野性的呼唤(英文版)
野性的呼唤英文读后感The Call of the Wild
三一文库()〔野性的呼唤英文读后感The Call ofthe Wild〕读完《野性的呼唤》这本书,我深深感受到了动物的思想和感情。
"The call of the wild" after reading this book, Ideeply felt the animal's thoughts and feelings.小狗巴克生活在南方,过习惯了悠闲自得的生活,养成了温柔的性格,但是,这样的日子没过多久,因为,有一天园丁把巴克拐卖到了北方。
它被想得到金子的人用作了雪橇狗,拉雪橇。
祖先们原始的野性在它身上渐渐发出。
巴克渐渐变得残酷,它让所有的和它一块儿拉雪橇的狗们都顺从了它,然后把狗群的首领咬死,自己当了首领。
后来的主人桑第1页共3页顿对巴克很好,巴克也和桑顿过的像一家人一样亲密。
可是后来,桑顿被河水淹死了。
巴克一点儿牵挂都没了,就跑到森林里当了狼。
The dog back to live in the south, too accustomedto leisurely life, develop a gentle character, but thistime, not long before, because, one day the gardenerto buck abducted to the north. It is to want to obtainthe gold used for the sled dog sled. Ancestors of the original wild on it began to make. Buck gradually become cruel, it makes it all together and the sled dogs are resigned to it, and then killed the princes of Gou Qun himself as leader. Later, master Thornton is good to buck, buck and Thornton had as a family intimacy. Butthen, Thornton was drowned. Buck was worried about not,went to the forest as a wolf.巴克在南方只是一条宠物狗,倒是要感激园丁的拐卖,幸而,才改变了它的一生。
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The Call of the Wild: Background
In August 1896, gold was discovered in Rabbit Creek in the Yukon Territory of western Canada.
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The Call of the Wild: Background When news of the find reached the United States, the Klondike gold rush was on.
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The Call of the Wild: Background
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Major Works
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Major Works
•The People of the Abyss(1903) 深渊中的人们 • The Call of the Wild(1903) 野性的呼唤 • The Sea Wolf(1904) 海狼 • White Fang(1906) 白牙 • Love of Life (1907) 热爱生命 •The Iron Heel(1908) 铁蹄 • Martin Eden(1909) 马丁.伊登 • The Valley of the Moon(1912) 月谷 • The Star Rover(1915) 星游人 • The Little Lady of the Big House(1916)大屋里的小妇人
The Son of the Wolf(1900)
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died from a gastrointestinal of uremia (尿毒 症)though it was widely supposed that he committed suicide.(at 40)
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He was preeminently cunning, and could bide his time with a patience that nothing less than primitive.
他是头等的狡猾,并且能够用他天 生就有的的那种忍耐等待时机。
故事
发展
• 在一个法官的家里过着养尊处优的生活 • 被法官那贪婪的助手给拐卖到一个训练狗拉雪橇
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• 到严寒的阿拉斯加岛上拉雪橇 • 受尽了皮肉和精神的双重折磨 • 渐渐适应了没有人性的生活 • 打败了他的对手,当上了领头军 • 换了主人,受尽鞭打。仁慈的桑顿带着他离开了 • 桑顿被土著居民打死,暴怒的巴克为了给主人报
was then only forty years old.
Jack believed in self---struggle, and strove very hard to be the strong of life, because he learnt the law of the nature ,the strong conquered the weak. He also held very active and enthusiastic attitude toward life. The following quotation may fully illustrate what he was .
仇咬死了许多人
• 野性在向他呼唤,他加入了狼群,走向了那本属 于他的—野性
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Buck, the main character, is a Saint Bernard and Scotch Shepherd cross, which gives him the appearance of an exceptionally large dog that looks similar to a wolf. Buck leads a comfortable life as the pet of Judge Miller in the ‘sunkissed’ Santa Clara Valley of Northern California. Judge Miller‘s gardener’s assistant, Manuel, along with a friend, abducts the dog and sells him to a trainer of sled dogs, which were in great demand due to the discovery of “a yellow metal” in the frozen lands of the Yukon, Alaska. Slowly introduced to the brutality of his new life, Buck is forced to survive and adapt to conditions in Alaska and the Yukon. He works pulling sleds with other dogs, learns to steal food, and engages in power struggle with other dogs for the lead position in the sled team. He becomes the leader of the sled
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1 To the northBuck did not read the newspapers.He did not know that trouble was coming for every big dog in California.Men had found gold in the Yukon,and these men wanted big,strong dogs to work in the cold and snow of the north.Buck lived in Mr Miller's big house in the sunny Santa Clara valley There were large gardens and fields of fruit trees around the house,and a river nearby.In a big placelike this,of course,there were many dogs There were house dogs and farm dogs,butthey were not important.Buck was chief dog;he was born here,and this was his place .He was four years old and weighed sixty kilos .He went swimming with Mr Miller's sons,and walking with his daughters .He carried the grandchildren on his back,and he sat at Mr Miller's feet in front of the fire in winter.But this was 1897,and Buck did not know that men and dogs were hurrying to north-west Canada to look for gold.And he did not know that Manuel,one of Mr Miller's garden-ers,needed money for his large family.One day,when Mr Miller wasout,Manuel and Buck left the gardentogether.It was just an evening walk,Buck thought.No one saw them go,and only one man saw them arrive at the railway station.This man talked to Manuel,and gave him some money .Then he tied a piece of rope around Buck's neck.Buck growled,and was surprised when the rope was pulled hard around his neck.Hejumped at the man.The man caught him and suddenly Buck was on his back with his tongue out of his mouth.For a few moments he was unable to move,and it was easy for the two men to put him into the train.When Buck woke up,the train was still moving.The man was sitting and watching him,but Buck was too quick for him and he bit the man's hand hard.Then the rope was pulled again and Buck had to let go.That evening,the man took Buck to theback room of a bar in San Francisco.The barman looked at the man's hand and trousers covered in blood.‘How much are they paying you for this?’he asked.‘I only get fifty dollars.’‘And the man who stole him—how much did he get?’ asked the barman.‘A hundred.He wouldn't take less.’‘That makes a hundred and fifty.It's a good price for a dog like him .Here,help me to get him into this.’They took off Buck's rope and pushed him into a wooden box.He spent the night in the box in the back room of the bar.His neck still ached with pain from the rope,and he could not understand what it all meant .What did they want with him,these strange men?And where was MrMiller?The next day Buck was carried in the box to the railway station and put on a trainto the north.For two days and nights the train travelled north,and for two days and nights Buck neither ate nor drank.Men on the train laughed at him and pushed sticks at him through the holes in the box.For two days and nights Buck got angrier and hungrier and thirsti-er.His eyes grew red and he bit anything that moved.In Seattle four men took Buck to a small,high-walled back garden,where a fatman in an old red coat was waiting.Buck was now very angry indeed and hejumped and bit at the sides of his box.The fat man smiled and went to get an axe and a club.‘Are you going to take him out now?’ asked one of the men.‘Of course,’ answered the fat man,and he began to break the box with his axe.Immediately the four other men climbed up onto the wall to watch from a safe place.As the fat man hit the box with his axe,Buck jumped at the sides,growling and biting,pulling with his teeth at the piecesof broken wood.After a few minutes there was a hole big enough for Buck to get out.‘ Now,come here,red eyes,’ said the fat man,dropping his axe and taking the club in his right hand.Buck jumped at the man,sixty kilos of anger,his mouth wide open ready to bite the man's neck.Just before his teeth touched the skin,the man hit him with theclub.Buck fell to the ground.It was the first time anyone had hit him with a club and he did not understand.He stood up,and jumped again.Again the club hit him and he crashed to the ground.Ten times he jumped at the man,and ten times the clubhit him.Slowly he got to his feet,now only just able to stand.There was blood on his nose and mouth and ears.Then the fat man walked up and hit him again,very hard,on the nose.The pain was terrible.Again,Buck jumped at the man and again he was hit to the ground.A last time he jumped,and this time,when the man knocked him down,Buck did not move.‘He knows how to teach a dog a lesson,’ saidone of the men on the wall.Then the four men jumped down and went back to the station.‘His name is Buck,’said the fat man to himself,reading the letter that had come with the box.‘Well,Buck,my by,’he said in a friendly voice,‘we've argued a little,and I think the best thing to do now is to stop.Be a good dog and we'll be friends.But if you're a bad dog,I'll have to use my club again.Understand?’As he spoke,he touched Buck’ s head,and although Buck was angry inside,he did not move.When the man brought him water and meat,Buck drank and then ate the meat,piece by piece,from the man's hand.Buck was beaten(he knew that)but he was not broken.He had learnt that a man with a club was stronger than him.Every day he saw more dogs arrive,and each dogwas beaten by the fat man.Buck understood that a man with a club must be obeyed,although he did not have to be a friend.Men came to see the fat man and to look at the dogs.Some-times they paid money and left with one or more of the dogs.One day a short,dark man came and looked at Buck.‘That's a good dog!’ he cried.‘How much do you want for him?’‘Three hundred dollars.It's a good price,Perrault,’said the fat man.Perrault smiled and agreed that it was a good price.He knew dogs,and he knew that Buck was an excellent dog.‘On e in ten thousand,’ Perrault said tohimself.Buck saw money put into the fat man’ s hand,and he was not surprised when he and another dog called Curly were taken away by Perrault.He took them to a ship,and later that day Buck and Curly stood and watched the coast get further and further away.They had seen the warm south for the last time.Perrault took Buck and Curly down to the bottom of the ship.There they met another man,Francois.Perrault was a French -Canadian,but Francois was half-Indian,tall and dark.Buck learnt quickly that Perrault and Francois were fair men,calm and honest.And they knew everything about dogs.There were two other dogs on the ship.One was a big dog called Spitz,as white as snow.He was friendly to Buck at first,always smiling.He was smiling when he tried to steal Buck’ s food at the first meal.Francois was quick and hit Spitz before Buck had time to move.Buck decided that this was fair,and began to like Francois a little.Dave,the other dog,was not friendly.He wanted to be alone all the time.He ate and slept and was interested in nothing.One day was very like another,but Buck noticed that the weather was getting colder.One morning,the ship's engines stopped,and there was a feeling of excitement in the ship.Francois leashed the dogs and took them outside.At the first step Buck's feet went into something soft and white.He jumped back in surprise.The soft,white thing was alsofalling through the air,and it fell onto him.He tried to smell it,and then caught some on his tongue.It bit like fire,and then dis appeared.He tried again and the same thing happened.People were watching him and laughing,and Buck felt ashamed,although he did not know why.It was his first snow.2 The law of club and toothBuck's first day at Dyea Beach was terrible.Every hour there was some new,frightening surprise.There was no peace,no rest—only continual noise and movement.And every minute there was danger,because these dogs and men were not town dogs and men.They knew only the law of club and tooth.Buck had never seen dogs fight like these dogs;they were like wolves.In a few minutes he learnt this from watching Curly.She tried to make friends with a dog,a big one,al-though not as big as she was.There was no warning.The dog jumped on Curly,his teeth closed together,then he jumped away,and Curly's face was torn open from eye to mouth.Wolves fight like this,biting and jumping away,but the fight did not finish then.Thirty or forty more dogs ran up and made a circle around the fight,watching silently.Curly tried to attack the dog who had bitten her;he bit her a second time,and jumped away.When she attacked him again,he knocked her backwards,and she fell on the ground.She never stood up again,because this was what the other dogs were waiting for.They moved in,and in a moment she was under a crowd of dogs.It was all very sudden.Buck saw Spitz run out from the crowd with his tongue out ofhis mouth,laughing.Then he sawFrancois with an axe,and two or three other men with clubs jump in among the dogs.Two minutes later the last of the dogs was chased away.But Curly lay dead in the snow,her body torn almost to pieces.Curly's death often came backto Buck in his dreams.He understood that once a dog was down on the ground,he was dead He also remembered Spitz laughing,and from that moment he hated him.Then Buck had another surprise.Francois put a harness on him.Buck had seen harnesses on horses,and now he was madeto work like a horse,pulling Francois on a sledge into the forest and returning with wood for the fire.Buck worked with Spitz and Dave.The two other dogs had worked in a har-ness before,and Buck learnt by watching them.He also learnt to stop and turn when Francois shouted.‘Those three are very good dogs,’Francois told Perrault.‘That Buck pulls very well,and he's learning quickly.Perrault had important letters and official papers to take to Dawson City,so that afternoon he bought two more dogs,two brothers called Billee and Joe.Billee wasvery friendly,but Joe was the opposite.In the evening Perrault bought one more dog,an old dog with one eye .His name was Sol-leks,which means The Angry One.Like Dave,he made no friends;all he wanted was to be alone.That night Buck discovered another problem.Where was he going to sleep?Francois and Perrault were in their tent,but when he went in,they shouted angrily and threw things at him.Outside it was very cold and windy.He lay down in the snow,but he was too cold to sleep.He walked around the tents trying to findthe other dogs.But,to his surprise,they had disappeared.He walked around Perrault's tent,very,very cold,wondering what to do.Sud-denly,the snow under his feet fell in,and he felt something move.He jumped back,waiting for the attack,but heard on-ly a friendly bark.There,in a warm hole under the snow,was Billee.So that was what you had to do.Buck chose a place,dug himself a hole and in a minute he was warm and asleep.He slept well,although his dreams were bad.When he woke up,at first he did not knowwhere he was.It had snowed in the night and the snow now lay thick and heavy above him.Suddenly he was afraid—the fear of a wild animal when it is caught and cannot escape.Growling,he threw himself at the snow,and a moment later,he had jumped upwards into the daylight.He saw the tents and re-membered everything,from the time he had gone for a walk with Manuel to the moment he had dug the hole the night before.‘What did I say?’ shou ted Francois to Perrault,when he saw Buck come up out of the snow.