PET3 公共英语三级阅读资料 第一课 Mister Imagination.docVIP

Mister Imagination　先生想象力 There were very few places in the world that Jules Verne, the writer, did not visit. He went round the world a hundred times or more. Once he did it in eighty days, unheard of in the nineteenth century. He voyaged sixty thousand miles under the sea, toured around the moon, explored the center of the earth, and chatted with natives in Australia. 在这个世界上很少有地方是作家儒勒·凡尔纳没有游览过的。他周游世界100次以上。听说在十九世纪他曾经80天环游世界。他在海底航行六万英里,他环游过月球,探索了地球的中心,在澳大利亚和土著聊天。 Jules Verne, the man, was a stay-at-home. He was more likely to be tired from writing than from traveling. He did make a few visits to Europe and North Africa. And he made one six-week tour of New York State. But that was all. He spent less than one of his seventy-seven years really traveling. Yet he was the world’s most extraordinary tourist. 儒勒·凡尔纳是一个宅男。比起旅游他更容易从写作中变得疲劳。他几次游览了欧洲和北非。他花了六周在纽约州旅行。但这就是全部了。他花了不到77年在真正的旅行上。他是世界上最伟大的旅行家。 His books are crowded with hunting and fishing expeditions. Jules actually went hunting only once. Then he raised his gun and shot off the guard’s hat! 他的书都都是有关了打猎和钓鱼。儒勒其实只去了打猎一次。然后他举起枪,击中了卫兵的帽子! He never held a test tube in his hand. But he was an inspiration to the scientist in the laboratory. Long before radio was invented, he had TV working in his books. His name for it was phone-telephoto. He had helicopters fifty years before the Wright brothers flew their first plane at Kitty Hawk. In fact, there were few wonders of the twentieth century that this man of the nineteenth century did not foresee. In his stories you can read about neon lights, moving sidewalks, air-conditioners, skyscrapers, guided missiles, tanks, electrically operated submarines, and airplanes. 他从来没有把试管拿在手里过。但是对于科学家们来说他是实验室的灵感。在广播发明之前很久，他的书里就有电视机工作。他的名字是电话长焦。莱特兄弟在基蒂霍克飞他们的第一架直升机的五十年前他的书里就有直升机了。事实上,只有为数不多的20世纪的奇迹是这个男人没有预见的。在他的故事中,你可以读到霓虹灯、人行道、空调、摩天大楼、导弹、坦克、电控潜水艇和飞机。 Many people took his ideas seriously. One reason was that he wrote about these wonderful things in such exact details. Learned men wo