古德明英语军事小故事：战 时 的 孩 子(中英对照)
古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。战 时 的 孩 子
war can become a way of life, even among children. the following excerpt is from a 1942 issue of the new york times.
"a recent survey of london schoolchildren shows that youngsters between the ages of five and seven have forgotten, or have never known, many of the attributes of peacetime living. when questioned about such things as streetlights and bananas they stared suspiciously and indicated plainly that they did not believe that such things existed.
"when one teacher brought a seashell to school and asked her pupils to name it none of them could do it. ‘ it's a shell, ’ she explained finally. ‘ that's no shell, ’ a little boy replied heatedly. ‘ shells come out of guns. ’ "
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