学英文，从少儿读物开始

big_beast

俺的英文啊，一说猛摇头，俺自己都不待见。于是，作为一个想学英文又懒得学英文的同学，俺打算向小朋友看齐，开始看少儿读物。
真正的少儿读物，估计年龄在2~4岁。竟然还带CD，可以听，也可以看，书还是全漫画的。也就是，全是图，图中间有几行字。
小小声说，俺还挺喜欢这些书的，俺一直是少儿读物的爱好者。

这些书都借自公共图书馆，免费，虽然带CD，但和借普通读物的时间是一样的，长达四个礼拜。

貔貅

看这些英语提高的快么？

big_beast

《戴帽子的猫回来了》

翻译得够烂，反正是这么回事就得了。
这本书属于俺相当喜欢的一类，写得乱七八糟，天马行空，一般的人都不知道在说啥。当然，俺不是一般人，俺知道这书说出了一种思想，但俺不想描述这种思想。
想看的人大可以到书里去看。

big_beast

原帖由 貔貅 于 2009-1-18 17:49 发表
看这些英语提高的快么？

不快……俺这人太懒，狠偶尔才会瞄一下，一般看故事情节和插图-_-b

big_beast

《Cat in the hat comes back》

This was no time for play.
This was no time for fun.
This was no time for games.
There was work to be done.

All that deep, deep, deep snow,
all that snow had to go.

When our mother went down to the town for the day,
she said," Somebody has to clean all this away,
somebody, somebody has to, you see."
Then she picked out two somebodies.
Sally and me.

Well...
There we were.
We were working like that and then who should come up
But the CAT IN THE HAT!

"Oh-oh!" Sally said.
"Don't you talk to that cat.
That cat is a bad one,
that Cat in the Hat.
He plays lots of bad tricks.
Don't you let him come near.
You know what he did the last time he was here."

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"Play tricks?" laughted the cat.
"Oh, my my! No, no, no!
I just want to go in to get out of the snow.
Keep your mind on your work.
You just stay there, you two.
I will go in the house and find something to do."

Then that cat went right in!
He was up to no good!
So I ran in after as fast as I could!

Do you know where I found him?
You know where he was?
He was eating a cake in the tub!
Yes he was!
The hot water was on and the cold water, too.
And I said to the cat,
"What a bad thingto do!"

"But I like to eat cake in a tub." laughted the cat.
"You should try it some time,"
Laughted the cat as he sat.

And then I got mad.
This was no time for fun.
I said,"Cat! You get out!
There is work to be done.
I have no time for tricks.
I must go back and dig.
I can't have you in here eating cake like a pig!
You get out of this house!
We don't want you about!"
Then I shut off the water and let it run out.

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The water ran out.
And then I SAW THE RING!
A ring in the tub!
And, oh boy! What's a thing!
A big long pink cat ring!
It looked like pink ink!
And I said," Will this ever come off? I don't thnk!"

"Have no fear of that ring,"
Laughted the cat in the hat.
"Why, I can take cat rings off tubs. Just like that!"

Do you know how he did it?
WITH MOTHER'S WHITE DRESS!
Now the tub was all clean,
but her dress was a mess!

Then Sally looked in.
Sally saw the dress,too!
And Sally and I did not know what to do.
We should work in the snow.
But that dress! What a spot!
"It may never cme off!"
Sally said."It may not!"

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But the cat laughted, "Ho! Ho!"
I can make the spot go.
The way I take spots off a dress is just so!"

"See here!" laughted the cat.
"It is not hard at all.
The thing that takes spots off a dress is a wall!"
Then we saw the cat wipe the spot off the dress.
Now the dress was all clean.
But the wall! What a mess!

"Oh, wall spots!" he laughted.
"Let me tell you some news.
To take spots off a wall,
all I need is two shoes!"

Whose shoes did he use?
I looked and saw whose!
And I said to the cat,
"This is very bad news.
Now the spot is all over DAD'S $10 SHOES!"

