欧亨利短篇小说《TheLastLeaf》(《最后一片常青藤叶》(2)

)村来了。他们到处转悠，寻找朝北的窗户、十八世纪的三角墙、荷兰式的阁楼和租金低廉的房屋。然后，他们又从第六大道上掏了一些马克杯和一两个火锅，这里就被他们圈成了自己的地盘。
At the top of a squatty,three-story brick Sue(人名:苏)and Johnsy (琼西)had their studio.“Johnsy”was familiar for Joanna（乔安娜）. One was from Maine(缅因州)； the other from (加利福尼亚洲)California. They had met at the table d’hote of an English street“Delmo-nico’s,” and found their taste in art,chicory salad and bishop sleeves(灯笼袖) so con-genial that the joint studio resulted. 苏和琼西租了一个低矮的三层砖房的顶层作为她们的画室。
“琼西”是乔安娜的昵称。两个姑娘，一个来自缅因 州，一个来自加利福尼亚州。她们是在第八大街的德尔莫尼科餐馆里吃饭时遇到的，发现在艺术、饮食和衣着上都“情投意合”，所以就一起办了一个画室。 That was in May.In November a cold ,unseen stranger,whom the doctors ca-lled Pneumonia(肺炎), stalked(追踪) about the col-ony,touching one here and there with his icy fingers .Over on the east side this ravager strode boldly（破坏者，跨过，大胆地）,smiting （打）his victim by scores, but his feet trod slo-wly through the maze（迷宫） of the narrow and moss-grown “places”. （平时不怎么用英语，一旦想读点文学原著…
竟无语凝噎） 那是五月份的事了。 （指上文） 转眼到了十一月，一个冷酷的、隐形的不速之客悄悄地潜入艺术家们的地盘，用冰冷的手指到处触摸，医生们管这个不速之客叫肺炎。在广场的东边，这个坏蛋嚣张的到处流窜，一下子就能击垮十几个人，可在这些到处苔藓的狭长小巷里，他却放慢了脚步。(暗有所指) Mr. Pneumonia(...拟人) was not what you would call a chivalric (骑士的)old gentlemen. A mite of a little woman with blood thinned by California(加利福尼亚州) zephyrs was hardly fair game for the red-fised, short-breathed old duffer . But Johnsy he smote;and she lay , scarely moving,on her painted iron bedstead, looking through the small Dutch window-panes at the blank side of the next brick house.