最后一片叶子--欧亨利(英汉对照).pdf

The Last Leaf 最后一片叶子 In a little district west of Washington Square the 在华盛顿广场西边的一个小区里，街道都横七 streetshaverun crazy andbroken themselves into small 竖八地伸展开去，又分裂成一小条一小条的“胡同”。 strips called places. These places make strange 这些 “胡同”稀奇古怪地拐着弯子。一条街有时自 angles and curves. One Street crosses itself a time or 己本身就交叉了不止一次。有一回一个画家发现这 two.An artist once discovered a valuable possibility in 条街有一种优越性：要是有个收帐的跑到这条街上， this street. Suppose a collector with a bill for paints, 来催要颜料、纸张和画布的钱，他就会突然发现自 paper and canvas should, in traversing this route, 己两手空空，原路返回，一文钱的帐也没有要到！ suddenly meet himself coming back, without a cent havingbeenpaidon account! So, to quaint old Greenwich Village the art people 所以，不久之后不少画家就摸索到这个古色古 soon came prowling, hunting for north windows and 香的老格林尼治村来，寻求朝北的窗户、18世纪的 eighteenth-century gables and Dutch attics and low 尖顶山墙、荷兰式的阁楼，以及低廉的房租。然后， rents. Then they imported some pewter mugs and a 他们又从第六街买来一些蜡酒杯和一两只火锅，这 chafing dish or two from Sixth Avenue, and became a 里便成了“艺术区”。 colony. At the top of a squatty, three-story brick Sue and 苏和琼西的画室设在一所又宽又矮的三层楼砖 Johnsy had their studio. Johnsy was familiar for 房的顶楼上。 “琼西”是琼娜的爱称。她俩一个来 Joanna. One was from Maine; the other from 自缅因州，一个是加利福尼亚州人。她们是在第八 California.They had met at the table dhocirc;te of an 街的 “台尔蒙尼歌之家”吃份饭时碰到的，她们发 Eighth Street Delmonicos, and found their tastes in 现彼此对艺术、生菜色拉和时装的爱好非常一致， art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves so congenial that 便合租了那间画室。 thejoint studioresulted. That was in May. In November a cold, unseen 那是5月里的事。到了11月，一个冷酷的、肉 stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked 眼看不见的、医生们叫做 “肺炎”的不速之客，在 about the colony, touching one here and there with his 艺术区里悄悄地游荡，用他冰冷的手指头这里碰一 icy fingers. Over on the east side this ravager strode 下那里碰一下。在广场东头，这个破坏者明目张胆 boldly, smiting his victims by scores, but his feet trod 地踏着大步，一下子就击倒几十个受害者，可是在 slowly through themaze ofthenarrow andmoss-grown 迷宫一样、狭窄而铺满青苔的 “胡同”里，他