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上月二十三號(hào)，給你信上提到的Leonardo Da Vinci畫(huà)的那幅《最后的晚餐》（The Last Supper），爸爸把它貼在下面。畫(huà)的意思是耶穌（Jesus）說(shuō)One of you shall betray me.（你們之中有一個(gè)要出賣(mài)我了），于是大家紛紛問(wèn)他Is it I？（是我嗎？）
畫(huà)上有Jesus的十二個(gè)徒弟，但并不是“十二使徒”Twelve Apostles——the twelve disciples and associates of Jesus（Peter, James, John, Andrew, Thomas, James the Less, Jude, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon, and Judas）, Who were chosen as His Apostles.畫(huà)上說(shuō)明（The Last Supper, as painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, shows Jesus and the twelve apostles, left to right：Bartholomew, James the Less, Andrew, Judas, Peter, John, Thomas, James, Philip, Matthew Thaddeus, and Simon.）說(shuō)是the twelve apostles，是不妥的，因?yàn)槭雇嚼锏腏udas（猶大），并不是畫(huà)里那個(gè)Judas，但一般人總以為畫(huà)里那個(gè)Judas是十二使徒之一，這是一般人看書(shū)沒(méi)有爸爸仔細(xì)的緣故。
坐在畫(huà)里Judas旁的白胡子老頭叫彼得（Peter），Jesus死后，Peter是頭牌的使徒。他原來(lái)是打魚(yú)的，Jesus招他做徒弟，說(shuō)做了Jesus徒弟就“得人如得魚(yú)一樣”（I will make you fishers of men.）。于是Peter就跟Jesus傳道了。Jesus死后十五年，Peter因傳教被關(guān)在牢里，但傳說(shuō)天使幫他越獄，天使來(lái)的時(shí)候，看守他的兵也睡了，鎖著他的兩條鐵鏈也開(kāi)了?？梢?jiàn)天使的本領(lǐng)真大，不但會(huì)催眠術(shù)（hypnotism），還是鎖匠（locksmith），也許鎖就是Peter自己開(kāi)的，因?yàn)镴esus早就說(shuō)給Peter“天國(guó)的鑰匙”（I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven.），這keys既然能開(kāi)天門(mén)，開(kāi)個(gè)鐵鏈上的鎖自然不在話下。
Peter越獄后二十多年，又被抓住了，這次天使不來(lái)了，Peter被釘十字架上，臨釘以前他要求頭朝下腳朝上釘（他老師Jesus是頭上腳下釘）。死后，被稱為圣彼得（Saint Peter）?，F(xiàn)在羅馬（Rome）的圣彼得教堂（St. Peter's Church）是世界上最有名的Christian church，Peter的墳就在里面，但直到一九五○年——Peter死后近一千九百年，才發(fā)現(xiàn)（英文Rob Peter to pay Paul就是“慷他人之慨”“挖東墻補(bǔ)西墻”的意思）。
談完了Peter，再談Pan（潘）。Pan是牧羊神，是希臘神話里半人半羊的神，怪嚇人的，所以英文panic一個(gè)字，便是被他“嚇”出來(lái)的，如說(shuō)They fall into a panic.就是“他們大感恐慌”。
另外panpipe（牧神笙）這種樂(lè)器，也是他“吹”出來(lái)的。panpipe——a primitive wind instrument consisting of a series of hollow pipes of graduated length, the tones being produced by blowing across the upper ends.
爸爸為什么跟你談Peter和Pan呢？
因?yàn)橐榻B一個(gè)小朋友，他的名字叫Peter Pan（潘彼得）。
Peter Pan是誰(shuí)？Peter Pan是一個(gè)童話里的小男孩，他不肯長(zhǎng)大（refuses to grow up），下面是他的履歷：
Peter Pan, the hero of a play by Sir James Barrie, is a boy who refuses to grow up. Peter Pan persuades Wendy, John, and Michael Darling to fly with him and the fairy Tinker Bell to Never-Never Land. The Darling children and Peter Pan have adventures with the pirate Captain Hook, a crocodile, and an Indian princess. The play was first produced in 1904.
The character first appears in Barrie's story The Little White Bird（1902）. Several chapters from the story were published in 1906 as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. In 1911, Barrie made the play into a story called Peter Pan and Wendy.
