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grown-ups
boa constrictor
Drawing Number One
In the course of this life I have had a great many encounters with a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them. Whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at all clear-sighted, I tried the experiment of showing him my Drawing Number One, which I have always kept. I would try to find out, so, if this was a person of true understanding. But, whoever it was, he, or she, would always say: "That is a hat." Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors, or primeval forests, or stars. I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.
这样,在我的生活中,我跟许多严肃的人有过很多的接触。我在大人们中间 生活过很长时间。我仔细地观察过他们,但这并没有使我对他们的看法有多大的 改变。 当我遇到一个头脑看来稍微清楚的大人时,我就拿出一直保存着的我那第一 号作品来测试测试他。我想知道他是否真的有理解能力。可是,得到的回答总是: “这是顶帽子。”我就不和他谈巨蟒呀,原始森林呀,或者星星之类的事。我只得迁就他们的水平,和他们谈些桥牌呀,高尔夫球呀,政治呀,领带呀这些。于是大人们就十分高兴能认识我这样一个通情达理的人。