编辑&播音&后期：宸皞
Hello everyone, welcome back to English Panorama. This is Ryan, what agreat pleasure to see you guys again! 各位好啊，欢迎各位再次来到福说英语，我是你们的老朋友Ryan。今天，我要向大家介绍一位我童年时的旧相识，他也是本期节目的主题，“Happiness is a warm puppy”，“幸福是一只温暖的小狗”，他叫史努比，the most famous beagle in the world.
个人对于史努比最早的记忆来源于小时候购买的DVD，碟片推入卡槽，电视荧屏亮起，萨克斯和钢琴奏响经典的乐曲。这只特立独行的小猎犬就这样，跳着华尔兹，进入了我的生活。That’s how he, this rebellious little beagle, waltzed into my life.
Snoopy is a cartoon character first created by Charles M. Schulz in hiscomic stripPeanuts. He is a loyal, imaginative and good-natured beaglewho is prone to imagining fantasy lives.自其于1950年10月首次诞生在美国漫画家查尔斯舒尔茨的笔下，这只忠诚、善良、充满奇思妙想的小狗就成为了全世界最著名的角色之一。Snoopy is determined to be extraordinary. His unstoppableimagination sets him apart from other average beagles. 史努比是非同寻常的，他热衷于扮演不同的角色。他运动全能，是棒球队的游击手；是遇退稿无数依旧坚持创作的糟糕作家；是一个名叫Joe Cool的大学生；是律师，是导游，还是艺术收藏家。However, hismost well-known character is probably a British World War I flying ace, wearingan aviator's helmet and goggles and a scarf while carrying a swagger stick.他最著名的幻想身份可能还是一战时期的王牌飞行员，戴着拉风的头盔、围巾和风镜，驾驶着他的红色狗屋，穿梭于疾风和云海。
（漫画文字内容：
“你的眼睛真美。”他说。
“美得可与夏日时节相比？不，比那还美。”
“你的眼睛美得像两碟晚餐。”）
史努比以他的幽默、活泼和热情打动了世界，但，尽管他是花生系列最具代表性的角色。花生漫画的主角，或者说，其作品精神内核，却是他的主人，Charlie Brown——一个史努比永远记不住名字，只能以“TheRound-Headed Kid”来称呼他的倒霉孩子。Good Ol’Charlie Brown is alovable loser. Always, he treats everyone around him with the same sincerity,kind and gentleness even though few return the goodwill. He fails in almosteverything he does with an almost continuous streak of bad luck.查理布朗是一个有点害羞、敏感，但永远对身边人报以善意的孩子。他是个失败者，他带领的棒球队总是在输球，他从未成功放飞过一只风筝，他暗恋着学校里的红发小女孩，但是每次靠近她时，都害羞得话都说不出来。很多次他差一点点就能够成功，但是他的坏运气或者自身的一些的小缺点又让成功离他远去了。For instance, sometimes when he could finally lead his baseball teamto victory, the sky always started to rain. There is also one time he could wina race, however, he got carried away and went for the wrong direction on thefinal lap.每当他的球队快要赢球时，天总会下雨。还有一次，经过努力的训练，他差点就能赢下长跑比赛了，但在最后一圈时，他感到飘飘然，并因此跑错了方向。
他的创造者查尔斯.舒尔茨这么评价他：“Charlie Brown must be the one whosuffers, because he’s a caricature of the averageperson. Most of us are much more acquainted with losing than winning. Winningis great, but it isn’t funny.”
“查理布朗一定是个受苦的人，因为他是普通人的缩影。我们大多数人对于失败远比成功来得更加熟悉。胜利固然很棒，但它并不有趣。”
（漫画文字内容：
莱纳斯：“没什么是永恒的。”“所有的好事情都是会结束的。”
查理布朗：“好事情什么时候才会开始呢？”）
查尔斯舒尔茨对于自己笔下角色的理解来源于他的生活。
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Charles Schulz grew up in Saint Paul, sonof dad Carl, a barber just like Charlie Brown’s father. At school, Schulz wasan completely failure. Academically, he usually got zero points in physics andhis performance in Latin, algebra and English was also a mess. He was shy andsocially awkward, which made him non-existing on social occasions. One time hebraced up and wrote a love letter to a girl he secretly had a crush on, only tofind it deserted in the pin.
“从小到大，许多方面我都是非常失败的，简直一塌糊涂。”他说。
舒尔茨的学生时代是由糟糕的学业成绩，差劲的体育表现和社交上的失败组成的。他八年级时，物理几乎都是零分，拉丁语、代数和英语也惨不忍睹。他害羞且不善言辞，在周围同学的眼里存在感稀薄。有一次他终于鼓起勇气给自己暗恋的女孩写了封情书，随后却在废纸篓里发现了这封“爱的信件”。但是，就这样一位失败者，内心却有一个坚定的梦想——他要成为一名漫画家。
Throughout his youth, Schulz and his father shared a Sunday morning ritualreading the funnies. He was fascinated with strips like Skippy, Mickey Mouse,and Popeye. In his deepest desires, healways knew he wanted to be a cartoonist, and seeing the publication of hisdrawing of Spike, the family dog, in the nationally-syndicated Ripley’s Believe itor Not newspaper feature was a proud moment in the young teen’s life.
