时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:名人轶事


英语课
If you are walking through New York’s Central Park on a fine summer

day, you might come across a group of children enthusiastically

listening to a story. The storyteller will be sitting beside a statue of

a kindly 1 looking man holding an open book. Although this man never

actually visited New York, his fame as a writer of fairy tales and

children’s stories has spread far beyond his homeland.

Along with the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian 2 Andersen is recognized as

a key figure in 19th-century romantic fiction. He is, without question,

the best-known writer Denmark has ever produced. His stories continue to

delight children and adults the world over. Classic tales such as “The

Little Mermaid,” “The Ugly Duckling,” and “The Emperor’s New

Clothes” are loved for their humor and imagination. They are also loved

for the simple but significant messages they often contain.

Born on April 2, 1805, in Odense, Denmark, Andersen was an emotional,

yet imaginative 3, child. His father, a poor shoemaker, died in 1816. With

a mother who was very superstitious 4 and unable to read or write, the boy

received little education as a child.

At 14, Andersen traveled to Copenhagen. There, he hoped to become an

actor or singer. He was lucky enough to spend some time with the Royal

Theater, but when his voice changed, he had to leave. Luckily, one of

the directors helped him by arranging his education.

Andersen gained admission to the University of Copenhagen in 1828, and

his literary 5 career began soon afterwards. He hoped to achieve success

with poems and plays, and underestimated 6 the kind of stories which have

made him famous. Though not particularly fond of children, he had a gift

for entertaining them. This led a friend to suggest he write down the

stories he invented.

Many of Andersen’s tales are based on folklore 7, and many are products

of his own imagination. All of them are told in a humorous and informal

style that children loved from the start. Few serious critics, however,

took notice of them when they first appeared.

Before his death in 1875, Andersen regularly traveled around Europe, and

was enthusiastically welcomed everywhere he went. Because he had always

wanted to be famous, he worked hard to gain a reputation in European

literary circles. Being a rather vain man, he complained in “The Fairy

Tale of My Life,” one of three autobiographies 8 he wrote, that people

were not interested in his “serious” writing.

Nowadays, of course, Hans Christian Andersen is a household name.

Whether he would have liked it or not, millions of children and adults

will always be grateful for the magic his stories have brought to their

lives. The enchanted 9 young listeners in Central Park are proof of that.

