绿门(The Green Door)_欧·亨利_中英双语在线阅读

男人在街边拿到散发的广告卡，卡片上写着：绿门，他再拿一张，还是绿门。按捺不住好奇心，他走到那家公司的楼上，在三楼看见一扇绿门，推门进去，救起一个自杀濒死的美丽女孩。而“绿门”其实是一家夜总会的名字。后来他们结了婚。

信步而行，命运很有可能改变。一样意外的结局，原来不是有意的按时，是命运的巧合安排了一次英雄救美的故事。

A man named Rudolf Steiner, though apparently not the Austrian esotericist, is handed a mysterious card reading "The Green Door". He enters a green door where he meets a starving young woman. He quickly rushes out and returns laden with food, and they become friends over supper; finally Steiner promises to visit her again the next day and there is romance in the offing. Eventually it turns out that the card was an advertisement for an entirely different "Green Door", a theatre play.

一个小伙子在大街上走，有个在派传单的黑人塞给他一张传单，上书“绿门”，他不解绿门是什么，环顾四周，地上散落着人们丢掉的传单，上面写的却是牙医广告。不但如此，他还觉得那个黑人传单男一直给他丢媚眼。于是他转身又从黑人边上经过，黑人给了他另一张传单，“绿门”，而他身边的人拿到的都是牙医广告。就这么三番两次，只有他拿到的是绿门，而其他人都是牙医广告。于是他开始怀疑是不是黑人要暗示他什么，于是他按照牙医广告的指示走到一栋大楼的二楼，看见一个绿门，推门进去……见到一个姑娘，然后发生了一段英雄救美的故事。等他出门发现，原来这栋楼二楼的房门都是绿色的，而他回头去找那个暗示过他的黑人时，黑人告诉他他不过是把两种宣传单夹在一起发，牙医广告和近期要上演的《绿门》戏剧。

A man named Rudolf Steiner, though apparently not the Austrian esotericist, is handed a mysterious card reading "The Green Door". He enters a green door where he meets a starving young woman. He quickly rushes out and returns laden with food, and they become friends over supper; finally Steiner promises to visit her again the next day and there is romance in the offing. Eventually it turns out that the card was an advertisement for an entirely different "Green Door", a theatre play.

欧·亨利是其笔名，原名为威廉·西德尼·波特(William Sydney Porter)。美国著名批判现实主义作家，世界三大短篇小说大师之一。曾被评论界誉为曼哈顿桂冠散文作家和美国现代短篇小说之父。他的作品构思新颖，语言诙谐，结局常常出人意料，其中一些名篇如《爱的牺牲》、《警察与赞美诗》、《带家具出租的房间》、《贤人的礼物》、《最后一片藤叶》等使他获得了世界声誉。

William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862—June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. The best known ones are A Service of Love, The Cop and the Anthem, The Furnished Room, The Gift of the Magi and The Last Leaf, which help him win fame abroad.

信步而行，命运很有可能改变。一样意外的结局，原来不是有意的按时，是命运的巧合安排了一次英雄救美的故事。

欧·亨利是20世纪初美国杰出的短篇小说大师，有“美国的莫泊桑”之称。他的作品因富于生活情趣被誉为“美国生活的幽默百科全书”。

O. Henry's stories are gems of their kind; mellow, humorous, ironic, ingenious and shot through with that eminently salable quality known as 'human interest.'" —Bennet Cerf and Van Cartmell