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英语口语·吉米老师说  ①听录音不看原文（猜测意思） ②听录音看原文（核对自己的猜想） ③最大声、最清晰、最快速疯狂操练 ④经常找别人卖弄你的学的英文（能脱口而出）   ★ 我可以给你这些承诺 ★ These I can promise 《我可以给你这些承诺》 ——by Mark Twain I cannot promise you a life of sunshine; 我不能许诺给你灿烂一生， 我不能许诺使你富裕亨通； 我不能向你允诺捷径之道， 我不能许诺免你色衰变老。 But I can promise all my heart's devotion; 但我能许诺我衷心的献奉； 用我的微笑解除你的悲痛。 有我对你永恒挚爱的真诚； 希望就在你我相握的手中。
★ 我们选择登月 ★ There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. 在太空上没有斗争、没有偏见、没有国家冲突。太空的危险是针对所有人的。太空值得全人类尽最大的努力去征服，而且和平合作的机会可能不会再有。 But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? 但是，有些人问，为什么选择月球？为什么选择登月作为我们的目标？他们也许还会问为什么我们要登上最高峰？35年前为什么要飞跃大西洋？ We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win. 我们选择登月。我们决定在这个10年间登月，并且完成其他的事，不是因为它们轻而易举，而是因为它们困难重重，因为这个目标将使我们能源的组织以及技能的检验达到最佳水平，因为这个挑战是我们乐于接受的，因为这个挑战是我们不愿推迟的，因为这个挑战是我们志在必得的。 Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, ' Because it is there.' 很多年之前，伟大的英国探险家乔治·马洛里在攀登珠穆拉玛峰时遇难。此前有人问他为什么想攀登珠穆拉玛峰，他回答说：“ 因为它就在那儿。” Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked. 现在太空就在那儿，而我们即将征服它，月球和其他星星在那儿，获得知识与和平的新希望都在那儿。因此，当我们启程的时候，我们祈求上帝保佑这个人类有史以来所从事的最危险也最伟大的历险。
 ★ 我要说的还有很多 ★ There is So Much I Could Say 《我要说的还有很多》 I know you have noticed 我想你注意到了 My husband is a little different this year. 我丈夫今年有点不同。 We’ve received a diagnosis of dementia, 我们收到了痴呆诊断书， It is heartbreaking. 这个消息令人心碎。 The thought of this heart-wrenching 一想到这段痛苦的旅程 Journey breaks my heart in two. 我的心就支离破碎。 Disbelief washes over me, 怀疑将我淹没， Web of words fading. 字网逐渐淡去。 Her mind is cloudy, 她的脑子一片混沌， She's slowly slipping away. 记忆正慢慢溜走， One function disappears at a time. 机能正日渐消失。 She's trying to remember her day, 她试图记住她的每一天， And the people around her. 和身边的每个人。 Like when you try to remember a dream, 就像你试图记住一个梦， The details are all fuzzy. 细节却模糊不清。 Emotions might be deep inside, 情感可能深埋心底， Where you can't see them. 在你无法看见的地方。 Safe when in his peaceful world, 在他平和安全的世界里， Emotions might be deep inside. 情感可能深埋心底。 Savor every minute shared together, 细细品味共享的每一分钟， As it is the memory’s made, 因为它创造的回忆 That will help 都将帮助我们 Through the darkest times. 度过最黑暗的时刻。
★ 回忆自己的大学时光 ★ Hello my name's Stephen Fry and I was at Queens' from '78 to '81. A very long time ago, but not in the history of a very old college, a college I always felt large enough for one to be able to lose oneself and small enough for there to be a genuine sense of specialness and family, I'll almost say. 大家好，我是史蒂芬·弗莱，1978年到1981年我在（剑桥大学）王后学院读书。虽然已经是很久以前了，但在一座历史悠久的学院前却显得很短，几乎可以这样说，我一直觉得这个学院大到足以让人迷失自我，小到足以让人有一种真正的特殊性和家庭感。 One recognizes one's fellow Queens' people everywhere and we all feel, I think, that we shared something rather special within Cambridge. There are many colleges and they all have different characters and histories and so forth. 在任何地方，人们都能人认出王后学院的校友，而且我们都认为我们学院和剑桥大学有很多相同的特别之处。这里的很多大学都有不同的特点和历史渊源等。 While Queens' is perhaps one of the most beautiful of all the colleges, I say this and I kind of mean it, that were it a brutalist 1960s series of breeze blocks and drippy concrete but with the same people and the same ethos, I would be quite happy to go there because that's what you take away with you. 王后学院也许是所有学院中最漂亮的之一，我这样说意思是，它不仅有上世纪60年代的野蛮主义的煤渣砖墙和混凝土地面，更有志同道合者和共同信仰，我会很高兴去那里，因为那就是吸引你的东西。 It's a place, Queens', that I think, faster than other colleges, has embraced the need to move on, to develop, to change. In my last year, we finally became a co-educational establishment, thank goodness. 