The Nor’easter
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
“Some weather for Thanksgiving, eh Kevin?”
感恩节的天气,凯文? “
Grandma said, her voice seeming to break the ice in the freezing living room.
外婆说 她的声音好像在寒冷的客厅里打破了冰
It was silent except for three sounds: the creaking of the house straining against the wind, the whick, whick of Grandma’s knife as she whittled another of her wooden dwarfs, and Kevin’s teeth chattering.
除了三个声音之外,它没有动静:房子被风吹倒;奶奶的刀子被打出另一颗木矮星;凯文的牙齿颤抖。
“Not a good night for people to be out,” she murmured, almost to herself.
她几乎自言自语。
Kevin and his parents had left their apartment in Boston extra early that morning, because it was beginning to sleet.
凯文和他的父母在那天早上离开他们在波士顿的公寓,因为公寓开始出事了.
By the time they got on the highway, it was nearly a blizzard, cars fishtailing everywhere until the whole highway slowed to thirty-five miles an hour.
当他们到达高速公路时,几乎是一场暴风雪,汽车到处钓尾鱼,直到整个高速公路减速到每小时35英里.
The two-hour trip to Cape Cod ended up taking six, and they assumed they would be the last to arrive.
前往科德角的两小时之行最终取走六分之多,他们推测自己是最后一个到达.
But as soon as they stepped into Grandma’s wonderful- smelling but chilly entryway, she called from the kitchen: “Uncle Bob and his new wife are stuck in a ditch out on the turnpike, and the tow truck’s so busy it can’t get to them for an hour.
但一旦他们走进外婆的香味又寒冷的入口,她就从厨房打来电话:"鲍伯叔叔和他的新妻子被困在岔道上的一个沟渠里,拖车忙得一个小时都赶不过来。
They asked if you’d pick them up in your four- wheel drive.”
他们问你是否愿意在四轮驱动器中取出它们。 “
“You stay here, Kevin,” his father had instructed, and Kevin groaned.
“你呆在这里,凯文,”他父亲指示,凯文呻吟。
Without his cousins around, the only thing to do at Grandma’s house was listen to another one of her stories.
在外婆家唯一要做的就是听另一个故事。
“Not a good night at all,” she muttered, the knife scratching as she etched the dwarf’s beard.
她轻声地说, " 根本不是美好的夜晚 " ,在刻着矮人胡子时被刀子刮伤了。
“When I was a girl we had a Nor’easter like this right around the holidays, must’ve been twice as bad as this one.
" 当我还是个女孩的时候,我们在节日里就有了一个像这样的诺伊斯特尔人,这一定是这个人的两倍。
You hear that wind groanin’, Kevin?
你听到风呻吟了吗,凯文?
Well, that isn’t the worst of it.”
这不是最糟糕的。 “
As if disagreeing with her, the wind suddenly gusted against the house, pounding like an enormous fist on all the windows.
就像不同意她一样,风突然冲向了房子,在所有窗户上像一拳大打出来。
Outside, Kevin could see the snow sweeping through the single cone-shaped beam of light from the streetlamp.
外面,凯文可以看到雪从街口的光束中穿过了单锥形的光束.
“There’s something called the storm swell that happens when the air pressure drops at the center of the storm,” Grandma continued.
“当气压在风暴中心下降时,
“It sucks up a huge dome of water, like God was holding a giant vacuum cleaner over the ocean.
“它吸取了巨大的圆顶水,就像上帝在海洋上拿着一个巨大的吸尘器。
Comes in at high tide and you’ve got flooding like you can’t imagine.”
潮来潮来潮来潮, “
“This storm swell came in at evening tide,” she continued.
她接着说,“这场风暴在晚潮来袭”。
“My father herded us all upstairs where we watched the ocean from the big bay windows in Mother and Father’s bedroom.
" 我父亲把我们全部赶到楼上,在那里我们从母亲和父亲卧室的大海湾窗户观看了海洋。
First the spray came across the road and began to wet the paint on our neighbors’, the Mac Intoshes’, house.
