(
课件网) UNIT 4 Friends forever Section Ⅲ Developing ideas 高中英语必修第一册外研版 课文对译解读 原文呈现 1 Read the short introduction to O.Henry and answer the questions. William Sydney Porter（1862-1910）,whose pen name was O.Henry, （非限制性定 语从句，修饰先行词William Sydney Porter，whose在从句中作定语。）was a world-famous American short story writer. In his stories, he often focused on the everyday life of ordinary people in New York City at that time. His stories are best known for their surprise （名词作定语，修饰endings。）endings. 威廉·悉尼·波特（1862-1910），笔名欧·亨利，是世界著名的美国短篇小说家。在他 的小说中，他常常关注当时纽约市普通人的日常生活。他的小说因出人意料的结局 最为出名。 1 Have you read any stories by O.Henry Share one with the class. 2 Do you like stories with surprise endings Why or why not 2 略，详见教材第58页。 O.Henry-style endings O.Henry's stories are best known for their twists（意外转折） or surprise endings. So much so that people now refer to such endings as "O.Henry-style endings". In these endings, there will be a sudden twist that results in an unexpected change of the characters' inner world, experience, destiny, etc, thus creating an unexpected yet understandable result. Such endings will make the story more appealing and dramatic, as well as more memorable for its readers. AFTER TWENTY YEARS BY O.HENRY The short story "After Twenty Years" is set in
New York on a cold, dark night.Most people have left work to go home, and this part of the city is now quiet. A policeman who is checking
the area sees a man outside a shop. He goes up to
the man and finds he has a scar
on his face. They have a chat and the man starts to tell his story. 1 "Twenty years ago tonight,"said the man,"I dined here at ‘Big Joe' Brady's with Jimmy Wells, my best chum, and the finest chap . .in the world. （Jimmy Wells的同位语，起补充说明的作用。） He and I were raised here in New York,just like two brothers,together. I was eighteen and Jimmy was twenty. The next morning I was to start for the West to make my fortune .You couldn't have dragged Jimmy out of . .New York（"couldn't have done..."结构，表 示对过去已经发生的事情的否定推测。［拓展］"could have done..."可以表示对过去 已经发生的事情的肯定推测，也可以表示过去有能力做某事，但没有做。）; he thought it was the only place on earth. Well,we agreed that night that . .we would meet here again exactly twenty years from that date and time,no matter what our conditions might be or from what distance we might have to come.（that引导宾语 从句，该宾语从句中no matter what引导让步状语从句。）We figured that in twenty years each of us ought to. .have our destiny . .worked out and our fortunes made,whatever they were going to be." 本句中that引导宾语从句，作figured的宾语，该宾语从句中have our destiny worked out及（have） our fortunes made为"have sth.done"结构，work out与destiny及make 与fortunes之间均为逻辑 ... ...
