美国小学英语教材5:第262课 沙漠男孩——阿卜杜勒. 阿齐兹(5)

All this was just the polite way to begin a conversation— all except the words, “who is a good lad,” which his friends need not say unless they wanted to. So Sadoc was pleased. Nobody ever asked him how Kadijah, his wife, was, for that would have been as impolite as the other was proper. The Arabs never speak to each other of their women folks if they can possibly avoid it.

这一切只是开始谈话的礼貌方式——除了那几个字，“是个好孩子，”这是他的朋友们不需要说的，除非他们想说。所以撒多克很高兴。从来没有人问过他，他的妻子卡迪亚怎么样，因为那样做既不礼貌，也不恰当。阿拉伯人尽量避免和妇女交谈。

Abdul Aziz, being only a boy, was allowed to go into the neighbors’ houses. So he knew most of the women. Sometimes even, at the season of the olive¹ crop, he worked with them. For in the village of Hammamet it is the women and the children who harvest the olives² in the orchards³ outside the town.

阿卜杜勒·阿齐兹还是个孩子，他被允许进入邻居家。所以他认识大部分的女人。有时甚至在橄榄收获的季节，他也和他们一起工作。因为在哈马麦特村，妇女和孩子们在城外的果园里收割橄榄。

1 olive   

n.橄榄，橄榄树，橄榄色；adj.黄绿色的，黄褐色的，橄榄色的

参考例句：

• Have you eaten a kind of fruit called olive?你吃过橄榄这种水果吗？
• She likes olive because It'symbolizes peace.她喜欢橄榄色因为它象征着和平。

2 olives   

n.橄榄( olive的名词复数 )；橄榄树；橄榄色；油橄榄

参考例句：

• We sat drinking wine and nibbling olives. 我们坐在那儿，喝着葡萄酒嚼着橄榄。
• He sent her two pieces of olives in letter. 他在信中给她夹了两片橄榄树的叶子。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 orchards   

（通常指围起来的）果园( orchard的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They turned the hills into orchards and plains into granaries. 他们把山坡变成了果园，把平地变成了粮仓。
• Some of the new planted apple orchards have also begun to bear. 有些新开的苹果园也开始结苹果了。