说故事

By that I mean Agatha Christie, PG Wodehouse, Ian Fleming best known for his James Bond stories, Grahame Greene.

我说的是阿加莎克里斯汀， PG 沃德豪思，以詹姆士邦德的故事而著称的伊恩弗睐明，，还有格莱翰格林。

I'd like to mention a short story narrated by Tushar Gandhi, who is a great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi.

那我就引用Tushar Gandhi说过的一个小故事。他是莫罕达斯·甘地的重孙子。

After last season, when Bynum's recovery dragged on worse than a Gray's Anatomy story line, everybody around the Lakers is gun-shy about saying anything positive this time around.

因为上个赛季猪的恢复拖的实在是太长了，比gray's anatomy 《实习医生格蕾》）的故事情节拖的还要长。。。 lakers 上下都不想在这个时候说任何事情。

It's a wonderful tale, Haines said, bringing them to halt again.

294"那是个精采的故事，"海恩斯这么一说，又使他们停下脚步。

So in a way, except for Heinlein and Norton, I was actually a fantasy fan before I was an SF fan.

可以这么说，除了海因莱因和诺顿，我其实在迷科幻之前已经迷上了奇幻故事。

The story says it has been suspected that the three ate from the same buffet at Hendrick on Dec.

据故事说，三名涉嫌同吃自助餐就在12月6日下午hendrick外遇迎合了abilene的奔e。

"Those," I said,"which are narrated by Homer and Hesiod, and the rest of the poets, who have ever been the great story-tellers of mankind."

"你问精悍呀，"我说，"这在荷马和赫西奥德那里能找到答案，还有其他诗人，他们曾经就是人类杰出的故事讲述者。"

Said Hester."And about what?"

海丝特说。"关于什么的故事呢？"

If there was something plaintive about those stories it is because buyers seem to be in hibernation these days.

如果说这些故事让人黯然神伤的话，那是因为这些天购房者们似乎都在默默"潜伏"。

I am twenty-two blocks from where Rudolph Valentino lay in state, eight blocks from where Nathan Hale was executed, five blocks from the publisher's office where Ernest Hemingway hit Max Eastman on the nose, four miles from where Walt Whitman sat sweating out editorials for the Brooklyn Eagle, thirty-four blocks from the street Willa Cather lived in when she came to New York to write books about Nebraska, one block from where Marceline used to clown on the boards of the Hippodrome, thirty-six blocks from the spot where the historian Joe Gould kicked a radio to pieces in full view of the public, thirteen blocks from where Harry Thaw shot Stanford White, five blocks from where I used to usher at the Metropolitan Opera and only 112 blocks from the spot where Clarence Day the elder was washed of his sins in the Church of the Epiphany (I could continue this list indefinitely); and for that matter I am probably occupying the very room that any number of exalted and somewise memorable characters sat in, some of them on hot, breathless afternoons, lonely and private and full of their own sense of emanations from without..

二十二条街外，鲁道夫·瓦伦蒂诺的遗体曾供人吊唁；八条街外，内森·海尔被处决；五条街外的出版社办公室里，欧内斯特·海明威一拳打中马科斯·伊斯特曼的鼻子；四英里外沃尔特·惠特曼曾汗流浃背地为《布鲁克林鹰报》社论主笔；三十四条街外是威拉·卡瑟在纽约写内布拉斯加故事时的住所；一条街外的西波佐恩剧院台，西班牙小丑玛瑟林上台演出，三十六条街外，历史学家乔·古尔德当众将一台收音机踢得粉碎；十三条街外，哈利·绍枪杀斯坦福·怀特；五条街外的大都会歌剧院我当过引座员；一百一十二条街外，老克拉伦斯·岱于主显节教堂洗净了罪孽（这个单子可以无穷无尽地列下去）；而且说起来，我呆着的这个房间，或许就有不少尊贵的、各有其难忘之处的人物坐过，也曾有人在热得喘不过气来的下午，寂寞而私密，满心感受着外来之力。

She gently rebuff ed him, but agreed that they could be friends

她婉言拒绝了，但同意作为朋友相处。

If in the penal farm, you were sure to be criticized.

要是在劳改农场，你等着挨绳子吧！