新出的英文短篇小说
A. 英文小说推荐|从入门到进阶
语言难度从初级到冲刺,为您推荐10本风格多样的「英文小说」,助您提升口语和阅读能力!
|入门
1、《夏洛特的网》
一部描写友情的童话,讲述小猪威尔伯和蜘蛛夏洛之间真挚的友谊。在威尔伯生命受到威胁时,夏洛用自己的力量救了它,却牺牲了自己的生命。作者用童话的叙事风格表达了对生命的赞美和眷恋,引发对生命的深沉思考。
这部小说由美国散文名家E. B. White创作,自1952年出版以来,以23种语言版本在全球发行超过4500万册,成为欧美经典之作,与《小王子》齐名。
2、《芒果街上的小屋》
这是一本“诗小说”,由几十个短篇组成,讲述女孩埃斯佩朗莎在芝加哥拉美移民社区芒果街上的生活。她用清澈的目光观察世界,用美丽稚嫩的语言讲述成长、沧桑、生命的美好与不易,以及梦想和追求。
3、《可爱的骨头》
一个十四岁的女孩遭遇连环杀人犯的残忍杀害。作者艾丽斯·西伯德以诚挚的深情,抒发出一曲催人泪下的亲情之歌。
4、《安德的游戏》
故事发生在未来,地球两次遭遇虫族进攻,国际舰队寻找天才儿童进行军事训练,以保卫地球。主人公安德在训练中展现出了非凡的智慧,成为了地球的救世主。
5、《万物简史》
这是一部关于现代科学发展史的书籍,作者用幽默风趣的笔法,讲述了宇宙大爆炸到人类文明发展进程中的各种奇妙故事,帮助读者了解大千世界的无穷奥秘。
|进阶
6、《银河系漫游指南》
地球被毁灭,主人公阿瑟·邓特与外星人福特·长官开始了穿越银河的冒险,凭借《银河系漫游指南》一书中所包含的智慧,寻找地球的真相。
7、《消失的爱人》
尼克和艾米是完美的恩爱夫妻,但艾米离奇失踪,尼克被怀疑为凶手。作者通过艾米的日记,揭示了婚姻背后的真相,引发人们对成长、家庭和婚姻的思考。
8、《壁花少年》
这是一本书信式小说,讲述高中生Charlie的成长故事。他内向寡言,在青春期和成长过程中面临各种挑战。
9、《1984》
这是一部杰出的政治寓言小说,描绘了人类在极权主义社会的生存状态,警示世人警惕黑暗势力的威胁。
10、《人鼠之间》
莱尼和乔治是一对流浪汉,他们有一个共同的梦想:拥有一块土地、一间小屋和一头牛。然而,他们的梦想却注定无法实现。
B. 英文小说推荐|从入门到进阶
欢迎探索英文阅读的新境界,从基础到精通,这里有10本英文小说推荐,让你的语言技能飞跃提升!
入门篇
1. 《夏洛特的网》 —— 美国散文大师E.B. White的童话杰作,一部关于友情与牺牲的感人故事。在朱克曼家的谷仓里,小猪威尔伯与蜘蛛夏洛的深情互动,展示了生命的真谛。这本书自1952年面世,全球发行量高达四亿五千万本,陪伴无数读者成长,是成长路上的经典之作,如同《小王子》般深入人心。
2. 《芒果街上的小屋》 —— 这是一本诗意盎然的短篇集,作者以芝加哥拉美移民社区的少女埃斯佩朗莎为主角,通过清澈的语言描绘成长的点滴,唤起对梦想和自由的追求,每一章都是一首独立的诗篇,温暖而深刻。
进阶篇
3. 《可爱的骨头》 —— 女作家艾丽斯·西伯德以独特视角讲述一个少女被谋杀的悲剧,她用深情的笔触探索亲情的力量,这部作品超越了传统犯罪小说,成为思考生命价值的佳作。
4. 《安德的游戏》 —— 在未来世界,马泽·雷汉的传奇故事推动人类与外星虫族的战争。这是一部关于天才儿童成长与救赎的科幻小说,引领读者进入星际战争的紧张世界。