‘That Buck learns quickly.’Perrault smiled slowly.He was carrying important papers,and he needed good dogs.He was very pleased to have Buck.They bought three more dogs that morning,and a quarter of an hour later all nine dogs were in harness and on their way up the Dyea Canyon.Buck was not sorry to bemoving,and although it was hard work,he almost enjoyed it.He was also surprised to see that Dave and Sol-leks no longer looked bored and miserable.Pulling in a harness was their job,and they were happy to do it.Dave was sledge-dog,the dog nearest tothe sledge.In front of him was Buck,then came Sol-leks.In front of them were the six other dogs,with Spitz as leader at the front.Francois had put Buck between Dave and Sol-leks because they could teach him the work.Buck learnt well,and they were good teachers.When Buck pulled the wrong way,Dave always bit his leg,but only lightly.Once,when they stopped,Buck got tied up in his harness,and it took ten minutes to get started again.Both Dave and Sol-leks gave him a good beating for that mistake.Buck understood,and was more careful after that.It was a hard day's journey,up the DyeaCanyon and into the mountains.They camped that night at Lake Bennett.Herethere were thousands of gold miners.They were building boats to sail up the lake when the ice melted in the spring.Buck made his hole in the snow and slept well,but was woken up very early and harnessed to the sledge.The first day they had travelled on snow that had been hardened by many sledges and they covered sixty kilometres.But the next day,and for days afterwards,they were on new snow.The work was harder and they went slowly.Usually,Perrault went in front,on snowshoes,flattening the snow a littlefor the dogs.Francois stayed by the sledge.Sometimes the two men changed places,but there were many small lakes and rivers,and Perrault understood ice better.He always knew when the ice acro ss a river was very thin.Day after day Buck pulled in his harness.They started in the morning before it was light,and they stopped in the evening after dark,ate a piece of fish,and went to sleep in their holes under the snow.Buck was always hungry.Francoisgave him 750 grams of dried fish a day,and it was never enough.The other dogs were given only 500 grams;they were smaller and could staydive on less food.Buck learnt to eat quickly;if he was tooslow,the other dogs stole his food.Hesaw Pike,one of the new dogs,steal some meat from the sledge when Perrault wasn't looking.The next day Buck stole some and got away unseen.Perrault was very angry,but he thought another dog,Dub,had taken it and so punished him instead of Buck.Buck was learning how to live in the north.In the south he had never stolen,but there he had never been so hungry.He stole cleverly and secretly,remembering thebeatings from the man with the club.Buck was learning the law of club and tooth.He learnt to eat any food—anything that he could get his teeth into.He learnt to break the ice on water holes with his feet when he wanted to drink He was stronger,harder,and could see and smell better than ever before .In a way,he was remembering back to the days when wild dogs travelled in packs through the forest,killing for meat as they went.It was easy for him to learn to fight like a wolf,because it was in his blood.In the evenings,when he pointed his nose at the moon and howled long andloud,he was remembering the dogs and wolves that had come before him.3 The wild animalThe wild animal was strong in Buck,and as he travelled across the snow,it grew stronger and stronger.And as Buck grewstronger,he hated Spitz more and more,although he was careful never to start a fight.But Spitz was always showing his teeth to Buck,trying to start a fight.And Buck knew that if he and Spitz fought,one ofthem would die.The fight almost happened one night when they stopped by Lake Laberge.There was heavy snow and it was very cold.The lake was frozen and Francois,Perrault,and the dogs had to spend the night on the ice,under a big rock.Buck had made a warm hole in the snow and was sorry to leave it to get his piece of fish.But when he had eaten.and returned to his hole,he found Spitz in it.Buck had tried not to fight Spitz be-fore,but this was too much.He attacked him angrily.Spitz was surprised.He knew Buck was big,but he didn’ t know he was so wild.Francois wassurprised too,and guessed why Buck was angry.‘Go on Buck!’ h e shouted.‘Fight him,the dirty thief!’Spitz was also ready to fight,and the two dogs circled one another,looking for the chance to jump in.But suddenly there was a shout from Perrault,and they saw eighty or a hundred dogs around the sledge.Thedogs came from an Indian village,and they were searching for the food that they could smell on the sledge.Perrault and Francois tried to fight them off with their clubs,but the dogs,made crazy by the smell of the food,showed their teeth and fought back.Buck had never seed dogs like these.Theywere all skin and bone,but hunger madethem fight like wild things.Three of them attacked Buck and in seconds his head and legs were bad-ly bitten.Dave and Sol-leks stood side by side,covered in blood,fighting bravely.Joe and Pike jumped on one dog,and Pike broke its neck with one bite.Buck caught another dog by the neck and tasted blood.He threw himself on the next one,and then felt teeth in his own neck.It was Spitz,attacking him from the side.Perrault and Francois came to help with clubs,but then they had to run back to savethe food .It was safer for the nine sledge -dogs to run away across the lake.Several of them were badly hurt,and they spent an unhappy night hiding among the tress.At first light they returned to the sledge and found Perrault and Francois tired and angry.Half their food was gone.The Indian dogs had even eaten one of Perrault's shoes.Francois looked at his dogs unhappily.‘Ah,my friends,’he said softly,‘Perhaps those bites will make you ill.What do you think,Perrault?’Perrault said nothing.They still had sixhundred kilometres to travel,and he hoped very much that his sledge-dogs had not caught rabies from the Indian dogs.The harness was torn and damaged and it was two hours be-fore they were moving,travelling slowly and painfully over the most difficult country that they had been in.The Thirty Mile River was not frozen.It ran too fast to freeze.They spent six daystrying to find a place to cross,and every step was dangerous for dogs and men.Twelve times they found ice bridges across the river,and Perrault walked carefully onto them,holding a long piece ofwood.And twelve times he fell through abridge and was saved by the piece of wood,which caught on the sides of the hole.But the tempera-ture was 45° below zero,andeach time Perrault fell into the water,he had to light a fire to dry and warm himself.Once,the sledge fell through the ice,with Dave and Buck,and they were covered in ice by the time Perrault and Francois pulled them out of the river.Again,a fire was needed to save them.Another time,Spitz and the dogs in front fell through the ice—Buck and Dave and Francois at the sledge had to pull backwards.That day they travelled only four hundred metres.When they got to the Hootalinqua and good ice,Buck and the other dogs were very,very tired.But they were late,so Perrault made them run faster.In three days they went a hun-dred and eighty kilometres and reached the Five Fingers.The other dogs had hard feet from years of pulling sledges,but Buck's feet were still soft from his easy life down south.All day he ran painfully,and when they camped for the night,he lay down like a dead dog.He was hungry,but he was too tired to walk to the fish,so Francois brought it to him.One day Francois made four little shoes for him,andthis made Buck much more comfortable.Francois forgot the shoes onemorning,and Buck refused to move.He lay on his back with his feet in the air,until Francois put the shoes on.Later his feet grew harder and the shoes were notneeded.One morning,at the Pelly River,a dogcalled Delly went suddenly mad.She howled long and loud like a wolf and then jumped at Buck.Buck ran,with Dolly one step behind him.She could not catch him,but he could not escape from her.They ran half a kilometre,and then Buck heard Francois call to him.He turned and ran towards the man,sure that Francois wouldsave him.Francois stood ,holding his axe,and as Buck passed,the axe crashed down on Dolly's head.Buck fell down by the sledge,too tired to move.Immedi-ately,Spitz attacked him and bit his helpless enemy twice,as hard as he could.But Francois saw this,and gave Spitz a ter-rible beating for it.‘He's a wild dog,that Spitz,’said Perrault.‘One day he'll kill Buck.’‘Buck is wilder,’replied Francois.‘I've been watching him.One day he'll get very angry and he'll fight Spitz;and he'll win.’Francois was right.Buck wanted to belead-dog.Spitz knew this and hatedhim.Buck started to help the other dogs when Spitz punished them for being lazy.One morning,Pike refused to get up,and Spitz looked for him everywhere.When he found him,he jumped at him.But suddenly,Buck at-tacked Spitz.The other dogs saw this,and it became more and more difficult for Spitz to lead them.But the days passed without a chance for a fight,and soon they were pulling into Dawson City on a cold grey afternoon.They stayed in Dawson for seven days.When they left,Perrault was carrying some more very important papers,and he wanted to travel back as fast as possible.They travelled eighty kilometres the first day,and the same the second.But it wasdifficult work for Francois.Buck andSpitz hated each other,and the other dogs were not afraid of Spitz any more.One night Pike stole half a fish from Spitz,and ate it standing next to Buck.And every time Buck went near Spitz,he growled andthe hair on his back stood up angri-ly.The other dogs fought in their harnesses and Francois often had to stop the sledge.He knew that Buck was the problem,but Buck was too clever for him and Francois never saw him actually starting a fight.One night in camp,the dogs saw a snow rabbit and in a sec-ond they were all chasing it,with Spitz in front.Nearby wasanother camp,with fifty dogs,who also Joined the chase.The rabbit was running fast on top of the snow,but the snow was soft,and it was more difficult for the dogs.When Spitz caught the rabbit,throwing it in the air with his teeth,Buck was just behind.Spitz stopped,and Buck hit him,very hard.The two dogs fell in the snow.Spitz bit Buck very quickly,twice,and then jumped away,watching carefully.The time had come,and Buck knew that either he or Spitz must die.They watched one another,circling slowly.Themoon wasshining brightly on the snow,and in the cold still air not a leaf moved on the trees.The other dogs finished eating the rabbit and then turned to watch.Spitz was a good fighter.He was full of hate and anger,but he was also intelligent.Every time Buck tried to bite his throat,he met Spitz's ownteeth.Then,each time Buck attacked,Spitz moved and bit him on the side as he passed.After a few minutes,Buck was covered in blood.He attacked again,but this time turned at the last minute and went under Spitz,biting his left front leg.The bone broke,and Spitz was standing on three legs.Bucktried to knock Spitz down,and then repeated his earlier attack and broke Spitz's right front leg.There was no hope for Spitz now.Buck got ready for his final attack,while the circle of sixty dogs watched,and crowded nearer and nearer,waiting for the end.At last Buck jumped,in and out,and Spitz went down in the snow. A second later the waiting pack was on top of him,and Spitz had disappeared.Buck stood and watched.The wild animal had made itskill.4 The new lead-dog‘Well,what did I say?Buck’ s a real fighter,all right,’ said Francois the next morning when he discovered that Spitz had disappeared and that Buck was covered in blood.‘Spitz fought like a wolf,’said Perrault,as he looked at the bites all over Buck.‘And Buck fought like ten wolves,’ answered Francois.‘And we'll travel faster now.No moreSpitz,no more trouble.’Francois started to harness the dogs.He needed a new lead-dog,and decided that Sol-leks was the best dog that he had.But Buck jumped at Sol-leks and took his place.‘Look at Buck!’ said Francois,laughing.‘He's killed Spitz,and now he wants to be lead-dog.Go away,Buck!’He pulled Buck away and tried to harness Sol-leks again.Sol-leks was unhappy too.He was frightened of Buck,and when Francois turned his back,Buck took Sol-leks’ place again.Now Francois was angry.‘I'll show you!’ he cried,and went to get aheavy club from the sledge.Buck remembered the man in the red coat,and moved away.This time,when Sol-leks was harnessed as lead-dog,Buck did not try to move in.He kept a few metres away and circledaround Francois carefully.But when Francois called him to his old place in front of Dave,Buck refused.He had won his fight with Spitz and he wanted to be lead-dog.For an hour the two men tried to harness him.Buck did not run away,but he did not let them catch him.Finally,Francois sat down,and Perrault looked at his watch.It was getting late.The two men looked at one another and smiled Francois walked up to Sol-leks,took off his harness,led him back and harnessed him in his old place.Then he called Buck.All the other dogs were harnessed andthe only empty place was now the one at the front But Buck did not move.‘Put down the club,’ said Perrault.Francois dropped the club,and immediately Buck came up to the front of the team.Francois harnessed him ,and in a minute the sledge was moving.Buck was an excellent leader.He moved and thought quick-ly and led the other dogs well.A new leader made no differ-ence to Dave and Sol-leks;they continued to pull hard .But the other dogs had had an easy life when Spitz was leading.They were surprised when Buck made them work hard and punished them for their mistakes Pike,the second dog,was usually lazy;but by the end of the first day he was pulling harder than he had ever pulled in his life.The first night in camp Buck fought Joe,another difficult dog,and after that there were no more problems with him.The team started to pull together,and to move faster and。
野性的呼唤中英对照
The Call of the Wild野性的呼唤1 To the northBuck did not read the newspapers. He did not know that trouble was coming for every big dog in California. Men had found gold in the Yukon, and these men wanted big, strong dogs to work in the cold and snow of the north.Buck lived in Mr Miller's big house in the sunny Santa Clara valley There were large gardens and fields of fruit trees around the house, and a river nearby. In a big place like this,of course, there were many dogs There were house dogs and farm dogs, but they were not important.Buck was chief dog;he was born here, and this was his place .He was four years old and weighed sixty kilos .He went swimming with Mr Miller's sons,and walking with his daughters .He carried the grandchildren on his back, and he sat at Mr Miller's feet in front of the fire in winter.But this was 1897, and Buck did not know that men and dogs were hurrying to north-west Canada to look for gold.And he did not know that Manuel, one of Mr Miller's garden-ers, needed money for his large family. One day,when Mr Miller was out, Manuel and Buck left the garden together.It was just an evening walk, Buck thought.No one saw them go, and only one man saw them arrive at the railway station.This man talked to Manuel, and gave him some money .Then he tied a piece of rope around Buck's neck.Buck growled, and was surprised when the rope was pulled hard around his neck.He jumped at the man.The man caught him and suddenly Buck was on his back with his tongue out of his mouth. For a few moments he was unable to move, and it was easy for the two men to put him into the train.When Buck woke up, the train was still moving. The man was sitting and watching him, but Buck was too quick for him and he bit the man's hand hard.Then the rope was pulled again and Buck had to let go.That evening, the man took Buck to the back room of a bar in San Francisco. The barman looked at the man's hand and trousers covered in blood.‘How much are they paying you for this?’he asked.‘I only get fifty dollars.’‘And the man who stole him—how much did he get?’ asked the barman.第 1 页 共 42 页‘A hundred. He wouldn't take less.’‘That makes a hundred and fifty. It's a good price for a dog like him .Here, help me to get him into this.’They took off Buck's rope and pushed him into a wooden box. He spent the night in the box in the back room of the bar. His neck still ached with pain from the rope, and he could not understand what it all meant . What did they want with him, these strange men? And where was Mr Miller?The next day Buck was carried in the box to the railway station and put on a trainto the north.For two days and nights the train travelled north, and for two days and nights Buck neither ate nor drank. Men on the train laughed at him and pushed sticks at him through the holes in the box. For two days and nights Buck got angrier and hungrier and thirsti-er. His eyes grew red and he bit anything that moved.In Seattle four men took Buck to a small, high-walled back garden, where a fat man in an old red coat was waiting. Buck was now very angry indeed and hejumped and bit at the sides of his box. The fat man smiled and went to get an axe and a club.‘Are you going to take him out now?’ asked one of the men. ‘Of course,’ answered the fat man, and he began to break the box with his axe.Immediately the four other men climbed up onto the wall to watch from a safe place.As the fat man hit the box with his axe, Buck jumped at the sides, growling and biting, pulling with his teeth at the pieces of broken wood. After a few minutes there was a hole big enough for Buck to get out. ‘ Now, come here, red eyes,’ said the fat man, dropping his axe and taking the club in his right hand.Buck jumped at the man, sixty kilos of anger, his mouth wide open ready to bite the man's neck. Just before his teeth touched the skin, the man hit him with the club. Buck fell to the ground. It was the first time anyone had hit him with a club and he did not understand. He stood up, and jumped again. Again the club hit him and he crashed to the ground.Ten times he jumped at the man, and ten times the club hit him. Slowly he got to his feet, now only just able to stand.There was blood on his nose and mouth and ears. Then the fat man walked up and hit him again, very hard, on the nose.The pain was terrible. Again, Buck jumped at the man and again he was hit to the ground.A last time he jumped, and this time, when the man knocked him down, Buck did not move.