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1、(完整word)现代大学英语精读4 thinking as a hobby 原文、课文对比版Thinking as a Hobbyby William Golding While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking; andand since I was later to claim thinking as my hobby, I came to an even stranger conclusion namely, that I myself could no
2、t think at all。 I must have been an unsatisfactory child for grownups to deal with。 I remember how incomprehensible they appeared to me at first, but not, of course, how I appeared to them。 It was the headmaster of my grammar school who first brought the subject of thinking before me though neither
3、in the way, nor with the result he intended. He had some statuettes in his study. They stood on a high cupboard behind his desk。 One was a lady wearing nothing but a bath towel. She seemed frozen in an eternal panic lest the bath towel slip down any farther, and since she had no arms, she was in an
4、unfortunate position to pull the towel up again。 Next to her, crouched the statuette of a leopard, ready to spring down at the top drawer of a filing cabinet labeled A-AH. My innocence interpreted this as the victims last, despairing cry。 Beyond the leopard was a naked, muscular gentleman, who sat,
5、looking down, with his chin on his fist and his elbow on his knee。 He seemed utterly miserable。 Some time later, I learned about these statuettes. The headmaster had placed them where they would face delinquent children, because they symbolized to him to whole of life. The naked lady was the Venus o
6、f Milo。 She was Love. She was not worried about the towel. She was just busy being beautiful. The leopard was Nature, and he was being natural. The naked, muscular gentleman was not miserable。 He was Rodins Thinker, an image of pure thought. It is easy to buy small plaster models of what you think l
7、ife is like。 I had better explain that I was a frequent visitor to the headmasters study, because of the latest thing I had done or left undone. As we now say, I was not integrated. I was, if anything, disintegrated; and I was puzzled. Grownups never made sense。 Whenever I found myself in a penal po
8、sition before the headmasters desk, with the statuettes glimmering whitely above him, I would sink my head, clasp my hands behind my back, and writhe one shoe over the other. The headmaster would look opaquely at me and say,through flashing spectacles. What are we going to do with you?Well, what wer
9、e they going to do with me? I would writhe my shoe some more and stare down at the worn rug。 ”Look up, boy! Cant you look up?”Then I would look at the cupboard, where the naked lady was frozen in her panic and the muscular gentleman contemplated the hindquarters of the leopard in endless gloom. I ha
10、d nothing to say to the headmaster。 His spectacles caught the light so that you could see nothing human behind them。 There was no possibility of communication. Dont you ever think at all?”No, I didnt think, wasnt thinking, couldnt think I was simply waiting in anguish for the interview to stop. ”The
11、n youd better learn - hadnt you?”On one occasion the headmaster leaped to his feet, reached up and putplonked Rodins masterpiece on the desk before me. Thats what a man looks like when hes really thinking。”I surveyed the gentleman without interest or comprehension. ”Go back to your class.Clearly the
12、re was something missing in me。 Nature had endowed the rest of the human race with a sixth sense and left me out。 But likeThis must be so, I mused, on my way back to the class, since whether I had broken a window, or failed to remember Boyles Law, or been late for school, my teachers produced me one
13、, adult answer: ”Why cant you think?As I saw the case, I had broken the window because I had tried to hit Jack Arney with a cricket ball and missed him; I could not remember Boyles Law because I had never bothered to learn it; and I was late for school because I preferred looking over the bridge int
14、o the river。 In fact, I was wicked。 Were my teachers, perhaps, so good that they could not understand the depths of my depravity? Were they clear, untormented people who could direct their every action by this mysterious business of thinking? The whole thing was incomprehensible. In my earlier years
15、, I found even the statuette of the Thinker confusing. I did not believe any of my teachers were naked, ever。 Like someone born deaf, but bitterly determined to find out about sound, I watched my teachers to find out about thought。There was Mr。 Houghton. He was always telling me to think。 With a mod
16、est satisfaction, he would tell that he had thought a bit himself。 Then why did he spend so much time drinking? Or was there more sense in drinking than there appeared to be? But if not, and if drinking were in fact ruinous to health and Mr. Houghton was ruined, there was no doubt about that why was
17、 he always talking about the clean life and the virtues of fresh air? He would spread his arms wide with the action of a man who habitually spent his time striding along mountain ridges。 ”Open air does me good, boys - I know it!”Sometimes, exalted by his own oratory, he would leap from his desk and
18、hustle us outside into a hideous wind。 Now, boys! Deep breaths! Feel it right down inside you - huge draughts of Gods good air!He would stand before us, rejoicing in his perfect health, an openair man. He would put his hands on his waist and take a tremendous breath. You could hear the wind trapped
19、in the cavern of his chest and struggling with all the unnatural impediments。 His body would reel with shock and his ruined face go white at the unaccustomed visitation. He would stagger back to his desk and collapse there, useless for the rest of the morning. Mr。 Houghton was given to high-minded m
20、onologues about the good life, sexless and full of duty。 Yet in the middle of one of these monologues, if a girl passed the window, tapping along on her neat little feet, he would interrupt his discourse, his neck would turn of itself and he would watch her out of sight. In this instance, he seemed
21、to me ruled not by thought but by an invisible and irresistible spring in his nack。nape。 His neck was an object of great interest to me. Normally it bulged a bit over his collar. But Mr. Houghton had fought in the First World War alongside both Americans and French, and had come by who knows what il
22、logic? to a settled detestation of both countries。 If either country happened to be prominent in current affairs, no argument could make Mr. Houghton think well of it。 He would bang the desk, his neck would bulge still further and go red. ”You can say what you like, he would cry, ”but Ive thought ab
23、out this and I know what I think! Mr。 Houghton thought with his neck. ThisThere was Miss。 Parsons。 She assured us that her dearest wish was our welfare, but I knew even then, with the mysterious clairvoyance of childhood, that what she wanted most was the husband she never got. There was Mr. Hands a
24、nd so on. I have dealt at length with my teachers because this was my introduction to the nature of what is commonly called thought. Through them I discovered that thought is often full of unconscious prejudice, ignorance, and hypocrisy. It will lecture on disinterested purity while its neck is bein
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