Tom Brown's Schooldays
/ˌtɒm braʊnz ˈskuːldeɪz/
/ˌtɑːm braʊnz ˈskuːldeɪz/
- a novel (1857) by the English author Thomas Hughes (1822-96) about a young boy growing up at Rugby School, where Hughes himself was a pupil. A real headmaster of Rugby, Dr Thomas Arnold, appears as a character in the book and has a great influence on Tom, but many of Tom's experiences are unhappy ones and he is often badly treated by a cruel older boy called Flashman.
汤姆·布朗(Tom Brown)的《学校时代:英国作家托马斯·休斯(1822-96)创作的一部小说(1857),讲述一个小男孩在橄榄球学校长大,休斯本人在那里读书。真正的橄榄球校长托马斯·阿诺德(Thomas Arnold)博士在书中扮演角色,对汤姆有很大的影响,但汤姆的许多经历令人不快,他常常受到一个叫Flashman的残酷大男孩的恶劣对待。