Charlie Brown
Good ol’ CharlieBrown, unlucky at love, unlucky at school, unlucky at sports. You name it – hefinds some new and unusual ways to fail at it. But no matter what life throwsat the wishy-washy, round-headed kid, he always tries his best and never givesup.
老好人查理·布朗，无论是在情感、学业还是运动上，他都是不走运的那个。随便说个什么事儿，他都能用新颖罕见的方式失败给你看。但不论命运如何对待这个优柔寡断的圆头小子，他都会尽其所能永不放弃。
Charlie Browneats, sleeps, and breathes baseball, but his love for the game never leads tosuccess on the field. Each spring, he manages the world’s worst team throughyet another losing season. His performance as the team’s pitcher results insome of the most spectacular highlights ever witnessed on the baseball diamond– for the other team. His cap, shirt, shoes, and socks are knocked off by linedrives, and he even spends an inning upside down after a really solid hit. Andwith the exception of two home runs in his entire Little League career, henever comes through with a clutch performance when a close game is on the line.
棒球对查理布朗而言如同空气、食物和睡眠，但他的满腔热情从未在成败上回应过他。每年春天，他都带领着史上最糟糕的球队迎接新的失败季。作为球队的投手，他的表现是棒球场上最引人注目的亮点——当然是给对手增光添彩啦。对方一记直球就能打飞他的棒球帽、上衣、鞋子和袜子，他甚至就这样保持着被击中后的倒立姿势过了一整局。在他整个少年棒球联盟的职业生涯中，除了两次全垒打外，他从来没有在一场势均力敌的比赛中有过关键表现。
His athleticdifficulties aren’t confined to a single season, as he’s equally hapless at allsports. Every year, Lucy convinces him to attempt a placekick while she holds afootball for him, and every year, she pulls it away and he lands flat on hisback. Even the gentle pastime of kite flying has proven dangerous for him: heeither ends up hopelessly tangled up in miles of string or stands by helplesslyas the Kite-Eating Tree devours his latest flyer.
他在体育上的困难并不仅仅限于一个赛季，在其他体育运动上他同样倒霉。露西每年都能说服他冲过来踢她扶好的橄榄球，而每一年，她都会在最后关头把球抽走，让踢空了的查理·布朗四脚朝天摔在地上。就算是温和的放风筝对他来说也是危机四伏的：要么是他被延绵几英里的风筝线缠住动弹不得，要么是他无助地站在吃风筝的树旁边看着自己的风筝葬身树腹。
Charlie Brown isa thoroughly average student, although he could probably be an “A” student ifnot for his insecurities and performance anxiety. Fear of failure, fear ofsuccess, and, as Lucy once successfully points out, “fear of everything” alwaysseems to hold him back. His unrequited crush on his classmate known only as theLittle Red-Haired Girl goes unfulfilled in part because he can never bringhimself to approach her. As he once observes, “They say opposites attract...She’s really something and I’m really nothing... How opposite can you get?”
在学业上，查理·布朗也是个成绩平平的孩子。也许摒弃掉不安全感和表现焦虑的话他也能跻身优等生的行列。对失败的恐惧、对成功的恐惧，以及露西曾经指出的对万事万物的恐惧一直在扯他的后腿。他对红头发小女孩的暗恋仅止于暗恋也是因为他无法鼓起勇气接近她。正如他所观察到的一样，“人们说异性相吸，性格相反的人更容易彼此吸引……她那么优秀，而我如此平庸……这还不够相反的吗？”
Despite hisanxieties, or possibly because of them, his friends appreciate his company andknow that they can always count on good ol’ Charlie Brown, whether he wins ornot. As Linus says, “Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you’re the CharlieBrowniest.”
尽管他焦虑不安，或者说多亏了他的焦虑，他的朋友们很喜欢查理·布朗的陪伴，也知道不管输赢，他们都能依靠这个老好人。就像是莱纳斯说的那样，“在世界上所有的查理·布朗中，你是最查理·布朗的。”
Charles Schulzand his lead character shared many similarities, and Schulz projected many ofhis own insecurities onto Charlie Brown. These universal feelings of anxietyand melancholy have been embraced by generations of readers worldwide. “CharlieBrown is the ultimate loser; that is both his magic and his destiny. If heweren’t a loser, he’d have no incentive to keep on trying. The secret is notnecessarily to win over adversity, but never stop trying. That’s the key,perhaps, to the human condition. Charlie Brown is the world’s champion tryer. Ithink that’s important.”
查尔斯·舒尔茨与他笔下的主人公很像，舒尔茨把他自己的很多不安全感投射到了查理·布朗身上。这种共通的焦虑和忧伤也引起了全世界各代读者的共鸣。“查理·布朗是终极的失败者，这是他的魅力所在，也是他的命运。倘若他不是个失败者，他便没有继续尝试的动机了。重要的不是战胜艰难险阻，而是不断尝试。这大概就是人生的真谛吧。查理·布朗是世界上最不轻言放弃的人，我认为这很重要。”
Charlie Brownrarely caught a break under the pen of Charles Schulz, and that’s a big part ofhis universal appeal. “I know one thing, humor doesn’t come from a happysituation. Happy is not funny. Funny is when something happens to someone elseand you identify with it and laugh at the luckless one at the same time.Disasters afflict Charlie Brown that come to all of us sometime; but to CharlieBrown, everything bad happens all the time. He never gets anything right. But anice kid. I like Charlie Brown.”
在查尔斯·舒尔茨笔下查理·布朗鲜少能有机会交好运，而这也是他能吸引大众的很大一个原因。“我很清楚，美好圆满带来不了幽默。幸福并不好笑，好笑的是当别人发生了什么事情时，作为旁观者的你意识到了那是什么并笑话那个倒霉蛋。发生在查理·布朗身上的事情某天也许会发生在我们身上；但是对于查理·布朗而言，不好的事每时每刻都在发生。他什么事情都做不好，但他是个好小孩。我挺喜欢查理·布朗的。”

