The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

THE GIFT OF THE MAGI

THE GIFT OF THE MAGI周文杰2011481425The Gift of the Magi is a short story wrote by O.Henry.This story tells that in the day before Christmas,a poor young couple exchanged gifts by sold the most precious thing of each,but resulted ordetracted, the two precious gifts all became useless things.While they got the most precious thing than any material objects——love.After read this story,I learned how to respect others’love and how to love others.In this story,they all lost the most valuable things——Jim’s golden watch and Della’s beautiful hair. Behind this, I saw they loved each other infinitely.They loved their family, they let me feel that cold Christmas Eve has become the warm heaven just because of their gifts. If Della only took one dollar and eighty-seven cents to pick gift,this story will probably lacking of shocking, and also cannot cause readers' thinking.In this materialistic society, people often use money to measure gifts.When bags of gifts which are packaging delicately in front of us,what can we see except empty and blank? Parents feel happy because of our simple greeting cards in their birthday,because of a few words of blessing.These gifts,simple but true.It can’t be compared with those which built with a lot of money, outlined by luxuriance. What clever gifts! In some sense, they are invaluable.Y es,in this materialistic society,some people think money is everything,the one who owns money,who owns all.No wonder a great amount of girls became mammonists,and want to marry richers;no wonder more and more men think that there is no true love,what girls love is their money. But I always believe sincere love is existed and it’s priceless. Even if you have millions of money, you can’t change it into true love. Maybe money can let you get some feelings from girls, but those are hypocritical. When you no longer possess vast wealth, the hypocritical feelings will ended and left you extremely painful finally.Jim and Della were a happy couple, although they were poor, living in short of money.In their hearts, money is not important, the important thing is the affection from each other.As long as they have it, they felt happier than any millionaire. Maybe some people will pour scorn on it and cannot understand what their done. If there is a good fortune and a sincere feeling in front of you at the same time, which one will you choose? I wouldn't hesitate to choose the later, because sincere feeling is priceless! I believe that true pay will have sincere return finally, and the one who have true love can have his or her happiness. Nowadays,more and more people have been pressed to lose their breath by the reality.They forgot the persons they love,and the persons who love them.We need to care about others,no matter how much money we have.What our loved one need is how our concern about him or her. In some important days,don’t forget to bring him or her some gifts.No matter what is it,how valuable is it,he or she would like it anyway.Because it is the gift of the Magi.。

评刘若瑞版《麦琪的礼物》

评中文翻译《麦琪的礼物》《The Gift of Magi 》即《麦琪的礼物》是美国著名文学家欧·亨利写的一篇短篇小说，它通过写在圣诞节前一天，一对小夫妻互赠礼物，结果阴差阳错，两人珍贵的礼物都变成了无用的东西，而他们却得到了比任何实物都宝贵的东西——爱，告诉人们尊重他人的爱，学会去爱他人，是人类文明的一个重要表现。

这篇文章在初中时就已经被学习，今天我从英汉互译的角度来评价一下中文版的《麦琪的礼物》。

众所周知，“反译法”是英译汉中常用的翻译技巧之一，所谓反译法就是指原文从正面表达的,译文可以从反面着笔翻译,如把肯定句译成否定句,或者把否定句译成肯定句。

不同民族的思维方法和用来反映思维的方法往往是不同的，例如，英语民族从正面来表达一个思想，而汉语则可以、有时甚至是必须从反面来表达。

例如《麦琪的礼物》中的一句话：in the vestibule below was a letter box into which no letter would go ,and an electric button f rom which no mortal finger could coax a ring.汉语译为楼下的甬道里有一个信箱，但是永远不会有信件投进去，还有一个电铃，鬼才能把它按响。

译者把原文from which no mortal finger could coax a ring 用反译法译译得十分传神，但如果按照原文的否定形式译，恐怕意识就不会那样贴切，译文也会令人感到索然无味。

欧·亨利是美国最著名的短篇小说家之一，虽然The Gift of the Magi ①是其广为流传的优秀作品，曾被收录中学课本，但对于这篇小说的翻译版本，一直存在许多的争论。

对于翻译的标准和原则，我国学者严复最早提出“信、达、雅”的标准——“信”即忠实于原文，“达”即翻译的流畅，“雅”即译文的典雅。

这一翻译标准至今仍对我国翻译界存在影响。

the gift of the magi-麦琪的礼物(课堂PPT)

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As we know, During this period, the United States was experiencing a severe economic crisis. So the novel also depicted the tragic life of the working people, exposed the brutal nature of the bourgeois monopoly indirectly, accused the persecution of the people by rulers ,reflected the people's dissatisfaction with the rule of the bourgeoisie;
Christmas is a religious festival. It is the day we celebrate as the birthday of Jesus. And now Christmas is both a holiday and a holy day. In America it is one of the biggest event of the year (especially for kids), and for members of the Christian religions it is an important day on the religious calendar. Exchanging gifts and sending Christmas cards are the modern ways of celebrating the Christmas in the world.
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O. Henry 's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and clever twist endings.

