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》


英语课

  "Run, Annie!" Jack 1 screamed.



The water drew away from the beach, and a loudhissing sound came from the sea.



Suddenly fish flopped 2 on the bare sand!



Annie threw down her board and ran. She grabbedJack's hand as she ran by him. Jack grabbed Boka'shand, and Boka grabbed Kama's hand. They all rantogether, pulling each other along as they raced to thecliff.



Boka and Kama ran up the cliff path. Jack andAnnie grabbed their shoes and Jack's pack.



At the top of the cliff, everyone looked back. Jackcouldn't believe his eyes!



A wave was rising up like a dark mountain ofwater. It came surging toward the shore, growingeven taller.



"Wow," whispered Annie.



"Get back!" shouted Boka.



The four of them bolted back from the edge of therocky slope. The mountain of water crashed againstthe cliff. Water sprayed over the top of the rocks andrained down on them.



When the water rolled back over the cliff, they allhurried back to the edge to see what had happened.



The rocky cliff path was gone. The gigantic wavewas moving back out to sea, taking rocks, sand,seaweed, seashells, and the surf-boards with it.



"Scary," breathed Annie.



"Yeah," said Jack. "We just made it.""Boka! Kama!" voices yelled.



They turned around. Jack saw Boka andKama's parents racing 3 across the meadow towardthem. Other villagers followed.



The two Hawaiian kids ran into their parents' arms.



Soon Jack and Annie were surrounded by villagers.



Everyone was laughing and crying and hugging eachother.



Jack hugged Annie. He hugged Kama and Boka andtheir parents--and lots of other people he didn't evenknow.



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 flopped
v.(指书、戏剧等)彻底失败( flop的过去式和过去分词 );(因疲惫而)猛然坐下;(笨拙地、不由自主地或松弛地)移动或落下;砸锅
  • Exhausted, he flopped down into a chair. 他筋疲力尽,一屁股坐到椅子上。
  • It was a surprise to us when his play flopped. 他那出戏一败涂地,出乎我们的预料。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 racing
n.竞赛,赛马;adj.竞赛用的,赛马用的
  • I was watching the racing on television last night.昨晚我在电视上看赛马。
  • The two racing drivers fenced for a chance to gain the lead.两个赛车手伺机竞相领先。
学英语单词
adhortation
andriamanjatoes
anion anion exchanger
annual heat consumption
antisigma
aranas
aristolochia sodium
babbitt metal bearing
barrier reared (br)
battleward
binary transfers
blastogeneses
bottleheads
bridelock
cambuss
climate conditions
combretaceous
constant temperature humidity chamber
coppermine (kugluktuk)
coxite process
crisp(i)ness
daytimes
DIMSA
eastwoods
empiricists
enamel drops
exteso
Eye-Trouble
fast variable
free field
full-stall speed
gallotannin
general space
handcockite
hardenability
homophonic filtering
hvars
ice-cream-cone
in the behoof of someone
induced cooling tower
instructeth
interlight
interoffice transmission system
lifting fork
linear transition
loevit's cell
look for work
loss in grade
magnetist
malacological ecology
mammate
map interlinking
mentalization
minor tick marks
mission reliability
Misskito
monohydric acid
Montils
Namsan
nathaniel baileys
negative-resistance tube oscillator
niketown
nim tree
noise equivalent neutron source
October beer
olistoglyph
output password
panyard
paving flags
phant
phenarsenamine
Phloretin-Glucosidase
polycystogram
Populus wuana
porat
postreperfusion
Pyla, C.
radio receiver parts
rascallions
re-packaging
reims (rheims)
Rödental
Sawdust Caesars
seclusio
semidecidability
Sesamoidean
shoe-making
silleticas
sinus unguis
small shape
sphenomaxillary suture
syndrome of yang deficiency due to yin excess
tantalous chloride
target detection
two noded vertical vibration
ultra portable
Vaimauga Dist.
variable interval reinforcement
vectored thrust
wheel of fortunes
youth hostelled