Hollow (Part I)
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
We’re in the cafeteria, hanging orange and black streamers on the tables.
我们在餐厅,
The librarian at the public library knows Principal Taylor and told him about our unauthorized trip into the attic.
公共图书馆的图书管理员认识泰勒校长 并告诉他我们擅自去阁楼的事
Helping decorate for tomorrow’s Halloween party is our punishment.
帮助装饰明天万圣节派对是我们的惩罚。
“The journal we found in my dad’s office belonged to my mom,” Sarah whispers.
" 我们在我爸爸办公室找到的日记属于我妈妈,"莎拉低声说道:
“What makes you say that?”
“为什么这么说? “
I ask, carefully twisting the paper and taping it to the table.
我问,仔细地曲解了纸,并把它录到桌子上。
“I examined it carefully, and the handwriting looks similar to a letter she wrote me a long time ago.
“我仔细研究过,笔迹与她很久以前给我写的一封信相似。
and her name is written inside the cover.”
她的名字写在封面上 “
“Great detective work, Sherlock,” I laugh.
我笑了一下,
“Well, I’ve been reading the book from the library, and it’s missing pages—the pages that might give us some useful information, of course.”
“我从图书馆读了这本书, “
“Ladies, this isn’t social hour,” Principal Taylor says.
「女士们,
“We have plenty of streamers.
“我们有许多溪流者。
Why don’t you help Mrs.
你为何不帮忙? 夫人,请原谅
Shoemaker with the skeletons.”
鞋匠与骨架. “
Later that night, Sarah works on her costume in my room.
那晚晚些时候,莎拉在我的房间里 穿着她的衣服
I sit on the bed, the tome we sneaked out of the library and Sarah’s mom’s journal open in front of me.
我坐在床上,我们偷偷走出图书馆的汤姆和莎拉妈妈的日记在我面前打开。
“The loose pages in your mom’s notebook are the missing pages from the book,” I say.
" 你妈妈笔记本上的松散页是书上缺失的页子,"我说.
“Does it say why she was researching?”
“它是否说她为什么进行研究? “
Sarah asks.
莎拉问.
“Not that I can tell.
“我看不出来。
It seems to be a collection of research notes.
这似乎是研究笔记的集合.
It says, ‘Keep moving forward.
上面写着:"继续前进.
Make sure everything is in its place.’
确保一切处所. " ; "
over and over.”
一次又一次 “
“I read that,” Sarah says.
Sarah说:“我读了,”
“It was strange reading her writing.
“读她的作文很奇怪。
I can’t really remember her voice, so I just kept wondering what it would sound like if she were saying those things.”
我不记得她的声音, “
I don’t know what to say, so I keep flipping through the pages.
我不知道该说什么,
“She does note an old lantern that hung over Porter’s Mill’s front door and how John Porter’s wife was a seamstress.”
" 她确实注意到一盏挂在波特磨坊前门上的老灯笼,以及约翰·波特的妻子如何是裁缝. “
I unfold the large, yellowing pages that had been stuffed in the journal.
我翻出大量黄色的页面 被填入期刊。
“The pages she tore out of the book tell about some sort of geologic event that changed the path of the river.
“她从书中撕去的几页讲述了改变河流道路的某种地质事件。
Your mom has a note in her journal that says, ‘No recorded geologic disturbances in area.’
你妈妈的日记上写道:“没有记录到该地区的地质扰动。 " ; "
“That’s why I brought it over,” Sarah mumbles around the pins in her mouth.
”Sarah在嘴里的针头上喃喃自语。
She’s trying to sew strips of shimmering fabric to her fairy wings.
她试图将发光的织物缝入仙翼上。
“I should have had Aunt Terra do this.
“我应该让Terra姨妈这样做。
She’s a much better seamstress than I’ll ever be.”
她的裁缝比我强得多。 “
“Your mom talks about finding the same book we found at the library.
“你妈妈谈到找到我们在图书馆找到的同一本书。
She was doing some sort of research on strange occurrences around town—with her sister.
她正与她姐姐一起对城里的奇怪事件进行某种研究。
I knew your Aunt Terra was hiding something!”
我知道你姨妈在隐瞒什么! “
“ An old map of the Hollow and the town of Porter’s Mill.
“...... 洞和波特磨坊镇旧地图.
The river doesn’t run in its usual path around the woods—it runs right through the middle.
河水不会沿着森林的平凡道路流出,
Your mom circled this mark.”
你妈妈盘旋这个标记。 “
I point to a spot close to the top of the map.
我指一个靠近地图上的地方
“It’s faded, but it looks like it says ‘Porter’s Mill.’
" 它已经淡出,但看起来像是说"波特磨坊". " ; "
I suddenly get the chills, but then I stop myself.
我突然感冒了,但后来我停了下来
Things are lining up a bit too well for me to accept coincidence as an excuse.
