讲故事的人

Lesson1 Finding fossil man发现化石人 We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East,where people first learned to write.But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write.The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas-legends handed down from one generation of storytellers to another.

通过在近东的那些第一个学会书写的人们的记录，我们可以知道五千年前发生在近东的事，但是，到现在为止世界上仍然有一些地区的人们不会书写，他们能够保存他们的历史的唯一方法就是把它当作英雄故事或传奇来一代一代的通过讲故事的人们流传下来。

The essayist arises in the morning and, if he has work to do, selects his garb from an unusually extensive wardrobe: he can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter-philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confident, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast.

散文家清晨起来，倘若有工作得做，总从一批特别多样化的服装中挑选出他的外衣来：且不论他是那一类人，他可以根据自己的心境或是题材披上任何种类的衬衫——哲学家、爱骂人的人、诙谐的人、讲故事的人、知己朋友、学术权威、爱唱反调的人、热心人士。

The essayist arises in the morning and, if he has work to do, selects his garb from an unusually extensive wardrobe: he can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter----philosopher scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast.

散文家清晨起来，倘若有工作得做，总从一批特别多样化的服装中挑选出他的外衣来：且不论他是那一类人，他可以根据自己的心境或是题材披上任何种类的衬衫----哲学家、爱骂人的人、诙谐的人、讲故事的人、知己朋友、学术权威、爱唱反调的人、热心人士。

On television, Mister Sagan was a good storyteller. He was able to explain complex scientific ideas in simple ways.

在电视上，萨根先生是一位非常善于讲故事的人，他能够用非常简单的方法将非常复杂的科学原理讲清楚。

Why did the storyteller give them this name?

为什么讲故事的人会给他们这个名字？

In the Middle Ages it was a common device of storytellers to gather together a series of tales loosely related in some way. Chaucer joins a group of travelers at the Tabard Inn, on the bank of the Thames in the Southwark section of London.

在中世纪，讲故事的人通常按某种方式，将一系列松散的故事串在一起乔叟在伦敦萨瑟克的泰晤士河岸的塔巴德客店加入一群旅行者。

He's a taleteller.

他是讲故事的人。

In those days ,there were almost as many tales in Demark as there were pelple to tell them.

那时在丹麦，故事几乎与讲故事的人一样多。

If I want to be a motivator on Tuesday, a scientist on Wednesday and a story-teller on Thursday, that's okay - cause there ain't no rules on my blog.

星期二我想成为劝导者，我就是劝导者；星期三我想成为科学家，我就是科学家；星期四我想成为讲故事的人，我就是讲故事的人，这些都可以－因为在我的博客里没有规则。

For the goodness of my own soul, I need to appoint those relatively serious and decent poets or story-teller… They will imitate words of the kind, and tell stories according to stipulated story types.

为了自己的灵魂之善，要任用较为严肃和正派的诗人或讲故事的人……他会模仿好人的措辞，按照我们一开始就已经规定了的类型来讲故事。

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。