5. 《万物简史》 —— 以幽默诙谐的笔触揭示科学发展的奥秘,带你领略宇宙大爆炸到人类文明的历程,这部通俗易懂的科普巨作让你领略科学的魅力。
挑战极限
6. 《银河系漫游指南》 —— 当地球面临毁灭,阿瑟·邓特与福特·长官踏上一场银河冒险,这本书以其无尽智慧挑战读者的想象力,带你探索宇宙的无限可能。
7. 《消失的爱人》 —— 一部畅销小说,围绕失踪妻子的日记,挑战读者对忠诚与背叛的理解,它既是悬疑故事,又是对家庭、婚姻和社会道德的深度探讨。
8. 《壁花少年》 —— Charlie的成长故事,通过书信形式展现青少年的内心世界,揭示成长的困惑与秘密,引人共鸣。
9. 《1984》 —— 乔治·奥威尔的反乌托邦经典,警醒世人警惕极权统治,是20世纪最具影响力的小说之一,村上春树曾深受其影响。
10. 《人鼠之间》 —— 约翰·斯坦贝克的力作,描绘了小人物在梦想与现实之间的挣扎,揭示人性的无奈与悲剧。
继续你的阅读之旅,这些作品将助你跨越语言的障碍,提升你的阅读与表达能力。每本书都是一扇窗,带你进入新的世界,开启你的英文小说探索新篇章。
C. 英语短篇小说泄密的心翻译
泄密的心
爱伦?坡
真的!焦虑,很焦虑,极其焦虑,经久以来,我都超级焦虑;可是为何说我疯了?病痛消弱了我的知觉——木有消除——木有麻痹我的知觉。先说说我的听力。放耳听去,天上人间,冥界繁事,尽收耳内。所以我怎么算是疯子?听仔细了!我可以不紧不慢、心平气和地告诉你整个故事的来龙去脉。
讲不清啥时候第一次冒出这念头;但自从想过后,它就日日夜夜萦绕心头。木啥目的,也木啥贪念。我还挺喜欢那老人。他自从木有烦扰,甚至辱骂过我。我也不念叨他的小金库。我想:是他的眼!对,就是他的眼!他其中一只眼像秃鹰眼一样——苍蓝色。每次他看我,我都全身凉透了;所以,自然而然,我决定灭了他,永远脱离出那阴冷的视线。
此时正是关键。你当我是疯子?疯子可是什么都不知道。你已经明白我做事多么理智,多么谨慎,多么高瞻远瞩——我若无其事地上班!杀他前一星期,我对这老人超殷勤。每晚,午夜,我打开他的卧室门——哎,要多轻柔就多轻柔的说!接着,门缝够容下脑袋时,我就伸进去一盏提灯。灯被裹得紧紧的,黑乎乎的,一丝光都不透的。然后我伸进头。哈哈,你要是真看到我怎么机智地进去的,你肯定会点32个赞的!我慢慢的,很慢很慢,超级缓慢地伸进头,当然吵不醒那熟睡的老人啦。差不多1小时后,我才完全伸进头去,就看到他躺在床上。哈哈——疯子有这智商?后来,我可以方便点动时,就打开提灯。哇塞,我那么谨慎,那么小心,刚好露出一丝光线,正好投射到他那秃鹰眼。
连续七晚,我都干这事——每晚午夜——但是他眼睛一直闭着的;我没办法下手;因为惹火我的不是这个老人,而是他的魔眼。每天早晨,我进屋,亲切地和他交谈,夸奖他,呼唤他,问候他睡得好吗。因此正如你所见,实际上他是纯良之人,毫不怀疑每晚午夜时分我窥视他的睡颜。
第八天晚上,一如既往,我极其小心地开门。动作比手表分针还磨蹭。此前,我从不知道我预见能力这么厉害。胜利在望,我又害怕又激动。心有所思地一点点推开门。他做梦都想不到我的心思我的行为。一想到这,我咯咯地笑了。莫非他听到了?他好像惊醒,突然动了。你可能猜我现在会退缩——错。他房间那么黑,暗黑得不得了,(他害怕匪徒所以紧绷着身子颤抖。)因此我知道他看不见门在打开。我依旧偷偷摸摸地推开门。我伸进头,要开提灯,手指刚滑过灯线,老人在床上跳起大吼“谁在那?”
