最后的致意-音频-英文原著插图中文导读 内容简介

　　《世界名著阅读丛书：*后的致意（英文原著插图·中文导读）》是世界侦探小说的经典巨著，它由一系列充满传奇、冒险与智慧的探案故事构成。在充满雾气的伦敦贝克街上，住着一位富有正义感的侦探福尔摩斯，他和他忠实的医生朋友华生一起，经历了无数千奇百怪的案子，制造了许多经典的侦探故事。　　《世界名著阅读丛书：*后的致意（英文原著插图·中文导读）》便是其中*著名的故事之一，《世界名著阅读丛书：*后的致意（英文原著插图·中文导读）》被公认为世界侦探小说的经典之作，至今已被译成世界上几十种文字，并曾经无数次被改编成电影、电视剧和动画片等。无论作为语言学习的课本，还是作为通俗的文学读本，《世界名著阅读丛书：*后的致意（英文原著插图·中文导读）》对当代中国读者，特别是青少年读者将产生积极的影响。为了使读者能够了解英文故事概况，进而提高阅读速度和阅读水平，在每章的开始部分增加了中文导读。同时，为了使读者更好地理解故事内容，书中加入了大量的插图。

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　　《世界名著阅读丛书：*后的致意（英文原著插图·中文导读）》：　　2. The Tiger of San Pedro　　A cold and melancholy walk of a couple of miles brought us to a highwooden gate, which opened into a gloomy avenue of chestnuts. The curved and shadowed drive led us to a low, dark house, pitch-black against a slate-coloured sky. From the front window upon the left of the door there peeped a glimmer of a feeble light.　　"There's a constable in possession," said Baynes. "I'll knock at the win- dow." He stepped across the grass plot and tapped with his hand on the pane. Through the fogged glass I dimly saw a man spring up from a chair beside the fire, and heard a sharp cry from within the room. An instant later a white-faced, hard-breathing policeman had opened the door, the candle wavering in his trembling hand.　　"What's the matter, Walters?" asked Baynes sharply.　　The man mopped his forehead with his handkerchief and gave a long sigh of relief.　　"I am glad you have come, sir. It has been a long evening, and I don't think my nerve is as good as it was."　　"Your nerve, Walters? I should not have thought you had a nerve in your body."　　"Well, sir, it's this lonely, silent house and the queer thing in the kitchen.Then when you tapped at the window I thought it had come again."　　"That what had come again?"　　"The devil, sir, for all I know. It was at the window."　　"What was at the window, and when?"　　"It was just about two hours ago. The light was just fading. I was sitting reading in the chair. I don't know what made me look up, but there was a facelooking in at me through the lower pane. Lord, sir, what a face it was! I'll see it in my dreams."　　"Tut, tut, Walters. This is not talk for a police-constable."　　"I know sir, I know; but it shook me sir, and there's no use to deny it. Itwasn't black, sir, nor was it white, nor any colour that I know, but a kind of queer shade like clay with a splash of milk in it. Then there was the size of it - it was twice yours, sir. And the look of it - the great staring goggle eyes, and the line of white teeth like a hungry beast. I tell you, sir, I couldn't move a finger, nor get my breath, till it whisked away and was gone. Out I ran and through the shrubbery, but thank God there was no one there."　　"If l didn't know you were a good man, Walters, I should put a black mark against you for this. I fit were the devil himself a constable on duty should never thank God that he could not lay his hands upon him. I suppose the whole thing is not a vision and a touch of nerves?"　　"That, at least, is very easily settled," said Holmes, lighting his little pocket lantern. "Yes," he reported, after a short examination of the grass bed, "a number twelve shoe, I should say. If he was all on the same scale as his foot he must certainly have been a giant."　　"What became of him?"　　"He seems to have broken through the shrubbery and made for the road."　　"Well." said the inspector with a grave and thoughtful face, "whoever hemay have been, and whatever he may have wanted, he's gone for the present,and we have more immediate things to attend to. Now, Mr. Holmes, with your permission, I will show you round the house.　　The various bedrooms and sitting-rooms had yielded nothing to a carefulsearch. Apparently the tenants had brought little or nothing with them, and all the furniture down to the smallest details had been taken over with the house. A good deal of clothing with the stamp of Marx and Co., High Holborn, had beenleft behind. Telegraphic inquiries had been already made which showed that Marx knew nothing of his customer save that he was a good payer. Odds and ends, some pipes, a few novels, two of them in Spanish, an old-fashioned pinfire revolver, and a guitar were among the personal property.　　……

最后的致意-音频-英文原著插图中文导读 作者简介

　　柯南·道尔（1859～1930），英国杰出的侦探小说家，世界畅销书作家之一。1859年出生于英国爱丁堡。曾进入爱丁堡大学医学院就读，后来定居伦敦。由于不喜欢从事医学工作，柯南·道尔将更多的闲暇时间用在小说创作上。1886年4月他写成第1个福尔摩斯探案故事《血字的研究》，此后一发不可收拾，创作了大量侦探故事，共创作了56个短篇和4个中篇小说，也因为塑造了夏洛克·福尔摩斯这个全球*著名的侦探人物而留名。除此之外他还曾写过多部其他类型的小说，如科幻、历史小说、爱情小说、戏剧、诗歌等。柯南·道尔于1930年7月7日去世。