Harold the Dummy
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents Chapter 1.
T能为内容 第1章.
4 Chapter 2.
4 第2章,第2节。
8 Chapter 3.
8 第3章 (中文(简体) ).
16 Chapter 4.
16 第4章,第1节。
21 Glossary.
21 词汇表。
22 Chapter 1 There are two things a mother should never do.
22 章节 1个 母亲不该做两件事
First, she should never, and I mean NEVER, name her daughter Ermaline, even if it was her grandmother’s name.
首先,她不应该, 我的意思是永远不要给女儿取名Ermaline, 即使这是她祖母的名字。
I’d liked my name until I started kindergarten, but then kids teased me, making silly rhymes like “Ermaline the jelly bean” and “Ermaline’s a trampoline.”
但后来孩子们戏弄我, 编出“果冻之豆(Ermaline the fream bean)”和“Ermaline(Ermaline)是蹦床”等愚蠢的韵律。 “
Kids still tease me about my name, but I’m used to it now.
但我已经习惯了。
The second thing a mother should never do is to make her daughter travel with a dummy, no matter how good her reasons are.
母亲不该做的第二件事是 让她的女儿和假人一起旅行 不管她的理由有多好
It’s like this: one day, when Mom came home from getting her hair done, she was carrying a Styrofoam wig stand shaped like an egg.
就像这样:有一天,当妈妈完成发型后回家时,她带着一个像鸡蛋一样的斯泰罗泡沫假发站。
This egghead had no eyes, ears, nose or mouth.
这个蛋头没有眼睛、耳朵、鼻子或嘴
The minute I saw it, I knew there was trouble ahead.
我一看到它,就知道前面有麻烦
“Ermaline, let’s go to Sally’s Second Hand Store.
Ermaline, 让我们去莎莉的第二手店。
I have a great idea I know you will just love,” she said.
我有一个好主意,我知道你会爱的,“她说。
“Oh, no, Mom, what are you going to do to me now?”
"哦,不,妈妈,你现在要对我做什么? “
I asked.
我问。
“Just get in the car, Ermaline.
“上车吧,厄玛琳。
It’s a surprise!”
这是一个惊喜!
she said.
她说。
At Sally’s, Mom gave me two dollars to spend and told me to look around while she shopped.
在莎莉家,妈妈给了我两块钱让我花,并让我在购物时四处看看。
But instead of looking around, I spied on Mom while she picked out a man’s black long-sleeved tee shirt and a pair of men’s sunglasses.
但我没有四处看,而是在妈妈挑出一个男人的黑色长袖衬衫和一对男人的太阳镜时,窥视她。
I watched as she dug through a pile of wigs that looked like roadkill, finally picking a scruffy black one.
我看着她挖出一堆假发 看起来像杀路相 终于挑出一顶又硬又黑的
Next, Mom sorted through baseball caps, bonnets, berets, and fishing hats.
接下来,妈妈通过棒球帽,花帽,贝雷帽和钓鱼帽排序.
She added a purple baseball cap to her selections.
她在选秀中增加了一顶紫色棒球帽.
I couldn’t stand it any longer—I had to find out what she was up to.
我再也受不了了, 我得知道她到底在搞什么鬼
“Mom, what are you doing?”
“妈妈,你在做什么? “
I asked.
我问。
“I’m going to make a dummy, Ermaline,” she said as she paid for the stuff.
“我要做个假人,
“A what?”
“什么情况? “
I asked in disbelief.
我以怀疑为由问了
“You heard me, Ermaline —a dummy.
“你听到了,厄玛琳——一个傻瓜。
When we ride in the car, we’ll put him in the back seat so it looks like we have a man with us.
我们骑车时,
That will make us safer, especially when we take those long drives for our summer vacation,” she explained.
她解释说,这将使我们更安全,特别是当我们暑假长途跋涉时。
My mom had found another way to totally embarrass me.
我妈妈找了另一种方法让我完全难堪
Chapter 2 I love my mom, but she is a certified safety fanatic.
第2章 我爱我妈妈 但她是个经认证的安全狂热分子
We already had three dead bolts on our apartment door, motion detector lights outside, and automatic timers on all our lamps.
