美国小学英语教材4:第27课 你能帮助你的祖国
时间：2019-01-16 作者：英语课 分类：美国小学英语教材4
英语课
You Can Help Your Country 你能帮助你的祖国
Did you read the name of this Part? What is it? 你读过这部分的名字了吗？是什么？
Do you know what the word "citizen" means 1? 你知道单词“citizen”的意思吗？
It means "a person who lives in a country and belongs to it". 它是指“居住在一个国家并属于这个国家的人”。
So, you are a citizen of the United 2 States of America. It is your country. 所以，你是美利坚合众国的公民。美国是你的祖国。
It protects you and gives you many things to make you happy. 它保护你，并赋予你很多让你感到幸福的东西。
But your country cannot be great and free and happy unless its boys and girls do their part. 但是，只有大家都尽到自己的责任，祖国才能强大、自由和幸福。
Perhaps you think you have to wait until you are grown up before you can help your country. 或许你认为自己必须长大了才能为国效力，
But this is not true. 但事实并非如此。
When you play games hard and fairly 3, study your lessons faithfully, and help about the home cheerfully 4, 当你努力公平地比赛，全身心地投入学习、愉快地做家务时，
you are doing your part as an American citizen. 你就是在做一个美国公民应该做的事情。
You are doing your everyday jobs just as well as you can, and that is what your country needs of you. 你每天尽自己所能得完成自己的工作，这就是国家需要你做的。
Now our Book Comrade 5 will tell you some stories of boys and girls,true citizens. 现在你的好朋友——书将给你讲述一些男孩女孩的故事，他们是真正的公民。
You will first be taken far back to the days when our country was young. 首先你将被带着穿越回从前，那时我们的国家还很年轻。
Here your Book Comrade will tell you of brave Anne Randolph, 书将为你讲述勇敢的安妮·伦道夫、
of unselfish Sally, and of quickthinking Jonathan Bartlett. 大公无私的莎莉和思维敏捷的乔纳森.巴特利特的故事，
Then your Book Comrade will bring you down to our own times. 然后你的好朋友书将带你回到我们的时代。
Perhaps you will want to have a Good Citizen club. 或许你将想拥有一个好公民俱乐部。
Read these stories to see if you would want some of these people to belong to your club. 阅读这些故事，看看你想要什么样的人加入你的俱乐部。
n.方法，手段，折中点，物质财富
- That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
- We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
adj.和谐的；团结的；联合的，统一的
- The whole nation is closely united.全国人民紧密团结。
- The two men were united by community of interests.共同的利益使两个人结合在一起。
adv.公正地，正当地；相当；完全，简直
- I think I was quite fairly treated by the police.我认为警察对我非常公正。
- It fairly destroyed the machine.它将那部机器完全毁了。
adv.高兴地，愉快地
- The train rolled cheerfully into the station.火车欢呼着驶进车站。
- He takes our advice quite cheerfully.他欣然接受我们的劝告。