英语原版小说短篇甜文
❶ 英语短篇美文4篇
1、If not to the sun for smiling, warm is still in the sun there, but wewill laugh more confident calm; if turned to found his own shadow, appropriate escape, the sun will be through the heart,warm each place behind the corner; if an outstretched palm cannot fall butterfly, then clenched waving arms, given power; if I can't have bright smile, it will face to the sunshine, and sunshine smile together, in full bloom.
译文：如果不向太阳索取微笑,温暖仍在太阳那里,但我们会笑得更加自信从容；如果转过身去发现了自己的影子,适当的躲让,阳光便可穿越心灵,温暖每一处身后的角落；如果摊开的掌心不能点落蝴蝶,那就紧握成拳挥动臂膀,给予力量；如果我不能够微笑得灿烂,那就将脸投向灿烂的阳光,与阳光一起微笑,烂漫。
2、When you love who you are,you become a conit of light.Just drop into your heart space,and live life from this view.For all of this doingis not who you are.Listen to your heart’s soft whisper,this voice will show you the way.Live life from your essenceis what she will say.See the light in yourself,and your world will be bright.There is no need to worry,you are exactly as you should be;remember to love who you are,and love you will see.
译文：当你爱自己的时候，你会成为一道光。只需触及心房，并遵循本心来生活。做这一切无关你是谁。聆听内心轻柔的呢喃，她会告诉你方法。遵循本性来生活她会这样告诉你。欣赏自身的光芒，你的世界都会变得明亮。没必要担心，你正是自己本来的模样；记得爱自己，爱自己欣赏的一切。
3、Occasionally, life can be undeniably, impossibly difficult. We are faced with challenges and events that can seem overwhelming, life-destroying to the point where it may be hard to decide whether to keep going. But you always have a choice. Jessica Heslop shares her powerful, inspiring journey from the worst times in her life to the new life she has created for herself.
译文：生活有时候困难得难以置信，但又不容置疑。我们面临的挑战与困境似乎无法抵御，试图毁灭我们生活，甚至使你犹疑是否继续走下去。但是你总有选择的余地。从人生低谷走向新生活的杰西卡·赫斯乐普，在这里与我们分享她启迪心灵、充满震撼力的生活之旅。
4、So it is with us. We build our lives in a distracted way, reacting rather than acting, willing to put up less than the best. At important points we do not give the job our best effort. Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built. If we had realized, we would have done it differently.
译文：想象一下你就是这个木匠，想象你正在建造这座房子，你每天钉进一颗钉子、安装一块板子或者筑起一面墙。请用心对待吧，这是唯一一个你为自己打造的生活。即使你只在里面住上一天，这一天也要活得有光彩、有尊严。正如格言所说，“生活是一个只有靠自己才能完成的项目。”
5、Time is like a river, the left bank is unable to forget the memories, right is worth grasp the youth, the middle of the fast flowing, is the sad young faint. There are many good things, buttruly belong to own but not much. See the courthouse blossom,honor or disgrace not Jing, hope heaven Yunjuanyunshu, has no intention to stay. In this round the world, all can learn to use a normal heart to treat all around, is also a kind of realm!
译文：岁月就象一条河,左岸是无法忘却的回忆,右岸是值得把握的青春年华,中间飞快流淌的,是年轻隐隐的伤感.世间有许多美好的东西,但真正属于自己的却并不多.看庭前花开花落,荣辱不惊,望天上云卷云舒,去留无意.在这个纷绕的世界里,能够学会用一颗平常的心去对待周围的一切,也是一种境界!
6、People always confuse about the meaning of happiness, they don’t know how to define it. Some people think that when one has the successful career or does something that makes contribution to the society is the happiness. It is common that great acts are admired by the public and people are easy to feel the happiness. While in my opinion, happiness is very easy to achieve. When I stay with my family, we have the nice talk and I feel very happy. When I eat the delicious food that is cooked by my mother, I feel moved and happy. Happiness is around everywhere, we can feel it if we treat it right.