‘He knows how to teach a dog a lesson,’ said one of the men on the wall. Then the four men jumped down and went back to the station.第 2 页 共 42 页‘His name is Buck,’said the fat man to himself, reading the letter that had come with the box.‘Well, Buck, my by,’he said in a friendly voice,‘we've argued a little, and I think the best thing to do now is to stop. Be a good dog and we'll be friends. But if you're a bad dog, I'll have to use my club again.Understand?’As he spoke, he touched Buck’ s head, and although Buck was angry inside, he did not move. When the man brought him water and meat, Buck drank and then ate the meat, piece by piece, from the man's hand.Buck was beaten(he knew that) but he was not broken. He had learnt that a man with a club was stronger than him.Every day he saw more dogs arrive, and each dog was beaten by the fat man. Buck understood that a man with a club must be obeyed, although he did not have to be a friend.Men came to see the fat man and to look at the dogs. Some-times they paid money and left with one or more of the dogs.One day a short, dark man came and looked at Buck.‘That's a good dog!’ he cried.‘How much do you want for him?’‘Three hundred dollars. It's a good price, Perrault,’said the fat man.Perrault smiled and agreed that it was a good price. He knew dogs, and he knew that Buck was an excellent dog.‘One in ten thousand,’ Perrault said to himself.Buck saw money put into the fat man’ s hand, and he was not surprised when he and another dog called Curly were taken away by Perrault. He took them to a ship, and later that day Buck and Curly stood and watched the coast get further and further away.They had seen the warm south for the last time.Perrault took Buck and Curly down to the bottom of the ship. There they met another man, Francois. Perrault was a French-Canadian, but Francois was half-Indian,tall and dark.Buck learnt quickly that Perrault and Francois were fairmen,calm and honest. And they knew everything about dogs.There were two other dogs on the ship.One was a big dog called Spitz, as white as snow. He was friendly to Buck at first, always smiling. He was smiling when he tried to steal Buck’ s food at the first meal. Francois was quick and hit Spitz before Buck had time to move. Buck decided that this was fair, and began to like Francois a little.Dave, the other dog, was not friendly. He wanted to be alone all the time. He ate and slept and was interested in nothing.One day was very like another, but Buck noticed that the weather was getting colder.第 3 页 共 42 页One morning, the ship's engines stopped, and there was a feeling of excitement inthe ship.Francois leashed the dogs and took them outside. At the first step Buck's feet went into something soft and white. He jumped back in surprise. The soft, white thing was also falling through the air, and it fell onto him. He tried to smell it, and then caught some on his tongue. It bit like fire, and then dis appeared. He tried again and the same thing happened. People were watching him and laughing, and Buck felt ashamed,although he did not know why. It was his first snow.1 北部之旅巴克不曾读过报纸,他不知道人们需要高大强壮能够在北方的严寒和冰雪中工作的狗。
中英双语 《野性的呼唤》金句赏析
中英双语《野性的呼唤》金句赏析《野性的呼唤》,又名《荒野的呼唤》(The Call of the Wild),是美国作家杰克·伦敦创作的中篇小说。
作品讲述巴克原是米勒法官家的一只爱犬,经过了文明的教化,一直生活在美国南部加州一个温暖的山谷里。
后被卖到美国北部寒冷偏远、盛产黄金的阿拉斯加,成了一只拉雪橇的狗。
该作以一只狗的经历表现文明世界的狗在主人的逼迫下回到野蛮,写的是狗,也反映人的世界。
以下是其金句赏析: 1.He got two experience in spite of this gathering in crowds and groups: when fighting, trying to protect themselves;他在这成群结队的刁难中明白了两条经验:在打群架的时候,要设法保护自己;2.In the battle with a single dog, to try to use the shortest time to call each other to eat the biggest loss.在跟单个狗战斗的时候,要设法用最短的时间叫对方吃最大的亏。
3.The paradox of life is that there is a state that marks the peak of life and beyond life. When a person is extremely active thoroughly forget yourself, this realm silently appeared.生活的矛盾之处在于有一种境界标志着生命的顶峰甚至超越了生命。
当一个人极度活跃彻底地忘掉自我的时候,这种境界便悄无声息地出现。
4.Life is like this, there is no fair rules of the game,once the fall, is the end of life.生活就是这样,没有公平的游戏法则,一旦倒下去,就是生命的终结。
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While the men search for gold, Buck ranges far afield, befriending wolves and hunting bears and moose. He always returns to Thornton in the end, until, one day, he comes back to camp to find that Yeehat Indians have attacked and killed his master. Buck attacks the Indians, killing several and scattering the rest, and then heads off into the wild, where he becomes the leader of a pack of wolves. He becomes a legendary figure, a Ghost Dog, fathering countless cubs and inspiring fear in the Yeehats—but every year he returns to the place where Thornton died, to mourn his master before returning to his life in the wild.
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Buck’s new masters are inexperienced and out of place in the wilderness. They overload the sled, beat the dogs, and plan poorly. Some weaker animals soon die. Of an original team of fourteen, only five are still alive when they limp into John Thornton’s camp. Thornton warns them that the ice over which they are traveling is melting and that they may fall through it. Hal dismisses these warnings and tries to get going immediately. The other dogs begin to move, but Buck refuses. When Hal begins to beat him, Thornton intervenes, knocking a knife from Hal’s hand and cutting Buck loose. Hal curses Thornton and starts the sled again, but before they have gone a quarter of a mile, the ice breaks open, swallowing both the humans and the dogs.
the call of the wild简介
the call of the wild简介简介(introduction):《The Call of the Wild》tells the story of a dog named Buck.He is stolen from his home in the Santa Clara Valley of California,and taken to the Alaskan gold fields to be a sled dog.This story tells the life of Buck as he is passed from owner to owner.He eventually finds a kind master,John Thornton.《野性的呼唤》讲述了一只名叫巴克的狗的故事,他从加利福尼亚州圣克拉拉山谷的家中被偷走,被带到阿拉斯加的金色田地当雪橇犬。
这个故事讲述了巴克的生活,是从老板传给老板,他最终找到了一个善良的大师约翰·桑顿。
Barker, who had been living in a greenhouse environment since childhood, was trafficked into the wilderness as a sled dog. The brutal reality touched Buck's instinct and consciousness of returning to nature because of the long-term influence of human civilization. Poor living environment exercise Buck, he continued to grow in the experience. Eventually won the top spot in the sled dogs group by defeating the dog king Spitz. When the brutal Hall slaughtered Barre's body and dying, John Thornton's rescue gave Barker a warm feeling and decided to vow to die and loyal to his benefactor, but the bereavement of the Lord completely shattered Buck's nostalgia for human society, Thus prompting Buck strong determination, resolutely to the wilderness, return to nature.从小生活在温室环境中的巴克被偷着拐卖到原始荒野当雪橇狗。
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The Call of the Wild: Background
The gold prospectors, known as “Klondikers,” faced harsh conditions: • temperatures 40 degrees below zero • starvation and
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Born: January 12, 1876 San Francisco, California United States Died: November 22, 1916 (aged 40) Glen Ellen, California United States Occupation :Novelist, journalist, short story writer and essayist
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The CallIn August 1896, gold was discovered in Rabbit Creek in the Yukon Territory of western Canada.
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But this was 1897, and Buck did not know that men and dogs were hurrying to north-west Canada to look for gold.And he did not know that Manuel, one of Mr Miller's garden-ers, needed money for his large family. One day,when Mr Miller was out, Manuel and Buck left the garden together.It was just an evening walk, Buck thought.No one saw them go, and only one man saw them arrive at the railway station.This man talked to Manuel, and gave him some money .Then he tied a piece of rope around Buck's neck.
1 To the north
Buck did not read the newspapers. He did not know that trouble was coming for every big dog in California. Men had found gold in the Yukon, and these men wanted big, strong dogs to work in the cold and snow of the north.
They took off Buck's rope and pushed him into a wooden box. He spent the night in the box in the back room of the bar. His neck still ached with pain from the rope, and he could not understand what it all meant . What did they want with him, these strange men? And where was Mr Miller?
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野性的呼唤英文读后感英文版野性的呼唤英文读后感英文版(精选11篇)《野性的呼唤》,又名《荒野的呼唤》(The Call of the Wild),美国著名作家杰克伦敦所著。
作品以一只狗的经历表现文明世界的狗在主人的逼迫下回到野蛮,写的是狗,也反映人的世界。
热望本已在,蓬勃脱尘埃;沉沉长眠后,野性重归来。
巴克原是米勒法官家的一只爱犬,经过了文明的教化,一直生活在美国南部加州一个温暖的山谷里。
后被卖到美国北部寒冷偏远、盛产黄金的阿拉斯加,成了一只拉雪橇的狗。
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野性的呼唤英文读后感英文版篇1“When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the back through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his followers, his great throat a bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack.”There was a script about the savage life in the frozen north of ice and snow. There were the unexplored north areas of America and the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush which dragged men from the entire world into the hard wild to look for gold. There was a road where a gigantic dog like human fought his way to struggle in the wasteland. There was a civilized beast grew from mildness to wildness. And there came the call of the wild.The background and plotIn the 19th century, it was said that gold had been found in the Klondike area in Northern California of vast wilderness, so thousands of people rushed into this uncultivated ground to seekfor gold and fortune, which needed a large quantity of dogs to support for the transportation. There came up Buck story which we can’t define it as luckiness or unluckiness.Buck, a dog weighed one hundred and forty pounds, tall, strong, and heavy muscled, lived a cozy and comfortable life in a rich family of a Judge named Miller, but was soled by evil gardener to two dog dealers and was took to Alaska as a sled dog.Led by his second masters, two governmental couriers, he studied how to pull a sled and how to live in this cruel world where needed more cunning behavior and less fake moral and courtesy. For example, he learned to sleep in the snow hole to get warmness from the clod nights, and he learned to thief bacon and food from his masters and neighboring camps, as well as that, he learned how to fight effectively and efficiently with his antagonists and survive of the combat about the dominant leader with Spitz. In addition to those, he also went through the hardships in the toil on the ice layer, and he learned how to obtain the victory and stand on the wilderness which was beneficial to himself who can only fit the environment, but can’t defy the harness.After the arduous trace and trail, they finally reached the destination, and then, after a short break, dogs including Buck led by a Scotch half-breed man stepped again on the ice land with the Salt Water Mail. It was a hard trip and a monotonous life operating like machine that dogs must undertake the heave pulling and poor condition where they were tired and short of weight. Buck’ partner, Dave who had something wrong inside suffered most of all, but pride as he was, pulling the sled was his holy missionary job which can fulfill his life and must be doneuntil his death. However, the tough work was still continuous.Thirty days passes, by which time Buck and his mates found how really tired and weak they are until they arrived at the last town. They were in a wretched state, worn out and worn out, which was not the tiredness that came from a brief and excessive effort and can be recovered from some hours’ rest, but was the dead tiredness that came through the slow and prolonged strength drainage of months of toil and had to need a long vocation to evacuate. Nevertheless, only three days after they were bought by a family including a foolish woman, a callow and ignorant youngster, and a middle aged man with weak and watery eyes. Never mind of dog’s frazzle, the third masters t ried their best to lash out at them with whip, but Buck was not under very good command and not proud and interested of this career. Until they reached at the camp of Thornton, with the natural instinct and extreme weariness, Buck tolerated the whip from his so called masters and refused to go ahead which was his luckiness to meet his last master, Thornton.Without doubt, Thornton was a good master, full of wisdom, intelligence and love who can manage Buck’s life comfortably and in order. By the careful attendance form his new master, Buck was on his feet quickly and solidly. Filled with the loying love toward his master, Buck companied him, saved his life for several times and helped him win the gambling party. Then, they faced into the East on an unknown trail to achieve where men and dogs as good as themselves has failed, as the call from the wild became stronger and stronger which attracted Buck to leave the civilization to look for. The knife that cut out the bound of Buck between his masters was the mas ter’s deaths which left a void in the dog’s heart and a strengthened calling from the wild.Buck, a civilized dog, finally went back to wolves after thousands of generation by singing a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack.Survive of the fittestThe Call of the Wild abounded in Darwinism which advocated the evolutionism and natural selection theory.In the process of having to leave the comfortable Miller’s house and adapt to the harsh primitive snowfield, Buck went through the changes from the mildness to wildness where he studied the law of club and fang and admitted the rule of failure without progress. “He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way t o death.” “He must master or be mastered,” “Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of time, he obeyed.”After analysis, we can find that related to the Darwinism, learning ability was an important factor of the victory of living of Buck. As a south dog living in the rich family and innocent environment, Buck was not wary of Manuel’s uncommon behavior, but situation has changed entirely after a period of barbaric life: he showed hostility to his all possible mates and took precaution of everything. As well as that, throwing away the moral standard and facing the death of starvation, Buck had an ability of thief. “This first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meat swift and terrible death.” In addition to those, his muscles became hard as iron, and he grew dumb to all ordinary pain, and he can successful take full use of all the elements no matter internal or external. That’s the progressionof Buck which can equip him with thick helmets from being hurt deeply and made him be the fittest.Not only did he learnt by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. Maybe knowledge acquired by learning was Buck’s left hand, instincts his right. Good pedigree set up his first sense of a tall, strong and muscular potential king, while the instinct helped him to learn fast and save his life. “It was no task for him to learn to fight with cut and slash and the quick wolf snap.” “They came to him without effort or discovery, as though they had been his always.”Buck changed as his living environment changed. With the change of environment, Buck, compared to the previous southern family dog that was mild and gentle, acquired many abilities and skills. He tried his best to live by becoming cunning, cold-blood, and cruel which make him step forward on the road of corpse and blood. Survive of the fittest which is demonstrated by adaptation to the environment and wielding the law to protect himself and attack on others made him roared on the top of the food chain and return to wolves.All what Buck has done was not due to his reason and thought, but due to his fit. He was fit to everything surrounding him unconsciously and put him to the new way of living quickly.