"But your dad will not know about that,"
said the cat,
"He will never find out,"
laughted the cat in the hat.
"His $10 shoes will have no spots at all.
I will rub them right off on this rug in the hall."

"But now we have rug spots!"
I yelled." What a day!
Rug spots! What next?
Can you take THEM away?"

"Don't ask me," he laughted.
"Why, you know that I can!"
Then he picked up the rug and away the cat ran.

"I can clean up these rug spots before you count three!
No spots are too hard for a hat cat like me!"

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He ran into Dad's  bedroom and then the cat said,
"It is good that your dad has the right kind of bed."

Then he shook the rug!
CRACK!
Now the bed had the spot!
And all I could say was,
"Now what, Cat?
NOW what?"

But the cat just stood still.
He just looked at the bed.
"This is NOT the right kind of a bed,"
The cat said.
"To take spots off THIS bed will be hard," said the cat.
"I can't do it alone,"
said the cat in the hat.

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"It is good I have some one to help me," he said.
"Right here in my hat on the top of my head!
It is good that I have him here with me today.
He helps me a lot.
This is Little Cat A."

And then Little Cat A took the hat off HIS head.
"It is good I have some one to help ME," he said.
"This is Little Cat B.
And I keep him about,
and when I need help then I let him com out."

And then B said,
"I think we need Little Cat C.
That spot is too much for the A cat and me.
But now, have no fear!
We will clean it away!
The three of us! Little Cats B, C and A!"

"Come on! Take it away!"
Yelled Little Cat A.

"I  will hit that old spot with this broom! Do you see?
It comes off the old bed!
It goes on the T.V."

And then Little Cat B cleaned up the T.V.

He cleaned it with milk,
put the spot in a pan!
And then C blew it out of the house with a fan!

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"But look where it went!"
I said." Look where it blew!
You blew the mess out of the house. That's true.
But now you made Snow Spots!
You can't let THEM stay!"

"Let us think about that now,"
Said C,B and A.

"With some help, we can do it!"
Said Little Cat C.
Then POP! On his head we saw Little Cat D!
Then, POP! POP! POP!
Little Cats E, F and G!

"We will clean up that snow if it takes us all day!
If it takes us all night!
We will clean it away!"
Said Little Cats G, F, E, D, C, B, A.

They ran out of the house then and we ran out, too.
And the Bigh Cat laughted,
"Now you will see something new!
My cats are all clever.
My cats are good shots.
My cats have good guns.
They will kill all those spots!"

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But this did not look very clever to me.
Kill snow spots with pop guns?
That just could not be!

"All this does is make MORE spots!"
We yelled at the cat.
"Your cats are no good.
Put them back in your hat.

"Take your Little Cats G, F, E, D, C, B, A.
Put them back in your hat and you take them away!"

"Oh, no!" said the cat.
"All they need is more help.
Help is all that they need.
So keep still and don't yelp."

Then Little Cat G took the hat off his head.
"I have Little Cat H here to help us," he said.

"Little Cats H, I, J, K, L and M.
But our work is so hard,
we must have more than them.
We need Little Cat N.
We need O. We need P.
W need Little Cats Q, R, S, T, U and V."

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"Come on! Kill those spots!
Kill the mess!" yelled the cats.
And they jumped at the snow with long rakes and red bats.
They put it in pails and they made high pink hills!
Pink snow men! Pink snow balls!
And little pink pills!

Oh, the things that they did!
And they did them so hard,
it was all one big spot now all over the yard!
But the Big Cat stood there and he said," This is good.
This is what they should do and I knew that they would.

"With a little more help,
all the work will be done.
They need one more cat.
And I know just the one."

"Loook close! In my hand I have Little Cat V.
On his head are Cats W, X, Y and Z."

"Z is too small to see.
So don't try. You can not .
But Z is the cat  who will clean up that spot!"

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"Now here is the Z,
you can't see," said the Cat.
"And I bet you can't guess what he has in HIS hat!

"He has something clled VOOM.
VOOM is so hard to get,
you never saw anything like it, I bet.
Why, Voom cleans up anything clean as can be!"
Then he yelled,
"Take your hat off now,
Little Cat Z!
Take the Voom off your head!
Make it clean up the snow!
Hurry! You Little Cat!
One! Two! Three! GO!"

