| 1. | The title must not be allowed to darken the reader's thoughts .
读者务必不要由于这篇短篇故事的名字而在思想上迷惑不解。 |
| 2. | His humourous sketches in particular were calculated to catch the public fancy .
特别是他的那些幽默短篇，目的在博取读者喜爱。 |
| 3. | His short stories of the 1960s are miracles of condensed observation .
他在二十世纪六十年代发表的短篇作品，都是观察入微的妙品。 |
| 4. | A few poems, some stories: these are poe's claim to fame as a creative writer .
几首诗，几个短篇，就是坡作为开拓性作家驰誉文坛的本钱。 |
| 5. | Some of my class had written long, obscure stories portraying the "inner man " .
我班上的学生中有些人写过描写“内在的人”的冗长而晦涩的短篇故事。 |
| 6. | In common with such sculpture, some of poe's stories leave us indifferent, or seem repellent .
坡的一些短篇，遭遇一如此等雕塑，已经为人所蔑视，甚至令人厌倦。 |
| 7. | As a writer of short stories he has rarely been equalled for originality and forceful effect .
他作为短篇故事的作者，在独创性和感染力方面，是很少能有人望其项背的。 |
| 8. | I worked up the courage to show him something new, a primitive short story written in what i fancied to be the dark russian manner .
我鼓起勇气约他看我的一篇新作，一个粗糙的短篇故事，自己认为是仿效俄国阴郁的笔调写的。 |
| 9. | Many of her well-written stories of this period are obviously autobiographical; some reemerged eighteen years later in daughter of earth .
她在这一时期写得很不错的许多短篇故事显然都是自传性的，有一部分在十八年后，被收入了《大地的女儿》。 |
| 10. | Indeed all his stories have the special poe flavour. many of them are set in strange places-a ruined abbey, a castle on the rhine-with elaborate and dimly or luridly lit decors .
坡的短篇确实都有他独特的风格。故事大都发生在奇怪的地方--倾圮的僧院，莱茵河上的城堡--笼罩着微妙、朦胧或恐怖骇人的气氛。 |
