The Adventure Of Charles Augustus Milverton (Part 6)

The Adventure Of Charles Augustus Milverton by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

It is years since the incidents of which I speak took place, and yet it is with diffidence that I allude to them. For a long time, even with the utmost discretion and reticence, it would have been impossible to make the facts public, but now the principal person concerned is beyond the reach of human law, and with due suppression the story may be told in such fashion as to injure no one. It records an absolutely unique experience in the career both of Mr. Sherlock Holmes and of myself. The reader will excuse me if I conceal the date or any other fact by which he might trace the actual occurrence. 

Baca selengkapnya »

The Final Problem (Part 5)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Final Problem

     It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes was distinguished. In an incoherent and, as I deeply feel, an entirely inadequate fashion, I have endeavored to give some account of my strange experiences in his company from the chance which first brought us together at the period of the "Study in Scarlet," up to the time of his interference in the matter of the "Naval Treaty"—and interference which had the unquestionable effect of preventing a serious international complication. 

Baca selengkapnya »

The Sussex Vampire (Part 4)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of
The Sussex Vampire

     Holmes had read carefully a note which the last post had brought him. Then, with the dry chuckle which was his nearest approach to a laugh, he tossed it over to me.
      "For a mixture of the modern and the mediaeval, of the practical and of the wildly fanciful, I think this is surely the limit," said he. "What do you make of it, Watson?"
      I read as follows:
     

Baca selengkapnya »

The Field Bazaar by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1896) (Part 3)

"I Should certainly do it," said Sherlock Holmes.
     I started at the interruption, for my companion had been eating his breakfast with his attention entirely centered upon the paper which was propped up by the coffee pot.  Now I looked across at him to find his eyes fastened upon me with the half-amused, half-questioning expression which he usually assumed when he felt he had made an intellectual point.
     "Do what?" I asked.

Baca selengkapnya »

The Copper Beeches (Part 2)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

THE COPPER BEECHES

"To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph, "It is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped this truth that in these little records of our cases which you have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much to the many causes celebres and sensational trials in which I have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made my special province."

Baca selengkapnya »

The Boscombe Valley Mystery (Part 1)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY

  

   We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran in this way:
      Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. Leave Paddington by the 11:15.
      "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "Will you go?"
      "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at present."

Baca selengkapnya »

"Kursus Kilat" (#cerpen)

Pengen bisa berbahasa Inggris bahkan sampe ngalahin para bule-bule??? Gampang! Gini loh, caranya…

Kalau bertemu sama orang bule di jalan, pastikan kalau dia adalah orang yg enggak bisa bahasa Inggris, seperti orang Spanyol, Portugis, atau bahkan orang-orang kolonial Hindia Belanda…

Setelah tahu bahwa bule itu enggak bisa bahasa Inggris, langsung aja kita tanya:

“Hei Mister, wot is yor nem?”

Lalu bule itu mungkin saja orang Perancis yang bisa bahasa Indonesia tetapi tidak mengerti bahasa Inggris sama sekali! Jawabannya pasti seperti ini (walau dengan terbata-bata):

“Hmm…. Sori….. tapii saya tidak mengerti bahasa inggris… Tapi saya bisa bahasa Indonesia atuh!“

Langsung saja kita jawab begini:

“Wot? Yo doun spik Inglisy? Stupid bule lah yu! Iven Am not bule ken spik Inglish! Veri gud iven!”

Si bule itu sudah tentu merasa kelabakan sekarang, dan ia akan menggaruk-garuk kepala sambil bergumam:

“Sori… Sori…. Sori…. Sori… 100X”

Dengan demikian, selesailah kursus kilat ini. Anda sudah bisa berbahasa Inggris lebih fasih daripada bule depok hanya dengan membaca artikel ini, Selamat!!!

Silahkan mendaftar untuk TOEFL pada tempat-tempat kursus Bahasa Inggris terdekat.

lyric of price tag "Jessi J"


okay, coconut man, moon heads and pea
you ready

seems like everybody's got a price,
i wonder how they sleep at night.
when the sale comes first,
and the truth comes second,
just stop for a minute and
smile 

Baca selengkapnya »