我一动不动,始终沉默。一个小时过去了,我一丝肌肉也不曾松懈。这时我听到他躺下的声音。他也躺在床上听着——如同我夜夜做的那样,听到死神注视着墙面。马上我就听到极低的呜声,我晓得这是神经恐惧才有的声音。这不是因为疼痛或忧伤而产生——绝不是!这是过度惊悚时,从心灵深处升起的阴郁的颤抖的声音。我深知这声音。每每深夜,万物皆眠,唯我梦醒子时,内心深处、灵魂深渊中就发出这种声音,回声阵阵,让我恐惧到崩溃。我说了我了解这种声音。我知道老人想啥子。虽然我心里窃笑但我仍可怜他。我知道从第一次轻微声音使他在床上转身时,他就一直清醒着。他越来越害怕。他尝试去忽视,但这不可能做到。他不停地自语——“什么事都没有,只是烟囱里的风——只是老鼠穿过地板”或“只是蟋蟀的声音”。是的,他一直这么安慰他自己:但是白费力气。毫无作用;因为死神来了,都站在他面前和他的影子谈判,签约受害者了。老人感觉得到阴郁地黑影——虽然看不见听不到——却真切感知我存在在房间里。
我耐心地呆了很久,还没听到他躺下的声音。我打开了提灯,仅露出一丝缝隙。我开灯了——你想不到我有多偷偷摸摸地开灯——终于,从蜘蛛丝般细的狭缝里射出一线光,落进那秃鹰般的眼眸中。
睁着眼睛的——挣得大大的——看到这些我变得激动。我清楚明白地看到它——苍蓝的眸,似蒙了昏沉的纱,让我感到彻骨寒气;但我看不到老人的脸或身体:因为我顺着光线直接精准锁定目标。
跟你说了没?有这么敏锐的感官会是疯子?——此刻,我听到一种声音,沉闷,模糊,像是钟表在棉花里发出的声音。我也熟悉这种声音。这是老人的心跳声。我更为兴奋,好像受到鼓声激励的士兵。但是我依然克制自己,保持沉默,呼吸都有些胆怯。我恍惚地提着灯,小心地保持光线照在那眼上。同时,那该死的心脏跳得更欢了。速度越来越快,声音越来越大。他一定怕极了!声音越来越大,分分钟变大!——你懂我意思吗?我说过我焦虑:我现在就焦虑着。今晚,挺尸的时,房内死一般的沉寂,多么搞怪,我惊讶有这声响竟让我产生难以抑制的恐慌。目前为止,我仍极度克制,数分钟一动不动。此时,我异常焦虑——邻居会听到声音的!动手时候到了!大吼一声,扔掉还亮着的提灯,我冲进房间。老人惊叫一声——仅一声。我一下把他抓到地上,掀倒厚重的床板压住他。然后我会心地笑了。可是,过了很久,他心脏还跳着,发出那种沉闷的声音。不过这回我没发火;隔墙听不到这声音。终于声音消失了,老人死了。我移开床,检查尸身。的确,他死得硬硬的。我手在他心脏那很久,没有感觉到脉搏。他最终死了。他的眼再也不会烦我了。
还当我疯了么?听完我多么聪明细心地藏尸后,你就不会这么想了。夜深,我安静地忙碌着。首先,肢解尸体,砍下头、胳膊和腿。接着拿起卧室地板上的三个木板,把尸块放入方格。然后重新放好木板。我如此聪慧如此机敏。没人,就算是老人的眼——也察觉不到异常。没啥要清洗的——没任何污渍——没血斑,啥子也没有。我超级谨慎地处理了。都用澡盆清洗过了——哈哈!
