We no longer groan and heap ashes upon our heads when the flames of Tophet are mentioned. — 当提到托费特的火焰时,我们不再呻吟和将灰烬堆在我们的头上。 — For, even the preachers have begun to tell us that Go...
NOT many days ago my old friend from the tropics, J. P. Bridger, United States consul on the island of Ratona, was in the city. — 不久前,来自热带地区的老朋友J. P. Bridger,美国在拉托纳岛的领事,来到了这座城市。 — ...
It was a day in March. 那是三月的一天。 Never, never begin a story this way when you write one. No opening could possibly be worse. — 永远不要在写故事时以这种方式开头。没有比这更糟糕的开头了。 — It is unimagin...
Supreme was the satisfaction that Sancho felt at seeing himself, as it seemed, an established favourite with the duchess, for he looked forward to finding in her castle what he had...
Laurie lay luxuriously swinging to and fro in his hammock one warm September afternoon, wondering what his neighbours were about, but too lazy to go and find out. — 劳里舒舒服服地在他的吊床里来回...
EDITORIAL NOTE.–Before the fatal illness of William Sydney Porter (known through his literary work as “O. Henry”) this American master of short-story writing had begun for Hampton’...