小王子:聽寫訓(xùn)練3
來源:滬江聽寫酷
2012-01-07 11:30
In the course of this life I have had a great many encounters with a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them.
Whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at all clear-sighted, I tried the experiment of showing him my Drawing Number One, which I have always kept. I would try to find out, so, if this was a person of true understanding. But, whoever it was, he, or she, would always say:
"That is a hat."
Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors, or primeval forests, or stars. I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.
這樣,在我的生活中,我跟許多嚴(yán)肅的人有過很多的接觸。我在大人們中間 生活過很長時間。我仔細(xì)地觀察過他們,但這并沒有使我對他們的看法有多大的 改變。
當(dāng)我遇到一個頭腦看來稍微清楚的大人時,我就拿出一直保存著的我那第一 號作品來測試測試他。我想知道他是否真的有理解能力??墒?,得到的回答總是: “這是頂帽子?!蔽揖筒缓退劸掾?,原始森林呀,或者星星之類的事。我只得遷就他們的水平,和他們談些橋牌呀,高爾夫球呀,政治呀,領(lǐng)帶呀這些。于是大人們就十分高興能認(rèn)識我這樣一個通情達(dá)理的人。