The Eternal Optimist
永远的乐观主义者
It's a falltradition. The football season doesn't really begin until Lucy convinces Charlie Brown – again – that she's going to hold a football in place so that hecan kick it. Each time, he is justifiable skeptical, but she somehow convinces him that this is the year that she'll finally let him kick the football. And each and every year, she pulls the ball away at the last second, and CharlieBrown flies into the air and land flat on his back. And every year, Lucy explains to Charlie Brown that his trust in her was misplaced, but both of them know that the cycle will repeat itself the following year.
这是个秋天（亦称倒地）的传统。每当露西再次成功骗取查理布朗的信任、让他跑过来踢她手里扶着的球时，橄榄球季才能算是真正开始了。每次查理·布朗都对露西的提议心存怀疑，但她总能想到新点子赢得他的信任。然而每年她都会一而再再而三地在最后一刻抽走橄榄球，让可怜的查理飞到半空再狠狠落地，再解释说查理的信任终究还是错付了，但他俩都心知肚明，明年这一幕终将重演。
This tradition was actually started by Violet, who first pulled the football away from Charlie Brown before Lucy moved into the neighborhood. Lucy soon took over the annual ritual, pulling the football on Charlie Brown’s second attempt.
抽走橄榄球的传统其实始于阿兰，早在露西没搬到花生村时她就这么做了。露西到来后很快接替了“前辈”的“衣钵”，从查理布朗的第二次踢球尝试中抽走了那颗橄榄球。

The baseball manager
球队经理
Baseball is Charlie Brown’s favorite sport. As his team’s manager and pitcher, he spends each off-season analyzing statistics, carefully planning his team lineup, and studying his opponents. When spring comes around, he sets out determined to runa winning team. His teammates, however, have a much more lackadaisical approach. Each season, they manage to set new records in futility. Despite their losing record, Charlie Brown’s love of baseball and his friends fill him with a renewed sense of optimism every season.
棒球是查理布朗最喜欢的运动。作为球队的经理和投手，他利用每年的非赛季充分分析数据、调整阵容、研究对手。当春季到来时，他下定决心要带领球队取得胜利。但他的队友却自由散漫得多。每年他们都能创下“无用功”的新纪录。即便他们从未赢过，对棒球和朋友们的喜爱依旧让查理布朗对新赛季的来临信心满满。