作者巴利是美國(guó)人，寫(xiě)了很多書(shū)。He once summed up his work as a means “to play hide and seek with angels”.（跟天使捉迷藏）
Peter Pan這書(shū)你學(xué)校里一定有。中文也有譯本，叫《潘彼德》，重慶南路商務(wù)印書(shū)館可以買(mǎi)到。譯者梁實(shí)秋，現(xiàn)在有七十五六歲了，他是三姑三姑父在師范大學(xué)時(shí)的文學(xué)院院長(zhǎng)，他給爸爸寫(xiě)的一本書(shū)《胡適評(píng)傳》寫(xiě)過(guò)書(shū)評(píng)，說(shuō)“李敖先生收集材料的本領(lǐng)很大”。
Peter Pan的小朋友Wendy這名字念起來(lái)很像中文的“文諦”，你要爸爸給你起一個(gè)中間的名字，就叫Wendy好不好？
Hedy Wendy Lee可寫(xiě)做Hedy W. Lee或H. W. Lee，你喜歡嗎？你可以寫(xiě)信問(wèn)問(wèn)媽媽再?zèng)Q定用不用。
有人用middel name，反而不用前面的，美國(guó)前總統(tǒng)Nixon的太太叫Thelma Patricia（Pat）Ryan只用middle name。一九五二年大選的時(shí)候，政敵Nixon說(shuō)收了slush fund（紅包），A fund or sum of money set aside for political purposes, to use to buy influence or votes, or to use in bribery.說(shuō)他太太Pat有貂皮大衣（mink coat），于是Nixon上了電視，稱呼他太太就用Pat這middle name：He discussed his personal finances in detail, showing that he had not profited personally from the fund. He said that “Pat doesn't have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat.”And he vowed to keep Checkers, a cocker spaniel that had been a gift to his daughters. After the program, Republicans hailed Nixon as a hero. Eisenhower put his arm around Nixon when they next met and declared：“You're my boy.”Eisenhower and Nixon went on to defeat their Democratic opponents.他說(shuō)他只收了人家送他的一條cocker spaniel（這是一種短腿、長(zhǎng)毛、大耳朵下垂的小獵犬），“不論他們說(shuō)什么，我們也把它留下來(lái)?！保≧egardless of what they say about it, we're going to keep it.）當(dāng)然一條小狗不能算是slush fund，所以Nixon當(dāng)選了。
因?yàn)閃endy這個(gè)名字，發(fā)音有“文”的音，跟你中文名字正好呼應(yīng)，我認(rèn)為你可以像Pat一樣，多用Wendy這個(gè)middle name也不錯(cuò)。
爸 爸 一九七五年四月六日
作者：李敖
上月二十三號(hào)，給你信上提到的Leonardo Da Vinci畫(huà)的那幅《最后的晚餐》（The Last Supper），爸爸把它貼在下面。畫(huà)的意思是耶穌（Jesus）說(shuō)One of you shall betray me.（你們之中有一個(gè)要出賣(mài)我了），于是大家紛紛問(wèn)他Is it I？（是我嗎？）
畫(huà)上有Jesus的十二個(gè)徒弟，但并不是“十二使徒”Twelve Apostles——the twelve disciples and associates of Jesus（Peter, James, John, Andrew, Thomas, James the Less, Jude, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon, and Judas）, Who were chosen as His Apostles.畫(huà)上說(shuō)明（The Last Supper, as painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, shows Jesus and the twelve apostles, left to right：Bartholomew, James the Less, Andrew, Judas, Peter, John, Thomas, James, Philip, Matthew Thaddeus, and Simon.）說(shuō)是the twelve apostles，是不妥的，因?yàn)槭雇嚼锏腏udas（猶大），并不是畫(huà)里那個(gè)Judas，但一般人總以為畫(huà)里那個(gè)Judas是十二使徒之一，這是一般人看書(shū)沒(méi)有爸爸仔細(xì)的緣故。
坐在畫(huà)里Judas旁的白胡子老頭叫彼得（Peter），Jesus死后，Peter是頭牌的使徒。他原來(lái)是打魚(yú)的，Jesus招他做徒弟，說(shuō)做了Jesus徒弟就“得人如得魚(yú)一樣”（I will make you fishers of men.）。于是Peter就跟Jesus傳道了。Jesus死后十五年，Peter因傳教被關(guān)在牢里，但傳說(shuō)天使幫他越獄，天使來(lái)的時(shí)候，看守他的兵也睡了，鎖著他的兩條鐵鏈也開(kāi)了?？梢?jiàn)天使的本領(lǐng)真大，不但會(huì)催眠術(shù)（hypnotism），還是鎖匠（locksmith），也許鎖就是Peter自己開(kāi)的，因?yàn)镴esus早就說(shuō)給Peter“天國(guó)的鑰匙”（I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven.），這keys既然能開(kāi)天門(mén)，開(kāi)個(gè)鐵鏈上的鎖自然不在話下。
Peter越獄后二十多年，又被抓住了，這次天使不來(lái)了，Peter被釘十字架上，臨釘以前他要求頭朝下腳朝上釘（他老師Jesus是頭上腳下釘）。死后，被稱為圣彼得（Saint Peter）?，F(xiàn)在羅馬（Rome）的圣彼得教堂（St. Peter's Church）是世界上最有名的Christian church，Peter的墳就在里面，但直到一九五○年——Peter死后近一千九百年，才發(fā)現(xiàn)（英文Rob Peter to pay Paul就是“慷他人之慨”“挖東墻補(bǔ)西墻”的意思）。
談完了Peter，再談Pan（潘）。Pan是牧羊神，是希臘神話里半人半羊的神，怪嚇人的，所以英文panic一個(gè)字，便是被他“嚇”出來(lái)的，如說(shuō)They fall into a panic.就是“他們大感恐慌”。
另外panpipe（牧神笙）這種樂(lè)器，也是他“吹”出來(lái)的。panpipe——a primitive wind instrument consisting of a series of hollow pipes of graduated length, the tones being produced by blowing across the upper ends.
