Roadside Oddities
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents What Is The Thing?
内容表 什么是东西?
4 World’s Largest Baseball Bat.
4 世界大型棒球蝙蝠.
5 The Corn Palace.
5 玉米宫.
6 Barney Smith’s Toilet Seat Art Museum.
6 巴尼·史密斯的厕所座位艺术博物馆.
7 Lucy the Elephant.
7号大象露西
8 Boll Weevil Monument.
8 Bol Weevil 纪念碑.
9 Sign Post Forest.
九签后林.
10 Carhenge.
10个卡亨格
11 London Bridge.
11伦敦桥.
12 World’s Largest Basket.
12 世界最大篮板.
13 Stop and Look.
13 停下来看。
15 Glossary.
15 词汇。
16 What Is The Thing?
16是什么东西?
Driving between Texas and Arizona, you can’t miss the signs for The Thing.
在德克萨斯州和亚利桑那州之间,
Giant billboards at the side of the road ask, “The Thing?
路边的巨型广告牌问道:“事情?
What is it?”
这是什么? “
Whatever else it is, The Thing is one of thousands of roadside attractions around the world.
不管它是什么, 东西是全世界上千个路边景点之一。
Roadside attractions are weird and wonderful.
路边的景点怪异又奇妙
They invite people to stop and check them out.
他们邀请人们停下来检查一下.
Billboards for The Thing make some people curious.
广告牌让一些人好奇
World’s Largest Baseball Bat The world’s largest baseball bat leans over a five-story building in Kentucky.
世界最大的棒球蝙蝠 世界最大的棒球棍倒地在肯塔基州一栋五层楼的建筑上.
The bat is 120 feet (37 m) tall and weighs more than 68,000 pounds (30,844 kg).
蝙蝠高120英尺(37米),重达6.8万多磅(30,844公斤).
It’s a huge replica of the bat used by the famous baseball player Babe Ruth.
这是著名棒球选手贝比·鲁斯(Baby Ruth)使用的一幅巨大的蝙蝠复制品.
The Corn Palace At the Corn Palace in South Dakota, they create art out of corn.
位于南达科他州玉米宫的玉米宫,他们用玉米创造出艺术.
Every year, the outside of the building is decorated with local grains and grasses.
每年,建筑外出会用当地谷物和草地来装饰.
The Corn Palace is also the world’s largest bird feeder.
玉米宫也是世界上最大的鸟类饲养地.
When winter begins, the birds and squirrels eat the art!
当冬天开始,鸟和松鼠吃艺术!
Ears of corn make art that’s good enough to eat.
玉米的耳朵使艺术变得足够好吃。
Do giants play baseball?
巨人会打棒球吗?
Barney Smith’s Toilet Seat Art Museum Do you have a spare toilet seat lying around the house?
Barney Smith的厕所座位艺术博物馆 你家里有马桶座位吗?
If so, you can bring it to Barney Smith’s Toilet Seat Art Museum in Texas.
如果有,你可以把它带到德克萨斯州巴尼·史密斯的厕所座位艺术博物馆.
Barney opened the museum in 1992.
巴尼于1992年开馆.
It holds more than one thousand toilet seats Barney Smith has made into works of art.
它拥有超过一千个厕所的座位 巴尼·史密斯造成了艺术品
Lucy the Elephant In 1881, James Lafferty built the world’s largest elephant in New Jersey.
1881年,大象露西(Lucy the Elephant),詹姆斯·拉弗蒂(James Lafferty)在新泽西建造了世界上最大的大象.
Lucy is a six-story building covered with 12,000 square feet (3,658 sq m) of metal.
露西(Lucy)是一座六层楼的建筑,覆盖了12,000平方英尺(3,658平方公分)的金属.
You can still climb inside Lucy the Elephant today.
今天你仍然可以爬入大象露西体内
Barney Smith stands in his one-of-a-kind museum (also his garage).
Barney Smith站在他独家的博物馆(也是他的车库).
A big elephant needs a big drink of water.
大象需要一喝一喝一喝水.
