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| Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Natu re, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing. In the book it said: "Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion." I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked like this: I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them. | 我六岁的那一年，曾经在一本描述原始森林的书籍《自然界图鉴》之中，看到一幅令人大开眼界的图画。 上面绘着一条大蟒蛇正吞食动物的画面。 以下就是这一张图画。 书是这样写着：大蟒蛇将捕获的猎物囫囵吞枣般咽下去，没有经过咀嚼。 吞下去之后，大蟒蛇动弹不得，于是利用六个月的睡眠来消化。 那时候我沉湎于丛林冒险的幻想当中。 并拿起一枝彩笔完成我的第一幅画。 以下就是我的第一件作品。 我把自己的作品拿给大人们欣赏，并问他们是否会被这幅画吓得心惊肉跳？ |
- magnificent [mæg´nifisənt]
a.壮丽的；豪华的 (初中英语单词) - swallow [swɔləu] n.燕子 v.吞，咽；淹没 (初中英语单词)
- jungle [´dʒʌŋgəl] n.丛林；杂乱的东西 (高中英语单词)
- drawing [´drɔ:iŋ] n.画图；制图；图样 (英语四级单词)
- masterpiece [´mɑ:stəpi:s] n.杰作；杰出的事 (英语四级单词)
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