跟着《小王子》学英文（1）

欢迎关注微信公众号“听见书”，收听更多节目。 主播芝芯儿微博/公众微信：芝芯儿 主播芝芯儿个人微信：saususa 期待与您更多交流！ [ Chapter 1-1 ] we are introduced to the narrator, a pilot, and his ideas about grown­-ups. 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 witha colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked like this: I showed my masterpiece to the grown­ups, 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 grown­ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown­ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two looked like this: The grown­ups‘ 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. once 一次，曾经 once upon a time 从前 magnificent 壮丽的，宏伟的 primeval 原始的，远方的 primeval forest 原始森林 boa constrictor 蟒蛇 in the act of 正在做...时 swallow 吞咽，轻信，燕子 prey 捕食，猎物 chew 咀嚼 digestion 消化 ponder 考虑，沉思 jungle 丛林 masterpiece 杰作，佳作 grown-ups 成年人 frighten 使惊吓 elephant 大象 response 回应 advise 建议 lay aside 搁置，留存 devote 致力于，奉献 instead 代替 geography 地理 history 历史 arithmetic 算术 grammar 语法 painter 画家 dishearten 使伤心，使灰心 failure 失败