时间:2018-12-10 作者:英语课 分类:汪培珽儿童英文分级书单《神奇树屋》


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  The four real Keepers of the Cauldron crawled closer to Jackand Annie, hissing 2 and snorting blue fire.



"What do we do now?" whispered Annie.



"I don't know," said Jack 1. "We're trapped.""I have an idea" whispered Annie. "Let's drink the water.""What?" said Jack.



"It's the Water of Memory and Imagination, right?" saidAnnie. "So maybe if we drink it, we can imagine a way toescape!""That's crazy," said Jack.



The Keepers crawled closer, snorting more blue flame andfilling the air with their rotten stench.



"Okay, okay, let's try it," said Jack. Annie took a sip 3 from thesilver cup, thenhanded it to Jack. His hands trembled as he held the cup to hislips and took a sip. The water tasted sweet, bitter, and spicy 4, allat the same time.



Jack gave the cup back to Annie. "Now imagine we're saved!"she said. Jack closed his eyes. He tried to imagine being saved.



He pictured the four Keepers crawling back through theirdoorways.



"Okay. Ready to fight?" said Annie. Jack opened his eyes.



"What? Fight?" Annie set the silver cup on the floor. "Now!" shesaid.



Suddenly, Jack felt like he'd been hit by a bolt of lightning.



His fears slipped away. He was filled with strength and fury.



Without thinking, he lunged with Annie toward the wood fireunder the cauldron They each grabbed two long, straightbranches from the edge of the fire. They raised them high in theair. The branches blazed with purple fire like flaming swords.



"AAAHHH!" Jack and Annie shouted.



The four Keepers hissed 7 louder than before. Great balls of bluefire exploded from their mouths and nostrils 8!



Jack and Annie slashed 9 the air with their fiery 10 weapons,jabbing at the Keepers. They fought fire with fire, blue flamewith purple flame.



"Back! Back!" they shouted.



With each jab and shout, Jack felt stronger and braver.



Waving their burning branches, he and Annie drove the Keeperstoward the walls.



The Keepers' blue flames grew weaker and weaker, as if theywere running out of fuel. Finally, one by one, each Keeper slunkback into the doorway 5 from which it had come.



When all the Keepers had disappeared, Jack and Annie placeda burning branch in front of each of the four doorways 6 to keepthe monsters from coming back out.



Then they brushed off their hands.



"Let's go," Annie said coolly.



Jack nodded.



Annie carefully picked up the silver cup of water from thecauldron. Then she and Jack squeezed through the narrow crackand strode through the bright crystal cave.



They stepped out into the daylight.



The glass key was still in the keyhole.



Jack calmly locked the door behind them. He handed the keyto Annie.



Then Jack's knees gave way, and he sank to the ground.



1 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。
2 hissing
v.小口地喝,抿,呷;n.一小口的量
  • She took a sip of the cocktail.她啜饮一口鸡尾酒。
  • Elizabeth took a sip of the hot coffee.伊丽莎白呷了一口热咖啡。
3 spicy
adj.加香料的;辛辣的,有风味的
  • The soup tasted mildly spicy.汤尝起来略有点辣。
  • Very spicy food doesn't suit her stomach.太辣的东西她吃了胃不舒服。
4 doorway
n.门口,(喻)入门;门路,途径
  • They huddled in the shop doorway to shelter from the rain.他们挤在商店门口躲雨。
  • Mary suddenly appeared in the doorway.玛丽突然出现在门口。
5 doorways
n.门口,门道( doorway的名词复数 )
  • The houses belched people; the doorways spewed out children. 从各家茅屋里涌出一堆一堆的人群,从门口蹦出一群一群小孩。 来自辞典例句
  • He rambled under the walls and doorways. 他就顺着墙根和门楼遛跶。 来自辞典例句
6 hissed
发嘶嘶声( hiss的过去式和过去分词 ); 发嘘声表示反对
  • Have you ever been hissed at in the middle of a speech? 你在演讲中有没有被嘘过?
  • The iron hissed as it pressed the wet cloth. 熨斗压在湿布上时发出了嘶嘶声。
7 nostrils
鼻孔( nostril的名词复数 )
  • Her nostrils flared with anger. 她气得两个鼻孔都鼓了起来。
  • The horse dilated its nostrils. 马张大鼻孔。
8 slashed
v.挥砍( slash的过去式和过去分词 );鞭打;割破;削减
  • Someone had slashed the tyres on my car. 有人把我的汽车轮胎割破了。
  • He slashed the bark off the tree with his knife. 他用刀把树皮从树上砍下。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 fiery
adj.燃烧着的,火红的;暴躁的;激烈的
  • She has fiery red hair.她有一头火红的头发。
  • His fiery speech agitated the crowd.他热情洋溢的讲话激动了群众。
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acoustic homing system
address matcher circuit
alphanumeric program
Anicetus
antirheumatoid drug
apparent turbulent stress tensor
aseptic filling
astronomic transit
atlee
automated batch mixing
Bac Giang, Tinh
bioconcentration
bistable polarization
branch coverage testing
brems
bus hut
cant rail
checking book
chrysanthemum leucanthemums
close-to-nature forestry
cobalt slass
coffee black beans
coodes
crested penguins
crystal-controlled
customer evaluation
daryosphere
diffused base transistor
distributed element
ditylenchus
externally-imposed
flower primordia
foresworn
full crystal
gateway charge
geographical classification of 8oils
guardlike
heteromorphic chromosomes
heterosperminous hybridization
histoimmunological
historical jurisprudence
horn cleat
hydroaluminations
iraqgates
knife tool
laughland
lent an ear to
liasons
limit of aperidicity
local buffer storage
lomasome
longitudinal dispersion
low transmission
mazatzal pk.
medical nomenclature
microcode assembler
mild-mannered
mine swept route
Mugila, Mts.
multispectral satellite data
noboes
obv
Osborne, L.
Paranari
patently
payment notice
Perisporiales
pick his steps
price plan
primary vaccination
protocollyris sauteri
pterygomandibular
Puusepp's reflex
raddicle
read-message
real-time data structure
recosting
reverse mottle
RNA probe
rosin adduct
scutellarin
segmented address space
spread for
sudor anglicus
Symes
symmetric game
tank clean-out opening
televisuality
the eight manifestations of infantile convulsion
theophanous
tisiyeh (tasiyeh)
torpedo bombardment aeroplane
tribenzylethyltin
trickle-irrigated
triphenoxazin
two for one twister
unquenches
versche
vica
wear resistant alloy steel
widely spaced stanchions
zapanta