Chapter Three Learning All One’s Life
第一节 学习是人生的需要Section One Learning Is a Necessity in One’s Life任何人刚出生时都不知道该如何继续活下去。为了生存,人人都不得不学习——学习如何吃奶或用奶瓶喝牛奶,学习如何爬和走,学习如何表达自己,学习如何读书写字,学习如何谋生,学习如何为人处世等等。如果人出生后都不学习,又怎能活下去呢?
Anyone who is just born does not know how to live on. In order to live, everyone has to learn—learn howto suck at one’s mother’s breast or how to suck milk through a nipple of a feeding bottle, learn how to crawand walk, learn how to express oneself, learn how to read and write, learn how to make a living, learn how todeal with other people, and so on. If anyone does not learn after his or her birth, how can he or she live on?
咱们去读一读吴承恩的《西游记》吧!我们就能看到作者及其主要人物终生是如何学习的。
Let’s read Wu Cheng’en’s Journey to the West! We can see how the writer and his main characters havebeen learning all their lives.
1.1 内容介绍1.1 Introduction正如一些世界文学名着,像德国歌德的《浮士德》一样,《西游记》是在长期广为流传的故事基础上发展并创作而成的。《西游记》的故事来源于唐朝贞观时期一个名叫玄奘(602—664)的佛教高僧独自一人西行,经过中亚到天竺(今天的印度)去求法取经的历史真实事件。玄奘西行,往返数千英里,历时17年,穿越了当时的138个国家,无论在佛教文化史上,还是在中印文化交流史上,都写下了光辉的一页。各种关于玄奘求法取经的故......