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    • from:《蒙娜丽莎的微笑》


    首先,这是一个自我督促和学习的节目。
    我很懒,自控力很差,想学英语,但是怕坚持不下来,另外,口语烂,词汇量低的吓人,都不好意思说自己会英语的那种。
    但是,有一个挺好的习惯,就是喜欢阅读,各种各样的书,来者不拒的那种。
    所以,我想,可不可以通过阅读,来提高我的英语水平。
    我买了很多英语原版的书籍,当然都是一些很简单的。
    打算今天先从简单的小王子开始,然后每天都会更新节目,来记录自己的学习过程,希望可以坚持下来,希望可以进步。
    初步决定,每天的节目内容就是阅读一小节的英文原版书籍,阅读的内容会同步更新到节目中,然后一些我自己不认识的单词也会在节目中和大家一起分享。
    当然,这是一个很基础很基础的英语学习者的学习日常,大咖们就不用搭理我啦~不过欢迎纠音,毕竟我的发音也是一个很让我头疼的问题。
    想要一起学习的魔友们可以在节目下方留下自己的语音条,大家互相帮助哟,一起坚持!
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    Chapter 1
    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.

    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."
    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:

    I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.

    But they answered: "Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?"

    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. My Drawing Number Two looked like this:

    The grown-ups' response this time was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors whether from the inside or the outside and devote myself instead to geography history arithmetic and grammar. That is why at the age of six I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

    So then I chose another profession and learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown a little over all parts of the world; and it is true that geography has been very useful to me. At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona. If one gets lost in the night such knowledge is valuable.

    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.

    单词
    primeval [praɪˈmivəl]
    adj. 原始的; 太古的,太初的;
    adv. 原始地,太古地,太初地;

    boa constrictor [ˈboʊə kənstrɪktə(r)] 大蟒蛇

    magnificent [mæɡˈnɪfɪsənt] adj.壮丽的; 瑰丽的; 伟大的,高尚的; 华丽的,高贵的;

    Arizona [ˌærɪˈzonə] 亚利桑那州(美国西南部的州)

    intimately [ˈɪntəmɪtlɪ] adv. 亲密地; 熟悉地; 私下地; 谙熟地;

    necktie 美[ˈnɛkˌtaɪ] 领带,领结;


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