我们的邻居Mac Intoshes家的油漆开始被淋湿。
Then the water came up to the top of their foundation, and the waves were creeping up our front walk.
然后水涌出他们的地基上,而波浪正在我们前面的行走上爬起.
Then we heard them slap, slapping against the house; sometimes a big one came along, and whoosh!
然后我们听到他们扇了耳光,对着房子打了一巴掌;有时一个大个子就来了,呜呼!
we’d hear it drumming against the walls.”
我们听到墙上打出鼓来。 “
The wind seemed to be listening, for it echoed the noise of the waves.
风似乎在听,因为它回响了波浪的声音。
Kevin gasped and looked quickly out the window, imagining for a moment that the blowing snow was the white fringe of a wave crashing against the house.
凯文气喘吁吁地看着窗外, 想象一下吹起的雪 是一波浪冲向房子的白色边缘。
“The waves kept rising, and one by one we heard our windows smash out.
“波浪不断起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起起
Front door busted open and the water poured into the living room; we could hear our furniture bumping into things as it bobbed around, hear the water slopping up the stairs.
前门被撞开,水倒入起居室;我们听到我们的家具撞到东西上来来去去去,听到从楼梯上冲出的水声。
“Father was about to take us up to the attic when we heard this awful crashing noise.
“当我们听到这种可怕的爆炸性噪音时,父亲正要带我们去阁楼。
We looked out the window, and the Mac Intoshes’ house had been ripped right off its foundation, creaking and groaning as it floated away.
我们看着窗外,Mac Intoshes的房子被从它的地基上撕开,在浮出水面时颤抖和呻吟。
Then like a sinking ship, it spun and tipped over, crash!
然后像一艘船沉没, 它跳出并倾覆,坠毁!
I was friends with the little Mac Intosh girl, Amy.
我和小麦克·因托什女孩艾米是朋友
She and her mom grabbed onto the couch and ended up on the beach in Tonset, alive.
她和她妈妈抓住了沙发 最后在Tonset的海滩上活着
They never saw her father or brother again.”
他们再也见不到她的父亲或兄弟了。 “
Suddenly there was a horrible screaming sound, and Kevin leapt about two feet into the air.
突然有可怕的尖叫声 凯文跳出两英尺高的天空
“Pie’s done!”
" 皮耶完成了! "
Grandma announced, getting to her feet and shuffling into the kitchen—it was only the oven timer.
外婆宣布,她站起脚去厨房打搅,那只是烤箱计时器。
Her voice floated out of the kitchen with the warm smell of cinnamon.
她的声音被肉桂的温暖气味飘出厨房.
“Not scaring you, am I?
“我不怕你,是吗?
Heck, I’m scared myself; no good having all your children out in weather like this.”
我害怕自己, 让所有的孩子在这样的天气里出来是不好的。 “
Kevin walked to the window and cupped his hands over his eyes.
凯文走到窗户上,将手放在他的眼睛上.
The only thing visible was the cone of falling snow under the streetlamp.
唯一可见的东西是倒下下雪 在街道上。
He imagined that outside that bit of light, the waves were beginning to crawl up the shore, lapping toward the house.
他想象出在光线之外 海浪开始爬上岸去 朝着房子拍打
Yes, there it was—he was sure he saw the white edge of a wave slipping onto the road, splashing into bright flecks of spray.
是的,他肯定看到一波浪的白色边缘 滑入了道路,喷出出出一股明亮的喷雾。
His heart pounded as the shape shifted and grew, and just before he was about to run to his grandmother, he realized what he saw: headlights.
他的心随着形状的转变和增长而跳动,就在他即将跑去见他祖母之前,他意识到他所看到的:前灯.
The lights from a car shone on the enormous snowflakes, making them look like the moving front of a wave.
一辆汽车的灯光照耀了巨大的雪花,使它们看起来像一波一浪的移动前方.
It was his parents’ car pulling into the driveway, with Bob and Nancy in the back seat.
他父母的车开进车道,
Kevin laughed at himself, and ran to the door to welcome them in from the storm.
凯文嘲笑自己,跑到门口迎接他们从风暴中走入.