短篇小说 | How to Write a Blackwood Article
I PRESUME everybody has heard of me. My name is the Signora Psyche Zenobia. This I know to be a fact.
短篇小说 | A Double-Dyed Deceiver
The trouble began in Laredo. It was the Llano Kid's fault, for he should have confined his habit of manslaughter to Mexicans.
短篇小说 | A Matter of Prejudice
MADAME Carambeau wanted it strictly understood that she was not to be disturbed by Gustave's birthday party.
容易误译的英语 | bigwig
［例句］ He's a bigwig.
［误译］ 他戴着一顶大假发。
短篇小说 | Hop-Frog
I NEVER knew anyone so keenly alive to a joke as the king was. He seemed to live only for joking. To tell a good story of the joke kind, and to tell it well, was the surest road to his favor.
短篇小说 | A Dinner at--------*
Once or twice we had had sharp, brief contentions over certain points of behavior; but, prevailingly, give and take had been our rule.
短篇小说 | A Little Free-Mulatto
Well, there is no question about it. The happiest little Free-Mulatto in all Louisiana is Aurélia, since her father has moved to “L’Isle des Mulâtres.”
容易误译的英语 | big-timer
［例句］ Gordon is a swimming big-timer.
［误译］ 戈登牌（计时器）是用于游泳赛事的大型计时器。
短篇小说 | Four Beasts in One
Antiochus Epiphanes is very generally looked upon as the Gog of the prophet Ezekiel.
短篇小说 | A Little Country Girl
Ninette was scouring the tin milk-pail with sand and lye-soap, and bringing it to a high polish. She used for that purpose the native scrub-brush, the fibrous root of the palmetto, which she called latanier.
容易误译的英语 | big with child [young]
［例句］ She is big with child.
［误译］ 她带着个大孩子。
短篇小说 | Eleonora
I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion.
