joke是什么意思经典英语美文：一个小时的故事

2021年1月11日发(作者：虞允文)
经典英语美文：一个小时的故事

Knowing that d was afflicted with a heart
trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as
possible the news of her husband's death.

因为知道玛拉德太太的心脏有毛病，所以人们尽可能婉转地告知
她丈夫的死讯。

It was her sister Josephine who told her，in broken
sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing.

是她姐姐约瑟芬吞吞吐吐、半遮半掩地暗示了她。

Her husband' s friend Richards was there, too, near her.
It was he who had been in the newspaper office when
intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with
Brently Maitard's name leading the list of
only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a
second telegram，and had hastened to forestall any less
careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.

她丈夫的朋友理查德也在场，就在 她旁边。当火车事故的消息传
来时，他正在报馆里，而布兰特里·玛拉德的名字就列在“死亡”名
单的第一个。紧接其后的电报，使他在最短的时间里确认了消息的真
实性，他急忙赶来，力图赶在那些 朋友之前。

She did not hear the story as many women have heard the
same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance.
She wept at once,with sudden,wild abandonment,in her sister's
arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away
to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.