舒尔茨童年时会和自己的父亲一起阅读周日报纸上的幽默漫画，那时的他被各类卡通角色深深吸引。在他的内心深处，他一直非常清楚自己想成为一名漫画家。他关于自家家犬史派克的画作在报刊上的出版加深了他的这一想法。当然，在这条道路上他也并不是一帆风顺。After his graduation from middle school, he wrote an letter toDisney, applying for a job and selling his works. Despite great devotion andtime spent, he got rejected. Then the WW2 broke out and he joined the army,during that period he continued to pursue his dream.经过了被退稿和参军入伍的经历，1947年时，他在家乡报纸圣保罗先驱报上发表了一系列叫做Li’l Folks的短漫，这也就是花生的原型，自此他的作品逐渐受到欢迎，并最终名声大噪。
（查尔斯舒尔茨在自己的工作室进行创作。）
舒尔茨把自己对生活的思考、对幸福的追求画进了自己的角色中。在他的笔下，热爱幻想、与众不同的史努比诞生了，总是失败但永不放弃的查理布朗诞生了。This is the philosophy of The Peanuts, to “dream big”, to “ try onemore time”, to love life and people around you even though sometimes it is sohard.这就是小男孩查理布朗，尽管他时常感到自卑，幸运女神也从未眷顾过他，但他依旧以百分百的努力来面对生活，用满满的温柔来对待他的朋友。There are times when he feels pessimistic, and that the anxietycreeps under his skin, making him wonder “Why does everything I try turn out sowrong?”. Whereas, the next day, he will still try his best to win a baseballmatch, or to fly a kite.有一次，他的棒球队本可以得到赞助商的赞助，但查理布朗拒绝了，因为赞助商认为真正的棒球队里不该有女孩子和狗，而查理布朗选择与他的朋友站在一起。
The following audio is a clip fromThe Peanuts Movie,produced in2015, giving us more of an insight into a little boy’s world.
花生漫画的魅力还源于其拥有一群形象丰满的配角，包括查理布朗的好朋友，博学却总是带着自己的“security blanket”的Linus，聒噪且充满自信的Lucy，查理布朗讨厌上学的妹妹Sally等等，他们的存在让花生的内涵更加丰满而生动。But, one of the characters is truly special. In April of 1968, abouta week and a half after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, HarrietGlickman, a teacher and mother living in Los Angeles at the time, wrote aletter to Schulz urging him to add a black character.
The two exchanged several letters, and two of Glickman’s blackfriends sent suggestions to Schulz on how best to integrate a Peanuts characterof color. In July of that year, Franklin, Peanuts’ first black character, made friends with Charlie Brown when the two built a sandcastle together on the beach.
1968年4月，在黑人民权运动家马丁路德金被暗杀大约一周半后，哈里特·格利克曼，一名住在洛杉矶的老师给舒尔茨写了一封信，希望他在作品中加入一个黑人角色。舒尔茨一开始并不同意，因为他担心这么做会显得“对黑人朋友们太傲慢”。但在更多的信件往来，并征询了格里克曼的两位非裔友人的意见之后，当年七月，非裔小男孩富兰克林首度出现在了漫画中。对比起漫画中其它拥有鲜明个性的角色，富兰克林只是个聪明的普通小孩，但在那个敏感的年代，他的诞生已属不易。
(查理布朗和他的朋友们）
（富兰克林的首次登场）
The story of the Peanuts was adapted to a number of animated series andfilms.其中最经典的作品是由Lee Mendelson制作的一系列的电视特辑，也是上文提到的，我童年最美好的记忆，其中的许多配乐都成了脍炙人口的作品。
2000年12月12日，查尔斯舒尔茨因癌症去世，出于对其意愿的尊重，花生漫画自此停刊。但是，尽管他已离世多年，史努比，这只特立独行的小狗，依旧与他的朋友们一起，为世界各地的人们带来慰藉和欢乐。舒尔茨曾经说过：“Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that youstill have two hours left to sleep.”这就是他的幸福哲学，很寻常，却体现了对生活的真挚热爱——幸福就是，早晨醒来时发现自己还能再睡上两个小时；幸福就是，晚上看电视时，膝上有一只温暖的小狗相依。
OK.本期的福说英语到这里就结束啦。Thanks for listening. I’ll see you nexttime.
Background Music：
1、Getting Ready - David Benoit
2、Blue Charlie Brown - David Benoit
3、Red Baron - David Benoit
4、Linus and Lucy - David Benoit
5、Good to be Alive（From the Peanuts Movieoriginal soundtrack）- Megan Trainor
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