英语听力：寻羊冒险记—寻找村上春树 3

 It had a few windows on the north side, but these were pressed against the mountain, which is why the corridor was always dark. And it was almost always silent, in my memory at least. I'm not exactly sure why the girl from Ipanema reminds me of the high school corridor. The two have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

 

I love the girl from Ipanema. And of course, there's an example really in a nutshell of Murakami's styles, isn't it? There's autobiography¹ in there; there's music in there; there's sort of metaphysics in there; there's a girl in there.

 

Um, you know, it's wonderful. He takes a simple premise² in the real world, or at least in something close to the real world, something in a record and just goes into it.

 

When I think of my high school's corridor, I think of combination salad--lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, asparagus, onion rings, and pink Thousand-Island dressing³. Combination salads remind me of a girl I sort of knew back then. Now this connection is a logical one, because all this girl ever ate was salads. Whenever I was with her, we had these salad-filled conversations. She was a girl of strong convictions, one of which was that if you ate a well-balanced diet with plenty of vegetables, everything would be all right.

 

He's able to just take philosophical⁴ meditations⁵ on the meaning of life and on memory and time and absolutely play games with them.

 

He's an existentialist ,one way or another, isn't he?

 

Absolutely, absolutely! The message is a real simple one that life is what you make it. There's nothing exterior⁶; there's nothing outside the brain. It's all inside; It's all...all of realities. It's in your synapsis. The best thing you can do is just keep learning about the world and whatever meaning it has is meaning that you  assign to it.

 

（All the leaves are brown，and the sky is grey. I’ve been for a walk on a winter’s day....）

 

Kobe High School, where Murakami spent his adolescence⁷, not the greatest student.  He says he passed his time playing mah-jongg(mah-jong), fooling around with girls, skipping class, smoking, and reading novels.

 

I'm a kind of rebel. It was the 1960s, the age of the rebel. We felt we were free. We could do anything. Back then, I just wanted to find a window that faced the outside world, and it happened to be foreign culture. I was interested in reading books in English, mostly American literature. So I was addicted⁸ to those things. I could escape from Japanese society and its culture. So it was just great.

1 autobiography   

n.自传

参考例句：

• He published his autobiography last autumn.他去年秋天出版了自己的自传。
• His life story is recounted in two fascinating volumes of autobiography.这两卷引人入胜的自传小说详述了他的生平。

2 premise   

n.前提；v.提论，预述

参考例句：

• Let me premise my argument with a bit of history.让我引述一些史实作为我立论的前提。
• We can deduce a conclusion from the premise.我们可以从这个前提推出结论。

3 dressing   

n.(食物)调料；包扎伤口的用品，敷料

参考例句：

• Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
• The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。

4 philosophical   

adj.哲学家的，哲学上的，达观的

参考例句：

• The teacher couldn't answer the philosophical problem.老师不能解答这个哲学问题。
• She is very philosophical about her bad luck.她对自己的不幸看得很开。

5 meditations   

默想( meditation的名词复数 )； 默念； 沉思； 冥想

参考例句：

• Each sentence seems a quarry of rich meditations. 每一句话似乎都给人以许多冥思默想。
• I'm sorry to interrupt your meditations. 我很抱歉，打断你思考问题了。

6 exterior   

adj.外部的，外在的；表面的

参考例句：

• The seed has a hard exterior covering.这种子外壳很硬。
• We are painting the exterior wall of the house.我们正在给房子的外墙涂漆。

7 adolescence   

n.青春期，青少年

参考例句：

• Adolescence is the process of going from childhood to maturity.青春期是从少年到成年的过渡期。
• The film is about the trials and tribulations of adolescence.这部电影讲述了青春期的麻烦和苦恼。

8 addicted   

adj.沉溺于....的，对...上瘾的

参考例句：

• He was addicted to heroin at the age of 17.他17岁的时候对海洛因上了瘾。
• She's become addicted to love stories.她迷上了爱情小说。