The boy and his dog
男孩和他的狗狗
Charlie Brown loves Snoopy unconditionally. Snoopy, on the other hand, is acomplicated, independent dog who doesn’t always remember his owner’s name and seems appreciate Charlie Brown’s ability to fill a supper dish more than his other qualities. Deep down, he loves his faithful owner, even if he won’topenly admit it.
查理布朗无条件地爱着史努比。而史努比则是一只性格复杂、独立的狗。它并不总是能记得住主人的名字，而且相对于它主人的其他品质而言，它更欣赏他给自己喂食的能力。然而在内心深处，史努比也是爱着自己的主人的，虽然它不会公开承认这一点。
“Snoopyis a very contradictory character,” observed Charles Schulz. “In a way, he’s quite selfish. He likes to think of himself as independent, and he has dreams of doing great things. Without Charlie Brown he couldn’t survive, but Snoopy won’t even give Charlie Brown the love and affection he deserves. That’s part of thehumor.”
“史努比是一个颇为矛盾的角色，”舒尔茨这样说道，“从某种程度上来说，它非常自私。它自认为自己独立又能成大事，但实际上没有查理布朗它根本就活不下去。史努比并不会给查理布朗他应得的爱，而这是幽默的一部分。”

The loveable loser
可爱的失败者
Charlie Brown rarely comes out on top, but he never stops trying. When he strikes out the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning, misspells the word “beagle”in the spelling bee, and fails to get even a single piece of candy when he’strick-or-treating, we can all relate, even if our own failures pale incomparison to Charlie Brown’s.
查理·布朗很少取得成功，但他从不停止努力。当他在九局下半场满垒状态下被三振出局时、当他在拼字比赛上拼错了“比格犬”这个词时、以及他在万圣节甚至讨不来一颗糖果时，我们都能感同身受，尽管和他的失败相比我们自身的失败并不算什么。
Charles Schulz drew from personal experience when creating tales of Charlie Brown’scomic mishaps but often exaggerated the results. “Charlie Brown is a caricature,”he observed. “We all know what it’s like to lose, but Charlie Brown keeps losing outrageously. It’s not that he’s a loser; he’s really a decent little sort. But nothing seems to work out right.”
查尔斯·舒尔茨在创作关于查理·布朗的灾难喜剧时借鉴了个人经验，但经常夸大其结果。“查理·布朗是一个讽刺人物，”他说。“我们都知道失败是什么感觉，但查理·布朗的失败简直如同洪水猛兽般席卷而来。这并不是说他是个失败者；他是个正派的小家伙，但似乎什么事都做不好。”

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Patty 10/02/1950
Patty grew up in the same neighborhood as Charlie Brown and Shermy, and the trio – plus Snoopy – were inseparable in their early childhood days. Like many girls in the neighborhood, she has a complex relationship with Charlie Brown, happily playing house with him one day, mercilessly teasing him the next.
派蒂与查理·布朗和谢米是同社区的邻居，他们仨再加上史努比，在童年时期是不可分离的伙伴。与社区里的其他女孩一样，派蒂与查理·布朗的关系是很复杂的，也许前一天俩人还在和睦地过家家，后一天派蒂就会无情地戏弄查理。
When another girl finally moves to their block, Patty is thrilled, and Violet joins their circle of friends. The two have many mutual interests, from dolls and records to taunting Charlie Brown, and become best friends right away. As more kids move to their part of town, Patty and Violet spend less andless time along with Charlie Brown, but they all remain friends and continue to play outfield on this baseball team.
当终于有另一个女孩搬到他们街区后，派蒂可高兴坏了。阿兰很快加入了她的朋友圈。因为有着共同的兴趣，比如玩洋娃娃、听唱片和招惹查理布朗，她们一拍即合，成为了最好的朋友。后来，随着越来越多的孩子搬到花生村，阿兰和派蒂越来越少与查理·布朗的生活产生交集，但他们还依旧是朋友，她们俩也依旧在查理·布朗的球队中担任外场手。
Patty’s presence in the strip was in decline by the mid-1960s, butthe introduction of Peppermint Patty cemented Patty’s status as a background character. Schulz narrowed the core cast of the strip over the years, and there just wasn’t room for two different girls named “Patty”.
从60年代中期开始派蒂的出场逐渐减少，薄荷派蒂的出场更加巩固了派蒂作为背景角色的地位。多年来，舒尔茨缩小了核心漫画角色的圈子，而这部漫画里也没有足够的空间容纳两名名叫“派蒂“的女孩。

