短篇小说英文介绍

The Gift of the MagiMr. James Dillingham Young ("Jim") and his wife, Della, are a couple living in a modestflat. They each have only one possession in which they take pride: Della's beautiful long, flowing hair, almost to her knees and Jim's shiny gold watch, which had belonged to hisfather and grandfather.On Christmas Eve, with only $1.87 in hand, and desperate to find a gift for Jim, Della sells her hair for $20, and eventually finds a platinum fob chain for Jim's watch for $21. She found the perfect gift at last and runs home and begins to prepare dinner, with 87 cents left.When Jim comes home, he looks at Della with a strange expression. Della then admits to Jim that she sold her hair to buy him his present. Jim gives Della her present — an assortment of expensive hair accessories (referred to as “The Combs”), useless now that her hair is short. Della then shows Jim the chain she bought for him, to which Jim says he sold his watch to get the money to buy her combs. Although Jim and Della are now left with gifts that neither one can use, they realize how far they are willing to go to show their love for each other, and how priceless their love really is.希望可以帮到你！

在纳撒尼尔·霍桑最好的短篇《小伙子布朗》(Young Goodman Brown)里，霍桑写了早年的新英格兰，故事主人公去出席在半夜举行的魔鬼聚会，发现在座的不仅有镇上所有德高望重的人，甚至还有他的妻子费思... 书的主题包括人性的好与坏（似乎每本小说都提到这个）。 正如霍桑的大部分小说一样，《小伙子布朗》这部小说自始至终充满了晦暗、神秘的意象。本文对这种神秘、晦暗的意象进行了双重解读：一方面,这体现了霍桑深受清教思想和超验主义哲学影响的矛盾思想；另一方面，这也反映了霍桑的创作倾向与写作特色。 霍桑（1804～1864） Hawthorne，Nathaniel 美国小说家。1804年7月4日生于马萨诸塞州塞勒姆镇一个没落世家，1864年5月19日卒于新罕普郡的普利茅斯。4岁丧父，1821年由亲戚资助进入博多因学院。1825年毕业后回到塞勒姆从事写作 。曾自费出版长篇小说《范肖》，发表很多短篇作品，出版短篇集《古宅青苔》、《雪影》等。他的短篇小说大都取材于新英格兰的历史和现实生活，着重探讨人性和人的命运 ，带有较浓重的宗教气息和神秘色彩。名篇《小伙子布朗》、《教长的黑纱》等揭示人人皆有的隐秘的罪恶和人的必然的孤独处境。一些故事反映了作者对理性、科学和技术进步的怀疑�少数作品正面表达了他的理想，如《石面人像》。 1836年和1846年两度在海关任职 ，1841年参加超验主义者创办的布鲁克农场。1842年后结识了作家爱默生、梭罗等。1848年因政府更迭失去海关职位，后专心写作，完成了他最重要的长篇小说《红字》。小说取材于殖民地时期的新英格兰生活，主人公是因犯加尔文教派所严禁的通奸罪而被标上红字示众的少妇白兰。作者细致深入地揭示人的内心冲突，探讨了种种有关罪恶和人性的道德、哲理问题，对几个主要人物，如在磨难和赎罪中走向自新的海斯特·白兰，被良心、信仰和爱情苦苦折磨的狄姆斯台尔牧师，以及白兰的丈夫、一心谋求报复的罗杰，都有入木三分的描写。小说以监狱和玫瑰花开场，以墓地结束，充满丰富的象征寓义。随后发表的《带有七个尖角阁的房子》讲述品恩钦家族的祖先谋财害命而使后代遭到报应的故事，反映了早期美国社会中的血腥掠夺，以及作者对人的罪恶（特别是祖先的罪过）的异常关注。另一部小说《福谷传奇》以布鲁克农场的乌托邦尝试为题材，表达了一种失望情绪和对狂热激进的改革者的厌恶。 霍桑于1853年被任命为驻英国利物浦的领事 。1857年后他侨居意大利，创作了另一部探讨善恶问题的小说《玉石雕像》。此后他回国定居康科德，1864年去世时留下4部未完成的长篇小说。 霍桑把自己的小说称为心理罗曼史。他潜心挖掘隐藏在事物背后的不易觉察的意义，作品想象丰富，结构严谨。新英格兰的清教传统对他影响极深。他思想保守，对生产发展和技术进步有抵触情绪，对社会改良持怀疑态度，对当时蓬勃开展的废奴运动不很理解。霍桑思想和艺术中“阴暗”的一面在现代西方人中唤起了很大共鸣。 简.爱生存在一个父母双亡，寄人篱下的环境。从小就承受着与同龄人不一样的待遇：姨妈的嫌弃，表姐的蔑视，表哥的侮辱和毒打......然而，她并没有绝望，她并没有自我摧毁，并没有在侮辱中沉沦.所带来的种种不幸的一切，相反,换回的却是简.爱的无限信心，却是简.爱的坚强不屈的精神,一种可战胜的内在人格力量. 不幸,在学习生活中,简.爱仍然是承受着肉体上的受罚和心灵上的催残.学校的施主罗可赫斯特不但当着全校师生的面诋毁她,而且把她置于耻辱台上示众.使她在全校师生面前丢尽了脸.但简.爱仍坚强不屈,化悲愤为力量,不但在学习上飞速进步,而且也取得了师生们的理解. 不久,简.爱又陷入了爱情的旋涡.个性及强的她同样保持着个人高贵的尊严,在情敌面前显得大家闺秀,毫不逊色,对于英格拉姆小姐的咄咄逼人,她从容面对. 同样, 在罗切斯特的面前,她从不因为自己是一个地位低贱的家庭教师,而感到自卑,她认为他们是平等的.不应该因为她是仆人,而不能受到别人的尊重.也正因为她的正直,高尚，纯洁，心灵没有受到世俗社会的污染。使得罗切斯特感到自惭性秽，同时对她肃然起敬，并深深地爱上了她。他的真心,让她感动,她接受了他.后来,简.爱发现罗切斯特已有了妻子,她的自尊自重再次出现,毫不犹豫地离开了他,她对爱情的专一,让我敬佩. 最后,简.爱得知,罗切斯特为了拯救在活中的妻子不幸双目失明.躯体严重残疾,完全丧失了生活能力,而同时又妻亡财毁.简.爱全身心的爱再次投入了他的怀抱......