the gift of the magi读后感

the gift of the magi读后感《The Gift of the Magi》是美国著名短篇小说家欧·亨利的一部经典作品。

本文将为您分享我对这部作品的读后感。

---最近，我重温了欧·亨利的经典之作《The Gift of the Magi》，这部温馨感人的故事再次触动了我内心深处的柔软。

作品讲述了在一个寒冷的圣诞节，一对年轻夫妇为了给对方送上最珍贵的礼物，不惜牺牲自己最宝贵的东西。

在物欲横流的现代社会，这个故事让我感受到了真爱的力量和人性的美好。

故事中的主人公德拉和吉姆是一对经济拮据的年轻夫妇。

在圣诞节来临之际，他们为了给对方买到一份心仪的礼物，各自做出了令人感慨的牺牲。

德拉卖掉了自己引以为傲的长发，为吉姆购买了一条白金表链；而吉姆则卖掉了自己珍贵的金表，为德拉买了一把全套的梳子。

当两人在圣诞夜交换礼物时，虽然礼物已失去了原本的意义，但他们从中体会到了对方深沉的爱意。

读完这个故事，我不禁为这对夫妇的真挚感情所感动。

在物质生活丰富的今天，许多人追求名牌、奢侈品，试图用金钱衡量爱情。

然而，《The Gift of the Magi》告诉我们，真正的爱情是无法用金钱购买的。

德拉和吉姆虽然失去了自己最宝贵的东西，但他们收获了更加珍贵的爱情，这也是他们送给彼此最美好的礼物。

此外，这个故事还让我思考了人性的美好。

在物欲横流的社会，人们往往容易为了追求物质而忽略了内心的善良。

而《The Gift of the Magi》正是通过这对夫妇的举动，提醒我们要珍惜内心的善良和真诚。

正是这种善良和真诚，让这个世界变得更加美好。

总之，《The Gift of the Magi》这部作品让我深刻体会到了真爱的力量和人性的美好。

在这个故事中，我看到了爱情最纯粹的样子，也感受到了善良与真诚的力量。

the gift of the Magi欧亨利短篇小说分析

• When Jim comes home, he reveals that he has sold his watch to buy lovely combs for Della's hair.
• The two are overcome with love as they realize they have each sacrificed their most prized possession for one another.
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• There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
The Gift of the Magi
《麦琪的礼物》欧亨利短篇小说分析
作者与小说风格
• 作为短篇小说大师的欧·亨利，最善于捕捉和把握生活中的典型场面，善于在典型的环境和场面中塑造人物的性格特征，他在短篇小说的艺术处理上最大特点就是“小说的意外结局”。出乎意料，又在情理之中。读者眼看着情节似乎明明朝着一个方向发展，但结局往往来了个出其不意。然而这意外的结局一般来说又是令人宽慰的，正是所谓“含泪的微笑”。在他的小说中，幽默的语言是贯穿始终的，特别是意外的结局令小说产生出令人啼笑皆非的幽默效果，也是其短篇小说的重要特点之一。
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• 圣诞节的前一天,住在公寓里的贫穷的黛拉想给丈夫吉姆一个惊喜,可是她只有一元八角七,她知道这点钱根本不够买一件像样的的礼物,于是她把引以自豪的褐色瀑布似的秀发剪下来,卖了,换来了20美元。找遍了大大小小的商店,她花去21美元,终于买到一条朴素的白金表链,这可以配上吉姆的那块金表。而吉姆也想给老婆一个惊喜,他同样卖掉了祖传的一块金表，吉姆卖掉了他的金表为德拉买了一套“纯玳瑁做的，边上镶着珠宝”的梳子；黛拉卖掉了自己的长发为吉姆买了一条白金表链。他们都为对方舍弃了自己最宝贵的东西，而换来的礼物却因此变得毫无作用了。

thegiftofthemagi-麦琪的礼物教学文案

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It happened in the 1899 ，at that time, O. Henry was
worrying about as a prisoner that he was no money to the beloved
daughter to buy Christmas gifts when Christmas approaching. He
economic crisis
O. Henry In prison for Economic disputes
Jim and Della Work hard but poor yet
No money to buy christmas gift for
daughter
No money to buy christmas gift for
The gift of the Magi
《麦琪的礼物》
O. Henry
The gift of the Magi
O. Henry (1862.9-1910.6)
Real name: William Sydney Porter American writer One of the three most famous masters of short novel
But Jim had already sold that wa tch to buy a combs to Della for wearing in her long hair, not know ing she had cut it off. Although Jim and Della are now left with gifts that neither one can use, they realized how far they are willing to go to show their love for each other, and how priceless their love really is.