我觉得，相比其他大学，王后学院更快地融入了发展，前进，改变的需要。大学的最后一年，王后学院终于完成了男女共校的创举，谢天谢地。 And through the recent years I've had the honour of being an Honorary Fellow of the college. I've seen just how important the pastoral life, the happiness, the the balance, the fairness, the equity, the diversity, all these words that can seem you know just like box-ticking words mean everything to the College. 近年，我很荣幸成为王后学院的荣誉院士。我看到田园生活、幸福、平衡、公正、平等、多样性是多么的重要，所有这些看起来你都知道的词，就像方框勾选词，对学院来说意味着一切。 Nobody, as far as I can tell, who runs the college , none of the Fellows, nor the President himself have any wish other than for Queens' to be filled with people from all over Britain and indeed the world who, regardless of their backgrounds, have something to offer and will be given something to offer by the College. 据我所知，管理学院的人、研究员或者校长本人除了希望王后学院吸引来自英国各地乃至全世界的人之外没有其他愿望，无论这些人的背景如何，他们都能成就学院，而学院也将成就他们。 It's a warm, friendly, welcoming place. It has room for for growth and that's what I found. I look back on my time at Queens' and I realise that when I arrived, I was a confused and weird and frightened person convinced that everybody around me was smarter and had had access to some sort of lesson in how to live that I had never had. 这是一个温暖、友好、热情的地方。它有成长的空间，这就是我所发现的。回顾我在王后学院的日子，当初来到这里时，我感到困惑，奇怪和害怕，觉得我周围的每个人都更聪明，而且在如何生活方面获得了某种教训，而我从未有过。 But I discovered that I could find ways to express and fulfill myself and I was given permission, as it were, to live as myself. The academic work, yes it was important, but it was part of a whole package and that's what makes Queens' very, very special. 但我发现，我可以找到表达和实现自己的方法，我可以有自己生活。学术工作，它确实很重要，但它是只是大学的一部分，这就是王后学院非常、非常特别的地方。 If you're an alumnus like me, or an alumna, then I urge you. If you feel that the College has made a difference in your life, your personality and the way you look at the world and what the world has given to you since your time there, if you feel maybe that you owe it something, you owe the College something. I feel that and I hope you will too and I hope you'll be very generous. All the best! 如果你和我一样是男校友，或者女校友，那么我敦促你。如果你觉得大学改变了你的生活、你的个性和你看待世界的方式，以及从你进大学以来世界给了你什么，如果你觉得你可能欠它一些东西，那就是你欠了大学一些东西。我能感受到这点，希望你也会，同时我也希望你能非常慷慨大方！祝你们一切顺利！
★ 地球太空船 ★ Like a grand and miraculous spaceship, our planet has sailed through the universe of time. And for a brief moment, we have been among its many passengers. From the very beginning, we have always sought to reach out to one another. To bridge the gaps between us. To communicate. 就像一艘宏伟神奇的宇宙飞船，我们的星球在时间的宇宙中航行；在这短暂的时刻，我们已经成为它的乘客之一。从一开始，我们就一直在寻求联系彼此，弥合我们间的鸿沟，去交流。 Across a lonely, hostile planet, our early ancestors spread out in search of food and shelter. 在这个孤独，充满敌意的星球上，我们的早期祖先便四处寻找食物和庇护所。 With the development of language came a vital key to our survival. For the first time, we could share and learn from one another. We bonded together in small tribes and prospered. No longer isolated, no longer alone. 随着语言，我们生存关键的发展，人类第一次可以相互分享和学习。我们以小部落的形式结合在一起，发展繁荣起来。我们不再与世隔绝，不再孤独。 Ages later, the Egyptians invented the first written communications, a complex language of hieroglyphic pictures and symbols. With the creation of papyrus scrolls came the world’s first piece of paper. Now, without ever leaving their palaces, pharaohs could deliver proclamations and decrees to subjects across the land. 几百年后，埃及人首先发明了书面通信，一种由象形文字图片和符号组成的复杂语言。随着纸莎草纸卷的诞生，世界上出现了第一张纸。现在，法老们不用离开他们的宫殿，就可以向全国各地的臣民发布公告和法令。 