the Circus
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
I’m Back!
我回来了!
My name is Birdie, and I just finished second grade.
我叫伯迪,我刚念完二年级
When school lets out for the summer, I’m off to join the circus!
学校暑假放假时,
Okay, I’m really off to circus camp.
我准备去马戏团露营
I went last summer, when I was seven.
去年夏天我七岁的时候去了
For ten days, we learned how to do things that I’d never done before.
十天来,我们学会了如何做我从未做过的事。
Then at the end of camp, we put on a big show.
然后在营地结束时,我们做了一个大节目。
It was so fun, I came back this year!
很有趣,今年我回来了!
Taiko Our first class of the day is taiko— “great drum” in Japanese.
大树 今天的一等课是Taiko -- -- 日语中的 " 大鼓 " 。
We wheel out thirteen large wooden drums to the center of the marley—that’s the type of floor we work on.
我们把13个大木鼓推到马来岛中心,
Almost everything we do takes place on the marley.
我们所做的一切几乎都发生在马来岛上
With two or three kids to a drum, we do a drumroll with the tips of our index fingers, pretending they’re drumsticks.
我们用指数手指的分数来做鼓,
Next, one of our teachers hands out the real bachi—the straight wooden sticks used to play taiko drums.
接着,我们的一个老师伸出真正的巴奇——用来打泰子鼓的正木棍.
When our teacher gives the command— “Hai!”—we beat our drums in unison.
当我们的老师发出“海!”命令时,我们一致击败了我们的鼓。
Thirteen big drums with thirty drummers beating on them make a mighty sound.
十三个大鼓 有三十个鼓手打他们 发出强烈的声音。
At the end of class, we bow to our teacher.
课后拜师.
Then it’s on to something completely different.
然后,它开始一些完全不同的事情。
Aerial Silks Aerial means “in the air,” and during silks class, that’s where we spend our time.
空中"丝绸"(Air silks Air)是指"空中"和"丝绸"课上,这就是我们花时间的地方.
The silks are pieces of strong black fabric that hang from the ceiling of the gym—about twenty feet high—down to the marley.
丝绸是坚固的黑色织物,从体育馆的天花板上吊起,从大约20英尺高到马来。
Some kids (like me) can climb to the top of the silks.
一些孩子(像我一样)可以爬到丝绸的顶端.
That’s fun, but what we’re learning to do is not just climb the silks but also hang from them.
不仅爬上丝绸,
There are lots of different ways to hang—by our feet, by our arms—but they all involve locking the silk around some part of our bodies.
有许多不同的方式挂在我们脚下,我们的手臂上,但它们都涉及将丝绸锁在身体的某些地方。
Once the silk is locked, it will hold us safely, whether we’re twenty feet or two feet off the ground.
丝绸一被锁上,它就会安全地牵住我们,不管我们离地有20英尺还是2英尺.
Stilts After lunch, we all put on our stilts.
午餐后我们都穿上了
Some stilts you just hop onto, but ours have shoes bolted onto them.
有些砖头你刚跳上, 但我们的鞋已经挂上。
Last year, I bought my stilt shoes at a thrift store.
去年,我在一家节俭店买了我的鞋
This year, since I’d outgrown them, we put my friend’s old stilt shoes (which she’d outgrown) on my stilts.
今年,自从我长出他们之后,我们把我朋友的旧平地鞋(她已经长出)放在我的平地上。
Some kids have trouble stilting at first (I did).
有些孩子一开始很难固定(我做到了).
Those kids need a stilt partner or one of the teachers to keep them steady.
这些孩子需要固定的伴侣 或老师之一来维持他们的稳定。
They also have the towers to help them.
他们也有塔来帮助他们.
Soon, they’ll be able to walk between the two towers.
很快,
Finally, when they’re ready, they can join the rest of us on the marley.
最后,当他们准备好了,他们可以加入我们其他人的马来。
“I really do feel like a giraffe!”
