危险！书可能会改变你的人生 | Unit 2 Active reading (1) Danger! Books May Change Your Life | 四川康定地震 |
刘易斯·卡罗尔书中的爱丽丝不小心掉进了兔子洞里，但她在那里发现了一个神奇的仙境。当我们打开一本书时，我们也会像爱丽丝那样走进一个全新的世界。我们能从一个年长者的角度，或通过一个孩子的眼睛来观察生活；我们可以周游世界，遍访现实生活中从没想过要访问的国家和文化； 我们可以体验未曾经历过的事情，这些事情也许令人困惑，也许引人入胜；可能是不愉快的，也可能是令人痛苦的，但无论如何都至少能把我们从现实世界中解放出来。 | Like Lewis Carroli’s Alice, who falls into a rabbit hole, and discovers a mysterious wonderland, when we pick up a book we are about to enter a new world. We become observers of life from the point of view of a person older than ourselves, or through the eyes of a child. We may travel around the globe to countries or cultures we would never dream of visiting in real life. We’ll have experiences which are new, sometimes disconcerting, maybe deeply attractive, possibly unpleasant or painful, but never less than liberating from the real world we come from. How can reading be a painful experience? It depends on the book and the readers’ personal experience or personality. If you have the similar experience like being bullied, it is easy to remind you of that experience when reading such a story | Mysterious: strange, not understood, not known 房屋里亮起了神秘的灯光a ~light came from the deserted house. Wonderland: an imaginary world that exists in fairy tales仙境 Disconcerting: make you feel anxious, confused, embarrassed Unpleasant: feel upset, uncomfortable The smell was unpleasant. 这味道很难闻 Painful: make you feel sad and upset. Liberating: help people escape from something In what senses does reading liberate us from the real world? In books we can do all sorts of wonderful or interesting things which would be impossible in the real world. |
英国诗人威廉·柯珀（1731–1800）说：“变化是生活的调味品，它让生活变得有滋有味。”虽 然他没有说在什么地方以及怎样才能到变化，但我们知道他说得对。我们知道我们生活在一个充满变化与差异的世界里，我们知道人们的生活各不相同，过日子的方式也不尽不同，人们做不同的工作，有不同的信仰，持不同的观点，有不同的风俗习惯，操不同的语言。通常，我们不知道这些差异的大小，但一旦发生了不平常的事情并引起了我们的注意，这种变化或差异与其说是机会，毋宁说是威胁。 | The English poet William Cowper (1731-1800) said “Variety’s the very spice of life, /That gives it all its flavor” although he neglected to say where or how we could find it. But we know he was right. We know we live in a world of variety and difference. We know that people live various different lives, spend their time in various different ways, have different jobs, believe in different things, have different opinions, different customs, and speak different languages. Normally, we don’t know the extent of these differences, yet sometimes when something unusual happens to make us notice, variety and difference appear more as a threat than an opportunity. | Variety: various; vary People like to live a life full of variety. 过丰富多彩的生活 A variety of: people fail in exam for a ~ of reasons. He has a variety of interests. Flavor: taste of a food or drink. Spice: plant you put in food to give it flavor 调味品 香料 Something that makes life more exciting. I like the flavor of chocolate. 我喜欢巧克力的味道。 Neglect: fail. He was so busy that he neglected his health. 他忙得连身体健康都无法顾及。 He was dismissed for neglecting his duty. 他因玩忽职守而被解雇。 Extent: degree |
读书让我们能够安全地享受和庆贺这种变化与差异，并为我们提供成长的机会。在家里安详平和的环境中与他人的生活互动，这是阅读小说才享有的特权。我们甚至感觉到——哪怕只是在一瞬间——我们和异文化读者的共同点或许要多于我们和家门口随便碰到的一个人的共同点。我们学会把目光移出我们周围的环境，投向天边，去领略一下异域风光。 | Reading books allows to enjoy and celebrate this variety and differences in safety, and provides us with an opportunity to grow. To interact with other people’s lives in the peace and quiet of our homes is a privilege which only reading fiction can afford us. We even understand, however fleetingly, that we have more in common with other readers of books in other cultures than we might do with the first person we meet when we step out of our front doors. We learn to look beyond our immediate surroundings to the horizon and a landscape far away from home. | Interact: communicate, talk, share or exchange information with… 互动 Privilege: special right or advantage that only you have 特权 Fleeting: lasting only for a very short time Have something in common with: similarity; more similar Look to: 朝…看：目光投向 Beyond: 超出 Immediate surroundings: Surroundings next to you or very near you; (目光移出我们的熟悉的)周围环境 we shouldn’t just look at the surroundings we know 不能仅仅看我们周围熟悉的环境 Immediate: Is there a gas station in the immediate area? 附近有加油站吗? 最接近的 go beyond limits/limitation/boundaries/scope/range/confines/reach to…. 超越 horizon and a landscape天边异域山水completely different things that we imagine to experience horizon: 地平线landscape: 风景 |
