这个季节的《最后一片叶子》-小木屋经典诵读系列
Originally Written by O. Henry
Reading Version by Louie
欧·亨利（O. Henry，1862年9月11日－1910年6月5日），原名 William Sydney Porter，20世纪初美国著名短篇小说家，美国现代短篇小说创始人。与法国的莫泊桑、俄国的契诃夫并称为世界三大短篇小说巨匠。
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最后一片叶子
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穷困潦倒的画家琼西得了重病，在病房里看着窗外常青藤叶子不断被风吹落，她认为最后一片叶子的凋谢代表自己的死亡，于是失去了生存的意志。
贝尔曼，一个同病相怜的老画家，在听完苏伊讲述室友琼西的事情后，夜里冒着暴雨，画出了一片“永不凋落”的常青藤叶，让琼西重拾生存的意志，终于振奋了起来。而他自己却因此患上肺炎离开了这个世界....
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A woman nicknamed Johnsy (her full name is Joanna) has come down with pneumonia, and is now close to death. Outside the window of her room, the leaves fall from a vine.
Johnsy decides that when the last leaf drops, she too will die, while her best friend Sue, who stays with her, tries to tell her to stop thinking so pessimistically.
In the same apartment building, an elderly, frustrated artist named Behrman lives below Johnsy and Sue. Behrman has been claiming that he will paint a masterpiece, even though he has never even attempted to start.
Sue visits Behrman, telling him that Johnsy, who is dying of pneumonia, has come to believe that she will die when the last leaf falls off of the vine outside her window.
Behrman scoffs at this as foolishness, but—as he is protective of the two young artists—he decides to visit Johnsy and see the vine from her window.
In the night, a storm comes with wind howling and rain splattering against the window. Sue closes the curtains and tells Johnsy to go to sleep, even though there is still one leaf left on the vine.
Johnsy protests against having the curtains closed, but Sue insists because she does not want Johnsy to see the last leaf fall.
In the morning, Johnsy wants to see the vine to be sure that all the leaves are gone, but to their surprise, there is still one leaf left.
The leaf does not fall that day, nor does it fall overnight, nor the next day.
Johnsy believes that the leaf stayed there to show how wicked she was, and that she sinned in wanting to die. She begins to live.
When Johnsy is strong enough, Sue reveals to her that their neighbor Behrman has died of pneumonia, and that the one remaining leaf is in fact his masterpiece done for Johnsy's sake to live.
pneumonia [njuː'məʊnɪə] 肺炎
vine [vaɪn] 藤；葡萄树；藤本植物；攀缘植物
pessimistic [,pesɪ'mɪstɪk] 悲观的；悲观主义的
reveal [rɪ'viːl] 揭露；暴露
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