VOA慢速英语文本：《今日美国》第18课.doc

1、英语翻议讲解：1.illustrator n.插画家,图解者,说明者2.imaginative a.想象的,虚构的例句：Scott was an imaginative writer. 司格特是位富于想象力的作家。3.entertain v.招待,款待;使欢乐,使娱乐例句：The children staged an entertaining puppet show. 孩子们表演了一场十分有趣的木偶戏。4.continuous a.连续的,继续的,连绵不断的例句：The oceans actually form one continuous body of water. 海洋实际上是由一个连续

2、不断的水域构成的。5.behave v.举止,行为,表现例句：Im rather troubled by the way he is behaving. 他的行为使我非常反感。6.expressive a.表达的,表示的,表现的,有表情的例句：He gave me an expressive nod. 他向我意味深长地点了点头。1.For example, Outside Over There is about a baby who is kidnapped by goblin creatures while her older sister is not paying attention.

3、pay attention注意,对注意例句：We always pay attention to improving our quality. 我们一直用心于提高质量上。 You ought to pay attention to your business. 你应专心于你自己的事。莫里斯桑达克（Maurice Sendak），是美国第一位获得过安徒生插画奖的儿童插图画家。被称之“童画界的毕加索”、“图画书创始以来最伟大的创作者”。 桑达克1928年出生于纽约的一个波兰移民家庭。孩提时代的他体弱多病，只能整天待在屋子里。他的世界只有从窗口望出去的一小块天空，但他的想象却在禁闭的环境中蓬蓬勃勃生

4、长起来。整个童年时代，桑达克最要好的朋友就是迪斯尼卡通影片里的米老鼠。 上中学时，他的绘画才能得到了美术老师的肯定。高中毕业后，桑达克并未进入美术专科学校深造,而是一边白天在一家橱窗展示公司打工，一边晚上在艺术学生联盟进修写生、油画课程。后来他获得一家玩具公司老板的器重,于是转行。 1950年，他认识了Harper出版社的编辑厄休拉诺德斯特罗姆（Ursula Nordstrom），她把他引入了童书世界，让他获得了与露丝克劳斯（Ruth Krauss）合作的机会，露丝克劳斯是他仰慕的作家之一，他们合作的一座非常特别的房子（A Very Special House，1953），让他在1954年赢得

5、了第一个凯迪克奖银奖。27岁时，桑达克又创作了第一本文图都是自己创作的图画书肯尼的窗子，从此开始自作自画的儿童绘本的创作生涯。 然而，真正让他一举成名的，还是他自写自画的野兽国（Where the Wild Things Are），这部作品获得了1964年凯迪克奖金奖，并被许多国家翻译出版，有荷兰文、非洲地区的语文、日文、中文等十四个版本。这本书和获得1971年凯迪克奖银奖的厨房之夜狂想曲（In the Night Kitchen，1970）和获得1982年凯迪克奖银奖的在那遥远的地方（Outside Over There，1981），被莫里斯桑达克自己称为“三部曲”。他自己说这三本书“是同一

6、主题的变化：孩童如何掌握各种感觉气愤、无聊、恐惧、挫败、嫉妒并设法接受人生的事实”。 除了图画书，他还为许多名著配过插图，如麦克唐纳的轻轻公主、门得特德琼的校舍上的车轮。他曾五次获得美国图画书界最高大奖凯迪克大奖。因为他在图画书领域的特殊贡献，他获得了1970年国际安徒生奖插画奖。2003年，他还获得了阿斯特丽德林格伦纪念奖（The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award）。英语听力原文：VOICE ONE:Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus.VOICE TWO:Mauri

7、ce SendakAnd Im Mario Ritter. This week on our program, we tell about Maurice Sendak, an award winning writer and illustrator of more than one hundred childrens books.His stories Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen have helped redefine childrens literature. Sendak has also worked on m

8、any theater and opera productions. For over sixty years, Sendaks artistic skill has brought to life richly imaginative worlds filled with children, animals and magical creatures.(MUSIC)Maurice Sendak was born in nineteen twenty-eight in the Brooklyn area of New York City. His parents were Jewish imm

9、igrants from Poland who met in New York. Maurice was often sick as a child. As a result, he stayed home and read books and drew pictures to entertain himself.Sendaks stories are often dark and intense. For example, Outside Over There is about a baby who is kidnapped by goblin creatures while her old

10、er sister is not paying attention. The sister must leave the safety of home to rescue the baby from a strange and dream-like world.A drawing for Outside Over There by Maurice SendakSendak has said that the idea for Outside Over There came from a famous kidnapping. In nineteen thirty-two, the child o

11、f the famous American pilot Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped and later killed. Maurice Sendak was only a small child at the time. But he always remembered his fear as he listened to the radio broadcasts about this tragic event.Maurice grew up with continuous reminders about death. When he was sick, h

12、is grandmother dressed him in white clothes she thought would help him avoid death. Many of Sendaks family members in Europe were killed by the German Nazis in death camps during World War Two. He remembers his mother screaming and crying each time she learned that another family member had been kil

13、led. Sendaks parents would sometimes talk about the dead family members, especially children, who were not lucky enough to survive like Maurice had.These influences help explain an important part of Sendaks books. They often show children overcoming evil forces and other complex situations. Many of