Phoenician merchants established the earliest commercial highways, trading goods and information at distant ports of call. To aid in record keeping, they created the first common alphabet and shared this new tool across the Mediterranean. 腓尼基商人建立了最早的商业公路，在遥远的停靠港进行货物和信息贸易。为了帮助记录，他们创造了第一个通用字母，并在整个地中海地区分享这个新工具。 In ancient Greece, the spoken word was elevated to a fine art. Philosophers debated with one another in plazas and storytellers found a new forum for personal expression. The theater was born. 在古希腊，口语成为一门艺术。哲学家们在广场上互相辩论，讲故事的人找到了一个新的个人表达论坛。剧院由此诞生。 The mighty Roman empire bridged three continents with a vast system of roads, the fastest information highways the world had ever known. East, west, north, and south, all roads led to Rome. 强大的罗马帝国用一个庞大的道路系统连接了三大洲，这是世界上有史以来最快的信息高速公路。东西南北，所有的道路都通向罗马。 But these same roads were turned against Rome by invaders whose destruction left ages of knowledge and wisdom in the ashes that would become the Dark Ages. 但这些道路也被入侵者用来反抗罗马，这些入侵者的破坏将多年的知识和智慧付之一炬，黑暗时代的开始了。 But all was not lost, for far across the land, from Cairo to Cordoba, Jewish teachers and Islamic scholars continued the quest for knowledge. In libraries of wisdom, they debated ideas and shared new discoveries with all who would listen. 但是，他们没有失去一切，因为在这片土地上，从开罗到科尔多瓦，犹太教师和伊斯兰学者们继续着对知识的探索。在智慧的图书馆里，他们与所有愿意倾听的人辩论思想，分享新的发现。 In western abbeys, monks toil endlessly in lonely isolation copying ancient books of wisdom and revelations for future generations. 在西方修道院，僧侣们正不眠不休清苦地工作着，为他们的子孙后代抄写智慧和启示的书籍。 Finally, from the depths of the Dark Ages came the Age of Enlightenment – the Renaissance. And with this era, came a powerful new invention – the moveable type printing press. 最后，我们从至暗时刻来到了启蒙时代——文艺复兴。随着这个时代的到来，出现了一项强大的新发明——活字印刷机。 Scientists, explorers and scholars spread their discoveries in books and essays. Poets, musicians and artists fueled by the passion of the age created timeless works of beauty and majesty. 科学家、探险家和学者们在书籍和论文中传播他们的发现。诗人、音乐家和艺术家在这个时代的激情的推动下，创造了庄严美丽，经典永恒的作品。 On this wave of inspiration, we sailed into a bold, new era of communication bringing an explosion of tools and technologies which would bridge people around the world as never before. And as our appetite for information and knowledge grew, the world began to shrink. Today, we possess the ability to connect with one another instantly anywhere on the planet. 在这股鼓舞人心的浪潮中，我们驶入了一个大胆的、新的通信时代，带来了爆炸性的工具和技术，这将为世界各地的人们架起前所未有的桥梁。随着我们对信息和知识的渴求，世界开始变小。今天，我们拥有了在地球上随时随地都能即刻通信的能力。 A new communications super network is being built before our eyes. Spaceship Earth glows with billions of interactions carrying news and information at the very speed of light. 一个新的超级通信网络正在我们眼前建立。地球太空船闪耀着数十亿的交流互动，都以光速传送新闻和信息。 But will these seemingly infinite communications become a flood of electronic babble? Or will we use this power to usher in a new age of understanding and co-operation on this, our Spaceship Earth. 但是，这些看似无限的通信是否会成为泛滥的电子垃圾洪水？还是我们能利用这种力量，在这个我们的地球太空船上迎来一个合作互信的新时代。 Physical distance is no longer a barrier to communication. Today the entire world is our next door neighbor. Our news is their news, their news ours. We share our hopes and concerns with the whole planet. We truly live in a Global Neighborhood. 物理距离不再是沟通的障碍。今天，整个世界都是我们的隔壁邻居。我们的新闻就是他们的新闻，他们的新闻就是我们的新闻。我们与整个地球分享我们的希望和担心。我们生活在一个真正的全球皆邻里的环境中。 Wondrous new tools will help us learn more about ourselves, each other, and the planet we share. Spaceship Earth will become our virtual classroom. 奇妙的新工具会帮助我们更多地了解我们自己、他人和我们共享的地球。地球太空船将成为我们的虚拟教室。 