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Lesson 11 Talking about Past Events(谈论往事)
156.Now Let’s go back to your first novel,Rag Doll.(现在我们转回来谈谈你的第一部小说――玩具娃娃)
157.I wrote that in 1960, a year after I left school.(那本书写于1960年――我离开学校之后的那年)
158.How old were you then?(你那时有多大年龄?)
159.Yes,eighteen,because a year later I went to Indonesia.(对,18岁,因为一年之后我去了印度尼西亚)
160.And of course it was your experience in Indonesia that inspired your film Eastern Moon.(当然喽,正是由于你在印度尼西亚的体验使你萌发灵感写了电影《东方的月亮》)
161.And you worked in television for a time too.(那你还在电视台工作过一段时间)
162.I started making documentaries for television in 1973,when I was thirty.(1973年,我30岁时,我开始制作电视纪录片)
163.You see, I stayed in Indonesia for eight years.(你知道,我在印度尼西亚呆了8年)
164.I met my wife there in 1965,and after we came back we bought a farm in the west of England,in 1970.(1965年,我在印尼遇到了我太太,回国之后,我们于1970年在英国西部买了一个农场)
165.You see it was very hard work,and I was also very busy working on my second novel,The Cool Earth,which came out in 1975.(你知道经营农场是非常艰苦的工作,而且我还专心于撰写第二部小说《寒冷的土地》,这部小说于1975年出版)
166.It was, and that’s why only two years after that I was able to give up television work and concentrate on films and that sort of thing.(小说是畅销了,由于这个原因,在那以后仅仅两年踏时间,我辞了电视台的工作,集中精力搞电影之类的事情)
167.Have you ever been chased by a dog,Keith?(基思,你有没有被狗追赶过?)
168.What did you do?(你当时做什么?)
169.Well,I was pretty scared- I just ran for the nearest fence and jumped over it.(嗯 ,我当时非常害怕,只顾着朝最近的篱笆跑去,跳过篱笆)
170.Actually I do know somebody who once got bitten by a dog while he was jogging.(实际上我确定知道有个人在慢跑时曾经被狗咬过) |
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