14、his stories are about a child trying to survive while facing difficult emotions such as fear. In his books, Sendak skillfully combines an adults point of view with a childs point of view. His books are magical for all age groups.A drawing for A Kiss for Little Bear by Else MinarikOne of the first bo

15、oks Sendak worked on as an artist was A Hole is to Dig: A First Book of First Definitions. To write the book, Ruth Krauss asked very small children how they would define words like face, dog and party. Published in nineteen fifty-two, this book brought wide public attention to Sendaks art work. A fe

16、w years later, he drew pictures for the first Little Bear books, written by Else Minarik.In nineteen sixty-two he published the Nutshell Library. These are four little books in a box measuring about seven by ten centimeters. The books are Alligators All Around, One Was Johnny, Chicken Soup with Rice

17、 and Pierre.Pierre is a funny story about a little boy who behaves badly. His answer to every question from his parents is I dont care. Then he is eaten by a hungry lion. But the story has a happy ending. Pierre changes his behavior when he is reunited with his parents.READER ONE:One day his mother

18、saidWhen Pierre climbed out of bedGood morning, darling boy, you are my only joy.Pierre said- I dont care!What would you like to eat?I dont care!Some lovely cream of wheat?Dont sit backwards in your chairMaurice Sendaks drawings are very expressive. His little boys show their emotions in funny and r

19、ecognizable ways. His monster creatures are more loveable than they are frightening. And his landscapes are very detailed and beautiful.In nineteen sixty-three Sendak published Where the Wild Things Are. It tells about the adventures of a rebellious young boy named Max, who wears clothing to make hi

20、m look like a wolf. One evening, his mother sends him to his room without dinner as punishment for misbehaving. Max enters an imaginary world of large, frightening creatures. These Wild Things make him their ruler. But he becomes lonely and wants to return home.READER TWO:And when he came to the pla

21、ce where the wild things are they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws til Max said BE STILL! and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes with out blinking once.This year, Where the W

22、ild Things Are became a major motion pictureAt first, Sendak wanted to make the story about wild horses. But he could not draw horses very well. Instead, he drew the creatures to look like his family members in Brooklyn. Some critics thought the book was too frightening for some children. However, W

23、here the Wild Things Are became an extraordinary success. It is still extremely popular with children and their parents. A movie version of Where the Wild Things Are comes out October sixteenth.(SOUND)When Maurice Sendak began his career, many childrens books showed a happy and perfect world. Sendak

24、 wrote books that were honest and sometimes very serious. He was revolutionary in widening the subjects considered acceptable for childrens books.Maurice Sendaks In the Night KitchenIn nineteen seventy Sendak published In the Night Kitchen. It tells about a little boy named Mickey who enters the dre

25、am world of a night kitchen. He falls into a large container of cake batter being mixed by three fat cooks. Mickey builds an airplane out of uncooked bread and flies around the kitchen. This book was also very successful. However, some critics were upset that Sendak drew the young boy Mickey wearing

26、 no clothes.READER THREE:Where the bakers who bake till the dawn so we can have cake in the morn mixed Mickey in batter, chanting: Milk in the batter! Milk in the batter! Stir it! Scrape it! Make it! Bake it! And they put that batter up to bake a delicious Mickey-cake. But right in the middle of the

27、 steaming and the making and the smelling and the baking Mickey poked through and said: Im not the milk and the milks not me! Im Mickey!Over the years, Maurice Sendak has also worked on many plays and operas. He helped make Where the Wild Things Are into an opera. He also created set designs for The

28、 Nutcracker ballet by Tchaikovsky and The Magic Flute opera by Mozart.In two thousand three, Sendak worked with the playwright Tony Kushner on a picture book called Brundibar. The book is based on a childrens opera by the Jewish Czech composer Hans Krasa. It is about two poor children who must buy m

29、ilk for their sick mother. They try to raise money from the people in their town by singing on the street. But a mean man named Brundibar chases them away. With the help of a group of children and some talking animals, they raise the money needed to buy milk.This opera was first performed in ninetee

30、n forty-two at a center for Jewish children without parents in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Then Krasa and the children were sent to a Nazi death camp, along with most of the other Jews of Prague. Krasa directed the children performing the opera fifty-five times at the camp before they were sent to their

31、 deaths by the Nazis.Sendak has said that Brundibar represented the sadness he felt about losing family members during the Holocaust. He thought that the book might help him move on from always thinking about his familys past. Sendak and Kushner worked together to stage their own version of Brundiba

32、r as an opera for children. It has been performed in several cities.Maurice Sendak has won many awards including the Living Legend honor from the American Library of Congress. He has also won every major award for childrens literature. The Rosenbach Library in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has a collec

33、tion of more than ten thousand drawings by Maurice Sendak. The writer began giving early versions of his books and drawings to the library beginning in the nineteen seventies.In May two thousand seven, the Rosenbach Library opened a travelling exhibit called Theres a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak.

34、 It is now at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, California. Visitors can see many of Maurice Sendaks extraordinarily detailed drawings and learn more about the imaginary worlds he has created.Our program was written and produced by Dana Demange. Our readers were Doug Johnson, Steve Ember and Jim Tedder. Im Mario Ritter.And Im Faith Lapidus. Our programs are online with transcripts and MP3 files at . Join us again next week for THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English.版权所有：高考资源网()版权所有：高考资源网()