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I Toast at a State Dinner II After Twenty Years by O. Henry Remarks by President Clinton in his toast at a state dinner undertake [take on] an enterprise 创办事业 a man of enterprise 有事业进取心的人 a spirit of enterprise 进取精神 government business enterprise公有营业 group enterprise集体事业, 集体所有制企业 private enterprise 私人企业 individual enterprise单个企业; 个体户企业 Sino-foreign joint venture enterprise 中外合资、合营企业 look to: depend on 依赖； expect/look forward to/direct one’s expectations to 期待 表示“依赖”的短语有：depend on, rely on, rest on, count on set an example: show a standard of behavior for others to copy 树立榜样 Comrade Lei Feng has set a good example to us. Formation of this word: in+conceive+able inconceivable Please explain the formation of the following words. unthinkable incredible unbelievable About the author: William Sidney Porter, O. Henry was his pen name (pseudonym). Many of his stories tell about the lives of poor people in New York, as well as in other places. It is said that O. Henry imitated De Maupassant as a model. There is much in common between these two writers. Both are gifted with a clear style and a keen observation of details, and both write about people in the poorer walks of life. But O. Henry’s works abound in good-natured humor. About his work: His stories are usually short. The plots are exceedingly clever and interesting, humor abounds, and the end is always surprising. Often there are two endings: first an unexpected endings, then another, which is quite a different one and a still better surprise. Many of his stories contain a great deal of slang and colloquial expressions, that make them hard to be understood by people outside of American, which is called local color, to make the stories fit in with the characters and scenes described. O. Henry’s own speech, both spoken and written was always chaste and clear. Nearly every story he writes grips the attention and interest from the beginning, and all are wholesome reading.