As we greet the 21st century, yet another revolution in communication is upon us, as profound as all the progress that has come before. By using our new communication tools to build better bridges between us, we will discover we all share the common bonds of hope and sorrow, dreams and joys. 当我们迎接21世纪时，另一场交流革命正在向我们走来，与之前所有的进步一样深刻。通过使用新的沟通工具，在我们之间建立更好的桥梁，我们将发现彼此间希望和悲伤，梦想和欢乐的共同纽带。 Since the dawn of recorded time, communication has revolutionized our lives and changed our world. We now have the ability and the responsibility to build new bridges of acceptance and co-operation between us; to create a better world for ourselves and our children as we continue our amazing journey aboard Spaceship Earth. 自有记录以来，通信已经彻底改变了我们的生活，改变了我们的世界。我们现有的能力也有责任在我们之间建立新的接纳合作的桥梁；在我们继续 '地球太空船 '上的奇妙旅程的同时，为自己和我们的后代创造一个更好的世界。
★ 我心目中的大英雄 ★ Right, so. What are your heroes? Can I do the question? 所以，你的英雄是谁？我可以问这个问题吗？ I’m choosing to talk about Marie Colvin, who I play in a film A Private War. Marie was an incredibly brave and intrepid war correspondent. She went to the kind of places that you and I would run away as hard as we could in the opposite direction. 我选择谈谈玛丽·科尔文，我在一部名为《私人战争》的电影中扮演她。玛丽是一个勇敢无畏的让人难以置信的战地记者。她去的那种地方换做是你我都会拼命往反方向跑。 She sought out the human face of war. She wasn’t interested in how governments clash or how army clash. Or, you know tribes war. She was interested in what is the human cost. Because intimately it’s the people on the ground who suffer. 她在战争中寻找人性。她对政府冲突，军队冲突，或者是部落战争，都不感兴趣。她感兴趣的是什么是人类的代价。因为最终受苦的是当地的人们。 Marie got me in touch with my own fear and my own courage. She spent time talk to people. Empathy was her great weapon and her great asset. And I feel that there’s a crossover between that and what I do. 玛丽让我触碰到自己的恐惧和勇气。她花时间与人交谈。同理心是她强大的武器，也是她强大的资本。我觉得这和我的工作有交叉点。 Empathy is the great misunderstood, undervalued human quality. What’s interesting when looking for a hero is you know, sure they can be strong, they can be brilliant, they can be fierce in the pursuit of what they want. 同理心是被误解的、被低估的伟大的人类品质。有趣的是，在寻找英雄时，他们当然可以很强壮，他们可以很聪明，他们可以很猛烈地追求他们想要的东西。 But they can also have vulnerabilities. And that’s OK. I think I look for complexity in my heroes. I look for something to admire, but maybe not everything to admire. 但他们也可以有弱点。我想我在我的英雄身上寻找复杂性。我寻找值得钦佩的东西，但也许不是所有东西都值得钦佩。 Marie was not fearless. There’s a lot of things and a lot of talk about the fearless and correspondent. Marie was not fearless. She had tremendous fear and she overcame that fear of her conviction in what was doing. 玛丽并非无所畏惧。有很多关于记者无畏的事迹和谈话。玛丽并不是什么都不害怕，她有巨大的恐惧，她克服了对她所做事情的信念的恐惧。 And I find that a really beautiful thing and a very admirable thing. She went into Homs, into the besieged city of Homs in Syria when the world wasn’t listening, when the world was listening Assad and hearing that he was going after terrorist gangs. 我认为这是一件非常美好的事情，也是一件非常令人钦佩的事情。她进入霍姆斯，进入叙利亚被围困的霍姆斯市，没人理会她的声音。整个世界都在关注阿萨德，听见他追捕恐怖团伙。 And Marie stood up on CNN and said: it’s a complete and utter lie that they are only going after terrorists. There are rockets, shells, tank shells, the Syria army is simply shelling a city of cold, starving civilians. 而玛丽站出来，在CNN说：他们只是在追捕恐怖分子，这是一个彻头彻底的谎言。霍姆斯到处都是火箭弹、炮弹、坦克炮，叙利亚军队只是在炮击一个充满寒冷、饥饿平民的城市。 For a journalist to get out of there on air and call something categorically a lie is a brave act. Marie’s life is full of brave acts. And in the end, that’s what I look for in my hero. Someone who will put themselves on the line and commit brave acts. 对于一个记者来说，从那里逃出来是令人喜悦的，明确地把一些东西说成是谎言，是一种勇敢的行为。玛丽的生活中充满了勇敢的行为。而最终，这就是我所寻找的英雄。一个把自己置于危险境地并做出勇敢行动的人。