麦琪的礼物_英文原文

THE GIFT OF THE MAGIby O. HenryOne dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents ofit was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Threetimes Della counted it. One dollar and eighty- seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. While the mistress of the home is gradually subsidingfrom the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring. Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name "Mr. James Dillingham Young."The "Dillingham" had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week. Now, when the income was shrunk to $20, though, they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D. But whenever Mr. JamesDillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he was called "Jim" and greatly hugged by Mrs. James Dillingham Young, already introduced to you as Della. Which is all very good.Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard. Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present. She had been saving every penny she could for months, with this result. Twenty dollars a week doesn't go far. Expenses had been greater than she had calculated. They always are. Only $1.87 to buy a present for Jim. Her Jim. Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling--something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being owned by Jim.There was a pier-glass between the windows of the room. Perhaps you have seen a pier-glass in an $8 flat. A very thin and very agile person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks. Della, being slender, had mastered the art.Suddenly she whirled from the window and stood before the glass. her eyes were shining brilliantly, but her face had lost its color within twenty seconds. Rapidly she pulled down her hair and let it fall to its full length.Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim's gold watch that hadbeen his father's and his grandfather's. The other was Della's hair. Had the queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty'sjewels and gifts. Had King Solomon been the janitor, with all his treasures piled up in the basement, Jim would have pulled out his watch every time he passed, just to see him pluck at his beard from envy.So now Della's beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shininglike a cascade of brown waters. It reached below her knee and madeitself almost a garment for her. And then she did it up again nervously and quickly. Once she faltered for a minute and stood still while a tear or two splashed on the worn red carpet.On went her old brown jacket; on went her old brown hat. With awhirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street.Where she stopped the sign read: "Mne. Sofronie. Hair Goods of All Kinds." One flight up Della ran, and collected herself, panting. Madame, large, too white, chilly, hardly looked the "Sofronie.""Will you buy my hair?" asked Della."I buy hair," said Madame. "Take yer hat off and let's have a sight at the looks of it."Down rippled the brown cascade."Twenty dollars," said Madame, lifting the mass with a practised hand. "Give it to me quick," said Della.Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. Forget thehashed metaphor. She was ransacking the stores for Jim's present. She found it at last. It surely had been made for Jim and no one else. There was no other like it in any of the stores, and she had turned all ofthem inside out. It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretriciousornamentation--as all good things should do. It was even worthy ofThe Watch. As soon as she saw it she knew that it must be Jim's. It was like him. Quietness and value--the description applied to both. Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home with the 87 cents. With that chain on his watch Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company. Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked atit on the sly on account of the old leather strap that he used in placeof a chain. When Della reached home her intoxication gave way a littleto prudence and reason. She got out her curling irons and lighted thegas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love. Which is always a tremendous task, dear friends--a mammoth task.Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lyingcurls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. She looked at herreflection in the mirror long, carefully, and critically."If Jim doesn't kill me," she said to herself, "before he takes a second look at me, he'll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl. Butwhat could I do--oh! what could I do with a dollar and eighty- seven cents?" At 7 o'clock the coffee was made and the frying-pan was on the back of the stove hot and ready to cook the chops.Jim was never late. Della doubled the fob chain in her hand and saton the corner of the table near the door that he always entered. Thenshe heard his step on the stair away down on the first flight, and she turned white for just a moment. She had a habit for saying little silent prayer about the simplest everyday things, and now she whispered:"Please God, make him think I am still pretty."The door opened and Jim stepped in and closed it. He looked thin and very serious. Poor fellow, he was only twenty-two--and to be burdenedwith a family! He needed a new overcoat and he was without gloves. Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a setter at the scent of quail. His eyes were fixed upon Della, and there was an expression in them that she could not read, and it terrified her. It was not anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the sentiments that she had been prepared for. He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar expression on his face.Della wriggled off the table and went for him."Jim, darling," she cried, "don't look at me that way. I had my hair cut off and sold because I couldn't have lived through Christmas without giving you a present. It'll grow out again--you won't mind, will you? I just had to do it. My hair grows awfully fast. Say `Merry Christmas!'Jim, and let's be happy. You don't know what a nice-- what a beautiful, nice gift I've got for you.""You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor. "Cut it off and sold it," said Della. "Don't you like me just as well, anyhow? I'm me without my hair, ain't I?"Jim looked about the room curiously."You say your hair is gone?" he said, with an air almost of idiocy. "You needn't look for it," said Della. "It's sold, I tell you--sold and gone, too. It's Christmas Eve, boy. Be good to me, for it went for you. Maybe the hairs of my head were numbered," she went on with sudden serious sweetness, "but nobody could ever count my love for you. Shall I put the chops on, Jim?"Out of his trance Jim seemed quickly to wake. He enfolded his Della. For ten seconds let us regard with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential object in the other direction. Eight dollars a week or a million a year--what is the difference? A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer. The magi brought valuable gifts, but that was not among them. This dark assertion will be illuminated later on.Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table. "Don't make any mistake, Dell," he said, "about me. I don't think there's anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that could make me like my girl any less. But if you'll unwrap that package you may see why you had me going a while at first."White fingers and nimble tore at the string and paper. And then an ecstatic scream of joy; and then, alas! a quick feminine change to hysterical tearsand wails, necessitating the immediate employment of all the comforting powers of the lord of the flat.For there lay The Combs--the set of combs, side and back, that Della had worshipped long in a Broadway window. Beautiful combs, pure tortoise shell, with jewelled rims--just the shade to wear in the beautiful vanished hair. They were expensive combs, she knew, and her heart had simply craved and yearned over them without the least hope of possession. And now, they were hers, but the tresses that should have adorned the coveted adornments were gone.But she hugged them to her bosom, and at length she was able to look up with dim eyes and a smile and say: "My hair grows so fast, Jim!" And them Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried, "Oh, oh!" Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present. She held it out to him eagerly upon her open palm. The dull precious metal seemed to flash with a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit."Isn't it a dandy, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it. You'll have to look at the time a hundred times a day now. Give me your watch.I want to see how it looks on it."Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch and put his hands under the back of his head and smiled."Dell," said he, "let's put our Christmas presents away and keep 'em a while. They're too nice to use just at present. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs. And now suppose you put the chops on." The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of twofoolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.麦琪的礼物1一块八毛七分钱。

