B: Excuse me, do you have any teddy bear here? I want to buy the teddy bear Wlnnie- the Pooh as a birthday gift for my friend.
B:打擾一下，你們這兒有玩具熊賣嗎?我想要買維尼玩具熊作為生日禮物送給我朋 友
C: Of course. Please follow me.
C:當然有，請跟我來。
B： Winnie-the-Pooh is my friend’s favorite toy，so I'd like to get her one.
B:維尼熊是我朋友最喜歡的玩具，我想結買一個。
C: Pooh Bear is so cute that people love it. Ever since its birth in 1920s, it brings endless mirth to children.
C:維尼熊是那麼的可愛，所有人都喜歡它。自從它 在20世紀20年代誕生以來.就綰孩子們帶來了 無盡的歡樂。
B： Wow, it has a long history. Winnie-the-Pooh is created by Alan Alexander Milne, right?
B:哇，它有這麼長的歷史啊。維尼熊是艾倫亞歷 山大米爾恩創作的，對嗎?
C: Yes. At the age of 42, Milne published When We Were Very Young, a collection of poetry for children, included a poem about the bear. And then he published Winnie the Pooh in 1926 and The House at Pooh Corner in 1928.
C:是的。米爾恩42歲時，發表了一本名叫《當時我們還很小的時候》的詩集，詩 集裏有一首關於熊的詩。隨後他又在1926年發表了《小熊維尼》，在1928年發 表了《菩角小屋》。
B: I heard that Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, and various characters inspired by his son’s stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh.
B:我聽説米爾恩是以兩本維尼熊故事書而聞名於世的。那兩本書講述的是一個叫 克里斯多夫羅賓的小男孩的故事。書中的小男孩是以米爾恩兒子的名字命名的。 書中的其他角色也是受他兒子的毛絨玩具啟發而創造出來的，其中最著名的就是 維尼熊。
C: Well, you know a lot of Winnie-the-Pooh, too. Christopher Robin Milne’s stuffed bear was originally named “Edward”.
C:關於維尼熊，你知道的也很多。克里斯多夫羅賓米爾恩的毛絨玩具熊原來的名 字叫“愛德華”。
B: It was renamed “Winnie-the-Pooh” after a Canadian black bear named Winnie, which was used as a military mascot in World War I，and left to London Zoo during the war.
B:它是以一隻澳大利亞黑熊維尼的名字重命名的。那隻澳大利亞黑熊是一戰時的軍 隊吉祥物，住在倫敦動物園裏。
C： All three books were illustrated by E. H. Shepard, using his own son’s teddy as the model.
C:米爾恩的三本書的插圖都是由E.H.謝培德畫的，謝培德以他兒子的玩具熊作為模 特畫了插圖。
B: Later Pooh became an industry, producing toys，comics, and such films as Winnie-the- Pooh and the Honey Tree from Disney.
b：隨後維尼熊發展成了一個產業，生產玩具、連環a和《小熊維尼和蜂蜜樹》這樣 的迪斯尼電影。
C： Speaking of Milne, he is not only good at writing, but also good at math.
C:説到米爾恩，他不僅擅長寫作，還擅長數學。
B: He is a gifted mathematician and he won a scholarship to Westminster School when he was only eleven.
B:他是個天才的數學家，在11歲時就獲得威斯敏斯特學校的獎學金。
C:He studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and edited the undergraduate magazine Granta. After receiving his B.A. in 1903, he started his career as a freelance writer.
C:米爾恩在劍橋大學三一學院學習數學，並編輯了一本本科生雜誌《格蘭特》。 1903年他拿到學士學位後，開始了自由撰稿人的職業生涯。
B： During World War I he served in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment as a signals officer. The horrors he witnessed in the war left him a lifelong nostalgia for the idyllic childhood.
B: 一戰期間，米爾恩作為一名信號官在皇家沃裏克郡軍團工作。他在戰爭中所目睹 的恐懼使他餘生都迷戀於快樂的童年生活。
C： “A children’s book’ must be written, not for children, but for the author himself,” he once said.
C:米爾恩曾經説過：”兒童讀物有創作的必要，這不是為了滿足兒童的需要，而是 為了讓作者找回童車的感覺
B: When the disillusioned post-war writers depicted the “lost generation’’ of the 1920s, Milne returned in his Pooh books into the safety of his early years.
B:當戰後幻想破滅的作家在描寫20世紀20年代的“迷惘的一代”時，米爾恩卻把 注意力轉向他的"小熊維尼”系列書，重温快樂的童年生話。
C; In the 1930s and 40s Milne was active in religious and pacifist polemics. At the age of fifty-six he published his autobiography It’s Too Late Now, which focused mostly on his childhood years.
C: 20世紀30年代至40年代，米爾恩活躍於宗教和反戰辯論運動中。56歲時，他 出版自傳《現在已經太遲了》,着重描述他的童年生活。
B： After the success of Milne’s books, his son Christopher Milne has later confessed that he had problems coping with the legendary literary figure created about him.
B:在米爾恩的書大受歡迎後，他的兒子克里斯多夫米爾恩後來承認他在處理根據 他本人創作的傳奮文學形象時感到疑惑。
C： Christopher Milne has also said that his mother, Daphne, invented stories about toy animals and provided most of the material for his father’s books.
C:克里斯多夫米爾恩還説，毛絨玩具的故事是他母親達芙妮創作的，他父親著作 裏的大部分材料也是他母親提供的。
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