“The theory, ‘Survival of the fittest’, is the law of biological evolution which implies that plants or animals adapt to the environment to survive or to dieit is the biological survival rule of brutal biosphere.” That is to say, the key of this law is that those who can fit the environment can survive, on the contrary, those failed to fit would be obsolete under the rule of elimination.Peeping at Buck and his struggle, we can have a vision of us human that was also fighting in the battlefield with our matesand against our enemy. Filled with bustling stuff, we tried our best to stand on the top of right and authority only because that position would give us more materials and the sense of pride which we depended on to live. Flowers in the greenhouse didn’t know about the hardship of living, so they showed goodwill and send aroma to others; while life in the ice field where wind was blowing like knife and thick snow can bury people only showed a will of survive and cut up the useless goodness to wear on the coldness.We must do it because we had to do it. The pack of animal was like a society of people. Death and genocide would happen on us if we were not willing to fit the environment thoroughly. To dance with the shackle of survive of the fittest was the policy we should carry out forever, the reason why our human stood on the top of biologic chain, and the rule of living of every individual.My opinion on virtue and viceSome people had said virtue was the biggest treasure that human should obey. There is no doubt that kindness, loyalty, honor, love, companionship, sympathy, mercy, and other virtue should be followed. However, I argue that there is transformation between different virtue and even the virtue and vice.Showing the feature of three animals: dog, wolf and human, Buck was the bridge that connected the past and present. As the production of human civilization, dog was evolved from wolf and they would still howl on the wilderness if human didn’t raise and train them.Buck was a mirror from which we can see ourselves. Through this dog, writer told us that only in a place where sun darted its forth beams and everything was in order human will wear the coat of basic goodness, otherwise, kindness would be eliminatedif it met with the club and fang. In the cruel process of primitive accumulation of capitalism, mercy and sympathy was not needed for those quality can lead to death of innocent people. In the period of survive of the fittest, life was not concerned with civilization, while wilderness was the real marrow of life and echoing for the wilderness was the beginning of revival. Buck realized that “Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstanding made for death.” This phenomenon can be seen in dogs as well as human. Wilderness were calling for human and eliminating the kindness in human’s heart stealthily.In A Treatise of Human Nature, British philosopher David Hume has said moral came from human’s emotion and conscience but not rationality. The essence of moral existed in the perceptual knowledge, but not rational knowledge. Therefore, the reason why moral distinctions had the division of virtue and vice was that the judgment of moral came from human’s attitude toward their internal actions and external objects. The judgment of moral came from our interest appeal; that is to say, the judgment of moral came from what was good to us, but not what is good.Let us think the question that which direction of Buck’s change to a beast was, progression or retrogression? The answer was that we can’t answer because he survived due to that he threw away those so called virtue and carry out those so called villainy. All what Buck did was under the pressure of living, and he responded to the call of the wild only because he wanted to live. Maybe in the comfortable and civilized Judge’s house, he would stick to the standard of moral and protect the respect of Judge’s riding wh ip by dying under his whip. But in this coldfield, sticking to those so called moral was a fool. Possibly in this kind of world, brutality, cold-bloodedness, cunning and so on was the moral.The division of virtue and vice was the refection of the division of civilization and wilderness to some degree. Maybe we can’t define what moral was and what vice was now in some scene, but we can try to last for enough time to seek for the answer.Run after the free lifeThe call from the wild stood for human’s natur e to run after a simple, independent and free life.Buck was bored of the complex life where he must deal with such a big net of relationship. He just wanted to run and leap through the forest, howled under the grey moonlight, ate what he liked and killed what he liked without many rules to obey. No one desired to live a complicated life for it’s difficult and tiring to reckon other people, while life in the wilderness was just that eat or eaten, kill or killed and there was no middle ground. Easy and simple life was set up on the uncivilized world where creatures didn’t have so much relation and elements to consider. Only being independent from all that can we find what we wanted.When unpracticed Charles and his relatives sunk in a ice hole, writer said th at “A yawning hole was all that was to be seen.” That hole was a capitalistic vast mouth that can eat people, but which would be rotten if we escaped from it. “Here a yellow stream flows from rotted moosehide sacks and sinks into the ground, with long grasses growing through it and vegetable mould overrunning it and hiding its yellow from the sun.” The gold that Thornton got has become a yellow stream because theywere eroded by natural power and lost their value. Imagine in a world where was entirely natural and uncivilized, gold, a kind of iron and currency, was entirely futile, isn’t it?Being free of human world and even free of materials, Buck got a totally new life where he can run at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight to release his vitality and got comfort from nature. We needed materials actually, but material was void actually. How can we get free? To get free of our hearts.ConclusionThere are two sentences I’d like to mention. First, human beings, never degenerate into beasts. Second, beasts, never degenerate into human beings. Correctness of those two sentences should be discussed.Human’s progression began in the point when human beings evolved from wilderness period to civilization, but the retrogression also began at the point when people shared the feast of civilization. For us who are far away from the wilderness and raised and trained by civilization, this book gives us a new vision.Sometimes a picture floating in my mind: in the icy forest, a silhouette of Buck as a wolf caned his neck to howl toward the pale moonlight to echo the howling of pack. That’s the song of animal, and the chant of human, and the snarl of life.野性的呼唤英文读后感英文版篇2The Call of the Wild is London’s most-read book, and generally considered his best, the most masterpiece of his so-called “early period“.The story was set in 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush, in which sled dogs were bought at generous prices.Buck was a domestic dog in Judge Miller’s home and living a comfortable life until he was sold secretly by the poor gardenerand became a sled dog. Buck was a Bernard dog weighed one hundred and forty pounds, tall, strong, and hea一vy muscled. He couldn’t accommodate to the harsh condition at first. And he wanted to fight, to escape, to go back to his cozy home, but in vain.The man in red taught him the law of stick and club-one must first adjust himself to his surroundings and learn the rules, and only after that he can do what he wants to do. The club of the man in red called back Buck’s nature as a dog.When he firstly served for Fran?ois and Perrault, two couriers, he showed his superior ability to adapt to the environment and his smartness to learn everything he wanted to learn. Curly’s death astonished him and taught him to be cautious. And before he had recovered from the shock caused by the tragic passing of Curly, he was harnessed as a sled dog and step by step wanted to be the leader. But the leading dog, Spitz, was already an excellent one, who also considered Buck as enemy and potential competitor. At last, when Spitz once punished him, hurling backward Buck, he knew the time had come. He killed Spitz and took his place.When they pulled into Dawson, Buck was sold as useless thing to three gold diggers, who weren’t veteran in sledding and even didn’t k now how to get to their destination. Food was eaten up half way. So Charles, one of the three, decided to kill Buck when he couldn’t get up. However, when he aimed at Buck, John Thornton sprang upon him, knocked him down and told him that if Charles stroke Buck, Thornton would kill him.Thus, Thornton took Buck away. He was the only true friend of Buck. But Buck was a thing of the wild, especially when the calling of wolf from the hills. Once when he came back from hills,he found that Thornton was killed by Indians. What would you do if you were Buck when your beloved friend was killed? Buck became a nut and killed those headsmen and stayed with Thornton for two days and nights, never lea一ving Thornton out of his sight. And then a nearby wolf howl captures his ears, and he follows the sound to an approaching wolf pack, battling several of these creatures to prove his worth.野性的呼唤英文读后感英文版篇3At the beginning of this century, many new writers emerged with the introduction of many new ideas. Among them, Jack London was the most popular one.His most famous novel is the call of the wild . Although it is a story about a dog, Buck, it vividly depicts the life in the primitive North where people rushed for gold and fortune.Buck, used to belong to a judge, was kidnapped and sold to North. Then he became a member of a dog-team pulling a sled . In the days of pulling a snow-sled, he learned to conform to the law of nature and obey the master. Finally, he found a basic instinct hidden inside him, which enabled himself to survive the tough environment. This is the call of the wild.When you read the story, you will feel that Buck is a man instead of a dog, struggling with his fortune and conforming to the law of nature.Though short, it is really a thrilling story. What you never forget is the tough life in the nature, the brave and crafty dog. Maybe the wild is calling you to go ahead.While writing for only 16 years throughout his life, London produced an amazing body of work among which, White Fang, Martin Eden, the Valley of the Moon are representative.野性的呼唤英文读后感英文版篇4" He sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack." (Chapter VII The Sounding of the Wild) When the last sentence vanished from my eyes, I can still perceive an echo of a song - a wild song, which knocks up my dizzy mind that always cheerfully sink into the so-called civilized world without questioning. Wild, is no longer a symbol of the law of jungle but a headspring where streams out love, passion, bravery, loyalty, friendship, venture, competition and tolerance all these virtues can easily be found in the Call of the Wild.Jack London (1876-1916) is a worldwide renowned novelist. His stories successfully reflect the contradictory views of man’s nature and destiny in and against the wild, and his "fight to survive" notion has gained him and his works timeless popularity, particularly, the Call of the WildIt tells a story of a gigantic dog, named Buck, who is stolen from a rich and comfortable home and forced to learn to survive as an Alaskan sled dog. Buck, at first, is too savage for the company of man until he coincidently encounters his beloved master-kindhearted John Thornton. Finally, John’s incidental death breaks Buck’s last tie to the man and drives him into his long-desired wild with his pack. In the story, Buck and John simply adopt themselves to answer the call of the wild. When it comes to Buck’s mind that one day he will eventually leave John- his master, all he wants to do is just to help him finish the gold-rush-trip. He " from then on, night and day, never put a halt, in desperation, he burst into long stretch of flight, did not to stay him (John)…" (Chapter VII The Sounding of The Wild) Buck wished to remember John’s image forever, he "for two days and nights never left camp, never let Thornton out of his sight. He followed him about at his work, watched him while saw him intoblankets at night and out of them in the morning…" (Chapter VII) When I read these words I just could not hold my tears bursting. Can a real man devote himself to loyalty and friendship in such a way? On the other hand, John Thornton is not only a dog-lover but also a brave and venturous man. He is so straightforward and simple that makes him an accommodating man. Once he firmly roots a goal into his heart, it seems that nothing could prevent him from accomplishing it except death. I do not know whether the persistence is the most vital element to make a man successful, but what I know is that you are not far away from success once you occupy it.It is Jack London who plunges me into the animated wild from the hustle-and-bustle and from desperate city. There, I merely cannot deny the attraction of Buck’s bark, which enlightens me to pursue another lost half of the nature in mankind, and to dig out a true meaning of life. Dare we imagine that London intentionally employs Buck to set us a model with perfect characters (count barbarity out)? The answer is affirmed. We, as animals, are from the wild but shedding off more and more wild signs, which demonstrate us as the "uncivilized". However, who can fully guarantee that we have not overlooked some essential wild-endowed virtues? Especially, nowadays, it seems more crucial for us to stop looking at the post-industrialized world and to ponder for a while. When cheats, betrayals, lies, lusts and crimes stuff a materialized society, whether London uses this novel to help himself escape the reality or warn the earthy people, to us, modern man, is all the same.() It appears horrible that in modern society many people are enthusiastically talking about how to build up "special relations" to the authority, deceiving and lying to each other.To them life is a mask-wearing process rather than a hard work. Every time, you browse WebPages, scandals in politics, business, the entertainment circle and even on campus crowd into your eyes. Oh, what is the essence of human beings? What is the civilization to us? Do we need to look back at where we came from? Is it good or bad for us to speak out what we think and to do what the consciences demand us to? Are we wasting talents given by the mighty nature? Be an honest, straightforward, warmhearted, emotional and responsible man or be a shrewd, cold hearted and astute hypocrite? While embracing the "civilized" rubbish, we are losing those good virtues, which are the calls of the wild. Once we lose them, we are to lose ourselves, and we will get nowhere. I wish this dreadful thought is totally a fallacy, but, now, it is chilling me hard.One day when I happen to stand on the top of a grand mountain to observe a boundless prairie enveloped by the sapphire firmament and combed by gusts of the rhythmical west wind, a morning sun sprinkles me her warmth and brilliance in a graceful way, however, at that moment, I am afraid that I cannot appreciate these beauties, I am a lost " civilized man" then.野性的.呼唤英文读后感英文版篇5The story sounds like just a dog tale at first--a dog, Buck, is kidnapped from his comfortable life in California and sold as a sled dog for the Alaskan gold rush. While he endures the wilderness and the other dogs, Buck learns that survival comes only with tooth and fang. This lesson brings him very close to his forbears, the wolves.If you look deeper, Call of the Wild is as much a story of humans as it is a dog tale. Buck encounters various incompetent masters who try to break his spirit. Are we like this? But Buck alsolearns to trust a master who is gentle and gives love. We can be like this, too.Call of the Wild is not a story for the squeamish or very young. By involving us in the characters lives, Jack London tells the truth. It is a life-and-death war between the harsh land and the soul every day. There is blood, death, cruelty--but its the truth. 