Shermy 10/02/1950
One of Charlie Brown’s oldest friends, Shermy is always ready to jump in and join a game of catch, go to the movies, or enjoy a nice stroll around the block. His even temper and affability make him one of the most reliable kids in the neighborhood, and you can always count on him to join your baseball team or lend a hand.
作为查理·布朗的老朋友之一，谢米时刻准备好玩抛接球、看场电影或在街区散散步。平易近人的态度让他成为了小区中最靠谱的孩子之一。你完全可以信任他加入你的棒球队，或者给你搭把手。
Because of Shermy’s reserved demeanor, however, he seems to fade into the background when new kids like Lucy and Linus move into the neighborhood. As Charles Schulz noted, Shermy’s role diminished over time, and he soon appeared only when the cartoonist “needed a character with very little personality.”
然而，由于谢米的矜持，当露西和莱纳斯等新来的孩子搬到花生村后，他似乎渐渐淡出了人们的视野。正如查尔斯·舒尔茨所指出的那样，谢米的作用随着时间的推移而减弱，只有在他“需要一个没有什么个性的角色”时，他才会出现。
Shermy’s last official appearance was on June 15, 1969, and his expression and single word of dialogue (“Really?”) seemed to indicate that he knew his time was up. Lest it be forgotten, though,Shermy was there from the beginning and was the only character to speak in thevery first strip, on October 2, 1950. His introduction of the strip’s star setthe tone for everything that followed: “Good ol’ Charlie Brown... How I hatehim!”
谢米最后一次正式出场在1969年6月15日（注：也有一说在1975年11月9日），他惊讶的神情和一个单词的台词（“讲真？”）似乎表明他知道自己的时间到了。但别忘记，谢米在1950年10月2日的第一篇漫画连载起就出场了，而且还是唯一一个有台词的人物。他对整部漫画中心人物的介绍也奠定了漫画的整体论调：“老好人查理·布朗……我真讨厌他！”

Violet 02/07/1951
Violet Gray is the second girl to move into Charlie Brown’s neighborhood. She and Patty hit it off right away, and thetwo become best friends almost immediately – much to Charlie Brown’s chagrin,as he is often on the receiving end of their criticism.
阿兰·格雷是查理·布朗小区的第二个女孩子。她与派蒂一拍即合，几乎瞬间就成为了朋友——但这对查理·布朗而言并不是什么好事，因为他正是两者批评的受害者。
Violet comes from an affluent family and can be a bit pretentious at times. One of her favorite activities is organizing parties with Patty and deciding which kids should be excluded form the festivities. All the same, she’s happy to join her friends in all their activities,whether playing house, making mudpies, or playing leftfield on Charlie Brown’sbaseball team.
阿兰来自一个富裕的家庭，有时有点自命不凡。她最喜欢的活动之一是和派蒂组织聚会，并决定哪些孩子不能参加。尽管如此，她还是很乐意和朋友们一起参加各种活动，不管是过家家、做泥巴派，还是在查理·布朗的棒球队中担任左外野手。
As with her friend Patty, Violet’s roledeclined over time. As new characters were introduced, she was relegated to thebackground or made to deliver the setup for other character’s punchlines. “Some characters just don’t seem to have enough personality to carry out ideas,”Charles Schulz observed of Violet and his other early cast members. “They’re just almost born straight men.”
和她的朋友派蒂一样，给阿兰的镜头也随着时间的推移越来越少。当新角色出场时，她便会隐身于背景中，或者只是为其他角色的妙语提供铺垫。“有些角色似乎没有足够的个性来支持笑点，”查尔斯·舒尔茨这样评价阿兰和其他早期角色。“他们几乎是天生的配角。”

