文档介绍：花园里的独角兽
张静吉译
作家简介:詹姆斯?瑟伯(James Thurber,1894-1961)美国俄亥俄州人,大学毕业后,当过记者、编辑,晚年执教于耶鲁大学。他被认为是继马克?吐温之后美国最伟大的幽默作家,同时也是一位备受尊敬的艺术家和动画片画家。代表作有《当代寓言集》《当代寓言续集》。他塑造的大眼狗,掠夺成性的女人,胆小怕事的男人,使他成为美国最受人热爱的幽默作家之一。
Once upon a sunny morning,a man who sat at his breakfast looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a golden horn quietly cropping the roses in the garden. The man went up to the bedroom where his wife was still asleep and woke her. “There is a unicorn in the garden,”he said. “Eating roses.” She opened one unfriendly eye and looked at him. “The unicorn is a mythical beast.” she said,and turned her back on him. The man walked slowly downstairs and out into the garden again. The unicorn was still there;he was now browsing among the tulips. “Here,unicorn,” said the man and pulled up a lily and gave it to him. The unicorn ate it gravely. With a high heart,because there was a unicorn in his garden,the man went upstairs and roused his wife again. “The unicorn,”he said,“ate a lily.” His
wife sat up in bed and looked at him coldly. “You are a booby,”she said,“and I am going to have you put in the booby?鄄hatch.” The man,who had never liked the words “booby” and “booby?鄄hatch”,and who liked them even less on a shining morning when there was a unicorn in the garden, thought for a moment. “We’ll see about that,”he said. He walked over to the door. “He has a golden horn i