英语故事 爱伦坡 泄密的心.docxVIP

英语故事爱伦坡’泄密的心’ The Tell-Tale Heart1 by Edgar Allan Poe 1 Today we present the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. 2 Here is Shep ONeal with the story. 3 True! Nervous -- very, very nervous I had been and am! 4 But why will you say that I am mad? 5 The disease had sharpened my senses — not destroyed them. 6 Above all was the sense of hearing. 7 I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. 8 I heard many things in the underworld. 9 How, then, am I mad? Observe how healthily -- how calmly I can tell you the whole story. 10 It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain. ii I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. I told them to search -- search well. 101 I led them, at length, to his room. 102 I brought chairs there, and told them to rest. 103 I placed my own seat upon the very place under which lay the body of the victim. 104 The officers were satisfied. I was completely at ease. 105 They sat, and while I answered happily, they talked of common things. 106 But, after a while, I felt myself getting weak and wished them gone. 107 My head hurt, and I had a ringing in my ears; but still they sat and talked. 108 The ringing became more severe. 109 I talked more freely to do away with the feeling. 110 But it continued until, at length, I found that the noise was not within my ears. in I talked more and with a heightened voice. 112 Yet the sound increased — and what could I do? 113 It was a low, dull, quick sound like a watch makes when inside a piece of cotton. 114 I had trouble breathing -- and yet the officers heard it not. 115 I talked more quickly — more loudly; but the noise increased. 116 I stood up and argued about silly things, in a high voice and with violent hand movements. 117 But the noise kept increasing. 118 Why would they not be gone? 119 I walked across the floor with heavy steps, as if excited to anger by the observations of the men -- but the noise increased. 120 What could I do? I swung