英语经典散散文鉴赏与翻译.ppt

第十四讲英语经 典散文的鉴赏与 翻译  课堂互动实践: The Delights of books 读书的乐趣 .o Books are to mankind what memory is to the individual. They contain the history of our race, the discoveries we have made, the accumulated knowledge and experience of ages; they picture for us the marvels and beauties of nature help us in our difficulties, comfort us in sorrow and in suffering change hours of weariness into moments of delight store our minds with ideas, fill them with good and happy thoughts, and lift us out of and above ourselves  箱之于人类,犹如记忆之于个人。书籍既可记录人种 之演变,亦可记载人类之发现:既有日积月累之知识 亦不乏世代相传之经验;书籍之于人类,可描绘自然之 奇迹与美丽,于困难无助之际予以提携,于悲伤痛苦之 时施以抚慰;让困倦之时刻变为欢乐之时光,让头脑充 满丰富之想象,让心灵布满美好快乐之思想,恃此而人 可走出自我,超越自我。  o There is an Oriental story of two men: one was a king, who every night dreamt he was a beggar; the other was a beggar, who every night dreamt he was a prince and lived in a palace. I am not sure that the king had very much the best of it. Imagination is sometimes more vivid than reality. But, however this may be, when we read we may not only (if we wish it)1 be kings and live in palaces, but, what is far better, we may transport ourselves to the mountains or the seashore, and visit the most beautiful parts of the earth, without fatique, inconvenience, or expense  有一东方典故,言及二人:一为国王,一为乞丐。 国王夜必有恶魇,魇中成乞丐;乞丐晚必做美梦, 梦中变王子,居宫殿。国王是否泰然处之,余不敢 肯定。想象之于现实或更栩栩然。是否如此,姑且 不论,然读书时,恁可想象自己即为国王,居宫殿 且读书乃美差之事:既可使人纵情山川,嬉戏海滩, 亦可使人遍访世之美景;既可使人除身心疲惫之虑, 亦可使人解囊中羞涩之忧。  Many of those who have had, as we say all that this world can give, have yet told us they owed much of their purest happiness to books Ascham, in The schoolmaster,, tells a touching story of his last visit to Lady Jane Grey. He found her sitting in an oriel window reading Platos beautiful account of the death of socrates. her father and mother were hunting in the park, the hounds were in full cry and their voices came in through the open window. He expressed his surprise that she had not joined them. But, said she, I w