The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is one of my favoriate story. It is about something strange that happened long ago in a valley called "Sleepy Hollow". The story attracts me from the beginning, and I can not stop reading. It is a classic. If you once read it, you will like it. It is a horror subjet novel, and you will feel as if you can see the charactor. This novel has been adapted to movies several times. This short novel was written by Washington Irving. If you like it, you can read it.

在读过一篇文章或一本书之后,把获得的感受、体会以及受到的教育、启迪等写下来,写成的文章就叫“读后感”.读后感怎么写?读后感的基本思路如下：
(1)简述原文有关内容.如所读书、文的篇名、作者、写作年代,以及原书或原文的内容概要.写这部分内容是为了交代感想从何而来,并为后文的议论作好铺垫.这部分一定要突出一个“简”字,决不能大段大段地叙述所读书、文的具体内容,而是要简述与感想有直接关系的部分,略去与感想无关的东西.
(2)亮明基本观点.选择感受最深的一点,用一个简洁的句子明确表述出来.这样的句子可称为“观点句”.这个观点句表述的,就是这篇文章的中心论点.“观点句”在文中的位置是可以灵活的,可以在篇首,也可以在篇末或篇中.初学写作的同学,最好采用开门见山的方法,把观点写在篇首.
(3)围绕基本观点摆事实讲道理.这部分就是议论文的本论部分,是对基本观点（即中心论点）的阐述,通过摆事实讲道理证明观点的正确性,使论点更加突出、更有说服力.这个过程应注意的是,所摆事实、所讲道理都必须紧紧围绕基本观点,为基本观点服务.
(4)围绕基本观点联系实际.一篇好的读后感应当有时代气息,有真情实感.要做到这一点,必须善于联系实际.这“实际”可以是个人的思想、言行、经历,也可以是某种社会现象.联系实际时也应当注意紧紧围绕基本观点,为观点服务,而不能盲目联系、前后脱节.以上四点是写读后感的基本思路,但是这思路不是一成不变的,要善于灵活掌握

On the eastern side of the Hudson River in New York, there is a small market town called Tarrytown. About two miles from Tarrytown is a little valley. People call it "Sleepy Hollow." The ancestors of the people there are the original Dutch settlers of New York. These Sleepy Hollow people tend to be highly imaginative and often claim to have seen ghosts.
The major ghost of the region is the spirit of a horseman without a head. This spirit, so people say, rides every night to find his companions. And it is said that as he goes to churchyard where he is buried, he rides as fast as the wind. 献祝福,祝福网
Soon after the end of the U.S. Revolutionary War(1775-6), a man named Ichabod Crane came to Sleepy Hollow to be the teacher in the area. Ichabod was tall and thin. His head was small and flat at the top. He had big ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long thin nose.
Ichabod taught in a one-room school house where he used a small tree branch to strike misbehaving students. He punished the Dutch children most. But he was careful to get along with the students whose mothers were good cooks, because his salary was low and he had meals at different families.
Ichabod made himself useful in many ways. He helped the farmers with their daily works. He also passed gossip around to their wives. Besides, he was the unoffical chorus director for the area. In the winter evening, he listened to and accepted all the ghost stories the old Dutch wives told. As he walked home at night, every bush looked to him like a ghost covered in a sheet.
Soon Ichabod Crane became interested in Katrina Van Tassel, the only child of Baltus Van Tassel. Mr. Van Tassel had a big farm. From the time Ichabod met Van Tassel and had a look at his farm, Ichabod's main purpose in life was to make Katrina his wife.
However, Ichabod did have a rival, Abraham Van Brunt, whose nickname was Brom Bones. Brom was very strong and very naughty. Although he did not really do any evil thing, he liked to play jokes on others. He also wanted Katrina to be his girlfriend. Katrina was not really interested in him, but she certainly did not discourage him. Ichabod did not want to compete publicly with Brom. Ichabod just made use of every opportunity he had to see Katrina. But Brom tried very hard to play jokes on Ichabod at his schoolhouse and during his singing classes.
One autumn day Ichabod was invited to a party that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel's. In the afternoon, Ichabod spent an extra thirty minutes brushing his old and only suit. Ichabod then borrowed a horse named Gunpower from Hans Van Ripper, a bad tempered farmer he lived with. Gunpower was a thin and old plowhorse. In fact, Ichabod was really a strange-looking creature on the horse.