都处理完,到四点了——天依然漆黑如午夜。钟声响起,街上传来阵阵敲门声。我淡定地下楼开门——我还有啥怕头?进来三个人,他们和善地介绍自己是警署人员。那晚邻居听到那声尖叫了;已经怀疑涉嫌谋杀;他们在警局登记了信息,已经开始着手调查。
我笑了——我还怕什么?我欢迎他们进屋。我说,我做梦时尖叫了。还说,老人去乡下了没在这。我让调查人员在屋子里全部查看下。我请求他们好好查查——查仔细了。我带他们去他的卧室。我给他们看他的财宝,一分不少,稳稳当当地放着呢。我相信自己,所以我热情地搬了椅子进那间屋,招呼他们坐,缓缓疲乏。而我自己,肆无忌惮,坐在存放遇害者尸体的位置上的那把椅子上。警察们很满意。我的举止取信了他们。我非常放松。他们说话,我也开心地回应着。他们聊着类似的事情。不过,一会儿,我觉得不舒服了,我想他们先离开。我头疼,幻听到铃声:但他们还坐那儿聊天。铃声清晰了,越来越清晰。我说得更加流畅,不顾自己的感受。可是声音还在,更清晰,更悠长,原来不是在耳朵里响的。
毫无疑问,我现在很虚弱——但是我说得更流利,声音高昂。声音越来越大——我能怎么办?有低沉的模糊的频率很快的声音——像棉花里的钟表声。我呼吸不顺——警察还没听到吧。我说得更快速——更激动;可是杂声自动变大了。我提高嗓门,嘲讽争辩,声音高昂,举止粗鲁;但是那声音还在增大。他们为什么还不离开?我大步走来走去,好像被人们看着而激动起来——但是他们干吗还不滚?我要怎么办?我吐口水——胡言乱语——发誓!那些人正愉快地谈笑。他们可能听不到?万能的神呐!——不,不可能!——他们怀疑啦!——他们嘲笑我的恐惧!——我止不住地这么想。但是没什么比这痛苦更糟糕了!没什么比嘲笑更不能容忍的了!我受不了这些虚伪的笑容了!我感觉我要么咆哮要么去死!——此刻——又来了!——听!吵!很吵!更吵了!越来越吵!
“够啦”我吼叫“别装了!我承认我干的!掀开地板——这儿,就这儿——就他的心跳声在吵。”
D. 谁有近期的英文小说,短篇长篇都ok。字数在3500以上。一定要是近期的。
《The Brothers 》by Masha Gessen,《The Story of Alice》 by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, 《I Take You 》by Eliza Kennedy 都是2015年的畅销书哦。 都是2015年的小说。
E. 英文原版书推荐
约翰·勒·卡雷《鸽子通道》
间谍小说大师推出自传体作品,细腻打造“我的生活中”引人入胜的趣事。
安·帕奇特《联结》
在这本绝妙的新小说中,因《美声唱法》获得2001年柑橘文学奖的作者帕奇特追溯了一个美国家庭长达50年的历史变迁,而这一切仅仅源于一次冲动行为。
《Konundrum》弗兰兹·卡夫卡作品集
“卡夫卡式”就是“噩梦般的、不祥的、充满官僚主义的怪异”,彼得·沃茨曼在后记中如此写道。这本书收集了捷克代表作家卡夫卡的短篇故事、寓言、信件和日记,而沃茨曼的译文清晰明了,韵律感十足。
F. 英语短篇小说
英语短篇小说
Appointment With Love --By Sulamith Ish-Kishor
Six minutes to six, said the great round clock over the information booth in Grand Central Station. The tall young Army lieutenant who had just come from the direction of the tracks lifted his sunburned face, and his eyes narrowed to note the exact time. His heart was pounding with a beat that shocked him because he could not control it. In six minutes, he would see the woman who had filled such a special place in his life for the past 13 months, the woman he had never seen, yet whose written words had been with him and sustained him unfailingly.
He placed himself as close as he could to the information booth, just beyond the ring of people besieging the clerks...
Lieutenant Blandford remembered one night in particular, the worst of the fighting, when his plane had been caught in the midst of a pack of Zeros. He had seen the grinning face of one of the enemy pilots.
In one of his letters, he had confessed to her that he often felt fear, and only a few days before this battle, he had received her answer: "Of course you fear...all brave men do. Didn't King David know fear? That's why he wrote the 23rd Psalm. Next time you doubt yourself, I want you to hear my voice reciting to you: 'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for Thou art with me.'" And he had remembered; he had heard her imagined voice, and it had renewed his strength and skill.
Now he was going to hear her real voice. Four minutes to six. His face grew sharp.
Under the immense, starred roof, people were walking fast, like threads of color being woven into a gray web. A girl passed close to him, and Lieutenant Blandford started. She was wearing a red flower in her suit lapel, but it was a crimson sweet pea, not the little red rose they had agreed upon. Besides, this girl was too young, about 18, whereas Hollis Meynell had frankly told him she was 30. "Well, what of it?" he had answered. "I'm 32." He was 29.
