奇想英文書世界|美國少年的書單

這是一本寫給成年人的書，很多大道理，只有做過孩子又在成年人遊戲規則里打拚過的人回望過去才真的明白。那麼讀一下名句，體會一下又純真又深邃的名作魅力。小王子的名句選讀。It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to themOne only understands the things that one tames,” said the fox. “Men haveno more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends anymore. If you want a friend, tame me. . If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers.It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yours...

高居紐約時報暢銷榜5年，連續140週排第一！2015年時代雜志推薦給未成年人的最優秀百部小說之一。硬心腸的我在飛機上看電影不顧形象眼淚漣漣。必須推薦。Wonder is a book by RJ Palacio centered around the story of a boy named August Pullman. August, or Auggie as everyone calls him, is ten years old。 He is ordinary in every way, enjoying ordinary things, talking like an ordinary kid. But he doesn’t look ordinary. He was born with distorted facial features that either scared or disgusted by people around him. Because of this, he can’t go to regular school and has been homeschooled by his mom. The story starts when he is about to join middle school, as he has to blend into society as a grown-up boy, and his mom has to go back to her own career. Aussie生來臉部變形，人人見了他都害怕，從小只在家里跟媽媽一起學習，現在就要去上中學了，他的家庭和他自己都非常緊張，故事就是從這里展開的。As expected, when he goes to school, he causes a stir. Kids and teachers alike stare at him, and one boy, Julian, goes...

介紹一本主題深刻復雜的短篇小說，1962年諾貝爾文學獎獲得者美國作家John Steinbeck的是這樣說的，In every bit of honest writing in the world there is a base theme（主題）. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love。。。。Try to understand each other.這是作者的寫作思想，每一個人都值得理解。那麼我們來看看小說是怎樣來表達這些。今天介紹小說的是高中生Stella，這部小說是9年級時候的學校英文課指定閱讀書。Set during the Great Depression（大蕭條） in America, two men, George and Lennie, are in search of a job. Lennie suffers from some kind of mental disorder （精神錯亂）and has a childlike disposition（孩童一樣） which contrasts（對比） with his physical strength（身體強壯）. He likes soft things like bunnies（兔子）. Although George complains about having to take care of Lennie, he genuinely cares for his friend.Their dream is to own their own farm.They finally find a farm job in Califo...

貓戰士系列書適合10歲左右孩子性格特點。奇幻，想象，歷險，友誼，忠誠，了解寵物貓世界以外的野生貓世界。Warrior Cats is the series we will talk about today. Warrior Cats is actually multiple series in the same fictional fantasy （想象）world with slight connections to each other. The original series （原系列）is called “The Prophecies（預言） Begin” and introduces us to the main character Rusty, who is a pet cat. Then we meet the clans（族）, the wild cats who live in the forest and have their own way of life. He joins them and many adventures begin, starting with Rusty taking on a new “warrior” name. Warriors are the cats in the clans who fight against the other clans, hunt, and generally keep the other cats safe and healthy. This main character, Rusty, or Fireheart as he is later called when he receives his warrior name, shows up a few more times as well in the later series’. The Warrior Cats are a very imaginative group of books and teaches us the importance of friendship, loyal...

小說主題：守望純真，拒絕成長，疏離於虛偽成年世界。“I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all.”“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. . . . Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. ”“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.” “Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it.” Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game, all right—I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing. No game.I

塞林格的小說是天才性的小說，開辟了一種新的小說語言和寫法。今天講講語言，下次說主題很內容。Quote1:“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.” Quote2:“In my mind, I’m probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw. Sometimes I can think of very crumby stuff I wouldn’t mind doing if the opportunity came up. I can even see how it might be quite a lot of fun, in a crumby way. . . . The thing is, though, I don’t like the idea. It stinks, if you analyze it.Quote3:He started going into this nodding routine. You never saw anybody nod as much in your life as old Spencer did. You never knew if he was nodding a lot because he was thinking and all, or just because he was a nice old guy that didn’t know his ass from his e...

幾乎200年前的人工智能生物存在於一位19歲女性作家的科幻小說里。Frankenstein，科幻小說鼻祖，警示人類當下的科技爆炸的隱憂。文學的先鋒性在此可見一斑。美國高中英文課的精讀小說。In English class, we were required to read the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The novel was named for the main character of the book, Victor Frankenstein. He is a scientific genius （天才）who wanted to create life from nothing. Eventually he created a human like creature who is very tall, with a capacity to think and feel. However, he is very, very ugly. In the book, he is referred to as “the creature” （生物）and has no name. Frankenstein is disgusted（厭惡） by the hideous nature of his creation and runs away, neglecting （唿視遺棄）the creature. 主人公Frankenstein是科學狂人，造了一個人，具有人的智慧和感情，但是外形巨大而醜陋，於是Frankenstein遺棄了他。后來怎麼樣呢？ The creature is feared by all that he meets because of his appearance（外表）. In the beginning, he was kind to the people around him and ev...

一首深邃的兒童詩，講述給予索取與輪回。孩子喜歡，大人落淚。Silverstein最為著名的詩歌。中文譯作愛心樹，只能說是意譯。不如翻譯做給予樹詩歌全文我就不上傳了。分享幾張插頁。

給兒童的詩，配以兒童氣質的插畫。Hello,ximalaya, this is Lindsay from New York, Today we will talk about the book of poems by Shel Silverstein, titled Where The Sidewalk Ends, the other one is the Giving tree. 各位聽友好。今天我們來說兒童詩。兒童充滿好奇心和想象力，他們喜歡的東西，已經在現實生活里磨掉了棱角的成年人未見得明白。1930年出生的美國兒童詩大家Shel Silverstein 早在70年代已經成名，但至今暢銷奉為經典。他的詩作不是通常想象里過於甜膩膩偏女性化的內容，男孩子和女孩子都非常喜歡。來看看官網上是怎麼描述詩集Where the sidewalk ends: Come in…for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist.他所描述的世界千奇百怪，男孩子變成電視，女孩子吃掉鯨...

Aesthetic 審美。語言是藝術，英文的語言美感要帶著發現美的好奇心去感受和挖掘。學習語言應超越實用主義，帶著理想主義。有了美的引領，才有努力的動力。閱讀經典吧！實用了不起的蓋茨比以及詩人惠特曼的草葉集作引子說明。“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty of the world.”‘Anything can happen now that we’ve slid over this bridge,’ I thought; ‘anything at all….’ 從皇后區大橋看去，這座城市永遠好像是初次看見一樣，那樣引人入勝，充滿了世界上所有的神秘和瑰麗。一切都有可能發生，當我們從橋上駛過，我想，任何事。。。。“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”我們奮力前行，小舟逆水而上，不斷地被浪潮推回到過去。-------------The Great Gatsby ----------------------I celebrate myselfAnd what I assume you shall assume For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul,I lean and loafe at my ease…. Observing a spear of summer...