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A BACKWARD LOOK
前景回顧
Now you have been introduced to Ali Baba, Morgiana, Aladdin, Robinson Crusoe, and Friday. Just think! it is hundreds of years since they were born into the pages of a story-book. Yet they are no older today than they were then. Ali Baba still finds the treasure cave, and Morgiana saves his life; Aladdin rubs the magic lamp and wins his beautiful princess; Robinson Crusoe still builds his raft, saves Friday, and is rescued from the island.
現在，本書已經向你介紹了阿里巴巴、莫吉安娜、阿拉丁、魯濱遜·克魯索和星期五。想想看！從他們自故事書的書頁上誕生起，已經有幾百年了。然而，相較于那個時候的他們，今天的他們沒有變老。阿里巴巴還是在尋找藏寶洞，莫吉安娜救了他的命；阿拉丁摩擦著神燈，贏得了美麗的公主；魯濱遜·克魯索仍在建造木筏，挽救星期五，并從島上獲救。
You are now one of the great family of boys and girls all over the world who know these famous people. If you hear someone say, “John has been a real man Friday to me,” you will know exactly what is meant. If someone wishes that he had Aladdin’s lamp, you will not have to ask “What lamp?” and “Who is Aladdin?” You will probably catch yourself many times wishing that you could find a treasure cave like Ali Baba’s.
全世界有很多有男孩女孩的大家庭知道這些名人，而你是其中一員。如果你聽見有人說，“約翰對我來說是個大丈夫，”你會知道這是什么意思。如果有人希望擁有阿拉丁神燈，你不會去問“什么燈？”，也不會問“阿拉丁是誰？”你可能會發現自己很多次都希望能找到一個像阿里巴巴擁有的那樣的寶藏洞。
Which of these three stories did you like best? Why? Which was most exciting? Who was the cleverest person in the stories? Which one do you think might be a good inventor? Why? Which story sounded the most as if it had really happened?
你最喜歡這三個故事中的哪一個？為什么？哪個最令人興奮？故事里最聰明的人是誰？你認為誰是一名好的發明家？為什么？哪個故事聽起來最像是真的發生了？
As you go on with your reading in school, you will meet many famous story-book people. But there are so many that your school books cannot tell you about them all — about Sindbad the sailor, Gulliver the famous traveler, Ivanhoe the brave knight, Little Nell, Robin Hood, Rosalind, King Arthur, Eppie, and countless others. All through your life you can have many pleasant hours with interesting, kind, brave, and funny people who live for us all in the world of story-books.
當你在學校繼續讀書的時候，你會遇到很多故事書中的著名人物。但是你學校的課本不會告訴你所有的人物——關于天方夜譚，格列佛游記，勇敢的騎士伊萬霍，小內爾，羅賓漢，羅莎琳德，亞瑟王，艾比，還有無數的其他人。在你的一生中，你可以和有趣、善良、勇敢、好笑的人在一起度過許多愉快的時光，他們都生活在故事書的世界里。
