Powder Surprise
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
The enormous lips tickled Trisha’s out stretched palm, and she smelled a quick whiff of apple juice and horse breath before the apple she’d held up vanished with a gulp.
她闻到一股苹果汁和马气味,
“He’s a real thoroughbred,” Adrian crowed, “the first one we’ve had, so I’m really excited.”
”Adrian说, “他是一个真正的纯种人,” “
Trisha was even more excited—coming to her cousin Adrian’s farm in Tennessee from Chicago, she had never seen a regular horse, much less a thoroughbred.
她从未见过一匹普通的马, 更未见过一匹纯种马。
It was beautiful.
这是美丽的。
Its coat shimmered, glossy and smooth in the dark stable, and it snorted horsey breath through its big nostrils and tossed its mane when it heard voices.
它的外衣会发光,光泽而平滑地在黑暗的马厩中,它会通过它的大鼻孔吸出马力的气息,并在听到声音后将马力抛下.
“Wanna see him walk around?”
“想看看他走来走去吗? “
“Are.
“是。
are we supposed to let him out?”
我们要让他出去吗? “
Trisha stammered.
特丽莎被咬了
Trisha understood how Adrian’s father, her uncle, prized his new thoroughbred after she’d heard him bragging about it over dinner on her first night here.
Trisha明白Adrian的父亲, 她的叔叔, 在她第一次晚上吃饭时听到他吹嘘,
“Sure, I walk him around the stables all the time,” Adrian answered.
Adrian回答说,“当然,我经常在马厩里陪他走走。”
He had already unlatched the horse’s stall and was leading the horse out by the strap around its long muzzle.
他已经打开了马的摊位,正用长口袋上绑着的绳子把马带出去。
“We call him Pepper for short, because his full name is Chili Pepper Powder Surprise.
他的全名是Chili Pepper Power Surprise。
His saddle’s right over here; you wanna see how it looks on him?
他的马鞍就在这里,你想看看他身上的表情吗?
Hold his reins.”
稳住他的脖子 “
Before Trisha could protest, Adrian handed her the leather straps and went to retrieve the saddle from where it hung along the dim stable wall.
在Trisha提出抗议之前,Adrian把皮带交给她,然后去取回鞍子,鞍子被挂在阴暗的马厩墙上。
Trisha froze, feeling like she was tethered to the back end of a racecar.
Trisha冻僵了 感觉好像她被绑在赛车后端
Pepper kept dodging his rump away from Adrian as he attempted to lower the saddle onto the horse’s back.
佩珀在试图把马鞍倒到马背上时,
Finally the horse submitted and stood under his lumpy saddle like a beautiful princess forced to wear an ugly parka.
最后,马顺从并站在他一地一地一地的马鞍下,就像一个美丽的公主被强迫穿一身丑陋的帕克.
“Go ahead, get on,” Adrian said with a grin.
Adrian笑着说,
into the hog pen or sit in his dad’s tractor.
或是坐在他父亲的拖拉机里。
She’d always held back while he teased her, and suddenly she decided she was sick of it.
却突然觉得她厌倦了。
“Well, if you’re sure your dad won’t get mad.
如果你确信你爸爸不会生气。
,” she said.
她说,”
“Not if he doesn’t know about it,” Adrian snickered.
「如果他不知道,
He explained to Trisha how to put one foot in the dangling stirrup and swing the other over Pepper’s back.
他向Trisha解释如何把一脚放入一脚的搅拌器中,
As she eased her weight in the stirrup, Pepper sidestepped away as he had from the saddle, and she had to hop on one leg to keep with him.
当她减轻了自己在搅拌机中的重量时,佩珀从马鞍上侧出,她不得不跳上一条腿来和他在一起.
Finally she swung her leg over and landed hard in the saddle.
最后她将腿扭过并硬地落在了马鞍上.
Before she could figure out what was going on, Trisha flew out the open door of the stable and into the blinding sunlight.
在她能弄清楚发生了什么之前,特丽莎从马厩的开阔的门飞出并进入了闪烁的阳光下.
She hadn’t gotten hold of the reins, and she nearly flipped over backward, only clinging to the saddle at the last second.
她没有抓住绳子, 她几乎向后翻倒,
Her foot was tangled in the stirrup, and her hair was flying in her face so she couldn’t see where she was going, and she was going terribly fast.