《欧亨利短篇小说集》主要情节

《欧亨利短篇小说集》主要情节欧亨利（O. Henry）是美国著名的短篇小说家，以其精彩的叙事、巧妙的结构和出人意料的结局而著称。

《欧亨利短篇小说集》收录了他的许多经典作品，本文将介绍其中一些主要情节。

1. 《礼物的权利》（The Gift of the Magi）这个故事发生在圣诞节前夕，讲述了年轻夫妇吉姆和多拉为了给对方买礼物而做出的牺牲。

吉姆卖掉了他的怀表来买多拉的发针，而多拉则将她的长发剪掉，换取吉姆的怀表链。

最终，他们互相奉献的礼物虽然变得无用，但却展现了他们深爱对方的情感。

2. 《最后一片叶子》（The Last Leaf）故事发生在一个秋天的天气变冷的晚上，主要描写了两位年轻女孩苏西和约翰。

苏西生病后，她相信自己会死去，因为她活在一株树上的叶子数目决定了她的生死。

而约翰是个画家，他画了一片假叶子贴在树上，为了让苏西相信还有希望。

最后，约翰因为寒冷而感染肺炎去世，但苏西因为看到画上的叶子没有掉落而找到希望，并最终康复。

3. 《声音与大脑的标志》（The Voice of the City）这个故事以纽约这座繁华城市为背景，讲述了一个把“声音”和“大脑的标志”联系在一起的情节。

故事中的女主人公，一个小资的文学爱好者，在一次意外中失声。

她在城市中四处寻找声音，最终找到了这个声音的源头——一个拾荒者，他用他对城市环境的了解预测了城市的未来。

通过这个故事，欧亨利传达了城市的思想与活力。

4. 《福伦特德家族》（The Furnished Room）这个故事发生在一个破败的租房屋中，描绘了一个绝望无助的年轻人试图找到他失散多年的情人。

他租下了一个曾经是她居住过的房间，并被房间里的氛围所吸引。

最终，他发现了情人留下的一封信，得知她已经去世。

这个故事通过描述一个房间中的气息和布置，展现了一个消失的爱情。

5. 《屋顶上的猫》（The Cat on the Roof）这个故事以一只孤独的猫为主角，以战争年代为背景。

麦琪的礼物_英文原文

THE GIFT OF THE MAGIby O. HenryOne dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents ofit was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Threetimes Della counted it. One dollar and eighty- seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. While the mistress of the home is gradually subsidingfrom the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring. Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name "Mr. James Dillingham Young."The "Dillingham" had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week. Now, when the income was shrunk to $20, though, they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D. But whenever Mr. JamesDillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he was called "Jim" and greatly hugged by Mrs. James Dillingham Young, already introduced to you as Della. Which is all very good.Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard. Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present. She had been saving every penny she could for months, with this result. Twenty dollars a week doesn't go far. Expenses had been greater than she had calculated. They always are. Only $1.87 to buy a present for Jim. Her Jim. Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling--something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being owned by Jim.There was a pier-glass between the windows of the room. Perhaps you have seen a pier-glass in an $8 flat. A very thin and very agile person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks. Della, being slender, had mastered the art.Suddenly she whirled from the window and stood before the glass. her eyes were shining brilliantly, but her face had lost its color within twenty seconds. Rapidly she pulled down her hair and let it fall to its full length.Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim's gold watch that hadbeen his father's and his grandfather's. The other was Della's hair. Had the queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty'sjewels and gifts. Had King Solomon been the janitor, with all his treasures piled up in the basement, Jim would have pulled out his watch every time he passed, just to see him pluck at his beard from envy.So now Della's beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shininglike a cascade of brown waters. It reached below her knee and madeitself almost a garment for her. And then she did it up again nervously and quickly. Once she faltered for a minute and stood still while a tear or two splashed on the worn red carpet.On went her old brown jacket; on went her old brown hat. With awhirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street.Where she stopped the sign read: "Mne. Sofronie. Hair Goods of All Kinds." One flight up Della ran, and collected herself, panting. Madame, large, too white, chilly, hardly looked the "Sofronie.""Will you buy my hair?" asked Della."I buy hair," said Madame. "Take yer hat off and let's have a sight at the looks of it."Down rippled the brown cascade."Twenty dollars," said Madame, lifting the mass with a practised hand. "Give it to me quick," said Della.Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. Forget thehashed metaphor. She was ransacking the stores for Jim's present. She found it at last. It surely had been made for Jim and no one else. There was no other like it in any of the stores, and she had turned all ofthem inside out. It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretriciousornamentation--as all good things should do. It was even worthy ofThe Watch. As soon as she saw it she knew that it must be Jim's. It was like him. Quietness and value--the description applied to both. Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home with the 87 cents. With that chain on his watch Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company. Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked atit on the sly on account of the old leather strap that he used in placeof a chain. When Della reached home her intoxication gave way a littleto prudence and reason. She got out her curling irons and lighted thegas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love. Which is always a tremendous task, dear friends--a mammoth task.Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lyingcurls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. She looked at herreflection in the mirror long, carefully, and critically."If Jim doesn't kill me," she said to herself, "before he takes a second look at me, he'll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl. Butwhat could I do--oh! what could I do with a dollar and eighty- seven cents?" At 7 o'clock the coffee was made and the frying-pan was on the back of the stove hot and ready to cook the chops.Jim was never late. Della doubled the fob chain in her hand and saton the corner of the table near the door that he always entered. Thenshe heard his step on the stair away down on the first flight, and she turned white for just a moment. She had a habit for saying little silent prayer about the simplest everyday things, and now she whispered:"Please God, make him think I am still pretty."The door opened and Jim stepped in and closed it. He looked thin and very serious. Poor fellow, he was only twenty-two--and to be burdenedwith a family! He needed a new overcoat and he was without gloves. Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a setter at the scent of quail. His eyes were fixed upon Della, and there was an expression in them that she could not read, and it terrified her. It was not anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the sentiments that she had been prepared for. He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar expression on his face.Della wriggled off the table and went for him."Jim, darling," she cried, "don't look at me that way. I had my hair cut off and sold because I couldn't have lived through Christmas without giving you a present. It'll grow out again--you won't mind, will you? I just had to do it. My hair grows awfully fast. Say `Merry Christmas!'Jim, and let's be happy. You don't know what a nice-- what a beautiful, nice gift I've got for you.""You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor. "Cut it off and sold it," said Della. "Don't you like me just as well, anyhow? I'm me without my hair, ain't I?"Jim looked about the room curiously."You say your hair is gone?" he said, with an air almost of idiocy. "You needn't look for it," said Della. "It's sold, I tell you--sold and gone, too. It's Christmas Eve, boy. Be good to me, for it went for you. Maybe the hairs of my head were numbered," she went on with sudden serious sweetness, "but nobody could ever count my love for you. Shall I put the chops on, Jim?"Out of his trance Jim seemed quickly to wake. He enfolded his Della. For ten seconds let us regard with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential object in the other direction. Eight dollars a week or a million a year--what is the difference? A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer. The magi brought valuable gifts, but that was not among them. This dark assertion will be illuminated later on.Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table. "Don't make any mistake, Dell," he said, "about me. I don't think there's anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that could make me like my girl any less. But if you'll unwrap that package you may see why you had me going a while at first."White fingers and nimble tore at the string and paper. And then an ecstatic scream of joy; and then, alas! a quick feminine change to hysterical tearsand wails, necessitating the immediate employment of all the comforting powers of the lord of the flat.For there lay The Combs--the set of combs, side and back, that Della had worshipped long in a Broadway window. Beautiful combs, pure tortoise shell, with jewelled rims--just the shade to wear in the beautiful vanished hair. They were expensive combs, she knew, and her heart had simply craved and yearned over them without the least hope of possession. And now, they were hers, but the tresses that should have adorned the coveted adornments were gone.But she hugged them to her bosom, and at length she was able to look up with dim eyes and a smile and say: "My hair grows so fast, Jim!" And them Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried, "Oh, oh!" Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present. She held it out to him eagerly upon her open palm. The dull precious metal seemed to flash with a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit."Isn't it a dandy, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it. You'll have to look at the time a hundred times a day now. Give me your watch.I want to see how it looks on it."Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch and put his hands under the back of his head and smiled."Dell," said he, "let's put our Christmas presents away and keep 'em a while. They're too nice to use just at present. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs. And now suppose you put the chops on." The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of twofoolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.麦琪的礼物1一块八毛七分钱。

短篇英语经典文学作品

短篇英语经典文学作品
以下是几部经典的短篇英语文学作品：
1. "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe：这是一部著名的短篇小说，讲述了一个疯狂的男子声称他能够听到自己心中的声音，最终因此被逮捕并揭示了他的罪行。

2. "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry：这是一个温馨的短篇小说，讲述
了一对年轻夫妇在圣诞节前夕为了给对方买礼物而卖掉了自己的珍贵物品，最终领悟到了真正的礼物的意义。

3. "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka：这是一部荒诞的短篇小说，讲述了一个人变成了一只昆虫，并在家中遭到了自己家人和社会的排斥。

4. "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley：这是一部反乌托邦的短篇小说，讲述了一个未来社会中人们被分为不同阶层，并通过药物和科技手段被控制和洗脑的故事。

5. "The Catcher in the Rye" by Salinger：虽然这不是一部短篇小说，而
是一部长篇小说，但其中的短篇小说部分也非常值得一读，例如《De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period》、《Teddy》和《Franny》等。

