美国小学英语教材3:第146课 培迪的圣诞节(3)

 That very day Paddy went to the woods, and gathered holly¹ and cut a little evergreen² tree and some cedar³ branches and things like that. 当天，培迪就去了森林，他收集了冬青，砍了一颗小常青树和一些雪松树枝，还有其他类似的一些东西。

He hung them all around the walls of the dark cave and stood the little evergreen tree up in one corner. 他把树枝挂在了洞里的墙上，把小常青树竖在一个角落里。

After that he sang the songs that the children in the log house had sung, and he thought that this was Christmas. 之后他唱起了木屋里孩子们唱的歌曲，认为这就是圣诞节了。

For a little while Paddy was very happy. 培迪只快乐了一小会儿。

Then he began to feel that something was wrong; so he went to his father and his mother and his uncle and his aunt and waked them up. 接着他便感觉有什么事情不对劲了；于是他到爸爸、妈妈和叔权、阿姨那儿，把他们都叫醒了。

Uncle Bear was wrong, he said. "This isn't Christmas. 他说：熊叔叔说的不对。这不是圣诞节。

There is something more, because when boys and girls have it, it's pretty, and it's lots of fun, and it makes you feel good from the inside out. 还有更多的东西，当男孩和女孩们过圣诞节的时候，那是很漂亮的，还有许多有趣的事，并且让人由里到外感到高兴。

This is pretty, and it's fun; but it doesn't make me feel good from the inside out." 咱们这样也很漂亮，很有趣；但这并没有让我由内而外感到高兴。

This time it was Aunt Bear who said she would find out what Christmas is. 这次，熊阿姨说她要去探察一下圣诞节是什么。

Down the mountain she crept to the little log house, and listened and looked and sniffed⁴. Then she came back to Paddy. 她顺着山坡偷偷地溜到了小木屋旁，她又是听又是看，还用鼻子仔细地嗅了嗅，接着回到了培迪那里。

Christmas, said Aunt Bear, "is getting presents. You get toys and good things to eat. 阿姨说：圣诞节呢，就是收收礼物。你收到了玩具和好吃的东西。

See, I brought you some presents on my back." 看，我给你带回来些礼物，在我背上。

 

1 holly   

n.[植]冬青属灌木

参考例句：

• I recently acquired some wood from a holly tree.最近我从一棵冬青树上弄了些木料。
• People often decorate their houses with holly at Christmas.人们总是在圣诞节时用冬青来装饰房屋。

2 evergreen   

n.常青树；adj.四季常青的

参考例句：

• Some trees are evergreen;they are called evergreen.有的树是常青的，被叫做常青树。
• There is a small evergreen shrub on the hillside.山腰上有一小块常绿灌木丛。

3 cedar   

n.雪松，香柏(木)

参考例句：

• The cedar was about five feet high and very shapely.那棵雪松约有五尺高,风姿优美。
• She struck the snow from the branches of an old cedar with gray lichen.她把长有灰色地衣的老雪松树枝上的雪打了下来。

4 sniffed   

v.以鼻吸气，嗅，闻( sniff的过去式和过去分词 )；抽鼻子（尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气）；抱怨，不以为然地说

参考例句：

• When Jenney had stopped crying she sniffed and dried her eyes. 珍妮停止了哭泣，吸了吸鼻子，擦干了眼泪。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The dog sniffed suspiciously at the stranger. 狗疑惑地嗅着那个陌生人。 来自《简明英汉词典》