译文：人们总是混淆幸福的含义，他们不知道如何定义幸福。有些人认为，当一个人有了成功的事业或做了对社会有所贡献的事情时，那就是幸福。人们很欣赏伟大的行为，人们很容易感到幸福。在我看来，幸福是很容易实现的。当我和家人在一起时，我们的谈话很愉快，我感到非常高兴。当我吃妈妈做的美味的食物时，我感到很开心。幸福无处不在，只要我们善待它，我们就能感受到幸福。
7、When I am making mistakes, my parents will never be angry with me. I am so thankful to them for they are so tolerant with me. I learn many things from my parents, they show me how to be a tolerant person. They will not blame me for the small mistake that I make, instead, they will ecate me in the gentle way. Unlike some parents who are strict to their kids, they will be very angry and said the hurting words, making the children feel sad. Being tolerant to other people’s mistakes is the best way to solve the problem. People will appreciate the kind act and make things goes on the easy way.
译文：当我犯错误的时候，我的父母永远不会生我的气。我非常感谢他们，因为他们对我很宽容。我从父母那里学到很多东西，他们教我如何成为一个宽容的人。他们不会因为我犯的一个小错误而责备我，相反，他们会以温和的方式教育我。不像一些对孩子要求严格的父母，他们会很生气，说那些伤人的话，让孩子们感到悲伤。宽容别人的错误是解决问题的最好办法。人们会欣赏这种善举，让事情变得简单。
8、Sometimes you dream to be a kind of happiness, sometimes the dream is also a kind of happiness; sometimes is a kind of happiness, sometimes the loss is also a kind of happiness;sometimes success is a kind of happiness, sometimes failure is also a kind of happiness. Sometimes the rich is a kind of happiness, sometimes poverty is also a kind of happiness. "Not happy" today, now can not be "happy", while it may be tomorrow or later become "happiness"!
译文：有时你的梦想达到是一种幸福,有时梦想破灭也是一种幸福；有时得到是一种幸福,有时失去也是一种幸福；有时成功是一种幸福,有时失败也是一种幸福.有时富有是一种幸福,有时贫穷也是一种幸福.“不幸福”今天或者现在不能成为“幸福”,而明天或者以后却可能变成“幸福”!
❷ 推荐几个简单易读的英文原版小说
推荐几本小说，适合英语初学者或者喜欢通过看
英语小说提高英语水平的读者：
1:Half girlfriend
是一本没太多生僻单词，容易阅读的原版小说。
讲述的是两个印度年轻人爱情故事的小说。
开头用倒叙的手法讲诉男主来找作者并把女主
生前的日记交给他，但是作者担心惹事拒绝日记，
后来因为好奇心的驱使看完日记并联系男主，通过
男主的讲述了解了这两个年轻人的爱情经历。
通过该小说可以稍微了解一下印度的历史和文化，
是一本容易阅读并感人的小说。
2:From the distance star
虽然是一本面向青少年阅读的原版小说，但作为
成年人读起来也觉得很吸引人。讲述少女为了
拯救自己身患癌症面临死亡的爱人，去找巫婆要来
药剂，可是却发现爱人变成了一个外星人的故事。
故事中女主不断遇到很多困难，但同时也有很多的
好心人帮助了她，故事传递了一个思想是不要以貌取人，
也许有的人外表看起来很凶恶，很贫穷邋遢，
但其实他们的内心很善良，愿意帮助别人。
3:say goodbye for now
在美国种族歧视的大环境背景下，讲述了白人医生
lucy和白人孩子pete与一对黑人父子因为一条受伤
的狗引发的故事。
四个不同的人，不一样的苦难，他们的命运因为一只狗被交织在一起，平静又温暖的故事。
❸ 英文原版爱情小说
牛津英语书虫系 外语教学与研究出版
The Witches of Pendle 藩德尔的巫师
Huckleberry Finn 哈克贝利·费恩历险记
Washington Square 华盛顿广场
Agatha Christie 神秘女人 阿加莎.克里斯蒂
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A Little Princess 小公主
Jane Eyre 简·爱
Cranford 克兰福德
The Railway Children 铁路少年
William Shakespeare 威廉·莎士比亚
