作  品：《你当像鸟飞往你的山》

（南海出版公司 2019-11）

作  者：塔拉·韦斯特弗（Tara Westover）

——配乐：喜马拉雅《温柔浪漫》

节选片段：Educated  

Part three: Four Long Arms, Whirling

(中文名：两双挥舞的手臂)

The blessing was a mercy. He was offering me the same terms of surrender he had offered my sister. I imagined what a relief it must have been for her, to realize she could trade her reality--the one she shared with me-for his. How grateful she must have felt to pay such a modest price for her betrayal. I could not judge her for her choice, but in that moment I knew I could not choose it for myself. Everything I had worked for,all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view,was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn't a demon: it was me.

作 者 简 介

塔拉·韦斯特弗（Tara Westover），美国作家、历史学家。1986年生于爱达荷州的山区。处女作《你当像鸟飞往你的山》是她根据成长和求学经历写成的回忆录。2019年，被《时代周刊》评为“年度影响力人物”。

朗读者：张静，2021级翻译专业，本科生第二党支部党员。

朗读指导老师：外语学院英语系 CoCo老师

寄语：同学们好，我是Coco。很荣幸能参与到这次活动中。《Educated》这本书通过塔拉·韦斯特弗的经历，展现了教育如何帮助她挣脱家庭束缚，走向更广阔的世界。教育让我们获得知识和技能，理解和欣赏不同的文化；同时培养批判性思维，发挥专业优势，为未来奠定坚实的基础；更让我们成为更好的自己，拥有更广阔视野和人生体验。

明日预告

朗读作品：《瓦尔登湖》

朗读者：肖地翠

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