新浪博客

透析顶级科幻小说Foundation(基地)

2011-07-21 11:13阅读:
【参数】Foundation,俄裔美国科幻科普作家Issac Asimov著,全书313页,约70025词,全部不重复单词7858个,首万词不重复单词2244个,单词难度在《乱世佳人》与《三个火枪手》之间,属于中等偏高。五爷读的第47本英文小说。
透析顶级科幻小说Foundation(基地)

析出模版句12个:
a good many of which
against one's will
by virtue of one month of massacre
I was at sea
in a position to do it
it occurs to someone that
owe allegiance to Empire
rise in respect
so much so that
very nicely put
what do you think of it all?
wheedle sb into doing sth
透析顶级科幻小说Foundation(基地)
析出生词109个(*为熟词僻义):
acolyte,advocate,Andromeda,apocryphal,ascendancy,asperity,at sea,bauxite,bedridden,beetle*,bespangle,blast,blaster,bosh,brush-off,buzz saw,cake*,charlatanry,clout,colossus,come away,contingent,crackpot,crank out,deprecatory,devious,dissertation,esoteric,eventuality,fickle,foundry,frippery,gape,gavel,gewgaw,goo,hallowed,hangdog,harlequin,harry,hinterland,hocus-pocus,hogshead,hokum,holdover,housebroken,hydroponic,idée fixe,impasse,imperium,impinge,incinerator,iniquity,interdict,inveigle,irradiation,Jacquerie,kaput,kilter,lather,lingo,major-domo,manicure,monger,monstrosity,mummery,nebulous,nub,omnibus,on edge,parsec,pauper,percolate,peremptory,petulant,plutocracy,pogrom,politico,precedence,primate*,pump*,putsch,quadrillion,quandary,quarter*,querulous,rapine,rote,rubber-stamp,sanctum sanctorum,screech,sibilant,sidle,solitaire,speedster,spheroid,spittle,sputter,squawk,stolid,suavity,tch,teeter,teleport,televisor,Vandyke,vaudeville,virility,wrought iron
透析顶级科幻小说Foundation(基地)
【内容】这跟田中芳树的《银河英雄传说》同属“未来历史小说”,但阿西莫夫写的不是演义,绝大部分情节都是以人物对话展现,重思想谋略,而行动甚少,所以不如五爷当年一口气读完几百万字的《银英传》那么荡气回肠,估计也很难拍成“星球大战”之类的电影。正如Jams Gunn的评论:'Action and romance have little to do with the success of the Trilogy – virtually all the action takes place offstage, and the romance is almost invisible – but the stories provide a detective-story fascination with the permutations and reversals of ideas.'
但《基地》的江湖地位远在《银英传》之上,讲的是银河帝国崩盘之际,有个“心理历史学家”提出建立一个保存人类科学文明的星球基地,然后这个基地的人如何解决发展历程上外星入侵等危机,方法是合纵连横、宗教控制、商业控制。
《基地》后面还有很多续集,五爷没有一一拜读,而只读了这本原版——当年在北大的地摊胡乱买的,放了很多年才知道这是科幻小说中的圣经级作品。
此书生词可能偏多一点,但阅读难度不是单词,而是基地的历史发展故事分成相隔几十年一段段写,分别是Hari Seldon创建时代、Salvor Hardin市长时代、Limmar Ponyets商人时代、Hober Mallow市长时代,分别相隔几十年,人物除了历史传承没有直接情节关系,其实当年Foundation在杂志Astounding上是按一个个短篇故事刊出的,因此可以把此书看成短篇小说集,每个新故事的人物都是全新系列的,需要重头适应,因此初时有些不知所云,不太推荐对科幻不太感兴趣的透析菜鸟阅读。(详见透析理论关于读长篇比读短篇容易的论述)。
透析顶级科幻小说Foundation(基地)

我的更多文章

下载客户端阅读体验更佳

APP专享