a Beaver?

美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习

Do you like to play in water?

你喜欢玩水?

Do you like to swim?

你喜欢游泳吗?

If you do, then you might like life as a beaver.

如果你这样做,那么你可能会喜欢生活 作为一个海狸。

When you’re a beaver, you can swim days after being born.

当自己是海狸时,

As an adult, you can hold your breath for fifteen minutes.

成年后可以屏住呼吸15分钟.

A set of clear eyelids allows you to see underwater.

一组清晰的眼皮可以让你看到水下.

You can also close your nose and ears to keep out water.

也可以把鼻子和耳朵都关上,以免出水.

A beaver’s clear eyelids work as swim goggles do for people.

一只海狸眼皮清晰,

Your four huge front teeth never stop growing!

你的四颗大前牙从未停止生长!

Chewing on wood all the time keeps them from growing too long.

一直咬着木头 防止它们生长太久

You can chew through a skinny tree in twenty minutes.

你可以在20分钟内嚼出一棵瘦树.

Beaver lips close behind the front teeth.

海狸嘴唇紧贴前牙后.

This allows beavers to carry branches in their mouths without swallowing water.

这使得海狸可以在口中携带树枝而不会吞下水.

Beavers often cut down trees with skinny trunks, but not always.

海狸经常用瘦树干砍倒树木,但并不总是这样.

Why do you want to chew through a tree?

为什么你要嚼一棵树?

To build a dam!

建个大坝!

Behind the dam, you build your home, called a lodge.

在大坝后 你建了自己的家 叫做小屋

A lodge is shaped like a dome and made of sticks and mud.

一个小屋形状像一个穹顶,由棍子和泥土所成.

In cold weather, the mud freezes hard.

在寒冷的天气中,泥地会硬冻.

This keeps the lodge warm.

这能让小屋暖和

The hidden entrances and water around the beaver’s home make it very safe.

河狸家周围的隐蔽出入口和出水,使其非常安全.

A beaver’s lodge can be 40 feet (12 m) across and 10 feet (3 m) high.

水狸的小屋可长达40英尺(12米),高10英尺(3米)。

That’s bigger than a double garage!

这比双车库还大!

In spring, beaver mothers give birth to three or four babies, or kits.

春季,海狸妈妈会生出三到四个婴儿,或者包.

The parents raise them in the lodge.

父母在小屋抚养他们。

Your family, called a colony, lives in the lodge together.

你的家人被称为殖民地 住在小屋里

You and your mate stay together for many years.

你和你的伙伴在一起多年。

As a beaver, you waste nothing.

作为一个海狸,你什么都不浪费。

You eat the leaves, twigs, and bark of the trees you cut down.

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You store enough limbs under the water near your lodge to last all winter.

你将足够多的四肢存放在你的小屋附近的水下 整个冬天。

Because beavers store food underwater, they can still eat, even if the top of the water freezes.

因为海狸会将食物存放在水下,所以仍然可以吃,即使水顶被冻住.