Hiroshima University's English Podcast

Download MP3 今年も本ポッドキャストをご愛聴くださりありがとうございました。今年最後のエピソードは、今月第１週にお届けした「賢者の贈り物」（"The Gift of the Magi"）の後半です。 【お知らせ】今週は予定を変更し「ドラマで英語を学ぼう」をお届けしています。 クリスマスは過ぎましたが、このお話の夫婦がお互いを思いやる気持ちはやはり心を打たれます。JoeとKeiによる詳しい楽しい解説とともにお楽しみください。それでは、良いお年を！ （中級〜上級向け）"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry Part 2 When Della reached home her intoxication gave way a little to prudence and reason. She got out her curling iron sand lighted the gas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity added to love. Which is always a tremendous task, dear friends--a mammoth task. Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. She looked at her reflection in the mirror long, carefully, and critically. "If Jim doesn't kill me," she said to herself, "before he takes a second look at me, he'll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl. But what could I do—oh! what could I do with a dollar and eighty-seven cents?" At 7 o'clock the coffee was made and the fry