Just For Good Luck
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Introduction I had the best summer ever when I was nine years old.
我九岁时的夏天是最棒的
That was the summer I went to visit Gram, my great-grandmother, who lived at the seashore.
那是我去看望我曾祖母奶奶的夏天, 她住在海边。
I had never seen the ocean before.
我从未见过大海
Dad hoped I would love visiting there as much as he had when he was a kid.
爸爸希望我和他小时候一样喜欢去那儿
Life by the Sea I did so many new things!
在海边的生活 我做了很多新的事情!
Dad took me to the train station for my first train ride, and I took the train by myself from the city.
爸爸带我去火车站 我第一次坐火车 我一个人从城里坐火车
Towns and countryside went by outside the window.
城镇和乡村在窗外经过。
Gram and her friend Jim met my train at the station.
奶奶和她的朋友吉姆在车站遇到我的火车
We drove out to her large old home in the little beach town where she lived.
我们开车去她住的小沙滩小镇的老房子
Her town was very different from the city.
她的城镇与城市有很大不同.
Most people walked or rode bicycles instead of driving cars.
大多数人走路或骑自行车而不是开车.
I even saw horse-drawn carriages!
我甚至看到马车了!
While Gram was making dinner, I climbed the creaky wooden stairway up to the second floor to pick which bedroom I wanted.
奶奶在做晚饭的时候 我爬上那条油炸的木楼梯 爬到二楼去选我想要的卧室
Each bedroom had different-colored wallpaper.
每个卧室都有不同颜色的墙纸。
As soon as I looked out the window in the yellow room, I knew it was the room I wanted.
我一看出窗外的黄房,就知道是我想的房间.
I could see sand, birds, blue sky, and ocean waves!
我可以看到沙子,鸟类,蓝天,还有海浪!
My Summer Home It was much quieter here than in the city— there were no horns and no sirens—but I could hear the sound of the waves.
我的暑假家园 这里比城里安静得多——没有喇叭,也没有警报器——但我能够听到波浪的声音。
I had to go see the ocean up close!
我不得不亲眼看到大海了!
I ran downstairs and said, “I’m going out to the beach.”
我下楼说,“我要到海滩去。 “
Gram stopped me and said I needed to learn the rules of the sea before I could go to the beach alone.
奶奶拦住我 说我要学海规 才能独自去海滩
We left our shoes on the porch and walked down to the beach together.
我们把鞋留在了门廊上,一起走去海滩.
The rough sand tickled under my toes.
粗糙的沙子在我脚趾下痒了
Gram showed me the long shoreline between two rock jetties (JET-ees).
格拉姆给我展示了两个岩石喷出地之间的长海岸线(JET-ees).
The jetties were long walls of rocks that stretched out into the ocean.
防波堤是伸入海洋的岩石的长墙。
Gram said the town had built them years ago to prevent the beach sand from eroding (ih-RO-ding) away with the tides.
Gram说,该镇是几年前建造的,以防止海滩沙被潮汐侵蚀(ih-RO-ding).
Gram told me to remember the rules in order to be safe.
奶奶叫我记住规矩 才能安全
She said not to go into the water unless she or Jim were with me.
她说除非她或吉姆和我在一起 否则不要下水
She told me about currents (KUR-ents) and the undertow.
她跟我说了潮流(KUR-ents)和潮下带.
They were strong flows of water that could drag me far out into the ocean.
它们是强大的水流 可能把我拖入海洋
She said if I respected and followed the rules of the sea, I would learn to love the ocean.
她说如果我尊重并遵守了海洋规则,我会学会热爱海洋.
I already loved the crisp, salty smell in the air.
我已喜欢空气中咸脆的味道
The waves rolling, rolling, rolling onto the shore lulled me to sleep that night.
有波浪滚滚地上岸 那晚我睡了
Limulus I awoke with the sun shining on my face.
利穆卢斯 我醒了 脸上有阳光
I pulled on shorts and a T-shirt and ran downstairs.
我穿着短裤和T恤跑到楼下
“Remember the rules!”
“记住规则!”
Gram said, and I nodded as I ran out the back door onto the sand.
我从后门跑到沙地上时点了头
But what were these brownishgray things scattered all over the beach?
但是这些棕色的东西 散布在海滩上?
The sand was covered in round things that had shells and pointed tails.
沙子被有壳和尖尾的圆形东西所覆盖.
Some were lying on their shelled backs and wiggling around.
有些人躺在被炮击的后背上并摇晃着。
I watched them until Gram called me for breakfast.
我看着他们直到奶奶叫我吃早餐
During breakfast, I asked Gram about what I had seen.
在早餐期间,我问了奶奶,我看到了什么。
“Those are horseshoe crabs, a type of arthropod (AR-throw-pod).”
