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英语六级巅峰阅读附详解 第24期:认知与学习2

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A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes,as a rule,to have it retold in identically the same words,but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as sacred texts.It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and if a parent can produce what, in the actual circumstances of the time and the individual child,is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or arousing his sadistic(施虐狂的) impulses. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy slories were more often guilty of cruelty than those who had not. Aggressive,destructive, sadistic impulses every child has and, on the whole, their symbolic verbal discharge seems to be rathera safety valve than an incitement (刺激) to overt action.

As to fears, there are, I think, well-authenticated cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however,this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pair of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc., do not exist; and that instead of indulging his fantasies in fairy tales, the child should be taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics. I find such people, I must confess, so unsympathetic and peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York toPhiladelphia on a broomstick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their enchantedgirlfriend.

No fairy stories ever claimed to be a description of the external world and no sane child has ever believed that it was.

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sacred ['seikrid]

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adj. 神圣的,受尊重的

 
symbolic [sim'bɔlik]

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n. 代号 adj. 象征的,符号的

 
produce [prə'dju:s]

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n. 产品,农作物
vt. 生产,提出,引起,

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description [di'skripʃən]

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n. 描写,描述,说明书,作图,类型

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improvement [im'pru:vmənt]

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n. 改进,改善

 
external [ik'stə:nl]

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adj. 外部的,外面的,外来的,表面的
n.

 
overt ['əuvə:t]

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adj. 公开的,明显的,公然的

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effective [i'fektiv]

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adj. 有效的,有影响的

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frightening ['fraitniŋ]

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adj. 令人恐惧的,令人害怕的 动词frighten的

 
verbal ['və:bəl]

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adj. 动词的,口头的,用言辞的,用文字的

 

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