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标题: 【每日英语故事10月13日】—— 最后一片叶子之1 [打印本页]

作者: jane019    时间: 2012-10-13 23:01     标题: 【每日英语故事10月13日】—— 最后一片叶子之1

本帖最后由 jane019 于 2012-10-13 23:16 编辑

The Last Leaf

(O.Henry)

In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called "places." These "places" make strange angles and curves. One Street crosses itself a time or two. An artist once discovered a valuable possibility in this street. Suppose a collector with a bill for paints, paper and canvas should, in traversing this route, suddenly meet himself coming back, without a cent having been paid on account!


So, to quaint old Greenwich Village the art people soon came prowling, hunting for north windows and eighteenth-century gables and Dutch attics and low rents. Then they imported some pewter mugs and a chafing dish or two from Sixth Avenue, and became a "colony."  


At the top of a squatty, three story brick Sue and Johnsy had their studio. "Johnsy" was familiar for Joanna. One was from Maine; the other from California. They had met at the table of an Eighth Street "Delmonico's," and found their tastes in art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves so congenial that the joint studio resulted.


That was in May. In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked about the colony, touching one here and there with his icy fingers. Over on the east side this ravager strode boldly, smiting his victims by scores, but his feet trod slowly through the maze of the narrow and moss-grown "places."


Mr. Pneumonia was not what you would call a chivalric old gentleman. A mite of a little woman with blood thinned by California zephyrs was hardly fair game for the red-fisted, short-breathed old duffer. But Johnsy he smote; and she lay, scarcely moving, on her painted iron bedstead, looking through the small Dutch window-panes at the blank side of the next brick house.


One morning the busy doctor invited Sue into the hallway with a shaggy, grey eyebrow.


"She has one chance in - let us say, ten," he said, as he shook down the mercury in his clinical thermometer. " And that chance is for her to want to live. This way people have of lining on the side of the undertaker makes the entire pharmacopoeia look silly. Your little lady has made up her mind that she's not going to get well. Has she anything on her mind?"

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作者: kobe    时间: 2012-10-14 12:16

What about Chapter 2
作者: 薇生物    时间: 2012-10-14 23:43

好多生词
作者: ylingd    时间: 2012-10-15 06:17

初学乍练。
作者: ji7411    时间: 2012-10-15 16:10

mark
作者: hubiaoxyz    时间: 2012-12-31 11:06

so difficult
作者: chenjunsheng99    时间: 2013-1-2 11:09

good
作者: king3803    时间: 2013-1-13 09:44

i'd like to read the translation
作者: feihu_eng    时间: 2013-3-28 14:48

I need to read the translation
作者: 踏踏实实    时间: 2013-7-9 22:50

回复 4# ylingd


   mark
作者: 欢乐小不点    时间: 2013-8-19 10:43

Your little lady has made up her mind that she's not going to get well. Has she anything on her mind?
作者: ws198473    时间: 2013-8-20 14:25

too hard
作者: leafsusu    时间: 2013-8-23 15:57

初学者
作者: liu5231201    时间: 2013-9-9 17:08

挺难
作者: h1yiyang    时间: 2013-9-21 10:00

eggache
作者: zhanghaihan    时间: 2013-10-11 14:56

asdasdasdasasd
作者: jswat03403    时间: 2014-11-12 23:43

OH SO SAD THX




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