Gulliver's Travels
/ˌɡʌlɪvəz ˈtrævlz/
/ˌɡʌlɪvərz ˈtrævlz/
- a novel (1726) by Jonathan Swift in which he attacked the British attitudes of his time towards religion, science, the law, etc., using satire. Lemuel Gulliver, an English traveller, visits strange lands, including Lilliput, where the people are all tiny, Brobdingnag, where the people are all giants (= very large people), and the country of the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos, where the horses are wise and the humans are stupid and cruel. The story has always been very popular with both adults and children.
格列佛游记：乔纳森·斯威夫特（Jonathan Swift）的一部小说（1726年），其中他讽刺性地抨击了当时英国人对宗教，科学，法律等的态度。英国旅行者勒穆尔·格列佛（Lemuel Gulliver）参观了许多陌生的土地，包括利利普特（Lilliput），那里的人民都很渺小；布罗布丁纳（Brobdingnag），那里的人民都是巨人；霍伊恩海姆斯（Houyhnhnms）和雅虎（Yahoos）的国家，聪明，人类愚蠢而残酷。这个故事在成人和儿童中一直很受欢迎。