短篇小说400字情节曲折英文
⑴ 急！！！求超经典短篇小小说（400~500字）
一只送上门的獾
—（原载2009年3月11日《北京晚报》）—
这是发生在自然灾害时期的故事。
刚入冬，我家就揭不开锅了。好不容易盼来救济，却只有高粱面和红薯干。那时我刚刚6岁，却患有严重的胃病，吃红薯干，胃里反酸、烧心，老吃高粱面，大便干燥。三番五次折腾，我的胃病就更厉害了，每天肚子饿得难受，可就是咽不下一点东西。不过半月，我就瘦得皮包骨头了。村里的医生说我营养严重不足，又患上了厌食症，得赶紧吃有油水的东西调养，最好是肉，否则我的小命就难保了。妈妈当时就哭了：“家里连一两白面都没有，又到哪里找有油水的东西？”一天夜里，我梦见自己进了县城的大饭馆，一大锅牛肉冒着热气，厨师一手握大勺不停地搅动，一手对着锅里翻滚起伏的肉块指指点点，像音乐家指挥他的乐队。我就情不自禁地喊了起来：“肉！肉！”我一激灵醒了，推醒身边的母亲，撒起泼来：“妈，我要吃肉，哪怕只吃一口，我就是死了也不冤枉。”我的话让母亲一愣：“我的孩子啊，你这么小怎么想到死啊！”接着，就撩起被角不停地抹泪。突然，妈妈有些兴奋地对我说：“青子，你还记得栖霞岭上咱家自留地对面那个獾洞吗，明一大早妈带你把那只老獾熏出来，煮了给你吃好不好？”我一下子来了精神。
两年前我就见过那獾。那是秋天的一天夜晚，爸妈带着我一起去护秋，刚到自留地边，就见一个动物往对面的小山包上逃，那模样有点像短腿花狗，但要肥得多。妈妈对我说：“看见了吧，那就是獾，在这一带住了好多年了。”爸爸举起猎枪就要开火，妈妈说：“它可是咱们的老邻居了，你就放过它吧，反正我们家粮食再缺也不缺它这一口。”时隔一年，父亲突患急症辞世。母亲和我护秋时，我又两次看到过那獾。或许看到只有我和母亲,手里又没拿什么家伙，那獾不慌不忙地啃完一个玉米穗，才又叼起一个玉米穗慢腾腾离开。母亲笑着对我说：“你看那獾多么可爱，它还十分的爱清洁呢，连‘解手’都要到洞外的‘便所’去。”母亲心地特别善良，一辈子连只鸡都不敢杀，可眼下，为了我这个独根苗能活下来，竟然想到了捉獾和吃它的肉。
第二天，母亲用大号篓子背着麦糠和工具，手牵着我来到那个獾洞旁。我不抱希望地对母亲说：“现在人都找不到东西吃，那头老獾是不是已经被饿死了？”母亲说：“这有可能，但还是要试试啊，只是，逮不到獾你可别哭，就算妈妈带你出来玩儿了。”獾是有冬眠习性的动物，秋季积累大量皮下脂肪，每年11月就进入洞穴闭门不出了。当地人常常用烟熏的办法逼它出来，将其捕获。母亲在獾洞旁笨拙地点燃麦糠，把明火吹灭之后，就用芭蕉扇子不停地往獾洞里扇，呛人的浓烟顺着洞道直往洞里灌。妈妈身边放着一只麻袋，只等被熏得晕头转向的獾刚一出洞，就把它紧紧罩住，装进袋子。不一会儿，一阵急促的咳嗽声从洞里传出来。母亲兴奋极了，自言自语地说：“今天运气好啊，我家小青子有肉吃了，命能保住了……”就在这时，只听唿一声，那只老獾猛地从洞口蹿出去好几米远，母亲手中的袋子竟没来得及将它罩住。想不到的是，这只獾并没夹着尾巴逃窜，而是龇着牙，围着母亲一边转一边怒吼。这样折腾了一会儿，它又忽然变招猛地朝我扑来，紧紧咬住我的裤脚不放，我竟被它拖了个仰八叉，吓得哇哇大哭。母亲手拿铁锹准备把它制服，它则边吼边往远处退，毫不畏惧。母亲就这样被它一步步引到距离獾洞四五十米远的地方。这时候，只见獾洞里依次探头探脑地走出5只小獾。老獾面对獾洞凄厉悠长地叫了一声，那些小獾立即一路狂奔至一个长满野草的陡坡前，而后一个个抱紧脑袋，像皮球似的滚了下去，如此，谁对它们也奈何不得。“天哪，这只老獾什么时候又生出了一窝小崽子啊？”等到母亲反应过来的时候，那只老獾像完成了此生一大夙愿似的，其神态也从容镇静多了，它不紧不慢地钻进酸枣丛，而后掉转屁股盯着母亲目不转睛地看，眼神中有惊恐，有紧张，似乎还有几分得意。
