儿童英语读物 Mountain Top Mystery CHAPTER 8 The First Find
时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:9 Mountain Top Mystery
Couldn’t we go up that ladder,” asked Benny, “and look in the hole?”
“Not yet, young man,” said Dr 1. Osgood. He pushed up his glasses. “We don’t want any more accidents. When we get the staging done, it will be safe for any of you to get up to the cave.”
Mr. Alden said, “Percy, the old Indian woman Lovan told us that her great-great-grandfather hid that leather bag in a cave. Now suppose this was the cave. Would that be near this door or near the opening in the other side, do you think?”
“I should say he crawled 2 in and hid it as far back as he could,” said Dr. Osgood.
Benny said, “That would mean the leather bag could be right under our noses! I hope they will get that staging done fast. I can hardly wait! Can you, Mr. Carter 3?”
Mr. Carter said, “No, I can hardly wait, either. But right now I am hungry. Aren’t you all hungry?”
“Always!” said Henry and Jessie together.
“Well, then, how about a bit of lunch?” said John Carter. “You’ve had a three-hour climb, and we all need food. And you should see the lunch!”
“Oh, we’ll never eat all this food!” Jessie said as she watched the lunch being unpacked 4.
“Don’t forget, it is for the workmen 5, too,” said Dr. Osgood. “And me!”
Then Henry noticed that Benny was sitting still and saying nothing.
“What’s the matter, Ben?”
“Well, I simply can’t decide which sandwiches I like best!” said Benny. “I like them all best.”
“Shut your eyes and point, then,” said Mr. Carter.
Benny did so. He was pointing at the cheeseburgers.
“That’s exactly what I do like best, really!” he cried. “Cheeseburgers!”
“I thought you didn’t know,” laughed Violet 6.
“Yes, I thought so, too,” said Benny. “And I just love to dunk hard-boiled eggs!” He opened his salt and pepper 7 and “dunked” his egg in the salt as he spoke 8. Then he bit off a huge bite.
“Delicious!” he said.
Everyone agreed. The piles of sandwiches went down very fast. But there were plenty for the workmen when Mr. Alden called them to lunch. When the workmen sat down, the Alden family waited on them. Henry gave them hot coffee. Violet passed the pickles 9. Mr. Carter got out the cold drinks. Jessie gave each one an egg and salt. Benny sat down with them and had another sandwich. He said, “You haven’t really got very far on the staging, have you?”
“No,” said the head man. “It takes three days. You see a staging must not fall. And it has to rest somewhere. It takes time to make a place to hold it.”
“Don’t you keep wishing that you could take time off and look in the cave?” asked Benny.
“Yes,” said a man. “But if we do, the staging has to wait, and it takes that much longer to finish it. Dr. Percy has had a look. That’s enough for me. He thinks it is worth while, so I’m not wasting my time.”
Henry said to Dr. Osgood, “What do you think could be in the lost bag? A French nobleman expected to sell whatever it was for enough money to live here. So it must be worth something.”
“It could be jewelry,” said Dr. Osgood. “French noblemen often had to sell jewels to keep alive. It could be gold coins or silver. It could be silver candlesticks or vases 10 or mirrors or spoons. I don’t know.”
“I know you, Percy!” said Mr. Alden. “You’re not really interested in that leather bag, are you?”
“Well, no, not much,” said Dr. Osgood. “I always hope to find something important in a cave.”
“What could be more important than Lovan’s treasure?” cried Benny.
“Well, you’re right, boy, if you are thinking mostly of Lovan. But for the whole country, stones could be more important. They are to me.” He threw his head back and tried not to laugh.
Grandfather shook his finger at his old friend. “You’re up to something, Percy! Have you found something already?”
“I suppose I shall have to show it to you,” said Dr. Osgood. “At first I thought I’d put it back and let Benny find it. But Benny wouldn’t like that if he found it out.”
“No, I wouldn’t,” said Benny.
“Here it is,” said Dr. Osgood. He took a flat stone out of the biggest pocket of his overalls 11. It was about six inches long. He gave it to Henry, not Benny. “Take care!” he said.
“A fossil 12,” said Henry. He took the stone carefully in both hands. It was one flat stone, but it was split 13 down the middle.