如果我们怀疑读书是否能给我们力量的话，我们就应该自己去一趟当地的图书馆或书店，或者， 如果我们足够幸运的话，可以读一读家里书架上的书。我们会惊奇于古今小说的标题所创造出来的壮观景象：约翰·斯坦贝克的《愤怒的葡萄》、约翰·欧文的《第四只手》、亚历山大·索尔仁尼琴的 《癌病房》、欧内斯特·海明威的《丧钟为谁而鸣》、格雷厄姆·格林的《哈瓦那特派员》、奥黛丽·尼 芬格的《时间旅行者的妻子》、保罗·托迪的《到也门钓鲑鱼》。一旦开始阅读，我们就应该思考一下我们在书中读到的别样人生。 | If we ever question the truth of the power of reading books, we should take the trouble to go to our local library or bookshop, or even, if we’re fortunate enough, to the books on our shelves at home. We should wonder at the striking vistas created by the titles of novels ranging from the classics to the most recent: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. The Fourth Hand by John Irving, Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday. Then we should reflect on the other lives we’ll meet once we begin to read. | wonder at: be surprised about…… striking: very noticeable or unusual惹人注目的;显著的,突出的 His striking good looks made him very popular. 漂亮的相貌使他很受欢迎。 vista: a beautiful view 远景 He could see through the windows a vista of green fields. 透过窗户他可以看到碧绿的田野风光。 惊奇于壮观景象（小说标题创造出来的） classic: well-known books and considered to be of a high literary standard. the classics 古典文学 wrath: anger reflect on: think deeply about something I have been reflecting on the matter. 我一直在考虑这件事。 |
每一本书都有自己的语言、方言、词汇和语法。我们不见得总能理解其中的每一个字、每一句话，但不管我们是痴迷其中，还是觉得被排斥在外，我们的情感被调动起来了。尽管在地理上有一定的距离，但其他民族、其他文化未必就离我们那么遥远。在书里我们可能遇见生活在不同气候、有不同信仰、来自不同民族的人。即便是住在同一条街上的邻居，我们也可能对其一无所知，而只能通过阅读结识。 | Every book will have its own language and dialect, its own vocabulary and grammar. We may not always understand every word or sentence, but whether we’re enchanted or whether we feel excluded, our emotions are nevertheless stimulated. Other people and other cultures are not always distant because of geography. In a book we may confront people who live in a different climate, have different religious beliefs, or come from a different ethnic group. Even our neighbors down the road may be strangers who we can only meet through books. | Dialect: a form of language spoken in a particular area 方言 Enchanted: you feel great delight or pleasure 痴迷 The boy was enchanted with the toy. 男孩对这玩具着了迷。 Nevertheless: but Stimulated: full of enthusiasm; are encouraged 情感被调动起来 Distant: very far away 不会因为地理上的距离而离我们遥远 Confront: meet, stand in front of …… 我们面临的困难似乎是不可克服的.the difficulties that confront usseem insuperable Ethnic: relating to different racial groups of people 种族的 同一条街上的living on the same road 对邻居一无所知 |
小时候，在我们刚刚能听懂别人说话的时候，书就对我们的生活方式产生了很大的影响。从父母给孩子读的睡前故事一直到成年后家中摆满书柜的客厅，书界定了我们的人生。英国作家E. M. 福斯 特（1879–1970）暗示书对我们具有另一种更加神秘的支配力。他写道：“我认为能影响我们的书籍是那些我们已经准备要读的书，而且这些书在我们已经选定的道路上走得比我们更远一些。”合适的书好像自己就会在恰当的时候到我们，出现在我们面前，而不是我们去寻那本书。 | As soon as we are able to listen, books are supremely influential in the way we live. From the bedtime story read by a parent to their child all the way through to the sitting room lined with books in our adult homes, books define our lives. The English writer E. M. Forster (1879-1970) even hinted at a more mystical power which books possess over us. He wrote, “I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.” It’s as if the right book comes to seek us out at the right moment and offers itself to us—it’s not us who seek out the book. | When we are very young; supremely: very Influential: have a lot of influence over people; influence how we live 生活方式 From….all the way through to… an influential newspaper/politician Lined with: filled with; full of Define: 下定义；界定 influence, affect greatly Hint at: suggest in an indirect way She hinted that I should go. 她暗示我应该去。 Mystical: 神秘的 involving spiritual power Books have a mystical power over us. 书对我们具有另一种更加神秘的支配力 那些我们已经准备要读的书，而且这些书在我们已经选定的道路上走得比我们更远一些 此处指这些书籍的眼界比我们更高，对我们具有指导性。 Higher than us, can give us guidance, help Seek: try to obtain; look for |
