剑桥大学校园英语情景对话16：《小熊维尼》与米尔恩（mp3+中英）

B: Excuse me, do you have any teddy bear here? I want to buy the teddy bear Wlnnie- the Pooh as a birthday gift for my friend.

B:打扰一下，你们这儿有玩具熊卖吗？我想要买维尼玩具熊作为生日礼物送给我朋 友

C: Of course. Please follow me.

C:当然有，请跟我来。

B： Winnie-the-Pooh is my friend’s favorite toy，so I'd like to get her one.

B:维尼熊是我朋友最喜欢的玩具，我想结买一个。

C: Pooh Bear is so cute that people love it. Ever since its birth in 1920s, it brings endless mirth to children.

C:维尼熊是那么的可爱，所有人都喜欢它。自从它 在20世纪20年代诞生以来.就绾孩子们带来了 无尽的欢乐。

B： Wow, it has a long history. Winnie-the-Pooh is created by Alan Alexander Milne, right?

B:哇，它有这么长的历史啊。维尼熊是艾伦亚历 山大米尔恩创作的，对吗？

C: Yes. At the age of 42, Milne published When We Were Very Young, a collection of poetry for children, included a poem about the bear. And then he published Winnie the Pooh in 1926 and The House at Pooh Corner in 1928.

C:是的。米尔恩42岁时，发表了一本名叫《当时我们还很小的时候》的诗集，诗 集里有一首关于熊的诗。随后他又在1926年发表了《小熊维尼》，在1928年发 表了《菩角小屋》。

B: I heard that Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, and various characters inspired by his son’s stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh.

B:我听说米尔恩是以两本维尼熊故事书而闻名于世的。那两本书讲述的是一个叫 克里斯多夫罗宾的小男孩的故事。书中的小男孩是以米尔恩儿子的名字命名的。 书中的其他角色也是受他儿子的毛绒玩具启发而创造出来的，其中最著名的就是 维尼熊。

C: Well, you know a lot of Winnie-the-Pooh, too. Christopher Robin Milne’s stuffed bear was originally named “Edward”.

C:关于维尼熊，你知道的也很多。克里斯多夫罗宾米尔恩的毛绒玩具熊原来的名 字叫"爱德华”。

B: It was renamed “Winnie-the-Pooh” after a Canadian black bear named Winnie, which was used as a military mascot in World War I，and left to London Zoo during the war.

B:它是以一只澳大利亚黑熊维尼的名字重命名的。那只澳大利亚黑熊是一战时的军 队吉祥物，住在伦敦动物园里。

C： All three books were illustrated by E. H. Shepard, using his own son’s teddy as the model.

C:米尔恩的三本书的插图都是由E.H.谢培德画的，谢培德以他儿子的玩具熊作为模 特画了插图。

B: Later Pooh became an industry, producing toys，comics, and such films as Winnie-the- Pooh and the Honey Tree from Disney.

b：随后维尼熊发展成了一个产业，生产玩具、连环a和《小熊维尼和蜂蜜树》这样 的迪斯尼电影。

C： Speaking of Milne, he is not only good at writing, but also good at math.

C:说到米尔恩，他不仅擅长写作，还擅长数学。

B: He is a gifted mathematician and he won a scholarship to Westminster School when he was only eleven.

B:他是个天才的数学家，在11岁时就获得威斯敏斯特学校的奖学金。

C:He studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and edited the undergraduate magazine Granta. After receiving his B.A. in 1903, he started his career as a freelance writer.

C:米尔恩在剑桥大学三一学院学习数学，并编辑了一本本科生杂志《格兰特》。 1903年他拿到学士学位后，开始了自由撰稿人的职业生涯。

B： During World War I he served in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment as a signals officer. The horrors he witnessed in the war left him a lifelong nostalgia for the idyllic childhood.

B: 一战期间，米尔恩作为一名信号官在皇家沃里克郡军团工作。他在战争中所目睹 的恐惧使他余生都迷恋于快乐的童年生活。

C： “A children’s book’ must be written, not for children, but for the author himself,” he once said.

C:米尔恩曾经说过："儿童读物有创作的必要，这不是为了满足儿童的需要，而是 为了让作者找回童车的感觉

B: When the disillusioned post-war writers depicted the “lost generation’’ of the 1920s, Milne returned in his Pooh books into the safety of his early years.

B:当战后幻想破灭的作家在描写20世纪20年代的“迷惘的一代”时，米尔恩却把 注意力转向他的"小熊维尼”系列书，重温快乐的童年生话。

C； In the 1930s and 40s Milne was active in religious and pacifist polemics. At the age of fifty-six he published his autobiography It’s Too Late Now, which focused mostly on his childhood years.

C: 20世纪30年代至40年代，米尔恩活跃于宗教和反战辩论运动中。56岁时，他 出版自传《现在已经太迟了》,着重描述他的童年生活。

B： After the success of Milne’s books, his son Christopher Milne has later confessed that he had problems coping with the legendary literary figure created about him.

B:在米尔恩的书大受欢迎后，他的儿子克里斯多夫米尔恩后来承认他在处理根据 他本人创作的传奋文学形象时感到疑惑。

C： Christopher Milne has also said that his mother, Daphne, invented stories about toy animals and provided most of the material for his father’s books.
 

C:克里斯多夫米尔恩还说，毛绒玩具的故事是他母亲达芙妮创作的，他父亲著作 里的大部分材料也是他母亲提供的。