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收藏！6篇超经典英文短篇小说，几分钟就能读完！ 这些作品篇篇经典，耐人寻味，读起来也不难。关键是每篇阅读时长都不超过10分钟～ 这篇推文受到了小伙伴的热烈欢迎。后台收到了好多的小心心～ 1 大家纷纷 表 关于同志近三年现实表现材料材料类招标技术评分表图表与交易pdf视力表打印pdf用图表说话 pdf 示，再也不担心地铁上没事做啦～ 于是，贴心的双语君为大家带来了第二弹，话不多说，上文章～ ? 《入职介绍》 Orientation by丹尼尔?奥罗斯科 Daniel Orozco 2 ?阅读时长:8分钟 ?内容简介 这篇带有荒诞色彩的短篇小说以独白的形式(monologue)，讲述了一个新员工入职时被引导参观办公室 的全过程，相信能引起职场小伙伴们的共鸣。 ?精彩选段 小说的开篇是这样的: 3 Those are the offices and these are the cubicles. That’s my cubicle there, and this is your cubicle. This is your phone. Never answer your phone. Let the Voicemail System answer it. This is your Voicemail System Manual. There are no personal phone calls allowed. 那边是领导的办公室，这边是员工的办公格子间。那个格 子间是我的，这个是你的。这是你的座机。电话你不用接， 语音信箱系统会自动接听。这是语音信箱系统的操作指南。 严禁电话私用。 之后，这位主管程式化的介绍慢慢变得私人化，开始八卦 起员工们的私生活: Amanda Pierce, who tolerates Russell Nash, is in love with Albert Bosch, whose office is over there. Albert Bosch, who only dimly registers Amanda Pierce’s existence, has eyes only for Ellie Tapper, who sits over there. Ellie Tapper, who hates Albert Bosch, would walk through fire for Curtis Lance. But Curtis Lance hates Ellie Tapper. 阿曼达?皮尔斯容忍着拉塞尔?纳什的示爱，却暗恋着那边办 4 公室里的阿尔伯特?博施，后者基本上对阿曼达视而不见，他 眼里只有坐在那边的艾丽?塔伯。可艾丽?塔伯讨厌阿尔伯 特?博施，却愿意为柯蒂斯?兰斯赴汤蹈火。但是柯蒂斯?兰斯 讨厌艾丽?塔伯。 八卦的内容也越来越黑暗，从办公室恋情到性虐待、连环 杀手，奇闻异事层出不穷。 ?评论 Here are these people in close proximity, spending their time together, knowing the private details of one another’s lives and yet ignoring them, and thereby ignoring each other, retaining their isolation even within a crush of human need and longing. For them, personal intimacy creates separation rather than connection—the more intimately the characters 5 know each other, the greater their alienation. 这群人相处在狭小亲密的空间里，一起共度大量时间，知道彼此生活的私密细节，却选择无视，进而无视彼此，尽管他们内心充满着人性的需求和渴望，却始终保持孤立。对于他们来说，距离上的亲密只造成隔离而非沟通。这些人物对彼此所知越多，就越疏离。 ?全文链接:点击这里阅读 原文 少年中国说原文俱舍论原文大医精诚原文注音大学原文和译文对照归藏易原文 ? 《需求》 Wants 6 by格蕾丝?佩雷 Grace Paley ?阅读时长:6分钟 ?内容简介 这篇短篇小说非常简短，讲述了一个女人在图书馆门口与 前夫短暂邂逅，两人交谈了彼此对那段婚姻的看法。之后， 女人陷入沉思，并做了一个决定。 The story is so short that the experience of reading it is akin to a flashback to a forgotten memory or a dream about a stranger’s conversation overheard in passing. 7 这个故事非常短，阅读体验像极了对一段遗忘记忆的瞬间 闪回，或是梦境中重现偶然听见的陌生人的对话。 ?精彩选段 I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. 我在街上看见前夫。我当时正坐在新图书馆的台阶上。 Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. 你好，我的人生，我说。我们有过一段27年的婚姻，所以 我觉得这样叫他很合理。 He said, What? What life? No life of mine. 他说，什么,什么人生,不是我的人生。 8 ?全文链接:点击这里阅读原文 ? 《一小时的故事》 The Story of an Hour by凯特?肖邦 Kate Chopin ?阅读时长:5分钟 9 ?内容简介 《一小时的故事》最初名为“The Dream of an Hour”，1894 年发表时改为“The Story of an Hour”，讲述了女主人公露易 丝?玛拉尔德从听说丈夫死讯到发现丈夫还活着中间一小时 的心理历程。 Chopin?sThe Awakeningis a quintessential work of feminist literature, about a woman who feels restricted by the confines of her marriage. The same themes are at play here; it?s more than worth a look. 肖邦的《觉醒》是女性文学的经典之作，讲述了一个深感 被婚姻束缚的女人的故事。这则短篇也是类似主题，值得反 复品读。 ?精彩选段 10 She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves. 她能看到房前空地上的树梢摇曳着，充满新春的生机，空 气中弥漫着雨水的芬芳。下面街上的小贩在吆喝着他的货 品，远处某个人唱着歌，音符隐隐入耳。而屋檐下，有数不 清的麻雀正在叽叽喳喳地叫着。 She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death;the face that had never looked save with love upon her,fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome. 她知道，等她看到死者那交叉着的善良温柔的双手，那张 一向含情脉脉望着她，如今却僵硬苍白、毫无生气的脸庞时， 11 她还是会哭的。不过她知道那痛苦的时刻之后，是完完全全属于自己的来日方长，她张开双臂欢迎这岁月的到来。 ?全文链接:点击这里阅读原文 ? 《一个漂浮物无序的房间》 A Lack of Order in the Floating Object Room by 乔治?桑德斯 George Saunders 12 ?阅读时长:10分钟 ?内容简介 这个故事出自新晋“布克奖”得主乔治?桑德斯(双语君之前 介绍过他，点击了解更多)，是他早年申请美国雪城大学文 学硕士学位的作品。 It?s not hard to see why; his stories, some of them science fiction, some of them literary realism, often portray the human spirit at odds with a consumerist culture. 