★ 蝴蝶梦 ★ Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me. There was a padlock and? chain upon the gate. 昨晚，我梦见自己又回到了曼陀丽庄园。恍惚中，我站在那扇通往车道的大铁门前，好一会儿被挡在门外进不去。铁门上挂着把大锁，还系了根铁链。 I called in my dream to the lodge-keeper, and had no answer, and peering closer through the rusted spokes of the gate I saw that the lodge was uninhabited. 我在梦里大声叫唤看门人，却没人答应。于是我就凑近身子，隔着门上生锈的铁条朝里张望，这才明白曼陀丽已是座阒寂无人的空宅。 No smoke came from the chimney, and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn. Then, like all dreamers, I was possessed of a sudden with supernatural powers and passed like a spirit through the barrier before me. 烟囱不再飘起袅袅青烟。一扇扇小花格窗凄凉地洞开着。这时，我突然像所有的梦中人一样，不知从哪儿获得了超自然的神力，幽灵般飘过面前的障碍物。 The drive wound away in front of me, twisting and turning as it had always done, but as I advanced I was aware that a change had come upon it; it was narrow and unkempt, not the drive that we had known. 车道在我眼前伸展开去，婉蜒曲折，依稀如旧。但是待我向前走去，就觉察到车道已起了变化：它显得又狭窄又荒僻，不再是我们熟悉的那个模样。 At first I was puzzled and did not understand, and it was only when I bent my head to avoid the low swinging branch of a tree that I realized what had happened. 我一时感到迷惑不解，但当我低下头去避开一根低垂摇曳的树枝时，才发现了变化的来由。 Nature had come into her own again and, little by little, in her stealthy, insidious way had encroached upon the drive with long, tenacious fingers. 原来自然界已恢复了本来的面目，渐渐把她细长的手指顽强而偷偷摸摸地伸到车道上来了。 The woods, always a menace even in the past, had triumphed in the end. They crowded, dark and uncontrolled, to the borders of the drive. 即使在过去，树林对车道来说，也始终是个威胁，如今则终于赢得胜利，黑压压势不可挡地向着车道两侧边沿逼近。 The beeches with white, naked limbs leant close to one another, their branches intermingled in a strange embrace, making a vault above my head like the archway of a church. 榉树伸开赤裸的白色肢体，互相紧紧偎依，枝条交叉错杂，形成奇特的拥抱，在我头顶构成一个形似教堂拱道的穹隆。 And there were other trees as well, trees that I did not recognize, squat oaks and tortured elms that straggled cheek by jowl with the beeches, and had thrust themselves out of the quiet earth, along with monster shrubs and plants, none of which I remembered. 这里还长有许多别的树木，有些我叫不出名字，还有些低矮的橡树和翘曲的榆树，都同榉树盘根错节地纠结在一起。橡树、榆树，还有巨怪似的灌木丛以及其他一些草木，就这么纷列在这块静谧的土地上，全然不是我记忆中的景象。 The drive was a ribbon now, a thread of its former self, with gravel surface gone, and choked with grass and moss. The trees had thrown out low branches, making an impediment to progress; the gnarled roots looked like skeleton claws. 车道已变成一条细带，与过去比，简直成了一根线！路面的沙砾层已不知去向，只见密密的一片杂草和青苔。树枝倒垂下来，阻挡着我的去路，节瘤毕露的根部活像骷髅的魔爪。 Scattered here and again amongst this jungle growth I would recognize shrubs that had been landmarks in our time, things of culture and grace, hydrangeas whose blue heads had been famous. 在这片荒凉芜秽的林莽中间，时而也还能认出一些灌木丛，那是当年我们居住时的标志，是人工栽培和雅趣的产物。如紫阳，它的花穗曾经颇负盛名。 No hand had checked their progress, and they had gone native now, rearing to monster height without a bloom, black and ugly as the nameless parasites that grew beside them. 但如今因为无人修剪照拂，也成了野生植物，枝干高得出奇，却开不出一朵花来，又黑又丑，与左近那些无名的草木没有什么两样。 On and on, now east now west, wound the poor thread that once had been our drive. Sometimes I thought it lost, but it appeared again, beneath a fallen tree perhaps, or struggling on the other side of a muddied ditch created by the winter rains. 忽而东，忽而西，这条可怜的细线歪歪扭扭地向前伸展。（而它一度就是我们的车道啊！）有时我以为它到头了，不料它又从一棵倒在地上的死树底下钻出，或是在一道由冬日绵雨积成的泥泞小沟的那头挣扎着露出头来。 