The Tinosaur
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Once the Earth was nothing more than one big swamp.
曾经的地球不过是个大沼泽
There were no people.
没有人
There were no roads and no houses.
没有道路和房屋。
The land was filled with dinosaurs, big and bigger—mostly bigger.
这片土地充满了恐龙,大而大——大多是更大的。
There were Supersaurs, Brachiosaurs, and the Brontosaurus.
有"超级索尔"(Supersaurs),"布拉奇索尔"(Brachiosaurs)和"龙龙"等.
All of them were big—very, very big.
他们都是大 -- -- 非常大。
The biggest of the big were the Ultrasaurs.
最大的是超神兽
They were so big that the word “big” is not big enough.
它们如此之大,以至于“大”一词不够大。
They lived in a big world.
他们生活在一个巨大的世界。
As big as the big dinosaurs were, there were those that were small.
和巨型恐龙一样大 有些是小的
In fact, they were smaller than small.
事实上,它们比小。
They were tiny.
他们很小。
These little creatures were called Tinosaurs.
这些小生物被叫作"蒂诺瑟"(Tinosaurs).
Life was fairly easy for the big dinosaurs.
对大恐龙来说生活相当轻松
There were big plants to eat, and big lakes and rivers to drink from.
有大植物要吃 有大湖泊和河流要喝
Life was good for the big dinosaurs.
生命对大恐龙是很好的。
They would run here and there looking for food.
他们会跑到这里和那里寻找食物。
The best food was large walnuts.
最好的食物是大块核桃
The walnuts were bigger than even they were.
核桃比他们都大
The Tinosaurs would feast on the nuts and eat and eat.
Tinosaurs会在坚果上吃吃吃吃吃吃吃.
While they ate, they would watch out for the Supersaurs.
当他们吃东西时,他们会注意超人队
For if a Tinosaur were stepped on by the Supersaur, it would be super sore indeed.
因为如果一个Tinosaur被Supersaur踩上,那确实会很痛.
Things would have stayed this way for millions and millions of years, but something scary happened.
事情本可以这样持续上百万年 但发生了可怕的事
It all started one day.
总有一天会开始的
A Triceratops went lumbering by just as scared as scared could be.
一个三胞胎被吓得吓得半死
“The ice is coming!
" 冰要来了!
The ice is coming!”
冰层来了!”
he cried.
他哭了起来。
“Ice?”
冰块?
asked the Theropod.
问了Theropod。
“Ice would be nice on a hot summer’s day.”
“在炎热的夏天, “
But ice wasn’t nice.
但冰块并不好。
It wasn’t nice at all.
情况很糟,
It was the coming of an ice age.
那是一个冰河时代的到来
It wasn’t long before it began to get cold and colder and colder.
不久之后,
The Theropods could see great mounds of ice—glaciers—creeping down from the mountains.
瑟罗波德人可以看到从山上爬下的巨大冰丘-冰川-。
“We must move from here,” said the Theropods.
Theropods说,“我们必须从这里出发。”
“We must escape to someplace warmer.”
“我们必须逃到更温暖的地方去。 “
And with little thought or planning, they began moving away from the ice.
并且很少思考或计划,他们开始远离冰层.
But the Tinosaurs were too small to escape.
但"小取"号太小,无法逃脱.
Their legs were too short and they could never run far enough.
他们的腿太短,跑得不够远
“What are we to do?”
“我们该怎么办? “
one Tinosaur asked another.
一个提诺瑟问了另一个
“If we stay here, we will be covered with ice!”
“如果我们呆在这里,我们就会被冰覆盖!”
They thought and thought.
他们思考和思考。
Big plans for little creatures.
给小生物们很大的计划
“We must find some place to stay warm,” one finally said to another.
“我们必须找到一个温暖的地方。”
“A place where we can hide from the ice,” the other said in return.
“一个我们可以躲起冰块的地方”,另一位代表作为回报。
“I have an idea!”
我有一个想法!
said the first one.
说第一.
He quickly told them of his plan.
他很快就把计划告诉他们了.
“Follow me!”
"跟我来! "
With that, he searched about and found a large walnut shell.
有了这个,他四处找寻,发现了一发巨大的核桃壳.
The other Tinosaurs did the same.
其他的Tinosaurs也这样做了.
They ate the meat inside until there were only hollow shells left.
他们把里面的肉吃了,直到只剩下空心炮弹.
Then, one by one, they each climbed inside a shell.
然后,一个接一个,他们各自爬入一发炮弹。
They twisted and curled themselves inside and then pulled the top down tight.
他们扭曲并卷起自己 在里面,然后把顶部拉紧。
After the ice melted and the days became warm, all over the world Tinosaurs crawled out of their walnut shells.
冰融而出后,日出而取暖后,世界各地都由核桃壳爬出.
But to this day, some Tinosaurs remain asleep in their shells.
但时至今日,一些"小精灵"仍在他们的贝壳中入睡.
If you are lucky, some day you may crack open a walnut shell and there find a Tinosaur, fast asleep.
如果你幸运的话,有一天你可能会裂开核桃壳 在那里找到一个Tinosaur,快入睡。
Safe and warm in the hard shells, they fell fast asleep.
在坚硬的贝壳中安全而温暖,他们迅速入睡.
They slept as the earth turned cold.
他们睡了,因为地球变冷了。
Sadly, all the other dinosaurs became extinct during the ice age.
可悲的是,所有其他恐龙都在冰河时代灭绝.
The Tinosaurs slept and slept, waiting for the ice to melt.
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And, in time, it did.
而且,在时间,它是。