阿甘正传

阿甘是常人眼中的弱智和白痴，但他天性善良单纯，加上天赋异禀，使他先后成为大学美式足球明星、越战英雄、世界级乒乓球运动员、摔跤选手、国际象棋大师和商业大亨，既获得肯尼迪总统的接见，约翰逊总统的授勋，甚至还无意间发现了水门事件的真相！阿甘“轰轰烈烈”的传奇一生，看似茺诞不经，其实正是五十年代到七十年代美国历史与社会的缩影，透过阿甘的眼睛，也让我们看到了世态的险恶复杂与庸俗市侩，而更觉人性真诚的可贵。
小说语言平易而风趣，阿甘的人生感悟更是充满了哲理意味，实在值得自以为是的世人深思。

Forrest Gump is a 1986 novel by Winston Groom. The title character experiences adventures ranging from shrimp boating and pingpong championships to thinking about his childhood love, Jenny. Richard Nixon, the Vietnam conflict and college football are all part of the story. Throughout his life, Gump views the world simply and truthfully, even though through the course of the book and movie, he really doesn't know what he wants to do in life. Author and narrator Groom uses intonations that capture Gump's personality.

Narrated by Forrest Gump, the book starts in Alabama, Forrest's home state. He introduces himself as an idiot, with an I.Q. "near 70" (pg 1) (in the movie it is 75). Forrest is named after General Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Civil War veteran and leader of the Ku Klux Klan. His father was killed when a shipment of bananas was dropped on him. As Forrest was a newborn at the time, he does not have a memory of his father, but has never been fond of bananas, save banana pudding. His mother raised him, keeping him inside the majority of the time, so that the other children wouldn't bully him. During his first year of school, he was treated as an outcast and victim by all but Jenny Curran. He was then sent to the 'nut school,' where he went until he was sixteen years old. By this point, he was six foot six and weighed 242 lbs. He was recruited to play football at the local high school. After he got fired for not good enough grades, he went and worked with the army. Forrest reunited with Bubba. After they got trained well enough, they got sent to Vietnam. There it was pretty easy, until they were bombarded while they were showering and had to escape "butt neckid". Soon they got bombarded again, and Bubba got killed. Forrest was wounded in his buttocks. He was sent to hospital in Vietnam to recover. While he was there, he met a former history teacher, Lieutenant Dan. Also, Forrest learned his amazing talent of Ping Pong.

温斯顿·葛詹姆（1945——），美国作家。生于华盛顿特区，在亚拉巴马州的莫比尔长大，毕业于亚拉巴马大学。曾做过越战随军记者，后来从事专业写作。自一九七八年以来发表过七部作品，包括颇受好评的越战小说《缅怀好时光》，以及得奖的《逝夏》。传记作品《与敌人对谈》，曾荣获一九八四年的普利策奖提名，一九九五年出版的《光荣的寿衣》，描述了美国南北战争中最后一场大战役的历史，涉猎的题材可谓十分广泛。《阿甘正传》是葛鲁姆一九八六年发表的讽刺喜剧作品，随着改编成电影，使他一举跃登畅销作家之林。

Winston Groom was born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in Mobile, Alabama where he attended University Military School (now known as UMS-Wright Preparatory School). Groom's earliest ambition was to become a lawyer like his father but chose instead to become a writer while a literary editor in college. Groom attended the University of Alabama, was a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity and the Army ROTC, graduating in 1965. He served in the Army from 1965 to 1969, including a tour of duty in the Vietnam War.

Upon his return from Vietnam, he worked as a reporter for the Washington Star, a Washington D.C. newspaper covering police and courtroom activities. Groom quit journalism in 1976 and began writing his first novel Better Times Than These which was published in 1978. Better Times Than These was about a group of partriotic soldiers in the Vietnam War whose lives and patriotism both are shattered. His next novel As Summers Die (1980) received better recognition. His novel Conversations with the Enemy (1982) follows an American Vietnam War soldier who escapes from a POW camp and takes a plane back to the United States only to be arrested fourteen years later for desertion. Conversations with the Enemy was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1983.

In 1985, Groom moved back to Mobile, Alabama where he began to work on the novel Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump was published in 1986, however it did not make Groom a best selling author until it was adapted into a film with the same name in 1994 starring Tom Hanks in the title role of Forrest Gump. The film propelled the novel to bestseller status and it sold 1.7 million copies worldwide.

Groom devotes his time to writing history books about American wars. He has lived most recently in Point Clear, Alabama. and Long Island, New York with his wife Anne Clinton. Groom was an old friend of writer Willie Morris, dating to their days together in Bridgehampton, Long Island, New York.

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1. Life was like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're gonna get.

人生就像一盒巧克力，不打开它你永远不知道下一颗的味道。

2.There is an awful lot you can tell about a person by their shoes. Where they're going. Where they've been.

通过一个人的穿鞋，可以判断一个人。他去过哪儿，将要去哪儿。

3.Stupid is as stupid does.

傻人有傻福。

4.We were like peas and carrots.

我们形影不离。

5.Miracles happen every day.

每天都有奇迹发生。

6.A little of stinging rain, and big old fat rain.
牛毛细雨，瓢泊大雨。

7. Sure as hell was.

绝对如此，板上定钉。

8.You have got to put the past behind you before you can move on.

放下包袱，继续前进。

9.If there is anything you need I will not be far away.

用情至专！

10.It's my time. It's just my time. Oh, now, don't you be afraid sweetheart. Death is just a part of life, something we're all destined to do. I didn't know it. But I was destined to be your momma. I did the best I could.

母亲: 我的时间到了。别害怕,死亡是生命的一部分,是我们注定要去做的一件事。我不知道怎么回事,但我注定是你的妈妈,并且我尽我的全力做好。

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