Black Beauty 黑骏马
Desert Mountain Sea 极限之旅
Dead Man's Island 亡灵岛
Dracula 德拉库拉
Ear-Rings from Frankfurt 法兰克福的耳环
Far from the Madding Crowd 远离尘嚣
Kidnapped 诱拐
Frankenstein 弗兰肯斯坦
Survive! 生存游戏
Justice 公正
The Elephant Man 象人
Skyjack 劫机
Dr JEKYLL and Mr Hyde 化身博士
The Prisoner of Zinda 曾达的囚徒
King Arthur 亚瑟王
Little Women 小妇人
Love or Money 爱情与金钱
The Hound of The Baskervilles 巴斯克维尔猎犬
Pride and Prejudice 傲慢与偏见
Tales of Mystery and Imagination 神秘及幻想故事集
Mystery in London 雾都疑案
Five Children and It 五个孩子和沙精
Oliver Twist 雾都孤儿
Remember Miranda 难忘米兰达
Robin Hood 侠盗罗宾汉
Robinson Crusoe 鲁宾孙漂流记
Goodbye Mr Hollywood 别了,好莱坞先生
Silas Marner 织工马南
Sherlock Holmes and The Sport of Kings 福尔摩斯与赛马
Stories From The Five Towns 五镇故事
Great Expectations 远大的前程
The Thirty-nine Steps 三十九级台阶
The Coldest Place on Earth 世界上最冷的地方
The Jungle Book 森林王子
The Monkey's Paw 猴爪
The Omega Files 奥米茄文件
The Unquiet Grave 不平静的坟墓
The President's Murderer 谁谋杀了总统
Sherlock Holmes and The Duke's Son 舍洛克福尔摩斯和公爵的儿子
The Ransom of Red Chief 红酋长的赎金
The Scarlet Letter 红字
The Secret Garden 秘密花园
The Star Zoo 星际动物园
The Three Strangers and Other Stories 三个陌生人
The White Stones 白色巨石
The Wind in the Willows 风语河岸柳
The Wizard of Oz 绿野仙踪
Henry VIII and His Six Wives 亨利八世和他的六个妻子
Tooth and Claw 牙齿和爪子
Treasure Island 金银岛
Under The Moon 在月亮下面
Vampire Killer 吸血鬼猎手
White Death 白色死亡
Wuthering Heights 呼啸山庄
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 亚瑟王朝里的美国人
The Phantom of The Opera 歌剧院的幽灵
David Copperfield 大卫.科波菲尔
Give Us the Money 把钱拿出来
Gulliver' Travels 格列佛游记
Mutiny On The Bounty 邦蒂号暴动
The Canterville Ghost 坎特维尔幽灵
Anne and Green Gables 格林·盖布尔斯来的安妮
The Woman in White 白衣女人
A Christmas Carol 圣诞欢歌
Chemical Secret 化学秘密
The Piciure of Dorian Gray 多里安·格雷的画像
The Murders in the Rue Margue 莫尔格街凶杀案
Orca 逆戟鲸
Tess 苔丝
The Bionte Story 勃朗特一家的故事
The Love of A King 一个国王的爱情故事
The Call of The Wild 野性的呼唤
Mary Queen of Scots 苏格兰玛丽女王
Three Men in A Boat 三怪客泛舟记
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 爱丽丝漫游奇境记
Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp 阿拉丁和神灯
Through The Looking-Glass 爱丽丝镜中世界奇遇记
A Tale of Two Cities 双城记
这是本系列所有书目
❹ 有什么好看的短一点的英文小说MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
如果想看易懂的，还是不要挑战欧亨利比较好。。。。挑语言比较简单的，多看几本小说自然能看出来。。。。。。。
只说我自己看过的吧。我也比较喜欢看现代英文小说多些。
《小公主》---说的是一个小孤儿的故事，儿童文学。语言还算简单。我记忆中觉得有点长（可能是我第一个啃下的英文原著吧）。目前已改编成电影。（好像故事背景是近代的英国或法国）
