现行高中英语教材中选入了少量世界文坛知名作家的文学作品,使学生在中学阶段就有机会接触英语文学原著或简写读物,了解他们的作品风格和语言特色。这对培养学生的阅读理解能力和文学欣赏能力是大有益处的。其中,选入高中英语第二册的欧·亨利的《礼物》就是一篇引人入胜的短篇小说,它不仅有一定的思想性,而且语言简洁、流畅,描写生动、深刻,很有艺术特色。 The current high school English textbooks include a handful of literary works by well-known writers in world literary worlds, enabling students to have access to the original or abbreviated books of English literature in secondary school and gain an understanding of their style of work and language features. This is of great benefit to students’ reading comprehension and literary appreciation skills. Among them, the “gift” of Henry Henry, who is enrolled in the second volume of high school English, is a fascinating short story not only of a certain ideology, but also of conciseness, fluent language, vivid description, deep and artistic features.