“我真的觉得自己像长颈鹿!”
says Mikaila, who just learned to stilt this summer.
米卡伊拉说,她刚刚学会了 这个夏天。
We practice walking sideways on our stilts for the recital on Saturday night.
我们在周六晚上的独奏会上练习走道
Stilts are fun, but they’re tricky when you need to go to the bathroom!
需要上厕所时,
Clowning It’s time for one of my favorite classes— clowning.
收声 我最喜欢的课之一,
Our teachers dump out a huge pile of costumes on the marley: wigs, hats, life jackets, lampshades, wings, bee suits, bow ties.
我们的老师们在马来河上倾倒出一大堆服装:假发,帽子,救生衣,灯罩,翅膀,蜜蜂服,弓领.
We swarm around the pile, grabbing whatever looks good today.
我们绕着这堆东西跑 抢今天看好的
Once we’re in costume, we each find a place in front of the wall of mirrors to watch ourselves.
一旦我们穿上了服装,
Everyone strikes a clown pose and considers their clown character.
每个人都打出小丑的姿势,考虑他们的小丑角色.
What does this clown love more than anything?
这个小丑最爱的是什么?
What does this clown hate?
这小丑讨厌什么?
How does this clown greet people?
这个小丑怎么迎接别人?
We walk around the room as the clowns we’ve created.
作为我们创造出来的小丑,
Although I’m shy in real life, my clown shakes every hand she can.
虽然我在现实生活中很害羞,
“Very nice to meetcha!”
很高兴认识你!
she cries.
她会哭
Tightrope and Poi One by one, we set out across the tightrope.
紧身和波伊 我们一个接一个地穿过紧绳
It’s only a foot off the floor, but that’s okay.
但没关系。
None of us can walk very far on our own.
我们谁也走不远
yet.
还没有。
Other kids are working on their poi skills, swinging soft weights through the air to make different patterns.
其他孩子都在努力学习他们的花花技巧,将柔软的重量通过空气来摆出不同的图案.
Poi can be simple, or it can be tricky.
波伊可以简单,也可以很棘手.
It all depends on how hard the pattern is.
这都取决于模式有多难。
As we try trickier moves, some of us bonk ourselves in the stomach or the head.
当我们尝试更狡猾的动作时,我们中有些人会把自己打入肚子或头部.
Oof!
呜!
Camp is winding down for the day.
营为一日而倒.
Soon we head home, but we’ll be back at it tomorrow.
不久我们回家,
We have to get ready for the big show.
我们必须准备好大秀。
The Big Show It’s Saturday night, and people are dressed for the show.
大节目 今天是星期六晚上,
Even Tannikin, the camp dog, is dressed in shiny sequins.
连营犬坦尼金也穿着闪亮的花纹.
As the sun sets and the sky glows orange, we put on our stilts in the parking lot.
太阳下山 天空发出橙色 我们把地砖放在停车场
This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for: showtime.
这是我们所有人期待的时刻:表演时间。
The big gym door rolls up, and we enter in pairs to the sound of the taiko drums.
大健身门向上滚动,我们一对一地进入到太子鼓的声音.
We dance on our stilts.
我们跳起舞来
We do our clown skits.
我们做我们的小丑滑雪。
We climb the silks.
我们爬上丝绸。
We do tricks with Hula Hoops and poi, and walk on globes.
我们和Hula Hoops和Poi一起耍花招,然后走遍全球。
The audience claps and claps— it’s starting to really feel like a circus now.
观众鼓掌并鼓掌,
When the acrobats have all done their tricks, they make a bridge of fifteen backs, and Tannikin runs across for the grand finale!
当杂技演员们都完成了他们的把戏后,他们造出15个后背的桥梁,而坦尼金跑过对面去参加盛大的决赛!
It has all gone too fast, and the circus is over . . . until next year.
一切都太快了 马戏团也结束了 直到明年