几天后的一个晚上，母亲透过窗户，隐隐约约看到一只活物在院子里转来转去，打开屋门一看，竟是从自己手下逃脱的那只老獾。当时母亲没有理睬它，只顾忙自己手头的针线活。奇怪的是，第二天、第三天，那獾还是在这个时间，照常来到院子里，像在乞求什么。母亲猛地意识到獾是饿得走投无路了，才冒死来求助人。“这年月，人都有被饿死的危险，一只老獾带着5个獾崽子生活也不容易啊！”母亲自言自语地说着。我连忙牵着母亲的衣袖说：“是不是约上邻居把它堵在院子里，活捉它。”母亲想了一会儿，说：“现在逮住它不成问题，可它的5个孩子从此就没娘了啊！”母亲对老獾动了恻隐之心，她把蒸馍笼里仅有的两个玉米面窝头，拿在手里掂了又掂，而后拿起一个，跑到离獾四五米远的地方，一甩手，扔给了它。那獾抬头望望母亲，犹豫着，往窝头处挪了几步，又盯着母亲看，确定没有危险后，才叼起窝头一步一回头地走远了。之后，这只獾便隔三差五地来我家院子里求食，母亲则根据家里的情况，有时给它一个高粱面窝头，有时给它一串红薯干。那獾看上去比一年前老了许多，一走一晃。母亲有些疼怜地说：“唉，年景不好，你连自己都顾不了，干吗还要生那么多孩子啊！”6岁的我，只是觉得好玩，笑母亲和獾说那些话。
一个月后，家中依然粮食短缺，我依然在死亡线上挣扎。一天凌晨，天要亮没亮的时候，突然听到房屋门板被什么东西撞了一下。母亲胆小，没敢去瞅，直到天大亮，母亲才去开门。刚出门，母亲险些被脚下一个软乎乎的东西绊倒。低头一看，竟是那只老獾。母亲连忙退后一步。见老獾没反应，母亲便小心翼翼地伸出手，轻轻推了它一下，它还是一动不动。老獾死了。它的头部和门框上有大片血迹，还没完全凝固。“这到底是怎么回事啊？”母亲站在原地，百思不得其解。正好邻居张爷爷来我家借东西，看到这情景，顿时惊讶不已，他说：“獾感觉自己快要死去的时候，总会选择一个干净又隐蔽的洞穴作为长眠之地，而后，悄悄离开原先栖身的洞穴，像冬眠一样死去。”张爷爷还说，他打了一辈子的猎，还没有见过老死在外边的獾，而自己送上门来的事情，他也是第一次看到。母亲似乎明白，又似乎不明白。她抱起这只足有30斤重的獾说：“难道你是故意撞死在我家门前的？你是把你的肉身当作礼物来报恩的吗？”母亲哭了，无论如何也舍不得把这只獾吃掉。在獾死去的第二天，舅舅悄悄把这只獾剥了皮，取了肉，为我家留出一半后，把余下的一半一锅炖了。我和邻居吃得满嘴流油，母亲却始终避着，连一口汤都没喝。
第二年，我们那一带获得了几十年不遇的大丰收。母亲精选了一堆子粒饱满的麦子，一把一把装进獾皮里。因为装得太满，看上去像是一只待产的獾妈妈。母亲说：“就让我用最好的粮食安慰你那饥饿而善良的灵魂吧……”
这个故事装在我心里已经有几十年了。“与人为善，悲悯为怀”成了我的座右铭。试想，只要付出真诚和爱，连动物都能被感动，何况我们被称为万物之灵的人类。
⑵ 求1000字以内英语短篇小说！
《蒙娜丽莎》风波
On Tuesday August 11th, 1911, a young artist, Louis Beraud, arrived at the Louvre（卢浮宫） in Paris to complete a painting of the Salon Carre（卡雷沙龙，卢浮宫的画廊名）. This was the room where the world 's most famous painting, the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci（列奥那多·达·芬奇）, was on display. To his surprise there was an empty space where the painting should have been. At 11 o'clock the museum authorities realized that the painting had been stolen. The next day headlines all over the world announced the theft.
