经典英文绘本

堂吉诃德｜Don Quixote

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原著作者｜塞万提斯
  • Don Quixote

  • Four hundred years have passed
  • Why do we still talk about Don Quixote

  • If you only see the jokes in him
  • You might have missed
  • The most touching idealism
  • In literary history

  • The story begins with a fifty year old squire
  • His name was Alonso Quixano
  • He lived in a remote village
  • In La Mancha

  • This man owned some land
  • But he was dirt poor
  • You call him a noble
  • He could not afford a decent meal
  • You call him a peasant
  • Yet he carried himself like aristocracy

  • His only hobby was reading
  • Only one kind of books
  • Chivalry romances

  • Those tales of knights errant
  • Those legends of lone heroes
  • Saving the world
  • He read himself
  • Into the world of books

  • Finally one day
  • He made a decision
  • He would become a knight errant
  • Just like in the books
  • To uphold justice
  • To slay demons
  • To save the people

  • He dug out his ancestral armor
  • Rusty and broken
  • Missing pieces here and there
  • He made a helmet from cardboard
  • It looked ridiculous
  • But the moment he put it on
  • His eyes changed

  • He still needed a warhorse
  • He had an old horse
  • Skin and bones
  • Gray and white fur
  • Limping as it walked
  • He gave this horse a grand name
  • Rocinante

  • It means
  • From now on
  • It will run ahead of all horses

  • In his eyes
  • This old horse was no longer
  • A beast of burden
  • But a comrade
  • About to embark on a great journey
  • It possessed a noble soul

  • From this moment on
  • Rocinante carried
  • A madman's dream

  • A knight also needed a lady
  • He thought of a village girl next door
  • A sturdy and simple peasant woman
  • He named her Dulcinea
  • In his imagination
  • She was a peerless beauty
  • The embodiment of purity and nobility
  • Everything he would fight for

  • Finally
  • He gave himself a title
  • Don Quixote of La Mancha

  • A squire died
  • A knight was born

  • On a sunny morning
  • Don Quixote mounted Rocinante
  • And began his first expedition

  • He arrived at a country inn
  • In his eyes
  • This was a majestic castle
  • The two women at the door
  • Were noble princesses
  • The innkeeper looked at this fully armed oddball
  • Just wanted to get rid of him quickly

  • Don Quixote knelt before the innkeeper
  • Requesting the dubbing ceremony
  • The innkeeper had no choice
  • But to play along
  • Holding a ledger as a Bible
  • He mockingly knighted him
  • Don Quixote bowed his head devoutly
  • Accepting this absurd coronation

  • He was officially a knight now
  • It was time
  • To perform acts of chivalry

  • On the road
  • He saw a farmer whipping a shepherd boy
  • Don Quixote was furious
  • He charged forward with his lance
  • The farmer was terrified by this madman
  • Begging for mercy
  • Promising not to abuse the child anymore

  • Don Quixote left satisfied
  • He thought he had done a great deed
  • But the moment he left
  • The farmer tied the boy back to the tree
  • And beat him even harder

  • This is the tragedy of Don Quixote
  • He wanted to be a savior
  • But lacked the power to save anyone

  • Anger without strength
  • Is just useless noise
  • The strong need not rage to command respect
  • The weak can scream their throats raw
  • But it is still just a farce

  • Later
  • He forced some merchants to admit
  • That Dulcinea was the most beautiful woman in the world
  • The merchants laughed loudly
  • Mocking this madman
  • Rocinante suddenly stumbled
  • Don Quixote fell to the ground
  • The heavy armor left him immobilized
  • The merchants picked up his lance
  • And beat him severely

  • He lay in the dust
  • Like a turtle on its back
  • Finally carried home by neighbors

  • His family was heartbroken
  • They burned all his chivalry books
  • Telling him they were stolen by a magician
  • Don Quixote lay in bed recovering
  • But his heart
  • Had already flown to distant adventures

  • This time
  • He decided to bring a squire
  • He found his neighbor Sancho
  • An honest farmer
  • Don Quixote said to him
  • Come with me
  • When I conquer the world
  • I will make you governor of an island

  • Sancho thought about it
  • Governor
  • That is a good deal
  • So he mounted his little gray donkey
  • And followed Don Quixote
  • Thus was born
  • The most classic master and servant duo
  • In literary history

  • They began their second expedition
  • This time
  • Famous scenes followed one after another

  • The most classic
  • Was undoubtedly the battle with the windmills

  • Don Quixote saw the windmills in the field
  • Thirty giant windmills
  • Turning in the wind
  • In his eyes
  • They were giants waving long arms
  • The embodiment of evil

  • Sancho shouted
  • Master
  • Those are windmills
  • Don Quixote turned a deaf ear
  • He said
  • Sancho
  • If you are afraid
  • Stay away
  • This is a war of justice

  • He raised his lance
  • Charging at the windmill
  • The lance struck the windmill blade
  • And broke
  • He was thrown off
  • Horse and all
  • Rolling on the ground
  • In utter disgrace

  • But he got up
  • Dusted himself off
  • And said
  • This is the trickery of a magician
  • He turned the giants into windmills
  • To steal my victory

  • You see
  • This is the logic of a madman
  • He never loses
  • Because all his failures
  • Can find explanations
  • In his own world

  • Cervantes wrote this book
  • Originally to satirize chivalry novels
  • But he never expected
  • That this madman he created
  • Would become the greatest idealist
  • In literary history

  • How did Don Quixote die
  • On his deathbed
  • He suddenly became clear headed
  • He said
  • I am not a knight
  • I am Alonso Quixano
  • A poor squire
  • Then
  • He died
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