內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介:

14歲的少女蘇菲某天放學(xué)回家,發(fā)現(xiàn)了神秘的一封信?!闶钦l(shuí)?——世界從哪里來(lái)?就這樣,在一位神秘導(dǎo)師的指導(dǎo)引下,蘇菲開始思索從古希臘到康德,從祁克果到佛洛伊德等各位大師所思考的根本問題。與此同時(shí),蘇菲不斷接到了些極不尋常的來(lái)信,世界像跡團(tuán)一般在她眼底展開。蘇菲運(yùn)用少女天生的悟性與后天知識(shí),企圖解開這些跡團(tuán)然而事實(shí)真相遠(yuǎn)比她所想的更怪異、更離奇……《蘇菲的世界》,即是智慧的世界,夢(mèng)的世界。它將會(huì)喚醒每個(gè)人內(nèi)心深處對(duì)生命的贊嘆與對(duì)人生終極意義的關(guān)懷和好奇。

作者簡(jiǎn)介:

喬斯坦·賈德1952年生于挪威,擔(dān)任高中哲學(xué)教師多年。自1986年出版第一部作品以來(lái),已成為挪威世界級(jí)的作家。1991年《蘇菲的世界》出版后,成為挪威、丹廠、瑞典和德國(guó)的暢銷書,銷量達(dá)三百萬(wàn)冊(cè)。目前,已有三十多個(gè)國(guó)家購(gòu)買了該書的版權(quán)。

Chapter 1. The Garden of Eden (Part I)

№.1 - It was extraordinary how everything burst forth at this time of year!What made this great mass of green vegetation come welling up from the dead earth as soon as it got warm and the last traces of snow disappeared?

【譯文】每年到這個(gè)時(shí)節(jié),萬(wàn)物總是充滿了生機(jī)——這是多么奇妙的事!當(dāng)天氣變暖,積雪融盡時(shí),是什么力量讓千千萬(wàn)萬(wàn)的花草樹木,陡地自荒枯的大地上生長(zhǎng)起來(lái)?

小編評(píng)注】蘇菲在接到信后,開始了她關(guān)于人生的第一次思考。

【短語(yǔ)筆記】well?up?-?v. 涌出,涌現(xiàn)

【例】Tears?well?up?in?one's?eyes.(淚如泉涌。)

№.2 - Whenever Sophie’s mother was in a bad mood, she would call the house they lived in a menagerie.

【譯文】蘇菲的媽媽心情不好時(shí),總是把他們家稱為“動(dòng)物園”。

【小編評(píng)注】蘇菲的媽媽從開始出場(chǎng),就被作者賦予了鮮明的性格特征,直截了當(dāng)。

【短語(yǔ)筆記】in?a?bad?mood - 心情不好

【例】-?"Everybody?seems?to?be?in?a?bad?mood."?-?"What?gives?"(“人們似乎心情都不好?!薄俺隽耸裁词拢俊保?/p>

№.3 - Sophie stood on the gravel path, thinking. She tried to think extra hard about being alive so as to forget that she would not be alive forever. But it was impossible.

【譯文】蘇菲站在石子路上想著。她努力思考活著的意義,好讓自己忘掉她不會(huì)永遠(yuǎn)活著這件事。但是,這不太可能。

【小編評(píng)注】而故事的主人公——蘇菲的可貴之處就在于她始終能夠堅(jiān)持思考,不肯輕易放棄對(duì)真理的追求。

【短語(yǔ)筆記】so?as?to - 為了(做)……,以便(做)……

【例】I?left?a?message?so?as?to?be?sure?of?contacting?her.(我留下了張條子以便與她取得聯(lián)系。)

№.4 - The same thing happened the other way around: only by conjuring up an intense feeling of one day being dead could she appreciate how terribly good it was to be alive. It was like two sides of a coin that she kept turning over and over. And the bigger and clearer one side of the coin became, the bigger and clearer the other side became too.

【譯文】反過來(lái)說(shuō)也是如此:唯有清晰地意識(shí)到有一天她終將死去,她才能夠體會(huì)活在世上是多么美好。這兩件事就像錢幣的正反兩面,被她不斷翻來(lái)轉(zhuǎn)去,當(dāng)一面變得更大、更清晰時(shí),另外一面也隨之變得大而清晰。

【小編評(píng)注】此時(shí),作者通過蘇菲的思考,引出了辯證看待人生與世界的哲理。

【短語(yǔ)筆記】conjure?up?-?vt.?憑空想出,虛構(gòu)出……[①to?present?to?the?mind;?evoke?or?imagine?②to?call?up?or?command?(a?spirit?or?devil)?by?an?incantation]

【例】Your?sad?devotion?to?that?ancient?religion?hasn't?helped?you?conjure?up?the?stolen?data?tapes.(你對(duì)于那個(gè)古老的信仰的忠誠(chéng)沒能幫你召喚回丟失的磁帶。)

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