时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:11 Caboose Mystery


英语课

The train did not stop during the night. Once Benny said loudly, “I’ll tell you in the morning!”



“Morning?” Grandfather said. He woke up suddenly. “Is it morning?”



Henry whispered, “No, Grandfather. Benny’s talking in his sleep.”



When it was really morning, Benny said, “I didn’t sleep a wink 1 last night.”



Henry laughed. He said, “Oh, no?”



“No, I didn’t,” said Benny again. “But you and Grandfather did. I heard you both snoring all night.”



“I’m sorry I kept you awake, Benny,” said Mr. Alden. He winked 2 at Henry. “I know I do snore.”



“I could go right back to sleep,” Benny said.



“Oh, don’t do that, Benny,” called Violet. “You’ll miss the beavers 4. Remember we get off at Beaver 3 Lake at nine o’clock.”



“That’s right,” agreed Benny. “I do want to see the beavers. I guess I can stay awake that long.”



After breakfast, Benny said, “I’m going to sit on the back platform until nine o’clock.”



His two sisters went with him this time. The train went through many small places without stopping. The Aldens waved at everyone they saw.



Suddenly Benny said, “Jessie, did you notice the workmen at the last station we passed? They pointed 5 at our big caboose and began to laugh.”



“Yes,” said Jessie. “I suppose we do look funny, with three cabooses in a row.”



“But not that funny,” said Benny. “I’m sure they were pointing at the big caboose and at us.”



Violet said, “I don’t think they are pointing at us. They point to something on the caboose.”



“Right over our heads, Violet,” said Benny. “Maybe there is something on the caboose.”



They looked up, but all they could see was the number of the car, 777.



Soon they heard Mr. Carr call out, “Beaver Lake, Beaver Lake!”



They were all ready to jump down when the train stopped. Mr. Carr and Al met them at the steps.



Benny said, “Oh, I wanted to ask you about the big caboose. You said it had a history.”



Mr. Carr laughed and said, “So I did. But I haven’t time now. I can’t even go with you. I have to watch the men unload the freight. But Al can go with you.”



Al led the way. A small river went under the railroad track. They followed it. Soon they reached some thick woods. Al took them along a path. They could not see the river, but they could hear it rushing along.



Al pointed to a sign that said “Beaver Lake.” “You could go on alone,” he said, “but I like to watch the beavers myself.”



Benny said, “I suppose Old Beaver put up that sign?”



“That’s right,” said Al. “Sometimes he will come and talk. Sometimes not. This is the place where I usually meet him.”



But no one was there.



Soon there was another sign. It said “Please do not talk.”



Not even Benny said a word after that.



Then the Aldens saw something that looked like a tent. It had a long bench inside. The roof and one wall of the tent were made to look like real bushes. A sign said, “Sit down and watch. Room for six only.”



Everyone had the same thought—how lucky! There were exactly six people, counting Al.



The Aldens could look out through holes in the bushes and see the river, only now the river was a lake. Al pointed. Then everyone saw a big beaver.



The beaver was swimming along with only his head showing. When the beaver came to the round roof of his house, he stopped. Then he began to climb up. Benny noticed that the beaver was covered with mud. Soon he saw why.



The beaver climbed to the top of his house. Then he slid down and scraped off the mud. After that, the beaver climbed up the other side of the house and slapped the mud down with his tail. Then the Aldens knew that the beaver meant to do this.



Suddenly there was a loud crash in the bushes, and a tree fell with a splash into the water. Beside the stump 6 was another beaver. It had cut the little tree down by gnawing 8 the trunk with its sharp teeth.



The Aldens could not take their eyes off this beaver. It walked along the tree it had just cut down. Then it began to gnaw 7 the tree in two, exactly in the middle.



Part of the tree fell into the water. When the tree was cut into two pieces, the beaver swam out and pushed the two parts together, side by side. Then he pushed them both down the lake to the dam. They were just the right length and stayed on top of the dam to keep water from spilling over.



Just then Al looked at his watch and got up to go. The rest followed. They were near the first sign when they heard something in the bushes.



“Hello, folks,” said a deep voice. They all turned around.



“Yes, I’m Old Beaver,” said the man. He had thick gray hair, and his face was almost covered with a curly gray beard. He was smiling.



Grandfather said, “You are doing a fine job saving a few beavers. They are wonderful animals.”



“Thank you,” said Old Beaver. “They are smarter than we are in some ways. May I ask how you got here?”



Grandfather laughed. “We came on the caboose of a freight train. We are having a new kind of vacation.”



