本期主播:李楠,永清,潇雨,Sally, 黄茜,严喆
本期文章:Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
录制地点:香港,北京,湖南,广州,巴黎,杜塞尔多夫(德国)
Oh, the Places You’ll Go! 《你要去的地方!》是美国20世纪最受欢迎的儿童文学作家和插图画家Dr. Seuss苏斯博士的最后一部作品。
绘本讲述的是刚刚结束一种生活、即将开始另一种生活的朋友们所要面临的问题,他们可能会遭遇失败或忍受孤独,但是未来充满无限可能,挫折、等待、孤独、迷茫都是他们需要克服的障碍。但是书中说到:“你有自己的头脑,你有自己的双脚,任何时候你都能掌握自己选择的方向。”
有评论认为,这是一本非常适合高中和大学毕业生的图画书,但实际上,该书以色彩斑澜的插图和奇妙的语言使得它更适合那些在新环境中开始新生活的人来读,例如:幼儿园里的小孩、毕业生、新婚夫妇、新员工等。苏斯博士的作品不仅仅是写给孩子的,而是写给所有人的。
为你读英语美文的6位主播:李楠,永清,潇雨,Sally, 黄茜,严喆,在6座不同的城市:香港,北京,湖南,广州,巴黎,杜塞尔多夫(德国)共同为你带来这部作品Oh, the Places You’ll Go! We read English, just for you.
Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You&`&re off to Great Places!
You&`&re off and away!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You&`&re on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who&`&ll decide where to go.
You&`&ll look up and down streets. Look &`&em over with care.
About some you will say, "I don&`&t choose to go there."
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet,
you&`&re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.
And you may not find any
you&`&ll want to go down.
In that case, of course,
you&`&ll head straight out of town.
It&`&s opener there
in the wide open air.
Out there things can happen
and frequently do
to people as brainy
and footsy as you.
And then things start to happen,
don&`&t worry. Don&`&t stew.
Just go right along.
You&`&ll start happening too.
OH!
THE PLACES YOU&`&LL GO!
You&`&ll be on y our way up!
You&`&ll be seeing great sights!
You&`&ll join the high fliers
who soar to high heights.
You won&`&t lag behind, because you&`&ll have the speed.
You&`&ll pass the whole gang and you&`&ll soon take the lead.
Wherever you fly, you&`&ll be best of the best.
Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.
Except when you don&`&t.
Because, sometimes, you won&`&t.
I&`&m sorry to say so
but, sadly, it&`&s true
that Bang-ups
and Hang-ups
can happen to you.
You can get all hung up
in a prickle-ly perch.
And your gang will fly on.
You&`&ll be left in a Lurch.
You&`&ll come down from the Lurch
with an unpleasant bump.
And the chances are, then,
that you&`&ll be in a Slump.
And when you&`&re in a Slump,
you&`&re not in for much fun.
Un-slumping yourself
is not easily done.
You will come to a place where the streets are not marked.
Some windows are lighted. But mostly they&`&re darked.
A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin!
Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in?
How much can you lose? How much can you win?
And IF you go in, should you turn left or right...
or right-and-three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite?
Or go around back and sneak in from behind?
Simple it&`&s not, I&`&m afraid you will find,
for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.
You can get so confused
that you&`&ll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles cross weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place...
...for people just waiting.
Waiting for a train to go
or a bus to come, or a plane to go
or the mail to come, or the rain to go
or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow
or the waiting around for a Yes or No
or waiting for their hair to grow.
Everyone is just waiting.
Waiting for the fish to bite
or waiting for the wind to fly a kite
or waiting around for Friday night
or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake
or a pot to boil, or a Better Break
or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants
or a wig with curls, or Another Chance.
Everyone is just waiting.
NO!
That&`&s not for you!
Somehow you&`&ll escape
all that waiting and staying
You&`&ll find the bright places
where Boom Bands are playing.
With banner flip-flapping,
once more you&`&ll ride high!
Ready for anything under the sky.
Ready because you&`&re that kind of a guy!
Oh, the places you&`&ll go! There is fun to be done!
There are points to be scored. There are games to be won.
And the magical things you can do with that ball
will make you the winning-est winner of all.
Fame! You&`&ll be as famous as famous can be,
with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.
Except when they don&`&t
Because, sometimes they won&`&t.
I&`&m afraid that some times
you&`&ll play lonely games too.
Games you can&`&t win
&`&cause you&`&ll play against you.
All Alone!
Whether you like it or not,
Alone will be something
you&`&ll be quite a lot.
And when you&`&re alone, there&`&s a very good chance
you&`&ll meet things that scare you right out of your pants.
There are some, down the road between hither and yon,
that can scare you so much you won&`&t want to go on.
But on you will go
though the weather be foul.
On you will go
though your enemies prowl.
On you will go
though the Hakken-Kraks howl.
Onward up many
a frightening creek,
though your arms may get sore
and your sneakers may leak.
On and on you will hike,
And I know you&`&ll hike far
and face up to your problems
whatever they are.
You&`&ll get mixed up, of course,
as you already know.
You&`&ll get mixed up
with many strange birds as you go.
So be sure when you ste