美国小学英语教材5:第4课 与海军上将伯德同游小亚美利加(2)

These books were all at hand whenever a man had a few hours off for candy eating and reading. 无论是谁，只要能有几个小时的空闲时间用来吃糖和阅读，就能随时在手头找到书。 There had been provided for every man on the

美国小学英语教材5:第3课 与海军上将伯德同游小亚美利加(1)

With Admiral Byrd in Little America 与海军上将伯德同游小亚美利加 Coram Foster 作者：克拉姆.福斯特 At the bottom of the world, in the South Polar Regions, Admiral Byrd and his men lived for fourteen months 在世界的底端，也

美国小学英语教材5:第24课 邮件必须送达(6)

The exact hour of the arrival of the mail from the West was always doubtful. 西方邮件到达的确切之间总是不确定的。 Any one of a hundred things might hinder its progress from the coast. 一百件事里就有一件可能会阻止邮件到

美国小学英语教材5:第27课 邮件必须送达(9)

The Indians got me, he said. 印第安人抓住了我，他说。 It was the rider who earlier in the afternoon had passed them. 下午早些时候，正是骑手从他们身边经过。 He had spied the Indians first, and had ridden around them with

美国小学英语教材5:第14课 阿拉斯加最优秀的领头狗巴尔图(1)

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

美国小学英语教材5:第25课 邮件必须送达(7)

True, but he had been across the plains, had fought Indians, and was more experienced in every way, was the reply. 不错，但他曾穿越平原，与印第安人作战，在各方面都更有经验， 梅杰斯先生答复说。 Still, you've been

美国小学英语教材5:第9课 与海军上将伯德同游小亚美利加(7)

With the last of April the sun disappeared, leaving only a faint glint of brightness now and then along the horizon. 四月的最后一天，太阳消失了，只在地平线上留下一点忽闪忽现的微弱光芒。 Inside the huts, however, a fl

美国小学英语教材5:第21课 邮件必须送达(3)

Boys, he said solemnly, it is a great thing we are undertaking this day. 小伙子们，他郑重地说，这是我们今天要做的一件大事。 Our government has entrusted to us the safe carrying and delivery of its mails. 我国政府已委托我

美国小学英语教材5:第17课 阿拉斯加最优秀的领头狗巴尔图(4)

The dogs were hitched and he started, hoping to reach Safety, the station thirty-four miles away, before the trails were too deeply buried under the fast-falling snow. 狗狗们被拴起来，卡森希望能在大雪把道路完全封住之前到达赛

美国小学英语教材5:第20课 邮件必须送达(2)

On this day Russell, Majors and Waddell were sending out the first riders of the famous Pony Express. 在这一天，拉塞尔、梅杰斯和瓦德尔派出了第一批著名的快马邮递的骑手。 Up to that time the mails between the east and w

美国小学英语教材5:第23课 邮件必须送达(5)

I bid you Godspeed in this your first journey, and now I say 'Go'! 祝你第一次行程好运，现在我说出发吧'！ yelled the mayor of St.Joseph, and he brought the broad palm of his hand down smartly upon the bay pony's flank. 圣约瑟夫市长

美国小学英语教材5:第22课 邮件必须送达(4)

Proudly the boy conducted the honored rider out of the log house to the corral. 小伙子骄傲地把尊贵的骑手带出木屋，带到畜栏。 Frye looked over the ponies with a shrewd eye. 弗莱用敏锐的目光打量着那些小马。 Good ho

美国小学英语教材5:第13课 与海军上将伯德同游小亚美利加(11)

But there was much more than that. 但远不止这些。 There was, for example, the little thaw which every day of sunlight brought, gradually uncovering roofs to break the snowy stretches of Little America. 例如，每天阳光带来的一点融化，

美国小学英语教材5:第26课 邮件必须送达(8)

Winter and summer, the mails must go through, and in their lonely posts at remount and relay stations the men who looked after the ponies must be fed. 无论冬季还是夏季，邮件必须送达，在换马站和中继站，在孤独的岗位上照顾

美国小学英语教材5:第19课 邮件必须送达(1)

The Mail Must Go Through 邮件必须送达 Merlin Moore Taylor 作者：梅林穆尔泰勒 The same bravery and faithfulness that made Gunnar Kasson, Leonard Seppala, and their dogs carry the serum to Nome were in the hearts of the men and horses of

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It was the driver Leonard Seppala who chose to cross the entrance to Norton Bay, instead of following the long shore-line around the bay. 司机伦纳德斯帕拉选择穿过诺顿湾的入口，而不是沿着海湾的长海岸线。 Because a hurri

美国小学英语教材5:第15课 阿拉斯加最优秀的领头狗巴尔图(2)

Far away in the United States there was a cure for diphtheria, called antitoxin serum. 在美国离这儿很远的地方有一种治疗白喉的药，叫做抗毒素血清。 The doctor sent out a frantic appeal for help. 医生拼命呼救。 A twen

美国小学英语教材5:第12课 与海军上将伯德同游小亚美利加(10)

The Sun Returns to Little America 阳光再普照至小亚美利加 For days the twilight hours which had numbered less than four in the middle of the long southern night had been lengthening, a little at a time. 在漫长的南方之夜中，能看到

美国小学英语教材5:第10课 与海军上将伯德同游小亚美利加(8)

In touch with the world 和世界保持接触 The electrical equipment, too, ran the radio. 收音机也在使用电力设备。 Other Polar explorers had carried radios, but none ever had provided such equipment as Byrd took. 其他极地探险者也携

美国小学英语教材5:第11课 与海军上将伯德同游小亚美利加(9)

Radio, too, carried amusement and information to Little America as easily a s it carried news from Little America to the world. 广播也把娱乐和信息带给了小亚美利加，就像它把小美国的新闻带给了全世界一样。 Sometimes