So then I chose another profession, and learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown a little over all parts of the world; and it is true that geography has been very useful to me. At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona. If one gets lost in the night, such knowledge is valuable.
我把这幅佳构拿给大人们看，我问他们我的画是否让他们感到惊骇。
他们答复我说：“一顶帽子有甚么惊骇的呢？”
Chapter 1
In the book it said: "Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion."I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked like this:
But they answered: "Frighten Why should any one be frightened by a hat"My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two looked like this:
以是从当时起，我挑选了别的一个职业，我学会了开飞机。我几近飞遍了天下的每个角落。的确，地理学对我非常有效。飞过天下各地的我一眼就能辩白出中国和亚利桑那州。如果夜里丢失了航向，如许的知识是很有代价的。
此次大人们做出的反应是：他们建议我把这些画着看起来仿佛敞开肚皮的蟒蛇的丹青放在一边，然后把精力放在地理、汗青、计算和语法上。这就是为甚么，在我六岁时，我放弃了成为一名职业画家的斑斓胡想。第一号、第二号作品的不胜利，令我非常懊丧。这些大人们本身甚么都不懂，还需求孩子们不竭地、不竭地解释给他们听，这真是令人感到腻烦。