All the important people of the area came to Heer Van Tassel's castle that evening, including Brom Bones. Ichabod was happy that he was invited. As he enjoyed the delicious food, he smiles to himself that he might become the owner of the farm one day.
When the music began, Ichabod danced with Katrina. Then he went to join a group of older folks and exchanged stories about the war and the Hollow's ghosts. These included the story of the tree where Major Andre was killed, and of course, the story of the headless horseman.
Soon the party broke up; Ichabod, however, stayed on to talk with Katrina for a little while. When he left her he felt somewhat disappointed, without knowing exactly how she felt about him. He rode off on the old horse he had borrowed.
It was the middle of the night when Ichabod approached Major Andre's tree. This was the place where so many of the ghost story scenes supposedly took place. He heard a groan and saw something white, but he passed by. Two hundred yards ahead there was a bridge over a river. This was in an area known as Wiley's Swamp. Here the road looked dark because of the shadows from the oaks and chestnut trees.
Ichabod's horse, Gunpowder, suddenly stopped before the bridge. And just then Ichabod saw something huge climbing upward in the shadow of the grove. Ichabod was terrified. He asked in unsteady voice: "Who are you？" There was no response. And the unknown thing moved to the center of the road. This thing appeared to be a large horseman, on a powerful black horse!
Ichabod quickened his horse, and the stranger kept up with him. When Ichabod's horse slowed down, the other horse did too. Ichabod's heartbeat quickened. As he turned around, he was shocked to see that the horseman did not have a head! The head was carried beside the saddle.
Ichabod tried to get away from the monster, but all he did was in vain. www.xzhufu.comThe monster came closer and closer. As they reached the churchyard, the monster hit Ichabod with its own head. Ichabod fell off and tumbled headlong into the dust.
Next morning the old horse was found. But no one could find Ichabod. What they did find was a shattered pumpkin on the ground.

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 英文总结（353字）
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"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in 1820. With Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction still read today.
The story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, who is supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War, and who "rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head". Ichabod mysteriously disappears from town, leaving Katrina to marry Brom Bones, who was "to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related".
