树上的男爵
作者:By Italo Calvino
来源:《英语学习》2017年第03期
《树上的男爵》是意大利作家伊塔洛·卡尔维诺创作的三部曲《我们的祖先》里最长的一篇。故事发生在18世纪意大利南部的翁布罗萨地区,贵族家庭长子及未来的爵位继承者柯希莫(Cosimo)因拒绝吃蜗牛,一气之下离家出走,爬到树上,并在树上度过了自己的余生,再也没有踏回到地上。这种做法尽乎荒唐,几乎不可思议,树上的生活使柯希莫摆脱了贵族生活繁文缛节的束缚,但也给他带来极大的不便,他在树上过的几乎是原始人一般的生活。然而柯希莫是一个心甘情愿以自己的生命坚守规矩的人,哪怕牺牲宝贵的爱情。因为无论对他还是对别人,一旦破了这条规矩,柯希莫便不再是柯希莫了。
It was on 15 June 1767 that Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo, my brother,网购手机 sat among us for the last time. And it might have been today养殖肉牛革命烈士有哪些人,金鱼为什么不能吃 I remember it so clearly. We were in the dining-room of our hou at Ombrosa(翁布罗萨), the windows framing the thick branches of the great holm oak(圣栎树)in the park. It was midday, the old traditional
dinner hour followed by our family, though by then most nobles had taken to the fashion t by the sluggard(游手好闲的)Court of France of dining halfway through the afternoon. A breeze was blowing from the a白前, I remember, rustling(使沙沙作响)the leaves. Cosimo said: “I told you I don’t want any, and I don’t!” and pushed away his plateful of snails. Never had we en such disobedience朵朵向阳开(违抗).
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