时间:2018-12-17 作者:英语课 分类:美国小学英语教材5


英语课

   Balto, the Best Lead-dog in Alaska 阿拉斯加最优秀的领头狗巴尔图


  Frances Margaret Fox 作者:弗朗西丝·玛格丽特·福克斯
  Perhaps you think that dogs are used only as pets. 或许你会认为狗只是宠物。
  Do you know that for hundreds of years dogs have been helpers of man? 你知道几百年来狗一直是人类的帮手吗?
  They have hunted food for him, carried his loads and messages, and guarded his home. 狗为人类寻找食物、运送货物、传递消息、保卫家园。
  In this story you will read how faithful dogs helped brave men in a time of great need. 在这个故事中,你将了解到忠实的狗如何在勇敢的人类需要时帮助人类的。
  Balto was a dog of the United States Postal 1 Service in far-off Alaska. 巴尔图是美国遥远的阿拉斯加邮政局的一条狗。
  In the city of Nome, one black morning, he stepped into the world's Story-Book of Shining Deeds. 一个黑漆漆的清晨,诺姆市出版的面向全世界的故事书记载了巴尔图的光辉事迹。
  That picture-book opened wide and took him in forever. 那本画册很大,巴尔图永远停留在此。
  It was mid-winter, and an epidemic 2 of diphtheria had broken out in Nome. 那是隆冬时节,诺姆市爆发了白喉传染病。
  They called it the "Black Death" up there, for the disease carried off not only the children but their fathers and mothers. 当地人称这种病为“黑死病”,因为这病不仅夺取了孩子们的生命,也夺走了父母的生命。
  Indeed, whole families were swept away during the time of that dreadful 3 sickness. 事实上,在可怕的病发期间,有的整个家庭都病死了。
  If the disease could not be stopped in Nome, it was likely to spread over all the territory of which that city was the center— 如果这种疾病不能在诺姆市控制住,很可能会以诺姆市为中心扩散到其他地区。
  to the east one thousand miles, and north even as far as the Arctic 4 Ocean. 向东一千米,北部甚至可达北冰洋。
  In this region there lived eleven thousand people. 这个地区居住着1.1万人。
  To care for them there was in Nome but one doctor, who with his little band of nurses belonged to the United States Public Health Service. 而在诺姆市却只有美国公共卫生署的一名医生和一小队护士。

1 postal
adj.邮政的,邮局的
  • A postal network now covers the whole country.邮路遍及全国。
  • Remember to use postal code.勿忘使用邮政编码。
2 epidemic
n.流行病;盛行;adj.流行性的,流传极广的
  • That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
  • The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。
3 dreadful
adj.糟透了的,极端的,可怕的,令人畏惧的
  • I cannot imagine what to do in this dreadful situation.我不能想像在这么糟的情况下该怎么办。
  • I must apologize for the dreadful mistake I made.我为我所犯的严重错误深表歉意。
4 Arctic
adj.北极的;n.北极
  • They flew over the unlimited reaches of the Arctic.他们飞过了茫茫无边的北极上空。
  • The sort of animal lived in the Arctic Circle.这种动物生活在北极圈里。
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Abarth
abscisses
acrolin test
admiralty lien
advice slip
agulhas
Alania
antirachitic value
ASLR
axis of abscissae
Barra Mansa, Ribeirao
basel waltzing mouse
basis of software
basshole
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bituminous priming solution
bloemenmarkt
body powder
Brugsch's test
Camborne
carbon austenite
cash-back
chimeric DNA
ciphertrust
coendures
cold reflection coefficient
compatibiliser
Compatibility.
cookie-dough
crabut
cross-subarea link
danthonias
dawsey
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digital linear measuring system
educational adviser
end-of-data marker
ENE
format character nonprint
friction damping
general acceptability
genus Buchloe
Gladys Porter Zoo
gojko
hartels
hierarchical dialogue structure
implied and induced output
kryptocyanin
levoform
licorice spray
limit quality
long line frequency control
major neuralgia
metatungstate
monodromy nonambiguity
movable-vane type turbine
multichannel
natural soil
naturalist
Naunglon
nonopera
normal age-class arrangement
octangles
oil recovery vessel
oral papilla
piezoelectrically
plexus venosus uterinus
pseudo likelihood
rampion bellflowers
ready task queue
ready user
rear fin
rivet squeezer
rotary-hearth furnace
school voucher
show day
simeens
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spinal cord of dorsal column
Spiraea papillosa
star azimuth
steam chest head
subject of knowledge
sulfur iodide
syntrichia caninervis mitt.
telopea waratah
thanatobiologic
three axle truck
tigerware
trimeresurus carinatus
tuned auto-transformer
turn someone's battery against himself
twurk
wedg
Wendlandia myriantha
wet connection
wet grinder
wint