I had not thought the way so long. Surely the miles had multiplied, even as the trees had done, and this path led but to a labyrinth, some choked wilderness, and not to the house at all. 我从未觉得道儿竟这么长，那距离想必是不断成倍延伸，就像树木成倍往高处长去一样。车道似乎根本不通向宅子，而是引入一片迷津，通向一片混饨杂乱的荒野。 I came upon it suddenly; the approach masked by the unnatural growth of a vast shrub that spread in all directions, and I stood, my heart thumping in my breast, the strange prick of tears behind my eyes. 突然间，我一眼看到了那宅子，宅前的通道被一大簇乱生乱长的异样灌木覆盖了。我仁立着，心儿在胸中怦怦剧跳；眼眶里泪花滚动，带来一阵异样的痛楚。 There was Manderley, our Manderley, secretive and silent as it had always been, the grey stone shining in the moonlight of my dream, the mullioned windows reflecting the green lawns and the terrace. Time could not wreck the perfect symmetry of those walls, nor the site itself, a jewel in the hollow of a hand. 这就是曼陀丽！我们的曼陀而故居！还是和过去一样的隐僻、静谧。灰色的砖石在梦境的月光里显得白惨惨的，嵌有竖框的窗子映着绿草坪和屋前平台。时光的流逝，丝毫无损于围墙的完美对称，也无损于宅基本身，整个宅子宛如手掌心里的一颗明珠。
★ 荒原 ★ The Waste Land 《荒原》 —— by T. S. Eliot I. The Burial of the Dead 一、死者葬礼 April is the cruellest month, breeding 四月是最残忍的一个月，荒地上 Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing 长着丁香，把回忆和欲望 Memory and desire, stirring 参合在一起，又让春雨 Dull roots with spring rain. 催促那些迟钝的根芽。 Winter kept us warm, covering 冬天使我们温暖，大地 Earth in forgetful snow, feeding 给助人遗忘的雪覆盖着，又叫 A little life with dried tubers. 枯干的球根提供少许生命。 Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee 夏天来得出人意外，在下阵雨的时候 With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, 来到了斯丹卜基西；我们在柱廊下躲避， And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, 等太阳出来又进了霍夫加登， And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. 喝咖啡，闲谈了一个小时。 Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch. 我不是俄国人，我是立陶宛来的，是地道的德国人。 And when we were children, staying at the arch-duke’s, 而且我们小时候住在大公那里 My cousin’s, he took me out on a sled, 我表兄家，他带着我出去滑雪橇， And I was frightened. He said, Marie, 我很害怕。他说，玛丽， Marie, hold on tight. And down we went. 玛丽，牢牢揪住。我们就往下冲。 In the mountains, there you feel free. 在山上，那里你觉得自由。 I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. 大半个晚上我看书，冬天我到南方。
★ 如果我有一只恐龙 ★ I do like dogs. I've got a cat. A fish is far too wet. Because you see, I really want a different sort of pet. 我喜欢狗狗，我有一只猫咪了。鱼对我来说太湿了。你知道的，我很想要一个独特的宠物。 I thought about a hamster. I thought about a mouse. But I want a pet much bigger, more the size of, well, a house. 我有想过养一只仓鼠或是老鼠，但我真正想要的是一个更大个宠物，比房子还要大的那种！ I really want a giant pet, enormous, big and strong, with a body broad and solid, and a tail that's super long. 我真的很想要一只大宠物，超级大只且强壮。还有一个宽大且结实的身体加上一个超长尾巴。 Oh, if I had a dinosaur, I'd teach him lots of tricks, like how to roll and how to sit and fetch and carry sticks. 啊，如果我有一只恐龙，我会教他很多技巧，例如怎么翻滚、坐下或把树枝咬起来？ If I had a dinosaur, I'd walk him in the park. I wonder if my dinosaur would roar? Or would it bark? 如果我有一只恐龙，我要带它去公园。我好奇它会怒吼或大叫吗？ If I had a dinosaur, he'd carry me to school and all my friends would shout, 'Oh wow! Your dinosaur is cool. 如果我有一只恐龙，它会载我去上学，然后所有的同学都会说：“哇，恐龙也太酷了吧！” My dinosaur would learn to count and say the alphabet...and all the teachers would declare, 'Why a clever pet!’ 如果我有一只恐龙，它会学怎么算数和念英文 ，所有老师都会觉得：“哇！你的宠物超聪明！” Dinosaurs need water(I think they like to swim), I'd have to dig a massive pond and fill it to the brim. 如果我有一只恐龙，它应该需要喝水而且他们爱游泳...她应该要挖一个超大池塘来装满满的水。 If I had a dinosaur, I'd feed him lots of greens, like cabbages broccoli to keep him full of beans! 如果我有一只恐龙，我要喂它吃很多蔬菜，像是卷心菜或花椰菜来让它充满活力。 