短篇小说 | The Angel of the Odd
Upon coming to my senses (for the fall had very thoroughly stunned me) I found it about four o'clock in the morning.
短篇小说 | Aristocracy Versus Hash
The snake reporter of The Rolling Stone was wandering up the avenue last night on his way home from the Y.M.C.A. rooms when he was approached by a gaunt, hungry-looking man with wild eyes and dishevelled hair. He accosted the reporter in a hollow, weak voice.
短篇小说 | A Wizard from Gettysburg
"Madame," he said, "an old soldier, wounded on the field of Gettysburg, craves for himself and his two little children your kind hospitality."
容易误译的英语 | blue stocking
［例句］ Alice is a blue stocking.
［误译］ “艾丽斯”是一种蓝长袜的牌子。
短篇小说 | Some Words with a Mummy
THE symposium of the preceding evening had been a little too much for my nerves. I had a wretched headache, and was desperately drowsy.
短篇小说 | A Poor Rule
I have always maintained, and asserted ime to time, that woman is no mystery; that man can foretell, construe, subdue, comprehend, and interpret her.
短篇小说 | A Visit to Avoyelles
Every one who came up from Avoyelles had the same story to tell of Mentine.
容易误译的英语 | boss
［例句］ The bosses on the church roof are elegant.
［误译］ 教堂屋顶上的老板们很漂亮。
短篇小说 | Silence -- a Fable
"LISTEN to me," said the Demon as he placed his hand upon my head. "The region of which I speak is a dreary region in Libya, by the borders of the river Zaire. And there is no quiet there, nor silence.
短篇小说 | An Unfinished Story
We no longer groan and heap ashes upon our heads when the flames of Tophet are mentioned.
短篇小说 | A Very Fine Fiddle
WHEN the half dozen little ones were hungry, old Cléophas would take the fiddle from its flannel bag and play a tune upon it.
容易误译的英语 | born in [to] the purple
［例句］ Derek was born in the purple.
［误译］ 德里克出生时皮肤呈紫色。
