短篇小说 | Hostages to Momus

2020年3月5日

I never got inside of the legitimate line of graft but once. But, one time, as I say, I reversed the decision of the revised statutes and undertook a thing that I'd have to apologize for even under the New Jersey trust laws.

短篇小说 | The Storm

2020年3月5日

Calixta, at home, felt no uneasiness for their safety. She sat at a side window sewing furiously on a sewing machine.

容易误译的英语 | but ②

2020年3月5日

［例句］　Bessie, Cissy and Daisy recently moved in next door to our manager but three.
［误译］　贝西、锡西和黛西最近搬入到我们经理的隔壁住，但那房间只住三个人。

短篇小说 | X-ing a Paragrab

2020年3月4日

AS it is well known that the 'wise men' came 'from the East,' and as Mr. Touch-and-go Bullet-head came from the East, it follows that Mr. Bullet-head was a wise man; and if collateral proof of the matter be needed, here we have it -- Mr. B. was an editor.

短篇小说 | William Wilson

2020年3月3日

"You have conquered, and I yield. Yet, henceforward art thou also dead -- dead to the World, to Heaven and to Hope! In me didst thou exist -- and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself."

短篇小说 | The Recovery

2020年3月3日

She was a woman of thirty-five, possessing something of youthfulness. It was not the bloom, the softness, nor delicacy of coloring which had once been hers; those were all gone.