儿童英语读物 Surprise Island 奇异岛 Chapter 6 博物馆
时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:2 Surprise Island 奇异岛
Joe and the children sat around the table to look at the books. Henry took off the paper and found twelve interesting-looking books.
“The Butterfly Book,” said Jessie.
“The Shell Book,” said Violet 1.
“The Flower Book,” said Henry. “Oh, these three books must belong to a set. Just look at the beautiful pictures.”
The handy 2 man seemed to be just as interested as the children. He soon found a picture of the purple flower on the table. It was the Beach Pea. Then Joe showed the children the names of the shells they had found. He saw that Henry was staring at him. “How did you ever learn all this?” asked Henry.
“Oh, I just picked it up,” said Joe. “I used to live near the beach.”
Joe saw that he would have to be more careful, because it appeared that he knew too much for a handy man. And so he said he would have to get back to his work.
After Joe had gone, Henry said, “Let’s look upstairs.” He ran up the stairs and the others followed with the dog. First Henry opened the big windows. Then he looked around the room. The pile of straw was at one end. In the corner stood an old straight-backed chair. Jessie went over and shook it.
“Wonderful!” said Jessie. “We’ll use that when Grandfather comes to call. To think of having a real guest chair!”
“I wish we had some boards,” said Henry. “I thought we might find some up here.”
“What is this?” asked Benny.
“Boards!” shouted Henry.
Some eight-foot boards were piled on the floor under the straw.
“Well, now,” cried Henry, “how lucky we are! I’ll get right to work. I can carry the boards down under the trees, and saw them to make tables.”
“I ought to dry the flowers,” said Jessie. “Violet can look up their names and Benny can help carry down the boards.”
“We ought to have lots of newspapers for drying the flowers,” said Violet, going downstairs. “And we haven’t a single newspaper.”
“Joe has,” said Benny to everyone’s surprise. “He gets two every day, so he must have a lot.”
“You go ask him, Benny, will you?” said Violet. “Just ask him for old ones, and be sure to thank Joe.”
When Benny arrived at Captain Daniel’s hut, he knocked at the door.
“Hello!” called a voice. Benny walked around to the other side of the hut. Joe and the captain sat there cleaning fish.
“Have you any old newspapers?” asked Benny. “Not to read, but to dry flowers between.”
“We certainly have,” said Joe, smiling. He pointed 3 to some piles of old newspapers.
“Oh, one pile will be enough,” cried Benny, delighted. “Jessie only wanted a dozen. Thank you, Joe. She will be surprised.”
Jessie was surprised and pleased.
“Have you a thin board about a foot long?” she called to Henry.
“How’s this?” asked Henry.
“Perfect. Go get it, Benny,” said Jessie.
But she had used the wrong words for Benny and the right words for Watch. When the dog heard “Go get it,” he ran out of the barn 4 to Henry who put the board carefully in the dog’s mouth. Then Watch ran back and laid the board at Jessie’s feet. Jessie was so pleased that she stopped her work and gave him a piece of bread.
The girls smoothed the flowers out on the newspapers, just as they had done in school. Then they covered the flowers with more papers and a board and put a large stone on top.
“I hear a motorboat,” said Henry.
“I’m going down to see,” said Benny. “There might be something for us.”
Jessie said, “Don’t be too sure.” To her surprise he came back in a few minutes with a big box.
“We did get something!” he cried. “It’s from Grandfather! Captain Daniel said so.”
Henry opened the big box.
“Sweaters!” he said.
Benny took his at once. “I know mine is that red one,” he said. “And I guess that purple one is Violet’s.”
There was a beautiful blue one for Jessie, and a brown one for Henry. They all put them on to see how they looked.
“Grandfather thinks it’s going to get cold,” said Jessie.
“So do I,” answered Henry. “I think we shall be glad of these presents very soon.”
When Jessie woke up late that night she heard rain falling on the roof of the barn. She put on her shoes and shut all the windows. Henry got up to help shut the barn door. “Now I guess we’ll keep dry,” he whispered.
“The rain is coming in somewhere,” said Jessie softly 5. They listened, and they could hear the sound of water dropping near the stove.
“We mustn’t let the stove get wet,” cried Henry, speaking out loud. “Get the big kettle!”
Henry put it under the stream of water. The water seemed to come faster and faster into the kettle.
“We can’t go to sleep because the kettle might run over,” said Henry after a minute.
“What’s the matter, Jessie?” called Benny in a sleepy voice.
“Rain is coming through the roof,” said Henry. “You go back to sleep.”
“I can’t,” cried Benny. “Rain is coming in my window, too, and all over me.”
“Oh, dear!” cried Jessie. “Where is the flashlight?”
With the flashlight, the two older children soon saw that the wall near Benny’s bed was very wet. A stream of water was running in under his window.
“Get up, Benny!” cried Henry.
Benny came out slowly. “I don’t like this bed,” he said. He began to cry. “I like my bed at Grandfather’s house, and I want to go home! It’s nice and dry there.”
“Now, Benny, don’t be like that!” cried Jessie. “You’re a big boy, and you ought to be up helping 6 us. You wouldn’t like it if we left you at home, would you?”
“No,” said Benny. This idea woke him up, and he started to help move his bed out.
“What’s the matter?” called Violet.
“It’s raining in this barn!” said Benny. “Maybe on you, too.”
“No, it’s not,” said Violet. “But I can hear it coming in somewhere.”