《瓶中信》--有点老的纯爱小说，相当有名，中篇小说。。。。。语言依然简单，但是有人评论说语言很优美。内容不琼瑶。中年离婚女人和丧妻男人的因为一个漂流瓶引发的爱情故事。有电影的~（ps:故事时间发生的是现代的美国）
《三十九级台阶》--语言还算简单，有一些生词，中篇小说。以世界大战为（忘记是一战还是二战了）背景的侦探小说。我认为对那段历史不熟悉是我最主要的阅读障碍。也电影化了。
《夏洛特的网》--语言很简单的，因为是儿童读物嘛，篇幅不长，大概算短篇小说。猪和蜘蛛的友情，不过贵在内容很好。依然给力的电影化了。
《动物农庄》--偏政治题材的一部小说，中短篇的长度。作者虚构了一个农庄动物起义以后开始共产主义的故事。因为小说题材的严肃性给作者带来了很高的声望。嗯，其实还蛮好看的。生词不多。
《京华烟云》--林语堂原著（英文版）长篇小说，我没有看完的小说，看了一半，相当精彩呢。已电视剧化了。背景是中华大陆清末民国初的家族故事。有一定量生词，书也很有点厚度，出场人物众多。。。。。
《小王子》、《老人与海》--如雷贯耳的文，我也不能免俗了，推荐理由，文字清新朴实，表达的意义却能那么丰富，真让人惊奇。
以上的一些是我觉得还可以的电子书格式的，网上随便都能搜索到的。（京华烟云的可能少点）
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实体书部分
偏爱读实体书，但是好多已经出版的实体书都是经典小说，古典小说，我有那么一点兴趣缺缺阿。
《简。萨默斯的日记》--书荒时看的一本书，哎，说的是孀居中年女性和孤独的老女人的友谊。。。。。。。因为很多都是些心理描写，╮(╯▽╰)╭，我兴趣不大，中途放弃。。。。。。其实文字还是比较简单优美的，主要是我兴趣不大，也算是现代小说中比较有名的吧。
剩下的一些，我都是从图书馆搞到的现代小说，非名著，语言比较简单，叙事性比较强，篇幅很短。分别有两个系列我比较喜欢。
（1）南师——康乃馨英语文库（据说是面向初中生的。。。。。。。我雷。。。。。面对这套书回想一下，我初中的词汇量真小阿）
共7本书，相对都比较短，在50-200页左右，全英文读本无中文翻译。
《宝嘉康蒂》、《爱犬寻觅记》、《父辈的土地》、《可乐和吻》、《情系澳洲》（我个人认为最好看的一本）、《淘金路上》、《穆尔提默的涂鸦》。
（2）外研社·剑桥英语原创读物（好吧，总算有说是除了初中生也面向高中生，额，依然看得津津有味）
分级读物。这套的书更多些。题材更现代一点，更广泛，情节更精彩一点。有探险，侦探，爱情，科幻。高分级的读物相对篇幅也比较长。可惜我这里的图书馆收录的不全，目前我也只能看到大部分的小说而已。
冰冻的比萨、野兽传说、洛根的选择、阿姆斯特丹匪帮、丛林爱情故事、女督察洛根、永不离分、战争孤儿、出卖
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另外实体书的话，有些出版社还出版了一些由老外缩写的名著。其实还是有看头的。篇幅也相对较短小，易读。
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最后还有看看漫画，我喜欢看《丁丁历险记》（The Adventure of Tintin)。主要是字很少，哈哈。有出系列动画片。
另外，欧美的漫画取材也很众多，有一部漫画《远山的弃儿》（Freaks Of The Heartland），说了一个专出怪胎的村庄中兄弟俩的故事，故事很阴暗，倒也很温情。很有点深度的。。。。。
如果喜欢日漫，可以上网看日漫英文版。。。。。。。喜欢欧美漫也可以上网搜欧美漫（像《英雄》、《超人》、《蝙蝠侠》、《蜘蛛侠》都可以找到的）
❺ 有什么好看的英语爱情小说
《傲慢与偏见》Pride and prejudice 简·奥斯汀
《理智与情感》Sense and sensibility 简·奥斯汀
（半个世纪的经典之作。个人认为傲慢与偏见的英文版看起来十分有味道。）
《岛》Island 维多利亚·希斯洛普 2010年风靡全球之作。她笔下不仅仅是爱情。
《老土的女孩儿》An Old-Fashioned Girl 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特 一个老土、善良、有思想的女孩儿，收获一份简单、幸福、迟来的爱情。
《呼啸山庄》Wuthering Heights 艾米莉·勃朗特 暴风雨一般肆虐、令人窒息的爱情。
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这些都是经过时间筛选出来的爱情小说经典，希望能帮到你！
❻ 英文短篇美文
阅读是个体语言学习中一项十分重要的基本技能,同时也是个体获取知识和资讯的基本手段之一。下面是我带来的经典英语短篇美文，欢迎阅读!
经典英语短篇美文篇一
小溪的魅力Attraction of Creeks
Nearly everybody has a creek in his or her past, a secret waterway where one spent the spring of one’s youth.
几乎每一个人的过去都流淌著一条小溪,它发源于少年时代,一路潺潺絮语而来。
An old man’s voice weakens as he talks of a boyhood creek in Louisian where he swam and fished. A woman feels suddenly at home again as she remembers catching fish in the creek behind her parents’ house.