她的脚被缠在了搅拌机上, 她的头发在她脸上飞来飞去,
She screamed and felt Pepper’s body give a startled jump underneath her.
她尖叫并感到Pepper的身体在她下面跳了个出乎意料的跳跃。
She’d never imagined a galloping horse would be so terrifyingly rough—it always looked smooth and easy in the movies, but it was more like riding a roller coaster with no straps.
她从未想到一匹跑步的马会如此可怕而粗糙,
Pepper ran straight across his corral toward the fence.
佩珀直接跑过他的胸围 向围栏。
Trisha shrieked again, sure he would jump it, but he started around the corral instead, running and running and running.
特里莎又惊慌失措了,肯定会跳下它,但是他开始绕道而行,跑跑跑跑跑.
She managed to sit back up and bury her hands in his mane, but it seemed to bother or hurt him.
她设法坐了起来,把双手埋在他的地盘上,但似乎令他烦恼或受伤.
He tossed his head, hitting her chin with the back of his neck and throwing her arms off him.
他把头扔了,用后颈打她的下巴,并把她的手臂从他身上扔下来。
If she fell or jumped, she’d be dragged by her caught foot, or she’d crack her head on the ground, or worse.
如果摔倒或被跳倒, 她会被被被抓住的脚拖走,
Finally she managed to lie down and cling to Pepper’s back while he slowed to an uneven trot, then a walk, then an uneasy standstill.
最后,她设法躺下并紧紧抓住了佩珀的后背,而他却缓缓地走入了不均匀的跑道,再走一走,然后又陷入了不安的停顿.
“What do you think you’re doing?
“你在做什么?
” she heard her uncle holler as he ran from the house toward the corral.
她听到她叔叔叫喊,当时他从屋里跑去教堂。
Pepper jerked and stepped as the shouting man approached.
胡椒在喊叫者接近时被打手脚踩出.
“Please,” she whimpered, “please don’t startle him.”
“请,”她叹息道,“请不要吓倒他。 “
Trisha’s uncle leapt easily over the fence and walked toward the nervous horse, grunting and whistling commands she’d never heard before.
Trisha的叔叔轻易地从栅栏上跳出,
He gingerly took the reins and held them tightly, offering his other hand to help Trisha down and brush the dust from her face when she finally touched the ground again.
他生姜地拿起绳子并紧紧地握住,献出另一只手来帮助特丽莎倒下并从她脸上刷出灰尘来,而她终于再次触地.
Then he held her chin, lifting her face until he saw into her eyes.
然后他抓住了她的下巴,抬起她的脸,直到看到她的眼睛。
“Please don’t be mad,” Trisha pleaded.
Trisha恳求不要生气,
“We didn’t mean to do anything wrong—” “Trisha, I want you to think about everything that went through your head the moment before you got on that horse.
“我们无意做任何错误的事情——” 崔莎,我希望你想想你上那匹马之前脑海所经历的一切。
Now, are you going to look into my eyes and tell me it never occurred to you that you were doing something wrong?”
现在,你打算看着我的眼睛 告诉我,它从来没有想过 你做错什么? “
“No, sir,” Trisha said, dropping her head.
" 不,先生,"Trisha说,放下头。
“Remember that the next time you’re about to do something you’re not allowed to do.
“记住,下次你将要做一些你不允许做的事。
I’m pretty sure you didn’t take out that horse and saddle him up all by yourself, especially when I saw Adrian run off and hide in the barn.
尤其当我看到阿德里安跑去躲入谷仓时,
You skip right under that fence and go back in the house while I fetch him.”
你跳到篱笆下,然后回屋里等我把他接回来 “
Trisha did as she was told, slipping through the fence and starting toward the house while her uncle ran after his son.
Trisha照她说的做,从栅栏上滑倒并开始向房子走去,而她叔叔却追着他的儿子跑去。
But before she went inside, she looked back at Pepper, who grazed calmly.
但在她进去之前,她回想起Pepper,她冷静地擦伤了.
As she watched, he looked up at her.
她看着,他看着她
“Sorry, Chili Pepper Powder Surprise,” she said, and the horse tossed his mane, as if he understood.
她说,“对不起,奇利·佩珀·粉末惊喜”,马将他的花环抛出,好像他明白了。