英語散文賞析 《落花生》雙語散文閱讀

今天小編要給大家分享的是我們以前的一篇課文，《落花生》。只是這次是雙語版的而已，大家一起來看一下吧。

落花生

Peanuts

Xu Dishan

我們屋後有半畝隙地。母親說：“讓它荒蕪着怪可惜，既然你們那麼愛吃花生，就闢來做花生園罷。” 我們幾姐弟和幾個小丫頭都很喜歡——買種的買種，動土的動土，灌園的灌園;過不了幾個月，居然收穫了!

Behind our house there lay half a mu of vacant land. Mother said, “It’s a pity to let it lie waste. Since you all like to eat peanuts so very much, why not plant some here?” That exhilarated us children and our servant girls as well, and soon we started buying seeds, ploughing the land and watering the plants. We gathered in a good harvest just after a couple of months!

母親說：“今晚我們可以做一個收穫節，也請你們爹爹來嚐嚐我們的新花生，如何?”我們都答應了。 母親把花生做成好幾樣的食品，還吩咐這節期要在園裏的茅亭舉行。

Mother said, “How about giving a party this evening to celebrate the harvest and inviting your Daddy to have a taste of our newly-harvested peanuts?” We all agreed. Mother made quite a few varieties of goodies out of the peanuts, and told us that the party would be held in the thatched pavilion on the peanut plot.

那晚上的天色不太好，可是爹爹也來到，實在很難得!

It looked like rain that evening, yet, to our great joy, father came nevertheless.

爹爹說：“你們愛吃花生嗎?”

“Do you like peanuts?” asked father.

我們都爭着答應：“愛!”

“Yes, we do!” we vied in giving the answer.

“誰能把花生的好處說出來?”

“Which of you could name the good things in peanuts?”

姐姐說：“花生的氣味很美。”

“Peanuts tastes good,” said my elder sister.

哥哥說：“花生可以制油。”

“Peanuts produce edible oil,” said my elder brother.

我說：“無論何等人都可以用賤價買它來吃;都喜歡吃它。這就是它的好處。”

“Peanuts are so cheap,” said I, “that anyone can afford to eat them. Peanuts are everyone’s favorite. That’s why we call peanuts good.”

爹爹說：“花生的用處固然很多;但有一樣是很可貴的。這小小的豆不像那好看的蘋果、桃子、石榴，把它們的果實懸在枝上，鮮紅嫩綠的顏色，令人一望而發生羨慕的心。他只把果子埋在地底，等到成熟，才容人把他挖出來。你們偶然看見一棵花生瑟縮地長在地上，不能立刻辨出他有沒有果實，非得等到你接觸他才能知道。”

“It’s true that peanuts have many uses,” said father, “but they’re most beloved in one respect. Unlike nice-looking apples, peaches, and pomegranates, which hang their fruit on branches and win people’s admiration with their brilliant colors, tiny little peanuts bury themselves underground and remain unearthed until they’re ripe. When you come upon a peanut plant lying curled up on the ground, you can never immediately tell whether or not it bears any nuts until you touch them.”

我們都說是的，母親也點點頭。

“That’s true,” we said in unison. Mother also nodded.

父親接下去說：“所以你們要像花生，因爲它是有用的，不是偉大、好看的東西。”

“So you must take after peanuts,” father continued, “because they’re useful though not great and nice-looking.”

我說：“那麼，人要做有用的人，不要做偉大、體面的人了。”

“Then you mean one should be useful rather than great and nice-looking,” I said.

父親說：“這是我對你們的希望。”

“That’s what I expect of you,” father concluded.

我們談到夜闌才散，所有花生食品雖然沒有了，然而父親的話現在還印在我心版上。

We kept chatting until the party broke up late at night. Today, though nothing is left of the goodies made of peanuts, father’s words remain engraved in my mind.

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作者簡介

許地山(1894-1941)，名贊堃，字地山，筆名落華生(古時“華”同“花”，所以也叫落花生)，中國現代著名小說家、散文家、“五四”時期新文學運動先驅者之一。

《落花生》是一篇敘事散文，描述了一家人收穫花生的情景，通過談論花生的好處，借物喻人，揭示了花生不圖虛名、默默奉獻的品格，說明人要做有用的人，不要做只講體面而對別人沒有好處的人，表達了作者不爲名利，只求有益於社會的人生理想和價值觀。