歡迎關(guān)注微信公眾號“聽見書”，收聽更多節(jié)目。 主播芝芯兒微博/公眾微信：芝芯兒 主播芝芯兒個(gè)人微信：saususa 期待與您更多交流！ [ Chapter 1-2 ] Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. 這些大人們，靠他們自己什么也弄不懂，還得老是不斷地給他們作解釋。這真叫孩子們膩味。 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. 后來，我只好選擇了另外一個(gè)職業(yè)，我學(xué)會了開飛機(jī)，世界各地差不多都飛到過。的確，地理學(xué)幫了我很大的忙。我一眼就能分辨出中國和亞里桑那。要是夜里迷失了航向，這是很有用的。 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. 這樣，在我的生活中，我跟許多嚴(yán)肅的人有過很多的接觸。我在大人們中間生活過很長時(shí)間。我仔細(xì)地觀察過他們，但這并沒有使我對他們的看法有多大的改變。 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." 當(dāng)我遇到一個(gè)頭腦看來稍微清楚的大人時(shí)，我就拿出一直保存著的我那第一號作品來測試測試他。我想知道他是否真的有理解能力?？墒?，得到的回答總是：“這是頂帽子?！? 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. 我就不和他談巨蟒呀，原始森林呀，或者星星之類的事。我只得遷就他們的水平，和他們談些橋牌呀，高爾夫球呀，政治呀，領(lǐng)帶呀這些。于是大人們就十分高興能認(rèn)識我這樣一個(gè)通情達(dá)理的人。 單詞： never ['nev?] 從不，絕不 tiresome ['ta??s(?)m] 煩人的，無聊的，令人討厭的 profession [pr?'fe?(?)n] 職業(yè)，專業(yè) pilot ['pa?l?t] 駕駛，飛行員 distinguish [d?'st??gw??] 區(qū)分，辨別 valuable ['v?lj??b(?)l] 有價(jià)值的，貴重的 encounter [in'kaunt?] 遭遇，遇到 concern [k?n's??n] 涉及，關(guān)系，關(guān)心 intimately ['intimitli] 熟悉地，親切地 improve [?m'pru?v] 改善，增進(jìn)，提高 opinion [?'pinj?n] 意見，主張 clear-sighted ['kli?'saitid] 聰明的，視力好的 experiment [?k'sper?m(?)nt] 實(shí)驗(yàn) politics [?p?l?t?ks] 政治 necktie ['nekta?] 領(lǐng)帶 pleased [pli?zd] 高興的，喜歡的 sensible ['sens?b(?)l] 明智的，通情達(dá)理的 短語： always and forever 直到永遠(yuǎn) at a glance 一瞥，看一眼 in the course of 在...過程中/期間 a great many 很多，許多 matter of consequence 重要的事 a great deal 大量，非常 close at hand 就在眼前，附近