I'll stick with " Galapagos" , Kurt Vonnegut.

库尔特·冯内古特，我还是选《加拉帕戈斯群岛》吧。

So it used to be Kurt Vonnegut was my favorite author.

库尔特·冯内古特曾经是我最喜欢的作家。

Kurt Vonnegut published his last book in two thousand five.

2005年，库尔特·冯内古特最后一部作品出版。

In nineteen fifty-eight, Kurt Vonnegut's sister and her husband died within two days of each other.

1958年，库尔特·冯内古特的妹妹和妹夫在两天内相继去世。

I really loved " Galapagos" , which is not like the one that Kurt Vonnegut fans name.

我真的很喜欢《加拉帕戈斯群岛》，它不像库尔特·冯内古特粉丝命名的那个。

But people started listening more closely to Kurt Vonnegut's literary voice in the nineteen sixties.

但20世纪60年代，人们开始更多的听库尔特·冯内古特的文学作品。

As Kurt Vonnegut enjoined, " every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water."

正如库尔特·冯内古特所嘱咐的那样，" 每个角色都应该想要某些东西，哪怕只是想要一杯水。"

Also that year, Kurt Vonnegut began teaching at the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa.

同年，库尔特·冯内古特开始在爱荷华大学作家工作室教书。

Kurt Vonnegut, for example, rewrote each page of his novels until he got them exactly the way he wanted them.

比如库特·冯内古特会将自己的小说每一页都修改到自己最满意为止。

Kurt Vonnegut was interested in writing from at least his teenage years. He worked on his high school's newspaper.

至少从青少年时期起，库尔特·冯内古特就对写作感兴趣。高中时期，他在学校的报社工作。

It took Kurt Vonnegut about twenty-five years to write his most famous book, Slaughterhouse-Five. It was published in nineteen sixty-nine.

库尔特·冯内古特花了约25年的时间创作了他最著名的书籍《五号屠宰场》。该书于1969年出版。

Kurt Vonnegut's “Slaughterhouse-Five” takes a different approach: the story continuously alternates between horrific war scenes and wacky science fiction moments.

冯内果的《第五号屠宰场》采用不同的方式：故事在可怕的战争场景和古怪的科幻桥段之间不断切换。

Kurt Vonnegut compared the science fiction in Slaughterhouse-Five to the clowns in the plays of sixteenth century English writer William Shakespeare.

库尔特·冯内古特将《五号屠宰场》中的科幻比作16世纪英国作家威廉·莎士比亚戏剧中的小丑。

Kurt Vonnegut's own life was also filled with tragedy and laughter. He was born in nineteen twenty-two in Indianapolis, Indiana.

库尔特·冯内古特自己的一生也充满悲剧和笑声。1922年他在印第安纳州印第安纳波利斯出生。

Today we tell about Kurt Vonnegut, a writer and thinker who shook up the country with his unusual writing style and subjects.

今天我们要讲述库尔特·冯内古特，他是一名作家兼思想家，用他不同寻常的写作方式和写作主题震撼这个国家。

He followed in the footsteps of his older brother, Bernard, who was a scientist. However, Kurt Vonnegut was not a very good student.

他跟随着哥哥伯纳德的脚步，伯纳德是一名科学家。但库尔特·冯内古特并不是一名好学生。

Here Kurt Vonnegut reads from an early version of Breakfast of Champions. The reading took place in New York City in nineteen seventy.

以下是库尔特·冯内古特朗读《冠军的早餐》早期版本的片段，于1970年纽约。

The author Kurt Vonnegut once wrote.

作家库尔特·冯内古特曾经写道。

They don't, remember the words of Kurt Vonnegut.

记住库尔特·冯内古特的话，他们没有。

Unfortunately, I didn't write as well as Kurt Vonnegut.

不幸的是，我的写作不如库尔特·冯内古特。