His mind went back to that book - the book the Lord Himself must have put into his hands out of the hundreds of Army library books sent to the Florida training camp. Of Human Bondage, it was; and throughout the book were notes in a woman's writing. He had always hated that writing-in habit, but these remarks were different. He had never believed that a woman could see into a man's heart so tenderly, so understandingly. Her name was on the bookplate: Hollis Meynell. He had got hold of a New York City telephone book and found her address. He had written, she had answered. Next day he had been shipped out, but they had gone on writing.
For 13 months, she had faithfully replied, and more than replied. When his letters did not arrive she wrote anyway, and now he believed he loved her, and she loved him.
But she had refused all his pleas to send him her photograph. That seemed rather bad, of course. But she had explained: "If your feeling for me has any reality, any honest basis, what I look like won't matter. Suppose I'm beautiful. I'd always be haunted by the feeling that you had been taking a chance on just that, and that kind of love would disgust me. Suppose I'm plain (and you must admit that this is more likely). Then I'd always fear that you were going on writing to me only because you were lonely and had no one else. No, don't ask for my picture. When you come to New York, you shall see me and then you shall make your decision. Remember, both of us are free to stop or to go on after that - whichever we choose..."
One minute to six - Lieutenant Blandford's heart leaped higher than his plane had ever done.
A young woman was coming toward him. Her figure was long and slim; her blond hair lay back in curls from her delicate ears. Her eyes were blue as flowers, her lips and chin had a gentle firmness. In her pale green suit, she was like springtime come alive.
He started toward her, entirely forgetting to notice that she was wearing no rose, and as he moved, a small, provocative smile curved her lips.
"Going my way, soldier?" she murmured.
Uncontrollably, he made one step closer to her. Then he saw Hollis Meynell.
She was standing almost directly behind the girl, a woman well past 40, her graying hair tucked under a worn hat. She was more than plump; her thick-ankled feet were thrust into low-heeled shoes. But she wore a red rose in the rumpled lapel of her brown coat.
The girl in the green suit was walking quickly away.
Blandford felt as though he were being split in two, so keen was his desire to follow the girl, yet so deep was his longing for the woman whose spirit had truly companioned and upheld his own; and there she stood. Her pale, plump face was gentle and sensible; he could see that now. Her gray eyes had a warm, kindly twinkle.
Lieutenant Blandford did not hesitate. His fingers gripped the small worn, blue leather of Of Human Bondage, which was to identify him to her. This would not be love, but it would be something precious, something perhaps even rarer than love - a friendship for which he had been and must ever be grateful.
He squared his broad shoulders, saluted and held the book out toward the woman, although even while he spoke he felt shocked by the bitterness of his disappointment.
"I'm Lieutenant John Blandford, and you - you are Miss Meynell. I'm so glad you could meet me. May...may I take you to dinner?"
The woman's face broadened in a tolerant smile. "I don't know what this is all about, son," she answered. "That young lady in the green suit - the one who just went by - begged me to wear this rose on my coat. And she said that if you asked me to go out with you, I should tell you that she's waiting for you in that big restaurant across the street. She said it was some kind of a test. I've got two boys with Uncle Sam myself, so I didn't mind to oblige you."
G. 英文短篇小说《the blue jar》(Isak Dinesen的)中文翻译。
英国一位富有的老先生,年轻时任过内阁大臣,也当选过议会议员;如今年纪大了,无欲无求,独爱搜藏青瓷老古董。为此他偕同女儿海琳娜,不惜远渡重洋到波斯,日本还有中国寻觅爱物。一个寂静之夜,这对父女坐的轮船进入中国海域时意外失火了。漆黑和混乱之中,别的乘客很快转移到救生船中,海琳娜却还在着火的船上,就这样与老父亲断了联系。等她逃上甲板,整艘船已被烧毁得差不多了,眼看就要将她葬身火海。这时一位年轻的英国水手出现了,二话不说背起她,安全登上最后那只被逃生者们慌乱之下遗忘的救生船。黑暗的海面泛起大片磷光,犹如大火从四面八方涌来,追赶吞噬着这两个亡命者。彼时,二人仰起头,一颗流星划过夜空,好像瞬间就要落入他们船里一样。整整九天过去,两人才被救上一条荷兰商船,最后总算回到了英国。
原以为女儿早已葬身火海的老爵士这会是喜极而泣,不能自已。为了让身心受难的女儿尽早康复,老先生匆匆将她安顿在一个温泉疗养胜地。他还想到,万一这个在航海业谋生的年轻水手大嘴巴,全世界都会知道海伦娜和一个陌生男人孤男寡女在海上漂了九天,这肯定会让女儿很不开心。于是老爵士给了水手一大笔钱,并让他承诺只在另一个半球继续航海,永远不再回英国。老先生说,这不正是好人做到底吗?
