Chapter 1- Chapter 2
Chapter 1 陌生来信
《陌生女人的来信》
一个13的小女生从看到第一眼看到作家阿尔，整个身心都只有他了。阿尔年轻帅气而有才气，把这个城市边缘地区的小妹妹迷得七荤八素地。如果不是当年多看了他一眼，小妹妹在继父的财力支持下，应该会读书，继而过上简单幸福的生活。
“只是因为在人群中多看了你一眼，再也没能忘掉你容颜；梦想着偶然能有一天再相见，从此我开始孤独思念；想你时，你在天边；想你时，你在眼前；想你时，你在脑海；想你时，你在心田”。
且看小妹妹如何一步步沉沦不可自拔地爱上坏男人。
日常表达：
1. He hailed a taxi. 他招来一辆出租车，不是wave，是hail。
2. perplexed = confused
3. For three days and three night I have been wrestling with death for this frail little life. 三天三夜，日日同死神对抗。be wrestling with something/ someone
4. Death took him. 他死了。
5. I cannot bear to look, I cannot bear to move; for when the candles flicker, shadows chase one another over his face and his closed lips. 蜡烛闪动时，阴影会投在他的脸上和紧闭的嘴唇上。英语中以物做主动形式描写。
6. The story of a life which was yours from its first to its last fully conscious hour. 所有的故事都和你相关。
7. When you came into my life, I was thirteen, and I lived in the house where you live to-day, in the very house in which you are reading this letter, the last breath of my life. 女主人公第一次见到这位帅气的男主人公。
8. Do not grow weary of listening to me for a brief space, since I have bot been weary of loving you my whole life long. 变得不耐烦 grow weary of something
9. To you, who have never known me.
Chapter 2 萌芽
1. Once, when he had beaten her till the blood came, she ran out on the landing with her hair streaming, followed by her drunken husband abusing her, until all the people came out onto the staircase and threatened to send for the police.
家暴现场
2. I want you to understand how it was that from the very beginning your personality came to exercise so much power over me when I was still a shy and timid child.
从一开始就深爱呀。
3. You were wearing a beautiful suit of light-brown tweeds and you ran upstairs two steps at a time with the boyish east that always characterizes your movements. You were hat in hand, so that with indescribable amazement, I could see your bright and lively face and your youthful hair. Your handsome, slim, and spruce figure was a positive shock to me.
