《警察与赞美诗》英文梗概
第一篇：《警察与赞美诗》英文梗概
A New York City hobo named Soapy,who ts out to get arrested so he can avoid sleeping in the cold winter as a guest of the city jail.Soapy's ploys伎俩include swindling诈骗a restaurant into rving him an expensive meal, breaking the plate-glass window of a luxury shop, repeating his eatery exploit at a humble简陋的diner, xually harassing a young woman, pretending to be publicly intoxicated喝醉to make troubles, and stealing another man's umbrella.However, all of the attempts are quickly expod as failures.Bad on the events, Soapy despairs of his goal of getting arrested and imprisoned.As O.Henry describes events, the small church has a working organ机构and a practicing organist风琴演奏者.As Soapy listens to the church organ play an anthem圣歌, he experiences a spiritual epiphany 神灵显现then he resolves决定to cea停止to be homeless, end his life as a tramp afflicted苦恼with unemployment, and regain his lf-respect.As Soapy stands on the street and considers the plan for his future, however, a policeman taps him on the shoulder
and asks him what he is doing.When Soapy answers “Nothing,” his fate is aled未知: he has been arrested for loitering闲荡.In the magistrate’s法官court on the following day, he is convicted定罪of a misdemeanor行为不端and is ntenced to three months in Blackwell's Island, the New York City jail.
第二篇：警察与赞美诗的英文读后感
Wang1 Wang Mengmeng
Professor Li Kang
English 09110314March 2012
The Cop and the Anthem
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Bad on the whole text, the author's humor is prent in various ways, one of
which is through irrationality during the development of plots.Soapy, the vagrant who has stirred up trouble for six times, is eager to go to prison.But he is always out of luck and get policeman's forgiveness.When Soapy is touched by the anthem and wants to be a good citizen, he is arrested for groundless reasons.This way is a kind of black humor manifesting social reality profoundly.We can e something gloomy, desperate,but simultaneously, we can't help laughing when reading the vivid description.Once, Soapy wants to reach his goal by molesting a woman, Soapy
straightened the lady missionary’s ready-made tie, dragged his shrinking cuffs into
the open, t his hat at a killing cant and sidled toward the young women(20).but
the eming virtuous and quiet woman begin to duce him in rever.“Sure,Mike,” she said joyfully, “if you’ll blow me to a pail of suds.I’d have spoke to you
sooner, but the cop was watching.”With the young woman playing the clinging ivy
to his oak Soapy(22).Besides, Soapy steals an umbrella from a neatly dresd
customer, but the umbrella is ill-gotten originally.''Of cour,''said the umbrella
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man''that is—well, you know how the mistakes occur—I—if it’s your umbrella I
hope you’ll excu me—I picked it up this morning in a restaurant—If you recogni
it as yours, why—I hope you’ll—''(31).So the modest and lady and gentleman turn
out to be someone that we cannot imagine, which is not rational.Nonetheless, as a
matter of fact, they just hide their dirty acts under a beautiful veil and a small sign
can indicate a great trend, we can learn that the so-called noble upper class goes
more rious than the two.The plots reveals awful mood of that capitalist society.In addition, the conflict between the irrationality of Soapy's behavior and the
rationality of the cop's judgment is one of the important reasons for Soapy's
“misfortune”.For example, Soapy breaks the glass and wait for the policeman to
come and arrest him, but the cop reckons that a man who commits evil won't sit
and wait for arrest, men who smash windows do not remain to parley with the
law’s minions then he excludes Soapy.Besides, he wants to break the peace by
virtue of kicking up a fuss in the street, identically, the cop deems that only
college students dare to be so unbridled and boisterous''Tis one of them Yale lads