野性的呼唤英文读后感英文版篇6Book review: The call of the wildAs a type of novelette, I wasnt used to this cos Ive just finished HarryPotter so in occasions novelette wrote very briefly. The background of the author was very poor, and precisely the time to seek gold. Part of the novel means to expose the hardness of dogs at that time. Men were crazy about gold, the main character, Buck, was stolen by a Gardener of a lawyer who owns Buck.The man with the red sweater taught him the law of clubs, this was a good beginning. The trading road led him at last to two couriers, who knew how to treat dogs. Then the dog team was traded to a three-people family who were seeking good in Alaska. But they didnt know how to treat dogs and at last dogs and men were drowned in the water, except Buck. He was picked up by a man. And eventually Buck was back to the wild-where his ancestors had been.In my opinion a good novel could make readers cry, yell, etc.I clenched my fist when the Family treated the dog team badly, and had a wonderful feeling when the man picked up Buck and treated him like his own son. I t had feeling, this novel…野性的呼唤英文读后感英文版篇7As a dignified individual, survival seems to be the subject of our discussion forever. But in this hard way of survival, the desirefor "life", often let us forget the species. Buck was one of those dogs who worked hard to survive, developed a knack for hardship and eventually became the leader of the pack. But whether it is Barker, or the authors other characters, their hearts are full of longing and yearning for "life". But in this extreme environment and the human strength of the collision, we face the cruelty of competition, witness the true meaning of life.The hero of the novel is a dog named Buck. Set during the Alaskan Gold Rush, the story follows Buck as he climbs from a domesticated Southern dog to a barbarian state in order to survive in the treacherous conditions of the North. Buck is a huge cross dog, he was secretly sold from the family of the south, after several difficulties began to set foot on the road of gold, became a sled working dog, in the cruel domestication process, he realized the justice and the law of nature, the harsh living environment taught him the meaning of cunning and deceit, He took his own cunning and deceit to an unsurpassed level, and after a brutal, even mortal, struggle, he finally established himself as the leader dog. We can get a sense of the mental outlook of different people through the change of owners during the arduous sledding journey. It was in these movements, too, that Buck formed a deep and deep bond with the last master, who had rescued him from the most strenuous drudgery, and whom he had rescued many times. Finally, after the tragic death of his beloved master, he went out into the wilderness, answering the ancient wild call he had heard and yearned for so many times along the way.Buck was only a dog, but his arduous path reflected the true meaning of personal struggle in the age in which the writer lived. It was also a reflection of the naturalism prevalent in Americansociety during the period of the treacherous development of capitalism. On this road, in such a dangerous natural and social environment, only the elite and the strong have the possibility of survival. If they lack the ability to adapt to the changing conditions, it means a quick and tragic death. In front of the laws of nature, man is insignificant and helpless. Moreover, in the struggle for existence, any moral concept becomes "a kind of vanity and an obstacle". On the one hand, this shows the sinister living environment at that time, on the other hand, it also reveals the immoral side of the capitalist society. In such a society, under the action of natural law, the primitive desire, moral decay, the loss of civilization, all show incisively and vividly. Therefore, if survival is the highest goal of human activity, then the process of animal survival is the process of violent meeting and killing each other. Only through the struggle of the law of the jungle, can we ensure the continued survival of the "elite" or "strong" with competitive advantages. Therefore, it fully expresses the authors naturalism thought.The more civilized man is, the more stable his life is, so that in a civilized society things are laid out clearly and there are few accidents. But when something goes wrong, and its serious enough, its the end of the world for those who cant adapt. And Bucks experience also tells us: life is often intense and painful, but in fact it is more full of vitality and vitality and we want to be the strong of life.Thats what survival is all about. There is no justice. Once youre down, youre down. So be careful not to fall. Life on the road, there is no plain sailing, there is no constant, he often changes patterns to teach us to be strong, and we have to do is to accept his arrangement, in perseverance through the cold。
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简介在加利福尼亚的家里,巴克过着安逸舒适的生活。
他是那儿最高大强壮的狗,地位举足轻重。
他和孩子们一同散步,在水中嬉戏,冬天的时候他就坐在主人的炉火边取暖。
但是在1897年,人们在育空河发现了金矿,他们需要像巴克这样的狗。
于是巴克被从家乡偷运到北方。
他在那里学会了拉雪撬,在冰天雪地中日复一日地跋涉。
他学会了偷食以慰饥肠,破冰取水解渴,还学会了反击来对付那些欺负他的狗。
而且他学得很快。
不久巴克成为了北方所有著名的拉雪撬的狗之一。
但是北部是狼群出没的森林,在那里他们对着明月长嗥。
野性的呼唤在巴克的梦中回响,越来越响亮……杰克·伦敦1876年生于旧金山,死于1916年。
他出身穷苦,在他短暂的一生中他有丰富的经历——海员、工人、育空河的淘金人、旅行家、记者和作家。
他写了很多书,但是其中以《野性的呼唤》和另一本写狗的书《白芳》,最广为流传。
1 To the northBuck did not read the newspapers.He did not know that trouble was coming for every big dog in California.Men had found gold in the Yukon,and these men wanted big,strong dogs to work in the cold and snow of the north.Buck lived in Mr Miller's big house in the sunny Santa Clara valley There were large gardens and fields of fruit trees around the house,and a river nearby.In a big place like this,of course,there were many dogs There were house dogs and farm dogs,but they were not important.Buck was chief dog;he was born here,and this was his place .He was four years old and weighed sixty kilos .He went swimming with Mr Miller's sons,and walking with his daughters .He carried the grandchildren on his back,and he sat at Mr Miller's feet in front of the fire in winter.But this was 1897,and Buck did not know that men and dogs were hurrying to north-west Canada to look for gold.And he did not know that Manuel,one of Mr Miller's garden-ers,needed money for his large family.One day,when Mr Miller was out,Manuel and Buck left the garden together.It was just an evening walk,Buck thought.No one saw them go,and only one man saw them arrive at the railway station.This man talked to Manuel,and gave him some money .Then he tied a piece of rope around Buck's neck.Buck growled,and was surprised when the rope was pulled hard around his neck.He jumped at the man.The man caught him and suddenly Buck was on his back with his tongue out of his mouth.For a few moments he was unable to move,and it was easy for the two men to put him into the train.When Buck woke up,the train was still moving.The man was sitting and watching him,but Buck was too quick for him and he bit the man's hand hard.Then the rope was pulled again and Buck had to let go.That evening,the man took Buck to the back room of a bar in San Francisco.The barman looked at the man's hand and trousers covered in blood.‘How much are they paying you for this?’he asked.‘I only get fifty dollars.’‘And the man who stole him—how much did he get?’ asked the barman.‘A hundred.He wouldn't take less.’‘That makes a hundred and fif ty.It's a good price for a dog like him .Here,help me to get him into this.’They took off Buck's rope and pushed him into a wooden box.He spent the night in the box in the back room of the bar.His neck still ached with pain from the rope,and he could not understand what it allmeant .What did they want with him,these strange men?And where was Mr Miller?The next day Buck was carried in the box to the railway station and put on a trainto the north.For two days and nights the train travelled north,and for two days and nights Buck neither ate nor drank.Men on the train laughed at him and pushed sticks at him through the holes in the box.For two days and nights Buck got angrier and hungrier and thirsti-er.His eyes grew red and he bit anything that moved.In Seattle four men took Buck to a small,high-walled back garden,where a fat man in an old red coat was waiting.Buck was now very angry indeed and hejumped and bit at the sides of his box.The fat man smiled and went to get an axe and a club.‘Are you going to take him out now?’ asked one of the men.‘Of course,’ answered the fat man,and he began to break the box with his axe.Immediately the four other men climbed up onto the wall to watch from a safe place.As the fat man hit the box with his axe,Buck jumped at the sides,growling and biting,pulling with his teeth at the pieces of brokenwood.After a few minutes there was a hole big enough for Buck to get out.‘ Now,come here,red eyes,’ said the fat man,dropping his axe and taking the club in his right hand.Buck jumped at the man,sixty kilos of anger,his mouth wide open ready to bite the man's neck.Just before his teeth touched the skin,the man hit him with the club.Buck fell to the ground.It was the first time anyone had hit him with a club and he did not understand.He stood up,and jumped again.Again the club hit him and he crashed to the ground.Ten times he jumped at the man,and ten times the club hit him.Slowly he got to his feet,now only just able to stand.There was blood on his nose and mouth and ears.Then the fat man walked up and hit him again,very hard,on the nose.The pain was terrible.Again,Buck jumped at the man and again he was hit to the ground.A last time he jumped,and this time,when the man knocked him down,Buck did not move.‘He knows how to teach a dog a lesson,’ said one of the men on the wall.Then the four men jumped down and went back to the station.‘His name is Buck,’said the fat man to himself,reading the letter that had come with the box.‘Well,Buck,my by,’he said in a friendly voice,‘we've argued a little,and I think the best thing to do now is to stop.Be a good dog and we'll be friends.But if you're a bad dog,I'll have to use my club again.Understand?’As he spoke,he touched Buck’ s head,and although Buck was angry inside,he did not move.When the man brought him water and meat,Buck drank and then ate the meat,piece by piece,from the man's hand.Buck was beaten(he knew that)but he was not broken.He had learnt that a man with a club was stronger than him.Every day he saw more dogs arrive,and each dog was beaten by the fat man.Buck understood that a man with a club must be obeyed,although he did not have to be a friend.Men came to see the fat man and to look at the dogs.Some-times they paid money and left with one or more of the dogs.One day a short,dark man came and looked at Buck.‘That's a good dog!’ he cried.‘How much do you want for him?’‘Three hundred dollars.It's a good price,Perrault,’said the fat man.Perrault smiled and agreed that it was a good price.He knew dogs,and he knew that Buck was an excellent dog.‘One in ten thousand,’ Perrault said to himself.Buck saw money put into the fat man’ s hand,and he was not surprised when he and another dog called Curly were taken away by Perrault.He took them to a ship,and later that day Buck and Curlystood and watched the coast get further and further away.They had seen the warm south for the last time.Perrault took Buck and Curly down to the bottom of the ship.There they met another man,Francois.Perrault was a French-Canadian,but Francois was half-Indian,tall and dark.Buck learnt quickly that Perrault and Francois were fair men,calm and honest.And they knew everything about dogs.There were two other dogs on the ship.One was a big dog called Spitz,as white as snow.He was friendly to Buck at first,always smiling.He was smiling when he tried to steal Buck’ s food at the first meal.Francois was quick and hit Spitz before Buck had time to move.Buck decided that this was fair,and began to like Francois a little.Dave,the other dog,was not friendly.He wanted to be alone all the time.He ate and slept and was interested in nothing.One day was very like another,but Buck noticed that the weather was getting colder.One morning,the ship's engines stopped,and there was a feeling of excitement in the ship.Francois leashed the dogs and took them outside.At the first step Buck's feet went into something soft and white.He jumped back in surprise.The soft,white thing was also falling through the air,and it fell onto him.He tried to smell it,and then caught some on his tongue.It bit like fire,and then dis appeared.He tried again and the same thing happened.People were watching him and laughing,and Buck felt ashamed,although he did not know why.It was his first snow.2 The law of club and toothBuck's first day at Dyea Beach was terrible.Every hour there was some new,frightening surprise.There was no peace,no rest—only continual noise and movement.And every minute there was danger,because these dogs and men were not town dogs and men.They knew only the law of club and tooth.Buck had never seen dogs fight like these dogs;they were like wolves.In a few minutes he learnt this from watching Curly.She tried to make friends with a dog,a big one,al-though not as big as she was.There was no warning.The dog jumped on Curly,his teeth closed together,then he jumped away,and Curly's face was torn open from eye to mouth.Wolves fight like this,biting and jumping away,but the fight did not finish then.Thirty or forty more dogs ran up and made a circle around the fight,watching silently.Curly tried to attack the dog who had bitten her;he bit her a second time,and jumped away.When she attacked him again,he knocked her backwards,and she fell on the ground.She never stood up again,because this was what the other dogs were waiting for.They moved in,and in a moment she was under a crowd of dogs.It was all very sudden.Buck saw Spitz run out from the crowd with his tongue out of his mouth,laughing.Then he saw Francois with an axe,and two or three other men with clubs jump in among the dogs.Two minutes later the last of the dogs was chased away.But Curly lay dead in the snow,her body torn almost to pieces.Curly's death often came backto Buck in his dreams.He understood that once a dog was down on the ground,he was dead He also remembered Spitz laughing,and from that moment he hated him.Then Buck had another surprise.Francois put a harness on him.Buck had seen harnesses on horses,and now he was made to work like a horse,pulling Francois on a sledge into the forest and returning with wood for the fire.Buck worked with Spitz and Dave.The two other dogs had worked in a har-ness before,and Buck learnt by watching them.He also learnt to stop and turn when Francois shouted.‘Those three are very good dogs,’Francois told Perrault.‘That Buckpulls very well,and he's learning quickly.’Perrault had important letters and official papers to take to Dawson City,so that afternoon he bought two more dogs,two brothers called Billee and Joe.Billee was very friendly,but Joe was the opposite.In the evening Perrault bought one more dog,an old dog with oneeye .His name was Sol-leks,which means The Angry One.Like Dave,he made no friends;all he wanted was to be alone.That night Buck discovered another problem.Where was he going to sleep?Francois and Perrault were in their tent,but when he went in,they shouted angrily and threw things at him.Outside it was very cold and windy.He lay down in the snow,but he was too cold to sleep.He walked around the tents trying to find the other dogs.But,to his surprise,they had disappeared.He walked around Perrault's tent,very,very cold,wondering what to do.Sud-denly,the snow under his feet fell in,and he felt something move.He jumped back,waiting for the attack,but heard on-ly a friendly bark.There,in a warm hole under the snow,was Billee.So that was what you had to do.Buck chose a place,dug himself a hole and in a minute he was warm and asleep.He slept well,although his dreams were bad.When he woke up,at first he did not know where he was.It hadsnowed in the night and the snow now lay thick and heavy above him.Suddenly he was afraid—the fear of a wild animal when it is caught and cannot escape.Growling,he threw himself at the snow,and a moment later,he had jumped upwards into the daylight.He saw the tents and re-membered everything,from the time he had gone for a walk with Manuel to the moment he had dug the hole the night before.‘What did I say?’ shouted Francois to Perrault,when he saw Buck come up out of the snow.