音频杂志：Puppets木偶

By Linda Baxter 琳达.巴克斯特著

Watch a group of children playing with their toys. At first they might be happy to put the plastic animals in their cages at the zoo and take them out again, or dress the dolls in different clothes, but after a while things get a bit boring. So the toys will be moved across the floor as if they had real legs, the animals will start to speak to each other and the dolls will pay visits to each other"s houses and talk about what they"ve been doing today, all in slightly different voices of course. It seems that the impulse to make inanimate figures move and talk is a very natural one, and, of course, that"s exactly what puppets are all about. And that"s probably why they"ve existed for thousands of years - and are known to children and adults all over the world. 如果我们观察一群孩子玩玩具，一开始他们可能会很开心，把塑料动物放到动物园的笼子里，再拿出来，又或者给公仔穿上不同的衣服，但是一会儿过后，这些就显得有点无聊。