海伦娜身体恢复得差不多时,旁人给她讲王宫和家族的动态,最后还说了那个救她的年轻水手永远离开英国的来龙去脉,他们发现海伦娜精神上依旧受那次大难折磨着,而且她变得对世间一切事都不在乎了。她不想回到父亲大庄园的城堡,也不想去宫里,或游览任何一个欧洲怡人小镇。她唯一想要做的事就是和父亲以前一样,去搜集珍稀青瓷。于是海琳娜开始航海旅行,从一个国家到另一个国家,这次是父亲一直陪在左右。
寻找青瓷时,海琳娜跟卖瓷器的人说,她正在找一种特别的蓝色,愿意为之付出任何代价。她买过数千只青瓷罐和瓷碗,但过一段时间就搁到一旁,叹道:“唉,这不是我想要的那种蓝呢。” 陪她航行多年的父亲劝道:也许根本就没有这种颜色存在吧。“天啊,爸爸,你怎能说这种丧气话呢?曾几何时我们的世界一切都是蓝蓝的,肯定会有那么一些遗留下来啊。”海琳娜十分坚定地说。
远在英国的两位姑妈都恳求外甥女回家,并要给她介绍好人家。但海琳娜回答说:“不不不,我必须去航行。亲爱的姑姑啊,你们一定都知道,有学之士宣扬大海是有底的,那是谬论胡说。正好相反,大自然中最高贵的海水,肯定是贯通大地的,所以我们的地球实际上像一个肥皂泡般浮在宇宙之中。而在另一个半球有这么一艘船航行着,我的船必须跟它齐驱并驾。在深海之中,两只船像是彼此的倒影。我乘的船正下方就是前面所说的那艘船,它就在地球的另一面行驶着。你们从没见过会有一条很大很大的鱼在船底之下,如一个暗黑的影子在海里随船而行吧。但我们这两艘船恰恰就是这样,不管我坐的船在地球大部分区域穿行到哪,另一个半球那只船就像影子一样,被牵引着来回移动,这和潮水在月亮的引力下涨起退去是差不多的道理。如果我停止航行,那些靠航海谋生的出身不好的水手怎么办?” 海琳娜还说:“我得告诉你们一个秘密,在最后的最后,我坐的船会下沉,直到地球中心,另一只船也会在同一时间沉下来,就如通常人们说的沉没。但我可以向你们保证,在海里没有你上我下,因为在世界的最中心,我们两只船会相遇在一起。
一年又一年过去,老爵士作古了,海伦娜也变成失聪的老太太,却未曾停止航行。大清帝国的颐和园被入侵洗劫后,有位商人给她带来了一个古老的青瓷罐。一看到它海琳娜就发出一声可怕的尖叫:“就是它!”她哭喊着:“我总算找到了!这是真正的蓝!瞧,它真让人晕眩!天啊,它清新得像一阵柔美的微风,又深邃得好如一个玄妙的秘密,还圆润得像我说过的什么来着?”海琳娜双手颤颤巍巍,将瓷罐捧入怀里,静静凝思着,六个小时就这么过去了。其后她对私人医生和女伴说:“现在我可以死去了。到时请把我的心取出来,安放在这个青瓷罐里,那样一切都回到最初的模样。我的世界会化作蓝色,在这个纯蓝天地的最中心,我的心纯洁而自由,还会温柔地跳动,像轮船航海的尾波轻轻哼唱,像桨叶划动的水滴盈盈滑落。”一小会儿后她问到:“相信只要怀着耐心,一切美好都能重现——这不是一件很杏糊的事吗?” 不久之后,老太太离开了人世。