物名单前十位。 译者： 臧学运，博士，研究生导师，山东建筑大学外国语学院教授，美国哥伦比亚大学（2016—2017）访问学者，中国国学双语研究会理事。主要研究方向为译介学、文化比较与翻译学、族裔文学翻译

When I was born, there were a million elephants roaming Africa. By the time my daughter Charlotte was born in 2015, the numbers of savannah elephants had crashed to just 350,000. At the current pace of illegal poaching, when Charlotte turns twenty-five the African elephant could be gone from the wild. HRH Prince William, Duke of Cambridge An elephant is killed in Africa every...(展开全部)

In 1551, King João III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. The elephant’s journey from Lisbon to Vienna was witnessed and remarked upon by scholars, historians, and ordinary people. Out of this material, JoséSaramago has spun a novel already heralded as a triumph of language, imagination, and humor”( El País ). Solomonand...(展开全部)

In 1551, King João III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: an elephant named Solomon. The elephant’s journey from Lisbon to Vienna was witnessed and remarked upon by scholars, historians, and ordinary people. Out of this material, JoséSaramago has spun a novel already heralded as “a triumph of language, imagination, and humor”( El País ). Solomon...(展开全部)