时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:汪培珽儿童英文分级书单《神奇树屋》


英语课

  The huge boat rocked in the water. Giant chunks 1 ofice smashed against its sides.



"Thanks a lot, Annie," Jack 2 whispered. He shiveredin the snowy cold. "We're not supposed to go on theirsecret mission with them.""It's okay," she whispered. "Maybe we can helpGeorge Washington.""Are you nuts?" Jack whispered. 'We should be onour way home now."The boat hit a piece of ice. The boat bounced, thendipped into the river.



Jack clung to the wooden side. He hoped theywouldn't turn over. Nobody could survive in this icywater, he thought. It would be like sinking on theTitanic.



The crew fought hard to keep the boat movingforward. They rowed past chunks of ice into asmoother part of the river11Light from oil lamps shone on the water, makingthe ice chunks behind them glow like huge, glitteringjewels.



Jack looked back. Other boats were following them.



They were filled with soldiers, horses, and cannons 3.



"Where exactly are we going?" Annie whispered.



Jack shrugged 4. He reached into his bag and pulledout their Revolutionary War book. By the dim lanternlight in the boat, he searched through the book. Hefound a painting of General Washington crossing theDelaware River.



He showed the painting to Annie. They each readthe caption 5 silently:



After George Washington crossed the Delaware, heled his men on a nine-mile march to a British post.



The post was filled with Hessians, German soldiershired by the British to fight for them. The Americanpatriots caught them off guard. The Hessians neverthought the patriots 6 would attack on a stormyChristmas night. It was a great victory for thepatriots. They captured almost 1,000 Hessians. Hardlyany of Washington's men were lost.



"Yay! We won't have to send the captain's letter!"Annie exclaimed.



"Shh!" said Jack.



But George Washington turned around and lookedback at Jack and Annie.



Oh, no, Jack thought, caught again.



He closed his eyes, as if that would make himinvisible.



"He's coming," said Annie.



Jack looked up.



George Washington was making his way backtoward them.



In the next moment, the commander-in-chiefloomed above them like a giant shadow.



"Children?" he asked in a quiet, angry voice.



"Sorry," Jack squeaked 7.



"Merry Christmas!" said Annie.



But George Washington did not say "MerryChristmas" back.



1 chunks
厚厚的一块( chunk的名词复数 ); (某物)相当大的数量或部分
  • a tin of pineapple chunks 一罐菠萝块
  • Those chunks of meat are rather large—could you chop them up a bIt'smaller? 这些肉块相当大,还能再切小一点吗?
2 jack
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
3 cannons
n.加农炮,大炮,火炮( cannon的名词复数 )
  • Cannons bombarded enemy lines. 大炮轰击了敌军阵地。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • One company had been furnished with six cannons. 某连队装备了六门大炮。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 shrugged
vt.耸肩(shrug的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • Sam shrugged and said nothing. 萨姆耸耸肩膀,什么也没说。
  • She shrugged, feigning nonchalance. 她耸耸肩,装出一副无所谓的样子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 caption
n.说明,字幕,标题;v.加上标题,加上说明
  • I didn't understand the drawing until I read the caption.直到我看到这幅画的说明才弄懂其意思。
  • There is a caption under the picture.图片下边附有说明。
6 patriots
爱国者,爱国主义者( patriot的名词复数 )
  • Abraham Lincoln was a fine type of the American patriots. 亚伯拉罕·林肯是美国爱国者的优秀典型。
  • These patriots would fight to death before they surrendered. 这些爱国者宁愿战斗到死,也不愿投降。
7 squeaked
v.短促地尖叫( squeak的过去式和过去分词 );吱吱叫;告密;充当告密者
  • The radio squeaked five. 收音机里嘟嘟地发出五点钟报时讯号。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Amy's shoes squeaked on the tiles as she walked down the corridor. 埃米走过走廊时,鞋子踩在地砖上嘎吱作响。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
A eliminator
aazaan
accusation of crime
applicant for insurance
arenaceous-pelitic facies
Asperger's
bar-room plants
Barrow, C.
bemoradan
black noise
blue highs
Brewster(unit)
central pilot tunneling method
cidar
co-logarithm
composite stock
conjugate elements
constant torque asynchronous motor
corridorless
credit spread
decaffeinates
Discaloy alloy
disposing capacity of the natural person
distributed bulletin board
dolphin hugger
doubly charged
dublin bay prawn
Durruqsi
each year
earthstations
enter into a contract with
Epimedium platypetalum
fancy matt
Gascoyne Plain
general lighting system
gluttonizes
go skating
gust influence
half round head screw
hematosis
Hering's phenomenon
Hieracium pilocella
histolyzed
hoque
hour star jumper eccentric
hydroxybenzylpenicillin sodium
hypermilitarized
IDGF
inequable
investigations on rice growing
Kaibito Plateau
language-changes
Ligularia jamesii
lubb
lymphologically
man made isotope
martyrologists
Mathieu's disease
mercantile enquiry agency
message switching multiplexer
micromanages
Missolonghi(Mesolongion)
Mtagenesis
off-blast period
on load factor
Perkovic
phlorhizinize
plunger-type cylinder
pneumatoscope
porosus
precision wavemeter
primary specific ionization
purchase discount lost
purchases in transit
Quilaco
rayleigh dissipation function
Roebuck Downs
second month of summer
segment independence
self-balancing amplifier
shak-shak
shell frame
shift operation
sodic chalybeate
St. Vitus dance
stacking fault hardening
statistical parallax
subreptions
supertransuranic element
tail chute
to the last gasp
tolylene
top peg
trade and industrial education
troglobitic
underflowing irrigation
vanadic ocher
vertical cutter
walled gardens
Welshify
wickhoff
zygosporangium