CharlieBrown’s Pen(cil) Pal 08/25/1958
Charlie Brown strikes up a correspondence with his first Pen-Pal with the dual intentions of learning about his Pen-Pal’s country and practicinghis penmanship with his nib pen and his inkwell. This proves to be much more difficult – and messy – than Charlie Brown expects, so he reluctantly agrees tobegin with a Pencil-Pal instead. His friend certainly gets an interesting perspectiveon life in the United States, as Charlie Brown shares tales of his friends and family, from the birth of his sister to Snoopy’s exploits, including the time that he thought he was a mountain lion.
最开始查理布朗想要和笔友通信是出于了解对方国家并练习钢笔字的目的。但是事实上写钢笔字并不是那么容易的，墨水也很容易把一切搞得一团糟，因此他不情不愿地退而求其次，用铅笔书写信件并称他的笔友为“铅笔友“。查理布朗和她分享了许多亲友趣事，从他妹妹的出生到史努比的丰功伟绩，比如它自认为是一只美洲狮什么的，因此他的这位朋友从一个独到的视角获悉了美国生活是什么样的。
Charlie Brown discovers a sympathetic ear in the form of his Pencil-Paland finds that he can share his deepest fears and anxieties as well as his successes with his foreign friend. He develops a crush on his Scottish Pencil-Pal, Morag, and imagines their future together, but his hopes are dashed when he learns that she is corresponding with thirty other pen pals.
查理·布朗发现他的铅笔友是一个很好的倾诉对象，他可以将自己内心深处的恐惧和焦虑、以及成功分享给她听。查理喜欢上了他的这位苏格兰铅笔友莫拉格，并幻想着未来他们在一起的样子，但这个梦在他发现她还同时交了三十个笔友时破碎了。

The Little Red-Haired Girl 11/19/1961
Charlie Brown is head over heels in love with his classmate, the Little Red-Haired Girl, but she doesn’t know he’s alive. He spends many a lonely lunch hour thinking about how he’ll introduce himself to her, but he can’t workup the nerve to approach her.
查理布朗全心全意地爱着他的同学、一位有着红色头发的小女孩，但是她却并不知道查理的存在。虽然他利用无数个孤独的午餐时间思考如何向她自我介绍，但他却没有勇气接近她。
Although he has several opportunities to meet the Little Red-Haired Girl, fate (and Charlie Brown’s own wishy-washiness) always seems to get in the way. When they are paired together for a class science project, Charlie Brown avoids her until she joins another group. When a bully picks on her, Charlie Brown standsby indecisively as Linus springs into action and defends her. When he finally takes enough lessons so he feels he can impress her on the dance floor, hefinds that Snoopy has already joined her for a fox trot.
尽管他本来有很多机会去认识红发小女孩，但命运弄人（当然也有查理布朗本身的优柔寡断作祟）。当他们俩被分到同一个科学作业小组时，查理·布朗却处处躲着她，直到她加入了别的小组；当校园霸凌发生在红发小女孩身上时，查理·布朗却犹豫不前，直到莱纳斯挺身而出为她出头；当查理终于上够了舞蹈课，觉得可以在舞池里给她留下深刻印象时，却发现史努比已经和她在一起跳狐步舞了。
The inspiration for the Little Red-Haired Girl came from an unrequited love in Charles Schulz’s past. Never one to let a good idea go to waste, he usedthe grief of a rejected marriage proposal as the basis for Charlie Brown’s heartbreak.
红头发的小女孩的创作灵感来自于查尔斯·舒尔茨的一段单相思。他从不让一个好主意就这么白白浪费，因此便将求婚被拒的悲伤作为了查理·布朗心碎的基础。

