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落樱神斧英文原版介绍
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这条轶事最先是传记作家Parson Weems写出来的,他在华盛顿去世后,采访了认识童年华盛顿的人。Weems的华盛顿传在19世纪多次重印。大人用这些历史故事来教育小孩从小要讲道德,像华盛顿这种国家英雄当然是学习的榜样。
下面是英文原版介绍。
The Life of Washington. Written a year after Washington&s death, Weems&s biography served as the point of origin for many long-held myths about Washington, in particular the famous cherry tree story.
In that vignette, a six year-old Washington, overly enthusiastic in the use of his new hatchet, cuts up his father&s prized young cherry tree. When the older Washington demands to know what happened to his tree, young George, &looking at his father with the sweet face of youth brightened with the inexpressible charm of all-conquering truth,& admits that it was his fault. His father is overjoyed with George&s expression of virtuous honesty, and all is forgiven.1 Weems is also considered the originator of the story of Washington praying at Valley Forge, as well as many other lesser-known mythological anecdotes that became part of Americans& fundamental understanding of Washington.
Notes:
1. Mason Locke Weems, The Life of George Washington: With Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honourable to Himself, and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1858), 16.
2. Quoted in Scott E. Casper, American Lives: Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999), 69.
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