【正确答案】正确答案：Ichabod Crane is a precocious, effete New Englander, shrewd, commercial, a city-slicker, who is rather an interloper, a somewhat destructive force, and who comes along to swindle the villagers. His book learning turns on him, and he is driven away from where he does not belong, so that the serene village remains permanently good and happy. Brom Bones, on the other hand, is of a country bumpkin, rough, vigorous, boisterous but inwardly very good, a frontier type. Thus the rivalry in love between Ichabod and Browm assumes the dimensions of different value system.

【答案解析】解析： 《睡谷的传说》是华盛顿·欧文的经典小说，故事发生在约1790年美国纽约州东南部一个荷兰人聚居的村庄塔里镇，镇里流传很多鬼故事，其中最知名的是无头骑士的故事。来自康涅狄格州的傲慢男教员伊奇博德·克瑞恩(Ichabod Crane)和同村里的另一个青年布鲁姆·冯·布朗特(Brom Bones)争夺当地一位富农女儿的芳心，结果布朗特巧用无头骑士的传说吓跑了克瑞恩，娶到了心上人。