一位老人谈起他孩提时在路易斯安那故乡的小溪里游泳、钓鱼时,语调便柔和起来。一位妇女一想起在她父母屋后的小溪里捉鱼的情景,顿时感到重新回到了故乡。
My creek wound between Grandfather’s garden and a neighbor’s hillside pasture. Its banks were shaded by cottonwood3 and redwood trees. On hot summer days the clear and cold water flowed over the little beaches where I fished.
我心中的小溪蜿蜒流淌在祖父的花园和邻居山腰的草地之间,三角叶杨和红杉将两如猛戚岸遮得严严实实,密不透风。英语美文炎炎夏日,清澈透凉的溪水静静地流过散满砾石的小沙滩,我就在那儿钓鱼知兄。
Nothing historic ever happened in these creeks, but they are deep in memory. These creeks are bigger than they seem. They are a part of our hearts and minds more than powerful rivers.
在这些记忆中的小溪里从来没有发生过什么惊天动地的大事,然而,它们深深扎根于记忆中。它们比看上去要博大得多。与汹涌澎湃的大河相比,小溪更深深地融入我们的大脑和心灵。
While rivers are heavy, creeks are clear, innocent, lively and full of dreams and promise.anwenw A child can paddle across them without a parent’s warnings. You can go to it alone, catch fish in it and swing from the ropes along its banks. Creeks belong to childhood, drawing you into a wider world, teaching you the curve of the earth.
大河积淀厚重,深不可测;小溪则清澈、纯净、活泼,充满了梦想和渣陵希望。孩子们不必担心父母的告诫即可涉水而过。你可以独自去小溪中捉鱼,在岸边系上绳子荡秋千。小溪属于童年,将孩子们带入一个更加广阔的世界,让你领略到大地起伏的轮廓。
Poet Robert Frost once wrote: It flows between us, over us and with us. And it is time, strength, tone, light, life and love.
诗人罗伯特·弗罗斯特写道:"小溪流淌著,在我们之中,在我们之上,跟我们融为一体。小溪是时间、力量、乐曲、光明、生命和爱。"
经典英语短篇美文篇二
心存感激Be Thankful
Be Thankful that you don't already have everything you desire. If you did, what would there be to look forward to?
心存感激吧，因为你没有得到所有期望得到的，如果都有了的话，那还有什么值得期盼呢?
Be thankful when you don't know something, for it gives you opportunities to learn.
心存感激吧，因为你总有未知，才使你有机会去学习;
Be thankful for the difficult times. During those times you grow.
心存感激吧，因为有艰苦的时期才使得你成长;
Be thankful for your limitations, anwenw because they give you opportunities for improvement.
因你的力所不及而心存感激吧，正因为如此，你才有机会进步。
Be thankful for your mistakes. They will teach you valuable lessons.
因每一次全新挑战而心存感激吧，正因为如此，你的力量得以增强，性格得以塑造。
It's easy to be thankful to the good things. A life of rich fulfillment es to those who are also thankful for the setbacks.
因你所犯之错而心存感激吧，正因如此，你才得到了宝贵的经验。
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles, and they can bee your blessings.
因疲惫和厌倦而心存感激吧，因为这意味着你做了改变。
经典英语短篇美文篇三
甜美的九月Sweet September
September is more than a month; it is a season in itself.
九月不仅仅是一个月份,它还是一个季节。
It begins with August’s leftovers and ends with October’s preparations, but along the way it achieves its own special satisfactions. September —in its own time, at its own pace —begins with the closing of the summer.
它始于八月的余热,终于十月繁忙的准备,但在这之间,它带来了异常的满足。九月,伴着它的时令,踩着它的节拍,翩然而至,宣告夏季的结束。
With September we begin to feel the autumn. It creeps in on misty dawns and disappears on hot afternoons. anwenw It creeps into the treetops and the leaves, then rides a tuft of thistledown across the valley and away. It sits on a hilltop and cries like an October owl in the sk. It plays with the wind. September is like a busy squirrel in a tree, and sometimes like a lazy river. It is summer’s ripeness and richness that brought to a sweet September.
