全新版大学英语(第二版)综合教程_第五册_Unit1LoveofReading——OneWriter39;sBeginnings

What attitudes did your family have toward reading when you were a child? Did books surround you? Which books did your parents or other relatives read to you or suggest that you read? How did you feel about books as a child growing up? Read on to see if your experiences in any way match those of the author. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 当你还是个孩子时，你家人对阅读持什么态度？你周围可曾有各种书籍？父母亲戚给你念哪些书？推荐你读哪些书？作为一个渐渐长大的孩子，你对书有些怎样的感受？请读本文，看看你的经历是否与本文作者的经历有相同之处。 One Writer's Beginnings Eudora Welty 1 I learned from the age of two or three that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read in, or to be read to. My mother read to me. She'd read to me in the big bedroom in the mornings, when we were in her rocker together, which ticked in rhythm as we rocked, as though we had a cricket accompanying the story. She'd read to me in the dining room on winter afternoons in front of the coal fire, with our cuckoo clock ending the story with "Cuckoo", and at night when I'd got in my own bed. I must have given her no peace. Sometimes she read to me in the kitchen while she sat churning, and the churning sobbed along with any story. It was my ambition to have her read to me while I churned; once she granted my wish, but she read off my story before I brought her butter. She was an expressive reader. When she was reading "Puss in Boots," for instance, it was impossible not to know that she distrusted all cats. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 作家起步时 尤多拉·威尔提 我从两三岁起就知道，家中随便在哪个房间里，白天无论在什么时间，都可以念书...