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Peter Rabbit 彼得兔的故事

你喜歡可愛又淘氣的Peter Rabbit嗎？

最近在倫敦正舉辦彼得兔的展覽喔~

原來彼得兔的靈感來源就是作者養的小兔子呢！

這隻兔子朋友當了小天使後，作者為兩人之間的感情留下註解，

他說Peter是 an affectionate companion and a quiet friend.

相信擁有寵物的朋友都能深深體會。

讓我們一起來聽聽關於彼得兔的故事吧！

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ukchina/simp/elt/2010/11/101118_ott_116_peter_rabbit_story.shtml

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Wang Fei: 大家好，歡迎收聽《都市掠影》節目。我是王飛。倫敦著名的博物館 the Victoria & Albert Museum 正在舉辦一個非常有趣的展覽。展覽的主題是一個英國人家喻戶曉的連環畫中的主人公，Peter Rabbit 小兔彼得。

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I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits, whose names were - Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter…

Wang Fei: 小兔彼得是深受英國兒童們喜歡的一個卡通形象之一。它從誕生到現在已經有100多年的歷史了。我們一起聽一聽一位博物館的觀眾是如何看待小兔彼得的？

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How do we like Peter Rabbit? Well, the pictures, they're very very delicate, very beautifully produced. The stories are fascinating without being too moralistic...

Wang Fei: 她說 the pictures are very delicate and beautifully produced. 圖片精緻、製作精美。The stories are fascinating without being too moralistic. Moralistic 是說教的意思。她說故事非常吸引人，但是沒有說教的味道。那 Peter Rabbit 講了一個什麼樣的故事呢？我們一起聽一聽 Emma Laws 講一講小兔彼得的故事。Emma is the Frederick Warne Curator of Children's Literature at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

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Well, there's Peter, of course. He's a particularly naughty rabbit. These are his sisters: Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail. The other main character in the story is of course Mr McGregor and of course the mother, Mrs Rabbit. So Mrs Rabbit is the one who goes shopping, leaving her children to look after themselves. The three sisters go and pick blackberries but Peter's very naughty and runs away to Mr McGregor's garden, where he has a series of rather horrifying and terrifying incidents but eventually escapes...

Wang Fei: 其實小兔彼得的故事非常簡單，他就是一個 particularly naughty rabbit 特別淘氣的小兔子。小淘氣 Peter 做什麼了呢？我們再聽 Emma 說一遍。

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The three sisters go and pick blackberries but Peter's very naughty and runs away to Mr McGregor's garden, where he has a series of rather horrifying and terrifying incidents but eventually escapes...

Wang Fei: Peter 的姐妹們去采 blackberries 黑莓，但是 Peter 跑進了 McGregor 先生家的花園。And has a series of horrifying and terrifying incidents 經歷了一系列的恐怖又可怕的事情。 But he eventually escapes 但是它最終還是逃脫了。就是這麼簡單的一個故事，可是為什麼不光英國的孩子們，就連大人們也都這麼喜歡這本小連環畫冊呢？我們繼續聽 Emma 給我們講述。聽的時候注意 illustration 的意思是畫冊中的插圖、圖片的意思。

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Every flower in her illustrations is a named flower. The rabbit, Peter Rabbit himself, is not a cartoon character – he actually looks like a real rabbit, although he's wearing a jacket, but he's anatomically correct. And it's that wonderful blend of reality and fantasy and it's a very magical characteristic of her work...

Wang Fei: Emma 覺得這本畫冊就是 a wonderful blend of reality and fantasy 現實和幻想的完美結合。其實小兔彼得正是這個連環畫作者 Beatrix Potter 女士的寵物。Beatrix Potter 從她的寵物兔 Peter 的身上獲得了靈感，於1893年創作了 Peter Rabbit 的形象。Beatrix Potter 女士在英國不但是一位傑出的畫家還是一位慈善家。深受英國人民的尊重。我們下面聽一位參觀者對展覽的感受。

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In the summer we went to the Lake District to see Beatrix Potter's house there. And so we saw some pictures of hers, but these ones following the story from the beginning right the way through to publication is very good, very good...

Wang Fei: Lake District 湖區是英格蘭西北部的一片湖光山色的自然國家公園。被採訪者去那裏參觀過 Beatrix Potter 女士的故居，在倫敦又欣賞到了她創作 Peter Rabbit 連環畫的歷程，當然是非常興奮的。在節目的最後，是 Beatrix Potter 女士曾經為她的寵物 Peter Rabbit 做的題詞，希望從中你能體會到她和 Peter 之間的深厚感情。聽眾朋友們我們下次節目再會。

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In affectionate remembrance of poor old Peter Rabbit, who died on the 26th of January 1901 at the end of his 9th year… whatever the limitations of his intellect or outward shortcomings of his fur, and his ears and toes, his disposition was uniformly amiable and his temper unfailingly sweet，an affectionate companion and a quiet friend.

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