Classics﹕Tale without ending
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【明報專訊】One Thousand and One Nights (《一千零一夜》), also known as The Arabian Nights, is a collection of Arabic short stories. The main frame story concerns a Persian King who marries a succession of girls only to execute every one of them the next morning. The girl Scheherazade offers herself as the next bride, and begins to tell the king a wonderful tale without telling him the ending. The king must postpone her execution to learn how it ends, and that goes on for 1001 nights.
■English highway-words and collocations
"Execute''
To execute someone means to kill someone, especially legally as a punishment.
e.g. Hundreds have been executed for political crimes.
■Glossary
frame (n) 框架
succession (n) 一個接一個
postpone (v) 延遲
go on (phr v) 繼續下去
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