1 Ramona Avenue

Chapter 1 Ramona Avenue On May 14, 1944, George Walton Lucas Jr. was born in Modesto, California. His father, George Sr., and his mother, Dorothy, already had two daughters, Ann and Katy. When George was three, his younger sister, Wendy, was born into the growing family on Ramona Avenue.

1944年5月14日，小乔治·沃尔顿·卢卡斯 出生在加州的莫德斯托。 他的父亲老乔治和母亲多萝西已经有了两个女儿，安和凯蒂。 乔治三岁时，他的妹妹温迪出生在拉莫纳大道上一个不断壮大的家庭。

As a young boy, George often ran errands for his father's stationery store after school, but he wasn't interested in greeting cards and writing paper. What George loved was listening to radio shows and picturing everything in his mind. He loved comic books like Scrooge McDuck and pulp magazines like Amazing Stories. When the family got their first television, George was ten. He devoured new shows like Have Gun Will Travel and Gunsmoke. He also watched old serials on TV—serials were short movies that always ended on a cliffhanger with the hero in danger. George loved wondering what would happen next.

小时候，乔治经常在放学后为父亲的文具店跑腿，但他对贺卡和信纸不感兴趣。 乔治喜欢听广播节目，并在脑海中描绘出一切。 他喜欢像《斯克罗吉·麦克老鸭》这样的漫画书和像《惊奇故事》这样的低俗杂志。 乔治十岁时，家里有了第一台电视机。 他对《Have Gun Will Travel》和《Gunsmoke》等新剧如饥似渴。 他还在电视上看老连续剧——连续剧是一种短电影，总是以主人公处于危险中的悬念结尾。 乔治喜欢猜想接下来会发生什么。

To George, the stories in his head were more interesting than the things he was studying in school, and his grades showed it. His father wasn't happy with his report cards, but George's imagination was too big to control. He was always making plans. With the help of his sister Wendy and his best friends, John Plummer and George Frankenstein, he organized a backyard carnival with rides and games, a homemade fun house, and a zoo filled with all the pets in the neighborhood.

对乔治来说，他脑子里的故事比他在学校里学的东西更有趣，他的成绩也证明了这一点。 他的父亲对他的成绩单不满意，但乔治的想象力太大了，无法控制。 他总是在制定计划。 在他的妹妹温迪和他最好的朋友约翰·普卢默和乔治·弗兰肯斯坦的帮助下，他组织了一个后院狂欢节，有游乐设施和游戏，一个自制的游乐场，还有一个满是邻居所有宠物的动物园。

At the center of the carnival was a roller coaster that George designed. It rolled down an incline, rotated on a turntable made out of a huge telephone-wire spool, and rolled onto the ground. George also liked building "environments"— tiny worlds, cities, and farms made of dirt, berries, and cement poured into carefully made molds.

在狂欢节的中心是乔治设计的过山车。 它滚下一个斜坡，在一个由巨大的电话线线轴制成的转盘上旋转，然后滚到地面上。 乔治还喜欢建造“环境”——用泥土、浆果和水泥浇筑成的小世界、城市和农场。

When George had an idea, it could be amazing. When George was eleven, his family traveled

当乔治有了一个想法，它可能是惊人的。 乔治十一岁的时候，全家去旅行

to Anaheim, California, for the opening of Disneyland. Disneyland was like one of George's environments on a grand scale, a whole world built from the imagination of one man, Walt Disney. George Sr. thought practical things, like

前往加州的阿纳海姆，参加迪士尼乐园的开幕仪式。 迪斯尼乐园就像是乔治的一个宏大的环境，整个世界都是由一个人的想象力建立起来的，他就是沃尔特·迪斯尼。 老乔治考虑的是实际的事情，比如