美国修士、牧师及作家托马斯·默顿（1915–1968）曾经被记者一连串地问了7 个问题：说出 你最近读完的3 本书；你正在读的3 本书；你打算要读的书；对你有影响的书，并解释一下理由； 一本你觉得每人都要读的书，并解释一下理由。关于对他有影响的书，他列出了威廉·布莱克的诗 集、古希腊思想家和作家写的各种戏剧以及一些宗教作品。当被问及这些书为何会影响他时，他回 答说：“这些书——还有其他类似的书籍——帮助我到了人生的真谛。销售就是一切的文化培育了人们无止境的需求和消极被动，生活充满了困惑和空虚，而书籍则把我从这种困惑和空虚中解脱了出来。” 1947 年，克利夫顿·法迪曼发明了“全垒打书籍”这个词。当一个棒球手打出一个全垒打时， 因为击球有力、打得远，他有时间跑完整个棒球场内的四个垒，不仅自己得分，而且还能帮其他各个垒的跑垒者得分，这是棒球赛里最有趣和最开心的事情。同样，一本“全垒打书籍”指的不是儿童第一次读书的经历，而是指他第一次读到一本给他带来极大愉悦和满足感的书以至于让他爱不释 手的经历。对世界上数以亿计的儿童来说，“全垒打书籍”的最典型的例子就是《哈利波特》系列 故事。 | Thoms Merton (1915-1968), the American monk, priest and writer, was once asked a series of seven questions by a journalist: Name the last three books you have read, the three books you are reading now, the books you intend to read, the books that have influenced you, and why, a book that everyone should read, and why. For the books which had influenced him, he cited poetic works of William Blake, various plays by ancient Greek thinkers and writers, and a number of religious writings. When asked why they had influenced him, he replied, “These books and others like them have helped me to discover the real meaning of my life, and have made it possible for me to get out of the confusion and meaninglessness of an existence completely immersed in the needs and passivities fostered by a culture in which sales are everything. In 1947, Clifton Fadiman coined the term易手网>鞠说好看 home-run book. When a baseball player国信证券鑫网 hits a home run, he 捕滴器hits the ball so hard and so far he’s able to run round the four bases of the diamond, and score points not only for himself but for the other runners already on a base. It’s the most enjoyable and satisfying event in a baseball game. Likewise, a home-run book describes not the child’s first reading experience, but the first time they read a book which induces such pleasure and satisfaction that they can’t put it down. For hundreds of millions of children around the world, the best known example of a home-run book will be the Harry Potter series. | Monk: 修道士priest: 牧师 南京晨光东螺波纹管有限公司A journalist asked this person seven questions. Cite: 引用，给出 quote or mention especially as an example or proof cultural exchange, foster, friendly relations, nations. Cultural exchange will help foster friendly relations between our two nations. 诗歌； 戏剧；思想家 宗教作品 到人生的意义/真谛 解脱出来； Confusion: 困惑； Meaninglessness: 空虚 存在的空虚和困惑 immersed in过去分词作定语 深陷于 这种空虚和困惑存在于 needs需求和pasivities被动中 fostered过去分词作定语 被…培育 文化 定语从句 销售就是一切 这些书帮我到人生的意义，把我从需求和被动中的空虚和困惑中解脱出来，这种空虚和困惑是有销售就是一切培育出来的。 销售就是一切培育了空虚和困惑，书能够把人从这种空虚和困惑中解脱出来。 Coin: the first person to say the term 硬币 创造 杜撰 发明 全垒打书 棒球运动员 全垒打 击球 垒 Diamond棒球球场球场（内野）；Score: Mary scored the highest marks on the exam. 帮其他跑垒者得分 最开心; 同样similarly; in the same way Cause. Her illness was induced by overwork. 她的病是由工作过度引起的。 can’t stop reading it. |
作为成年人，我们总在寻自己的“全垒打书籍”，不仅是第一次，而是一次又一次地寻。所有一口气读完一本小说的人都会记得那种令人期待的愉悦和满足感，并会焦急、固执、有时甚至疯狂地寻求重复体验这种感觉。我们想周游另一个世界、想与不同的人见面、想经历别样的人生并自我反省，我们无法遏制这样的渴求。 | As adults, we’re always looking for our own home-run books, not just for the first time, but time after time again. Whoever has read a novel in one sitting will always remember the pleasure and satisfaction even desperately seeks to reproduce the marvelous sensation again. We cannot withstand the hunger to visit another world, to meet different people, to live other lives and to relief on ourselves. | 一口气读完 Try anything to do; want to do something very much Repeat; very good; feeling 感觉 Resist 禁不住 strong enough not to be harmed Hunger: temptation; you want to do ……very much the lure/temptation 经得住诱惑 hardships 忍受艰苦 |
危险！书可能会改变你的人生。这就是读书的力量 | Danger! Books may change your life. Such is the power of reading. | |
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