Unit 4 英美文化欣赏

1、【导读】彼得·潘是20世纪最伟大的童话巨著之一，是英国著名小说家、剧作家詹姆斯·巴里最著名的作品。这部充满想象与冒险的经典儿童故事，叙述了温迪和彼得·潘等几个小孩在梦幻岛的奇遇。故事创造了一个让孩子们十分憧憬的童话世界梦幻岛，对孩子们来说，这是一种最纯朴、最天然的境界。Peter and Wendy (excerpt)All children，except one，grow up.They soon know that they will grow up，and the way Wendy knew was this.One day when she was tw

2、o years old she was playing in a garden，and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother.I suppose she must have looked rather delightful，for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried，“Oh，why can't you remain like this for ever！” This was all that passed between them on the sub

3、ject，but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up.You always know after you are two.Two is the beginning of the end.Of course they lived at 14 (their house number on their street)，and until Wendy came her mother was the chief one.She was a lovely lady，with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking

4、 mouth.Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes，one within the other，that come from the puzzling East，however many you discover there is always one more；and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get，though there is was，perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.The w

5、ay Mr Darling won her was this：the many gentlemen who had been boys when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that they loved her，and they all ran to her house to propose to her except Mr Darling，who took a cab and nipped in first，and so he got her.He got all of her，except the innermost box and

6、the kiss.He never knew about the box，and in time he gave up trying for the kiss.Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it，but I can picture him trying，and then going off in a passion，slamming the door.彼得·潘(节选)所有的孩子都要长大的，只有一个例外。所有的孩子很快都知道他们将要长大成人。温迪是这样知道的：她两岁的时候，有一天在花园里玩，她摘了一朵花，拿在手里，朝妈妈跑去。我琢磨，她那个

7、小样儿一定是怪讨人喜欢的，因为，达林太太把手按在胸口，哭着说：“要是你老是这么大该多好啊！”事情的经过就是这样。可是，打那以后，温迪就明白了，她终归是要长大的。人一过两岁就总会知道这一点的。两岁，是个结束，也是个起点。当然咯，他们是住在门牌十四号的那所宅子里，在温迪来到世上以前，妈妈自然是家中的主要人物。她是个招人喜欢的太太，一脑子的幻想；还有一张甜甜的、喜欢逗弄人的嘴。她那爱幻想的脑子，就像从神奇的东方来的那些小盒子，一个套一个，不管你打开了多少，里面总还藏着一个。她那张甜甜的、逗弄人的嘴，老是挂着一个温迪得不到的吻，可那吻明明就在那儿，就在右边的嘴角上挂着。达林先生是这样赢得他太太的：她还

8、是个女孩的时候，周围有好些男孩，他们长成大人以后，忽然一起发现他们爱上了她，于是他们都跑着拥进她家向她求婚；只有达林先生的做法不同，他雇了一辆马车，抢在他们头里来到她家里，于是就赢得了她。达林先生得到了她的一切，只是没有得到她那些小盒子最里面的那个和吻。那个小盒子他从来也不知道，那个吻他渐渐地也不再想去求得了。温迪心想，兴许拿破仑能得到那个吻，不过据我估摸，拿破仑必定试图求吻来着，可是过后却怒气冲冲地甩门而去。知识积累1pluck vt.摘，拔2henceforth adv.从今以后3romantic adj.富于幻想的4mocking adj.嘲弄的5simultaneously adv.同时地6One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden，and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother.分析：本句是一个复合句。when引导的是时间状语从句。and连接了两个并列分句。文化链接主题解读这部作品事实上是成人怀恋美好童年的一个神话。一方面，它用生动、明快的笔法描述了一个至真至纯的儿童世界，让人看到了处于人生源头的童年是人类生命中最美好的一个阶段。另一方面，作者又满怀遗憾和无奈的暗示：童年虽美好，