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
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AAE
Aggravated Felony
angiomatosis of retina
ania
beracasa
bilievable
biochemical effect
birrus
celestine(celestinian)
census of transportation
Christiania
code components
comprehensive trace
comptel
condition per cent
consistents
corpse-gates
couta boats
coyomo
creaseyite
Culoz
dance-theater
deck tape
deiva marina
Dichlorotrifluoropropane
dip braze
discipline-based art education (dbae)
DIW
drum type winder
dry fruits
eliptically symmetric distribution
eosinophilic lung
EUROFINAS
external oscillator
filter pack
first council of lyonss
fogsignal
FPM tests
gapped tape
gas start system
gravitational darkening
grindlays
gunite layer
half-cup
implicit tax
internal crack
intervalve
kubes
Kushchevskaya
Lake Williams
Landsteiner's method
limiting quality
machining allowance
madangs
Michelia odora
Microstrobos
Mithratic
Mitragyna rotundifolia
mori poll
multiple-time-around echoes (mtae)
nacroes
negative balance of sodium
non-tannins
obtain employment
Ocean Resources Conservation Association
Oenothera oakesiana
oothec(o)-
operation control board
paddle wheel steamer
Parnassia degeensis
Pelean
pliskie
politist
positive-input negative-output
pressure flaking
preview switcher
proton wave
Prunus sieboldii
publisht
pupil imaging
re-enshrine
santes
scrotal hernia
semi-continuous distillation
sensationalistically
set much store by
shower-head
snowboarding
starter solenoid
success-failure
Supplicium
tacticities
taik
the biosphere
track down
undermen
vegetable silk
voluntas in delictis non exitus spectatur.
walentaite
young adult
yreaued