今天的这段对话，在讨论海明威，

海明威为什么尽可能地逃离城市生活？谈谈海明威的一生

来听今天的讲解:

A: I'm doing some research on American authors, could you help me?

我在对美国作家做些研究，你能帮我忙吗？

B: Sure. who are you researching?

当然可以，你在研究谁？

A: I'm thinking of doing Ernest Hemingway. I know a little about him already. Nature was an important part of Hemingway's life and work. That must be why he tried to escape city life as often as he could.

我正在考虑研究欧内斯特·海明威。我已经对他有了一些了解。他的生活和工作中最重要的部分都与大自然有关。那可能也是他,为什么尽可能地逃离城市生活的原因。

B: As soon as he became successful he preferred to live in isolated places. All of the places he lived in after the big cities were convenient locales for hunting and fishing.

他成名之后就更喜欢生活在与世隔绝的地方了。他在大城市以外选择居住的地方都很适于打猎和捕鱼。

A: While he was at school he wrote for the student newspaper, which led him to his first job at the Kansas City Star. a job which was arranged by his uncle.

他在上学时曾为学生报写稿，这使得他在堪萨斯城市《星报》获得了第一份工作。这份工作是他的叔叔帮忙安排的。

B: Did you know that when he was 18 years old he tried to enlist in the army? It was World War I at that time, but he wasn't allowed co join because of his poor eyesight.

你知道吗？他18岁时曾想过入伍。那是一战期间，但由十他视力不好而没被录用。

A: He joined the Red Cross instead as an ambulance driver, that's how he got to Europe. He was seriously wounded by an exploding mortar and in the army hospital he met a nurse, the nurse in his great novel A Farewell to Arms.

后来，他加入了红十字会当了救护车司机，就这样他去了欧洲。由于被一个引爆的迫击炮炸成重伤，他住进了部队医院，遇到了一位护士。她就是他在《永别了，武器》里写的护士的原型。

B: After that, he went to work for another newspaper back home in America.

在那之后，他回到美国，为另外一家报社工作。

A: Yes, he was the European correspondent, so he moved back to Europe.

是的，他是报社驻欧洲部的通讯记者，所以他又回到了欧洲。

B: During the mid 1920s he wrote the most important works of 20rh century fiction, both books of short stories, In Our Time and Men without Women.

在20世纪20年代中期，他写出了 20世纪最重要的作品，两部短篇小说集：《在我们的时代里》和《没有女人的男人》。

A: In four short years he went from being an unknown writer to being the most important writer of his generation. and perhaps the 20th century.

在短短4年里，他从一个不知名的作家变成了他那个年代，也可能是整个20世纪最重要的作家。

B: His writing took him to Spain, Cuba, many places! Also, he was married many times.

为了写作他去了西班牙、古巴和其它很多地方！此外，他还结过好几次婚。

A: During the Second World War he returned to Europe to report, where he met another women, his fourth wife

二战期间，他回到欧洲做报道，在那里他遇到了另外一个女人，他的第4任妻子。

B: After chat he began writing The Old Man and the Sea, another amazing book, and in 1954 he won the Noble Prize for Literature.

之后，他开始创作另一部名著《老人与海》。1954年他获得了诺贝尔文学奖。

A:Not long after, he became suicidal and in 1961  he took his own life.

在那之后不久．他就想自杀．1961年结束了自己的生命。

B: Such a shame, he was another tragic genius.

真遗憾，又是一个悲剧式的天才。