我们已经有三个死栓 在我们的公寓门, 运动探测器灯 和自动计时器 在我们所有的灯。
As if these things weren’t enough, Mom had also customized our doorbell.
似乎这些东西还不够,
Instead of ringing like other people’s doorbells, our doorbell barked and growled.
我们的门铃不是像别人的门铃一样响起,而是叫叫和咆哮。
Mom had hooked the doorbell switch to a tape recording of a dog.
妈妈把门铃开关 钩上了狗的录音带
“Mom,” I begged, “please, please, please don’t do this to me.
“妈妈,”我恳求“请不要这样对我。
I mean, this is, like, totally weird.
我的意思是,这是一样, 完全奇怪。
Don’t make me ride with a dummy.”
别逼我跟假人搭车。 “
In spite of my whining, Mom went to work on the dummy in the kitchen.
尽管我抱怨,妈妈去厨房做假人
“Our dummy will need ears,” she said.
她说,“我们的假人需要耳朵。”
“What kind of ears should I make?
“我该造出什么样的耳朵?
Big ones, little ones?”
大的,小的吗? “
“Oh, please, please, please, Mom,” I pleaded.
“哦,求你了,求你了,妈妈,”我恳求。
“Don’t do this to me.”
“不要这样对我。 “
But Mom went right ahead and made the ears out of Styrofoam and glued them to the wig stand.
但妈妈直接冲了过去,用斯太罗泡沫把它粘在了假发摊上,把耳朵弄出来.
To me, they looked like big question marks.
对我来说,它们看起来像是大问号。
“He needs a nose now, Ermaline.
“他现在需要鼻子,厄玛琳。
What type of nose should he have?
他应该有什么样的鼻子?
A Roman nose with a bump in the middle, or maybe a snub nose.
一个罗马的鼻子,中间有一个起伏, 或也许一个柔软的鼻子。
Mom answered her own question.
妈妈回答了自己的问题。
“I’ll make him a Roman nose—a Roman nose is a good, strong nose, like an eagle’s beak,” she said as she whittled the nose out of Styrofoam.
" 我会让他成为一对罗马人的鼻子——一个罗马人的鼻子就像一只鹰的喙一样,是一个好而强壮的鼻子。 " 她说,当她把斯太罗福姆的鼻子抽出时。
Mom glued the nose on the wig stand and took a few steps back to admire her handiwork.
妈妈把鼻子粘在了假发摊上,然后退了几步去欣赏她的手艺.
“He’s looking good, right Ermaline?”
他看起来不错,对吗? “
she asked.
她问。
I gagged.
我满嘴牢骚
Mom went on.
妈妈继续说
“This wig stand is pure white, Ermaline.
“这个假发摊是纯白色的,Ermaline。
How can we make it flesh colored?”
如何使肉有色相取出? “
“We could bury it in the backyard for a few years,” I offered.
“我们可以把它埋在后院几年。”
“I’ll use a pair of pantyhose!”
「我会用一双内裤!
she said as she dashed into her bedroom and came out carrying a jumble of pantyhose.
她说,当她冲入她的卧室,出来 背起一束裤子。
Mom held up a pair of pantyhose and inspected it, saying, “This color is too pale— he’d look sick.”
妈妈举起一双内裤检查, “
I groaned.
我叹出.
Mom sorted through the pile some more.
妈妈再整理一下
“Here’s a darker color that should be perfect.
“这里的颜色更暗,
What do you think, Ermaline?”
你觉得呢,艾玛琳? “
I whimpered.
我呜咽了
Mom pulled and tugged the pantyhose over the wig stand, and then she held it up, turning it around in her hands, admiring her work.
妈妈拉起把裤子拖到假发摊上,然后她举起来,在她手里转来转去,欣赏她的工作.
“I don’t think he needs eyes—I’ll just put the sunglasses on him, and no one will know the difference.”
“我认为他不需要眼睛—— 我只要戴上墨镜, “
On went the sunglasses and then the scruffy black wig.
戴了墨镜 然后又戴了黑假发
“Awesome!”
赞!
Mom shouted.
