Thank you all for coming. I am very happyto be here. This is my first trip to China, and I am very excited to be able tomeet my Goosebumps readers and to be able to talk to Chinese authors,educators, and publishers。

　　感谢大家的到来，我也很高兴能够在这里和大家见面。这是我第一次来到中国，我也很高兴能够借这次机会和中国“鸡皮疙瘩”读者，中国作家，教育学家以及出版商见面。

　　I would like to introduce my wife JaneStine and her business partner at Parachute Properties, Joan Waricha. They aremy editors and they work with me to create my books back in the United States。

　　在这里，我很荣幸的向你们介绍我的妻子简。斯坦女士以及我们降落伞公司的的合作伙伴琼。瓦理查女士，她们是我的编辑，同时他们也在美国参与我的图书的创作。

　　I live in New York City now, which isalways exciting for me. Because I grew up in a small town in the middle of ourcountry, which was very quiet and very unexciting!

　　我现在居住在纽约，这是一个很让我兴奋的城市，因为我小时候一直居再在美国中部的一个小镇上，那里很安静，生活也很无聊。

　　I dreamed of being a writer from the time Iwas nine years old. And I dreamed of living in New York City. But I never

　　dreamed I would be here today in China, talking to you about my books!

　　在我九岁的时候就梦想成为一名作家，也梦想有一天可以去纽约生活，但是我从来都没有想到有一天能够来到中国，和你们来分享我的作品。

　　Talking to you today, I feel I have reallytraveled far. It gives me such a wonderful feeling to know that my Goosebumpsbooks are enjoyed so far away from home, by children in so many countries whoread in so many different languages。

　　今天在这里和大家交谈，我感觉自己真的是走得很远，我的鸡皮疙瘩也和我一样离家这么远，被这么多国家说着不同语言的孩子们阅读，这种感觉很棒！

　　I am a very lucky author. So far, theGoosebumps books have been translated into 32 different languages. And theyhave sold nearly 300 million copies. I am so glad that Chinese children are nowdiscovering the Goosebumps books, as well as my new series, which is just beingpublished here, called Goosebumps HorrorLand。

　　我是一个非常幸运的作者，迄今为止，鸡皮疙瘩系列已经被翻译成32种语言，全球范围内销售30亿册。我很高兴中国的读者也这么喜欢我的鸡皮疙瘩图书，以及我的新的系列，这个新系列接下来也会在中国出版，名字是鸡皮疙瘩惊险乐园系列。

　　I am also a lucky author because I receiveso much mail from my readers and so many emails. They write to me to tell mewhich books they like and which books they don't like. They ask many questionsabout my life, about writing. And they send me hundreds and hundreds of storysuggestions. (Which is good-- because I need all the help I can get!)

　　我是一个很幸运的作者因为我每天都会收到很多读者发给我的信件和邮件。他们写信告诉我哪些书他们喜欢哪些书他们不喜欢，他们还会问很多关于我的生活和写作方面的问题，他们给我数以万计的故事建议(这很好，因为我需要任何我可以得到的帮助！)

　　Recently, a girl wrote this letter to me:

　　Dear R.L. Stine, I really enjoy readingyour Goosebumps books, but I bet you can make them much shorter. I think youcould get them down to 25 pages-- if you really tried!

　　近来，有一个小姑娘写信告诉我说：

　　亲爱的斯坦先生，我非常喜欢读鸡皮疙瘩，但是我保证你和一定可以把故事写得再短一点，如果你很累的话，我想你可以把他们缩减到25页。

　　I thought this was a funny letter. Thisgirl obviously likes to read-- but she doesn't like to read THAT MUCH. As shesays, she would like a nice, SHORT read!

　　我觉得这是一封非常有趣的信，这个小姑娘一定是喜欢阅读的，但是她也一定是不喜欢读这么长的东西，就像她说的，读喜欢读一些很棒的、但是又很短的东西。

　　We have a real problem in the UnitedStates. I wonder if you have that same problem here. In my country, there areso many entertainments and distractions and activities, it is hard to get kidsto sit down and read a book。

　　在美国我们有一个问题，我想你们可能也会有同样的问题。在我们国家，有太多的娱乐活动来分散孩子们的注意力，想让孩子们坐下来阅读简直是太难了。

　　Books are so much slower and more difficultthan playing a video game or text-messaging friends on a phone or visiting websites and messaging or playing games on a computer. When you look at the listof activities that are popular with young people-- when you look at their worldof computers and iPods and TV screens and game players and cell phones-- youask yourself, how can we ever get them to sit still and read a book?

　　想比打电玩，短信聊天，浏览网站等活动，阅读很难也很枯燥，当你看看孩子们列出来的他们喜欢的活动清单，当你看看他们的每日赖以生存的电脑、苹果播放器、电视、游戏机以及手机，你问问你自己：怎么可能让他们坐下来阅读一本书？

　　Getting kids to read is a real problem inmy country. Teachers and parents talk about it all the time. We all know thatthe only way to develop good reading skills is to READ. The more you read, thebetter a reader you become. But how do you bring kids to reading? How can youshow them that they can be just as entertained by a book as by a video game orTV show?

　　在美国，让孩子回归阅读是一个大难题。老师和家长整日都在讨论这个问题，我们都知道提高孩子阅读能力的唯一的途径就是他们读，你读得越多，你的阅读能力就会越强，但是问题是如何让你的孩子回来阅读呢？你怎么能够说服他们读书和打游戏看电视一样有趣呢？

　　These were questions I asked myself when westarted to do the Goosebumps series. My answer was to write books that wereeasy to read, easy to understand, very fast-moving and exciting, with manysurprises and twists along the way. Books that will entertain and get kidsenthusiastic about reading。

　　这就是当我开始创作鸡皮疙瘩时问自己的问题。对于这个问题，我的回答是，写一本让他们既好读又好懂的书，节奏要快、刺激，情节曲折要能时刻带给他们惊喜，这本书要能愉悦孩子同时还要激发他们的阅读热情。

　　People ask me: Why do you write SCARYbooks?

　　很多人问我：你为什么要选择写惊险小说？

(编辑：陈辉)

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