少兒英語資源下載_看原版童書學英語：花婆婆

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Miss?Rumphius

花婆婆

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The Lupine Lady lives in a small house overlooking the sea.

花婆婆住在海邊的一幢小房子里。

In between the rocks around her house grow blue and purple and rose-colored flowers.

房子的四周，開滿了藍色、紫色和粉紅色的花兒。

The Lupine Lady is little and old.

花婆婆是我的姨婆，她的年紀很大，個子小小的。

But she has not always been that way. I know.

我知道她本來不是這樣的。

She is my great-aunt, and she told me so.

她告訴我一些過去的事情。

Once upon a time she was a little girl named Alice, who lived in a city by the sea.

花婆婆的名字叫艾莉絲，很久以前，當她還是一個小女孩兒的時候，她住在海邊的城市。

From the front stoop she could see the wharves and the bristling masts of tall ships.

從她家門口的石階上，可以看到碼頭和來來往往的大船。

Many years ago her grandfather had come to America on a large sailing ship.

很多年以前，她的爺爺就是搭乘一艘大帆船來到美國的。

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Now?he?worked?in?the?shop?at?the?bottom?of?the?house,?making?figureheads?for?the?prows?of?ships,?and?carving?Indians?out?of?wood?to?put?in?front?of?cigar?stores.?

艾莉絲的爺爺在房子的一樓開了一家店，專門雕刻船頭的人像，以及擺在煙草店門口的印第安人像。

For?Alice's?grandfather?was?an?artist.?

他也是個藝術家。

He?painted?pictures,?too,?of?sailing?ships?and?places?across?the?sea.?

偶爾會畫一些帆船和沿海地區(qū)的風景。?

When?he?was?very?busy,?Alice?helped?him?put?in?the?skies.?

當他很忙的時候，艾莉絲就幫他在畫布上畫幾朵白云。?

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In the evening Alice sat on her grandfather's knee and listened to his stories of faraway places.

晚上，艾莉絲常常坐在爺爺?shù)拇笸壬?，聽他說一些很遠的地方所發(fā)生的事情。

When he had finished, Alice would say, "When I grow up, I too will go to faraway places, and when I grow old, I too will live beside the sea."

每次爺爺說完了故事，艾莉絲就接著說：“爺爺，我長大以后，要像你一樣去很遠的地方旅行。當我老了，也要像你一樣住在海邊。”

"That is all very well, little Alice," said her grandfather, "but there is a third thing you must do."

“很好，”爺爺笑著說，“但是，你一定要記得做第三件事?！?/div>

"What is that?" asked Alice.

“什么事？”艾莉絲問。

"You must do something to make the world more beautiful," said her grandfather.

“做一件讓世界變得更美麗的事?！?/div>

"All right," said Alice. But she did not know what that could be.

“好哇！”艾莉絲答應得又快又大聲。但是，她還不知道將來會做什么樣的事。?

In the meantime Alice got up and washed her face and ate porridge for breakfast. She went to school and came home and did her homework.

她每天起床、洗臉、吃早餐、上學、放學、做功課。

And pretty soon she was grown up.

漸漸地愛麗絲長大了。

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Then my Great-aunt Alice set out to do the three things she had told her grandfather she was going to do.

艾莉絲決定去做她答應爺爺?shù)娜隆?/div>

She left home and went to live in another city far from the sea and the salt air.

她離開了家鄉(xiāng)，住在一個離海邊很遠的城市。

There she worked in a library, dusting books and keeping them from getting mixed up, and helping people find the ones they wanted.

她在圖書館工作，每天清理書上的灰塵，把書本排列整齊，并且?guī)椭蠹艺业剿麄兿肟吹臅?/div>

Some of the books told her about faraway places.

她自己也看了很多書，都是很遠的地方所發(fā)生的故事。

People called her Miss Rumphius now.

這時候，大家都稱呼她盧菲絲小姐。?

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Sometimes she went to the conservatory in the middle of the park.

盧菲絲有時候會到公園中央的溫室里看花草。

When she stepped inside on a wintry day, the warm moist air wrapped itself around her, and the sweet smell of jasmine filled her nose.

冬天里，溫暖、潮濕的空氣中，散發(fā)著一股甜甜的茉莉花香。

"This is almost like a tropical isle," said Miss Rumphius. "But not quite."

她深深地吸了一口氣：“嗯――有熱帶島嶼的氣息，可惜不是真正的熱帶島嶼?！?/div>

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So Miss Rumphius went to a real tropical island, where people kept cockatoos and monkeys as pets.

因此，盧菲絲來到了一座真正的熱帶小島，島上的人把猴子和鸚鵡當作寵物。

She walked on long beaches, picking up beautiful shells.

她在海邊散步，撿一些美麗的貝殼。

One day she met the Bapa Raja, king of a fishing village.

有一天，她遇見了漁村的村長百瑞加。

"You must be tired," he said. "Come into my house and rest."

“你一定累壞了。”村長說，“來我家謝謝吧?！?/div>

So Miss Rumphius went in and met the Bapa Raja's wife.

于是，盧菲絲到了村長的家，認識了村長太太。

The Bapa Raja himself fetched a green coconut and cut a slice off the top so that Miss Rumphius could drink the coconut water inside.

百瑞家剝開綠色的椰子，請她喝椰子汁。

Before she left, the Bapa Raja gave her a beautiful mother-of-pearl shell on which he had painted a bird of paradise and the words, "You will always remain in my heart."

