英语故事 比尔斯 猫头鹰溪桥的故事.docxVIP

英语故事 比尔斯 猫头鹰溪桥的故事 ,An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge1 by Ambrose Bierce i Our story today is called, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. It was written by Ambrose Bierce. 2 The occurrence, or event, in our story takes place during the Civil War of the eighteen sixties between the American states of the north and the states of the south. 3 A group of soldiers is hanging a southern farm owner for trying to stop northern military movements across the Owl Creek Bridge. 4 In the last moments of his life, the southern prisoner dreams he has escaped. 5 And everything that happens in the story is really the images in the prisoners mind just before he dies. 6 Here is Shep ONeal with our story. 7 A man stood on a railroad bridge in Alabama looking down into the swift waters of the Owl Creek River below. 8 The mans hands were tied behind his back. Now, half-awake, half asleep, he found himself at the door of his house. 108 His lovely wife ran to him. 109 Ah, at last. 110 He put his arms about his beautiful wife. in And just then, he felt a terrible pain in the back of his neck. 112 All around him there was a great white light and the sound of a cannon. 113 And then...then...darkness and silence. 114 The prisoner was dead. 115 His neck was broken. 116 His body hung at the end of a rope. 117 It kept swinging from side to side. 118 Swinging gently under a hole in Owl Creek Bridge. There was a rope around his neck. 10 The rope was tied to part of the bridge above him. ii Three soldiers of the northern army stood near the prisoner, waiting for their captains orders to hang him. 12 Everybody was ready. 13 The prisoner stood quietly. 14 His eyes were not covered. 15 He looked down and saw the water under the bridge. 16 Now, he closed his eyes. 17 He wanted his last thoughts to be of his wife and children. 18 But, as he tried to think of them, he heard sounds — again and again. 19 The sounds were soft. 20 But they got louder and louder and started to hurt his ears. 21 The pain was stro