“It’s coming in all over the place,” cried Henry.
“I wish we had more kettles,” said Jessie. “I’ll put one pail 7 under this window and the other pail in the corner.”
“We can’t go to sleep,” said Violet. “The pails 8 and kettle will run over.”
“The rest of you can go to sleep,” said Henry. “I will stay up and empty the pails. Benny, you get into my bed. I think we have found all the places where the rain is coming in.”
Benny was glad to get into bed and he was soon asleep again. Henry sat up for an hour. He emptied the pails once more, and then crawled 9 in beside Benny. The rain had almost stopped.
“I’ll fix the roof tomorrow,” he thought. “And maybe Joe will help me. He’s a very handy man.”
The next morning it was still raining. The children dressed and ate breakfast and then watched the rain.
“One of us must go outside for the groceries,” said Henry, “and I think I’m the one. My clothes are going to get awfully 10 wet, so what shall I do while they dry?”
“Where are all your other clothes?” asked Benny.
Henry pointed to the clothesline over the stove.
“They aren’t dry yet,” said Jessie. “I’m sorry now that I washed them.”
“Henry can go to bed while his clothes dry,” said Benny.
“Say, listen, Benny!” cried Henry. “How would you like to go to bed? You get busy and think of something I could put on.”
“Jessie could make you a suit out of a blanket,” said Benny suddenly.
“I really could!” cried Jessie. “It’s lucky we brought along Violet’s workbag. I’ll make you a pair of pants out of a blanket. And you can put on your new sweater while your things dry.”
“Good for you, Jessie,” said Henry. “Now let’s be sure we have thought of everything we want, so I won’t have to go out again.”
“I have an idea,” said Benny. “Why don’t you put on your swimming suit to go outside and then your clothes won’t get wet?”
“That is a good idea, Benny. What would we do without you?” said Henry.
“Benny, you are wonderful,” agreed Jessie.
Benny laughed and said, “I know you could make pants out of a blanket if you had to.”
“I’ll put on my swimming suit,” said Henry. “You be thinking of what you want.”
Jessie said, “There will be some potatoes in the box because I ordered them. And all that bread and milk. Do you think you can carry it all? I am going to make some clam 11 chowder, and I’ll need onions from the garden. The onions aren’t very big, but big enough.”
“I’ll get the onions first,” said Henry, appearing in his swimming suit, “and give them to you through the door. I think I can carry everything else.”
Henry handed the little onions to Jessie through the partly open door. When he came in with the basket of groceries, he looked as if he had been swimming.
After a rub 12 down with a towel, Henry put on his dry clothes and was ready for work.
“This is a perfect day to work on our museum things,” he said. “I can make some boxes for the shells and butterflies.”
Soon the table was covered with wood, paper, paints, and tools.
At half-past eleven, Jessie stopped her work to make the chowder.
“I’m going to use these little onions for the chowder,” she said.
Jessie melted some butter and put the onions in it. Then she added water and salt and the sliced potatoes. When the potatoes were done, she added the cut-up clams 13 and at the very last minute, the milk.
Soon, when dinner was ready, the four children took their bowls of chowder and sat down, not minding the rain at all.
“Jessie, you can make anything!” cried Henry.
“Yum, yum! Jessie can make good chowder!” said Benny.
After dinner, the children painted birds and fixed 14 the feathery seaweed for their museum. Henry went upstairs to put up the tables.
By the time it was dark, the Alden Museum was very well started.
“I think the birds are the best thing in the museum,” said Benny. But Benny did not know what they were to find the next day.
- She likes to wear violet dresses.他喜欢穿紫色的衣服。
- Violet is the color of wisdom,peace and strength.紫色是智慧的,和平的和力量的颜色。
- A few more traveler's checks may come in handy on holiday.多带几张旅行支票,度假时会有用的。
- She is a handy girl who can turn her hand to anything.她是个心灵手巧的姑娘。
- He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
- She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
- That big building is a barn for keeping the grain.那幢大房子是存放粮食的谷仓。
- The cows were driven into the barn.牛被赶进了牲口棚。
- He speaks too softly for her to hear.他讲话声音太轻,她听不见。
- She breathed her advice softly.她低声劝告。
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- There was a pail of water on the ground.地上有一桶水。
- She can lift a pail of water from the ground.她能把一桶水提起来。
- Families upstairs have to carry pails to the hydrant downstairs for water. 住在楼上的人家得提着水桶去楼下的水龙头打水。 来自互联网
- We brought some spades, pails and saplings with us. 同学们拿着铁锨、水桶和小树苗上路了。 来自互联网
- They crawled along on their bellies. 他们匍匐前进。
- She crawled onto the river bank and lay there gulping in air. 她爬上河岸,躺在那里喘着粗气。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Agriculture was awfully neglected in the past.过去农业遭到严重忽视。
- I've been feeling awfully bad about it.对这我一直感到很难受。
- Yup!I also like clam soup and sea cucumbers.对呀!我还喜欢蛤仔汤和海参。
- The barnacle and the clam are two examples of filter feeders.藤壶和蛤类是滤过觅食者的两种例子。
- Don't let the wire rub up against the pipe.别让电线碰到管子上。
- He used to rub up against many famous movie stars.他过去经常偶然碰到许多有名的影星。
- The restaurant's specialities are fried clams. 这个餐厅的特色菜是炸蚌。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- We dug clams in the flats et low tide. 退潮时我们在浅滩挖蛤蜊。 来自辞典例句