Emily 02/11/1995
Emily takes an immediate liking to Charlie Brown and invites him to be her partner for their after-school dance class. The pair share what Charlie Brown describes as “an enchanted early afternoon” on the dance floor, and he spends the rest of the week eagerly anticipating their next lesson. When he returns to the classroom to see her again, however, his teacher claims that no one named Emily was enrolled in the class, and Charlie Brown’s friends express skepticism that she really exists.
艾米莉对查理·布朗一见钟情并邀请他做舞蹈班的舞伴，他们俩一起度过的那个下午对查理·布朗而言是“充满魔力的”。他急不可耐地盼望着他们的下一堂课，然而，当下个课程到来时，舞蹈班老师却说花名册里根本没有叫“艾米莉”的孩子，查理的朋友们也很怀疑这位女孩是否真实存在。
The two reunite eventually, though, and share an unforgettable evening at the Sweetheart Ball. They continue to pair upin dance classes – if she’s real, that is.
即便如此，两人终于团聚并在甜心舞会度过了一个难忘的夜晚。他俩继续在课上一同练习舞蹈，当然，前提是艾米莉是真实存在的。

Peggy Jean 07/23/1990
When Charlie Brown first meets Peggy Jean as summer camp, he gets so nervous that he introduces himself as “Brownie Charles”. Fortunately, she finds it cute, and he never bothers to correct her. Their budding romance hit a snag when she challenges him to kick a football that she’s holding and he can’t bring himself to make the attempt. They soon reconcile and she gives Charlie Brown his first kiss when they leave camp at the end of the summer.
当查理·布朗在夏令营上第一次遇到佩姬·珍时，紧张的他将自己的名字说成了“查尔斯·布朗尼”。万幸的是，佩姬觉得这个名字很有趣，而查理也并没有费神去改正它。当佩姬提议查理·布朗踢中她手里扶住的橄榄球时，他俩正在萌芽中的情感遇到了阻碍——那便是查理没有尝试的勇气。幸运的是很快他们便和好了，在夏令营结束时佩姬给了查理·布朗他的第一个吻。
In a gesture of true love, Charlie Brownsells his comic book collection to earn enough money to buy Peggy Jean some nice gloves for Christmas. But when her mother buys her the exact same pair, a dejected Charlie Brown gives the gloves to Snoopy so that they don’t go to waste. The next encounter of Charlie Brown and Peggy Jean is their last. They reunite at summer camp, and she mentions that she is late for a meeting with her new boyfriend. The heartbroken Charlie Brown, needing to hear a friendly voice, calls home that afternoon to talk to Snoopy.
为了向佩姬·珍表达真爱，查理·布朗卖掉了自己的漫画收藏并为她买了一副手套作为圣诞礼物。但当他知道佩姬的母亲买了一模一样的手套时，心灰意冷的查理将这份没送出便被拒绝的礼物送给了史努比，这样他的心意不至于被浪费掉。他们的下一次相见过后便是永别。在夏令营上，佩姬提到了她要赶着去见她的新男友，而心碎的查理布朗急需安慰，因此他在那个下午打电话给了他的狗狗，史努比。
Charlie Brown’s relationship with Peggy Jeanis bittersweet. Even though it ends in heartbreak, he can still look back fondlyon their time together.
查理·布朗与佩姬·珍的感情是苦乐参半的。尽管这段感情以心碎告终，但他仍然可以深情地回忆起他们在一起的时光。

wow 感谢翻译😯🙏
CB和Linus看着难兄难弟的不过情史也是真的丰富🤔 sally在历史中有两三个追求者不过她一直是专情于她那情史多多的甜心 （话题好像有点偏擦