Dinosaurs that makes mashing pets, as dinosaurs can do much better stuff than dogs or cats. Just watch out for the poo... 恐龙是超厉害的宠物，比狗狗跟喵咪还可以做更多的事。只是需要小心他的耙耙。 If I had a dinosaur, I'd get a 'dino-flap’, so he could come inside my house and take a little nap. 如果我有一只恐龙，我要帮它做一扇恐龙专属的门，这样他就可以回我家休息一下。 Our sofa is enormous, it's big enough for four. Just perfect for a sleepy sort of friendly dinosaur. 我们家的沙发超级大，足够坐下四个人。对于想睡觉又有点友善的恐龙是最适合不过了。 I wish I had a dinosaur to cuddle up at night, to read a bedtime story with and give my dad a fright! 我希望我有一只恐龙，可以让我在晚上的时候抱抱它，一起念睡前故事，还有吓我爸一跳！ Yes, dinosaurs make awesome pets, I'm sure you will agree that of all the pets they are the best - just get one and you'll see! 没错！恐龙一定是超棒的宠物。我相信你应该也同意它们是所有宠物里面最棒的那个！养一只你就会知道啦！
★ 你能保守秘密吗 ★ Hello, I'm Stephen, and I'm here to tell you a bedtime story. And this is the story of a little girl called Winnie, who discovers that fantastic beasts might be more than just make-believe. It's called Can You Keep a Secret? And it was written and illustrated by Melissa Castrillon. 你们好，我是史蒂芬，今天我要给你们讲一个睡前故事。故事里一个叫温妮的小女孩，她发现神奇动物并不都是虚构的。故事叫做《你能保守秘密吗？》，作者和插画师都是梅丽莎·卡斯特隆。 There's a huge tapestry in Winnie's house. It's very old, as old as the town that she lives in. It tells the tale of the fearsome beasts that used to live in the woods all around. Winnie touched the sharp teeth of the dragon. 温妮的房子里有一幅巨大的挂毯。它非常古老，和她住的小镇一样古老。挂毯上讲的是曾经生活在附近森林里可怕的野兽的故事。温妮摸了摸挂毯上龙锋利的牙齿。 “Do you think that they'll ever come back?” she asked. “No.” said her parents. 'Our grandparents fought a great battle and now they're gone.' “你觉得它们还会回来吗？”温妮问道。“不会的。”她爸爸妈妈说，“我们的祖父们和野兽们打了一仗，把它们都赶跑了。” That night, like most nights, Winnie dreamed of dragons. And that night, like most nights, she woke to a boom and rumble and a flash! “The dragons are back!” she cried. “I can hear them snoring!” But her parents called, “It's just a storm! Go back to sleep!” 那天晚上，像大多数夜晚一样，温妮梦见了龙。那天晚上，像大多数夜晚一样，她被一阵电闪雷鸣声惊醒！“龙回来了！”她喊道。“我能听到它们的鼾声！”但她的爸爸妈妈说：“只是一场风暴！快回去睡觉吧！” So, Winnie slept. But her dreams were still full of dragons and, the next day, she practised with her wooden sword. “Just in case a dragon comes,” she said. Suddenly, the wind started to howl. 于是，温妮就睡觉了。但她的梦里都是龙的身影。第二天，她用木剑练习剑术。“万一有龙来”她说。突然，风开始呼号起来。 “Winnie, come in now!” called her mum. “There's a storm coming.” Winnie looked up at the sky. It didn't look stormy. But then a huge gust of wind swept her up into the air, tumbling and twisting over the tree tops. “温妮，快进房间！”妈妈喊道，“暴风雨要来了。”温妮看了看天空，看起来不像有暴风雨啊。接着，一阵狂风把她一路翻滚，吹到了树顶上。 'Help me!' she cried. She was soaring over the hills when she started to fall. Down and down she went until...whoosh! She landed on the back of an actual dragon! The dragon set her down gently in a faraway clearing. “You DO still exist!” she gasped. “快救救我！”温妮大喊道。她从空中落下来时，飞过了一片山丘。她一直往下落，往下落，直到.....嗖的一声。她落到了一条真龙的背上。龙轻轻地把她放在远处的空地上。“原来真的有龙啊！”她喘息着说道。 “Sorry if I, uh, swept you off your feet. Sometimes I flap my wings too hard.” The next moment, they heard a loud rumbling and shuffling through the trees. “Aha!” said the dragon. “You can meet my friends, too.” “抱歉让你疯狂地迷恋上我了。有时我拍打翅膀太用力了。”接着，他们听到树林传来一阵隆隆的巨响。“啊！”龙对温妮说，“你也可以见见我的朋友们。” Winnie looked up at three extraordinary faces. “I've seen you on the tapestry!” she cried. But the creatures just frowned at her. “Why did you bring her here?” growled the lion. “You know humans always hurt us,” said the griffon. “Look, she has a sword,” said the tree man. 