“这些是马蹄蟹,一种节肢动物。 “
She said scientists call them limuli (LIM-yoo-lie), but most people call them horseshoe crabs because of the U shape in their shells.
她说科学家称它们为"Limuli"(LIM-yoo-lie),但大多数人称它们为"马蹄蟹",因为他们的贝壳有U形.
I told Gram about the upside-down, wiggling ones.
我告诉了奶奶那些颠倒的 摇摆不定的
She said they were trying to use their tails to turn themselves upright.
她说他们想用他们的尾巴 把自己转过来
If they couldn’t turn over, they would get too hot and die.
如果他们不能翻身,
Gram told me that if a crab is stranded on the hot beach after the tide goes out, it tries to stay cool by burrowing into the wet sand.
奶奶告诉我,如果一头螃蟹被困 在热滩 潮出后,它试图保持凉爽 通过挖入湿沙。
She also said the females will lay green, jellylike eggs under the sand.
她还说雌鸟会在沙地下放出绿色,果冻状的卵.
One female crab might lay eighty thousand eggs in one season!
一只雌蟹可能在一季内产出八万个蛋!
Gram said that within two weeks, the tiny larvae (LAR-vee) that develop from the eggs wash out to the ocean.
外婆说,两周后,从卵出出水到出海的幼虫(LAR-vee)会长出.
They don’t have tails yet.
他们还没有尾巴。
After they molt, toward the end of summer, they grow a tail.
在它们变软后,到夏天末期,它们会长出尾巴.
“What is ‘molt’?”
" 什么是 " 薄荷 " ? “
I asked Gram.
我问奶奶。
“Molting is when an animal sheds its skin, fur, or feathers and then grows back new ones,” Gram said.
Gram说,“动物脱去皮肤、毛皮或羽毛后再再生长出新的毛发,这是自然现象。”
“Usually this happens because the animal is growing larger.”
“之所以发生这种情况,是因为动物体积越来越大。 “
Gram said that for the first three years, young crabs molt several times a year.
奶奶说,在头三年, 年轻的螃蟹每年有几次软化。
After that, they molt just once a year until they are grown.
之后,它们每年只摩尔特一次,直到被种植.
Later, while we were walking on the beach, Gram told me that when crabs get tired of swimming or floating on their shell backs, they will let themselves slowly sink to the bottom of the ocean to eat.
后来,当我们在海滩上行走时,克拉姆告诉我,当螃蟹厌倦了游泳或者漂浮在外壳背上时,它们会让自己慢慢地沉入海底去吃.
On the bottom, the horseshoe crabs eat algae (AL-gee), little softshell clams, surf clams, worms, and other small invertebrates (in-VUR-tuh-brets).
在底部有马蹄蟹吃藻类(AL-gee),小软壳蛤,冲浪蛤,蠕虫等小无脊椎动物(in-VUR-tuh-brets).
Because they grind food with their spiny leg segments, these crabs have to be walking to chew their food!
因为它们用自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来自来所所所不尽不尽不尽不尽的
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, limulus blood can be used to test for some human diseases and to test new drugs.
另外,乳房出血可用于检测某些人类疾病并测试新药.
Gram said that horseshoe crabs have been around for 350 million years—since dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
格拉姆说马蹄蟹已经有3.5亿年的历史了 自从恐龙环游地球以来
Rescuing Gram gave me a job.
抢救奶奶给了我一份工作。
Every morning I ran to the beach to save as many horseshoe crabs as I could.
每天早上,我跑到海滩去救尽可能多的马蹄蟹。
I would turn them over.
我会把它们翻过来。
Then I’d pick up the crabs and toss them into the waves.
然后,我捡起螃蟹并扔入海浪中。
Sometimes I’d toss them into the waves from the end of the jetty and wish them “good luck” as they floated away.
有时我会把它们扔入海浪中,
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 I should leave the birds alone because they needed food to eat on their flight back north.
但奶奶告诉我,我应该离开 鸟儿一个人,因为他们需要食物 在他们返回北部的飞行。
One morning I walked to the beach and there were no horseshoe crabs!
有天早上我走去海滩,没有马蹄蟹!
I ran back to the house to ask what had happened.
我跑回房子问发生了什么事。
Gram said that their time for laying eggs was finished until next year.
格拉姆说他们产卵的时间到来年才结束.
Gram said that next year I could come back and be there to save them again!
奶奶说明年我可以回来再去救他们!
I walked back to the beach and lay down on the warm, damp sand.
我走回了海滩 躺在温暖潮湿的沙地上
My summer vacation had just begun.
我的暑假才刚开始
What would I do now?
我该怎么办?