He occupied his whole afternoon reading book
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This collection of stories from Washington Irving includes some of America's best-known works of fiction-such as the famous Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow-as well as lesser-known works as The Specter Bridegroom,Westminster Abbey,English Writers on America,Stratford on Avon,The Art of Bookmaking,The Mutability of Literature,and The Christmas Quintet.
素描書杰弗里蠟筆
by
Washington Irving華盛頓歐文
作者自敘
“I am of this mind with Homer,that as the snaile that crept out of her shel was turned eftsoons into a toad,and thereby was forced to make a stoole to sit on; so the traveller that stragleth from his owne country is in a short time transformed into so monstrous a shape,that he is faine to alter his mansion with his manners,and to live where he can,not where he would.” —LYLY'S EUPHUES.“我這個頭腦荷馬,隨著snaile說,悄悄從她的殼被拒絕eftsoons變成蟾蜍,從而被迫作出stoole坐在;因此,由這stragleth他owne國家在短的時間內(nèi)轉(zhuǎn)化成如此巨大的形狀,他是faine來改變他的豪宅,他的舉止,和生活在那里他可以,他將不會在那里.“ LYLY氏EUPHUES .
I WAS always fond of visiting new scenes,and observing strange characters and manners.我總是喜歡訪問新的場景,并觀察奇怪的字符和禮儀.Even when a mere child I began my travels,and made many tours of discovery into foreign parts and unknown regions of my native city,to the frequent alarm of my parents,and the emolument of the town-crier.即使僅僅是孩子,我開始我的旅行,并提出了許多旅行到國外發(fā)現(xiàn)部分和未知的區(qū)域我的城市,經(jīng)常報警的我的父母,和薪酬鎮(zhèn),喊叫.As I grew into boyhood,I extended the range of my observations.正如我成長為少年時代,我把我的意見范圍.My holiday afternoons were spent in rambles about the surrounding.