Maple Syrup

美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习

This is my family.

这是我的家人。

Every March, we make maple syrup.

每年三月,我们做枫糖浆。

Real maple syrup comes from maple sap.

真正的枫糖浆出自枫糖浆.

Sap is the juice in trees.

沙普是树上果汁.

It’s sort of like the blood in us.

这有点像我们的血液。

March is a good time to get the sap.

三月取ap.

It’s still cold outside, but we wear our boots and hats.

不过我们穿着靴子和帽子。

We go out to the woods behind my grandparents’ home.

我们到祖父母家后面的树林去。

We look for maple trees.

我们在找枫树

To tap a tree, we drill a hole.

为了挖掘一棵树,我们钻了个洞。

We push a spout in the hole.

我们推出一个喷口 在洞。

Then we hang a bucket under it to get the sap.

然后,我们挂一桶 在它下面,以获取 sap。

We tap the big trees.

我们敲打大树。

Big trees have the most sap.

大树有最 sap.

We wait for the first drip.

我们等第一滴。

Ping!

小平! 来!

One more drip, and we’re on to the next tree.

再滴一滴,我们就到了下一棵树。

All that day, we let the sap drip.

整天我们让树苗倒地

Before dark, we look into our buckets.

天黑前,我们检查我们的桶。

We have a lot of sap, but we want more.

我们有很多树苗,但我们想要更多。

Forty buckets of sap boil down to make one bucket of syrup!

煮出一桶糖浆!

The next day, we look again.

第二天,我们又看了一遍。

Now we have what we want.

现在我们得到了我们想要的。

We boil the sap outside in two large pans.

我们用两个大锅煮出树苗

It boils for hours, giving off a sticky steam.

煮了好几个小时 蒸汽粘了

Now and then, we add more sap.

现在,我们增加更多的sap。

We let it boil some more.

我们让它再煮点

It boils all day under a blue sky.

于一蓝天下一日而沸.

The sky grows dark.

天长地黑.

The stars come out.

出星出来.

From outside, Grandma calls, “Time for dinner!

从外面,外婆叫道:"该吃饭了!

Make those pancakes!”

做煎饼!”

We do.

没错

The syrup cools while the pancakes cook.

煎饼时糖浆会冷却.

At last, we get to eat!

终于可以吃饭了!

The syrup takes work, but it’s worth it.

糖浆需要工作,