【每日英语故事10月13日】—— 最后一片叶子之1
[i=s] 本帖最后由 jane019 于 2012-10-13 23:16 编辑 [/i][p=30, 2, center][size=12pt]The Last Leaf [/size][size=12pt][/size][/p][p=30, 2, center][size=12pt](O.Henry) [/size][size=12pt][/size][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Times New Roman][size=5][size=12pt]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! [/size][/size][/font][/p]
[p=30, 2, left][font=Times New Roman][size=3][/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Times New Roman][size=3][/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Times New Roman][size=5][/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Times New Roman][size=5][size=12pt]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." [/size][/size][/font][/p]
[p=30, 2, left][font=Times New Roman][size=5][/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Times New Roman][size=5][size=12pt]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. [/size][/size][/font][/p]
[p=30, 2, left][font=Times New Roman][size=3][/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Times New Roman][size=3][/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Times New Roman][size=3][/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][size=5][size=12pt][/size][/size][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Times New Roman][size=5][size=12pt]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." [/size][/size][/font][/p]
[p=30, 2, left][font=Times New Roman][size=3][/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][size=12pt][/size][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Times New Roman][size=5][size=12pt]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. [/size][/size][/font][/p]
[p=30, 2, left][size=12pt][/size][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Times New Roman][size=5][size=12pt]One morning the busy doctor invited Sue into the hallway with a shaggy, grey eyebrow. [/size][/size][/font][/p]
[p=30, 2, left][size=12pt][/size][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Times New Roman][size=5][size=12pt][/size][/size][/font][/p][p=30, 2, left][font=Times New Roman][size=5][size=12pt]"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?" [/size][/size][/font][/p][size=12pt][p=30, 2, left][size=10.5pt][size=3]**** Hidden Message *****[/size][/size][/size][/p][p=30, 2, left]
[size=12pt][/size][/p] :qq85]What about Chapter 2 好多生词 初学乍练。 mark so difficult good i'd like to read the translation I need to read the translation:hug: [b]回复 [url=http://bbs.tingroom.com/redirect.php?goto=findpost&pid=861315&ptid=489714]4#[/url] [i]ylingd[/i] [/b]
mark Your little lady has made up her mind that she's not going to get well. Has she anything on her mind? too hard 初学者 挺难 eggache asdasdasdasasd OH SO SAD THX
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