托福阅读背景：虚构人物侦探陈查理.doc

托福阅读背景：虚构人物侦探陈查理 小马过河为大家准备了“托福阅读背景：虚构人物侦探陈查理”， 供各位备考托福的考生们参考使用，来提高自己的托福成绩！免费咨询电话：400-0123-267。 　　The fictional Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan was the subject of popular books and movies for many decades. In recent years, however, the character has been criticized as a stereotyped caricature of Asian-Americans. 　　几十年来，一位虚构的名叫陈查理的美籍华人侦探是很多畅销书和电影的主人公。不过最近几年，陈查理这个人物被批评为讽刺亚裔美国人的刻板形象。 　　Author Yunte Huang says that’s not the case. He has explored the character and real-life policeman who inspired him in the book Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous With American History. 　　但是，作家黄运特认为这种批评没有道理。黄运特出版了一本书，名为《神探陈查理不为人知的故事》，探究了陈查理的人物性格以及陈查理在现实生活中的警察原型。 　　Charlie Chan has been a familiar character to readers and film-goers, beginning in the 1920s. The globe-trotting detective solved crimes in more than 40 films through the 1940s, and with the advent of television, found a new audience in the 1950s and 1960s. 　　自上世纪20年代以来，陈查理的形象在读者和影迷中深入人心。从1920年代到1940年代，这位闻名全球的侦探在40多部电影中大显身手。随着电视的普及，陈查理在1950年代和1960年代走入了千家万户。 　　Huang, an English professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was born in China and discovered Charlie Chan through books by American author Earl Derr Biggers, who created the character. 　　加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的美国文学教授黄运特出生在中国，他从美国作家毕格斯的笔下认识了陈查理。 　　One day, I was at an estate sale in Buffalo, New York, and I found these two Charlie Chan novels. At that point I thought I knew that he was a negative stereotype against Asians, but when I read the book, he says, I was immediately hooked. And ever since then, Ive been a fan of Charlie Chan. 　　黄运特说：“有一天，我在布法罗市的一个房地产拍卖会上发现了两本陈查理小说。那时候我知道他是一个负面的刻板的亚洲人形象，但是我回家后开始读的时候，立刻被吸引住了。从那以后，我一直是陈查理的粉丝。” 　　Huang believes Chan’s broken English and unusual aphorisms - ostensibly ancient sayings - were part of his charm. 　　黄运特表示，不管是陈查理嗑嗑巴巴的英文，还是那些非同寻常的格言，都是他的魅力的一部分。 　　Let me just quote a few if I may - Actions speak louder than French, or Mind like parachute. Only function when open. Charlie Chan