[新概念英语青少版1a电子课本]新概念英语青少版第四册第101课TelevisionDay:LewisCarroll

Lesson 101 Television Day:Lewis Carroll
第101课 电视日:路易斯·卡罗尔
Which would you rather be?A mathematician or an author?
你想当什么,数学家还是作家?
Perhaps you will never be faced with this kind of choice.
可能你永远不会面临这种选择.
Lewis Carroll was both a mathematician and an author.
路易斯.卡罗尔既是数学家又是作家.
He was a lecturer in mathematics at Oxford University.
他是牛津大学数学讲师.
But he is better known as the author of two of the most famous
不过他更广为人知是作为2本最的
children's books that have ever been written.
儿童书籍的作者.
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
他写了<<爱丽丝历险记>>和<<透过镜子看>>.
The author's real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson,
这位作家的真实姓名是查理.卢特威治.道奇逊,
but he preferred to use the pen-name"Lewis Garroll" when he wrote Alice
但他喜欢用他写<<爱丽丝>>时的笔名路易斯.卡罗尔.
and this is the name we remember him by.
我们也以这个姓名记住了他.
Alice in Wonderland was published in 1865,
爱丽丝历险记出版于1865年.
when its author was 33 years old;
那时作家33岁.
it was followed by Through the Looking-Glass in 1871.
接着于1871年出版了<<透过镜子看>>.
Both books were written for a real girl called Alice,
这两本书写的均是一个真实的女孩爱丽丝.
but they have been read by millions of children since they were first published.
但出版以来,数以百万计的儿童读过这两本书.
These stories are about a dream world
这些故事都是关于一个梦幻世界,
in which Alice meets strange creatures and has interesting adventures
爱丽丝在那儿遇到奇怪的人物,经历了有趣的事情.
I'm sure you know this already,
我相信你己经知道了.
but if you don't you had better read the stories yourselves
但倘若你还不知道,亲自读读这些故事.
The poem Jabberwocky which you are learning
你正在学的"无稽之谈"这首诗,
has been taken from through the Looking-Glass.
它选自<<透过镜子看>>.
Here is the next verse:
下面是"无稽之谈"后面的一首诗:
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
他手中握着剑,
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
久久要把敌人来搜寻,
So rested he by the Tumtum tree.
他憩息在树边,
And stood awhile n thought.
深思站在一边

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