Number Twelve
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Number Twelve Is Everywhere!
十二号到处都是!
We use the number twelve to help us do things every day.
我们每天用十二号帮助我们做事
It helps us to count things, measure length, and tell time.
它帮助我们计算东西,测量长度,并显示时间。
Did you ever wonder why a year has twelve months?
你有没有想过为什么一年有12个月?
A ruler has twelve inches?
统治者有12英寸?
A clock has twelve hours?
一个钟有12小时?
How We Learned to Count Long ago, people needed an easy way to count things.
我们如何向很久以前的伯爵学习, 人们需要一个简单的方法来计算事物。
How many goats did they have?
他们有几只山羊?
How many bricks did they need?
他们需要多少砖?
They didn’t have pencils, but they always had their fingers.
他们没有铅笔,
How could their fingers help them count things?
他们的手指怎么能帮助他们计数呢?
Your hand has four fingers and one thumb.
手有四指一拇指相会.
Fingers bend into three parts.
手指弯为三部分.
All of your finger parts add up to—twelve!
你的手指部位加起来... 十二个!
To learn how people counted, use the thumb of your other hand.
要了解人们如何计算, 用另一只手的拇指。
Count the parts of each finger.
数出各指之相.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
一 二 三 四 五 六 One.
Using their fingers, people could count their farm animals.
用手指,人们可以数起他们的农场动物。
They might count six chickens, three sheep, and three goats.
他们可能算上六只鸡 三只羊 三只山羊
They had twelve animals!
他们有十二只动物!
When their animals had babies, it was easy to count them, too.
当他们的动物有孩子的时候, 也很容易统计他们。
Using both hands, people could count to twenty-four.
用两只手就可以数到二十四
Twenty-four is two twelves!
24是两个12!
A Ruler Is Twelve Thumbs Long Fingers, and the number twelve, were also used to find length.
尺是"十二指"长指所出,而"十二指"也用来寻找长度.
An inch was the width of an adult man’s thumb.
成人拇指的宽度是一英寸。
A foot was twelve thumbs long.
一只脚长了十二个拇指
Soon, people cut twelve marks for thumb widths on a stick.
很快,人们在一根棍子上为拇指宽度割了十二分.
It was easy to carry the stick.
搬起棍子来很容易
That stick was the first kind of twelve-inch ruler!
那根棍子是第一种12英寸的统治者!
Twelve Hours in a Day People used the number twelve to divide their days into parts, or hours, that they could count.
一天中12小时 人们用12小时 把他们的日子分成几个部分 或数小时
In daylight, they watched the shadow of a stick or a sundial to know what hour it was.
白天,他们看着一根棍子或太阳的影子,以知道现在是什么时候。
Twelve things are also called a dozen.
十二事也叫一打来.
We buy a dozen pencils in a box.
我们买一打铅笔在一个盒子。
We buy a dozen doughnuts or a dozen eggs.
我们买一打甜甜圈或一打鸡蛋。
The number twelve helps us to do a dozen things every day!
十二号帮助我们每天做十几件事!