The dénouement of the fictional tale is set at the bridge over the Pocantico River in the area of the Old Dutch Church and Burying Ground in Sleepy Hollow. The characters of Ichabod Crane and Katrina Van Tassel may have been based on local residents known to the author. The character of Katrina is thought to have been based upon Eleanor Van Tassel Brush, in which case her name is derived from that of Eleanor's aunt Catriena Ecker Van Tessel.
Although Irving knew an army colonel named Ichabod Crane from Staten Island, New York (who was also once the Commanding Officer of Lieutenant Stonewall Jackson), the character in "The Legend" may have been patterned after Jesse Merwin, who taught at the local schoolhouse in Kinderhook, further north along the Hudson River, where Irving spent several months in 1809.

怕，当夜晚来临时，他的恐惧达到了高潮。 教音乐时，伊卡包德·克莱恩爱上德高望重的荷兰农夫的女儿卡特琳娜。与其说伊卡包德爱上卡特琳娜，不如说是他看上了卡特琳娜将继承的财富。当他到卡特琳娜家做客时，吸引他目光的不是女主人的美貌，而是宽敞的屋子，漂亮的壁炉，墙上挂着的羊毛、玉米、干果以及桌子上热腾腾的美食。每当他想起卡特琳娜，引发的联想都和卡特琳娜的父亲所拥有的田产有关。“他的一对大绿眼珠，溜溜地望着凡·塔塞尔这座温暖住宅周围的那些肥沃的草原、丰饶的小麦田、裸麦田、荞麦田和玉米田，以及果实累累的果园，心里不由思慕着将要继承这一切财产的姑娘。”
当伊卡包德遭到情人卡特琳娜拒绝，借酒消愁，喝得醉醺醺地骑马回家时，在途中遇到了无名骑士而传说丧生。有的传说是离开了睡谷的伊卡包德·克莱恩却找到了施展才华的天地：他在纽约“得了律师执照，变成了政客，奔走竞选，给报纸写文章，最后终于当上了十镑法庭的法官。”像伊卡包德·克莱恩这样的角色都能发达，我们不难看到作者欧文对变动中的急功近利的美国社会的微妙讽刺。伊卡包德·克莱恩是外部世界的代表，他被驱逐后，睡谷又恢复了往日的平静，从这个层面上看，在抵抗外部渗透的斗争中，睡谷中的荷兰人赢得了胜利。对于这种胜利，许多批评家都从意识形态的角度给予了肯定的解读。然而，荷兰人的胜利是否带有明显的积极含义，这一点颇值得商榷。
荷兰农夫的女儿卡特琳娜是睡谷中的女性代表，她的形象也不具有积极含义。她爱卖弄风情表面上和伊卡包德·克莱恩谈恋爱，却将伊卡包德·克莱恩玩弄于股掌间，只是为了把他的情敌降伏得牢牢的，正如叙述者所言，“这是一种诡计”。她并不是不解世事的单纯少女，而是在爱情上精于算计的女人。
故事中另一个人物是伊卡包德·克莱恩的情敌布鲁姆，他是个村野之夫，粗鲁、精力充沛、叱责随从，却是心地善良，自食其力的人。然而，布鲁姆果真如批评家所言，是“边地拓荒者的先驱”吗?我们发现他的身上有一种“混合气质，寻欢作乐并且傲慢。”他“身材魁梧，喜欢大叫大闹，是性情暴躁傲慢的纨绔子弟„„是本乡一带的英雄，素以臂力过人，以好勇斗狠闻名。”他从不下田务农，也没有任何精神追求，倒是天天领着一伙人，招摇过市：“他有三四个跟他一样脾气的好朋友，他们都把他当作榜样，他总是带头领着他们在乡里乱闯„„一到冬天，他总是戴着一顶皮帽子，顶上有一根挺神气的狐狸尾巴，人们一看就认得是他，每逢乡下人在村里集会的时候，远远看到这根熟悉的狐狸尾巴，在一群勇
猛的骑手之间飞奔而来，他们就得站在一旁，等他们像一阵风暴似的过去。”他用计谋将情敌吓跑逃到纽约，布鲁姆的胜利宣布了伊卡包德所象征的物质主义美国梦的失败，但他的胜利不应被看作西部精神的胜利。他与伊卡包德·克莱恩之争的实质是男性力量之争。他赢得了胜利，但是很快就会被卡特琳娜所束缚，捆住手脚，成为像卡特琳娜父亲一样。
在故事的结尾，叙述者只好杜撰出了类似“绅士莫骑马”等不伦不类的寓意，既而又莞尔一笑：“对这个故事，我自己连一半也不相信，”而《睡谷的传说》也随着叙述者这句虚无的喟叹戛然而止。作者把无意识的动机和被禁止的欲望，通过想像外化成哥特式的恐惧、神秘和迷惑。而欧文却回避探究这种灵魂的黑暗。尽管他被想像力的无限魅力所吸引，却下意识地想要利用现实主义的平和理性来将它们掩盖，将对神秘的恐惧解释为一种“迷信”。
欧文巧妙运用哥特风格表现了小说中现实与梦想冲突这一主题，深刻地揭示了美国社会变革发展中的社会矛盾。不仅北美发生了巨大变化，欧洲其他地区也发生了巨大变革。酷爱自由、平等、民主的美国人民只有逃避现实。我们细读《睡谷的传说》时，会发现欧文对小说的桃花源的主题，哥特式风格以及叙述的真实性，造成了文本意义的非确定性，向我们呈现了一个“亦此亦彼，非此非彼”的文本世界。或许这也是《睡谷的传说》为什么会成为欧文小说中引起最多评论关注的原因之一。欧文似乎在文本中为我们勾画出了一个桃花源，但走到近处细细审视，却让人不禁怀疑其真实。小说英文原名是“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”，而“HOUow”本身就有“空洞”的意思，在消解了中心之后，不见桃源，只见隐含着后现代式的意义缺失以及无中心性的“空洞”。欧文讽刺了伊卡包德·克莱恩，但没有完全放弃对睡谷所代表的旧传统的审视和批判。在《睡谷的传说》中，存在一个明显的二项对立：伊卡包德·克莱恩代表的是变化中的美国社会，布鲁姆代表的是旧传统。美国文学批评大家Danjel Holow认为“伊卡包德·克莱恩与布鲁姆之间的冲突象征着有着地域特性的扬基佬和边地人之间的冲突——这其后很快成为我们的文学„„以及我们的国家历史的一个主题。”