休閑對話：格列佛游記

Ann: Today, my course was British Literature. Do you know what the teacher taught? Too boring.

我今天的課是英國文學，你知道老師上了什么嗎?太無聊了。

Lily: What has he taught?

上了什么?

Ann: Gulliver’s Travels. You know? The Houyhnhnms?

格列佛游記，你知道嗎?慧馬國。

Lily: I know. I have read it when I was child.

我知道，我小時候讀過這本書。

Ann: How do you think about it?

你認為這本書怎么樣?

Lily: Just for entertainment, you know. The story is really funny.

娛樂吧，你知道的，故事真的很有趣。

Ann: In my teacher’s opinion, he said that the author, Jonathan Swift, criticized the human evil nature, such as greedy, brutal, and savage.

我老師的觀點，他說作者，喬納森斯威夫特是在批判人性惡的一面，比如說貪婪，野性，野蠻。

Lily: I can’t read it through. What I understood is the whole story itself.

我可讀不出來，我懂得就是這個故事本身。

Ann: Me too, and he wanted us to discuss about which kind of human you want to be, yahoo or houyhnhnms?

我也是，他要我們討論，我們想成為哪一種人，野胡或者是慧馬?

Lily: I just want to be human being.

我只想成為人類。