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。