短篇小说 | A Mental Suggestion

2020年1月12日

Graham looked up at the little winking stars and they looked down at him. He bowed in acknowledgement to the supremacy of the moving power which is love; which is life.

短篇小说 | Hop-Frog

2020年1月10日

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 Little Free-Mulatto

2020年1月10日

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

2020年1月10日

[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 | A Little Country Girl

2020年1月9日

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.