这一天是1911年8月11日，星期二，一位年轻的艺术家路易斯·贝劳德来到了巴黎卢浮宫的卡雷沙龙画廊完成一幅油画，在这条画廊里陈列着世界上最著名的油画——列奥纳多·达·芬奇创作的《蒙娜丽莎》。令路易斯感到吃惊的是，本该挂着油画的地方却是空空荡荡的。中午11时博物馆馆方意识到这幅名画已经被盗了。第二天全球各大报刊的头条新闻都报道了《蒙娜丽莎》被盗的消息。
Actually the Leonardo had been gone for more than twenty-four hours before anyone noticed it was missing. The museum was always closed on Mondays for maintenance（维修）. Just before closing time on Sunday three men had entered the museum, where they had hidden themselves in a storeroom. The actual theft was quick and simple. Early the next morning Perrugia removed the painting from the wall while the others kept watch. Then they went out a back exit.
实际上，直到达·芬奇的这幅画被盗24小时后才有人发现此事。每逢星期一卢浮宫都要闭馆例行保养文物。就在星期天，有三个人进入了博物馆并藏在贮藏室里。他们的盗窃行动迅速而简单，第二天一大早，三个盗贼之一佩鲁吉亚从墙上取下《蒙娜丽莎》，其余两个为他望风，然后他们从后门溜走逃得无影无踪了。
Nothing was seen or heard of the painting for two years when Perrugia tried to sell it to a dealer for half a million lire（里拉）. Perrugia was arrested on December 13th. Perrugia claimed he had stolen it as an act of patriotism（爱国主义）, because, he said, the painting had been looted from the Italian nation by Napoleon（拿破仑）. Perrugia was imprisoned for seven months. It seemed that the crime of the century had been solved.
《蒙娜丽莎》在被盗后的两年间一直杳无音迅，直到有一天佩鲁吉亚想以50万里拉卖给一个文物贩子时，人们才重新见到它。佩鲁吉亚于1913年12月13日被捕，他宣称偷《蒙娜丽莎》之举完全是出于爱国心。他说，卢浮宫的这幅画是被拿破仑从意大利抢劫来的。佩鲁吉亚为此被判了7个月的监禁，看来这个世纪奇案好像是解决了。
But had it? Perrugia was keen to claim all responsibility for the theft, and it was twenty years before the whole story came out. In fact Perrugia had been working for two master criminals, Valfierno and Chaudron, who went unpunished for their crime. They would offer to steal a famous painting from a gallery for a crooked（不诚实的） dealer or an unscrupulous（肆无忌惮的） private collector. They would then make a of the picture and, with the help of bribed gallery attendants（服务员）, would then tape the to the back of the original（原始的） painting. The dealer would then be taken to the gallery and would be invited to make a secret mark on the back of the painting. Of course the dealer would actually be marking the . Valfierno would later proce forged（伪造） newspaper cuttings announcing the theft of the original, and then proce the , complete with secret marking. If the dealer were to see the painting still in the gallery, he would be persuaded that it was a , and that he possessed the genuine（真正的） one.
