02 九年级时文精读&2023年备战中考多题型精练（通用版）

02 A rabbit takes an adventure of becoming a real fighter 一、时文语篇文本阅读 注释版 A rabbit takes an adventure of becoming a real fighter “兔子武士”带你走进历史传奇 It’s the Year of the Rabbit and the perfect time to look at the comic book series of the rabbit samurai (武士), Usagi Yojimbo! Well-researched, with a style inspired by the classic samurai movies of Akira Kurosawa (黑泽明), Usagi Yojimbo is a good introduction to Japanese samurai history, but with a fun rabbit twist (转折). The series was created in 1984 by Stan Sakai, and is still running today. Usagi Yojimbo, which means rabbit bodyguard (保镖) in Japanese, follows the adventures (冒险) of Miyamoto Usagi. He’s a ronin (浪人), a samurai without a master, who wanders Japan helping others. Almost all the characters are animals. Think Kung Fu Panda, but the hero is a rabbit. Sakai said that one day he doodled (信手涂鸦) a samurai rabbit with its ears tied into a topknot (顶髻). And the idea to turn historical tales (传说) into stories about animals was born. From Bugs Bunny (《兔八哥》) to Zootopia (《疯狂动物城》), talking animals have long been popular. We call this anthropomorphism (拟人化) – when animals are made to act like humans. Its popularity in modern Western culture may come partly from Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse. Like Usagi, Mickey was created as a rabbit called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1927. Disney later changed him into the mouse, Micky, becoming one of the most famous cartoon character in the world. Usagi Yojimbo is still popular today with a Netflix series inspired by the character. He’s also shown up in the comics and cartoons of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (《忍者神龟》). Acting like humans Anthropomorphism comes from the ancient Greek words for human and form (形式). The ancient Greeks told many stories of people and gods morphing (变形) into animals. But we see the idea used throughout history. An example in China is in Journey to the West with the characters of the Monkey King and Pigsy. According to Britannica, neurologist (神经病学家) Sigmund Fr