‘That Buck learns quickly.’Perrault smiled slowly.He was carrying important papers,and he needed good dogs.He was very pleased to have Buck.They bought three more dogs that morning,and a quarter of an hour later all nine dogs were in harness and on their way up the Dyea Canyon.Buck was not sorry to be moving,and although it was hard work,he almost enjoyed it.He was also surprised to see that Dave and Sol-leks no longer looked bored and miserable.Pulling in a harness was their job,and they were happy to do it.Dave was sledge-dog,the dog nearest to the sledge.In front of him was Buck,then came Sol-leks.In front of them were the six other dogs,with Spitz as leader at the front.Francois had put Buck between Dave and Sol-leks because they could teach him the work.Buck learnt well,and they were good teachers.When Buck pulled the wrong way,Dave always bit his leg,but only lightly.Once,when they stopped,Buck got tied up in his harness,and it took ten minutes to get started again.Both Dave and Sol-leks gave him a good beating for that mistake.Buck understood,and was more careful after that.It was a hard day's journey,up the Dyea Canyon and into the mountains.They camped that night at Lake Bennett.Here there were thousands of gold miners.They were building boats to sail up the lake when the ice melted in the spring.Buck made his hole in the snow and slept well,but was woken up very early and harnessed to the sledge.The first day they had travelled on snow that had been hardened by many sledges and they covered sixty kilometres.But the next day,and for days afterwards,they were on new snow.The work was harder and they went slowly.Usually,Perrault went in front,on snowshoes,flattening the snow a little for the dogs.Francois stayed by the sledge.Sometimes the two men changed places,but there were many small lakes and rivers,and Perrault understood ice better.He always knew when the ice across a river was very thin.Day after day Buck pulled in his harness.They started in the morning before it was light,and they stopped in the evening after dark,ate a piece of fish,and went to sleep in their holes under the snow.Buck was always hungry.Francoisgave him 750 grams of dried fish a day,and it was never enough.The other dogs were given only 500 grams;they were smaller and could stay dive on less food.Buck learnt to eat quickly;if he was too slow,the other dogs stole his food.He saw Pike,one of the new dogs,steal some meat from the sledge when Perrault wasn't looking.The next day Buck stole some and got away unseen.Perrault was very angry,but he thought another dog,Dub,had taken it and so punished him instead of Buck.Buck was learning how to live in the north.In the south he had never stolen,but there he had never been so hungry.He stole cleverly and secretly,remembering the beatings from the man with the club.Buck was learning the law of club and tooth.He learnt to eat any food—anything that he could get his teeth into.He learnt to break the ice on water holes with his feet when he wanted to drink He was stronger,harder,and could see and smell better than ever before .In a way,he was remembering back to the days when wild dogs travelled in packs through the forest,killing for meat as they went.It was easy for him to learn to fight like a wolf,because it was in his blood.In the evenings,when he pointed his nose at the moon and howled long and loud,he was remembering the dogs and wolves that had come before him.3 The wild animalThe wild animal was strong in Buck,and as he travelled across the snow,it grew stronger and stronger.And as Buck grew stronger,he hated Spitz more and more,although he was careful never to start a fight.But Spitz was always showing his teeth to Buck,trying to start a fight.And Buck knew that if he and Spitz fought,one of them would die.The fight almost happened one night when they stopped by Lake Laberge.There was heavy snow and it was very cold.The lake was frozen and Francois,Perrault,and the dogs had to spend the night on the ice,under a big rock.Buck had made a warm hole in the snow and was sorry to leave it to get his piece of fish.But when he had eaten.and returned to his hole,he found Spitz in it.Buck had tried not to fight Spitz be-fore,but this was too much.He attacked him angrily.Spitz was surprised.He knew Buck was big,but he didn’ t know he was so wild.Francois was surprised too,and guessed why Buck was angry.‘Go on Buck!’ he shouted.‘Fight him,the dirty thief!’Spitz was also ready to fight,and the two dogs circled one another,looking for the chance to jump in.But suddenly there was a shout from Perrault,and they saw eighty or a hundred dogs around the sledge.The dogs came from an Indian village,and they were searching for the food that they could smell on the sledge.Perrault and Francois tried to fight them off with their clubs,but the dogs,made crazy by the smell of the food,showed their teeth and fought back.Buck had never seed dogs like these.They were all skin and bone,but hunger made them fight like wild things.Three of them attacked Buck and in seconds his head and legs were bad-ly bitten.Dave and Sol-leks stood side by side,covered in blood,fighting bravely.Joe and Pike jumped on one dog,and Pike broke its neck with one bite.Buck caught another dog by the neck and tasted blood.He threw himself on the next one,and then felt teeth in his own neck.It was Spitz,attacking him from the side.Perrault and Francois came to help with clubs,but then they had to run back to save the food .It was safer for the nine sledge-dogs to run away across the lake.Several of them were badly hurt,and they spent an unhappy night hiding among the tress.At first light they returned to the sledge and found Perrault and Francois tired and angry.Half their food was gone.The Indian dogs had even eaten one of Perrault's shoes.Francois looked at his dogs unhappily.‘Ah,my friends,’he said softly,‘Perhaps those bites will make you ill.What do you think,Perrault?’Perrault said nothing.They still had six hundred kilometres to travel,and he hoped very much that his sledge-dogs had not caught rabies from the Indian dogs.The harness was torn and damaged and it was two hours be-fore they were moving,travelling slowly and painfully over the most difficult country that they had been in.The Thirty Mile River was not frozen.It ran too fast to freeze.They spent six days trying to find a place to cross,and every step was dangerous for dogs and men.Twelve times they found ice bridges across the river,and Perrault walked carefully onto them,holding a long piece of wood.And twelve times he fell through a bridge and was saved by the piece of wood,which caught on the sides of the hole.But the tempera-ture was 45° below zero,and each time Perrault fell into the water,he had to light a fire to dry and warm himself.Once,the sledge fell through the ice,with Dave and Buck,and they were covered in ice by the time Perrault and Francois pulled them out of the river.Again,a fire was needed to save them.Another time,Spitz and the dogs in front fell through the ice—Buck and Dave and Francois at the sledge had to pull backwards.That day they travelled only four hundred metres.When they got to the Hootalinqua and good ice,Buck and the other dogs were very,very tired.But they were late,so Perrault made them run faster.In three days they went a hun-dred and eighty kilometres and reached the Five Fingers.The other dogs had hard feet from years of pulling sledges,but Buck's feet were still soft from his easy life down south.All day he ran painfully,and when they camped for the night,he lay down like a dead dog.He was hungry,but he was too tired to walk to the fish,so Francois brought it to him.One day Francois made four little shoes for him,and this made Buck much more comfortable.Francois forgot the shoes one morning,and Buck refused to move.He lay on his back with his feet in the air,until Francois put the shoes on.Later his feet grew harder and the shoes were not needed.One morning,at the Pelly River,a dog called Delly went suddenly mad.She howled long and loud like a wolf and then jumped at Buck.Buck ran,with Dolly one step behind him.She could not catch him,but he could not escape from her.They ran half a kilometre,and then Buck heard Francois call to him.He turned and ran towards the man,sure that Francois would save him.Francois stood ,holding his axe,and as Buck passed,the axe crashed down on Dolly's head.Buck fell down by the sledge,too tired to move.Immedi-ately,Spitz attacked him and bit his helpless enemy twice,as hard as hecould.But Francois saw this,and gave Spitz a ter-rible beating for it.‘He's a wild dog,that Spitz,’said Perrault.‘One day he'll kill Buck.’‘Buck is wilder,’replied Francois.‘I've been watching him.One day he'll get very angry and he'll fight Spitz;and he'll win.’ Francois was right.Buck wanted to be lead-dog.Spitz knew this and hated him.Buck started to help the other dogs when Spitz punished them for being lazy.One morning,Pike refused to get up,and Spitz looked for him everywhere.When he found him,he jumped at him.But suddenly,Buck at-tacked Spitz.The other dogs saw this,and it became more and more difficult for Spitz to lead them.But the days passed without a chance for a fight,and soon they were pulling into Dawson City on a cold grey afternoon.They stayed in Dawson for seven days.When they left,Perrault was carrying some more very important papers,and he wanted to travel back as fast as possible.They travelled eighty kilometres the first day,and the same the second.But it was difficult work for Francois.Buck and Spitz hated each other,and the other dogs were not afraid of Spitz any more.One night Pike stole half a fish from Spitz,and ate it standing next to Buck.And every time Buck went near Spitz,he growled and the hairon his back stood up angri-ly.The other dogs fought in their harnesses and Francois often had to stop the sledge.He knew that Buck was the problem,but Buck was too clever for him and Francois never saw him actually starting a fight.One night in camp,the dogs saw a snow rabbit and in a sec-ond they were all chasing it,with Spitz in front.Nearby was another camp,with fifty dogs,who also Joined the chase.The rabbit was running fast on top of the snow,but the snow was soft,and it was more difficult for the dogs.When Spitz caught the rabbit,throwing it in the air with his teeth,Buck was just behind.Spitz stopped,and Buck hit him,very hard.The two dogs fell in the snow.Spitz bit Buck very quickly,twice,and then jumped away,watching carefully.The time had come,and Buck knew that either he or Spitz must die.They watched one another,circling slowly.Themoon was shining brightly on the snow,and in the cold still air not a leaf moved on the trees.The other dogs finished eating the rabbit and then turned to watch.Spitz was a good fighter.He was full of hate and anger,but he was also intelligent.Every time Buck tried to bite his throat,he met Spitz's own teeth.Then,each time Buck attacked,Spitz moved and bit him on the side as he passed.After a few minutes,Buck was covered in blood.He attacked again,but this time turned at the last minute and went under Spitz,biting his left front leg.The bone broke,and Spitz was standing on three legs.Buck tried to knock Spitz down,and then repeated his earlier attack and broke Spitz's right front leg.There was no hope for Spitz now.Buck got ready for his final attack,while the circle of sixty dogs watched,and crowded nearer and nearer,waiting for the end.At last Buck jumped,in and out,and Spitz went down in the snow.A second later the waiting pack was on top of him,and Spitz had disappeared.Buck stood and watched.The wild animal had made its kill.4 The new lead-dog‘Well,what did I say?B uck’ s a real fighter,all right,’ said Francois the next morning when he discovered that Spitz had disappeared and that Buck was covered in blood.‘Spitz fought like a wolf,’said Perrault,as he looked at the bites all over Buck.‘And Buck fought like ten wolves,’ answered Francois.‘And we'lltravel faster now.No more Spitz,no more trouble.’Francois started to harness the dogs.He needed a new lead-dog,and decided that Sol-leks was the best dog that he had.But Buck jumped at Sol-leks and took his place.‘Look at Buck!’ said Francois,laughing.‘He's killed Spitz,and now he wants to be lead-dog.Go away,Buck!’He pulled Buck away and tried to harness Sol-leks again.Sol-leks was unhappy too.He was frightened of Buck,and when Francois turned his back,Buck took Sol-leks’ place again.Now Francois was angry.‘I'll show you!’ he cried,and went to get a heavy club from the sledge.Buck remembered the man in the red coat,and moved away.This time,when Sol-leks was harnessed as lead-dog,Buck did not try to move in.He kept a few metres away and circled around Francois carefully.But when Francois called him to his old place in front of Dave,Buck refused.He had won his fight with Spitz and he wanted to be lead-dog.For an hour the two men tried to harness him.Buck did not run away,but he did not let them catch him.Finally,Francois sat down,and Perrault looked at his watch.It was getting late.The two men lookedat one another and smiled Francois walked up to Sol-leks,took off his harness,led him back and harnessed him in his old place.Then he called Buck.All the other dogs were harnessed and the only empty place was now the one at the front But Buck did not move.‘Put down the club,’ said Perrault.Francois dropped the club,and immediately Buck came up to the front of the team.Francois harnessed him ,and in a minute the sledge was moving.Buck was an excellent leader.He moved and thought quick-ly and led the other dogs well.A new leader made no differ-ence to Dave and Sol-leks;they continued to pull hard .But the other dogs had had an easy life when Spitz was leading.They were surprised when Buck made them work hard and punished them for their mistakes Pike,the second dog,was usually lazy;but by the end of the first day he was pulling harder than he had ever pulled in his life.The first night in camp Buck fought Joe,another difficult dog,and after that there were no more problems with him.The team started to pull together,and to move faster and faster.‘I've never seen a d og like Buck!’cried Francois,‘Never!He's worth a thousand dollars .What do you think,Perrault?’Perrault agreed.They were moving quickly,and covering moreground every day The snow was good and hard,and no new snow fell.The temperature dropped to 45° below zero,and didn't change.This time there was more ice on the Thirty Mile River,and they crossed in a day.Some days they ran a hundred kilome-tres,or even more They reached Skagway in fourteen days;the fastest time ever.For three days the dogs rested in Skagway.Then Francois put his arms around Buck's neck and said goodbye to him.And that was the last of Francois and Perrault.Like other men,they passed out of Buck's life for ever.Two new men took Buck and his team back north on the long journey to Dawson,travelling with several other dog-teams.It was heavy work;the sledge was loaded with letters for the gold miners of Dawson.Buck did not like it,but he worked hard,and made the other dogs work hard,too.Each day was the same.They started early,before it was light,and at night they stopped and camped and the dogs ate.For the dogs this was the best part of the day,first eating,then resting by the fire.Buck liked to lie by the fire,looking at the burning wood.Sometimes he thought about Mr Miller's house in California.More of ten he remembered the man in the red coat and his club,the death of Curly,the fight with Spitz,and the good things that he had eaten Butsometimes he remembered other things These were things that he remembered through his parents,and his parents parents,and all the dogs which had lived before him.Sometimes as he lay there,he seemed to see,in a waking dream,a different fire.And he saw next to him,not the Indian cook,but another man,a man with shorter legs,and longer arms.This man had long hair and deep eyes,and madestrange noises in his throat He was very frightened of the dark,and looked around him all the time,holding a heavy stone in his hand .He wore the skin of an animal on his back,and Buck could see thick hair all over his body.Buck sat by the fire with this hairy man,and in the circling darkness beyond the fire he could see many eyes—the eyes of hungry animals waiting to attack.And he growled softly in his dream until the Indian cook shouted,‘Hey,Buck,wake up!’Then the strange world disappeared and Buck's eyes saw the real fire again.When they reached Dawson,the dogs were tired,and needed a week's rest But in two days they were moving south again,with another heavy load of letters.Both dogs and men were unhappy.It snowed every day as well,and on soft new snow it was harder work pulling the sledges.The men took good care of their dogs.In the evenings,the dogs ate。
野性的呼唤_The+call+of+wild
