背誦為王第四冊第17課
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說兩門語言，但用一門語言來思考
據(jù)我自己的經(jīng)驗(yàn)，一個人如果認(rèn)為自己有兩種母語，那他只是自欺欺人。他可以認(rèn)為自己兩門語言掌握的都很好，但一成不變的事實(shí)是他只會用一門語言來思考，只有在使用這門語言時他才會輕松自如、富有創(chuàng)造力。
如果有人很肯定地告訴我他會說兩門語言并且同樣精通，我會馬上問他用哪門語言來數(shù)數(shù)和運(yùn)算，他用哪門語言能準(zhǔn)確地給出廚房用具和木工或者鐵匠的工具的名稱，他做夢時說哪種語言。在我所遇見的人當(dāng)中，在被問及這些問題時，都會承認(rèn)其中一門語言是占次要地位的。
我可以很好地來描述這種情形，說法語時，我好像是走在美麗花園內(nèi)一條被人精心照料的小路上，但在說德語時，我好像是在宏偉壯麗的森林里自由自在地漫步。
說法語時，我總是習(xí)慣于非常仔細(xì)地安排句子的節(jié)奏，總是追求表達(dá)的簡潔，而在說德語時，這些也成為了我必須要做的事情?，F(xiàn)在，我通過研究法國巴赫的作品，清楚地知道了什么樣的文學(xué)風(fēng)格適合我的本性。
Lesson17 Speaking Two, But Thinking in One
My own experience makes me think it only self-deception if any believes that he has two mother-tongues. He may think that he is equally master of each, yet it is invariable the case that he actually thinks in only one and is only in that one really free and creative.
If anyone assures me that he has two languages, each as thoroughly familiar to him as the other, I immediately ask him in which of them he counts and reckons, in which he can best give me the names of kitchen utensils and tools used by carpenter or smith, and in which of them he dreams. I have not yet come across anyone who, when thus tested, had not to admit that one of the languages occupied only a second place.
I can best describe it by saying that in French I seem to be strolling down the well-kept paths in a fine park, but in German to be wandering at will in a magnificent forest.
Always accustomed in French to be careful about the rhythmic arrangement of the sentence, and to strive for simplicity of expression, these things have become equally a necessity to me in German. And now through my work on the French Bach it became clear to me what literary style corresponded to my nature.
reckon 計(jì)算
stroll 散步
rhythmic 有節(jié)奏的，有韻律的
My own experience makes me think it only self-deception if any believes that he has two mother-tongues. He may think that he is equally master of each, yet it is invariable the case that he actually thinks in only one and is only in that one really free and creative.
If anyone assures me that he has two languages, each as thoroughly familiar to him as the other, I immediately ask him in which of them he counts and reckons, in which he can best give me the names of kitchen utensils and tools used by carpenter or smith, and in which of them he dreams. I have not yet come across anyone who, when thus tested, had not to admit that one of the languages occupied only a second place.
I can best describe it by saying that in French I seem to be strolling down the well-kept paths in a fine park, but in German to be wandering at will in a magnificent forest.
Always accustomed in French to be careful about the rhythmic arrangement of the sentence, and to strive for simplicity of expression, these things have become equally a necessity to me in German. And now through my work on the French Bach it became clear to me what literary style corresponded to my nature.
reckon 計(jì)算
stroll 散步
rhythmic 有節(jié)奏的，有韻律的
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