《The Million Pound Note》： In 1903, American seaman Henry Adams (Gregory Peck) is stranded penniless in England and gets caught up in an unusual wager between two wealthy, eccentric brothers, Oliver (Ronald Squire) and Roderick Montpelier (Wilfrid Hyde-White). They persuade the Bank of England to issue a one million pound banknote, which they present to Adams in an envelope (only telling him that it contains some money). The reason for this is that Oliver believes that the mere existence of the note will enable the possessor to obtain whatever he needs, while Roderick contends that it would actually have to be spent for it to be of any use.Once Adams gets over the shock of discovering how much the note is worth, he tries to return it to the brothers, but is told that they have left for a month. He then finds a letter in the envelope, explaining the wager and promising him a job if he can avoid spending the note for the month.At first, everything goes as Oliver had predicted. Adams is mistaken for an eccentric millionaire and has no trouble getting food, clothes and a hotel suite on credit, just by showing his note. The story of the note is reported in the newspapers. Adams is welcomed into exclusive social circles, meeting the American ambassador and English aristocracy. He becomes very friendly with Portia Lansdowne (Jane Griffiths), the niece of the Duchess of Cromarty.Then, fellow American Lloyd Hastings (Hartley Power) asks him to back a business venture. Hastings tells Adams that he does not have to put up any money himself; the mere association will allow Hastings to raise the money he needs to start up a gold mine by selling shares.Trouble arises when the Duke of Frognal (A. E. Matthews), who had been unceremoniously evicted from the suite Adams now occupies, hides the note as a joke. When Adams is unable to produce the note, panic breaks out amongst the shareholders and Adams' creditors. Fortunately, all is straightened out in the end, and Adams is able to return the note to the Montpelier brothers at the end of the month.

用英语介绍《平凡的世界》：

"Ordinary world" is a panoramic expression of the contemporary Chinese urban and

rural social life in the novel. On the basis of the original book three abbreviated as a, the

content is more concentrated. The author in nearly a decade to ask broad background,

through the complex conflicts, score of the images of all walks of many ordinary people.

And love of labor, setbacks and pursue, suffering and happiness, daily life and the huge

social conflict, the numerous and complicated intertwined, profoundly shows people in the

era of big in the historical process through the difficult and tortuous path.

翻译：《平凡的世界》是-部全景式地表现中国当代城乡社会生活的长篇小说。在原书三本的基础上缩写为一本，内容更为集中。

作者在近十年问广阔背景上,通过复杂的矛盾纠葛，刻划了社会各阶层众多普通人的'形象。劳动与爱情，挫折与追求，痛苦与欢乐，日常生活与巨大社会冲突,纷繁地交织在一起，深刻地展示了普通人在大时代历史进程中所走过的艰难曲折的道路。