Inside the Beast
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Ahead of me, the great beast roared from the pit.
在我面前,伟大的野兽从坑里咆哮。
It seemed to be in pain.
感觉很痛苦
Its huge mouth opened and closed quickly again and again.
其巨大的口被开出并迅速地一次又一次地关闭.
A stench came from within.
有股臭气来自里面。
“Atenga, what is that thing?”
“Atenga,那是什么? “
I asked my guide.
我问我的向导。
“It feeds the group, Wanderer of the Wastes.
“它养活这个废物的流浪者。
It is our protector, the Great Ice Beast Egdirf, from the frozen north.”
这是我们的保护者,大冰兽 从冰冻的北方。 “
I stepped forward toward the edge of the pit.
我走到了坑边
Below, the skin of the creature lit up like silver moonlight dancing on black water.
在下面,生物的皮肤被点燃,就像在黑水上跳起银色月光.
The guide hung back, fear in his eyes.
向导被吊回了 他的眼中充满了恐惧
The beast roared again, its stench and pain filling the air.
野兽又咆哮了,它的臭味和疼痛填满了空气.
“What do you do with it?”
“你用它做什么? “
I asked the guide.
我问向导.
He replied, “We feed it, and in return it feeds us.
他说:我们供养它,而它供养我们。
We place food inside its mouth.
我们把食物放进它的口中
The beast will protect what is placed inside it from the desert heat.
野兽会保护里面的东西免受沙漠的炎热
We then feed from it like fleas from a dog.
然后,我们从中取食,就像从狗取食的跳蚤一样。
When we’re done, we leave the leftovers for the beast.”
剩下的留给野兽。 “
“Well, something has made it sick,” I said.
“嗯,有些事情使它感到恶心,”我说。
“I can tell from the stench that it’s ill.”
“从臭味看, “
“Wanderer, what are we to do?”
“行者,我们该怎么办? “
Atenga cried.
阿腾加哭了。
“Without the protector we will waste away to nothing.”
“如果没有保护者,我们将白白浪费。 “
I turned to him, my jaw set.
我转向他,我的下巴套。
“Someone’s got to get in there and remove the cause of the illness.”
“有些人必须进去, “
Atenga turned and ran.
阿腾加转身跑.
This probably wasn’t the first time the beast had been ill.
这或许不是野兽第一次生病。
I almost left my guide and his brothers to their fate.
我差点把向导和他的兄弟留给他们的命运
Without the ice beast’s powers, their stores of fresh food would go bad in the desert heat.
如果没有冰兽的力量,它们的新鲜食物储存在沙漠热中会很糟糕。
The beast would soon infect all that it protected.
野兽很快就会感染它保护的一切
The food would be covered in blooming black mold.
食物会被盛开的黑色模具所覆盖
But.
不过...
I sighed.
我叹息了
The ice beast did not deserve to be eaten alive from the inside.
冰兽不该被从里面活活吃掉
Its only crime had been to protect food for Atenga and his brothers.
它唯一的罪行是保护阿滕加及其兄弟的食物。
“All right, I’m coming in there,” I said to the beast.
我对野兽说,
Its mouth opened wide and all became still and quiet.
它的口开得很宽,而且都变得静而安静.
“What have they done to you now?”
“他们现在对你做了什么? “
I asked.
我问。
The stench filled my nose and mouth as I reached inside the beast’s jaws.
臭味填满了鼻子和口腔,
My eyes began to tear.
我的眼睛开始撕裂。
I started to scrape orange gunk from the beast’s insides.
我开始从兽体内取出橙色的枪。
The gunk was old fruit that had rotted and oozed over everything.
枪是老水果 腐烂并浸泡了一切。
Next, I found what someone might have made for breakfast once.
接下来,我发现有人可能做了早餐一次。
It was hard English muffins, a jug of sour milk, and more old fruit.
这是硬的英国松饼,一罐酸奶, 和更多的老水果。
I found someone’s leftover lunch, too.
也发现有人吃剩饭,
It was goopy chicken soup, a dried quesadilla, and many fruit cups.
鸡肉汤 干果酱和多杯水果
I removed it all from hidden corners.
我把它从隐藏角落取出
The worst was yet to come.
最坏的还来得及。
Atenga met me as I came out of the pit.
阿滕加在我出来的时候遇见了我
He had a hangdog look on his face that made me feel better.
他脸上的挂狗表情让我感觉好多了
I was tired from the hard work.
辛勤工作让我很累
“Came back, did you?”
"回来,是吗? “
I said.
我说了
“Yes, it was our beast.
“是的,那是我们的野兽。
We should not have let you go in alone,” Atenga replied.
我们不应该让你一个人进去, " 阿滕加回答说。
“So, are you going to let it get sick again?”
“那么,你打算让它再次生病吗? “
I asked.
我问。
I gave him the evil eye, shaking goo from my left hand.
我给了他一双邪恶的眼睛 从我左手摇出古奥来
“No, we will take better care of the beast,” Atenga said.
Atenga说:“不,我们将更好地照顾这只野兽。”
I wiped the goo on a tree.
我在一棵树上擦了地
“What are you going to do?”
“你打算怎么办? “
“We will put in the beast only what we can take out.
“我们将只把我们能取出的东西放入野兽体内。
We will not fill the beast with leftovers that won’t be eaten.
我们不会让野兽吃上不吃的食物。
Those who do not follow the rules will receive no food from the beast, but must feed it all the same.”
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I found cherry tomatoes covered with black mold.
我发现樱桃番茄被黑色模具覆盖
Then I found a box of Caesar salad smelling of rotted fish and greens.
然后我发现一盒凯撒沙拉 有腐烂的鱼和绿色的味道.
Last, but not least, I found a chunk of steak coated with thick, fuzzy ooze tucked into the far corner of the great beast’s jaw.
最后,但并非最不重要的是,我发现一整块牛排被厚厚而模糊的粪便塞入了大兽下巴的一角。
I pulled out all this food and threw it away from the beast’s pit.
我拔出这些食物,
The Great Ice Beast Egdirf almost purred.
大冰兽 Egdirf 几乎被净化。
Its breath was clean and fresh again.
呼吸又干净又新鲜
Glossary deserve to have a right to something; (v.)
词汇应具有某种权利;(五)
to do something worthy of a good or bad consequence (p.
做一些有好坏后果的事情(p.
6) hangdog sad or guilty (p.
6)上吊犬悲伤或有罪(p.
10) (adj.)
10）（形容词）