《新编英语教程》第-3-册的课文(2)

had got my feet wet, because there were holes in my shoes. ④My father cut insoles out of cardboard, and I wore those in my shoes. ⑤As long as I had to stay in the house anyway, they were all right.

①那年秋天，我再也没有回到主日学校，妈妈说是因为我生病了。②学校开

学那周，我的确感冒了，我一直在路边的排水沟里玩，因为鞋底有洞，脚都弄湿了。③爸爸用硬纸板给我剪了鞋垫，我把鞋垫放在鞋子里，只要我待在家里，不乱跑，这些鞋垫就没有问题。

①I stayed cooped up in the house, without any companionship. ②We didn?t take

a Sunday paper any more, and though I did not read small print, I could see the Santa Clauses and holly wreaths in the advertisements.

①我整天待在家里，没有一个伙伴。②我们没有星期日报可以读，虽然我并

不读那些小号字，但是我可以看到广告中的圣诞老人和圣诞冬青花环。

①There was a calendar in the kitchen. ②The red days were Sundays and

holidays; and that red was Christmas. ③I knew just when Christmas was going to be.

①厨房里有一个日历，上边红色的日子是礼拜日和节假日，那个红色的25

号就是圣诞节，我知道圣诞节就快要到了。

①But there was something queer! ②My father and mother didn?t say a word about Christmas. ③And once when I spoke of it, there was a strange, embarrassed silence; so I didn?t say anything more about it. ④But I wondered, and was troubled.

⑤Why didn?t they say anything about it? ⑥Was what I had said I wanted too

expensive?

①但是，家里的气氛却怪怪的，爸爸妈妈对于圣诞节只字不提。②有一次我

提到圣诞节时，他们没有说话，很尴尬，这让我觉得很奇怪，所以我也就没有再说什么。③但是，我好奇怪，也很苦恼，为什么他们对于圣诞节只字不提呢？难道是我要的圣诞礼物太贵了吗？

①I wasn?t arrogant and talkative now. ②I was silent and frightened. ③What

was the matter? ④Why didn?t my father and mother say anything about Christmas?

⑤As the day approached, my chest grew tighter with anxiety.

①我没有蛮不讲理，话也不多，事实上，我很沉默，也很害怕。②到底发生

了什么事？③为什么爸爸妈妈对于圣诞节只字不提？④圣诞节一天天临近，而我变得愈加紧张。

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①Now it was the day before Christmas. ②I couldn?t be mistaken. ③But not a

word about it from my father and mother. ④I waited in painful bewilderment all day.

⑤I had supper with them, and was allowed to sit up for an hour. ⑥I was waiting for

them to say something. ⑦“It?s time for you to go to bed,” my mother said gently. ⑧I had to say something.

①到了圣诞节的前一天，我确信就是圣诞节前一天，不可能搞错。②但是，

爸爸妈妈对于圣诞节仍是只字不提。③一整天，我都是在痛苦和困惑中等待。④我和爸爸妈妈一起吃晚饭，我获准可以晚睡一个小时。⑤我一直等着他们说点关于圣诞节的事情。⑥“你该上床睡觉了，”妈妈轻轻地说。⑦我知道我必须得开口了。

①“This is Christmas Eve, isn?t it?” I asked, as if I didn?t know.

“现在是圣诞夜，对吗？”我问，就好像不知道似的。

①My father and mother looked at one another. ②Then my mother looked away. ③Her face was pale and stony. ④My father cleared his throat, and his face took on a

joking look. ⑤He pretended he hadn?t known it was Christmas Eve, because he hadn?t been reading the papers. ⑥He said he would go downtown and find out.

①爸爸妈妈互相看着对方，然后妈妈转过脸去，脸色苍白，没有表情。②爸

爸清了清嗓子，他脸上带着像开玩笑的神情，好像并不知道是圣诞夜，他很长时间没有读报纸了。④他说要到市中心去看一看。

①My mother got up and walked out of the room. ②I didn?t want my father to

have to keep on being funny about it, so I got up and went to bed. ③I went by myself without having a light. ④I undressed in the dark and crawled into bed.

①妈妈站起来，走出了房间。②我不想让爸爸再难为自己，滑稽下去，所以

我也站了起来去睡觉了。③没有开灯，我在黑暗中脱了衣服，爬到了被窝里。

①I was numb. ②As if I had been hit by something. ③It was hard to breathe. ④I

ached all through. ⑤I was stunned — with finding out the truth.

①我身心麻木，就好像收到了某种伤害，难以呼吸，全身疼痛。②我极为震

惊，因为我发现了真相。

①My body knew before my mind quite did. ②In a minute, when I could think,

my mind would know. ③And as the pain in my body ebbed, the pain in my mind began. ④I knew. ⑤I couldn?t put it into words yet. ⑥But I knew why I had taken

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only a little bag of potatoes to Sunday school that fall. ⑦I knew why there had been only pennies in my little yellow envelope. ⑧I knew why I hadn?t gone to school that fall — why I hadn?t any new shoes — why we had been living on potato soup all winter. ⑨All these things, and others, many others fitted themselves together in my mind, and meant something.

①我的身躯先于灵魂恢复了知觉。②过了一会儿，我又能思考了，我的灵魂

也恢复了知觉。③身体的痛苦开始减轻，而灵魂却开始痛了起来。④我全明白了，只是还无法用语言来表达。⑤我终于明白了为什么秋天我只能带小包土豆到学校；我明白了为什么那个黄色的小信封里只有几个美分；我明白了我为什么不能再上学了———为什么我没有新鞋穿——为什么我们家冬天只能喝土豆汤。⑥所有这一切，还有其他的全部，一起涌进我的大脑，让我明白了一些事情。

①Then the words came into my mind and I whispered them into the darkness. ①然后有几个词出现在我的脑中，我在黑暗中小声默念。

“We?re poor!” “我们是穷人！”

①That was it. ②I was one of those poor children I had been sorry for, when I

heard about them in Sunday school. ③My mother hadn?t told me. ④My father was out of work, and we hadn?t any money. ⑤That was why there wasn?t going to be any Christmas at our house.

①事实就是这样。②我就是那些贫困孩子中的一个，但是我居然在学校听说

之后还去可怜人家呢。③妈妈一直没有告诉我说爸爸失业了，我们家没有钱。④这就是为什么我们家不打算过圣诞节的原因。

①“We?re poor.” There in bed in the dark, I whispered it over and over to myself. ②I was making myself ge …… 此处隐藏：4675字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……