Mississippi

美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习

Table of Contents A Long Journey.

目录 A长途旅行.

4 The Upper River.

4,上河口.

7 The Lower River.

7下河口.

10 The Mighty Mississippi.

10万能密西西比。

15 Glossary.

15 词汇。

16 A Long Journey Rain falls.

16一长行道雨倒.

It mixes into the clear waters of a lake.

它混入一个湖的清澈水域.

Lake Itasca in Minnesota is the starting point of the Mississippi River.

明尼苏达州的伊塔斯卡湖是密西西比河的起点.

The lake flows into a river.

湖入一河而来.

A child could wade across here.

一个孩子可能在这里游走。

This is where the mighty Mississippi River begins.

这是强大的密西西比河的起点

The water will travel through ten of the fifty United States.

水会穿过五十个美国中的十个

It will take three months to reach the sea.

入海需要三个月的时间.

GULF OF MEXICO UNITED STATES Children scramble across rocks at the border between Lake Itasca and the Mississippi River.

美国墨西哥湾 儿童在伊塔斯卡湖和密西西比河接壤地处横穿岩石.

Many rivers flow into the Mississippi.

许多河流流入密西西比河.

That’s why the river gets bigger and bigger as it rolls along.

河水随而流出,

The Upper River At first, the river flows through many locks and dams.

上河区 起初,河道流经多座闸坝.

Together, they make it safe for boats to travel.

他们一起让船只安全出行

They hold back water so boats don’t hit the river bottom.

他们挡住水,

Boats on this part of the river carry wheat and corn down south.

这条河上的船只向南运送了小麦和玉米.

The grain helps feed the world.

谷能助养天下.

This lock (left) on the Upper Mississippi can raise or lower boats.

上密西西比河上的这道锁(左)可以升起或降低船只.

Then they can pass around the dam (right) and continue along the river.

后可以绕出大坝(右)并沿河而行.

Ground corn pours onto a barge in Iowa (top).

地上玉米倒入爱荷华州(上部)的一艘驳船.

A boat passes through Iowa, pushing a barge down the Mississippi (bottom).

一艘船从爱荷华州经过,在密西西比河(下游)上推倒了一艘驳船.

A big, muddy river comes in from the west.

有条大而泥地河从西入.