短篇小说 | Diddling
SINCE the world began there have been two Jeremys. The one wrote a Jeremiad about usury, and was called Jeremy Bentham.
短篇小说 | A Comedy in Rubber
These devotees of curiosity swarm, like flies, in a moment in a struggling, breathless circle about the scene of an unusual occurrence.
短篇小说 | A Horse Story
“That’s true, Herminia,” replied Solistan with philosophic resignation, “but who knows! maybe it is all fo’ the best!”
容易误译的英语 | big mouth
［例句］ Do you know Miss Potter has got a big mouth?
［误译］ 你知道波特小姐的嘴巴长得很大吗？
短篇小说 | Bon-Bon
That Pierre Bon-Bon was a restaurateur of uncommon qualifications, the cul-de-sac Le Febvre at Rouen, will, I imagine, feel himself at liberty to dispute.
短篇小说 | A Chaparral Prince
Somewhere in the depths of the big city, where the unquiet dregs are forever being shaken together, young Murray and the Captain had met and become friends.
短篇小说 | A Harbinger
Bruno did very nice work in black and white; sometimes in green and yellow and red. But he never did anything quite so clever as during that summer he spent in the hills.
容易误译的英语 | big head
［例句］ Mr. Murrel has got a big head.
［误译］ 默雷尔先生的头长得很大。
短篇小说 | A Voyage to the Moon
After a long and arduous devotion to the study of physics and astronomy, I, Hans Pfaal of Rotterdam, at length determined to construct a balloon of my own along original lines and to try a flight in it.
短篇小说 | A Chaparral Christmas Gift
The original cause of the trouble was about twenty years in growing.
短篇小说 | A Gentleman of Bayou Têche
“You will put on’neat’ de picture,” he said, deliberately, “’Dis is one picture of Mista Evariste Anatole Bonamour, a gent’man of Bayou Têche.’”
容易误译的英语 | big gun
［例句］ Justin is a big gun.
［误译］ “贾斯廷”是一种长枪的牌子。