这些作品都是经典的短篇小说，涵盖了不同的文学风格和主题，希望您能够从中找到自己喜欢的作品。

高中英语选修课英语文学欣赏欧亨利Thegiftofthemagi《麦琪的礼物》学生版讲义资料

The Gift of the MagiO. HenryOne dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. Andsixty cents of it was in pennies. Three times Della counted it.One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would beChristmas.There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on theshabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Whichinstigates(鼓动、煽动) the moral reflection that life is made upof sobs and smiles, with sobs predominating（支配、统治）.Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with thepowder rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully ata gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard. Tomorrowwould be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with whichto buy Jim a present. She had been saving every penny she could for months, with this result. Only $1.87 to buy a present for Jim. Her Jim. Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling--something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being owned by Jim.There was a pier-glass between the windows of the room.Suddenly she whirled from the window and stood before the glass. Her eyes were shining brilliantly, but her face had lost its color within twenty seconds. Rapidly she pulled down her hair and let it fall to its full length.Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim's gold watch that had been his father's and his grandfather's. The other was Della's hair.So now Della's beautiful hair fell about her rippling(轻柔的起伏) and shining like a cascade of brown waters. It reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her. And then she did it up again nervously and quickly. Once she faltered for a minute and stood still while a tear or two splashed on the worn red carpet.On went her old brown jacket; on went her old brown hat. With a whirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street.Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. Forget the hashed metaphor. She was ransacking（彻底搜索）the stores for Jim's present.She found it at last. It surely had been made for Jim and no one else. It was a platinum fob chain（白金表链）simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone. It was even worthy of The Watch. As soon as she saw it she knew that it must be Jim's. It was like him. Quietness and value--the description applied to both. Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home with the 87 cents. With that chain on his watch Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company. Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly（偷偷地，暗中地）on account of the old leather strap that he used in place of a chain.She got out her curling irons（卷发钳）.Within forty minutes her head was covered withtiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfullylike a schoolboy. She looked at her reflection in themirror long, carefully, and critically.Jim was never late. Della doubled the fob chain inher hand and sat on the corner of the table near the doorthat he always entered. Then she heard his step on thestair away down on the first flight, and she turned whitefor just a moment. She had a habit of saying a littlesilent prayer about the simplest everyday things, and now she whispered: "Please God, make him think I am still pretty."The door opened and Jim stepped in and closed it. He looked thin and very serious. Poor fellow, he was only twenty-two--and to be burdened with a family! He needed a new overcoat and he was without gloves.Jim stopped inside the door with his eyes fixed upon Della, and there was an expression in them that she could not read, and it terrified her. It was not anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the sentiments（情感）that she had been prepared for. He simply stared at her fixedly with that peculiar（特别的）expression on his face.Della wriggled off the table and went for him."Jim, darling," she cried, "don't look at me that way. I had my hair cut off and sold because I couldn't have lived through Christmas without giving you a present. It'll grow out again--you won't mind, will you? I just had to do it. My hair grows awfully fast. Say `Merry Christmas!' Jim, and let's be happy. You don't know what a nice--what a beautiful, nice gift I've got for you.""You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim, laboriously（艰难地、辛苦地）."Cut it off and sold it," said Della. "Don't you like me just as well, anyhow? I'm me without my hair, ain't I?"Jim looked about the room curiously."You say your hair is gone?" he said, with an air almost of idiocy."You needn't look for it," said Della. "It's sold, I tell you--sold and gone, too. It's Christmas Eve, boy. Be good to me, for it went for you. Maybe the hairs of my head were numbered," she went on with sudden serious sweetness, "but nobody could ever count my love for you. Shall I put the chops on, Jim?"Eight dollars a week or a million a year--what is the difference? A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer. The magi brought valuable gifts, but that was not among them. Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table."Don't make any mistake, Dell," he said, "about me. I don't think there's anything that could make me like my girl any less. But if you'll unwrap that package you may see why you had me going a while at first."White fingers and nimble tore at the string and paper. And then an ecstatic（狂喜地）scream of joy; and then, alas!For there lay The Combs--the set of combs, side and back, that Della had worshipped long in a Broadway window. Beautiful combs, pure tortoise shell, with jewelled rims--just the shade to wear in the beautiful vanished hair.She hugged them to her bosom（胸口）, and at length she was able to look up with dim eyes and a smile and say: "My hair grows so fast, Jim!"And then Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried, "Oh, oh!"Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present. She held it out to him eagerly upon her open palm. "Isn't it a dandy, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it.You'll have to look at the time a hundred times a day now.Give me your watch. I want to see how it looks on it."Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch（坐到沙发上）and put his hands under the back of hishead and smiled."Dell," said he, "let's put our Christmas presentsaway and keep 'em a while. They're too nice to use just at present. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs. And now suppose you put the chops on."The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege（权利）of exchange in case of duplication （重复）. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed（牺牲）for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.。

the gift of magi长难句解析

the gift of magi长难句解析"The Gift of the Magi" 是一个著名的短篇小说，由美国作家 O. Henry 于 1906 年创作。

这个故事主要讲述了一对年轻的夫妇，为了给对方买圣诞礼物，各自卖掉了自己最珍贵的财产。

故事中充满了惊喜和感人的情节。

以下是对故事中长难句的解析：“...the room was aglow with the wattage of electric bulbs, and the open hearth gaped redly at the back like a hungry mouth gaping open.”这句话使用了比喻的修辞手法，把房间里的灯光比作电灯泡的瓦数，把壁炉比作一个饥饿的嘴巴。

这种比喻形象地描绘了房间里的灯光和壁炉的火焰，给人一种视觉上的感受。

“‘The best Christmas gift of all,’ he said, handing her a flat box with a pretty bow on top. ‘The gift of the Magi, wife.'”这句话中的“the gift of the Magi”指的是耶稣诞生时，东方三贤士送给耶稣的礼物——黄金、乳香和没药。

在这个故事中，“the gift of the Magi”被用来比喻最珍贵的礼物。

通过这句话，我们可以感受到这位年轻的丈夫对自己的妻子有多么珍爱，因为他愿意花费自己最珍贵的财产来给她买礼物。

“‘Jim, for three days I’ve eaten nothing but your hard Christmas candy. Save your money, Jim, and buy for yourself a last-minute gift of something that will do you good.’”这句话表达了妻子对丈夫的爱和关心。

the gift of the magi 麦琪的礼物

Summary of “The Gift of the Magi”
It happened on a very poor but bliss ful young couple named Jim and Della in the end of 19th century in America . They worked hard but earned little. Life is very hard for them. They have only two possessions between them in which they take pride: Della's beautiful long, flowing hair and Jim's shiny gold watch.
The gift of the Magi
《麦琪的礼物》
O. Henry
The gift of the Magi
O. Henry (1862.9-1910.6)
Real name: William Sydney Porter American writer One of the three most famous masters of short novel
O. Henry 's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and clever twist endings.
His best known short stories consisted of ： “The Cop and the Anthem”, “The Gift of the Magi ”, “The Last Leave” et al.

