【卫报】一本《气候变化否认者》瓢虫系列丨第17期

'Our affection for perhaps the most perfectly packaged objects in publishing has been reawakened by the satirical Ladybird series for adults.' Composite: handout

我们对包装最为完美的出版作品的喜爱已被瓢虫成人版讽刺系列唤醒。综合：讲义

• Satirical：讽刺的，名词satire

My twins are "studying" Jack and the Beanstalk, and I've just packed them off to school with my battered copy of Ladybird's Well-Loved Tales.

我的双胞胎孩子正在“攻读”《杰克和魔豆》，我刚刚打发他们去学校，身上带着我破旧的副本——瓢虫出版社的广受欢迎故事系列。

I've collected a few old Ladybirds from car boot sales because they are beautiful and nostalgic , hailing from a time when truths were simpler and there was faith in the future. My favourite is The Story of Newspapers, a Ladybird Achievements Book that is testimony to the speed of terrifying technical obsolescence - and welcome progress. A drawing of a newsroom where all 14 journalists are men shows the past wasn't always lovely.

我从旧物集市收集到一些陈旧的瓢虫系列书，因为他们产生于那个真相更简单而且坚信未来的时代，真是漂亮、令人怀旧。我最喜欢的是《报社的故事》，这是一本关于瓢虫出版社成就的书籍，是可怕的技术淘汰速度的证明，也是受人欢迎的进步的证明。对一个14名记者都是男士的新闻编辑室的描绘显示出过去不总是美好的。

• car boot sales：旧物集市

• nostalgic：怀旧的

• hail from：出生于

• testimony：证据，证明，证词

• obsolescence：过时，淘汰，废弃

Now our affection for perhaps the most perfectly packaged objects in publishing has been reawakened by the satirical Ladybird series for adults. Like more than a million others, I received one - The Dad - for Christmas. The next Ladybird relaunch sounds like another spoof: Prince Charles is co-writing a book explaining climate change, the first in a new Expert series.

我们对包装最为完美的出版作品的喜爱已被具有讽刺意味的瓢虫成人版系列唤醒。跟其他一百多万人一样，我收到一本圣诞礼物——《爸爸》。瓢虫出版社接下来的重新发行计划听起来更像另一讽刺作品：查尔斯王子正在合作撰写一本解释气候变化的书作为新的专家系列的第一本书。

While Ladybird's spoofs clock in at about 800 words, the Expert range, covering topics from evolution to the Battle of Britain, are 5,000 words. Charles' co-authors are the polar scientist Emily Shuckburgh and the environmental campaigner Tony Juniper, and Penguin stresses that their words have been peer-reviewe