Who Was Johnny Appleseed 苹果核约翰尼 Chapter 7 A Good Apple
时间:2019-02-21 作者:英语课 分类:名人认知系列 Who Was
A “good apple” is a nickname for someone who is a good person. Johnny Appleseed was a good apple.
Sometimes he helped settlers build cabins or chop trees. He knew they were struggling to make new lives for themselves in the west. If people couldn’t pay, he traded apple seedlings 1 or gave them away for free.
Johnny usually brought gifts when he visited settlers’ cabins. He loved children and brought them bits of ribbon or interesting things he found in the woods. Most pioneer children had only a few homemade toys. For fun, they rolled barrel hoops 2, played with rag dolls, and rode ponies 3 carved from wood. They were glad to get anything new to play with. Johnny also gave settlers herbs such as dandelion or catnip, which were used as medicine.
Polite settlers invited him to stay overnight in their cabins. Even when they offered him a bed, he insisted on sleeping on the cabin floor or outside on the ground. Sleeping outdoors was one of Johnny’s favorite things to do. He covered himself with a blanket of leaves to keep warm. If the weather was bad, he would quickly build a crude hut or sleep in a hollow tree.
During his visits, Johnny read aloud from books he always carried. They were written by a man named Emanuel Swedenborg. The New Church was created to follow his beliefs. Swedenborg believed that helping 4 others was a good way to find happiness. He believed in the importance of thinking for yourself and deciding how to live a useful life. Swedenborg believed people should not be afraid to be different. You can see why Johnny liked these ideas.
It’s uncertain when Johnny first became interested in the New Church, but he was so excited about its ideas that he wanted to share them. Since he didn’t own many of Swedenborg’s books, he divided those he had into sections. He would lend one section to a pioneer family. Then on his next visit, he would exchange it for the next section of the book.
Johnny was a vegetarian 5, so he didn’t eat meat served at settlers’ dinner tables. He believed it was wrong to kill animals. Pioneers hunted for food and thought his belief was strange. While traveling in the forest, Johnny boiled creek 6 water in his cooking pot, adding berries, grain, or potatoes to make a meal. He also may have taken some “journey bread” on his trips in the forest. This was bread that Native Americans taught him to make from corn.
There are many stories about Johnny’s kindness toward wildlife. He fed squirrels and birds and released animals from traps. He bought abused animals and found people who would care for them. When he took honey from a beehive, he always left enough for the bees.
While pulling heavy wagons 7 westward 8, some horses became lame 9. Settlers turned them loose in the woods. It was hard for the horses to find enough food and water. Each fall, Johnny would gather as many of these horses as he could. He would find someone to care for them through the winter. In the spring, he would lead them to land where there was better grazing.
Some people said he knew how to communicate with robins 10 and turkeys. They said even wild deer would come when he called.
One popular story told of a snowy night when he decided 11 to seek shelter in a hollow log. When he spied a mother bear and her cubs 12 in the log, he didn’t bother them. Instead, he slept out in the snow so they could keep warm in the log.
Johnny didn’t even kill snakes or bugs 13 if he could help it. Once, while clearing brush in a new orchard 14, a rattlesnake bit him. Without thinking, he quickly killed it. He felt terrible about it and didn’t kill snakes after that.
While helping to build a road, he was stung by a wasp 15. The other workmen thought he was silly because he wouldn’t kill the wasp. But Johnny said it hadn’t intended to hurt him.
- Ninety-five per cent of the new seedlings have survived. 新栽的树苗95%都已成活。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- In such wet weather we must prevent the seedlings from rotting. 这样的阴雨天要防止烂秧。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- a barrel bound with iron hoops 用铁箍箍紧的桶
- Hoops in Paris were wider this season and skirts were shorter. 在巴黎,这个季节的裙圈比较宽大,裙裾却短一些。 来自飘(部分)
- They drove the ponies into a corral. 他们把矮种马赶进了畜栏。
- She has a mania for ponies. 她特别喜欢小马。
- 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。
- She got used gradually to the vegetarian diet.她逐渐习惯吃素食。
- I didn't realize you were a vegetarian.我不知道你是个素食者。
- He sprang through the creek.他跳过小河。
- People sunbathe in the nude on the rocks above the creek.人们在露出小溪的岩石上裸体晒日光浴。
- The wagons were hauled by horses. 那些货车是马拉的。
- They drew their wagons into a laager and set up camp. 他们把马车围成一圈扎起营地。
- We live on the westward slope of the hill.我们住在这座山的西山坡。
- Explore westward or wherever.向西或到什么别的地方去勘探。
- The lame man needs a stick when he walks.那跛脚男子走路时需借助拐棍。
- I don't believe his story.It'sounds a bit lame.我不信他讲的那一套。他的话听起来有些靠不住。
- The robins occupied their former nest. 那些知更鸟占了它们的老窝。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Benjamin Robins then entered the fray with articles and a book. 而后,Benjamin Robins以他的几篇专论和一本书参加争论。 来自辞典例句
- This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
- There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
- a lioness guarding her cubs 守护幼崽的母狮
- Lion cubs depend on their mother to feed them. 狮子的幼仔依靠母狮喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- All programs have bugs and need endless refinement. 所有的程序都有漏洞,都需要不断改进。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The sacks of rice were swarming with bugs. 一袋袋的米里长满了虫子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- My orchard is bearing well this year.今年我的果园果实累累。
- Each bamboo house was surrounded by a thriving orchard.每座竹楼周围都是茂密的果园。