“我还想要什么呢?”黑骏马描述他愉快的家和好心的主人时说。“自由!在我生命的头4年,我曾拥有那么广阔的田野,我可以在那儿全速奔驰——没有缰绳,没有嚼口,也没有眼罩。现在,除了有活儿干的时候,我得日夜呆在马厩里”。在19世纪70年代,有很多活儿要马来干——在各种天气中,拉着各种车子穿过拥挤的城市,走过乡村的小道。黑骏马受过良好的训练,他知道他永远不能踢、咬或是逃跑,永远都得服从命令,不管多累多饿。他总是举止得体,但是当他从一个主人被卖到另一个主人,他懂得了一匹马的一生是那么艰难,某一些人又是多么愚蠢和多么冷酷。
The story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty— beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many tales of cruelty and kindness. Each short chapter recounts an incident in Black Beauty's life containing a lesson or moral typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses, with Sewell's detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behaviour lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitude.
安娜·塞维尔的《黑骏马》是19世纪最著名的童话作品之一。主人公黑骏马是一匹性格温顺、聪明、漂亮的良种马。“他”从小生活在贵族人家,受过严格的训练,主人非常喜欢他,也非常爱护他。可好景不长,主人遭遇家庭变故,不得不将他卖掉,自此黑骏马开始了颠沛流离的生活。他不停地被买卖,遇到了各式各样的主人:拿他撒气的醉汉,不把他当回事的野蛮人,动辄抽鞭子的车夫,最后终于碰上了把他当成朋友的好人家。他可谓是尝尽了人间的酸甜苦辣,靠自己的坚韧、忠诚和仁爱才结束了苦难的生活。
Black Beauty is one of the best loved animal stories ever written by English author Anna Sewell. It is told by the magnificent horse himself, from his idyllic days on a country squire's estate to his harsh fate as a London cab horse. No one can ever forget the gallant Black Beauty, a horse with a white star on his forehead and a heart of unyielding courage. While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect.
- 版权页
- 简 介
- 1 My first home
- 1 我的第一个家
- 2 Birtwick Park
- 2 伯特威克庄园
- 3 Ginger's story
- 3 金儿的故事
- 4 Kindness and cruelty
- 4 善意和冷酷
- 5 The storm
- 5 暴风雨
- 6 The fire
- 6 大火
- 7 Joe Green
- 7 乔·格林
- 8 Earlshall Park
- 8 沙尔伯爵庄园
- 9 The accident and new masters
- 9 事故和新主人
- 10 A London cab horse
- *10* 在伦敦拉出租马车
- 11 Goodbye to old friends
- 11 告别老友
- 12 Hard times
- 12 苦日子
- 13 My last home
- 13 我最后的家
- Exercises
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