休闲对话：格列佛游记

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

我今天的课是英国文学，你知道老师上了什么吗?太无聊了。

Lily: What has he taught?

上了什么?

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

格列佛游记，你知道吗?慧马国。

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

我知道，我小时候读过这本书。

Ann: How do you think about it?

你认为这本书怎么样?

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

娱乐吧，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.

我老师的观点，他说作者，乔纳森斯威夫特是在批判人性恶的一面，比如说贪婪，野性，野蛮。

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

我可读不出来，我懂得就是这个故事本身。

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

我也是，他要我们讨论，我们想成为哪一种人，野胡或者是慧马?

Lily: I just want to be human being.

我只想成为人类。