爸爸為什么跟你談Peter和Pan呢？
因?yàn)橐榻B一個(gè)小朋友，他的名字叫Peter Pan（潘彼得）。
Peter Pan是誰(shuí)？Peter Pan是一個(gè)童話里的小男孩，他不肯長(zhǎng)大（refuses to grow up），下面是他的履歷：
Peter Pan, the hero of a play by Sir James Barrie, is a boy who refuses to grow up. Peter Pan persuades Wendy, John, and Michael Darling to fly with him and the fairy Tinker Bell to Never-Never Land. The Darling children and Peter Pan have adventures with the pirate Captain Hook, a crocodile, and an Indian princess. The play was first produced in 1904.
The character first appears in Barrie's story The Little White Bird（1902）. Several chapters from the story were published in 1906 as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. In 1911, Barrie made the play into a story called Peter Pan and Wendy.
作者巴利是美國(guó)人，寫(xiě)了很多書(shū)。He once summed up his work as a means “to play hide and seek with angels”.（跟天使捉迷藏）
Peter Pan這書(shū)你學(xué)校里一定有。中文也有譯本，叫《潘彼德》，重慶南路商務(wù)印書(shū)館可以買(mǎi)到。譯者梁實(shí)秋，現(xiàn)在有七十五六歲了，他是三姑三姑父在師范大學(xué)時(shí)的文學(xué)院院長(zhǎng)，他給爸爸寫(xiě)的一本書(shū)《胡適評(píng)傳》寫(xiě)過(guò)書(shū)評(píng)，說(shuō)“李敖先生收集材料的本領(lǐng)很大”。
Peter Pan的小朋友Wendy這名字念起來(lái)很像中文的“文諦”，你要爸爸給你起一個(gè)中間的名字，就叫Wendy好不好？
Hedy Wendy Lee可寫(xiě)做Hedy W. Lee或H. W. Lee，你喜歡嗎？你可以寫(xiě)信問(wèn)問(wèn)媽媽再?zèng)Q定用不用。
有人用middel name，反而不用前面的，美國(guó)前總統(tǒng)Nixon的太太叫Thelma Patricia（Pat）Ryan只用middle name。一九五二年大選的時(shí)候，政敵Nixon說(shuō)收了slush fund（紅包），A fund or sum of money set aside for political purposes, to use to buy influence or votes, or to use in bribery.說(shuō)他太太Pat有貂皮大衣（mink coat），于是Nixon上了電視，稱呼他太太就用Pat這middle name：He discussed his personal finances in detail, showing that he had not profited personally from the fund. He said that “Pat doesn't have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat.”And he vowed to keep Checkers, a cocker spaniel that had been a gift to his daughters. After the program, Republicans hailed Nixon as a hero. Eisenhower put his arm around Nixon when they next met and declared：“You're my boy.”Eisenhower and Nixon went on to defeat their Democratic opponents.他說(shuō)他只收了人家送他的一條cocker spaniel（這是一種短腿、長(zhǎng)毛、大耳朵下垂的小獵犬），“不論他們說(shuō)什么，我們也把它留下來(lái)?！保≧egardless of what they say about it, we're going to keep it.）當(dāng)然一條小狗不能算是slush fund，所以Nixon當(dāng)選了。
因?yàn)閃endy這個(gè)名字，發(fā)音有“文”的音，跟你中文名字正好呼應(yīng)，我認(rèn)為你可以像Pat一樣，多用Wendy這個(gè)middle name也不錯(cuò)。
爸 爸 一九七五年四月六日
作者：李敖