The Little Prince (6)

The Little Prince (6)

2016-08-07    11'58''

主播: Master Ching's Class

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介绍:
Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing. 当我还只有六岁的时候,在一本描写原始森林的名叫《真实的故事》的书中, 看到了一副精彩的插画,画的是一条蟒蛇正在吞食一只大野兽。页头上就是那副 画的摹本。 In the book it said: "Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion." 这本书中写道:“这些蟒蛇把它们的猎获物不加咀嚼地囫囵吞下,尔后就不 能再动弹了;它们就在长长的六个月的睡眠中消化这些食物。” I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked like this: 当时,我对丛林中的奇遇想得很多,于是,我也用彩色铅笔画出了我的第一 副图画。我的第一号作品。它是这样的: I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them. 我把我的这副杰作拿给大人看,我问他们我的画是不是叫他们害怕。 But they answered: "Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?" 他们回答我说:“一顶帽子有什么可怕的?” My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained.