新华书店直发 全新正版 急速发货 开票联系客服
¥ 10.59 2.8折 ¥ 38 全新
库存174件
作者埃德温·埃尔德曼 主编,钱志慧 等译
出版社古吴轩出版社
ISBN9787554608043
出版时间2016-12
装帧平装
开本16开
定价38元
货号24145052
上书时间2024-10-19
推荐序一
李江月 | 伊利诺斯大学PHD,湖北省高考作文满分获得者
我在美国留学的时候,不仅要承担繁重的学习任务,还要传道授业,帮自己的导师们带本科新生。那时候我就经常想,要是有一套全新的教材,难度适中,学生和教师都能在书中获得营养,让来自中国的学生既能学习原汁原味的地道的美式英语,又能对自己所学的专业有所帮助,还能和各个领域的大咖们谈笑风生,打破很多美国人觉得中国人就是书呆子的刻板印象,那该多好啊!
这部千呼万唤始出来的《美国语文》丛书,解决了大家英语学习和教学的需求。每一篇课文都有精美的翻译,译文都做到了信达雅,读起来让人感觉如沐春风,甚至有时候让人感动,让学习英语这个看上去很繁重很枯燥的历程充满了惊喜。
众所周知,英语是不断变化的语言,也许需要每个学习者终身不断地学习。本套书的英文原版,是由常青藤名校校长精编精选,汇集了许多名家的经典之作,所以我们每一位读者,不仅是学生,还包括老师和家长,都能在这样美妙的阅读中感受到自己的进步,得到切切实实的满足感。这些美丽的体验,是市面上一般读物难以给予我们的。
相比很多所谓“高屋建瓴”的语言学著作,这部丛书经历了实践的考验,是一部非常亲民和接地气的青少年读物,也是家长和老师很好的帮手。
很多时候,因为应试教育的需求,同学们不得不死记硬背许多文学大家的作品,但是他们并不理解这些作品。于是,虽然短期内成绩提高了,却在成年后丧失了对文学的爱好和学习的欲望。不论在中国还是美国,总能看到这样令人遗憾的现象。对此,我们觉得很可惜,学习文学本来应该是一种乐趣,而不应该是一种负担。我们希望孩子们开心地学,家长们愉快地陪伴他们学习,老师们欣喜地发现孩子们的进步,而不是扼杀他们的兴趣,阻碍他们进一步追求知识的脚步。
我们知道,很多文学大师虽然不是专门的儿童作家,但是他们并不是没有给孩子写过作品。本套书的一大亮点就是集结了很多大家笔下从未被翻译成汉语的遗珠之作——在各领域专门为孩子创作的作品。通过阅读本套书,孩子们能在书中了解到许多新奇的知识,坐在家里就环游世界,也为未来的学习打下扎实的基础。
本书主编埃德温·埃尔德曼先生,用他的智慧和孜孜不倦的努力,代替了我们在文山书海的盲目搜寻,就像我们的另一双眼睛,带我们遨游浩瀚的书海,获取人类文明的精华。
一言以蔽之,这套丛书是我用过的好的美国语文学习、教学的教材,既可以用来自学,也可以用到课堂上。特此,我将这部丛书诚挚推荐给大家。让我们一起在《美国语文》的海洋里自由地冲浪吧!
推荐序二
曹海元 | MIT PHD
迄今为止,阅读一直是我的爱好,而在现今残存的记忆里,我早读到可以真正称得上书的,正是父亲给我的那套页面泛黄的《上下五千年》。我在脑海里至今仍旧清晰地记得那套书的封面,茕茕孑立的烽火台,赭红的城楼,残阳如血。华夏五千年那时而诡谲绵密时而波澜壮阔的历史也随着作者娓娓道来的小故事,奔涌到我充满好奇的内心,溅起了一片片波澜。虽然以我当时的阅历和见识无法理解许多深奥的名词和藏在历史故事背后深刻的道理,但是那套书唤起了我内心对于知识的渴望。阅读让我得以坐上时光机,身临其境般在华夏文明的浩瀚长河中自由穿梭,在我的心中种下了星星之火。正是这些星星点点的火种,照亮了我内心通往知识殿堂的道路,让阅读成了我生命中的乐趣,从而造就了我今天这副模样。
《上下五千年》那套书在我如今看来,也许简陋不堪,只是一些历史小故事汇编,但在当年那个懵懂少年看来却已然是通往圣杯的指路明灯。如今这套《美国语文》无论从文章的文学艺术性、选材的宽泛多样性来说,还是从编排的科学合理性上来看,都要遥遥领先。阅读这套书的少年从中可以先领略中世纪灿若星河的文艺复兴,再遇见近现代疾风怒涛般的工业革命;可以先认识一生锋芒毕露后却功亏一篑的拿破仑,再偶遇始终沉默寡言却在危难之际挽大厦于将倾的华盛顿。从弗吉尼亚的崎岖山岭到欧亚大陆的广袤平原,短短千言却包罗万象、荟萃乾坤,包含了世界历史、地理、博物、人物、传奇、诗歌等领域的精华。在我看来,如果说《上下五千年》只是星星点点的火苗,那么这套《美国语文》则是那光芒四射的火炬。我想读者尤其是那些处于学习阶段的青少年,必然可以像当年的我那样,从这套书中找到点燃自己心中火种的火焰,照亮通往圣杯的道路。
后,用我爱的诗歌《伊萨卡岛》中的一句话来结尾——“当你启程,前往伊萨卡岛时,愿你的道路漫长,充满奇迹,充满发现。”这也是我对所有有幸读到这套丛书的读者的祝福。我想说的就这么多了,希望我无知和浅薄的序言不会让这套书的光芒逊色。
本套书以常用单词为基础,用富有表现力的方式呈现出一个个色彩斑斓的故事,从经典神话、自然研究、诗歌、冒险故事、历史故事等几个方面由浅入深的名家推荐阅读篇目中,给语言学习者做了系统的学习规划,引导读者在阅读中感受美国社会习俗,扩充知识面。
埃德温·埃尔德曼(Edwin Alderman, 1861-1931),美国著名教育家、教育改革家。他曾担任弗吉尼亚大学校长长达25年之久,并在美国教育改革期间,为中小学生精编了这一套美国语文教材。
因毕生致力于教育改革,是美国“进步时代”(Progressive Era)的标志性人物,埃德温·埃尔德曼去世的时候,美国总统胡佛发来悼词,表示遗憾。普策利奖得主杜马斯·马龙(Dumas Malone)曾为埃德温·埃尔德曼撰写传记。
Chapter.1 Historical Figure.|.历史人物
Napoleon Bonaparte | 拿破仑·波拿巴
A Letter to the President of Congress | 致大陆议会主席的一封信
Thomas Jefferson, the“Pen of the Revolution” | 托马斯·杰斐逊:革命的文学斗士
A Breakfast with Elia | 和伊利亚共进早餐
Liberty and Independence | 自由与独立
Dedication of the Washington Monument | 华盛顿纪念碑献词
Dickens | 狄更斯
Pocahontas | 宝嘉康蒂
Webster’s School Days | 韦伯斯特的学校岁月=
Chapter.2 Views.|.各地风物
A Louisiana Sugar Plantation of the Old Regime | 路易斯安那州的老式甘蔗园
South Carolina and Massachusetts | 南卡莱罗纳州与马萨诸塞州
A Flower in the Window | 窗台边的花
In the Wheat Field | 麦田
Broek | 布鲁克
Mardi-Gras | 新奥尔良狂欢节
October in Tennssee | 十月的田纳西
November | 十一月
Home of the People | 人民之家
What Is Our Country ? | 我们有着怎样一个国家?
Chapter.3 Popularizing Sicence.|.趣味科普
The Origin of Roast Pig | 论烤猪
The Biography of a Beaver | 河狸传记
The Perils and Pleasures of Ballooning | 热气球的危险与乐趣
On the Art of Flying | 论飞行的技艺
The Sister Years | 姐妹年
Water——Some Properties | 水的特性
Chapter.4 History.|.历史瞬间
Crecy and Calais | 英法克雷西及加来之战
Loss of the Arctic | 消逝的北极号
The Stamp Act in North Carolina | 北卡罗来纳州的印花税法案
Webster Defending His Alma Mater | 守护母校的韦伯斯特
Mount Mitchell | 米切尔峰
A Cavalry Charge | 一场骑兵对战
The Man Without a Country | 没有国家的人
Chapter.5 Stories.|.趣味故事
The High Society of Inquiry | 调查协会
How I Became a Writer | 作家养成记
The Runaway Cannon | 失控的大炮
Patrasche | 忠犬帕奇
Odysseus and Polyphemos | 奥德修斯和波吕斐摩斯
A Fable | 寓言一则
Men to Be Honored | 值得尊敬的人
Choosing a Class of People to Be Exterminated
Chapter.6 Miscellaneous Poems.|.杂诗
Music in Camp | 军营之歌
O Captain! My Captain! | 啊,船长!我的船长!
The“Old, Old Song” | 古老之歌
Liberty and Independence | 自由与独立
I Remember, I Remember | 我记得,我记得
Goodbye | 再见
A Christmas Carol | 圣诞颂歌
The New Year | 新年
本套书以常用单词为基础,用富有表现力的方式呈现出一个个色彩斑斓的故事,从经典神话、自然研究、诗歌、冒险故事、历史故事等几个方面由浅入深的名家推荐阅读篇目中,给语言学习者做了系统的学习规划,引导读者在阅读中感受美国社会习俗,扩充知识面。
埃德温·埃尔德曼(Edwin Alderman, 1861-1931),美国著名教育家、教育改革家。他曾担任弗吉尼亚大学校长长达25年之久,并在美国教育改革期间,为中小学生精编了这一套美国语文教材。
因毕生致力于教育改革,是美国“进步时代”(Progressive Era)的标志性人物,埃德温·埃尔德曼去世的时候,美国总统胡佛发来悼词,表示遗憾。普策利奖得主杜马斯·马龙(Dumas Malone)曾为埃德温·埃尔德曼撰写传记。
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon understood his business. Here was a man that in each moment and emergency knew what to do next. It is an immense comfort and refreshment to the spirits, not only of kings, but of citizens. Few men have any next; they live from hand to mouth, without plan, and are ever at the end of their line, and, after each action, wait for an impulse from abroad.
Napoleon had been the first man of the world, if his ends had been purely public. As he is, he inspires confidence and vigor by the extraordinary unity of his action. He is firm,sure, self-denying, self-postponing, sacrificing everything to his aim,
His victories were only so many doors, and he never for a moment lost sight of his way onward in the dazzle and uproar of the present circumstance. He knew what to do, and he flew to his mark. He would shorten a straight line to come at his object. Horrible anecdotes may, no doubt, be collected from his history, of the price at which he bought his successes, but he must not, therefore, be set down as cruel, but only as one who knew no impediment to his will: not blood-thirsty, not cruel; but woe to what thing or person stood in his way!
“
In the plenitude of his resources every obstacle seemed to vanish.
He fought sixty battles. He had never enough. Each victory was a new weapon.
Everything depended upon the nicety of his combinations;the stars were not more punctual than his arithmetic. His personal attention descended to the smallest particulars.
Before he fought a battle Bonaparte thought little about what he should do in case of success, but a great deal about what he should do in case of a reverse of fortune. The same prudence and good sense marked all his behavior. His instructions to his secretary at the palace are worth remembering:
Those who had to deal with him found that he was not to be imposed upon, but could cipher as well as another man. When the expenses of the empress, of his household, of his palaces, had accumulated great debts, Napoleon examined the bills of the creditors himself, defeated overcharges and errors,and reduced the claims by considerable sums.
His grand weapon, namely, the millions whom he directed,he owed to the representative character which clothed him. He interests us as he stands for France and for Europe; and he exists as captain and king only as far as the Revolution or the interests of the industrious masses found an organ and a leader in him.
In the social interests he knew the meaning and value of labor, and threw himself naturally on that side. The principal works that have survived him are his magnificent roads. He filled his troops with his spirit, and a sort of freedom and companionship grew up between him and them, which the forms of his court never permitted between the officers and himself.They performed under his eye that which no others could do. The best document of his relation to his troops is the order of the day on the morning of the battle of Austerlitz, in which Napoleon promises his troops that he will keep his person out of reach of fire. This declaration, which is the reverse of that ordinarily made by generals on the eve of
battle, sufficiently explains the devotion of the army to their leader.
(Ral
— 没有更多了 —
以下为对购买帮助不大的评价