Unit 4 英美文化欣賞

1、【導(dǎo)讀】彼得·潘是20世紀(jì)最偉大的童話巨著之一，是英國(guó)著名小說(shuō)家、劇作家詹姆斯·巴里最著名的作品。這部充滿想象與冒險(xiǎn)的經(jīng)典兒童故事，敘述了溫迪和彼得·潘等幾個(gè)小孩在夢(mèng)幻島的奇遇。故事創(chuàng)造了一個(gè)讓孩子們十分憧憬的童話世界夢(mèng)幻島，對(duì)孩子們來(lái)說(shuō)，這是一種最純樸、最天然的境界。Peter and Wendy (excerpt)All children，except one，grow up.They soon know that they will grow up，and the way Wendy knew was this.One day when she was tw

2、o years old she was playing in a garden，and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother.I suppose she must have looked rather delightful，for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried，“Oh，why can't you remain like this for ever！” This was all that passed between them on the sub

3、ject，but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up.You always know after you are two.Two is the beginning of the end.Of course they lived at 14 (their house number on their street)，and until Wendy came her mother was the chief one.She was a lovely lady，with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking

4、 mouth.Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes，one within the other，that come from the puzzling East，however many you discover there is always one more；and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get，though there is was，perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.The w

5、ay Mr Darling won her was this：the many gentlemen who had been boys when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that they loved her，and they all ran to her house to propose to her except Mr Darling，who took a cab and nipped in first，and so he got her.He got all of her，except the innermost box and

6、the kiss.He never knew about the box，and in time he gave up trying for the kiss.Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it，but I can picture him trying，and then going off in a passion，slamming the door.彼得·潘(節(jié)選)所有的孩子都要長(zhǎng)大的，只有一個(gè)例外。所有的孩子很快都知道他們將要長(zhǎng)大成人。溫迪是這樣知道的：她兩歲的時(shí)候，有一天在花園里玩，她摘了一朵花，拿在手里，朝媽媽跑去。我琢磨，她那個(gè)

7、小樣兒一定是怪討人喜歡的，因?yàn)?，達(dá)林太太把手按在胸口，哭著說(shuō)：“要是你老是這么大該多好?。　笔虑榈慕?jīng)過(guò)就是這樣?？墒?，打那以后，溫迪就明白了，她終歸是要長(zhǎng)大的。人一過(guò)兩歲就總會(huì)知道這一點(diǎn)的。兩歲，是個(gè)結(jié)束，也是個(gè)起點(diǎn)。當(dāng)然咯，他們是住在門牌十四號(hào)的那所宅子里，在溫迪來(lái)到世上以前，媽媽自然是家中的主要人物。她是個(gè)招人喜歡的太太，一腦子的幻想；還有一張?zhí)鹛鸬?、喜歡逗弄人的嘴。她那愛幻想的腦子，就像從神奇的東方來(lái)的那些小盒子，一個(gè)套一個(gè)，不管你打開了多少，里面總還藏著一個(gè)。她那張?zhí)鹛鸬摹⒍号说淖?，老是掛著一個(gè)溫迪得不到的吻，可那吻明明就在那兒，就在右邊的嘴角上掛著。達(dá)林先生是這樣贏得他太太的：她還

8、是個(gè)女孩的時(shí)候，周圍有好些男孩，他們長(zhǎng)成大人以后，忽然一起發(fā)現(xiàn)他們愛上了她，于是他們都跑著擁進(jìn)她家向她求婚；只有達(dá)林先生的做法不同，他雇了一輛馬車，搶在他們頭里來(lái)到她家里，于是就贏得了她。達(dá)林先生得到了她的一切，只是沒(méi)有得到她那些小盒子最里面的那個(gè)和吻。那個(gè)小盒子他從來(lái)也不知道，那個(gè)吻他漸漸地也不再想去求得了。溫迪心想，興許拿破侖能得到那個(gè)吻，不過(guò)據(jù)我估摸，拿破侖必定試圖求吻來(lái)著，可是過(guò)后卻怒氣沖沖地甩門而去。知識(shí)積累1pluck vt.摘，拔2henceforth adv.從今以后3romantic adj.富于幻想的4mocking adj.嘲弄的5simultaneously adv.同時(shí)地6One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden，and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother.分析：本句是一個(gè)復(fù)合句。when引導(dǎo)的是時(shí)間狀語(yǔ)從句。and連接了兩個(gè)并列分句。文化鏈接主題解讀這部作品事實(shí)上是成人懷戀美好童年的一個(gè)神話。一方面，它用生動(dòng)、明快的筆法描述了一個(gè)至真至純的兒童世界，讓人看到了處于人生源頭的童年是人類生命中最美好的一個(gè)階段。另一方面，作者又滿懷遺憾和無(wú)奈的暗示：童年雖美好，