里柯克短篇小说精选（插图·中文导读英文版）pdf/doc/txt格式电子书下载

书名：里柯克短篇小说精选（插图·中文导读英文版）pdf/doc/txt格式电子书下载

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作者：（加拿大）里柯克,王勋,纪飞等译

出版社：清华大学出版社

出版时间：2012-07-01

书籍编号：30143259

ISBN：9787302290544

正文语种：中英对照

字数：47300

版次：1

所属分类：外语学习-英语读物

里柯克短篇小说精选（插图·中文导读英文版）

[加拿大]里柯克 著

王勋 纪飞 等 编译

清华大学出版社

前言

斯蒂芬·巴特勒·里柯克（Stephen Butler Leacock，1869—1944），是加拿大第一位享有世界声誉的作家，被誉为继马克·吐温之后世界上最受欢迎的幽默作家。

1869年12月30日，里柯克出生在英格兰汉普郡的斯旺穆尔。1876年，里柯克随父母移民加拿大；1891年，毕业于多伦多大学获学士学位。大学毕业后，里柯克在中学做教师。1899年，进入美国芝加哥大学攻读经济学与政治学，1903年获政治经济学的哲学博士学位。博士毕业后，进入加拿大麦吉尔大学任教，先后担任政治学讲师、政治与历史学副教授、政治经济学教授，之后还担任政治与经济学系主任等职。1944年3月28日，里柯克在加拿大多伦多去世。

虽然里柯克是大学政治经济学专业的专职教授，但使他名扬世界的却是其文学作品，特别是幽默短篇小说。大学毕业后，里柯克开始撰写幽默小品。1910年，他出版了自己的第一部幽默小品集。之后，他便笔耕不辍，先后出版过幽默短篇小说、诗歌、剧本、传记以及文学理论书籍等，其中影响最大的还是幽默小品，他一生共出版过近30部幽默小品集。

本书精选了里柯克的36篇幽默短篇小说，采用中文导读英文版的形式出版。在中文导读中，我们尽力使其贴近原作的精髓，也尽可能保留原作的故事主线。我们希望能够编出为当代中国读者所喜爱的经典读本。读者在阅读英文故事之前，可以先阅读中文导读部分，这样有利于了解故事背景，从而加快阅读速度。我们相信，该经典著作的引进对加强当代中国读者，特别是青少年读者的人文修养是非常有帮助的。

本书主要内容由王勋、纪飞编译。参加本书故事素材搜集整理及编译工作的还有郑佳、刘乃亚、赵雪、熊金玉、李丽秀、熊红华、王婷婷、孟宪行、胡国平、李晓红、贡东兴、陈楠、邵舒丽、冯洁、王业伟、徐鑫、王晓旭、周丽萍、熊建国、徐平国、肖洁、王小红等。限于我们的科学、人文素养和英语水平，书中难免会有不当之处，衷心希望读者朋友批评指正。

借钱之道 How to Borrow Money
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——借钱有诀窍：狮子大开口
你曾经向别人借过十块钱，并保证好借好还吗？你曾经跟人开口借一百万那么多吗？要是你这么干过，你肯定会发现开口借的钱越多，拿到钱的可能性就越大。
我们来看一些借钱的场景吧！
THE PROCESS IS QUITE EASY, PROVIDED YOU BORROW ENOUGH
HAVE you ever, dear readers, had occasion to borrow money?
Have you ever borrowed ten dollars under a rigorous promise of your word of honor as a Christian to pay it back on your next salary day? Have you ever borrowed as much as a million at a time?
If you have done these things, you cannot have failed to notice how much easier it is to borrow ten thousand dollars than ten, how much easier still to borrow a hundred thousand, and that when you come at last to raising an international loan of a hundred million the thing loses all difficulty.
Here below are the little scenes that take place on the occasion of an ascending series of loans.
场景一 Tableau No.I
哈达普·琼斯来找他的朋友卡尼·史密斯借十块钱，并答应下月一号如数归还。
琼斯向史密斯请求借十块钱，表示下月一号一定还钱。琼斯反复说明自己最近过得很困难，等他发了薪水一定还。
史密斯抱怨说一次琼斯借了五块钱，结果过了几个月才还的。
琼斯保证这次一定不会拖欠了。
这样的对话持续了半个小时以上，最后琼斯终于拿到了可怜的十块钱。
The Scene in Which Hardup Jones Borrows Ten Dollars Till the First of Next Month from His Friend, Canny Smith
“Say, look here, old man, I was wondering whether perhaps you wouldn’t mind letting me have ten dollars till the end of the month—”
“Ten dollars’!”
“Oh, I could give it back all right, for dead sure, just the minute I get my salary.”
“Ten dollars!!!”
“You see, I’ve got into an awful tangle—I owe seven and a half on my board, and she said yesterday she’d have to have it. And I couldn’t pay my laundry last week, so he said he wouldn’t leave it, and I got this cursed suit on the installment plan and they said they’d seize my trunk, and—”
“Say but Gol darn it, I lent you five dollars, don’t you remember, last November, and you swore you’d pay it back on the first and I never got it till away after New Year’s—”
“I know, I know. But this is absolutely sure. So help me, I’ll pay it right on the first, the minute I get my check.”
“Yes, but you won’t—”
“No, I swear I will—”
And after about half an hour of expostulations and protests of this sort, having pledged his soul, his body, and his honor, the borrower at last gets his ten dollars.
场景二 Tableau No.II
迈克杜夫先生到城里的银行借一千块钱。
开商店的迈克杜夫先生来银行借一千块钱，等客人们还了货款之后就来还钱。
迈克杜夫先生被晾了半天才获准进去和经理商量。经理和迈克杜夫是钓鱼的朋友，可是这会儿经理却摆出来一幅正儿八经的样子，让迈克杜夫签了很多字，发了很多誓，最后才把原本就打算借出的钱给了迈克杜夫。
The Scene in Which Mr McD uff of the McDuff
Hardware Store in Central City (pop. 3, 862)Borrows $1,000 from the Local Bank
The second degree in borrowing is represented by this scene in which Mr. John McDuff, of McDuff Bros. Hardware Store (Everything in Hardware), calls on the local bank manager with a view to getting $1,000 to carry the business forward for one month till the farmers’ spring payments begin to come in.
Mr. McDuff is told by one of the (two) juniors in the bank to wait—the manager is engaged for the moment.
The manager in reality is in his inner office, sorting out trout flies. But he knows what McDuff wants and he means to make him wait for it and suffer for it.
When at last McDuff does get in, the manager is very cold and formal.
“Sit down, Mr. McDuff,”he says. When they go fishing together, the manager always calls McDuff “John”. But this is different. McDuff is here to borrow money. And borrowing money in Central City is a criminal act.
“I came in about that loan,” says McDuff.
The manager looks into a ledger.
“You’re overdrawn seventeen dollars right now,” he says.
“I know, but I’ll be getting my accounts in any time after the first.”
Then follows a string of severe questions. What are McDuff’s daily receipts? What is his overhead? What is his underfoot? Is he a churchgoer? Does he believe in a future life?
And at last even when the manager finally consents to lend the thousand dollars (he always meant to do it) , he begins tagging on conditions:
“You’ll have to get your partner to sign.”
“All right.”
“And you’d better get your wife to sign.”
“All right.”
“And your mother, she might as well sign too—”
There are more signatures on a country bank note for one month than on a Locarno treaty.
And at last Mc

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