最後一片葉子｜英文故事｜聽故事學英文｜英文聽力練習｜睡前英文故事｜英文學習（初學者友好）

The last leaf. Sometimes when life becomes very difficult, people need more than medicine to keep going. They need a reason to believe that tomorrow is still worth waiting for. In a small neighborhood in Greenwich Village, New York, there were many old buildings with narrow streets and small windows. Artists loved living there because the

rooms were cheap and people could work quietly in their studios. In one of these buildings lived two young women named Sue and Johnsy. They were both artists. Sue was from Maine and Johnsy had come from California. They met in a small restaurant and discovered that they had the same love of art. Soon they became close friends and

decided to share a small studio. Their studio was on the third floor. It had a large window that looked out toward an old brick building. Behind that building was a small yard with an old ivy vine growing against the wall. The two young women spent their days drawing, painting, and talking about their dreams.

Johnsy dreamed of visiting Italy one day. She wanted to see the beautiful cities and paint the old buildings there. Sue wanted to become a successful artist and earn enough money to live comfortably. They were young, poor, and full of hope. But one autumn something changed. A A illness called pneumonia came to the

neighborhood. Many people became sick and soon Johnsy caught it, too. At first, Sue thought Johnsy would recover quickly, but after several days, Johnsy became weaker and weaker. She stayed in bed all day. Her face became pale and she hardly wanted to eat. Sue did everything she could to help her friend. She cooked soup, brought her