短篇小说 | A Snapshot at the President

2020年2月2日

A Snapshot of the President is O. Henry's amusing spoof of a Texas reporter's interview with President Cleveland. No trouble getting through White House security with his calling card!

短篇小说 | Caline

2020年2月2日

THE sun was just far enough in the west to send inviting shadows. In the centre of a small field, and in the shade of a haystack which was there, a girl lay sleeping.

短篇小说 | The Black Cat

2020年2月1日

FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence.

短篇小说 | Boulôt and Boulotte

2020年2月1日

When Boulôt and Boulotte, the little piny-wood twins, had reached the dignified age of twelve, it was decided in family council that the time had come for them to put their little naked feet into shoes.

容易误译的英语 | box

2020年2月1日

［例句］　Who gave Celia a box on the ear?
［误译］　谁送给西莉亚一个盒式助听器？

短篇小说 | The Balloon Hoax

2020年1月31日

This is unquestionably the most stupendous, the most interesting, and the most important undertaking ever accomplished or even attempted by man. What magnificent events may ensue, it would be useless now to think of determining.