讀小說還是看電影？Reading a Novel or Watching a Movie, which do You Prefer to?

Reading novels used to be a mainstreamenjoyment in the past. However people got more interests in watching moviesthan reading novels after the movie came into our life. Then people diverge inthe question: which is the better enjoyment? For me, reading stories is morejoyful and I will give my reasons in the following.

在過去讀小說通常是人們的一項主要娛樂活動。然而，當電影進入人們的生活之後，大家對看電影的興趣比讀小說的興趣多。哪種方式的娛樂活動更好？對這個問題人們各自有不同的答案。對於我來說，閱讀小說更具趣味，下面是我給出的原因。

Firstly, I can get more information aboutthe story and the characters in the novels. But a movie needs to display thestory in the limited period of time, usually about two hours. Therefore thedirector have to adopt the important part of the story and abandon the restparts, but these trivial plots draw more interests from the readers.

首先，我能夠得到更多關於小說和小說裏的人物的信息。但是電影只能在有限的時間裏述說故事，通常是兩個小時。因此導演不得不選取小說的重要情節並放棄其餘的部分，但是這些不重要的情節也許更受讀者喜愛。

The second reason is that I can get moreenjoyment from reading novels, especially the procedure of turning the plotsinto varied images in my brain. That is a real fantastic experience. Althoughby watching the movies I can get the concrete pictures and amazing sounds, itis different from my ideas and it makes me a little disappointed. Because themovies shows the directors' thoughts and versions about the novels, which donot satisfied me in the whole. Besides, some directors may do some changes andeven destroy the real stories, I think.

第二個原因則是我能夠獲得更多的趣味，特別是在將故事情節在腦中轉化成不同想象畫面的時候。這是十分奇妙的經驗。儘管通過看電影我可以看到具體的圖像和美妙的音樂，但是這些圖像跟我想像的圖像不同，還有點讓我失望。因爲電影只是從導演的角度展現他對小說的想法，這些想法各個方面都不太讓我滿意。此外，我認爲有些導演會對原著做些改變甚至是毀掉原著。

To sum up, I prefer to reading a novel towatching a movie because I can get more joy, more interested plots, and morefantasy experience from reading novels than watching movies.

總之，比起看電影我更青睞閱讀小說，因爲讀原著可以獲得更多趣味和更有意思的情節，還有就是比起看電影讀小說更加有趣的體驗。