The Call of the Wildby Jack London1 To the northBuck did not read the newspapers. He did not know that trouble was coming for every big dog in California. Men had found gold in the Yukon, and these men wanted big, strong dogs to work in the cold and snow of the north.Buck lived in Mr Miller's big house in the sunny Santa Clara valley There were large gardens and fields of fruit trees around the house, and a river nearby. In a big place like this,of course, there were many dogs There were house dogs and farm dogs, but they were not important.Buck was chief dog;he was born here, and this was his place .He was four years old and weighed sixty kilos .He went swimming with Mr Miller's sons,and walking with his daughters .He carried the grandchildren on his back, and he sat at Mr Miller's feet in front of the fire in winter.But this was 1897, and Buck did not know that men and dogs were hurrying tonorth-west Canada to look for gold.And he did not know that Manuel, one of Mr Miller's garden-ers, needed money for his large family. One day,when Mr Miller was out, Manuel and Buck left the garden together.It was just an evening walk, Buck thought.No one saw them go, and only one man saw them arrive at the railway station.This man talked to Manuel, and gave him some money .Then he tied a piece of rope around Buck's neck.Buck growled, and was surprised when the rope was pulled hard around his neck.He jumped at the man.The man caught him and suddenly Buck was on his back with his tongue out of his mouth. For a few moments he was unable to move, and it was easy for the two men to put him into the train.When Buck woke up, the train was still moving. The man was sitting and watching him, but Buck was too quick for him and he bit the man's hand hard.Then the rope was pulled again and Buck had to let go.That evening, the man took Buck to the back room of a bar in San Francisco. The barman looked at the man's hand and trousers covered in blood.‘How much are they paying you for this?’he asked.‘I only get fifty dollars.’‘And the man who stole him—how much did he get?’ asked the barman.‘A hundred. He wouldn't take less.’‘That makes a hundred and fifty. It's a good price for a dog like him .Here, help me to get him into this.’They took off Buck's rope and pushed him into a wooden box. He spent the night in the box in the back room of the bar. His neck still ached with pain from therope, and he could not understand what it all meant . What did they want with him, these strange men? And where was Mr Miller?The next day Buck was carried in the box to the railway station and put on a trainto the north.For two days and nights the train travelled north, and for two days and nights Buck neither ate nor drank. Men on the train laughed at him and pushed sticks at him through the holes in the box. For two days and nights Buck got angrier and hungrier and thirsti-er. His eyes grew red and he bit anything that moved.In Seattle four men took Buck to a small, high-walled back garden, where a fat man in an old red coat was waiting. Buck was now very angry indeed and hejumped and bit at the sides of his box. The fat man smiled and went to get an axe and a club.‘Are you going to take him out now?’ asked one of the men. ‘Of course,’ answered the fat man, and he began to break the box with his axe.Immediately the four other men climbed up onto the wall to watch from a safe place.As the fat man hit the box with his axe, Buck jumped at the sides, growling and biting, pulling with his teeth at the pieces of broken wood. After a few minutes there was a hole big enough for Buck to get out. ‘ Now, come here, red eyes,’said the fat man, dropping his axe and taking the club in his right hand.Buck jumped at the man, sixty kilos of anger, his mouth wide open ready to bite the man's neck. Just before his teeth touched the skin, the man hit him with the club. Buck fell to the ground. It was the first time anyone had hit him with a club and he did not understand. He stood up, and jumped again. Again the club hit him and he crashed to the ground.Ten times he jumped at the man, and ten times the club hit him. Slowly he got to his feet, now only just able to stand.There was blood on his nose and mouth and ears. Then the fat man walked up and hit him again, very hard, on the nose.The pain was terrible. Again, Buck jumped at the man and again he was hit to the ground.A last time he jumped, and this time, when the man knocked him down, Buck did not move.‘He knows how to teach a dog a lesson,’ said one of the men on the wall. Then the four men jumped down and went back to the station.‘His name is Buck,’said the fat man to himself, reading the letter that had come with the box.‘Well, Buck, my by,’he said in a friendly voice,‘we've argued a little, and I think the best thing to do now is to stop. Be a good dog and we'll be friends. But if you're a bad dog, I'll have to use my club again.Understand?’As he spoke, he touched Buck’ s head, and although Buck was angry inside, hedid not move. When the man brought him water and meat, Buck drank and then ate the meat, piece by piece, from the man's hand.Buck was beaten(he knew that) but he was not broken. He had learnt that a manwith a club was stronger than him.Every day he saw more dogs arrive, and each dog was beaten by the fat man. Buck understood that a man with a club must be obeyed, although he did not have to be a friend.Men came to see the fat man and to look at the dogs. Some-times they paid money and left with one or more of the dogs.One day a short, dark man came and looked at Buck.‘That's a good dog!’ he cried.‘How much do you want for him?’‘Three hundred dollars. It's a good price, Perrault,’said the fat man.Perrault smiled and agreed that it was a good price. He knew dogs, and he knew that Buck was an excellent dog.‘One in ten thousand,’ Perrault said to himself.Buck saw money put into the fat man’ s hand, and he was not surprised when he and another dog called Curly were taken away by Perrault. He took them to a ship, and later that day Buck and Curly stood and watched the coast get further and further away.They had seen the warm south for the last time.Perrault took Buck and Curly down to the bottom of the ship. There they met another man, Francois. Perrault was a French-Canadian, but Francois was half-Indian,tall and dark.Buck learnt quickly that Perrault and Francois were fair men,calm and honest. And they knew everything about dogs.There were two other dogs on the ship.One was a big dog called Spitz, as white as snow. He was friendly to Buck at first, always smiling. He was smiling when he tried to steal Buck’ s food at the first meal. Francois was quick and hitSpitz before Buck had time to move. Buck decided that this was fair, and began to like Francois a little.Dave, the other dog, was not friendly. He wanted to be alone all the time. He ate and slept and was interested in nothing.One day was very like another, but Buck noticed that the weather was getting colder. One morning, the ship's engines stopped, and there was a feeling of excitement in the ship.Francois leashed the dogs and took them outside. At the first step Buck's feet went into something soft and white. He jumped back in surprise. The soft, white thing was also falling through the air, and it fell onto him. He tried to smell it, and then caught some on his tongue. It bit like fire, and then dis appeared. He tried again and the same thing happened. People were watching him and laughing, and Buck felt ashamed,although he did not know why. It was his first snow.2 The law of club and toothBuck's first day at Dyea Beach was terrible. Every hour there was some new, frightening surprise. There was no peace, no rest—only continual noise and movement. And every minute there was danger, because these dogs and men were nottown dogs and men. They knew only the law of club and tooth.Buck had never seen dogs fight like these dogs; they were like wolves. In a few minutes he learnt this from watching Curly. She tried to make friends with a dog, a big one, al-though not as big as she was. There was no warning. The dog jumped on Curly, his teeth closed together, then he jumped away,and Curly's face was torn open from eye to mouth.Wolves fight like this,biting and jumping away,but the fight did not finish then. Thirty or forty more dogs ran up and made a circle around the fight, watching silently. Curly tried to attack the dog who had bitten her; he bit her a second time, and jumped away. When she attacked him again, he knocked her backwards, and she fell on the ground. She never stood up again, because this was what the other dogs were waiting for. They moved in, and in a moment she was under a crowd of dogs.It was all very sudden. Buck saw Spitz run out from the crowd with his tongue out of his mouth, laughing. Then he saw Francois with an axe, and two or three other men with clubs jump in among the dogs. Two minutes later the last of the dogs was chased away. But Curly lay dead in the snow,her body torn almost to pieces.Curly's death often came backto Buck in his dreams. He understood that once a dog was down on the ground, he was dead He also remembered Spitz laughing, and from that moment he hated him.Then Buck had another surprise. Francois put a harness on him. Buck had seen harnesses on horses, and now he was made to work like a horse, pulling Francois on a sledge into the forest and returning with wood for the fire. Buck worked with Spitz and Dave.The two other dogs had worked in a har-ness before, and Buck learnt by watching them. He also learnt to stop and turn when Francois shouted.‘Those three are very good dogs,’Francois told Perrault.‘That Buck pulls very well, and he's learning quickly.’Perrault had important letters and official papers to take to Dawson City, sothat afternoon he bought two more dogs, two brothers called Billee and Joe.Billee was very friendly, but Joe was the opposite. In the evening Perrault bought one more dog, an old dog with one eye .His name was Sol-leks, which means The Angry One. Like Dave, he made no friends; all he wanted was to be alone.That night Buck discovered another problem. Where was he going to sleep?Francois and Perrault were in their tent, but when he went in, they shouted angrily and threw things at him.Outside it was very cold and windy. He lay down in the snow, but he was too cold to sleep.He walked around the tents trying to find the other dogs.But, to his surprise, they had disappeared. He walked around Perrault's tent,very, very cold, wondering what to do. Sud-denly, the snow under his feet fell in, and he felt something move. He jumped back, waiting for the attack, but heard on-ly a friendly bark. There, in a warm hole under the snow,was Billee.So that was what you had to do. Buck chose a place, dug himself a hole and in aminute he was warm and asleep. He slept well, although his dreams were bad.When he woke up, at first he did not know where he was.It had snowed in thenight and the snow now lay thick and heavy above him. Suddenly he was afraid—the fear of a wild animal when it is caught and cannot escape. Growling, he threw himself at the snow, and a moment later, he had jumped upwards into the daylight. He saw the tents and re-membered everything, from the time he had gone for a walk with Manuel to the moment he had dug the hole the nightbefore. ‘What did I say?’ shouted Francois to Perrault, when he saw Buck come up out of the snow.‘That Buck learns quickly.’Perrault smiled slowly. He was carrying important papers,and he needed good dogs. He was very pleased to have Buck.They bought three more dogs that morning, and a quarter of an hour later all nine dogs were in harness and on their way up the Dyea Canyon. Buck was not sorry to be moving, and although it was hard work, he almost enjoyed it. He was also surprised to see that Dave and Sol-leks no longer looked bored and miserable.Pulling in a harness was their job, and they were happy to do it.Dave was sledge-dog, the dog nearest to the sledge.In front of him was Buck, then came Sol-leks. In front of them were the six other dogs, with Spitz as leader at the front. Francois had put Buck between Dave and Sol-leks because they could teach him the work.Buck learnt well,and they were goodteachers. When Buck pulled the wrong way, Dave always bit his leg, but only lightly. Once, when they stopped, Buck got tied up in his harness, and it took ten minutes to get started again.Both Dave and Sol-leks gave him a good beating for that mistake. Buck understood, and was more careful after that.It was a hard day's journey, up the Dyea Canyon and into the mountains. They camped that night at Lake Bennett.Here there were thousands of gold miners.They were building boats to sail up the lake when the ice melted in the spring.Buck made his hole in the snow and slept well, but was woken up very early and harnessed to the sledge. The first day they had travelled on snow that had been hardened by many sledges and they covered sixty kilometres. But the next day, and for days afterwards, they were on new snow. The work was harder and they went slowly. Usually, Perrault went in front,on snowshoes, flattening the snow a little for the dogs.Francois stayed by the sledge. Sometimes the two men changed places, but there were many small lakes and rivers,and Perrault understood ice better. He always knew when the ice across a river was very thin.Day after day Buck pulled in his harness.They started in the morning before it was light, and they stopped in the evening after dark, ate a piece of fish, and went to sleep in their holes under the snow. Buck was alwayshungry. Francoisgave him 750 grams of dried fish a day, and it was never enough. The other dogs were given only 500 grams; they were smaller and could stay dive on less food.Buck learnt to eat quickly; if he was too slow, the other dogs stole his food. He saw Pike, one of the new dogs, steal some meat from the sledge when Perrault wasn't looking.The next day Buck stole some and got awayunseen. Perrault was very angry, but he thought another dog, Dub, had taken it and so punished him instead of Buck.Buck was learning how to live in the north. In the south he had never stolen, but there he had never been so hungry. He stole cleverly and secretly, remembering the beatings from the man with the club.Buck was learning the law of club and tooth.He learnt to eat any food—anything that he could get his teeth into. He learnt to break the ice on water holes with his feet when he wanted to drink He was stronger, harder, and could see and smell better than ever before .In a way,he was remembering back to the days when wild dogs travelled in packs through the forest, killing for meat as they went.It was easy for him to learn to fight like a wolf, because it was in his blood. In the evenings, when he pointed his nose at the moon and howled long and loud, he was remembering the dogs and wolves that had come before him.3 The wild animalThe wild animal was strong in Buck, and as he travelled across the snow, it grew stronger and stronger. And as Buck grew stronger, he hated Spitz more and more, although he was careful never to start a fight.But Spitz was always showing his teeth to Buck, trying to start a fight. And Buck knew that if he and Spitz fought, one of them would die.The fight almost happened one night when they stopped by Lake Laberge.There was heavy snow and it was very cold.The lake was frozen and Francois, Perrault, and the dogs had to spend the night on the ice, under a big rock. Buck had made a warm hole in the snow and was sorry to leave it to get his piece of fish. But when he had eaten. and returned to his hole, he found Spitz in it. Buck had tried not to fight Spitz be-fore, but this was too much. He attacked him angrily. Spitz was surprised. He knew Buck was big, but he didn’ t know he was so wild. Francois was surprised too, and guessed why Buck was angry. ‘Go on Buck!’ he shouted.‘Fight him, the dirty thief!’Spitz was also ready to fight, and the two dogs circled one another, looking for the chance to jump in. But suddenly there was a shout from Perrault, and they saw eighty or a hundred dogs around the sledge. The dogs came from an Indian village,and they were searching for the food that they could smell on the sledge. Perrault and Francois tried to fight them off with their clubs, but the dogs, made crazy by the smell of the food,showed their teeth and fought back.Buck had never seed dogs like these. They were all skin and bone, but hunger made them fight like wild things.Three of them attacked Buck and in seconds his head and legs were bad-ly bitten.Dave and Sol-leks stood side by side,coveredin blood,fighting bravely. Joe and Pike jumped on one dog,and Pike broke its neck with one bite.Buck caught another dog by the neck and tasted blood. He threw himself on the next one,and then felt teeth in his own neck.It was Spitz,attacking him from the side.Perrault and Francois came to help with clubs, but then they had to run back to save the food . It was safer for the nine sledge-dogs to run away across the lake. Several of them were badly hurt, and they spent an unhappy night hiding among the tress.At first light they returned to the sledge and found Perrault and Francois tired and angry.Half their food was gone.The Indian dogs had even eaten one ofPerrault's shoes.Francois looked at his dogs unhappily.