她離開時，還送她一個漂亮的珍珠貝，上面刻著一只天堂鳥和一行字：“我永遠記得你。”

"You will always remain in mine too," said Miss Rumphius.

她感動地說：“我也會永遠記得你?！?/div>

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My great-aunt Miss Alice Rumphius climbed tall mountains where the snow never melted.

盧菲絲到處去旅行，她爬過高高的雪山。

She went through jungles and across deserts.

走過沙漠，穿過熱帶叢林。

She saw lions playing and kangaroos jumping.

她還看到正在游戲的獅子，跳躍的袋鼠。

And everywhere she made friends she would never forget.

每經(jīng)過一個地方，她都結交了一些難忘的好朋友。

Finally she came to the Land of the Lotus-Eaters, and there, getting off a camel, she hurt her back.

最后，她來到東方的一個小國家，她在騎駱駝的時候，不小心摔了下來，她的背部受傷了。

"What a foolish thing to do," said Miss Rumphius. "Well, I have certainly seen faraway places. Maybe it is time to find my place by the sea."

“唉！我真是笨手笨腳！”她說：“算了，我已經(jīng)走過那么多地方，也許我應該做第二件事，到海邊找個房子住下來?！?/div>

And it was, and she did.

于是，她果真在海邊找了個房子住了下來。

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From the porch of her new house Miss Rumphius watched the sun come up; she watched it cross the heavens and sparkle on the water; and she saw it set in glory in the evening.

盧菲絲從新房子的走廊上，可以看見太陽生起來，橫過天空，然后慢慢地落入海中。

She started a little garden among the rocks that surrounded her house, and she planted a few flower seeds in the stony ground.

新房子的前面圍了一些石頭，她在石頭中間，開辟了一座花園。

Miss Rumphius was almost perfectly happy.

當她撒下花種子的時候，心里非?？鞓?。

"But there is still one more thing I have to do," she said. "I have to do something to make the world more beautiful."

“對了！我答應過爺爺，要做一件讓世界變得更美麗的事?！?/div>

But what?

但是，做什么好呢？

"The world already is pretty nice," she thought, looking out over the ocean.

這世界已經(jīng)夠美了！”她常常望著大海，不停地想著這個問題。 ?

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The next spring Miss Rumphius was not very well.

第二年春天，盧菲絲過得并不好。

Her back was bothering her again, and she had to stay in bed most of the time.

她背部的傷又發(fā)作了，大部分的時間，她都躺在床上。

The flowers she had planted the summer before had bloomed in spite of the stony ground.

她在去年夏天撒下的種子，不知不覺地已經(jīng)開花了。

She could see them from her bedroom window, blue and purple and rose-colored.

她從臥室的窗口望出去，可以看到藍色、紫色和粉紅色的花朵，輕輕地搖曳著。

"Lupines," said Miss Rumphius with satisfaction.

“魯冰花！”她非常滿意地對自己說。

"I have always loved lupines the best. I wish I could plant more seeds this summer so that I could have still more flowers next year."

“我最喜歡這種花了，希望今年夏天，我可以下床去撒更多的種子，那么，明年就會開出更多的魯冰花了?！?/div>

But she was not able to.

但是，她一直躺著，沒有辦法下床……

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After a hard winter spring came.

冬天過去，春天又來了。

Miss Rumphius was feeling much better.

她的身體好多了。

Now she could take walks again.

可以出門散散步。

One afternoon she started to go up and over the hill, where she had not been in a long time.

有一天下午，她慢慢地走到山坡上，她很久沒來這里了。

"I don't believe my eyes!" she cried when she got to the top.

當她登上山頂，忍不住驚喜地說：“我真不敢相信自己的眼睛?！?/div>

For there on the other side of the hill was a large patch of blue and purple and rose-colored lupines!

原來，那里開滿了一大片藍色、紫色和粉紅色的魯冰花。

"It was the wind," she said as she knelt in delight.

“一定是風兒！”她高興地蹲下來看著花朵。

"It was the wind that brought the seeds from my garden here! And the birds must have helped!"

“一定是風和小鳥兒，從我的花園里把種子帶到這里?！?/div>

Then Miss Rumphius had a wonderful idea!

忽然，她想到了一個很棒的點子。

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She hurried home and got out her seed catalogues.She sent off to the very best seed house for five bushels of lupine seed.

她立刻回家，寫信去定購了一大包魯冰花種子。

All that summer Miss Rumphius, her pockets full of seeds, wandered over fields and headlands, sowing lupines.

整個夏天，她的口袋里裝滿了種子，她一面散步，一面撒種子。

She scattered seeds along the highways and down the country lanes.She flung handfuls of them around the schoolhouse and back of the church. She tossed them into hollows and along stone walls.

她把種子撒在公路和鄉(xiāng)間的小路邊，撒在學校附近、教堂后面，撒在空地和高墻下面，只要她經(jīng)過的地方，她就不停地撒種子，這里撒一點兒，那里撒一點兒……

Her back didn't hurt her any more at all.

她的背部一點兒也不痛了，每天都高興地出去撒種子。

Now some people called her That Crazy Old Lady.

大家都叫她：“又老又瘋的怪婆婆?！?/div>

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The next spring there were lupines everywhere.

第二年春天，那些種子幾乎同時開花了！

Fields and hillsides were covered with blue and purple and rose-colored flowers.

原野上、山坡上開滿了藍色的、紫色的和粉紅色的魯冰花。

They bloomed along the highways and down the lanes.

它們沿著公路和鄉(xiāng)間小路盛開著。