妈妈喊了一声
I couldn’t stand to watch anymore, so I went outside.
我再也受不了看,
I climbed into my tire swing and spun in circles, hoping to barf.
我爬入我的轮胎摇摆 并转圈,希望吐。
If Mom thought she was making me sick, she might change her mind about making the dummy, but I had no such luck.
如果妈妈认为她让我恶心, 她可能会改变主意 做假人, 但我没有这么幸运。
I didn’t barf, and a little while later, Mom came outside.
不久后,妈妈就跑出去了。
“Ermaline, I’m finished with the dummy,” she announced.
“厄玛琳, 我和那个假人说完了”,
“Come and see.”
“过来看看。 “
I plodded back into the house and took a look.
我爬回屋里看了一眼
The dummy looked like my worst nightmare.
那个傻瓜看起来像我最糟糕的噩梦
Mom had added a mustache and stuffed the tee shirt with towels and blankets so the dummy had shoulders like a football player and arms like a wrestler.
我妈还加了个胡子 并用毛巾和毯子塞入了衬衫 假人肩膀好象足球运动员 手臂好象摔跤手
“Oh, please, please, please, Mom, don’t make me ride in the car with this thing!
“哦,求你了,求你了,妈妈,不要用这东西逼我上车!
Kids will point and laugh at me!
孩子们会指着我笑!
I’ll, like, totally die of embarrassment!
我将因尴尬而死。
If that thing had a leather jacket, it’d look like a member of a motorcycle gang.”
如果那个家伙有皮夹克, “
“What a good idea, Ermaline.
“一个好主意,Ermaline。
If I could afford a leather jacket, I’d buy him one.”
若我买得起皮夹克, “
Mom patted and adjusted the dummy’s clothing some more.
妈妈拍了几张假人的衣服,
“I had to use a wooden cooking spoon to attach his head to his body,” she explained.
她解释说,“我不得不用一个木制烹饪勺子把他的头绑在身上”。
“His head is kind of wobbly, but I don’t think it’ll fall off.”
他的脑袋有点摇晃, “
I groaned, but then I noticed something odd.
我呻吟了,但后来我注意到一些奇怪的事情。
“Why doesn’t he—er, it—have any legs?”
为何他没有腿? “
I asked.
我问。
“When he’s sitting in the car, no one will see the lower part of his body,” she explained, “so he doesn’t need legs.
她解释说, " 当他坐在车里时,没有人会看到他身体的下部, " 所以他不需要腿。
Help me name him, Ermaline.”
帮我给他取个名字 埃玛琳 “
I couldn’t speak—name a dummy?
我不能说,
“Let’s name him Harold,” Mom suggested.
" 让我们给他起个名字吧,Harold, " 妈妈建议。
“Harold is a good, strong name, like Ermaline.”
“Harold是一个良好而强有力的名字,就像Ermaline。 “
Chapter 3 From that moment on, Harold went wherever we went in our car.
第三章 从那一刻起,哈罗德 无论我们到哪里 我们的车。
He sat strapped in the back seat, staring straight ahead.
他坐在后座上,直视前方。
His head wobbled at every corner we turned and over every bump in the road.
他的脑袋在我们转弯的每个角落都摇晃着 路中的每一起撞都摇晃着
From a distance, Harold might be mistaken for a real person.
从远处看,哈罗德可能误认为是真人.
But up close, Harold looked like what he was: a dummy.
但近一点,哈罗德看起来就像个傻瓜
The first time my friends saw him, I nearly died of embarrassment.
我的朋友第一次见到他时 我差点因为尴尬而死
“Oh, look,” they teased, “now there are two dummies in Ermaline’s car!”
“看啊,”他们嘲笑说,“现在埃尔马琳的车上有两个哑弹!”
Every time I had to ride in the car, I put my sunglasses on and pulled a hat down over my face, hoping no one would recognize me.
每次我不得不骑在车上,我戴上我的太阳镜并把一顶帽子从我脸上拉下来,希望没有人认出我.
I never got used to riding with that dummy.
我从来不习惯跟那个傻瓜骑马
School finally ended and summer vacation time came.
学校最终结束,暑假时间也到了.