不难发现，他的故事中有的是科幻类，有的是现实主义， 常常描绘人文精神和消费主义文化之间的矛盾冲突。 13 ?精彩选段 A velour basketball, half the size of a real basketball, hangs mid-aired over a crib. In the closet, the arms of tiny jackets and sweaters wave and salute wildly. The threads of the carpet flatten out like grass under a helicopter, and then circular waves run outward from the middle of the room. When the waves die down, it’s just a regular carpet again. The whole cycle takes three and a half minutes. 一个只有真篮球一半大的丝绒篮球漂浮在婴儿床上方;衣 柜里，小夹克和毛衣的袖子乱舞，狂野地行着礼。地毯上的 织线平铺开，像直升机下方的草坪一样，接着圆形波纹从屋 子中间向四周涌动着。当波纹平静下来，它又成了一块寻常 地毯。这整套动作一共要花上三分半。 ?全文链接:点击这里阅读原文 14 ? 《熟路》 A Worn Path by尤多拉?韦尔蒂 Eudora Welty ?阅读时长:10分钟 ?内容简介 15 Welty was a Pulitzer-winning author from the South, known for writing about southern life in America. The Atlantic published “A Worn Path” in 1941. It tells the story of an old woman walking a long distance from her home to the center of town. 韦尔蒂来自美国南部，作品以描写美国南部生活为人所熟 知。1941年，《大西洋月刊》发表了她的作品《熟路》。作品 讲述了一个年迈的妇人从家徒步远行到市中心的故事。 ?精彩选段 Phoenix heard the dogs fighting, and heard the man running and throwing sticks. She even heard a gunshot. 菲尼克斯听到狗打架的声音，听到那人跑动并抛掷木棍的 声音，她甚至还听到了枪声。 But she was slowly bending forward by that time, further and further forward, the lids stretched down over her eyes, 16 as if she were doing this in her sleep. Her chin was lowered almost to her knees. The yellow palm of her hand came out from the fold of her apron. Her fingers slid down and along the ground under the piece of money with the grace and care they would have in lifting an egg from under a setting hen. Then she slowly straightened up; she stood erect, and the nickel was in her apron pocket. 但在这个时间里，她一点一点缓慢弯下身来，眼皮耷拉着， 像是在睡梦中。她的下巴几乎触到了膝盖。黄色的手掌从围 裙褶里伸了出来。她的手指悄悄顺着地面摸到硬币底下，就 像是从抱窝的母鸡身下取蛋似的，那么谨慎，那么从容。然 后她慢慢直起腰来，直挺挺地站着，硬币早已装到了围裙口 袋里。 A bird flew by. Her lips moved. „God watching me the whole time. I come to stealing.? 一只小鸟飞过。她的嘴唇蠕动着。“上帝一直在瞧着我。我 落到偷东西的地步了。” ?全文链接:点击这里阅读原文 17 ? 《如何成为一名作家》 How to Become a Writer by洛丽?摩尔 Lorrie Moore ?阅读时长:10分钟 18 ?内容简介 Moore’s pithy and hilarious writing has won her both attention and critical acclaim, and “How to Become a Writer,” a story originally published in her first collection, Self Help, is no exception. It’s a funny chronicling of the hurdles an aspiring writer has to clear, including backup plans and confused college roommates. 摩尔作品的简练和幽默为她赢来关注和如潮好评。《如何成 为一名作家》这则故事最初发表在她的第一部合集《自助》 当中，沿袭了她简练和幽默的风格。该文讲述了那些有志于 成为作家的人必须克服的障碍，比如有后备 计划 项目进度计划表范例计划下载计划下载计划下载课程教学计划下载 ，有一帮糊 涂的大学舍友等等。 ?精彩选段 It is best if you fail at an early age - say, 14. Early, critical 19 disillusionment is necessary so that at 15 you can write long haiku sequences about thwarted desire. It is a pond, a cherry blossom, a wind brushing against sparrow wing leaving for mountain. Count the syllables. Show it to your mom. 如果你早年失败，比如14岁，那再好不过了。失败的幻灭 是必须的，这样，你到15岁就能以你挫败为灵感写出长俳 句了。池塘、樱花、微风拂过飞向山间的麻雀羽翼。数数音 节，让你母亲读读。 She is tough and practical. She has a son in Vietnam and a husband who may be having an affair. She believes in wearing brown because it hides spots. She?ll look briefly at your writing then back up at you with a face blank as a doughnut. She?ll say: „„How about emptying the dishwasher??? Look away. Shove the forks in the fork drawer. Accidentally break one of the freebie gas station glasses. This is the required pain and suffering. This is only for starters. 你母亲是个强势且实际的人。她还有个在越南的儿子，丈 夫可能有外遇。她坚信要穿棕色，因为看不清污渍。她会匆 匆扫过你写的东西，然后抬起头看你，表情空洞得好像甜甜 圈。她会说:“你来清理洗碗机好吗,”你要转开头，把叉子 20 塞进橱柜，不小心摔碎一只加油站送的杯子。这是必经的痛苦和折磨，初学者独享。 百度搜索“就爱阅读”,专业资料,生活学习,尽在就爱阅读网92to.com,您的在线图书馆! 21