论文如下:
Rip Van Winkle is a short story by Washington Irving published in 1819, as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. It was part of a collection of stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon.
《瑞普·凡·温克尔》是华盛顿·欧文于1819年出版的一部短篇小说,也是小说中主人公的名字。这是名为《杰弗里·克雷恩的素描集》的故事集的一部分。
The story has become a part of cultural mythology: even for those who have never read the original story, "Rip Van Winkle" means either a person who sleeps for a long period of time, or one who is inexplicably (perhaps even blissfully) unaware of current events.
这个故事已经成为文化神话的一部分:即使对那些从未读过原著的人来说,“Rip Van Winkle”也意味着要么是一个睡了很长时间的人,要么是一个莫名其妙(甚至可能是幸福地)不知道时事的人。
The story, written while Irving was staying with his sister Sarah and her husband Henry van Wart in Birmingham, England, is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War. A villager of Dutch descent escapes his nagging wife by wandering up Kaaterskill Clove near his home town of Palenville, New York in the Catskill Mountains.
这个故事是欧文与妹妹莎拉和丈夫亨利·范瓦特住在英国伯明翰时写的,故事发生在美国独立战争前后。一名荷兰裔村民在其家乡纽约帕伦维尔附近的卡茨基尔山上游荡,逃离了唠叨不休的妻子。