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jane019 发表于 2012-9-18 09:31

【每日英语故事9月18日】——回声

[p=30, 2, center][b]Echo[/b][/p][p=30, 2, left]Echo was a nymph who talked too much[font=宋体].[/font]She was very fond of having the last words[font=宋体].[/font]One day she sPoke rudely to the great Hera[font=宋体],[/font]who said that for this offence  Echo should never use her voice again[font=宋体],[/font]unless to repeat what she hadjust heard[font=宋体],[/font]but since she was very fond of last words[font=宋体],[/font]she might repeat the last words of others[font=宋体].[/font]This was almost as bad as if Hera had changed her into a parrot[font=宋体].[/font]Echo was very much ashamed[font=宋体],[/font]and hid herself in the forest[font=宋体].[/font][/p][p=30, 2, left]Narcissus[font=宋体],[/font]a young man who had hair as yellow as gold an deyes as blue as the sky[font=宋体],——[/font]a very rare thing in Greece[font=宋体],[/font]where most people were very dark[font=宋体],——[/font]used to hunt in the forest where Echo was hiding[font=宋体].[/font]As she was looking out shyly from somecave or from behind a great tree[font=宋体],[/font]Echo often saw Narcissus[font=宋体],[/font]andshe admired him very much[font=宋体].[/font][/p][p=30, 2, left]One say Narcissus became separated from his friends[font=宋体],[/font]andhearing something rustle among the leaves[font=宋体],[/font]he called out[font=宋体],“[/font]Who's here[font=宋体]?”[/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=宋体]“[/font]Here[font=宋体],”[/font] answered Echo[font=宋体].[/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=宋体]“[/font]Here I am[font=宋体].[/font]Come[font=宋体]!”[/font]said Narcissus.[/p][p=30, 2, left][font=宋体]“[/font]I am come[font=宋体],”[/font] said Echo[font=宋体];[/font]and[font=宋体],[/font]as she spoke[font=宋体],[/font]she came outfrom among the trees[font=宋体].[/font][/p][p=30, 2, left]When Narcissus saw a stranger[font=宋体],[/font] instead of one of his friendsas he had expected[font=宋体],[/font]he looked surprised and walked quickly away.[/p][p=30, 2, left]After this[font=宋体],[/font] Echo never came out and allowed herself to be seen again [font=宋体],[/font]and in time she disappeared till she became only a voice[font=宋体].[/font][/p][p=30, 2, left]This voice was heard for many[font=宋体],[/font]many years in forests and among mountains[font=宋体],[/font]particularly in caves[font=宋体].[/font]In their lonely walks[font=宋体],[/font]hunters often heard it[font=宋体].[/font]Sometimes it repeated the barking of their dogs[font=宋体];[/font]sometimes it repeated their own last words[font=宋体].[/font]It  always had a strange and sad sound[font=宋体],[/font]and seemed to make lonely places more lonely still[font=宋体].[/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=宋体]**** Hidden Message *****[/font][/p]

goldkevin 发表于 2012-9-18 11:21

Echo’s lonely can not be understood

ji7411 发表于 2012-9-18 14:23

mark

chenxihe 发表于 2012-10-29 07:50

interset story .But i don't understand very well

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