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美国小学英语教材5:第250课 埃斯特班——狂欢王后的花童(3)
Esteban stood beaming even after she had gone. And then his joy was suddenly turned to dismay. He had been so busy caring for his garden that he had not heard the other boys planning the part each would take when they sang carols the night before Thr
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美国小学英语教材5:第251课 埃斯特班——狂欢王后的花童(4)
When the night came, Esteban made himself black, and wrapped around him the Spanish cloak that had been his grandfathers. It swept the ground, but Esteban, small as he was, wore it gracefully, for many of his forebears had worn such cloaks not only f
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美国小学英语教材5:第252课 埃斯特班——狂欢王后的花童(5)
As they sang, the palace door opened, and the children were invited to come into the courtyard, where they were given sweet cakes, as was the custom in Porto Rico. They had their cakes and trooped out happily to sing before the next house. This house
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美国小学英语教材5:第253课 埃斯特班——狂欢王后的花童(6)
February came, and now they were enjoying the merry whirl of the carnival. Gay crowds thronged the streets, hurling confetti and paper ribbons. There were mischievous boys spraying a powder into the air that made everyone sneeze. It was all part of t
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美国小学英语教材5:第254课 埃斯特班——狂欢王后的花童(7)
As he passed the capitol with its high white pillars of marble, which had been brought all the way from Georgia, he saw a group of boys playing about the long seat built in the sea wall that faces the capitol. Marble lions guarded the seat, and almon
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美国小学英语教材5:第255课 埃斯特班——狂欢王后的花童(8)
Yesyes, she answered quickly. It is the most beautiful crown Ive ever seen. 喜欢，喜欢，她回答得很快。这是我见过的最漂亮的王冠。 Thenwhy doesnt it make you glad? Esteban burst forth. 那你为什么不高兴呢?埃斯特班说
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美国小学英语教材5:第256课 埃斯特班——狂欢王后的花童(9)
She led him into a room hung with silken curtains. She showed him the satin suit that had been intended for her nephew. It had short white trousers and a blue velvet coat with crystal buttons. Its blue hat had a long feather trailing from it. 她把他
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美国小学英语教材5:第257课 埃斯特班——狂欢王后的花童(10)
That night was the happiest of Estebans life. In the gay ballroom, the beauty of San Juan had gathered. The queen had twenty ladies-in-waiting, and as her court gathered about her, it had no more loyal subject than her page, Esteban. The aisle up whi
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美国小学英语教材5:第258课 沙漠男孩——阿卜杜勒. 阿齐兹(1)
ABDUL AZIZ, A BOY OF THE DESERT 沙漠男孩阿卜杜勒阿齐兹 Eunice Tietjens 作者：尤妮斯蒂金斯 In northern Africa, along the Mediterranean coast, is a country called Tunis. It is ruled over by France, but most of its people are Arabs.
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美国小学英语教材5:第259课 沙漠男孩——阿卜杜勒. 阿齐兹(2)
He learned to do all the proper things. He could ride a donkey in his sleep. He sat very far back and sidewise without any saddle. When he wanted the donkey to go faster, he kicked both feet very fast in the air and made a loud, whirring sound, Errrr
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美国小学英语教材5:第260课 沙漠男孩——阿卜杜勒. 阿齐兹(3)
He knew two dozen polite things to say when someone of importance came to the house, or when he went to weddings. He also knew how to talk French, how to beat the French boys at marbles, and how to spin a carrot on its pointed end as though it were a
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美国小学英语教材5:第261课 沙漠男孩——阿卜杜勒. 阿齐兹(4)
He thought of everything under the sun, but most often, perhaps, he thought of what his friend the artist had said to him. The artist himself had stayed only a few months and then gone elsewhere, but what he had told the boy of the greatness of the A
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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 a
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美国小学英语教材5:第263课 沙漠男孩——阿卜杜勒. 阿齐兹(6)
IN THE OLIVE ORCHARDS 在橄榄园 Olive-picking is great fun, and the poor women, who otherwise never see the fields or the trees, look forward to it all the year. When the time comes in the late autumn, there is great hurrying and scurrying, prepar
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美国小学英语教材5:第264课 沙漠男孩——阿卜杜勒. 阿齐兹(7)
So one morning, quite early, when the sun was just slipping, all pink and gold, out of the sea, a little caravan marched out of the village gate and up the white road. There were three brown bundles with plump bare feet, two donkeys loaded with beddi