【名著阅读】麦琪的礼物

【名著阅读】欧·亨利：麦琪的礼物The gift of the Magi 麦琪的礼物作者：欧·亨利译者：崔爽ONE DOLLAR AND EIGHTY-SEVEN CENTS. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheek burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.一块八毛七分钱。

全在这儿了。

其中六毛钱还是铜子儿凑起来的。

这些铜子儿是每次一个、两个向杂货铺、菜贩和肉店老板那儿死乞白赖地硬扣下来的；人家虽然没有明说，自己总觉得这种掂斤播两的交易未免太吝啬，当时脸都躁红了。

黛拉足足数了三遍。

数来数去还是一块八毛七分钱，明天就是圣诞节了。

There was clearly nothing left to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.显然，这时一个人能做的也只剩下扑倒在简陋的小沙发上号哭一场了吧。

适合初三的英语美文

适合初三的英语美文以下是适合初三水平的英语美文：1. 《The Gift of the Magi》by O. Henry（奥亨利的《玛吉的礼物》）：这是一篇讲述爱情和牺牲的美丽故事，描绘了一对年轻夫妇为了给对方购买圣诞礼物而做出的牺牲。

2. 《The Necklace》by Guy de Maupassant（莫泊桑的《项链》）：这个故事讲述了一个女人为了追求虚荣心而改变她生活的决定，以及这个决定对她的生活造成的影响。

3. 《The Boy in the Striped Pajamas》by John Boyne（约翰·博因的《条纹睡衣男孩》）：这是一部让人深思的小说，以纳粹德国背景为背景，通过一个纳粹军官儿子和一个在集中营里的犹太男孩之间的友谊，探讨了战争、无辜和人性的话题。

4. 《The Old Man and the Sea》by Ernest Hemingway（海明威的《老人与海》）：这是一部简短而充满哲理的小说，讲述了一个老渔夫和他的极具挑战性的捕鱼经历，以及对生命、困境和希望的深刻思考。

5. 《The Diary of Anne Frank》by Anne Frank（安妮·弗兰克的《安妮日记》）：安妮·弗兰克在二战期间的隐藏生活中写下的日记，记录了她的思想、感情以及对生命和人性的深刻洞察。

6. 《The Little Prince》by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry（安托万·德·圣埃克苏佩里的《小王子》）：这是一部充满哲理的童话故事，通过小王子的冒险经历，让人思考成人世界中的价值和意义。

这些美文适合初三水平的学生阅读，它们深刻探讨了人性、价值观和生活中的各种困境，同时语言简洁明了，适合英语学习的同时提升阅读水平。

初二英语文学作品阅读理解20题

初二英语文学作品阅读理解20题1<背景文章>"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry is a heartwarming short story. It is about a young couple, Della and Jim. Della has beautiful long hair that reaches below her knee. She loves her husband Jim deeply. Jim has a precious watch that was passed down from his father. Christmas is approaching, and Della wants to buy Jim a nice gift. But she has very little money. She decides to sell her long hair to a wig maker. With the money, she buys a platinum fob chain for Jim's watch. Meanwhile, Jim has sold his watch to buy beautiful combs for Della's hair.The story shows the true meaning of love and sacrifice. Della and Jim are willing to give up their most precious possessions for each other. Their love is not measured by material things but by the depth of their hearts.1. What does Della have that is very beautiful?A. A nice dress.B. Long hair.C. A pair of shoes.D. A necklace.答案：B。

thegiftofthemagi麦琪的礼物

This film was presented in 1998, then I was in the third grade of senior middle school, and maybe some of you were in nursery school at that time.
Unprecedented, The first time, the school organized all of us to watch this film. that was the only one film in my senior middle school career.
economic crisis
O. Henry In prison for Economic disputes
Jim and Della Work hard but poor yet
No money to buy christmas gift for
daughter
No money to buy christmas gift for
O. Henry 's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and clever twist endings.
His best known short stories consisted of ： The Cop and the Anthem, The Gift of the Magi , The Last Leave et al.
About love
It appears that the gifts they gave each other have been useless. But I think they gave each other the best of what they had to make the other happy. Isn't that true love We can image, in such rough conditions, as it said in the story, " Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating." It is absolutely reasonable for them to be beaten by the misery. But the fact is that no ma tter how rough life had been, they wouldn't lose heart. Wit h strong faith and their love , they did their best to make the other pleased.