The Neighborhood Wall 12/25/1950
Charlie brownalways has a lot on his mind, and he spends a lot of time talking about his hopes and fears with his friends, often at the Neighborhood Wall. The conveniently placed waist-high brick wall is the perfect height for Charlie Brown to lean against when he’s discussing theology with Linus, anxieties with Lucy, orsharing grandfather stories with Franklin.
查理·布朗总是心事重重，他经常与朋友们在谈心墙边畅谈他的希望与恐惧。在查理布朗与莱纳斯交流神学、与露西交流焦虑、以及与富兰克林分享爷爷的故事时这堵只及腰高的墙为他提供了很好的倚靠。
Peanuts was always a very introspective strip, and the Neighborhood Wall served as the ideal venue for philosophy and thoughtful conversation. Although scholars and fans found Peanuts to be a very profound, deeply philosophical comic, Charles Schulz himself was very modest about the strip and its message. “I never thought about the strip and its message. I never thought of myself as having any writing ability at all. I never thought of myself as having any kind of philosophical approach, I really know nothing about psychology or psychiatry or philosophy or anything like that.”
《花生漫画》关注内省，谈心墙也很好地起到了谈论哲学和富有深度的对话的作用。尽管学者和粉丝们认为《花生漫画》是深奥富有哲理的，但查尔斯·舒尔茨本人却对这部漫画及它所传递的思想表现得十分谦虚。“我从来没有想过漫画和它所传达的信息。我从未认为自己有任何写作能力。我从来没有想过自己有任何哲学方法，我真的对心理学、精神病学或哲学之类的东西一无所知。”

The Kite-Eating Tree 04/12/1956
The kite eating tree is native to the fields near Charlie Brown’s home. Unlike other plants, the Kite-Eating Tree has a diet consisting entirely of kites flown by Charlie Brown. Although it seems to have a distinct preference for brand-new kites, ithas been known to settle for used kites when necessary, and has even eaten raw toy pianos on very rare occasions (sorry, Schroeder).
吃风筝的树长在查理·布朗家不远的田野里。与其他植物不同，吃风筝的树仅靠捕食查理·布朗放飞的风筝为生。尽管它更偏好新风筝，但必要时也可以接受旧风筝，甚至在极其罕见的场合下它也会食用玩具钢琴（抱歉，史洛德）。
Charlie Brown’s lack of kite-flying prowess stems from Charles Schulz’s own difficulties with the hobby. “I have never been a very successful kite flyer and have used the excuse that I never lived where there were good areas to fly kites. When I was growing up, we always lived in residential areas which had too many trees and too many telephone wires. Recollections of those handicaps inspired Charlie Brown’s troubles withkite flying. As I grew older and tried to fly kites for my own children, I discovered that I still had the same problems. I observed that when a kite becomes caughtin a tall tree, it is irretrievable and gradually disappears over a period ofseveral weeks. Now obviously the kite had to go someplace, so it seemed to methat the tree must be eating it. This is how the series developed about Charlie Brown’s violent battles with his local “kite-eating tree”.
查理·布朗不会放风筝的原因是查尔斯·舒尔茨自身对这项爱好就不是很擅长。“我放风筝从来就没有很成功过，我总以住的地方没有能够好好放风筝的空地为借口。小时候，我们的住宅区有太多的树和电话线，对于这些不利因素的回忆激发了我对查理·布朗不擅长放风筝的创作灵感。在年老后与孩子一同放风筝时，我发现自己依旧在这项运动上遇到了麻烦。我观察到，当一只风筝缠在了树上后，它就再也拿不下来了，经过几周它便会自行消失。很显然它必须有个去处，所以对我而言就是树吃了它。这就是查理·布朗与花生村的‘吃风筝的树’之间的惨烈战争的创作过程了。”

The School 08/31/1974
Sally is not an enthusiastic student, and every year she dreads the end of summer andthe start of another school year. She often voices her frustrations to the School itself, and the building is always ready to offer a sympathetic ear – orbrick, as the case maybe. The School is a philosophical building, and it often reflects on how its life might have been different if it had been an airline terminalor a disco.
莎莉对学习并不是很上心，每年她都害怕夏末和新学期的到来。她经常和教学楼本楼表达她的不满，而教学楼也会细心聆听——好吧，也许它只有砖块没有耳朵，但你明白这个意思。教学楼是一栋很有哲学的建筑，它经常思考如果它是一个机场航站楼或迪斯科舞厅的话，它的楼生将会有什么样的不同。
Sally’sfirst school collapses unexpectedly one night, possibly from nerves or exhaustion, and Sally and Charlie Brown have to enroll in another building onthe other side of the town. She immediately strikes up a friendship with hernew school, even though Lucy and other kids don’t understand why Sally talks to buildings. As the school itself says, “It’s a living!”
也许由于神经紧张和疲惫所致，莎莉的第一个学校教学楼突然在一夜之间坍塌了，于是莎莉和查理·布朗必须要转学到花生村另一端的另一栋学校学习。莎莉几乎立刻便与新学校成为了朋友，即便露西和其他孩子都不明白为什么她总是对着教学楼说话。就像学校自己所言：“这就是人生嘛！”

