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1、One Writers BeginningsWR1 I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or to be read to. My mother read to me. Shed read to me in the big bedroom in the mornings, when we were in her rocker together, which ticked in rhythm as we rocked,
2、 as though we had a cricket accompanying the story. Shed read to me in the dining room on winter afternoons in front of the coal fire, with our *Icuckoo clock ending the story with Cuckoo, and at night when Id got in my own bed. I must have given her no peace. Sometimes she read to me in the kitchen
3、 while she sat churning, and the churning sobbed along with any story. It was my ambition to have her read to me while I churned; once she granted my wish, but she read off my story before I brought her butter. She was an expressive reader. When she was reading “Puss in Boots/ for instance, it was i
4、mpossible not to know that she distrusted all cats.作家起步时我从两三岁起就知道，家中随便在哪个房间里，白天无论在什么时间，都可以念书或听人念书。母亲念书给我听。上午她都在那间大卧室里给我念，两人一起坐在她那把摇椅里，我们摇晃时，椅子发出有节奏的滴答声，好像有只唧唧鸣叫的蟋蟀在伴着读故事。冬日午后，她常在餐厅里烧着煤炭的炉火前给我念，布谷鸟自鸣钟发出“咕咕”声时，故事便结束了；晚上我在自己床上睡下后她也给我念。想必我是不让她有一刻清静。有时她在厨房里一边坐着搅制黄油一边给我念，故事情节就随着搅制黄油发出的抽抽搭搭的声响不断展开。我的奢望是她念我
5、来搅拌；有一次她满足了我的愿望，可是我要听的故事她念完了，她要的黄油我却还没弄好。她念起故事来富有表情。比如，她念穿靴子的猫时，你就没法不相信她对猫一概怀疑。EQ2 It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they came from, I
6、 cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to a
7、ll the reading I could give them.当我得知故事书原来是人写出来的，书本原来不是什么大自然的奇迹，不像草那样自生自长时，真是又震惊又失望。不过，姑且不论书本从何而来，我不记得自己有什么时候不爱书书本本身、封面、装订、印着文字的书页，还有油墨味、那种沉甸甸的感觉，以及把书抱在怀里时那种将我征服、令我陶醉的感觉。还没识字，我就想读书了，一心想读所有的书。Neither of my parents had come from homes that could afford to buy many books, but though it must have been s
8、omething of a strain on his salary, as the youngest officer in a young insurance company, my father was all the while carefully selecting and ordering away for what he and Mother thought we children should grow up with. iThey bought first for the future .我的父母都不是来自那种买得起许多书的家庭。然而，虽然买书准得花去他不少薪金，作为一家成立不
9、久的保险公司最年轻的职员，父亲一直在精心挑选、不断订购他和母亲认为儿童成长应读的书。他们购书首先是为了我们的前程。101x14 Besides the bookcase in the living room, which was always called the library1, there were the encyclopedia tables and dictionary stand under windows in our dining room. Here to help us grow up arguing around the dining room table were t
10、he Unabridged Webster, the Columbia Encyclopedia, Comptons Pictured Encyclopedia, the Lincoln Library of Information, and later the Book of Knowledge. In the library*, inside the bookcase were books I could soon begin on . land I did, reading them all alike and as they came, straight down their rows
11、, top shelf to bottom.0My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him. The novels of her girlhood that had stayed on in her imagination, besides those of Dickens and Scott and Robert Louis Stevens
12、on, were Jane Eyre, Trilby, The Worn an in White, Green Mansions, King Solom ons Mines.除了客厅里有一向被称作“图书室”的书橱,餐厅的窗子下还有几张摆放百科全书的桌子和一个字典架。这里有伴随我们在餐桌旁争论着长大的韦氏大词典、哥伦比亚百科全书、康普顿插图百科全书、林肯资料文库，以及后来的知识库。“图书馆”书橱里的书没过多久我就能读了我的确读了，全都读了，按着顺序，排接着一排读，从最上面的书架直读到最卜面的书架。母亲读书最重要的不在获取信息。她是为了享受快乐而埋头读小说。她读狄更斯时的神情简直就像要跟他私奔似的
13、。她少女时代读的小说印在了她心头的，除了狄更斯、司各特和罗伯特路易斯斯蒂文森等人的作品之外，还有简爱、切尔比、白衣女上、绿厦和所罗门王的矿藏。To both my parents I owe my early acquaintance with a beloved Mark Tw ain. There was a full set of Mark Twain and a short set of Ring Lardner in our bookcase, and those were the volumes that in time united us all, parents and chi
14、ldren.多亏了我的父母，我很早就接触了受人喜爱的马克吐温。书橱里有一整套马克吐温文集和一套不全的林拉德纳作品集，这些书最终将父母和孩子联结在一起。Reading everything that stood before me was how I came upon a worn old book that had belonged to my father as a child. It was called Sanford and Merton. Is there anyone left who recognizes it, I wonder? It is the famous moral
15、 tale written by Thom as Day in the 1780s, but of him no mention is made on the title page of this book; here it is Sanford and Merton in Words of One Syllable by Mary Godolphin. Here are the rich boy and the poor boy and Mr. Barlow, their teacher and interlocutor, in long discourses alternating wit
16、h dramatic scenes anger and rescue allotted to the rich and the poor respectively. It ends with not one but two morals, both engraved on rings: MDo what you ought, come what may/ and If we would be great, we must first learn to be good.我一本接一本阅读摆在我面前的书，读着读着便发现一本又破又旧的书，是我父亲小时候的。书名是桑福德与默顿。我不相信如今还有谁会记得这本书。那是托玛斯戴在18世纪80年代撰写的一本著名的进行道德教育的故事书，可该书的扉页上并没有提及他；上面写的是桑福德与默顿简易本，玛丽戈多尔芬著。书中讲的是一个富孩子和一个穷孩子与他们老师巴洛先生之间的冗长的谈话，其间穿插着戏