果真如此吗?佩鲁吉亚试图把这次盗窃案的全部责任都揽到自己身上。直到二十年后，整个事件的真相才大白于天下。事实上，佩鲁吉亚一直在为两个犯罪头目瓦尔菲尔诺和肖德龙工作。在这个案件中，另两个家伙一直逍遥法外。瓦尔菲尔诺和肖德龙经常从陈列馆偷窃名画提供给奸诈的商人或肆无忌惮的私人收藏家。他们先制作名画的赝品，然后向博物馆的工作人员行贿，以便在博物馆工作人员的协助下将伪造品粘在原作的背后，尔后他们再将文物贩子带到陈列室，并要他在要买的那幅画的背面做上秘密的记号。当然，事实上文物贩子只是在赝品的背面作记号。在此之后，瓦尔菲尔诺就伪造一些剪报宣称原作被盗，然后拿出带有秘密记号的赝品。如果买画的贩子看见画仍然在展出，偷盗者将说服他相信展出的画是赝品，而卖给他的才是真正的原作。
Chaudron then painted not one, but six copies of the Mona Lisa, using 400-year-old wood panels from antique Italian furniture. The forgeries（赝品） were carefully aged, so that the varnish（光泽） was cracked and dirty. Valfierno commissioned Perrugia to steal the original, and told him to hide it until Valfierno contacted him. Perrugia waited in vain in a tiny room in Paris with the painting, but heard nothing from his partners in crime. They had gone to New York, where the six copies were already in store. They had sent them there before the original was stolen. At that time it was quite common for artists to old masters, which would be sold quite honestly（合法的） as imitations（仿造品）, so there had been no problems with US Customs. Valfierno went on to sell all six copies for '300,OOO each. Valfierno told the story to a journalist in 1914, on condition that it would not be published until his death.
肖德龙不仅伪造了一幅，而是六幅《蒙娜丽莎》。他用400年前古意大利老家具做油画板，所有赝品均经过了细心的老化处理，以使油画表面产生裂缝显得不干净。瓦尔菲尔诺指派佩鲁吉亚盗走《蒙娜丽莎》的真品并叫他躲藏起来直到与他取得联系。佩鲁吉亚一直带者那幅画首在巴黎的一间小屋里，可是他却一直未见同伙们的踪迹。原来瓦尔菲尔诺和肖德龙早已跑到了纽约，那里储存着六幅《蒙娜丽莎》的赝品。他们在原作被盗前就已将赝品运到了美国。在那个时代，艺术家们复制已故大师的作品是司空见惯的事情，而且复制品还能够合法地在市场上进行交易，因此复制品可以毫不费力地通过美国海关。在美国瓦尔菲尔诺以每幅300，000美元的价格陆续将这六幅《蒙娜丽莎》赝品出售。1914年瓦尔菲尔诺将事件真相透露给了一位记者，条件是只有等到他死后才能将此事公之于众。
Does the story end there? Collectors have claimed that Perrugia returned a . It is also possible that Leonardo may have painted several versions of the Mona Lisa, or they might be copies made by Leonardo's pupils. There has been a lot of controversy and argument about a 450-year-old painting, but after all, maybe that's what she's smiling about.
事情就此了解了吗?收藏专家们宣称佩鲁吉亚还回的《蒙娜丽莎》或许是赝品。或许当初达·芬奇创作了几个不同版本的《蒙娜丽莎》；或许这些《蒙娜丽莎》皆为达·芬奇的学生们制作的复制品。因此迄今为止人们对于这幅有着450年左右历史的名画，仍有着诸多的争议。也许，这就是蒙娜丽莎微笑的原因吧！
⑶ 欧亨利短篇小说 英文
O. Henry stories are famous for their surprise endings. He was called the American Guy De Maupassant. Both authors wrote twist endings, but O. Henry stories were much more playful and optimistic.
Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early years of the 20th century. Many take place in New York City, and deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen, waitresses. His stories are also well known for witty narration.
Fundamentally a proct of his time, O. Henry's work provides one of the best English examples of catching the entire flavor of an age. Whether roaming the cattle-lands of Texas, exploring the art of the "gentle grafter", or investigating the tensions of class and wealth in turn-of-the-century New York, O. Henry had an inimitable hand for isolating some element of society and describing it with an incredible economy and grace of language. Some of his best and least-known work resides in the collection Cabbages and Kings, a series of stories which each explore some indivial aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period.