Boll Weevil Monument In 1915, a bug called the boll weevil destroyed cotton crops in Alabama.
博尔韦维尔纪念碑 1915年,一个叫"bol weevil"的虫子摧毁了阿拉巴马州的棉花作物.
It forced farmers to grow different types of plants, such as peanuts.
它迫使农民种植花生等不同类型的植物.
In the end, growing other crops helped farmers.
最后,种植其他作物帮助了农民。
So they built a monument to honor the weevil.
所以他们建了一座纪念碑来纪念恶魔
Sign Post Forest If you’re driving along the Alaska Highway, you’ll find a forest that isn’t made of trees.
签名后森林 如果你沿着阿拉斯加高速公路行驶,你会发现一个不是由树木所生的森林。
Sign Post Forest in northwest Canada is made of more than 100,000 signs.
加拿大西北部的"邮报森林"(Sign Post Forest)由超过10万个标志所成.
People have been hanging signs there since 1942.
从1942年起人们就在那里悬挂道牌.
Do You Know?
你知道吗?
Not all roadside attractions are made by people.
并非所有的路边景点都是由人造.
General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park is the world’s largest tree by volume.
谢尔曼将军 塞克乌亚国家公园的树木按体积计算是世界最大的树木.
It is estimated to be between 2,300 and 2,700 years old.
估计有2 300至2 700年的历史。
No bigger than a pea, the boll weevil destroyed cotton crops across the American South.
没有比豌豆更大的了 整个美国南部的棉花作物都被大块的土豆摧毁了
Sign Post Forest was started by a homesick soldier.
标志后森林是由一个想家的士兵开始的.
Carhenge In Nebraska, you can visit a replica of England’s Stonehenge.
内布拉斯加州的卡亨格(Carhenge in Nebraska),你可以参观英格兰巨石阵的复制品.
It was built in 1987, not with old stones, but with thirty-eight old cars.
它建于1987年,不是用旧石器建造,而是用三十八辆旧车建造.
Some people once wanted the spot turned into a junkyard.
有些人曾经希望这个地方变成垃圾场.
Now more than 80,000 people visit it each year.
现在每年有8万多人参观.
London Bridge Where is London Bridge?
伦敦桥 伦敦桥在哪?
In Arizona, of course.
当然在亚利桑那州
While a number of roadside attractions are replicas, this one is the real deal.
虽然一些路边景点是复制品,但这一个才是正宗.
The London Bridge was first built in 1831.
伦敦大桥最早建于1831年.
In 1968, an American bought it for $2,460,000.
1968年,一名美国人以2,460,000美元买下.
He had to spend another $7 million to have the bridge taken apart and moved to Arizona.
他不得不再花700万美元把大桥拆开后搬到了亚利桑那州.
Inset: Stonehenge is a ring of stones raised 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.
入地:巨石阵是四千到五千年前所起一圈石.
It stands 90 miles west of London, England.
它站在英国伦敦以西90英里处.
Inset: In this 1890 photo, London Bridge still crossed the river Thames.
Inset:在这张1890年相片中,伦敦大桥仍然跨越了泰晤士河.
World’s Largest Basket Workers at a basket company in Ohio get to work inside a basket that’s seven stories tall.
俄亥俄州一家篮子公司的世界最大篮子工人,
The building is a replica of one of their baskets.
该建筑是他们其中一个篮子的复制品.
When it was first built, a pilot flew his small plane through the handles!
当它刚建成时,一个飞行员将他的小飞机飞出手柄!
The giant handles of this basket alone weigh almost 150 tons.
仅这个篮子的巨柄就重了近150吨.
The handles are heated to keep ice from forming.
手柄被加热来防止冰形成.
Stop and Look Roadside attractions have one thing in common.
停下来看看路边的景点 有一样共同点
They grab people’s attention and cause them to stop.
他们吸引人们的注意力,
Do you want to know what The Thing is, off the highway in Arizona?
你想知道亚利桑那的高速公路上是什么吗?
You’ll just have to pull off the road to find out!
也只好让路人知道,