Three Men in a Boat

中文名:
三怪客泛舟记
作者:
杰罗米·K·杰罗米 Jerome K Jerome
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三怪客泛舟记(Three Men in a Boat)简介:

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog),[Note 1] published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.

The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide,[1] with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers - the jokes seem fresh and witty even today.[2]

The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who went on to become a senior manager in Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom he often took boating trips.[1] The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional,[1] but "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog."[2] The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff.[Note 2] This is just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity.

Because of the overwhelming success of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, entitled Three Men on the Bummel.

A similar book was published seven years before Jerome's work, entitled Three in Norway (by two of them) by J. A. Lees and W. J. Clutterbuck. It tells of three men on an expedition into the wild Jotunheimen in Norway.

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?他们学会在簧火上煎鸡蛋了吗?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。

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