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76 篇Quenching Thirst with Plums | 望梅止渴
This story recounts how the historical figure Cao Cao cleverly averted a potential mutiny among h...
28 阅读The Flooding of the Seven Armies | 水淹七军
During the Three Kingdoms period, Guan Yu of Shu ingeniously floods the seven armies of Cao Cao l...
33 阅读Every Bush and Tree Looks Like an Enemy | 草木皆兵
The idiom 'Every Bush and Tree Looks Like an Enemy' originates from the Battle of Feishui (383 AD...
29 阅读Besiege Wei to Rescue Zhao | 围魏救赵
To rescue the besieged state of Zhao, the Qi general Sun Bin avoided direct battle and instead at...
41 阅读Beyond Cure | 病入膏肓
This story recounts how Duke Jing of Jin dreamed his illness was untreatable, which was later con...
38 阅读Weighing the Elephant | 曹冲称象
A young prince cleverly solves the Emperor's challenge of weighing a giant elephant by using the ...
32 阅读The Conceited Wagner | 自负的瓦格纳
The passage portrays Richard Wagner as a physically frail yet immensely conceited man who viewed ...
33 阅读Fit for Tat | 以牙还牙
A story about Chinese diplomat Wu Tingfang's witty retort to a racially insensitive question from...
37 阅读The Indiscriminate Granting of Honorary Degrees | 论荣誉学位的滥授
Woodrow Wilson criticized the past lax standards in awarding honorary degrees, illustrating the a...
23 阅读Alexander the Great and His Teacher | 亚历山大大帝与他的老师
A student cleverly retorts his teacher's comparison to Alexander the Great by pointing out the ad...
26 阅读Chairs from the 1930s | 来自1930年代的椅子
A woman called a long-established furniture store to replace chairs she purchased in the 1930s. W...
32 阅读Smart Student | 聪明的学生
A student humorously credits Edison for enabling modern television by referencing his invention o...
31 阅读Thirteen States | 十三个州
A teacher asks a student to name the fifty U.S. states, and the student cleverly points out that ...
28 阅读A Great Event | 重大事件
A humorous classroom dialogue where a teacher asks about great historical events, and a student g...
24 阅读Knights & Nights | 骑士与黑夜
A humorous classroom exchange uses a pun on "knights" (sounding like "nights") to explain the ter...
30 阅读Great Event | 重大事件
A teacher quizzes a student on historical events, leading to a humorous and literal answer about ...
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