安徒生童话─无心插柳柳成荫

如果你在一个晴朗的夏日漫步穿过纽约中央公园,你也许会碰见一群孩子在全神贯

注地听着故事。说故事的人会坐在一个和蔼可亲的男人雕像旁,他手里拿着一本翻

开的书。虽然这位男士从来没有去过纽约,他作为童话及儿童故事作家的名望,却

超越故土、远扬他乡。

汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生与格林兄弟一起被视为十九世纪浪漫小说的主要人物。

他无疑是丹麦史所产生的最负盛名的作家。他的故事至今仍不断给全世界儿童和成

人带来欢乐。比如《小美人鱼》、《丑小鸭》及《皇帝的新装》等经典故事,均因

其幽默和想象受到人们的喜爱。故事也因其简洁而意义深远的寓意,备受大家的喜

爱。

安徒生1805年4月2日出生于丹麦欧登塞,他是一个多愁善感而富于想象力的孩子。

他的父亲,一个贫困的鞋匠,在1816年去世。由于母亲非常迷信而且不会读书写字

,这个男孩小时候没受过什么教育。

14岁,安徒生前往哥本哈根。他希望能在那儿成为一名演员或歌手。他有幸能在皇

家剧院呆了一段时间,但当他变声以后,他不得不离开。幸运的是,一位导演帮助

他,为他安排受教育。

1828年安徒生获准进入哥本哈根大学学习,随后他的文学创作生涯很快就开始了。

他原本希望能在诗和戏剧的领域里获得成功,而低估了后来使他成名的那类故事。

虽然他不是特别喜欢孩子,却有使孩童快乐的天分。这一点促使一位朋友建议他写

下自己创造的故事。

安徒生的很多故事是以民间传说为根据,也有很多是他自己想象力的产物。所有的

故事都以孩子们一听就喜欢的诙谐和口语体述说。然而这些作品最初问世时,几乎

没有严肃的评论家注意到它们。

安徒生在1875年去世前,定期游历欧洲各地,所到之处他都受到了热烈的欢迎。由

于安徒生长久以来一直渴望出名,于是他发奋工作以求能在欧洲文坛获得声望。安

徒生是个颇为自命不凡的人,在他所著的三本自传之一的《我童话般的人生》一书

中,他抱怨人们对他“严肃”的作品不感兴趣。

现在,汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生当然是个家喻户晓的名字。不管安徒生喜不喜欢

,千千万万的儿童和大人会对他的故事给人生带来的魔力永远满怀感激。在中央公

园心醉神迷的小听众就是最好的证明。


1 kindly
adj.和蔼的,温和的,爽快的;adv.温和地,亲切地
  • Her neighbours spoke of her as kindly and hospitable.她的邻居都说她和蔼可亲、热情好客。
  • A shadow passed over the kindly face of the old woman.一道阴影掠过老太太慈祥的面孔。
2 Christian
adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
3 imaginative
adj.富有想象力的,爱想象的
  • The imaginative child made up fairy stories.这个想像力丰富的孩子自己编神话故事。
  • Scott was an imaginative writer.司格特是位富于想象力的作家。
4 superstitious
adj.迷信的
  • They aim to deliver the people who are in bondage to superstitious belief.他们的目的在于解脱那些受迷信束缚的人。
  • These superstitious practices should be abolished as soon as possible.这些迷信做法应尽早取消。
5 literary
adj.文学(上)的
  • Literary works of this kind are well received by the masses.这样的文学作品很受群众欢迎。
  • The book was favourably noticed in literary magazines.这本书在文学杂志上得到好评。
6 underestimated
对…估计不足,低估( underestimate的过去式和过去分词 ); 对…认识不足(或重视不够),低估,轻视
  • They underestimated his abilities. 他们过低估计了他的才能。
  • He says that we've underestimated natural variability. 他说我们低估了自然的变异性。
7 folklore
n.民间信仰,民间传说,民俗
  • Zhuge Liang is a synonym for wisdom in folklore.诸葛亮在民间传说中成了智慧的代名词。
  • In Chinese folklore the bat is an emblem of good fortune.在中国的民间传说中蝙蝠是好运的象征。
8 autobiographies
n.自传( autobiography的名词复数 );自传文学
  • The series was based on the autobiographies of the author. 这部连续剧是根据那位作家的自传拍摄的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • There are some songs and, recently, a few autobiographies about peasant experience. 有些歌曲描述了农民的经验,最近还出了几本自传。 来自互联网
学英语单词
active immunity
ajaccios
Almyropotamos
Ameca
amedo
angon
average daily calling rate
ball and inner ring assembly
barge to barge transfer
bills drawn under letter of credit
binary to decimal conversion
binnein mor
blowing spray
bomb calorimeters
branches at home and abroad
brick laid with mortar
capricorn beetle
carib woods
chimbley
complete set of eigenstates
contact flange
core and winding assembly
darrayne
disprovide
diverting dam
draw ... up
drift epoch
droseras
electron paramagnetic resonance
europium acetate
exchange volume
field investment
flairing
gemmifications
general call signal
Gentiloni
genus pedilanthuss
global liquidity
gone over
Hai Phong
heat-producing reaction
hflo
independent fault
inlaces
internal fuel
ionic speaker
irreversible circulation
ks-standard loading
latex examination gloves
LAVINIA
lipophilic compound
literatize
Loboc
macrocyclic compounds
metal-semiconductor-metal diode
monosuits
nonpsychological
notched furnace
oil sump tank
pallidofugal
Parafasciolopsis
pass-over offset
pentaradiate
pickup points
Pillsbury, Lake
plaque-infested port
plasma lipids
playdohs
public lawyer
Puccinia epimedii
put one's best foot first
radicicol
ratten-
readmitance
reclaiming by centrifuge
red-shank
relational instruction
resource productivity
sampling length
scare someone out of his wits
seasonal group profile code
settleability test
small wiring
soft corruption
spoliation
steam and gas
stereochemical formula
sun-bathing
suppression hangover time
tax reimbursement for export
thermofocal
tracepoint
tunnel in rock
twofold degeneracy
uncorrugated
unfavorable variance
union colourimeter
wetting of cloth
whidder
Wycakon-G
yudha