進めレオ!

進めレオ!です、こんにちは。

また、報告です。

PGR1を「５万語位読」んだので、レベル1通過。
「基礎力」ついていたらいいのですが。
「Penguin Readers Level 1には面白くないものもあるので」とのことですが、
"teen stories"のことですかね。

O. Henry短編集は新潮文庫版でずっと昔々全部読んでますが、"The Gift of the Magi"はいいですね。
原文で読んでみたい…………
以下原文ですが、retold版とのあまりの違いに唖然としました。

以下、""www.gutenberg.org"から

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 cheeks 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.
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 subsiding from 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.

とにかく、10万語超は通過。