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English to Chinese: A Pure Heart and a Clean Concience General field: Social Sciences Detailed field: Religion
Source text - English http://www.alamoministries.com/Newsletters/17300.pdf
Translation - Chinese http://www.alamoministries.com/Chinese/Ch17300.pdf
English to Chinese: CHINESE EVENT INTRO SPEECH General field: Bus/Financial Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - English The key to understanding the fiction of L. Ron Hubbard is to know that it reflects the totality of his unique experiences throughout his life, filtered through his innate curiosity and keen powers of observation.
After a childhood in the rugged mountains of Montana, Ron broke broncs at a young age and was counted among the few outsiders ever admitted into Blackfoot society as a blood brother.
Not too far into his teens and as America’s youngest Eagle Scout, he embarked upon a working schooner, bound for China where he was among the first westerners to gain admittance to the Tibetan monasteries below Manchuria and where he befriended the last in the line of royal magicians from the court of Kublai Khan.
He was a true friend of China and traveled throughout the country from Hong Kong to Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Beijing in the 1920’s.
In China, L. Ron Hubbard proclaimed “I found out what it meant to be part of a civilization.”, “I had many, many friends in China.”
All told he made three Pacific crossings and logged a quarter million miles by the time he was eighteen, garnering experiences that would inform his later works with unparalleled authenticity.
Only he could have written stories such as Red Death Over China, Spy Killer and Red Dragon with such striking realism.
Beyond his teenage years, he studied engineering courses and atomic and molecular phenomena, now known as nuclear physics, at the George Washington University where he at the same time launched his writing career.
While doing his studies and pursuing his writing, he also takes up glider flying, becomes a powered-flight pilot and barnstorms across the Midwest literally experiencing the research for his later aerial combat adventure tales such as Hurtling Wings and The Devil-With Wings.
The young Ron also leads an expedition with more than fifty adventure-seeking college students to the Caribbean aboard a four-masted schooner from which would spring his later sea adventures like The Pearl Pirate.
His seafaring stories discarded buccaneering lore and replaced it with sharp attention to detail, accurate settings and history, and characters of substance, not pretext.
Consider Under the Black Ensign, which portrayed the true nature of a pirate, not as a marauding stereotype, but as a refugee from a brutal and chaotic life at sea, who found a more organized and even dignified life.
In time, Ron would hold would hold a rare Master Mariner’s license to pilot any vessel, of any tonnage in any ocean.
He was also an engineer and ethnologist who led expeditions to study twenty-one different cultures.
The simple fact is that all of his adventuring combined with his studies of the physical sciences gave him a profound insight into the real world that leant a uniquely authentic quality to his fiction.
When asked in October 1934 why Ron’s stories rang so true, the editor of Thrilling Adventures offered up this one simple explanation:
“The answer is, he’s been there, brothers.
He’s been, seen and done.
And plenty of all three of them.“
Ron not only became one of the most acclaimed pulp authors, he became one of the most prolific as well with over 200 published short stories, novellas and novels.
By the time he settled into New York City’s 44th Street Hotel in 1939, he was routinely producing between seventy-five and a hundred thousand words a month, with a 90% acceptance rate from publishers—first draft, first submission.
Rarely a month passed when the name L. Ron Hubbard was not featured prominently on the cover of one or more of the major pulp magazines—under his own name or one of his 15 adopted pen names.
He was also a leader among his peers, serving a term as President of the American Fiction Guild, whose membership was a veritable pulp hall of fame, including the likes of Lester Dent, Walter Gibson and Dashiell Hammett.
His storytelling prowess was not confined to the printed word.
In the spring of 1937, Ron was asked to adapt The Secret of Treasure Island, a Caribbean thriller, for Columbia Pictures.
Infused with Ron’s first-hand experience of that region and its history, his screenplays for fifteen thirty-minute episodes led to the production of one of the most successful matinee serials in history.
L. Ron Hubbard also worked extensively in the field of philosophy and was very interested in helping man to sole life’s problems.
This led to him developing solutions to education, drug rehabilitation and criminal reform as well as work in the area of human rights and basic morals to help people lead a happier life.
After dinner we will have a tour of Mr. Hubbard’s London offices.
To come full circle to this week’s London Book Fair I would like to leave you with the following quote from L. Ron Hubbard:
“My salvation is to let all this roll over me, to write, write and write some more.
To hammer keys until I am finger worn to the second joint and then to hammer keys some more.
To pile up copy, stack up stories, roll the wordage and generally conduct my life along the one line of success I have ever had.
I write.”
Translation - Chinese L 罗恩・ 贺伯特先生通过科幻小说来充分地反映自己一生独特的经历；这是更进一步了解他作品的关键。贺伯特先生那天生的好奇心与敏锐的洞察力渗透在小说的字里行间。
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