英语文摘

欧亨利的故事很简单，却很尖锐。 本文讲述的是一位经营面包店的老妇人和一位每天购买两片不新鲜面包的老男人，以及当善意的行为没有被正确接收时会发生什么。 这不是万圣节的鬼故事，不要让标题误导你。

She was of mighty frame and stature; she was sixty years old, but her eye was undimmed and her strength unabated. She was a cheerful, hearty soul, and it was no more trouble for her to laugh than it is for a bird to sing.

In the winter of 1862-3, I was commandant of Fort Trumbull, at New London, Conn. Maybe our life there was not so brisk as life at "the front"; still it was brisk enough, in its way -- one`s brains did n`t cake together there for lack of something to keep them stirring.