九月悄然给我们捎来了一丝秋意。它无声无息地浸入雾濛濛的清晨,却又在阳光煦暖的午后没了踪影。它蹑手蹑脚地跨过树梢,掠过些许叶子,又轻踏一簇毛蓟绕过山谷而去。它独栖山顶,像十月黄昏中猫头鹰的鸣叫;又同微风嬉戏。时而如树上的松鼠,忙得不亦乐乎;时而如慵懒的小溪,汩汩流淌。夏季的成熟与丰饶成就了甜美的九月。
Some of the rarest days of the year e in September, fortably cool but pulsing with life, with clear and clean skies, anwenw pure air and wind free of st. The fields still *** ell of the sweetness of cut grass. September’s flowers are less varied than those of the spring, but so abundant that they make September a second May. The goldenrod, flowering by mid-August, reaches its peak of golden abundance in early September. Late thistles show their purple everywhere, and asters4 blossom along the roadsides, in meadows, on hilltops, even in cities.
九月给我们带来了一年中最难得的时光:晴空万里,秋高气爽,清风徐来,一尘不染,生命与季节一起脉动。草场上散发著清新绿草的清香。九月花草种类不及春天,但亦是百花争荣,仿佛另一个五月。黄花在八月中旬含苞欲放,待到九月初花重四野,遍地金黄。晚蓟却争紫斗艳,引人入胜。紫菀处处绽放,在小路旁,草场中,山顶上,甚至在市区里。
We think of spring as the time of miracles, but September is also a lasting wonder.
春天是个充满奇迹的季节,但九月也是一种永恒的奇迹。
❼ 有什么英语短篇小说推荐
1. “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” Flannery O’Connor
Few short stories have stuck with us as much as this one, which is probably O'Connor's most famous work — and with good reason. The Misfit is one of the most alarming serial killers we've ever met, all the more so for his politeness, and the story’s moral is so striking and terrifying that — whether you subscribe to the religious undertones or not — a reader is likely to finish and begin to reexamine their entire existence. Or at least we did, the first time we read it.
《好人难寻》这篇小说是奥康纳最为著名的作品，很少有其他短篇小说能像这篇一样给我们带来震撼。无论你是否能明了宗教般的潜在含义，看完这篇小说读者都会开始或是结束对存在的检视。
2. “The School,” Donald Barthelme
This story is very short, but pretty much perfect in every way. Though Barthelme is known for his playful, post modern style, we admire him for his ability to shape a world so clearly from so few words, chosen expertly. Barthelme never over explains, never uses one syllable too many, but effortlessly leads the reader right where he wants her to be. It's funny, it's absurdist, it's sad, it's enormous even in its smallness. It may be this writer’s favorite story of all time. You should read it.
这篇小说很短，但是堪称完美。巴塞尔姆的优秀就在于他能用精选的极少几个文字就为我们叙述了一个世界。他很少过多地解释，就把读者带到了他想要你去地方。
3. “In The Penal Colony,” Franz Kafka
Kafka called this one his“dirty story,”and thought it imperfect, but it's one of our favorites of his (though we also recommend “The Hunger Artist”and“A Country Doctor”). It's so obviously a story about writing, in some ultimate way — a machine punishes its victims by writing on them over and over until their bodies give out — but its as if, while the body is the source of every problem in the tale, every weakness, it is also the only place where true knowledge can be translated.
卡夫卡称自己的这篇小说是一个“很脏的故事”，认为并不完美，但是这个短篇确实我们的最爱之一。在小说中，我们可以体会到，身体是一切问题和弱点的根源，但身体也是唯一能转化真知的地方。
4. “Signs and Symbols,”Vladimir Nabokov
Another short one, we revere this story for its ability to turn every tiny detail into a portentous disaster, not to mention the fact that it's penned in Nabokov's effortlessly gorgeous, silvery prose. An old Jewish couple goes to visit their son in the mental hospital, only to be turned away because he has attempted to kill himself. And that's it, really. They go home and look though a photo album, eat some jam. The phonerings. But the whole thing is, perhaps, both a comment on the nature of insanity and the nature of the short story itself, with all its rules and strangeness and banality. And all its symbols, of course.
我们喜欢这篇小说的原因就在于，这个故事有能力把每个细微的细节瞬间变为一场灾难，而Nabokov在写这篇小说用的是轻松华丽水银泻地般的散文风格。
5. “Gooseberries,” Anton Chekhov
Chekhov's stories are indisputably among the greats, and this one, written rather late, is one of our favorites. Chekhov probes at both the frailty and the worth of humanity, not to mention the natureof life, both for the fortunate and the unfortunate. But like most of Chekhov's stories, there's no clear moral, there's no obvious takeaway. Some men sit around and discuss their thoughts, and we listen, mulling over the subtleties for ourselves.