今天是史洛德的生日，我们当然要来介绍一下寿星和他从不离手的玩具钢琴啦
Schroeder 05/30/1951
Much like his idol, Beethoven, Schroeder develops or hislove of the piano from childhood and devotes his life to his music. Charlie Brown, Patty, and Shermy first meet Schroeder when he is a baby and watch in fascination as the precocious child shows an innate skill with his toy piano and an endless fascination with the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, whose birthday, he gladly reminds you, occurs on December 16. While his friends don't share Schroeder's enthusiasm for Beethoven, they appreciate his talent and dedication.
与他的偶像贝多芬相似，史洛德从小就表现出了对音乐的热爱，并全身心地投入到了音乐事业中。查理·布朗、派蒂和谢米认识史洛德时他还是个婴儿，当时他们惊异于这个早熟孩童表现出来的与生俱来的演奏玩具钢琴的能力。他对路德维希·范·贝多芬的音乐与人生的热爱也令人惊讶，他会开心地提醒你贝多芬的生日是在12月16日。尽管他的朋友们并不如他般热衷于贝多芬，但他们仍赏识他的才华与献身精神。
Lucy, in particular, is very fond of Schroeder and spends countless hours perched beside his piano listening to music and speculating on what it would be like to be married to a famous musician. He tries his best to brush her off so that he can focus on his music, but deep down he enjoys her company – and knows that she might feed his piano to the Kite-Eating Tree if provoked. Snoopy, too, is a fan of Schroeder's music and expresses his enjoyment through dance.
露西非常喜欢史洛德，她经常靠在钢琴旁想入非非，脑补着和著名音乐家的婚后生活是怎么样的。史洛德尽其所能想要甩掉她，这样他便可以集中精神在音乐上了。但他心底里还是喜欢她的陪伴的——当然也有一个原因是要是把露西惹急了他的钢琴就会葬身树腹了。除她之外的另一个粉丝是史努比，他很喜欢随着史洛德的音乐起舞。
When he's not practicing his piano, Schroeder can befound on the baseball diamond, playing catcher for Charlie Brown's team. The reliable backstop is a solid hitter and fielder and, more importantly, isalways quick to offer words of encouragement to Charlie Brown, no matter how badly they're losing. Whether it’s for his musical prowess or his work behind home plate, it’s only a matter of time before Schroeder’s face ends up on a bubblegum card.
在不弹钢琴的时候，史洛德会来到棒球内场上，在查理·布朗的球队里打捕手。他不光是个可靠的击球手、外野手，更重要的是，不论他们输得多么惨，他都能立刻想到话语来安慰、鼓励查理·布朗，无论是凭借高超的音乐技艺还是在本垒板后的出色表现，施罗德的脸出现在泡泡糖卡片上只是时间问题。
“Schroeder?Well, in the first year I needed a baby,” laughed Charles Schulz, when asked about the pint-sized pianist with an appreciation for classic music. “my own children were very small. I’d just bought a toy piano for my daughter Meredith.He had to do something so I had him grow up quickly and play Beethoven.”
“史洛德吗？嗯，在第一年的时候我需要一个婴儿的角色，”在被问到对古典音乐有鉴赏力的小小钢琴家时，查尔斯·舒尔茨笑道，“我自己的孩子们都非常小，我刚给女儿梅雷迪思买了一架玩具钢琴。他总得有事儿做，所以我让他快速长大并演奏了贝多芬。”