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本期朗读文本赏析：《布鲁克林有棵树》
Wenzhou: A Tale of Two Languages. Hello everyone, this is Appreciate Wenzhou, Voice of Kean. Welcome to our program.
双语赏读 品味温州。听众朋友们大家好，这里是“朗读温州肯恩广播室”,欢迎收听我们今天的节目。
I’m Chloe from Wenzhou-Kean University.
我是来自温州肯恩大学的石郑爽。
Let me tell you a bit about my university. Wenzhou-Kean University is a Chinese-American university. Here, students have dreams and make efforts for their future. In the school, we can often see the students working through the night. This fighting spirit is consistent with the spirit of the little girl, Francie, in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, which we want to share with you today.
温州肯恩大学是一所中美合办大学，在这里，同学们都怀揣着梦想，为了自己的未来不懈努力。学校里经常能看到同学们通宵达旦，奋笔疾书的身影。这种奋斗精神与我们今天分享的《布鲁克林有棵树》中小女孩弗兰西的精神一致。
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a novel about survival, dreams and dignity. It tells the story of a poor girl’s struggle during the great depression in America. We see how reading makes a humble life noble and how the power of family supports children to achieve their dreams. The protagonist Francie Nolan experiences the growing helplessness in her hard life: family poverty, classmate discrimination, social injustice…However, she is always like a tree breaking through cement, growing, blooming despite tough circumstances.
《布鲁克林有棵树》是一本关于生存、梦想与尊严的小说，讲述了美国经济大萧条时期，一个贫困女孩的生活、梦想和奋斗。这是一部成长与梦想之书，告诉我们阅读如何让卑微的生命变得高贵，家庭的力量如何支撑孩子实现自己的梦想。主人公弗兰西在艰辛的生活中体味着成长的无奈：家境的贫穷、同学的歧视、社会的不公……然而她始终像那棵长在水泥地里的树一样，奋力成长，坚毅不拔。
Betty Smith, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1896, was a novelist and screenwriter. She grew up poor in Brooklyn, which was an experience that provided the framework for her debut, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.”
贝蒂·史密斯，出生于1896年的纽约布鲁克林，是一名小说家与编剧。她在布鲁克林的贫穷环境中长大，这个经历为她的处女作《布鲁克林有棵树》提供了框架。
Now let’s enjoy “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”.
下面让我们欣赏《布鲁克林有棵树》（节选） 。
SERENE was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York. Especially in the summer of 1912.
Somber, as a word, was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely
and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound, but you couldn’t fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene
was the only word for it; especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer.
宁静这个词用于纽约布鲁克林恰如其分。尤其是在1912年的夏天。沉静这个词大概更好些。只是对布鲁克林的威廉斯堡不大合适。大草原的可爱，雪兰多 的悦耳，用于布鲁克林都不合适。只能用宁静这个词，特别是夏日的一个星期六下午。
Late in the afternoon the sun slanted down into the mossy yard belonging to Francie Nolan’s
house, and warmed the worn wooden fence. Looking at the shafted sun, Francie had that same
fine feeling that came when she recalled the poem they recited in school.
This is the forest primeval.
The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld.
下午的斜阳照在弗兰西·诺兰家爬满苔藓的院子里，把破旧的木篱笆晒得暖暖的。看着斜射下来的一缕缕阳光，弗兰西心头涌出一种美好的感觉来。这样的感觉，她回忆起一首诗歌时也有过。这诗她在学校里背诵过，是这样的：
这里是原始森林
松树和铁杉，低语阵阵
苔藓如须，翠绿满身
黄昏中伫立，依稀朦胧
如一个个德鲁伊老僧
The one tree in Francie’s yard was neither a pine nor a hemlock. It had pointed leaves which
grew along green switches which radiated from the bough and made a tree which looked like a
lot of opened green umbrellas. Some people called it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its
seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of
neglected rubbish heaps and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but
only in the tenements’ districts. It liked poor people.
弗兰西院子里的树既不是松树，也不是铁杉。树上的绿色枝条从树干向四周发散，枝条上长满了尖尖的叶子，整棵树看来如同无数撑开的绿伞。有人称之为天堂树。不管它的种子落到什么地方，都会长出一棵树来，向着天空，努力生长。这树长在四周围满木篱的空场子里，或是从无人留意的垃圾堆里钻出来；它也是唯一能在水泥地里长出来的树。它长得很茂盛，而且只在居民区长。它喜欢穷人。
That was the kind of tree in Francie’s yard. Its umbrellas curled over, around and under her
third-floor fire-escape. An eleven-year-old girl sitting on this fire-escape could imagine that she
was living in a tree. That’s what Francie imagined every Saturday afternoon in summer.
弗兰西院子里长的就是这树。在她的三楼太平梯附近，树上的小“伞”一个个蜷曲过来。一个坐在太平梯上的十一岁女孩会觉得自己住在树上。夏天的每个星期六下午，弗兰西都是这么想象的。
Thanks for listening. I hope you’re back next time.
那么今天的朗读就到这里了，感谢大家的收听，我们下期再见。
本期朗读者：
温州肯恩大学广播室电台部的主播石郑爽（中文部分的朗读者）
温州肯恩大学温肯之声MC部何硕硕（英文部分的朗读者）
老师| 王葛琼 汤涟猗 James Tarwood
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