美国小学英语教材6:第37课 山齿鹑家族(8)
时间：2018-12-12 作者：英语课 分类：美国小学英语教材6
英语课
But it was only part of the family, just Bob-White and four of his chicks; 但这只是这个家族的一部分，只有山齿鹑和四个孩子；
the little hen and the other four had gone away in the hunter's game bag. 妈妈和其它四个孩子已进了猎物口袋。
Bob-white Meets Disaster 山齿鹑遇到灾难
One morning in midwinter the small boy who had gone to the pasture that night with Old Ben 隆冬的一天早上，那名和老人本晚上一起去牧场找鹑的小男孩
to search for the quail 1 awoke to find the world ice-clad and snow-bound and in the clutch of a terrible freeze. 醒来后发现一片白雪皑皑的世界，整个世界都结了冰。
The windows were so clouded with frost that he could not see out until he had melted the frost with his breath. 窗户上结了霜他什么也看不见，他用哈气将霜散去。
When he had cleared a window, he cried aloud with grief, for there upon the window sill, 当窗户清晰可见后，他在窗台上悲痛地大叫起来，
huddled 2 close to the glass, was the stiff form of his Bob-White. 他的山齿鹑紧贴在玻璃上，它被冻得结结实实。
Poor little Bob-White; he had escaped the hawk 3, the owl 4, the weasel, the fox, the raccoon, and the hunter, 可怜的山齿鹑，他逃脱了老鹰、猫头鹰、鼬鼠、狐狸、浣熊以及猎手的毒手，
but the great freeze had caught him, so near and yet so far from cover. 但它却没能躲过冰冻，它离遮蔽处其实很近，或许又非常远。
1 quail
n.鹌鹑；vi.畏惧，颤抖
- Cowards always quail before the enemy.在敌人面前，胆小鬼们总是畏缩不前的。
- Quail eggs are very high in cholesterol.鹌鹑蛋胆固醇含量高。
2 huddled
挤在一起（huddle的过去式与过去分词形式）
- We huddled together for warmth. 我们挤在一块取暖。
- We huddled together to keep warm. 我们挤在一起来保暖。
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