Charly Did It
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Okay, it’s true.
好吧,这是真的。
I admit it.
我承认
I did a lot of things when I was younger that maybe I shouldn’t have.
我年轻时做过很多事,
Like when I put a dead goldfish into Dr.
就像我把一条死金鱼放进医生身上一样
Green’s fish tank.
格林的鱼缸.
I never thought the other kids in the waiting room would scream, “Dead fish!”
我从未想过等候室里的其他孩子会叫"死鱼"!
so loud.
这么大声。
And how was I to know that their screaming would get babies crying, moms all jittery, and nurses jumping around like, well, fish out of water.
我怎么知道他们的叫声会让婴儿哭出声, 母亲们都焦躁不安, 护士们跳来跳去, 像,嗯,鱼出水。
And, technically, it wasn’t my fault that the fish tank got knocked over—spilling fishy water and little fishy castles all over the carpet.
鱼缸被撞倒并不是我的错,
Then again, you might have done the same thing if you wanted to find out whether a dead fish floats upside down or right side up.
如果你想知道一条死鱼是倒向上还是右向上漂浮, 你可能也做了同样的事情。
(It actually floats on its side, which I’ll tell you to keep you from making the same mistake I did.)
(事实上,它漂浮在它的一面,我要告诉你不要犯我犯的同样的错误。 )
Remember, also, that I did that back when I was nine.
记得,在我九岁的时候,我做了这个。
Now I am ten and in fourth grade, so I have become mature and responsible.
现在我十岁了,四年级,所以我变得成熟和负责。
Well, that’s what my Dad says he wants me to try to be, especially now with it being a new year.
特别是今年是新年。
By the way, if you want to be mature, you can say it like Gattie, my Great Aunt Tess: “ma-toor,” which rhymes with door; not “ma-chewer,” which rhymes with sewer.
顺便说一下,如果你想成熟,你可以说它像Gattie,我的大姨妈苔丝:"ma-toor",它与门同韵;而不是"ma-chewer",它与下水道同韵.
That’s how she said it the other day when she came over for tea.
她前几天来喝茶时也是这么说的。
“Please, Charlemagne, if you want to be treated like a young lady, you must act ma-toor.”
“请,查理曼,如果你想被像年轻女士一样对待,你必须行动起来。 “
First off, I don’t want to be a young lady for at least another 20 or 30 years.
首先,我不想再当20到30年的年轻女士。
Secondly, I don’t like tea, except for the cookies that go with it.
除了配有口味的饼干,
The third thing is that I hate that name Charlemagne!
第三件事是我讨厌那个叫查理曼的人!
I didn’t pick it; my parents did.
我没有选择,
That name is like.
这个名字就像。
drinking tea out of little white cups with your pinkie out.
喝茶出小白杯 与你的小指出。
Come to think of it, my third thing should have been my first.
想想看 我的第三件事应该是我的第一件事
But I’m stuck with the name Charlemagne, which I guess I might end up using in 20 or 30 years.
我可能会在20到30年内使用这个名字。
I did pick my nickname from it: Charly.
我确实从里面挑出我的外号: Charly.
That name is more like dunking cookies into hot cocoa, which I adore.
这个名字更像是把饼干 弄成热可可,我喜欢。
But let’s get back to being mature, any way you say it.
但让我们回到成熟,
It started this morning when Dad came down to breakfast in a grumpy mood.
今天早上爸爸来吃早餐时 心情很暴躁
When I asked him what was the matter, he said, “I got up on the wrong side of the bed.”
当我问他怎么回事时,他说:“我站错床了。 “
That’s my Dad for you, always saying these sayings that I don’t understand.
这是我爸爸给你的,
I never even knew there was a right side of a bed.
我甚至不知道床有右边
So, I went to Dad’s room to investigate.
所以我去了爸爸的房间调查
I saw the problem immediately.
我马上看到了问题。
One side of Dad’s bed was up against a wall.
父亲的床的一面倒在墙上。
I figured he must have banged into that wall trying to get out of bed, and that’s what put him in a grumpy mood.
