The Black Cat (原典阅读).pdf

The Black Cat 黑猫 埃德加·爱伦·坡 Edgar Allan Poe homely adj. 平凡的；朴素 1 FOR the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about 的 to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not -- and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I unburthen vt. 使……安生 die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul. My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without succinctly adv. 简洁地 comment, a series of mere household events. In their consequences, these events have terrified -- have tortured -- have destroyed me. Yet expound vt. 解释；阐述 I will not attempt to expound them. To me, they have presented little but Horror -- to many they will seem less terrible than barroques. baroque n. 巴洛克作品，这 里指 「奇谈」 Hereafter, perhaps, some intellect may be found which will reduce my phantasm to the common-place -- some intellect more calm, phantasm n. 幻象；幻觉 more logical, and far less excitable than my own, which will perceive, in the circumstances I detail with awe, nothing more than an ordinary succession n. 继承顺序，自 succession of very natural causes and effects. 然演替