The Vain Peacock | 爱惜羽毛的孔雀
The peacock's excessive pride in its beautiful tail leads to irrational and dangerous behavior, i...
The Conceited Wagner | 自负的瓦格纳
The passage portrays Richard Wagner as a physically frail yet immensely conceited man who viewed ...
Why the Sky Is So High | 天空为何如此之高
A myth explaining the sky's height. A lonely, obsessive old woman's relentless sweeping raises du...
The Haunted House Across the Road | 路对面的鬼屋
Uncle Johnson's cross-filled house faces an ancient, haunted home where a vampire is said to resi...
The Three Fishermen <2> | 三位渔夫 <2>
The narrator describes the central role of camp coffee in their fishing ritual, its preparation, ...
The Cunning Shoemaker | 狡猾的鞋匠
A poor but clever shoemaker repeatedly outwits a band of greedy robbers through a series of ingen...
Monkey Business | 带它去动物园
A policeman misunderstands his boss's order to take a stray monkey to the zoo, instead treating i...
Highway 22 | 22号公路
A patrolman stops an elderly lady driving too slowly, only to discover she mistook the highway nu...
The Oak Tree | 橡树
Two holidaymakers in an orchard are puzzled by a fruitless tree and offer a boy money for an expl...
Twenty-Four Hours | 二十四小时
A patient is told he has only 24 hours to live, only to discover the doctor has been trying to de...
Amnesia | 失忆症
A senile actress claims to be 22 years old during a doctor's visit, leading the doctor to diagnos...
Deathbed Confession | 临终坦白
A dying man confesses a lifetime of infidelity to his wife, only to receive her chillingly calm a...
Go Barefoot | 光脚赴约
A self-conscious teenager, unsure of her date's height, devises a plan with her brother to choose...
Marriage Troubles | 结婚的烦恼
A humorous dialogue where a girl offers to share her future husband's burdens after marriage, onl...
Respectable Boyfriend | 值得尊敬的男友
A daughter humorously misunderstands her mother's question about her new boyfriend's character, d...
Swimming | 游泳
Three women stranded on an island attempt to swim to distant land they finally spot. The first tw...
Childbirth Pain | 分娩之痛
A first-time mother asks her doctor about the pain of childbirth. The doctor, finding it hard to ...
You Bet Your Life | 赌上你的性命
A man and a woman in a bar bet on whether a news report of a suicidal jumper is live. The twist r...
A Girl's Unconventional Ambition | 少女的别样志向
A young girl surprises her mother by expressing her desire to become an "old maid," valuing indep...
Bee Sting | 蜜蜂蜇伤
A woman leaves her first golf game due to a bee sting. When she tells her pro the sting was "betw...
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