【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