契科夫的小说无疑是最伟大的作品之一，而这篇是我们的最爱。这篇小说像他的其他小说一样，没有清晰的道德标准，我们只是静静地看着几个人围坐着，讨论他们的思想。
6. “Sea Oak,” George Saunders
“Sea Oak” is Saunders's favorite of his own stories, we've heard, so because we find it so hard to choose among them, we've included it here on his own recommendation. Absurdist and satirical, and including at least one zombie shouting at her housemates to get laid, it's a weird one. But it's also concerned with placelessness, with family, with poverty, and like all of Saunders's stories, has a good, thumping heart under all that darkness and fun-poking.
这部小说是桑德斯最为喜爱的一步短篇，这也是我们听说的。因为我们很难做出选择，因此就把他自己的推介放在了这里。这部小说充满了荒诞和讽刺，但是也关心家庭和贫穷等问题。像他的其他小说一样，在黑暗和取笑中，也暗含着美好和快乐。
7. “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” Ursula K. LeGuin
LeGuin's parabolic tale, which won the Hugo Award for best short story in 1974, is a weird, spacious story about a city that seems to be a utopia — except for its one flaw, the single child that must always be kept in darkness and wretched misery so that the others may all live happily. Most of the citizens eventually accept this, but some do not, and silently leave the city, vanishing into the world around. Strange but pointed, Le Guin is a master of her genre.
勒古这部寓言般的短篇小说获得过1974年的“雨果奖”，是关于一个类似乌托邦的城市的荒诞又宏大的故事。
8. “The Veldt,” Ray Bradbury
This tale, from one of the greatest science fiction writers in history, is deliciously wicked. Though it was written in 1950, this kind of story — of children driven mad by want, of technology turning on its masters — will never get old. Until technology actually turns on us, that is. Then we probably won't want to hear about it.
布莱伯利作为历史上最富盛名的科幻小说家，这篇小说也是通过精心编写的。
9. “The Bear Came Over the Mountain,” Alice Munro
The undisputed queen of the short story, Alice Munro’s work is stark and often heartbreakingly raw, and this story of memory loss and the aching tenderness of human interaction is no different. Fun fact: this story was adapted into the film “Away from Her”, starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent.
门罗是毫无争议的短篇小说女王，她的作品有一种朴实风格，常常带着心跳般的粗犷，这篇关于丧失记忆以及人类互动中的痛苦和柔弱的小说也不例外。
10. “The Nose,” Nikolai Gogol