The Four Million (a collection of stories) opens with a reference to Ward McAllister's "assertion that there were only 'Four Hundred' people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen—the census taker—and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the 'Four Million'". To O. Henry, everyone in New York counted. He had an obvious affection for the city, which he called "Bagdad-on-the-Subway,"[1] and many of his stories are set there—but others are set in small towns and in other cities.
"A Municipal Report" opens by quoting Frank Norris: "Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that are 'story cities'—New York, of course, New Orleans, and, best of the lot, San Francisco." Thumbing his nose at Norris, O. Henry sets the story in Nashville.
"The Gift of the Magi" concerns a young couple who are short of money but desperately want to buy each other Christmas gifts. Unbeknownst to Jim, Della sells her most valuable possession, her beautiful hair, in order to buy a platinum fob chain for Jim's watch; unbeknownst to Della, Jim sells his most valuable possession, his watch, to buy jeweled combs for Della's hair. The essential premise of this story has been copied, re-worked, parodied, and otherwise re-told countless times in the century since it was written.
"The Ransom of Red Chief" concerns two men who kidnap a boy of ten. The boy turns out to be so bratty and obnoxious that the desperate men ultimately pay the boy's father two hundred and fifty dollars to take him back.
"The Cop and the Anthem" concerns a New York City hobo named Soapy, who sets out to get arrested so he can spend the cold winter as a guest of the city jail. Despite efforts at petty theft, vandalism, disorderly conct, and "mashing", Soapy fails to draw the attention of the police. Disconsolate, he pauses in front of a church, where an organ anthem inspires him to clean up his life—whereupon he is promptly arrested for loitering.
"A Retrieved Reformation" has safecracker Jimmy Valentine take a job in a small-town bank in order to case it for a planned robbery. Unexpectedly, he falls in love with the banker's daughter, and decides to go straight. Just as he's about to leave to deliver his specialized tools to an old associate, a lawman who recognizes him arrives at the bank, and a child locks herself in the airtight vault. Knowing it will seal his fate, Valentine cracks open the safe to rescue the child—and the lawman lets him go.
"Compliments of the Season" describes several characters' misadventures ring Christmas .
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⑷ 我想要一篇short story（就是短篇的英文小说）大约300_400字左右，
Everyone has their own dreams, I am the same. But my dream is not a lawyer, not a doctor, not actors, not even an instry. Perhaps my dream big people will find it ridiculous, but this has been my pursuit! My dream is to want to have a folk life! I want it to become a beautiful painting, it is not only sharp colors, but also the colors are bleak, I do not rule out the painting is part of the black, but I will treasure these bleak colors! Not yet, how about, a colorful painting, if not bleak, add color, how can it more prominent American? Life is like painting, painting the bright red color represents life beautiful happy moments. Painting a bleak color represents life difficult, unpleasant time. You may find a flat with a beautiful road is not very good yet, but I do not think it will. If a person lives flat then what is the point? Life is only a short few decades, I want it to go Finally, Each memory is a solid.
⑸ 《童年》内容简介400字左右,
《童年》内容简介：
阿廖沙三岁，失去了父亲，母亲瓦尔瓦拉把他寄养在外祖父卡什林家。阿廖沙来到外祖父家时，外祖父家业已经开始衰落，外祖父变得也愈加专横暴躁。
他的母亲由于不堪忍受这种生活，便丢下了他，离开了这个家庭。但在这个污浊的环境里，也还有另外一种人，另外一种生活。这里有乐观、纯朴的小茨冈，正直的老工人葛利高里。这一切使阿廖沙既感到欢乐又感到忧愁。
母亲教阿廖沙认字读书，但是，生活的折磨使她渐渐地变得漫不经心，经常发脾气，愁眉不展。后来母亲的再婚，使得阿廖沙对周围的一切都失去了兴趣，竭力避开大人，想一个人单独生活。
由于和后父不合，阿廖沙又回到外祖父家中，这时外祖父已经全面破产!他们的生活也越来越困苦。为了糊口阿廖沙放学后同邻居的孩子们合伙拣破烂卖。
同时，也感受到了友谊和同情。但这也招致学校的非难。他以优异的成绩读完了三年级，就永远地离开了学校课堂。这时候阿廖沙母亲逝世，他埋葬了母亲以后，不久便到“人间”去谋生。