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1、英语故事欧亨利感恩节里的两个男人Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen,1 by O.Henry1 There is one day that is ours.2 There is one day when all Americans go back to the old home and eat a big dinner.3 Bless the day.4 The President gives it to us every year.5 Sometimes he talks about the people who had the firstThanksgiving.

2、6 They were the Puritans.7 They were some people who landed on our Atlantic shore.8 We dont really remember much about them.9 But those people ate a large bird called turkey on the firstThanksgiving Day.10 So we have turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, if we have enough money to buy turkey. That is a tr

3、adition. In the winter he grew a few flowers there.100 In the spring he walked on Fifth Avenue.101 In the summer he lived in a farmhouse in the hills outsideNew York, and he talked of a strange bug he hoped some day to find.102 In the fall season he gave Stuffy a dinner.103 These were the things tha

4、t filled the Old Gentlemans life.104 Stuffy Pete looked up at him for a half minute, helpless and very sorry for himself.105 The Old Gentlemans eyes were bright with the giving leasure. 106 His face was getting older every year, but his clothes were very clean and fresh.107 And then Stuffy made a st

5、range noise.108 He was trying to speak. 109 As the Old Gentleman had heard the noise nine times before, he understood it. He knew that Stuffy was accepting.in Thank you. Fm very hungry.n112 Stuffy was very full, but he understood that he was part of a tradition.113 His desire for food on Thanksgivin

6、g Day was not his own.114 It belonged to this kind Old Gentleman.115 True, America is free. But there are some things that must be done.116 The Old Gentleman led Stuffy to the restaurant and to the same table where they had always gone.117 They were known here.118 Here comes that old man, said a wai

7、ter, that buys that old no-good fellow a dinner every Thanksgiving/1119 The Old Gentleman sat at the table, watching.120 The waiters brought food, and more food.121And Stuffy began to eat No great and famous soldier ever battled more strongly against an enemy.123 The turkey and all the other food we

8、re gone almost as quickly as they appeared.124 Stuffy saw the look of happiness on the Old Gentlemans face. 125 He continued to eat in order to keep it there. 126 In an hour the battle was finished.127 Thank you, Stuffy said. 128 Thank you for my Thanksgiving dinner.n129 Then he stood up heavily and

9、 started to go to the wrong door.130 A waiter turned him in the right direction. 131 The Old Gentleman carefully counted out $1.30, and left fifteen cents more for the waiter.132 They said goodbye, as they did each year, at the door. 133 The Old Gentleman went south, and Stuffy went north. Stuffy we

10、nt around the first corner, and stood for one minute.135 Then he fell.136 There he was found. He was picked up and taken to a hospital.137 They put him on a bed, and began to try to discover what strange sickness had made him fall.138 And an hour later the Old Gentleman was brought to the same hospi

11、tal.139 And they put him on another bed, and began to try to discover what his sickness could be.140 After a little time one of the doctors met another doctor, and they talked.141 That nice old gentleman over there/1 he said.142 HDo you know whats wrong with him? Hes almost dead for the need of food

12、.143 A very proud old man, I think.144 He told me he has had nothing to eat for three days.” Yes. Thanksgiving Day is the one day of the year that is purely American.12 And now here is the story to prove to you that we have old traditions in this new country.13 They are growing older more quickly th

13、an traditions in old countries.14 That is because we are so young and full of life.15 We do everything quickly.16 Stuffy Pete sat down on a seat in the New York City park named Union Square.17 It was the third seat to the right as you enter Union Square from the east.18 Every Thanksgiving for nine y

14、ears he had sat down there at one in the afternoon.19 Every time, things had happened to him.20 They were wonderful things. They made his heart feel full of joy-and they filled another part of him, too.22 They filled the part below his heart.23 On those other Thanksgiving Days he had been hungry.24

15、(It is a strange thing. There are rich people who wish to help the poor. But many of them seem to think that the poor are hungry only on Thanksgiving Day.)25 But today Pete was not hungry.26 He had come from a dinner so big that he had almost no power to move.27 His light green eyes looked out from

