《字里行间：英语短文分析与欣赏(修订版)》精心挑选了一些蕴涵哲理与情感的小短文，将它们按不同主题分类成章。每篇短文均配有详细注解，并且运用篇章语言学的理论设计了一些相关的练习题，以帮助读者更好地理解文章结构和大意。《字里行间：英语短文分析与欣赏(修订版)》可作为本科低年级学生的泛读教材，也可供具有初级以上英语水平的英语爱好者自学英语，休闲娱乐之用。

Preface

Introduction

PartⅠ：Read Between the Lins for Conversational Implicatures

 A Laconic Answer

 Weird Coincidence

 "Are You Enjoying the Film?"

 What On Earth Was He Talking about?

 The Cows Are Crying

 The Sign of Welcome

 Who Tops Them All?

 Politicians'Lie

 Mrand MrsPologize

 Real Beers

 The Fastest Train in the World

 Why Are You Crying?

 A Catholic Service

 When Are You Going to Pay Your Money?

 The Art Collector

 You've Just Thrown the Wrong Bitch out of the Window

 Fish in a Barrel

 Unexpected Situation

 Please Don't Talk While I'm Interrupting

 What Was the Campaign Politician's Stance?

 A "Dear John"Letter

 Does the Early Bird Get the Worm?

 Charles Makes a Complete Apology

 DrSwift and the Boy

 The Old Woman and the Physician

Part Ⅱ：Read Between the Lines for General Implications

 An Unforgettable Evening

 Is This How You Left It?

 How about Two Dollars?

 Beomg Brave at tje Supermarket

 Classmates of Teacher and Student?

 But Officer

 A Useful Lesson

 Hoya,Hoya!

 Reasonable or Not?

 "Dear John"Lunch

 The "Apple"Pin

 Thanksgiving

 Why did the Detective Arrest Him?

 Two Businessmen

 Who Knocked Down the Walls of Jerich?

 Two Businessmen

 Who Knocked Down the Walls of Jericho?

 Irrefutable Evidence

 He Loves Her Dearly

 Do You Know My Work?

 He Showed Us the Door

 Collect Call from Las Vegas

Part Ⅲ： Read Between the Lines for Writers' Views or Purposes

 That Happened during the Depression Days

 Beautiful Day, Isn' t It?

 The Wholeness of Life

 Life' s Gift

 Every Day Is a Gift God Gives Us

 Three Old Men and a Housewife

 A Rural Lesson in Rhetoric

 In Ourselves We Trust

 This Is Good Writing

 Profits of Praise

 today and Tomorrow

 Cattywampus

 Taking up a Collection for the President

 We Are Doing Our Job

 The Best Advice I Ever Had

 An Expert in Squeezing

 The Discreetly Dropped-in Dime

 They Had Something Far Stronger

 Marshall vs. Roosevelt

 Bouquets of Lilac

Part Ⅳ：Read Between the Lines for Understood Conclusions

 Yes or No?

 Every Mother's Child Is Handsome

 Three Wishes

 Motive and Action

 Bribery

 The Reason Was Found at Last

 Such an Interpreter

 I Have Never Told a Lie in My Life

 A Funny Story about Biscuits

 On Miracle

 The Three Choices

 Words and Context

 The Vacation

 Honesty and the Watermelon

 The Small Magic Room

 Honesty

 Politeness and Tact

 A Faux Pas

 The Next One

 What Do the Poor Need Most?