‘Ah, my friends,’he said softly,‘Perhaps those bites will make you ill.What do you think, Perrault?’Perrault said nothing. They still had six hundred kilometres to travel, and he hoped very much that his sledge-dogs had not caught rabies from the Indian dogs.The harness was torn and damaged and it was two hours be-fore they were moving, travelling slowly and painfully over the most difficult country that they had been in.The Thirty Mile River was not frozen. It ran too fast to freeze. They spent six days trying to find a place to cross, and every step was dangerous for dogs and men. Twelve times they found ice bridges across the river, and Perrault walked carefully onto them, holding a long piece of wood. And twelve times he fell through a bridge and was saved by the piece of wood, which caught on the sides of the hole.But the tempera-ture was 45° below zero, and each time Perrault fell into the water, he had to light a fire to dry and warm himself. Once,the sledge fell through the ice, with Dave and Buck, and they were covered in ice by the time Perrault and Francois pulled them out of the river.Again, a fire was needed to save them.Another time, Spitz and the dogs in front fell through the ice—Buck and Dave and Francois at the sledge had to pull backwards.That day they travelled only four hundred metres.When they got to the Hootalinqua and good ice, Buck and the other dogs were very, very tired. But they were late, so Perrault made them run faster. In three days they went a hun-dred and eighty kilometres and reached the Five Fingers.The other dogs had hard feet from years of pulling sledges,but Buck's feet were still soft from his easy life down south.All day he ran painfully, and when they camped for the night,he lay down like a dead dog.He was hungry,but he was too tired to walk to the fish, so Francois brought it to him.One day Francois made four little shoes for him, and this made Buck much more comfortable. Francois forgot the shoes one morning, and Buck refused to move. He lay on his back with his feet in the air, until Francois put the shoes on. Later his feet grew harder and the shoes were not needed.One morning, at the Pelly River, a dog called Delly went suddenly mad. She howled long and loud like a wolf and then jumped at Buck. Buck ran, with Dolly one step behind him.She could not catch him, but he could not escape from her.They ran half a kilometre, and then Buck heard Francois call to him. He turned and ran towards the man, sure that Francois would save him. Francois stood ,holding his axe,and as Buck passed, the axe crashed down on Dolly'shead.Buck fell down by the sledge, too tired to move. Immedi-ately, Spitz attacked him and bit his helpless enemy twice, as hard as he could. But Francois saw this, and gave Spitz a ter-rible beating for it.‘He's a wild dog, that Spitz,’said Perrault.‘One day he'll kill Buck.’‘Buck is wilder,’replied Francois.‘I've been watching him. One day he'll get very angry and he'll fight Spitz; and he'll win.’ Francois was right. Buck wanted to be lead-dog.Spitz knew this and hated him. Buck started to help the other dogs when Spitz punished them for being lazy.One morning, Pike refused to get up, and Spitz looked for him everywhere. When he found him, he jumped at him.But suddenly, Buck at-tacked Spitz. The other dogs saw this, and it became more and more difficult for Spitz to lead them.But the days passed without a chance for a fight, and soon they were pulling into Dawson City on a cold grey afternoon.They stayed in Dawson for seven days. When they left,Perrault was carrying some more very important papers, and he wanted to travel back as fast as possible.They travelled eighty kilometres the first day, and the same the second. But it was difficult work for Francois. Buck and Spitz hated each other, and the other dogs were not afraid of Spitz any more. One night Pike stole half a fish from Spitz,and ate it standing next to Buck. And every time Buck went near Spitz, he growled and the hair on his back stood up angri-ly. The other dogs fought intheir harnesses and Francois often had to stop the sledge.He knew that Buck was the problem,but Buck was too clever for him and Francois never saw him actually starting a fight.One night in camp, the dogs saw a snow rabbit and in a sec-ond they were all chasing it, with Spitz in front. Nearby was another camp, with fifty dogs, who also Joined the chase. The rabbit was running fast on top of the snow, but the snow was soft, and it was more difficult for the dogs. When Spitz caught the rabbit, throwing it in the air with his teeth, Buck was just behind. Spitz stopped, and Buck hit him, very hard. The two dogs fell in the snow. Spitz bit Buck very quickly, twice, and then jumped away, watching carefully.The time had come, and Buck knew that either he or Spitz must die. They watched one another, circling slowly. Themoon was shining brightly on the snow, and in the cold still air not a leaf moved on the trees. The other dogs finished eating the rabbit and then turned to watch.Spitz was a good fighter. He was full of hate and anger, but he was also intelligent. Every time Buck tried to bite his throat, he met Spitz's own teeth. Then, each time Buck attacked, Spitz moved and bit him on the side as he passed.After a few minutes,Buck was covered in blood.He attacked again, but this time turned at the last minute and went under Spitz, biting his left front leg. The bone broke, and Spitz was standing on three legs. Buck tried to knock Spitz down, and then repeated his earlier attack and broke Spitz's right front leg.There was no hope for Spitz now. Buck got ready for his final attack, while the circle of sixty dogs watched, and crowded nearer and nearer, waiting for the end. At last Buck jumped, in and out, and Spitz went down in the snow. A second later the waiting pack was on top of him, and Spitz had disappeared. Buck stood and watched. The wild animal had made its kill.4 The new lead-dog‘Well, what did I say? Buck’ s a real fighter,all right,’ said Francois the next morning when he discovered that Spitz had disappeared and that Buck was covered in blood.‘Spitz fought like a wolf,’said Perrault, as he looked at the bites all over Buck.‘And Buck fought like ten wolves,’ answered Francois.‘And we'll travel faster now. No more Spitz, no more trouble.’Francois started to harness the dogs. He needed a new lead-dog, and decidedthat Sol-leks was the best dog that he had.But Buck jumped at Sol-leks and took his place.‘Look at Buck!’ said Francois, laughing.‘He's killed Spitz, and now he wants to be lead-dog. Go away, Buck!’He pulled Buck away and tried to harness Sol-leks again.Sol-leks was unhappy too. He was frightened of Buck, and when Francois turned his back, Buck took Sol-leks’ place again. Now Francois was angry.‘I'll show you!’ he cried, and went to get a heavy club from the sledge.Buck remembered the man in the red coat, and moved away. This time, when Sol-leks was harnessed as lead-dog,Buck did not try to move in. He kept a few metres away and circled around Francois carefully. But when Francois called him to his old place in front of Dave, Buck refused. He had won his fight with Spitz and he wanted to be lead-dog.For an hour the two men tried to harness him. Buck did not run away, but he did not let them catch him. Finally,Francois sat down, and Perrault looked at his watch.It was getting late.The two men looked at one another and smiled Francois walked up to Sol-leks, took off his harness, led him back and harnessed him in his old place.Then he called Buck.All the other dogs were harnessed and the only empty place was now the one at the front But Buck did not move.‘Put down the club,’ said Perrault.Francois dropped the club, and immediately Buck came up to the front of the team.Francois harnessed him ,and in a minute the sledge was moving.Buck was an excellent leader. He moved and thought quick-ly and led the otherdogs well. A new leader made no differ-ence to Dave and Sol-leks; they continued to pull hard .But the other dogs had had an easy life when Spitz was leading.They were surprised when Buck made them work hard and punished them for their mistakes Pike, the second dog,was usually lazy; but by the end of thefirst day he was pulling harder than he had ever pulled in his life. The first night in camp Buck fought Joe, another difficult dog, and after that there were no more problems with him. The team started to pull together, and to move faster and faster.‘I've never seen a dog like Buck!’cried Francois,‘Never!He's worth a thousand dollars .What do you think,Perrault?’Perrault agreed.They were moving quickly, and covering more ground every day The snow was good and hard, and no new snow fell.The temperature dropped to 45° below zero,and didn't change.This time there was more ice on the Thirty Mile River, and they crossed in a day.Some days they ran a hundred kilome-tres, or even more They reached Skagway in fourteen days;the fastest time ever.For three days the dogs rested in Skagway.Then Francois put his arms aroundBuck's neck and said goodbye to him.And that was the last of Francois and Perrault. Like other men, they passed out of Buck's life for ever.Two new men took Buck and his team back north on the long journey to Dawson,travelling with several other dog-teams. It was heavy work; the sledge was loaded with letters for the gold miners of Dawson. Buck did not like it, but he worked hard, and made the other dogs work hard, too. Each day was thesame. They started early, before it was light, and at night they stopped and camped and the dogs ate.For the dogs this was the best part of the day, first eating, then resting by the fire.Buck liked to lie by the fire, looking at the burning wood.Sometimes he thought about Mr Miller's house in California.More of ten he remembered the man in the red coat and his club, the death of Curly, the fight with Spitz, and the good things that he had eaten But sometimes he remembered other things These were things that he remembered through his parents, and his parents parents, and all the dogs which had lived before him.Sometimes as he lay there, he seemed to see, in a waking dream, a different fire. And he saw next to him, not the Indian cook, but another man, a man with shorter legs, and longer arms. This man had long hair and deep eyes, and madestrange noises in his throat He was very frightened of the dark,and looked around him all the time, holding a heavy stone in his hand .He wore the skin of an animal on his back,and Buck could see thick hair all over his body.Buck sat by the fire with this hairy man, and in the circling darkness beyond the fire he could see many eyes—the eyes of hungry animals waiting to attack. And he growled softly in his dream until the Indian cook shouted,‘Hey, Buck, wake up!’Then the strange world disappeared and Buck's eyes saw the real fire again.When they reached Dawson, the dogs were tired, and needed a week's rest But in two days they were moving south again, with another heavy load of letters. Both。
野性的呼唤(英文版)
Spitz
Buck A "Scottish half-breed" man
John Thornton
Character Analysis
Presenter: 潘影红 27号
Spitz: the leader of the dogs, an experienced
The indigenous people of Alaska and Canada began using sled dogs more than 1,000 years ago.
They depended on these dogs for
• protection • transportation • hunting • companionship
• The vicious and cunning rulers
He was preeminently cunning, and could bide his time with a patience that nothing less than primitive.
Background
Presenter: 彭雪宁 8号
The Call of the Wild: Background
Background knowledge
A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold. the 19th century Australia、 Brazil 、Canada 、South AfricKalo、ndike
神话英雄巴克狗--解读《野性的呼唤》(英文)
神话英雄巴克狗--解读《野性的呼唤》(英文)
陈谦红
【期刊名称】《思想战线》
【年(卷),期】2008()S3
【摘要】This thesis is intended to interpret Jack London's The Call of the Wild from the per-spective of four western classical myths:the loss of happiness,initiation,the descent into hell and resurrection.This article is aimed at providing fans of The Call of the Wild with a new perspective in exploring the novel.
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【关键词】myth;lost;happiness;initiation;descent;into;hell;resurrection 【作者】陈谦红
【作者单位】昆明陆军学院文化教研室
【正文语种】中文
【中图分类】I712.074
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Jack London
A realistic writer
Life Experiences
Writing Style
Major Works
Life Experiences
1890
child laborer in a cannery (at 14)
oyster pirate(at 15)
1891
1893
Presenter: 黄裕鑫 25号
Spitz
Buck
John Thornton
A "Scottish half-breed" man
Character Analysis
Presenter: 潘影红 27号
Spitz: the leader of the dogs, an experienced
The Call of the Wild: Background The indigenous people of Alaska and Canada
began using sled dogs more than 1,000 years ago.
They depended on these dogs for • protection • transportation • hunting • companionship
The Call of the Wild
Born: January 12, 1876 San Francisco, California United States Died: November 22, 1916 (aged 40) Glen Ellen, California United States Occupation :Novelist, journalist, short story writer and essayist
Wolf House
特怀曼· L· 托尔利在《狼的智慧》中对狼有很好的描述及 概括。 狼是陆地上生物最高的食物链终结者之一,群居动物中 最有秩序,纪律的族群。由于有狼的存在,其他野生动物 才得以淘汰老弱残的不良族群;也因为有狼的威胁存在, 其它野生动物才被迫进化得更优秀,以免被狼淘汰;也因 为有狼非常强的生存能力,适应能力。
• The vicious and cunning rulers • Love, loyalty to his owner •The call of the wild
• Full of fighting spirit - the survival of the fittest.
He did not steal for joy of it, but because of the clamor of his stomach. He did not rob openly , but stole secretly and cunningly , out of respect for club and fang. In short ,the things he did were done because it was easier to de them than not to do them. 他偷东西不是为了从中得到乐趣,而是因为肚子 太饿。他不明目张胆地去抢,而是耍点小手腕去 偷,这是考虑到木棒和利齿所致。简言之,他之 所以这么做是因为做比不做更容易些。
the 19th century
Klondike Australia、 Brazil 、Canada 、South Africa 、 River
the States
The Call of the Wild: Background
In August 1896, gold was
discovered in Rabbit Creek in
The Call of the Wild: Background
• About 100,000 people started out in hopes of reaching the Klondike River and finding gold.
• Of these, only about 30,000 completed the trip. The rest either stopped somewhere along the way, turned around, or died.
wheeler, he always fierce to his companions, but he could not always get at Buck. Finally, he was killed by Buck.
Dave: an experienced wheeler, nipped Buck's hind quarters whenever he was in error.
The Call of the Wild: Background
The gold prospectors, known as “Klondikers,” faced harsh conditions: • temperatures 40 degrees below zero • starvation and malnutrition • long journeys on foot • hundreds of pounds of supplies to transport
• a seasoned gold prospector
• having a deep, abiding and reciprocal love blossoms between man and dog
• Full of fighting spirit - the survival of the fittest.
• The vicious and cunning rulers
He was preeminently cunning, and could bide his time with a patience that nothing less than primitive.
The Call of the Wild: Background
If strength, courage, and adaptability are the keys to survival,
then our hero, Buck, stands a pretty good chance.
Plot
The Call of the Wild: Background In the late 1800s, settlers and explorers started
using the dogs to help them explore remote areas,
deliver mail, and look for gold.
The Call of the Wild: Background
They have a protective outercoat and an insulating undercoat, that helps them tolerate temperatures as low as –70°F.
The Call of the Wild: Background Certain purebred dogs are commonly used as sled dogs.
• They are Buck’s second owners.
• Stern and demanding instant obedience
• The law of club and tooth 木棒和犬牙法则
• Hal and Charles: foolish and callow
• Mercedes: spoiled and sentimental • Poor plan
Siberian huskies
Alaskan malamutes Samoyeds
The Call of the Wild: Background
In this harsh and hostile environment like the Yukon Territory,
survival is the ultimate challenge.
Background
Presenter: 彭雪宁 8号
The Call of the Wild: Background
Background knowledge
A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold.
Major Works
Major Works •The People of the Abyss(1903) 深渊中的人们 • The Call of the Wild(1903) 野性的呼唤 • The Sea Wolf(1904) 海狼 • White Fang(1906) 白牙 • Love of Life (1907) 热爱生命 •The Iron Heel(1908) 铁蹄 • Martin Eden(1909) 马丁.伊登 • The Valley of the Moon(1912) 月谷 • The Star Rover(1915) 星游人 • The Little Lady of the Big House(1916)大屋里的小妇人
the Yukon Territory of western Canada.
The Call of the Wild: Background When news of the find reached the United States, the Klondike gold rush was on.