Gogol might be the oldest writer on this list, but he’s also one of the weirdest — in a good way. Nabokov once wrote, “In Gogol…the absurd central character belongs to the absurd world around him but, pathetically and tragically, attempts to struggle out of it into the world of humans — and dies in despair.” What else can an absurd noseless man do, after all?
果戈里应该是这个书单上最久远的作家了，但是他也是最荒诞的小说家之一。纳博科夫曾近这样写道：“在果戈里的作品中，荒诞的人物属于他周围荒诞的世界，但是却可怜兮兮且悲惨地要逃离他的世界，最终死于绝望”。
❽ 好看英文言情小说
1维多利亚·荷特 <<米兰夫人>>
2 洁西卡·格拉斯 <<复仇天使>>
3 蕾维尔·史宾瑟 <<甜甜的苦>>
4 茱迪·麦娜 << 夜之私语>>
5 凯西·威廉斯 <<纯情梦醒时>>
我个人看过的是禾林系列，应该上Google上面就可以找到英文版的。个人认为禾林系列比较好。
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禾林是什么？禾林就是爱情，禾林赚取了全世界女性的笑靥和眼泪。曾经有人做过统计，进入90年代，禾林一天销售的浪漫爱情小说堆积起来的总高度是纽约世界贸易中心的5倍。
1919年1月29日，加拿大出版商理查德·邦尼卡斯创办了禾林(Harlequin)出版公司，从此禾林出版公司便以浪漫小说形式把一个个爱情传奇送给读者，读者中人数最多的是女性，禾林浪漫爱情小说已掳获了全球两亿女性的芳心。禾林浪漫爱情小说以爱情、亲情、激情、奇情为题材，杂糅欧洲恋情、悬念刺激、历险系列，大大吊起了女性读者的胃口。�
早期的禾林出版公司规模不大，出版物大多是从英国、美国购买的各种各样的平装书——侦探、西部传奇、古典小说的版权。1957年，禾林开始购买占英国浪漫小说市场85%的米尔思出版公司的浪漫小说版权。邦尼卡斯的太太玛丽以一个女性的直觉认为这些以喜剧收场的浪漫爱情小说会有很好的市场前景，建议公司着重于出版浪漫爱情小说。禾林出版公司非常重视这一建议，1964年，禾林开始专注于浪漫爱情小说，以后的时间里终于以爱情小说在世界打开了知名度。� 如今在国外不少国家和地区，禾林就是爱情的代名词，禾林赚取的女性的笑靥和眼泪比任何一家出版公司都多。曾经做过统计，进入90年代，禾林一天销售的浪漫爱情小说堆积起来的总高度是纽约世界贸易中心的5倍。1957年至1992年禾林小说在全球出售43亿本。1992年，当加拿大几乎所有出版公司都要靠政府补贴才能生存下去的时候，禾林却创下了6200万美元的净利，禾林浪漫爱情小说占了世界爱情小说市场的80%。�
禾林作为世界浪漫系列小说最成功的出版商，其出版理念和操作方式颇值得玩味。�
配合读者的口味写书�
禾林有自己的签约作家1000多位，另外每年还可收到投稿约一万件。这些签约作家的职责就是为禾林创作深受读者喜爱的浪漫小说。如果作品验收合格，所得稿酬相当优厚。在挑选作家作品时，禾林注重内容的创意，文字的掌握能力，作者的身世背景以及塑造人物个性的能力，并以各地读者的口味规模题材。此外，禾林在加拿大、美国、英国三大编辑部经常举办巡回讲座、写作研讨会，还出版写作指南和录音带，提供给有潜力的新手参考，而这些指南每年又会吸引上万份投稿，禾林再从中挑选十分之一的新手，签约为基本作家。禾林与作家的关系还有一点值得一提，即禾林对作家的笔名有5—7年的所有权，成名的作家不能带着笔名到别的出版社工作。�
严密的市场调查�
禾林去年在全世界销售禾林浪漫爱情小说一亿七千五百万册，这是一个十分惊人的数字，创造这一业绩除综合运作成功之外，周密的市场调查是禾林成功的核心秘密。�
以北美市场来说，禾林每两年进行一次消费趋势和读书习惯的市场调查，是禾林测知读者兴趣所在的依据。此外，读者来信，零售业者的座谈会，或是针对特殊团体的问卷，也都是是推出新系列的依据。�
对书而言，它的销售场所似乎永远是书店。禾林通过市场调查，了解到禾林的读者大多是常常出入店铺的女性，所以禾林大胆将书从书店带入超级市场、药店、百货商店、杂货店、日用品中心和平价批发市场等女性常去的地方，使读者能方便地买到。1975年，禾林又打破以往借助平面媒体销书的惯例，成为北美地区第一家使用电视媒体作宣传的出版公司。禾林每年将净利的10%作为促销费用，广泛利用各种媒体，并举办各种活动扩大影响。1989年柏林墙倒塌后，禾林德国合作公司免费送72万本小说给来自东德的人，结果仅在短短的一个下午就开拓了东德市场，接着东欧国家像骨牌效应似一个个接受了禾林。在匈牙利，禾林小说刚印好，书商们就迫不及待地要求付款；波兰在一星期内卖书30万本。禾林根据市场，又推出“爱不释手”、“恋恋星辰”、“红尘经典”系列。目前，禾林出版公司看好中国图书市场，经禾林对中国市场的调查，选中春风文艺出版社为其在中国的版权贸易合作伙伴，计划2000年一月首推禾林浪漫爱情小说中文版，并由此形成定式，每逢单月20日必有新书上市。�
从欧洲市场的直接操作情况来看，浪漫爱情确实是全球性的语言。但中国的爱情似与古老的历史有关，爱得相对艰难和沉重，禾林的浪漫爱情将会有别于我们传统意义上爱情格式，它上演的是轻松喜剧，使读书的意义从道德说教变成了轻松娱乐，像吃一道甜点，喝一杯冰镇矿泉水。