“Take off the cover,” said Dr. Osgood. “Careful now!”
Henry lifted the top half and they all bent 14 over to look.
“A little fish!” cried Benny.
“Yes, a fossil fish,” said Dr. Osgood. “It is millions of years old.”
“What kind of a fish?” asked Benny. He was sure Dr. Osgood knew everything.
“I don’t know,” said Dr. Osgood. “You may be sure that many people will study this fossil. See the backbone 15? Every little bone shows on both halves.”
“Does that mean that once this mountain top was under water?” asked Jessie.
“Yes,” said Dr. Osgood, nodding, “and this is the proof 16. I’d rather find this than ten leather bags.”
Dr. Osgood said, “And now you’ll be surprised to hear this. I think you had better start down the mountain. The weather doesn’t look too fine to me.”
“It looks beautiful to me,” said Benny, looking at the deep blue sky. “But of course you would be right. Are you coming, too?”
“No, I’ll stay. I’ll keep my head man and we’ll come down later in the helicopter 17.”
Jessie did not have to be told twice. She was already packing the things.
Three hours later they reached the store. They all went in, and Mr. Carter said to the ranger 18, “Did you see the Indian boy this morning in the crowd?”
“Yes, he is new around here. Before I had time to talk to him, he had gone.”
“Gone!” cried everyone.
“Yes, gone. And what’s more, he’s still gone. Nobody around here ever saw him before. And nobody knew how he got here.”
“That’s very funny,” said Henry. “I should think somebody would have spoken to him. There was such a crowd. Would you guess he was up to no good?”
“Well,” said the ranger. He stopped. Then he went on, “We know nothing about him. He may be lost and need help. That’s really why we’re going to find him, come what may.”
- Dr.Williams instructs us in botany.威廉博士教我们植物学。
- The ward of the hospital is in the charge of Dr.Green.医院的这间病房由格林医生负责。
- 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》
- Although fatigue shows readily on Carter, he bounces back quickly. 卡特虽然容易显出疲劳的样子,但他恢复得很快。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The carter flipped at the horse with his whip. 赶大车的人扬鞭朝着马轻轻地抽打。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- I unpacked my bags as soon as I arrived. 我一到达就打开行李,整理衣物。
- Our guide unpacked a picnic of ham sandwiches and offered us tea. 我们的导游打开装着火腿三明治的野餐盒,并给我们倒了些茶水。 来自辞典例句
- The workmen sawed and hammered all day. 工人又锯又锤,干了整整一天。
- workmen with picks and shovels 手拿镐铲的工人
- 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。
- He put some pepper in the bowl.他放了一些胡椒粉在碗里。
- This pepper is really hot.这辣椒真够劲儿。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- Most people eat pickles at breakfast. 大多数人早餐吃腌菜。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- I want their pickles and wines, and that.' 我要他们的泡菜、美酒和所有其他东西。” 来自英汉文学 - 金银岛
- There were lilies everywhere in tall white porcelain vases. 高高的白色瓷瓶上绘满了百合花。 来自辞典例句
- Bases of some broken vases show signs of long use. 从一些破碎的花瓶的瓶底可以看得出有长久使用过的痕迹。 来自辞典例句
- He is in overalls today.他今天穿的是工作裤。
- He changed his overalls for a suit.他脱下工装裤,换上了一套西服。
- At this distance of time it is difficult to date the fossil.时间隔得这么久了,很难确定这化石的年代。
- The man is a fossil.那人是个老顽固。
- Who told you that Mary and I had split up?谁告诉你玛丽和我已经离婚了?
- The teacher split the class up into six groups.老师把班级分成6个小组。
- He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
- We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。
- The Chinese people have backbone.中国人民有骨气。
- The backbone is an articulate structure.脊椎骨是一种关节相连的结构。
- He is living proof of the wonders of modern medicine.他是当代医学奇迹的活证明。
- The proof was fished up from some old papers.校样在旧文件中被找到了。
- The helicopter flying at a height of 5,000 meters.这架直升机正在五千米的高空飞行。
- The pilot landed the helicopter in a rice field.飞行员将直升飞机降落在一片稻田里。