Then the Voom...
It went VOOM!
And, oh boy! What a VOOM!

Now, don't ask me what Voom is.
I never will know.
But, boy! Let me tell you,
It DOES clean up snow!

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"So you see!" laughted the Cat,
"Now your snow is all white!
Now your work is all done!
Now your house is all right!
And you know where my little cats are?"
said the cat.
"That Voom blew my little cats back in my hat.
And so, if you ever have spots,now and then,
I will be very happy to come here again...

"...with Little Cats A, B, C, B..
    E, F, G...
        H, I, J, K...
            L, M, N....
               and O, P...

                 ...and Q, R, S, T...
                        and Cat U and Cat V...
                             and Little Cats W
                                                           X
                                                              Y
                                                                and Z!"

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big_beast

俺有点失策，这东东看上去实在是短小精悍，没想到有这么长，抄到第三页俺就后悔了，实际上这玩意儿实实在在63页，俺一直后悔了六十页。

big_beast

这是一篇写给小孩子看的文章，证明就是，从内容上来说，它仅仅是教小孩子怎么认26个字母。为了让小孩子有兴趣看这26个字母，作者煞费苦心地创造了一个能从帽子里一个接一个变出26只小猫的怪猫出来。
这只怪猫被称为坏猫，开始的确蛮坏的，戏弄两个可怜的小孩，看到最后又不觉得多坏，披着坏的表皮帮了实际的忙。看完盖上书再一想，这猫太坏了，翻来翻去不过是为自己找乐子。
这本书说出了一个思想，或者说说出一个现象：好小孩和坏小孩。该做好小孩还是坏小孩。
翻回二十五年前，中国的少儿读物一定会把故事改成这个样子：那天下了狠厚的雪，我和莎丽一起铲雪。忽然带帽子的猫冲进了我们的屋子，把屋子弄得一团糟。我对猫说：“你这样是不对的，大家都在劳动，你却在捣蛋，你难道不害燥吗？”莎丽也站在窗外对着猫说：“羞羞脸！”
带帽子的猫脸红了，它发现自己太不对了，于是，它和我们共同清理好屋子，并拿起一把扫把，帮我们扫雪。过路的叔叔看见我们辛勤的劳动，表扬我们是好孩子。猫自豪地说：“对！我们是好孩子！我们要为四化作贡献！”
但在这本书里，好小孩似乎有点笨笨的。坏猫悠闲地躺在浴缸里吃蛋糕，好小孩觉得太吃惊了。坏猫东涂西抹，好小孩觉得太吃惊了。坏猫变出了狠多搞怪的小猫，好小孩觉得太吃惊了——不是吃惊坏猫的帽子里藏了那么有意思的东西，而是吃惊没将一切恢复原样，走上正轨。
好小孩需要的是，一切如常，再加一条打扫干净的小路。
没有时间玩，也没有时间开玩笑。工作才是一切。
可是有这么一只坏猫，它玩啊玩，只会玩，做得却似乎比努力工作的好小孩更好。
坏猫有种力量，应该说它的力量比好小孩大得多。
也许写这个故事的人在一个梦里不再努力工作，而是嬉戏作乐。也许他将这个梦写下来，于是成了这本书。
大多的人也许都有过这个梦，所以才会对着这书微笑。

xingbu

哈哈，大版累死了吧，抄了这么多，有时候读读这些少儿读物也可以学到点常用的表达方式什么的，有时候lunch time我也看看ｂｏｏｋｍａｎ送来的儿童书 。

阿宝

太长了，累s了。感觉少儿读物枯燥了点。

泛泛之辈

我也喜欢读少儿读物， 比起小说要短多了

terry11

大板,辛苦了,这么有难度的文章翻译理解的如此精辟..不得不说PFPF

big_beast

这个……俺抄的原文-_-b

tyxzh

怎么我家附近的图书馆只能借三周呢，而且highlight的那种还只能借一周