短篇小说 | The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects.
短篇小说 | Christmas By Injunction
Cherokee was the civic father of Yellowhammer. Yellowhammer was a new mining town constructed mainly of canvas and undressed pine. Cherokee was a prospector.
短篇小说 | Ma'ame Pelagie
When the war began, there stood on Cote Joyeuse an imposing mansion of red brick, shaped like the Pantheon. A grove of majestic live-oaks surrounded it.
容易误译的英语 | break ①
［例句］ You must break the bad news to her.
［误译］ 你必须粉碎她编造的这条坏消息。
短篇小说 | The Man That Was Used Up
I cannot just now remember when or where I first made the acquaintance of that truly fine-looking fellow, Brevet Brigadier General John A. B. C. Smith.
短篇小说 | Cherchez La Femme
Robbins, reporter for the /Picayune/, and Dumars, of /L'Abeille/--the old French newspaper that has buzzed for nearly a century--were good friends, well proven by years of ups and downs together.
短篇小说 | Love on the Bon-Dieu
UPON the pleasant veranda of Père Antoine's cottage, that adjoined the church, a young girl had long been seated, awaiting his return.
容易误译的英语 | bread-and-butter letter
［例句］ Emil wrote Mr. Lee a bread-and-butter letter.
［误译］ 埃米尔给李先生写了一封关于面包和黄油的信。
短篇小说 | The Man of the Crowd
It was well said of a certain German book that "er lasst sich nicht lesen"--it does not permit itself to be read. There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
短篇小说 | Caught
The plans for the detention of the flying President Miraflores and his companion at the coast line seemed hardly likely to fail. Doctor Zavalla himself had gone to the port of Alazan to establish a guard at that point.
短篇小说 | Loka
She had appeared one day at the side door of Frobissaint’s “oyster saloon” in Natchitoches, asking for food. Frobissaint, a practical philanthropist, engaged her on the spot as tumbler-washer.
容易误译的英语 | bread and butter
［例句］ Are you bread and butter secure?
［误译］ 你的面包和黄油安全吗?