麦琪的礼物读后感英文

麦琪的礼物读后感英文After reading "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry, I was deeply moved by the selfless love and sacrifice demonstrated by the main characters, Della and Jim. The story beautifully illustrates the true meaning of love and the importance of giving, even in the face of personal sacrifice.The story begins with Della counting her meager savings, realizing that she does not have enough money to buy her husband, Jim, a Christmas present. Despite her financial constraints, Della is determined to find a way to show her love for Jim. She decides to sell her most prized possession, her long, beautiful hair, in order to buy a gift for Jim. This act of selflessness and sacrifice is truly touching, as it shows the depth of Della's love for her husband.Meanwhile, Jim is also facing a similar dilemma. He wants to buy a special gift for Della, but he too is struggling with financial difficulties. In the end, he decides to sell his most valuable possession, a pocket watch that has been passed down to him by his father, in order to buy Della a gift. This act of sacrifice demonstrates Jim's love and devotion to Della.On Christmas Eve, Della and Jim exchange their gifts, only to discover that they have both sacrificed their most treasured possessions in order to buy a gift for the other. In that moment, they realize the true extent of each other's love and sacrifice. Despite the material value of their gifts being diminished, the love and thoughtfulness behind them are priceless.The story of Della and Jim's selfless acts of love and sacrifice serves as a powerful reminder of the true meaning of Christmas. It is not about the material gifts or possessions, but rather about the love, thoughtfulness, and selflessness that we show to others. The story also emphasizes the importance of giving, even when it requires personal sacrifice. Della and Jim's actions exemplify the true spirit of Christmas, as they demonstrate that love and generosity are the greatest gifts of all."The Gift of the Magi" is a timeless story that continues to resonate with readers of all ages. It serves as a poignant reminder of the importance of love, sacrifice, and selflessness in our relationships with others. The story's message is one that will continue to inspire and touch the hearts of readers for generations to come.In conclusion, "The Gift of the Magi" is a beautiful and heartwarming story that captures the true spirit of Christmas. It reminds us that the greatest gifts are those that come from the heart, and that love and sacrifice are the most precious offerings we can give to others. This timeless tale is a powerful reminder of the true meaning of the holiday season and the importance of selfless giving.。

the gift of the magi 精读

the gift of the magi 精读"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story written by O. Henry (the pen name of William Sydney Porter) in 1905. It tells the story of Della and Jim, a young married couple who are struggling financially. Despite their limited means, they each want to buy the perfect Christmas gift for the other. The story explores themes of sacrifice, love, and the true meaning of gift-giving.Della and Jim live in a small apartment and barely have enough money to cover their daily expenses. It is Christmas Eve, and Della has only a dollar and eighty-seven cents to buy a gift for Jim. She desperately searches for the perfect gift and finally decides to sell her most valuable possession - her beautiful, knee-length hair.Della goes to Madame Sofronie, a hairdresser, who gives her twenty dollars for her hair. With the money in hand, Della goes to a shop to buy a platinum watch chain for Jim's prized possession, his pocket watch. The chain is worth twenty-one dollars, which means she is one dollar and eighty-seven cents short. Feeling crestfallen, Della eventually finds a shopkeeper who agrees to buy her old watch for a modest sum of seven dollars.Now armed with enough money to buy the chain, Della returns home and prepares herself for Jim's arrival. When Jim arrives, he is shocked to see Della with her short hair. Della explains what she has done and presents the watch chain to him. Jim, in turn, smiles and confesses that he sold his watch to buy combs for Della's beautiful long hair. Della is devastated, realizing that they have both made sacrifices in vain.Despite the unfortunate turn of events, Della and Jim realize the profound love they have for each other. They understand that their sacrificial gifts were a reflection of their deep devotion, which is worth far more than any material possession. O. Henry describes their love as the "wise men" or "magi" who brought gifts to the baby Jesus. Just as the magi brought their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh without any thought of receiving anything in return, Della and Jim gave their sacrifices selflessly.The story ends on a bittersweet note, emphasizing the true meaning of Christmas and the importance of love and selflessness. Della and Jim's unconditional love is a gift in itself, far more valuable than any material object could ever be. O. Henry's message is clear: the true spirit of gift-giving lies not in the monetary value of the gift, but in the thought and sacrifice behind it."The Gift of the Magi" is a timeless tale that resonates with readers to this day. It reminds us that sometimes our most valuable possessions are not tangible objects, but the love and sacrifices we make for one another. It urges us to reflect on the true meaning of gift-giving, emphasizing that the most meaningful gifts are not always the most expensive ones.In a world that often places material possessions above all else, "The Gift of the Magi" serves as a beautiful reminder of the power of love and selflessness. It teaches us that the true value of a gift lies not in its price tag, but in the thought and sacrifice behind it. It is a story that continues to touch the hearts of readers, reiterating the importance of love and the power of meaningful gestures, especially during the holiday season.。

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3.Why did Della do her hair up? Can you describe Della’s feeling from the words “hesitate” and “still” ?
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She had a good idea to make money, which was to sell her hair, but she was so proud of her long brown hair.From the words “hesitate” and “still”,we know that she was uncertain and unwilling to sell her precious hair.
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What is true love?
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Experiencing
What is true love?
What is love? Different people hold different opinions based on their own experiences. As for me I think true love is giving.
In a word, true love means giving, the total self-forgetting. It exists in every detail of their life, and no matter what happens, they are always considering for the other. They thought of each other rather than thought of themselves.