Tortillas

美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习

A long time ago, a woodcutter lived in New Mexico.

很久以前,一位木匠住在新墨西哥州.

He loved to talk and tell tall tales.

他喜欢说话和讲高个子的故事。

He talked to his wife.

他和他的妻子谈过了

He talked to his neighbors.

他和邻居谈过了

He talked to everyone in town.

他和镇上所有人谈过了

When he ran out of people to talk to, he talked to his goat and mule.

当他跑出去跟人说话时,他和他的山羊和骡子说话.

One day, the woodcutter found three bags of gold in the forest and took them home.

一天,木匠在森林中发现了三袋黄金并带回家.

His wife quickly figured out that so much gold could only belong to robbers.

他的妻子很快发现,这么多黄金只能属于强盗.

She worried that they would find her husband.

她担心他们会找到她丈夫

“Don’t worry,” the woodcutter said, grinning.

「别担心,

“I only told the baker, the butcher, the fish seller, the candlestick maker, and her daughter,” he added.

他补充说,“我只告诉面包师、屠夫、卖鱼者、烛台制造者及其女儿”。

“Ay!

“为!

You talk too much.

你说话太多了

Now the robbers will know we’re the ones who have their gold,” his wife wailed.

抢匪们会知道,

“We really need that gold to fix our broken roof,” she added.

她补充说,“我们确实需要这些金子来修复破碎的屋顶”。

So, she came up with a plan.

所以她想出了个计划

First, she told the woodcutter to hurry into town and buy one hundred pounds of flour.

首先,她告诉木匠赶快进城去买一百磅面粉.

Meanwhile, she buried the coins in the backyard.

与此同时,她将硬币埋入后院.

When he returned, she told him the gold disappeared.

他回来后,她告诉他黄金不见了.

She explained that she had left the gold on the porch while thinking of a good place to stash it.

她解释说,她把金子留在了门廊上,同时想着藏好地方。

Someone must have snatched it then.

那一定是有人抢走的

After her husband went to bed, she cooked pile after pile of tortillas.

在她丈夫入睡后,她又把一堆玉米饼煮熟了.

Then she threw them all around the house.

然后她把它们扔到房子里

Tortillas covered the floors, were spread on the kitchen table, and hung from the curtains!

Tortillas覆盖了地上,被分散在厨房桌子上,从窗帘上吊起!

In the morning, the woodcutter awoke to see tortillas all over his bed.

早晨,木匠醒来 看见托地拉在他的床上。

One even sat on top of his head!

一个甚至坐在他头上!

His wife yawned, stretched, and then exclaimed, “Ay!

他的妻子大呼小叫,大呼大叫,

It rained tortillas last night.

昨晚下雨了玉米饼

They must have come down through the broken roof.”

他们一定是从破屋顶下来的 “

“Tortillas!

“玉米饼!

How can that be?”

这怎么可能? “

the woodcutter asked.

木匠问。

“Everyone knows it can rain tortillas,” his wife assured him.

他的妻子向他保证说,“人人都知道会下雨来吃玉米饼”。

“Don’t you remember learning about it in school?”

“你不记得在学校里学过吗? “

she asked.

她问。

“No, I think I’d remember that lesson,” he replied.

他回答说,

“You better go back to school,” she advised.

她建议“你最好回去上学”,

“Who knows what other lessons you failed to learn!”

“谁知道你们没有学到什么?”

she added.

她说。

“I still don’t understand how it can rain tortillas,” the woodcutter wondered aloud.

我仍不明白如何能倒出玉米饼来,

He looked through a window and was surprised not to see any tortillas.

他从一扇窗户看出来,却惊讶地没有看到任何玉米饼.

“They already washed away down to the river,” his wife said, as though reading his mind.

他妻子说,“他们已经冲到河上,好像读了他的心。

The next day, the woodcutter went to school.

次日,木匠入学.

It was hard work!

这是辛苦的工作!

Meanwhile, his wife spent the day stacking tortillas in the cupboards.

与此同时,他妻子一天在橱柜上堆放玉米饼.

Soon after she had hidden the last one, she heard furious knocking at the door.

在她把最后一个藏起来后不久,她听到愤怒地敲门.

She opened it.

她打开了

Three robbers began yelling angrily.

三个强盗开始怒吼.

“The villagers say your husband found our gold.

“村民们说,你丈夫找到了我们的黄金。

Give it back now!”

现在还给我!”

they screamed.

他们尖叫。

“You won’t find any gold here.

“你在这里找不到金子。

My husband is always saying silly things,” the woodcutter’s wife calmly insisted.

我丈夫总是说些傻话,

“If you don’t believe me, ask him yourself,” she added.

“如果你不相信我,

The robbers sat down, awaiting the woodcutter’s return.

强盗们坐下来,等待木匠回来.

When he finally arrived, they demanded that he return their gold.

当他最终到达时,他们要求他归还他们的黄金.

The woodcutter sighed and explained, “The gold is gone.

木匠叹了口气,并解释说,“金子不见了。

It disappeared the day it rained tortillas.”

它在雨下玉米饼的那天消失了 “

“What are you talking about?

“你在说什么?

Tortillas don’t rain from the sky!”

Tortillas不会从天而降!

the robbers shouted.

强盗大叫

“That’s exactly what I thought.

“我正是这么想的。

Now I’m back in school so I can learn how it can happen,” the woodcutter babbled.

我回到学校学习如何发生,

The robbers exchanged confused glances.

劫匪们互换了困惑的一面.

“You’re right,” one of them moaned to the woodcutter’s wife, “we can’t believe a word that man says.”

“你说得对,”其中一人对伐木工的妻子呻吟,“我们不能相信男人所说的一句话。 “

The robbers left.

贼出走.

That night, and for many nights afterward, the woodcutter and his wife ate tortillas for dinner.

当晚,之后的多夜里,木匠和他太太一起吃玉米饼吃晚饭.

The woodcutter never figured out how his wife found the money to fix their roof.

木匠从不知道他妻子是怎么找到钱来修屋顶的.