我想他一定撞倒了那道墙,想从床上出来,
If I could just move the bed so there was no wall in the way, then Dad couldn’t get up on the wrong side!
如果我能把床挪开,
No more grumpiness!
别再发脾气了!
The bed wouldn’t budge.
床不会动。
I tried bracing myself, but as I pushed against the floor, my feet slipped on the rug, which knocked over the nightstand, which sent Dad’s reading lamp crashing to the floor.
我试着自吹自擂,但当我向地上推时,我的脚滑倒了地毯上,地毯上敲倒了睡台,这把桌子把爸爸的阅读灯撞倒了地上。
“Charlemagne!”
“查理曼!”
Uh-oh.
糟糕。
It’s never a good sign when Dad calls me by my full name, the one I did not pick.
爸爸叫我全名,
“To my study—now!”
" 现在到我的书房去! "
It’s an even worse sign when Dad calls me into his study.
更糟糕的是,
That’s where we have our talks about stuff that I did that I wasn’t supposed to do, and stuff that I didn’t do that I was supposed to do.
以及我不该做的事。
He said, “Now that you are into double digits—” “Double what?”
他说,“现在你成了两位数——”“加倍什么? “
“Double digits.
“两位数。
Two numbers in one.
一中二数.
Ten or more.
十有余会.
One and zero.”
一一一一为一. “
“One and zero is one,” I said, but to myself, figuring now wasn’t the time to correct Dad’s math.
“一个零就是一个,”我说,但对于我自己来说,想现在不是纠正爸爸数学的时候。
Plus, he had on that being-a-Dad face that he uses when he wants to look I-mean-it serious.
而且,他有 是一个爸爸的脸,他用 当他想看起来我 -
“Do you know what being at an age of double digits means?”
“你知道两位数的年龄意味着什么吗? “
he asked.
他问。
“Hmmm,” I hmmmed.
"嗯,"我说。
“That I get my allowance doubled?”
“我的津贴翻了一番? “
This time, I had to say out loud what I was saying to myself.
这一次,我不得不大声地说 我对自己说的话。
And it was okay, because Dad let down his being-a- Dad face for a moment, and I saw his doting- Dad face peeking out.
没事了,因为爸爸让他失望了... 爸爸的脸片刻,我看见他的点点... 爸爸脸朝外看
“No.
“否。
It means you are getting to an age when you need to be more responsible for your actions.
这意味着你进入了一个你需要为自己的行动负起更大责任的年龄。
It’s time you turned over a new leaf.”
你该换个新叶子了 “
“Why would I turn over leaves?”
“我为什么要翻转叶子? “
I asked.
我问。
“I’m not looking for worms.”
“我不是在寻找蠕虫。 “
“That’s just an expression.
“这只是一种表达。
Why do you always take things so literally?
你为什么总是这么认真?
It means you need to change some of your ways— be a new you.”
这意味着你需要改变你的一些方式 成为一个新的你。 “
That’s when I was saved by the bell, to use another one of Dad’s sayings, except the bell was actually a knock.
这时我被铃声所拯救,
Actually, the knock was a “knock-na-na-knock-knock.
事实上,敲门是“敲门一击”。
knock-knock.”
“敲门”。
“I’ll bet that’s Delilah,” said Dad.
" 我敢打赌那是Delilah,
“She must have lost her key, again.”
“她肯定又丢了钥匙。 “
Aunt Dee was here!
迪伊阿姨来了!
Aunt Dee was my mom’s younger sister.
迪伊阿姨是我妈妈的妹妹。
Aunt Dee lived with us whenever she wasn’t somewhere else; at least she had since my mom died.
姑妈 至少我妈死后,
And she was somewhere else a lot since she was an airplane pilot.
她从飞机驾驶员开始就一直在别的地方
I hadn’t seen Aunt Dee in weeks.
我几周没见迪伊阿姨了。
“Aunt Dee, Aunt Dee, what did you bring me?”
“Dee阿姨,你给我带了什么? “
I sang out, which I always did when she came back from her travels.
我唱歌了,她回来旅行时我总是唱
It had been our game since I was much less ma-toor.