16、a gray face on which there was still a little food. His breath was short.28 His body had suddenly become too big for his clothes; it seemed ready to break out of them.29 They were torn.30 You could see his skin through a hole in the front of his shirt.31But the cold wind, with snow in it, felt pleas

17、antly cool to him. For Stuffy Pete was overheated with the warmth of all he had had to eat.33 The dinner had been much too big.34 It seemed to him that his dinner had included all the turkey and all the other food in the whole world.35 So he sat, very, very full. 36 He looked out at the world withou

18、t interest, as if it could never offer him anything more.37 The dinner had not been expected.38 He had been passing a large house near the beginning of that great broad street called Fifth Avenue.39 It was the home of two old ladies of an old family.40 These two old ladies had a deep love of traditi

19、ons.41 There were certain things they always did.42 On Thanksgiving Day at noon they always sent a servant to stand at the door. There he waited for the first hungry person who walked by.44 The servant had orders to bring that person into the house and feed him until he could eat no more.45 Stuffy P

20、ete happened to pass by on his way to the park.46 The servant had gathered him in.47 Tradition had been followed.48 Stuffy Pete sat in the park looking straight before him for ten minutes.49 Then he felt a desire to look in another direction.50 With a very great effort, he moved his head slowly to t

21、he left.51 Then his eyes grew wider and his breath stopped.52 His feet in their torn shoes at the ends of his short legs moved about on the ground.53 For the Old Gentleman was coming across Fourth Avenue toward Stuffys seat.54 Every Thanksgiving Day for nine years the Old Gentleman had come there to

22、 find Stuffy Pete on his seat.55 That was a thing that the Old Gentleman was trying to make into a tradition.56 Every Thanksgiving Day for nine years he had found Stuffy there.57 Then he had led Stuffy to a restaurant and watched him eat a big dinner.58 They do these things more easily in old countr

23、ies like England.59 They do them without thinking about them.60 But in this young country, we must think about them.61 In order to build a tradition, we must do the same thing again and again for a long time.62 The Old Gentleman loved his country.63 He believed he was helping to build a great Americ

24、an tradition. And he had been doing very well.65 Nine years is a long time here.66 The Old Gentleman moved, straight and proud, toward the tradition that he was building.67 Truly feeding Stuffy Pete once a year was not a very important tradition.68 There are greater and more important traditions in

25、England.69 But it was a beginning.70 It proved that a tradition was at least possible in America.71 The Old Gentleman was thin and tall and s议ty.72 He was dressed all in black.73 He wore eye-glasses.74 His hair was whiter and thinner than it had been last year.75 His legs did not seem as strong as t

26、hey had seemed the year before. As this kind Old Gentleman came toward him, Stuffy began to shake and his breath was shorter.77 He wished he could fly away.78 But he could not move from his seat.79 HGood morning/1 said the Old Gentleman.80 nI am glad to see that the troubles of another year have not

27、 hurt you.81 You continue to move in health about the beautiful world.82 For that blessing you and I can give thanks on this day of thanksgiving.83 If you will come with me, my man, I will give you a dinner that will surely make your body feel as thankful as your mind.84 That is what the Old Gentlem

28、an said every time.85 Every Thanksgiving Day for nine years.86 The words themselves were almost a tradition.87Always before, they had been music in Stuffys ear. But now he looked up at the Old Gentlemans face with tears of suffering in his eyes.89 The snow turned quickly to water when it fell upon h

29、is hot face.90 But the Old Gentleman was shaking with the cold.91 He turned away, with his back to the wind, and he did not see Stuffys eyes.92 Stuffy had always wondered why the Old Gentleman seemed sad as he spoke.93 He did not know that it was because the Old Gentleman was wishing that he had a son.94 A son would come there after he himself was gone.95 A son would stand proud and strong before Stuffy, and say:In remembrance of my father.96 Then it would really be a tradition.97 But the Old Gentleman had no family.98He lived in a room in one of the old houses near the park.