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Robert Frost was one of America's best-known and most honored serious writers. But his fame came late in his life. He was forty years old before Americans began to read his poems and praise them. Once his fame was established, however, it grew stronger and stronger during the rest of his long life.
羅伯特·弗羅斯特是美國最有名望和最受尊崇的嚴肅作家之一。然而其成名很晚。在他 40 歲時，美國民眾才開始閱讀和稱贊他的詩歌。不過，他的名氣一經確立，在此后漫長的生命中便一發不可收。
Someone once asked another American writer, Ernest Hemingway, how to become a writer. The best thing, he said, was to have an unhappy childhood. If this is true, Robert Frost's childhood was unhappy enough to make him a very good writer.
有人曾問過美國的另一位作家歐內斯特·海明威如何成為一個作家。他說，最好的事情就是有一個不幸的童年。若果真如此，羅伯特·弗羅斯特的童年足以不幸到讓他成為一位非常偉大的作家。
Robert Frost's father was a reporter who wanted to be a politician. He often drank too much alcohol and became angry. Robert was the victim of his anger. He was eleven when his father died. As a child, Robert was afraid of the dark. All his life he suffered from imaginary sicknesses. He spent the several years working at different jobs. At one time, he worked in a factory. Later, he repaired shoes. He was a teacher. He was a reporter. Always, he wrote poetry.
羅伯特·弗羅斯特的父親是一位記者，他想成為一名政治家。他酗酒，且酒后易怒。年幼的羅伯特成了受害者。11歲時，羅伯特的父親去世了。作為一個小孩，羅伯特很害怕黑暗。他的一生經歷過所有病痛的折磨。有幾年時間他都做著困難的工作。他曾在一家工廠上班。后來，他還修過鞋子。他當過老師。當過記者。但他一直都寫著詩。
In 1912, he took his family to Britain. The cost of living was low and there was an interest in what was then called a "new poetry". In Britain, Frost found a publisher for his first book of poems. The book was called, A Boy's Will. When it appeared in 1913, Frost received high praise from British readers. Praise was something he had not received in his own country.
1912 年，羅伯特.弗羅斯特舉家遷至英國。英國的生活費用較低，并且英國民眾對“新詩”感興趣。在英國，弗羅斯特找到了一家出版商來出版他的第一本詩集。那本書名為“A Boy's Will”。當它在1913年面世時，弗羅斯特受到了英國讀者的高度稱贊。他在自己的國家并沒有受到過贊賞。
His success came from uniting traditional forms of poetry with American words, spoken in a clearly American way.
羅伯特·弗羅斯特的成功源自以一種明顯的美國的敘述方式，將傳統的詩歌形式與美國的語言融合。
Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.
問題9至問題12是基于你剛剛聽到的這篇短文的
Question 9. What do we know about Robert Frost?
問題9 關于羅伯特·弗羅斯特，我們知道些什么？
Question 10. What caused Robert Frost's unhappy childhood?
問題10 什么造成了羅伯特·弗羅斯特不幸的童年？
Question 11. Why did Robert Frost take his family to Britain in 1912?
問題11 1912年羅伯特·弗羅斯特為什么舉家遷至英國？
Question 12. Where did Robert Frost's success come from basically?
問題12 羅伯特·弗羅斯特的成功源自哪里？
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