这一直是我们的游戏,因为我少了母狗。
Aunt Dee chuckled and handed me a snow globe from the Play World Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio.
迪姨妈笑了,把俄亥俄州桑杜斯基的 玩耍世界娱乐公园的雪球递给我
Inside was a model of “The Rattler,” one of the oldest wooden roller coasters in the United States.
内部是美国最古老的木制过山车之一“Rattler”的模型。
“I rode that coaster 24 times, and it rattled 205 of the 206 bones in my body,” Aunt Dee said.
“我骑了24次那辆摩托车,它震动了206个骨头中的205个。”
“Still the same old Dee,” said Dad with one of his sad- smile looks.
“尽管老迪伊如此”,
“Isn’t it time you settled down and stopped sowing your wild oats?”
「你是不是该安顿下来, “
“Jimmy, you’re never too old—or too young—to sow wild oats.”
" Jimmy, 你从来没有太老, 或太年轻, “
First it’s turning over leaves, and now it’s sowing oats?
首先,它正在翻转叶子,现在却在播种燕麦?
Was everyone becoming a farmer?
大家都是农民吗?
“Delilah, you are truly Francesca’s sister,” said Dad.
“Delilah, 你真的是Francesca的妹妹,”
“And glad of it, too,” said Aunt Dee.
迪伊姑妈说,“对此也感到高兴”。
“She grabbed the bull by the horns!”
她用号角抓住了公牛!
“Whoa!”
"哇!" (中文(简体) ).
I said.
我说了
“I knew Mom had been a firefighter, but I never knew she had been a bullfighter, too.”
“我知道妈妈曾经是消防员,但我从不知道她也是消防员。 “
That’s when Dad and Aunt Dee laughed and threw their arms around each other.
这时爸爸和迪姨妈笑了起来,
“Good to have you back, Dee.
"很高兴你回来,迪伊。
Let me take your bags,” said Dad.
让我拿起你的包,"爸爸说.
Then he put his Dad face back on and said to me, “We’ll finish our conversation later, young lady.”
然后他把爸爸的脸放回去对我说:“我们稍后再谈,小姐。 “
“Young lady?”
“年轻女士? “
said Aunt Dee to me with a wink after Dad had gone upstairs.
说阿姨 爸爸上楼后 对我眨了眼
“Dad says that now that I am ten and it’s a new year, I need to turn over leaves.”
“爸爸说,现在我十岁了,今年是新的一年,我需要翻转叶子。 “
“He means make some New Year’s resolutions.
" 他的意思是提出一些新年的决议。
That’s a good idea, Charly.
这主意不错,
What do you hope to accomplish this year?”
你今年希望实现什么? “
I had to think about that one for a while.
我得考虑一下那个
“Whoa, heavy responsibility.”
“责任重大。 “
I had to think about that one for another while.
我不得不想一个又一个。
“I would like to create something beautiful that puts a smile on everyone’s face,” I finally said.
我最后说,
“Ah, you are succeeding already,” said Aunt Dee.
迪伊姑妈说,“你已经成功了。”
“That idea has already put a smile on my face.
“这一想法已经使我的脸上充满了微笑。
Let’s say we go turn over some leaves and sow some wild oats, starting with ice cream for dinner.”
以冰激凌为起点, “
“Sounds great to me,” I said.
我说,“对我来说听起来很棒。”
While walking to the diner for ice cream with Aunt Dee, I came up with an idea about how I could start my leaf-turning New Year’s revolution.
我和迪伊阿姨一起去餐馆吃冰淇淋,
“Those are all solid goals,” said Aunt Dee.
迪伊姑妈说,“这些都是坚定的目标”。
“But the world’s future is in its youth, like you, so what are you going to do to make the world a better place?”
" 但是,世界的未来在它的青春中,就像你一样,那么,你要做什么才能使世界变得更美好? “
Uh-oh!
瓳瓳
What will Charly do?
查理会怎么做?
Find out next time in “Charly’s New Y ear’s Revolution.”
下次在“查理的新Y之耳革命”中找出来。 “