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  [三怪客泛舟记 / 杰罗姆·K·杰罗姆 著]
  Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K.Jerome

■ 简介
  这本书不是一本不朽的游记:讲的既不是横渡大洋的危险航行,又不是沿着亚马孙河的漂流探险,只不过是次小小的旅行,乘着一只小小的船。但是不管怎么说也算是次经历吧,是你、我,或者随便是谁都会遇到的……返航之后,我们便会讲起有趣的故事……
  谁是这次旅行的主人公呢?有乔治,哈里斯和“杰”,(当然还有“元帅”,它是一只狗)。不论在什么地方,什么时候都能遇到这样的三个年轻人。他们掉进水里,把东西弄丢,吵架,又笑着和好,互相讲故事……他们个个有远大的抱负,热情也很高,可就是到了早上谁也起不来。他们都想当伟大的探险家,可事实上,只要一下雨,他们还是愿意呆在暖和的火炉边,坐在舒适的椅子里。
  那我们的主人公在河上的经历到底怎么样啊?他们学会在篝火上煎鸡蛋了吗?学会不用启罐器就把罐头打开了吗?这就是他们的故事,三个怪客和一只狗在河上泛舟的故事。
  杰罗姆·K·杰罗姆(1895—1927),写过许多著名小说和剧本。他非常喜欢划船,也喜欢泰晤士河。他这本最著名和幽默的小说《三怪客泛舟记》讲的就是他和朋友们的亲身经历。


■ Chapter 1 We decide to go on holiday
  There were four of us-George,and William Samuel Harris,and myself,and Montmorency.We were sit-ting in my room,and we were smoking and talking about how bad we were-ill,I mean,of course.
  We were all feeling in poor health,and we were getting quite worried about it.Harris said that he felt really bad sometimes,and he did not know what he was doing.And then George said that he felt bad,too,and that he did not know what he was do-ing either.With me it was my heart.I knew it was my heart because I had read something in a magazine about the symp-toms of a bad heart.I had all of them.
  It is a most extraordinary thing,but every time I read about an illness,I realize that I have it too-and that my symptoms are very bad!In fact,my health has always been a worry,I remember…
  One day I had a little health problem,and I went to the British Museum Library to read about it.I took the book off the library shelf,and I began to read.After some time,I turned over the page and I began to read about another illness.I don't remember the name of the illness,but I know it was something really terrible.I read about half a page-and then I knew that I had that disease too.
  I sat there for a time,cold with horror.Slowly,I beqan to turn over more pages.I came to a disease which was worse than the last one.I began to read about it and,as I expected,I had that disease too.Then I began to get really interested in myself,so went back to the beginning of the book.I started with the letter'a'and I read from 'a'to'z'.I found that there was only one disease which I did not have.This made me a little unhappy.Why didn't I have that disease too?
  When I walked into that reading-room,I was a happy,healthy young man.When I left I was a very sick man,close to death…
  But I was talking about my heart-nobody understood how ill I really was.I had this bad heart when I was a boy.It was with me all the time.I knew that it was my heart because I had all the symptoms of a bad heart.The main symptom was that I did not want to work.Of course,nobody understood that the problem was my heart.Doctors were not so clever then.They just thought that I was lazy!
  'Why,you lazy boy,you,'they used to say.'Get up and do some work for once in your life!'they did not understand that I was ill.
  And they did not give me medicine for this illness-they hit me on the side of the head.It is very strange,but those blows on my head often made the illness go away for a time.Sometimes just one blow made the sickness disappear and made me want to start work immediately…
  Anyway,that evening,George and William Harris and I sat there for half an hour,and described our illnesses to each other.I explained to George and William Harris how I felt when I got up in the morning.William Harris told us how he felt when he went to bed.Then George stood in front of the fire,and,with great feeling,he showed us how he felt in the night.
  George always thinks he is ill,but really,there is never any-thing the matter with him,you know.
  At that monent Mrs Poppets,my housekeeper,knocked on the door.She wanted to know if we were ready to have supper.
  We smiled sadly at each other,and then we said that perhaps we should try to eat something.Harris said that a little food helped to prevent illness.So Mrs Poppets brought the supper in.We sat down at the table,and for half an hour we managed to play with some steak and chips-and with a large cake that Mrs Poppets had made
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