温妮抬头看见三张奇异非凡的脸庞。“我在挂毯上见过你们！”她喊道。但那些家伙对着她只是皱起了眉头。“你怎么把她带到这儿来了？”狮子说。“你应该知道人类会伤害我们的。”狮鹫说。“看，她还有一把剑。”树人说。 Winnie threw down her sword. “I'd never hurt you.” “Don't mind them,” said the dragon. 'It's just...we're the last of our kind, so we have to stay secret.' “I only want to be friends,” said Winnie. 温妮丢下她的剑说道：“我绝不会伤害你们的。”“别介意。”龙说，“只是......我们都是本族最后一员了，我们必须得隐秘的生活。”“我只想和你们做朋友。”温妮说。 So, for the rest of the day, she did what friends do. She decorated the tree man with flowers, she collected the tastiest apples for the griffon and, as the sun set, she gave the winged lion's back a good, long scratch. 于是，在接下来的一天，她做了朋友间所作的事情。她用鲜花装饰树人，她为狮鹫采集了最美味的苹果，在太阳落山时，她温柔地给有翅膀的狮子挠了很长时间的痒痒。 “Where do you sleep?” she asked. “We don't,” said the lion. “At night-time, humans are asleep, and that's when we can go wild, have a beastly bash and a hullabaloo!” “你们睡在哪里？”温妮问。“我们不用睡觉。”狮子说，“晚上人类睡觉时，就是我们狂欢的时刻，我们可以来一场野兽般的消遣狂欢。 As the creatures danced, Winnie gasped in amazement. It was the noises she heard every night. Winnie danced with her fantastical friends till the forest shook. 当动物们开始起舞，温妮惊讶的都喘不过气来。这就是她每天晚上听到的喧闹声。温妮和她神奇的朋友们一起跳舞，整个树林都回荡着喧闹。 Then, suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves echoed through the hills and a voice shouted, “Winnie, where are you?” “That's my dad! I have to go home now.” “But you can't go home,” said the griffon. “You have to stay with us now, or the humans will find us.” 突然，马蹄声在山丘里回荡，一个声音喊道：“温妮，你在哪？”“那是我爸爸，我得马上回家了。”“但你不能回家。”狮鹫说，“你得和我们呆在一起，否则人类就会发现我们。” Winnie was horrified. “We're the last ones left,” said the tree man, “so we have to be kept secret.' 'Can you keep a secret?” asked the dragon doubtfully. Winnie stood tall. “Of course I can! You're my friends and I'd never let you down.” 温妮害怕极了。“我们是仅存的一族了。”树人说，“所以我们必须保守秘密。”“你可以保守这个秘密吗？”龙疑惑地问道。温妮站的笔直：“当然可以！你们是我的朋友，我一定不会让你们失望的。” “In that case,” said the griffon, “we'll take you home, but we shall have to be quiet as mice.” Tree man kept lookout, and they snuck through the valleys until they saw the town through the trees. “既然如此，”狮鹫说，“我们带你回家，但是我们必须像老鼠一样悄无声息。”树人一直保持警戒，他们一起悄悄地穿过山谷，直到他们穿过树林看到小镇。 Then, it was time to say goodbye. “I'll keep your secret forever,” said Winnie. Winnie's parents searched for hours. Suddenly, in the distance, they saw a light come on in their home. 是时候说再见了。“我会永远帮你们保守秘密的。”温妮说。温妮的爸爸妈妈找了她好几个小时。突然，在远处，他们看见了家里亮起了灯。 'Perhaps she's back!' they cried, and she was. “Where have you been? We've been so worried.” But Winnie was too tired to say. “I think it's bedtime,” said her mum. “说不定她已经回来了！”他们叫着温妮，温妮果然在家。“你到哪里去了？我们一直都很担心你。”但是温妮累的已经说不出话了。“我想该睡觉了。”温妮妈妈说。 That night, like most nights, they all woke to a boom and a rumble and a flash. “Perhaps the dragons are back,” cried her parents. “We can hear them snoring!” “It's just a storm,” said Winnie. “Go back to sleep.” So, they slept, and their dreams were full of dragons. 那天晚上，像大多数晚上一样，他们都被一阵电闪雷鸣声惊醒。“也许是龙回来了。”她的爸爸妈妈说，“我们能听见它的鼾声！”“只是一场风暴。”温妮说，“快去睡觉吧。于是他们继续睡觉，但他们的梦里都是龙的身影。 Winnie was right. Those amazing creatures did live in the forest. Now, away you go to bed, and remember, if you wake to a boom and a rumble and a flash, it's probably just a storm. So, whether you're a dragon, a griffon, a winged lion or just a good old-fashioned human, sleep well, you fantastic beasts. 温妮是对的。那些神奇的动物们确实生活在森林里。现在，上床去睡觉吧，记住，如果你被一阵电闪雷鸣声惊醒，那可能只是一场风暴。所以，不管你是龙，狮鹫，有翅膀的狮子或只是一个善良的老古董，睡个好觉吧，你们这些神奇的动物。 |
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