Letter from an Unknown Woman
? ?A rich and well-known writer, returning home to Vienna from one of many holidays, finds a long letter from an unknown woman. As a teenager she had lived with her poor widowed mother in the same building and had fallen totally in love with both the opulent cultured lifestyle of her neighbour and the handsome charming man himself. This passion was not lessened by the flow of attractive women spending the night with him or by her being removed to Innsbruck when her mother remarried. At age 18 she returned to Vienna, took a job and tried to meet the writer. He did not recognise her and, without revealing her name, she succeeded in spending three nights with him before he disappeared on a holiday. Pregnant, she lost her job and had to give birth in a refuge for the indigent. Resolved that their child should have a good life, she spent nights with or became mistress of various rich men but would never marry because her heart belonged always to the writer. Out with a current lover, she saw the writer in a night club and went home with him instead. To him, she was just an agreeable companion for that night, as he again did not recognise her. In the 1918 flu pandemic, the child died and she, ill herself, wrote this letter to be posted after her death.
可讀性：四顆星
閱讀時間：3天
難易程度：專四水平
讀后心得體會：
1、不用每一個詞匯都認識，詞義可以靠上下文的推理和猜測。整體閱讀完一大段后也有助于對詞匯的理解。
2、故事以簡單句、復合句為主，但也有些復雜句，從句套從句。復雜句理解技巧：找到主謂賓—弄清結構—依次翻譯。同時注意時態、單復數。
3、中英譯文版本更有助于理解。
4、在閱讀中，感覺名詞、形容詞比動詞更重要。
5、堅持英語原著閱讀，既熟悉語感又領略不同的表達方式，受益匪淺。
