《长腿叔叔(中文导读英文版)》讲述了：Daddy Long Legs，中文译名为《长腿叔叔》，是一部认可的世界名著，由美国有名作家珍·韦伯斯特编著。主人公朱蒂是一个孤儿，从小在孤儿院长大。在朱蒂十八岁那年，幸运之神忽然降临在她的身上，孤儿院的一位匿名理事——“长腿叔叔”愿意资助她上大学。作为要求，朱蒂必须每月写信向“长腿叔叔”汇报学习、生活情况，并且不会得到回信。从此，在长达四年的时间里，她一直给这位素未谋面的叔叔写信，并赋予心灵的寄托。朱蒂是一个很好独立、自尊心很强的姑娘，虽然得到了别人的帮助，但她并没有依赖思想，而是努力学习，获得了学校颁发的奖学金，并立志成为一个作家。同时，她还利用假期给低年级的学生做家教。当然，当她明白永远得不到回音时，期间也对“长腿叔叔”有抱怨。当她爱上杰出的杰维少爷，并正当她考虑向杰维表达爱意的时候，她的“长腿叔叔”终于露面了，原来杰维就是“长腿叔叔”——那位匿名资助她的理事先生。 该书自出版以来，一直畅销至今，被译成世界上多种语言，并被改编拍成电影、动画片、戏剧等。无论作为语言学习的课本，还是作为通俗的文学读本，《长腿叔叔(中文导读英文版)》对当代中国的青少年都将产生积极的影响。为了使读者能够了解英文故事概况，进而提高阅读速度和阅读水平，在每章的开始部分增加了中文导读。
Jerusha went without comment, but with two parallel lines on her brow.What could have gone wrong, she wondered. Were the sandwiches not thinenough？ Were there shells in the nut cakes？ Had a lady visitor seen the hole inSusie Hawthorn's stocking？ Had——o, horrors ！——one of the cherubic little babesin her own room F "sauced" a Trustee？
The long lower hall had not been lighted, and as she came downstairs, alast Trustee stood, on the point of departure, in the open door that led to theporte-cochere. Jerusha caught only a fleeting impression of the man——and theimpression consisted entirely of tallness. He was waving his arm towards anautomobile waiting in the curved drive. As it sprang into motion andapproached, head on for an instant, the glaring headlights threw his shadowsharply against the wall inside. The shadow pictured grotesquely elongated legsand arms that ran along the floor and up the wall of the corridor. It looked, forall the world, like a huge, wavering daddy-long-legs.
Jerusha's anxious frown gave place to quick laughter. She was by nature asunny soul, and had always snatched the tiniest excuse to be amused. If onecould derive any sort of entertainment out of the oppressive fact of a Trustee, itwas something unexpected to the good. She advanced to the office quitecheered by the tiny episode, and presented a smiling face to Mrs. Lippett. Toher surprise the matron was also, if not exactly smiling, at least appreciablyaffable; she wore an expression almost as pleasant as the one she donned forvisitors.
"Sit down, Jerusha, I have something to say to you."
Jerusha dropped into the nearest chair and waited with a touch ofbreathlessness. An automobile flashed past the window; Mrs. Lippett glancedafter it.
