Just For Good Luck
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Introduction I had my best summer vacation when I was nine.
介绍一下我九岁时最好的暑假
I went to visit Gram, my great-grandmother, and I saw the ocean for the first time.
我去拜访我曾祖母外婆奶奶 我第一次见到了大海
Life by the Sea I rode on a train from the city, all by myself.
海边的生活 我骑着火车从城市, 独自一人。
Gram and her friend Jim met me at the train station, and we drove to Gram’s big gray house.
Gram和她的朋友Jim在火车站遇到我,
In her small beach town, most people walked or rode bicycles.
在她小的海滩小镇,大多数人步行或骑自行车.
I even saw horse carriages!
我甚至看到马车!
Gram’s house had a colorful flower garden and a big front porch.
格莱克的房子有一个多彩的花圃和一个大前廊.
She told me to pick the bedroom I wanted, so I picked the yellow room.
她叫我选我想要的卧室 所以我选了黄色的房间
It had a window that faced the ocean.
它有一个窗口 面对海洋。
My Summer Home It was very quiet in Gram’s house, but I could hear the sound of the waves.
我的暑假家园 在格拉姆的家里很安静,
I wanted to see them up close!
我想亲眼看见他们!
I ran downstairs to go to the beach.
我下楼去海滩了
Gram stopped me.
奶奶拦住我了。
She said I couldn’t go to the beach alone until I had learned the rules of the sea.
我无法独自去海滩,
We took off our shoes and walked to the beach together.
我们脱了鞋一起去海滩
Gram said I could walk along the beach between two rock jetties (JETees).
奶奶说,我可以沿着海滩走 在两个岩石码头(JETEES)之间。
The jetties were walls of rocks that helped to keep the beach sand from eroding (ih-RO-ding) away into the sea.
防波堤是岩石的墙壁,有助于防止海滩沙地侵蚀入海。
Gram said not to go into the water unless she or Jim were with me.
奶奶说除非她或吉姆和我在一起 否则不要下水
She told me about currents (KURents).
她跟我说了电流的事
The currents were strong flows of water that could drag me far out into the ocean.
水流很强 可能把我拖入大海
I learned a lot.
我学到了很多
That night, moonlight streamed into my room.
当晚,月光流入我的房间。
I went to sleep listening to the waves.
我睡去听了波浪声
Horseshoe Crabs I woke up with the sun shining on my face.
马蹄蟹 我醒来时脸上有阳光
I dressed quickly and ran downstairs as Gram called, “Remember the rules!”
我穿得很快,
I nodded as I hurried out the back door.
我点头的时候,我匆忙走出后门。
When I got down to the beach, I saw the sand was covered in brownishgray round things.
当我下到海滩时,我看到沙子被褐色的圆形东西所覆盖.
They had shells and pointed tails.
他们有炮弹和指向尾巴。
Some of them were lying on their backs and wiggling.
他们中有些人倒在地上并摇摆不定。
At breakfast, I asked Gram what those creatures on the beach were.
早餐时,我问格莱姆海滩上的生物是什么
She said they were horseshoe crabs, a type of arthropod (AR-throwpod).
她说它们是马蹄蟹,一种节肢动物(AR-throwpod).
She said the waves carry them onto the beach.
她说海浪会把它们带去海滩
I told Gram about the wiggling ones turned upside down.
我告诉了奶奶那些摇摆不定的人
She said they use their tails to try to turn themselves back onto their legs.
她说,他们用尾巴 试图回到自己的腿。
If they can’t turn over, they get too hot and die.
如果它们不能翻身,它们就会太热而死。
Gram told me that when the tide goes out, some crabs are left stranded on the beach.
奶奶告诉我,当出海潮时,一些螃蟹被困在海滩上.
To stay cool, they try to dig into the wet sand.
为了保持冷静,他们试图挖掘出湿沙.
She said the female crabs lay green, jellylike eggs a few inches under the wet sand.
她说雌性螃蟹在湿沙下放出绿色,果冻状的卵数英寸.
One female horseshoe crab can lay eighty thousand eggs in one season!
一只雌马蹄蟹能在一季内产出八万个蛋!
Gram said that within two weeks, the larvae (LAR-vee) that develop from the eggs wash out to the ocean.
格拉姆说,两周后,从卵出出水到出出海的幼虫(LAR-vee)会长出.
The new larvae don’t have tails yet.
新的幼虫还没有尾巴。
Toward the end of summer, they molt, or shed their skin.
夏季快到尾声时,它们会变软,或者脱去皮肤.
Then they grow tails.
然后会长出尾巴
After breakfast, we walked down to the beach.
早餐后,我们走下海滩。
Gram turned over the upside-down crabs.
奶奶翻倒了倒倒的螃蟹。
She also put stranded ones back into the ocean.
她还把被困在海里的
She said when crabs get tired of swimming, they turn over onto their backs and float on their shells like little boats.
她说,当螃蟹厌倦了游泳时,它们会倒向背上并像小船一样漂浮在壳上.
When they are hungry, they let themselves sink slowly to the bottom of the ocean.
饥饿时,它们会慢慢地沉入海底.
On the bottom, the crabs eat plants, small clams, worms, and other tiny sea animals.
下部有蟹吃植物,小蛤,蠕虫等细小海生动物.
They grind food with their legs, so they have to be walking to chew their food!
他们用腿磨食物,所以他们必须走去咀嚼食物!
Scientists study horseshoe crabs to learn more about their nine eyes and nervous systems.
科学家研究马蹄蟹,以更多地了解其9个眼睛和神经系统.
Also, their blood can be used to test for some human diseases (diz-EEZ-es) and to test new drugs.
另外,他们的血液可用于检测某些人类疾病(diz-EEZ-es)并测试新药.
Gram said horseshoe crabs have been around since dinosaurs roamed the Earth!
奶奶说马蹄蟹从恐龙游荡地球开始就一直在附近!
Rescuing Gram gave me a job to do.
抢救奶奶给了我一份工作。
Every morning I hurried to the beach to save as many crabs as I could.
每天早上我赶去海滩 救出尽可能多的螃蟹
I would turn them over and toss them back into the ocean waves.
我会把它们翻过来扔回海浪里
Sometimes I’d toss them from the end of the jetty and wave “good luck” to them.
我有时会把它们从码头的尽头扔去,
I also tried to chase birds away when I saw them eating the eggs.
当我看到鸟儿吃鸡蛋的时候,我还试图赶走它们。
But Gram told me not to do that because the birds needed the eggs as food to survive.
但是奶奶让我不要这么做 因为鸟儿需要鸡蛋作为食物生存
One morning, all the horseshoe crabs were gone.
一天早上 马蹄蟹都不见了
When I ran back to the house, Gram said they were done laying eggs until next year.
当我跑回房子, 奶奶说,他们 下蛋到明年。
She told me that next year I would have to come back and save more crabs!
她告诉我,明年我会回来 并保存更多的螃蟹!
I walked back to the beach and lay down on the warming sand.
我走回了海滩 躺在暖和的沙地上