Mom and I packed our car, planning to leave on our trip up north the next day.
我和妈妈收拾了我们的车 计划第二天去北方旅行
When we finished packing, I laid Harold on the back seat and covered him with a blanket.
我们打包完后 我把哈罗德放在后座上 用被子盖住他
I did this every night so it wouldn’t look like there was a man spending the night in our car.
我每晚都这么做,
Then Mom and I went to bed.
然后妈妈和我上床了
In the middle of the night, the barking and growling of a dog woke us up.
在半夜,狗的叫叫和咆哮唤醒了我们.
Someone was ringing our doorbell!
有人在敲门铃!
“Who is it?
“是谁?
What do you want?”
你想怎样? “
Mom called through the locked door.
妈妈打过门
“This is police officer Alice McDuff,” answered a voice.
“这是警官Alice 麦克达夫”,回答一个声音。
“I need to talk to you.”
“我需要和你谈谈。 “
Mom unlocked the three dead bolts and opened the door, and there stood a police officer holding Harold in her arms.
妈妈解锁了三把死栓并打开了门,一个警察站在她怀里抱着哈罗德.
“Is this your, er, dummy, Ma’am?”
" 这是你的,呃,假人吗,夫人? “
Officer McDuff asked politely.
麦克道夫警官礼貌地问
“Yes, that’s Harold, our traveling dummy,” Mom said.
“是的,这是哈罗德,我们旅行的傻瓜,”妈妈说。
When she noticed the confused look on the police officer’s face, she explained about Harold.
当她注意到警察脸上的混乱表情时,她解释了哈罗德的情况.
I expected the police officer to laugh at Mom’s idea, but instead, she said that Mom’s idea was really smart.
我期望警察会嘲笑妈妈的想法,
“What are you doing with Harold?”
“你对哈罗德做什么? “
I asked.
我问。
“We left him in the back seat of our car.”
“我们把他留在车后座上。 “
“Your car was broken into,” replied Officer McDuff.
麦克达夫警官回答说,
“Your apartment security guard found a guy unconscious in the parking lot next to your car.
“你的公寓警卫在你的车旁边的停车场发现一个无意识的人。
We think that the guy uncovered your dummy and was so startled that he fell and knocked himself out on the pavement,” she continued.
我们觉得那人揭穿了你的假人,
“The guy is a thief we’ve been after for a long time.
他是一个小偷,
Tell you what—I’ll lock your car for you tonight.
我告诉你... 我今晚为你锁好你的车。
Tomorrow morning, though, before you leave, I’ll have a TV news reporter here to interview you about your, er, dummy.
明天早晨, 在你离开之前, 我会请一位电视记者采访你,
This is quite a story.”
这是一个相当的故事。 “
Mom and I went back to bed, but I didn’t sleep the rest of the night, knowing that tomorrow I would be totally humiliated once again.
妈妈和我回到了床上,但我整晚没睡觉,知道明天我会再次被完全羞辱。
Chapter 4 The next morning, the mayor and Officer McDuff came with TV reporters.
章 次 页 次 4 第二天早上,市长和警官麦克·达夫带着电视记者来了.
I hid in my bedroom and peeked around the corner while Mom was interviewed.
我躲在我的卧室里,在妈妈接受采访时偷看角落。
My eyes nearly popped out of my head when I saw the mayor put a ribbon with a medal that said “Good Citizenship Award” around Harold’s neck.
我的眼睛几乎从我的头上跳出, 当我看到市长把一条带有奖章的丝带放在哈罗德的脖子上,
Everyone clapped.
所有人都崩溃了
I couldn’t believe it—Harold the Dummy had become Harold the Hero!
我无法相信 哈罗德 哑巴变成了英雄哈罗德!
When all the excitement was over, Mom and I got ready to leave.
当所有的兴奋结束了, 妈妈和我准备离开。
For a second, I considered putting Harold in the front seat so people could see him and his medal better.
我考虑让哈罗德坐在前座 这样人们就能更好地看到他和他的奖章
Then I came to my senses and climbed in the front seat next to Mom.
然后我醒了过来 爬上妈妈旁边的前座