In spring, some hollow flower-stalks grow up from the centre of the rosette of leaves. Each stalk bears what looks like one large yellow flower. But if you pull one of these flower-heads to pieces, you will find that it is really made up of a great m...
Lesson 74 Only A Weed 第74课 蒲公英 All through the summer, and during spring and autumn as well, our meadows and waste places are thickly dotted with the bright-yellow flowers of the common weed called the dandelion. And even throughout the win...
Glass is made chiefly of fine white sand or silica melted in a furnace. To make the sand melt easily, we must mix with it some soda, some chalk or lime, and a small quantity of broken glass. 玻璃主要由细致的白沙或硅石在熔炉中炼成。为...
Lesson 73 A Pane Of Glass 第73课 玻璃窗 If you had lived in Britain a thousand years ago, you might have seen panes of glass in the churches, but you would have found very few glass windows in the houses of the people. The windows in those days...
Try to find a spider's web on a bush or on the grass in your garden, and look very closely at it. The spider makes the outside lines of the web first. Then it forms the lines which extend like the spokes of a wheel from the centre of the net to the e...
Lesson 72 The Clever Spider 第72课 聪明的蜘蛛 You may have seen men setting nets in the sea, or in a river, to catch fish. Let me tell you about the little animals that are always setting nets in your house and in your garden in much the same...
In fact, all these four plants belong to the same class. 实际上, 这四种植物同属一个种类。 If we visit the orchard again in June, we shall find that all the white flowers have fallen off the cherry-trees, and that the seed-vessel of eac...
Lesson 71 The Cherry-tree And Its Fruit 第71课 樱桃树及其果实 The cherry-tree is a small tree which grows to a height of about twenty feet. Its stem is covered with a smooth brown bark, and its green leaves have saw-like edges, somewhat like...
The finger which is wet with alcohol will be dry before you can count ten, while the finger which is wet with water may take a minute or more to dry. 在你数到十之前, 那根沾有酒精的手指就会变得干燥, 而另外一根沾有水的手指...
Lesson 70 Evaporation 第70课 蒸发作用 Let us fill a small kettle with water, and place it on the fire. The water will soon begin to boil. After an hour or so we shall find the kettle quite empty, although no one has touched it since it was plac...