《新标准大学英语(第二版)综合教程2 Unit 4 A篇练习答案及课文翻译》.ppt

Contents;? Chief?introduction?to?O. Henry ? O. Henry’s main works ;Warming Up;The Gift of the Magi《麦琪的礼物》 The Cop and the Anthem 《警察和赞美诗》 The Ransom of Red Chief 《红毛酋长的赎金》 The Last Leaf 《最后一片藤叶》 A Retrieved Reformation 《浪子回头》 The Furnished Room 《带家具出租的房间》;The Gift of the Magi is about a young couple who are short of money but desperately want to buy each other Christmas gifts. Unbeknownst to Jim, Della sells her most valuable possession, her beautiful hair, in order to buy a platinum fob chain for Jim’s watch; while unbeknownst to Della, Jim sells his own most valuable possession, his watch, to buy jeweled combs for Della’s hair. The essential premise of this story has been copied, re-worked, parodied, and otherwise re-told countless times in the century since it was written.;The Cop and the Anthem is about a New York City hobo named Soapy, who sets out to get arrested so that he can be a guest of the city jail instead of sleeping out in the cold winter. Despite efforts at petty theft, vandalism, disorderly conduct, and “mashing” with a young prostitute, Soapy fails to draw the attention of the police. Disconsolate, he pauses in front of a church, where an organ anthem inspires him to clean up his life — and is ironically charged for loitering and sentenced to three months in prison.;In The Ransom of Red Chief, two men kidnap a boy of ten. The boy turns out to be so bratty and obnoxious that the desperate men ultimately pay the boy’s father $250 to take him back. The pattern of “The Ransom of Red Chief” is suggested by the first sentence of the story: “It looked like a good thing: but wait till I tell you.” The story is essentially ironic; in a series of comic reversals, the expected event is replaced by its opposite.;In The Last Leaf, a woman nick-named Johnsy has come down with pneumonia, and is close to death. Outside the window of her room, the leaves fall from a vine. Johnsy decides that when the last leaf drops, she too will die, while her room mate Sue, who