“This young man seems to be having a good time,” said Old Beaver, looking at Benny.



Benny said, “Yes, I’m having a grand time. We cook and eat and sleep in the caboose. It’s Number 777.”



“What?” said Old Beaver. “Number 777?” He suddenly turned around and crashed into the woods without another word.



“What do you know!” cried Benny, staring.



“Well, what’s the matter with him?” asked Henry.



“Come on,” said Al. “He’s always been odd. We can’t bother with him.”



Grandfather said, “I should say he was odd.”



When the Aldens reached the station, they looked all over the outside of the caboose. They could not see anything strange. All they could see was the number, 777.



Violet said softly, “But Number 777 was enough to scare Old Beaver.”



When the train had started again, Mr. Alden said, “Al told us that the next station will be Pinedale. We get off there to get ice and water. Maybe someone can tell us at Pinedale about Old Beaver. And maybe they will know what is so strange about our caboose, Number 777.”



n.眨眼,使眼色,瞬间;v.眨眼,使眼色,闪烁
  • He tipped me the wink not to buy at that price.他眨眼暗示我按那个价格就不要买。
  • The satellite disappeared in a wink.瞬息之间,那颗卫星就消失了。
v.使眼色( wink的过去式和过去分词 );递眼色(表示友好或高兴等);(指光)闪烁;闪亮
  • He winked at her and she knew he was thinking the same thing that she was. 他冲她眨了眨眼,她便知道他的想法和她一样。
  • He winked his eyes at her and left the classroom. 他向她眨巴一下眼睛走出了教室。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
n.海狸,河狸
  • The hat is made of beaver.这顶帽子是海狸毛皮制的。
  • A beaver is an animals with big front teeth.海狸是一种长着大门牙的动物。
海狸( beaver的名词复数 ); 海狸皮毛; 棕灰色; 拼命工作的人
  • In 1928 some porpoises were photographed working like beavers to push ashore a waterlogged mattress. 1928年有人把这些海豚象海狸那样把一床浸泡了水的褥垫推上岸时的情景拍摄了下来。
  • Thus do the beavers, thus do the bees, thus do men. 海狸是这样做的,蜜蜂是这样做的,人也是这样做的。
adj.尖的,直截了当的
  • 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。
n.残株,烟蒂,讲演台;v.砍断,蹒跚而走
  • He went on the stump in his home state.他到故乡所在的州去发表演说。
  • He used the stump as a table.他把树桩用作桌子。
v.不断地啃、咬;使苦恼,折磨
  • Dogs like to gnaw on a bone.狗爱啃骨头。
  • A rat can gnaw a hole through wood.老鼠能啃穿木头。
a.痛苦的,折磨人的
  • The dog was gnawing a bone. 那狗在啃骨头。
  • These doubts had been gnawing at him for some time. 这些疑虑已经折磨他一段时间了。
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4-methylsalinomycin
acetilenic
airspace prohibited area
aporheidine
ataxiameter
Barytheres
bismarckia nobilis hiddebr et wendel
boiler blowdown water
Carloforte
cassette lid
cellulose propionate fibre
chapel of love
chobes
closing of root
commuting time
crassament
cultural immediacy
cushion moss
differential instrument
dilatant fluia
diveroli
documentary
ecomap
electrovoice
enqueuers
enquiry (enq)
everall
Fahry alloy
fire-prevention pipe
forest-police
game laws
gastos
geographical variant of association
grievance provision
grouped controls
had a cow
high tensile reinforing steel
highway bus station
historiosophical
hydraulic gate valve
information system for process control
inverse-feedback filter
jtc
Krishnapur
kuehneola japonica
lift someone's face
Ligularia atroviolacea
martingality
melolontha minima
Mendhein kiln
military ordinary mail
Murker
musico-
national resource industries
nickelization
niprs
nostalgie
occluded rubber
off-market offsetting
ornela
pansy orchid
pat test
per incuriam
pesterings
piston (pneumatic)
platydema terusane
production campaign
projection tract
pronunciable
pseudo-cumene
radial ventilated type
response circuit
scanzoni
seien
selective bias
semi passive
set an objective
shock tube
shotblaster
shriveling
Sinmyong
Soromaya
stowings
subarea
systems audit
Taihei-yama
taken your own life
talastine
the Alps
traceability of measurements
transient condition
truanted
truth drug
two-pass symbolic language assembler
typical model
UK-6558-01
unisolvent
Ur of the Chaldees
vapor pressure method
water fennel oil
weather notations