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 pounding ended. There was silence ... a longsilence.



Jack 1 opened his eyes. He peeked 2 around the tree.



The silverback was sitting on the ground. His lipswere curved in a smile. He looked pleased withhimself.



Was his whole act a fake? Jack wondered.



Jack didn't know whether to be scared or to laugh.



The only thing he did know was he still had to get toAnnie!



Jack pulled out the research book. He found thegorilla chapter again. He read:



To safely get close to gorillas 4 in the wild, it's wiseto act like a gorilla 3 yourself. Crouch 5 down and rest onyour knuckles 6 like a gorilla. Keep your head downand act friendly!



Jack packed up his research book. He put his packon his back. Then he went down on his knees.



Jack took a deep breath. He smiled a friendly smile.



Pressing down on his knuckles, he moved out frombehind the tree. His fingers hurt as he walked onthem.



The silverback grunted 7.



Jack didn't look up. He kept smiling a friendly smileas he crawled through the brush toward the clearing.



When he got to the edge of the clearing he glancedback. The giant gorilla was folloing him. He wasfrowning but he didn't seem about to attack.



Jack kept going. He moved into the clearing. Thenhe stopped.



More gorillas were waking up. A large gorillahugged Bu-bu as if to comfort her.



When Bu-bu saw Jack, she screeched 8 joyfully 10.



All the other gorillas turned to look at him. Theymade nervous sounds.



Jack's heart pounded. But he just smiled his friendlysmile and kept crawling. He crawled around thegorillas and over to Annie.



"Wake up!" he said, shaking her.



Annie yawned, then opened her eyes.



"Oh, hi!" she said.



"Are you okay?" asked Jack.



"Sure," she said. She sat up and looked around. Shegasped.



The gorillas were staring at Jack and Annie withbright, darting 11 eyes. The silver-back stared thehardest.



"Oh, wow!" said Annie. A joyful 9 smile crossed herface. "Good morning, gorillas!"



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 peeked
v.很快地看( peek的过去式和过去分词 );偷看;窥视;微露出
  • She peeked over the top of her menu. 她从菜单上往外偷看。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • On two occasions she had peeked at him through a crack in the wall. 她曾两次透过墙缝窥视他。 来自辞典例句
3 gorilla
n.大猩猩,暴徒,打手
  • I was awed by the huge gorilla.那只大猩猩使我惊惧。
  • A gorilla is just a speechless animal.猩猩只不过是一种不会说话的动物。
4 gorillas
n.大猩猩( gorilla的名词复数 );暴徒,打手
  • the similitude between humans and gorillas 人类和大猩猩的相像
  • Each family of gorillas is led by a great silverbacked patriarch. 每个大星星家族都由一个魁梧的、长着银色被毛的族长带领着。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 crouch
v.蹲伏,蜷缩,低头弯腰;n.蹲伏
  • I crouched on the ground.我蹲在地上。
  • He crouched down beside him.他在他的旁边蹲下来。
6 knuckles
n.(指人)指关节( knuckle的名词复数 );(指动物)膝关节,踝v.(指人)指关节( knuckle的第三人称单数 );(指动物)膝关节,踝
  • He gripped the wheel until his knuckles whitened. 他紧紧握住方向盘,握得指关节都变白了。
  • Her thin hands were twisted by swollen knuckles. 她那双纤手因肿大的指关节而变了形。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 grunted
(猪等)作呼噜声( grunt的过去式和过去分词 ); (指人)发出类似的哼声; 咕哝着说
  • She just grunted, not deigning to look up from the page. 她只咕哝了一声,继续看书,不屑抬起头来看一眼。
  • She grunted some incomprehensible reply. 她咕噜着回答了些令人费解的话。
8 screeched
v.发出尖叫声( screech的过去式和过去分词 );发出粗而刺耳的声音;高叫
  • She screeched her disapproval. 她尖叫着不同意。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The car screeched to a stop. 汽车嚓的一声停住了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
9 joyful
adj.欢乐的,令人欢欣的
  • She was joyful of her good result of the scientific experiments.她为自己的科学实验取得好成果而高兴。
  • They were singing and dancing to celebrate this joyful occasion.他们唱着、跳着庆祝这令人欢乐的时刻。
10 joyfully
adv. 喜悦地, 高兴地
  • She tripped along joyfully as if treading on air. 她高兴地走着,脚底下轻飘飘的。
  • During these first weeks she slaved joyfully. 在最初的几周里,她干得很高兴。
11 darting
v.投掷,投射( dart的现在分词 );向前冲,飞奔
  • Swallows were darting through the clouds. 燕子穿云急飞。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Swallows were darting through the air. 燕子在空中掠过。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
Acariformes
after-hood plating
Amberboa turanica
anarchies
azathioprene
barrier delta
basic deficit
beaching accommodation
bimetallic
biological conversion
black arches moth
Bonporti
boobish
buffer read transfer
circular spirit level
cocklofts
cosmic hypothesis
councilmen
create envelope
cyclical coordinates
deal a blow at someone
disagreeability
distributed operation system
dual-pressure press
duoprop
e-commercial
electric fans
enigmatised
front side edge
gamma ray log
gandsey
georgia pines
glacial alluvion
gnotoxenic
going-out-of-business
grievesome
gun drilling machine
hasky
hay ridger
Herring body
high-sinuosity channel
hitandrunner
hutuss
inaccessible area
institutionalisation
intercompany account
inverse element
isentropic procedure
Kingston Lisle
lidar
Linford
low productivity in agriculture
Lundin process
Maloyaroslavets
mattess
mawhood
medium cast iron
methylfructofuranoside
Moscow school
multilinear tariff
multisegment type
negative artesian head
not so sure
Orravatn
persel
physics of low dimensional solids
portal page
postreplication
precarious possession
psychic healing
quantitativework
quay surface
radial kernel
ratio transformator
Ratones, R.
reading and writing saloon
Riouw(Riau)
run file
scattered showers
seeld
senital system
simms
slipper pin
staff light
stretti
surface sharp factor
ten - cent store
Tetrabromofluoroethane
thoracodorsal artery
time based network
to come alive
tracing study
transaction tape
two-sided effect
ultraparadoxical phase
ultrasonic testing (ut)
unbilled accounts receivable
unhybridised
unofficial strike
viandes
waymire
weak unit