美国小学英语教材5:第248课 埃斯特班——狂欢王后的花童(1)（在线收听）

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埃斯特班——狂欢王后的花童

Caroline Mabry

作者：卡洛琳·马布里

American boys and girls are not the only ones who have holidays to celebrate. But the boys and girls of other nations have many different holidays from ours, and they celebrate them in different ways. This story tells how Three Kings’ Day and Ash Wednesday are celebrated on the island of Porto Rico.

并不止美国的男孩和女孩有节日庆祝。但是其他国家的男孩和女孩与我们有许多不同的节日，他们以不同的方式庆祝节日。这个故事讲述了波多黎各岛如何庆祝三圣节和圣灰星期三的。

Esteban was proud of his school garden. In the Porto Rican school of San Juan each child had been awarded a garden plot, and Esteban had tended his with such care that it was trimmer and finer than any of the others. He wanted it to be like the gardens in the United States, for to her Porto Rican children the United States is a wonderland. Today Esteban was especially happy because a friend of his teacher’s from the United States had come to visit the school.

埃斯特班为他的校园花园感到自豪。在圣胡安的波尔图里康学校，每个孩子都得到了一块园地，埃斯特班悉心照料他的园地，园地比其他任何园地都更整洁、更精致。他希望它像美国的花园一样，因为对她波尔图的孩子们来说，美国是一个仙境。今天埃斯特班特别高兴，因为他老师的一个朋友从美国来参观学校。