激情晨讀英語美文 第八章 月色撩人:鄉(xiāng)土與人

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:]聽力課堂 pm4x.cn [00:05.45]Places and People [00:06.54]By William Saroyan [00:07.97]Where you are dropped, [00:09.82]as the saying is, [00:11.03]is who you are, [00:12.34]at least in a certain limited sense. [00:14.31]If you are dropped in Bitlis but are soon taken to New York, [00:18.25]Bitlis is less who you are than New York is. [00:20.98]But the place you knew first [00:22.84]is at least a large part of who you are. [00:24.92]Places make people. [00:27.00]They very definitely do, [00:28.63]almost physically. [00:29.95]After the World, [00:31.70]after being Anywhere at all, [00:33.23]my place was Fresno, [00:34.98]and as far as I am concerned [00:37.06]it was the very best possible place for me to be — [00:40.12]and for this reason: that’s where I was dropped. [00:42.86]The minute we met, that was it. [00:45.15]We belonged to each other. Forever. [00:47.12]It was a fact. [00:48.76]I was born there. [00:50.07]I wasn’t born in Bitlis, Marseilles, London, New York, [00:54.01]or anywhere else. [00:55.10]I was born in Fresno. [00:56.53]It was my place. I loved it. [00:58.60]I hated it. [00:59.81]But had I been born in Paris, [01:02.43]I would have loved Paris, [01:03.52]and I would have hated it. [01:04.72]Fresno had great early appeal for me. [01:07.57]It had a fine smell of dust, of the desert, [01:10.96]of rocks baking in the sun, [01:12.82]of sand with cactus growing out of it, [01:15.44]of water flowing in rivers and ditches, [01:17.96]of orchards and vineyards set out in great geometric patterns, [01:22.00]of leaf and blossom and fruit. [01:24.41]It also had all of the smells of rot, decay, and ferment: [01:29.44]the great heaps of grape pulp and skin [01:31.96]at the wineries sent a smell all through the town [01:34.91]if there was a little wind stirring. [01:36.66]There were also the magnificent smells in the house [01:40.05]in which one did one’s early time: [01:42.12]the very walls themselves, [01:44.21]the people who lived in the house, [01:46.17]and the things they cooked or baked: [01:48.25]Armenian bread, for instance, [01:50.44]in the three popular forms prepared by the Saroyan family: [01:54.27]the round, wafer-thin flat bread, [01:56.78]the oval loaf bread only an inch or two thick, [02:00.28]and the diamond-shaped little loaves of butter bread. [02:03.23]There was also always the smell of various green things, [02:06.95]or growing things — [02:08.38]parsley, mint, onions, bell peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, [02:12.74]and so on and so forth. [02:14.82]All of these things were a part of the place, [02:17.78]and very quickly a part of me. [02:18.87]Fresno was my place, and my family was my place.

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