我无法接受巧合作为借口
I read from the yellowing pages: “‘The mill had to close down, and while they were making plans to relocate it, John Porter’s wife passed away.’
从黄色页面上我读到: " `工厂不得不关闭,当他们计划将其迁出时,John Porter的妻子已经去世了。 " ; "
Sarah sets her costume aside and joins me on the bed.
莎拉把她的服装放在一旁 和我上床
“That’s terrible,” she says.
她说,“这太可怕了。”
“‘John Porter and their adopted children were devastated.
" `约翰·波特及其被收养的子女受到严重破坏。
Plans to relocate the mill were canceled, and not long after, they stopped appearing in town.
迁出磨坊的计划被取消,不久后,他们就不再出现在镇上.
Others went into the forest to seek them but couldn’t find the mill, supposedly becoming lost in the maze of forest paths.’
也有人去森林寻找他们, " ; "
“This is sounding more and more like some spooky story,” Sarah whimpers.
“这听起来越来越像一个诡异的故事,”莎拉·胡思乱想。
“Totally,” I say as I unfold another page torn from the book.
“总而言之,”我在书上翻出另一页时说。
“Look at this, though.”
“但看看这个。 “
“It’s a map!”
“这是一张地图!”
Sarah exclaims.
莎拉赞叹.
I think about Halloween night last year— meeting that strange boy in the Hollow and being chased by those laughing voices.
我想到了去年万圣节之夜——在洞穴里遇到那个奇怪的男孩,被那些取笑的声音所追赶.
The whole thing seemed like a big hoax, and it was completely possible that the kid and his friends were just playing elaborate jokes all along.
整件事似乎是一个大骗局,完全有可能的是,这孩子和他的朋友一直在玩精心策划的笑话.
Sarah or I had seen a young boy at the Cave of the Lost and by the lake when we were camping.
莎拉或我在失落之洞和湖边见过一个小男孩 当我们露营时
They could have easily been the ones who pulled all the pranks and framed Rob Turtle, and they could have been in the library that day we found the tome.
他们本可以轻易的 做那些恶作剧 陷害了罗布·特尔特尔特 那天我们找到托米的时候 他们本可以在图书馆里
We took the bait hook, line, and sinker.
我们拿了鱼钩,绳子,和沉船。
I look at Sarah’s face, which is filled with fright and more than a little sadness.
我看着莎拉的脸,
From the inside, the joke seems incredibly cruel.
从内部看,这个笑话看起来非常残忍。
From the outside, our reactions probably seemed hilarious.
从外面看,我们的反应似乎很可笑。
“ All this could just be a horrific joke by some nasty kids,” I say, trying to sound comforting.
“...... 所有这一切都可能只是一些下流孩子的可怕笑话,”我说,试图听起来安慰。
Sarah shakes her head.
莎拉摇头.
“You might be right, but even if it is a joke, it led me to Mom’s journal.
“你也许是对的,但即使这是个笑话,它也让我看到妈妈的日记。
It’s a piece of her I never knew about.
这是她的一部分,
I want—no, I need to know more.
我想 -- 不,我需要知道更多。
I need to know why she went into the Hollow, and I have to try to find out why she never came out.”
我需要知道她为什么走进谷地 我必须试着找出她为什么从不出来 “
I’ve never seen Sarah with this kind of resolve.
我从未见过莎拉有这种决心。
She seems stronger, and I suddenly feel proud of her.
她看起来更强壮 我突然觉得很为她骄傲
“Let’s go talk to Aunt Terra,” she says.
「让我们去跟Terra阿姨谈谈吧,
“Your mother,” she says to Sarah, “was the best of friends with Qynn’s Uncle Jasper.
她对Sarah说,“你母亲是Qyn叔叔Jasper最好的朋友。
He was quite the young explorer, and he stayed with us in our village in Nepal.
他是一位年轻的探险家 他和我们一起住在尼泊尔的村子里
He helped our family come to the United States years ago.
他几年前帮助我们一家人来到美国
Jasper even introduced your mother and father.”
贾斯珀甚至介绍你的父母。 “
“I never knew any of that,” Sarah said.
Sarah说,“我从不知道这些。”
“These are not good questions for children,” Aunt Terra says when Sarah shows her the journal.
莎拉给她看日记时,
“Give that back and let’s work on your costume.”
" 把这个还给我,让我们来做你的服装。 “
“No, Aunt Terra.
“不,Terra姨妈。
I’m sorry, but I need to know what happened with Mom.”
对不起, 但我需要知道妈妈发生了什么事。
Sarah’s voice is calm and direct.
Sarah的声音冷静而直接。
“The journal is just random notes, and we don’t know how they all go together.
「日记只是随机的笔记,
Please, what happened?”
拜托,发生了什么事? “
A shadow of emotion passes over Aunt Terra’s face.
情感的阴影笼罩了Terra阿姨的脸。
I don’t think she ever really expected Sarah to ask these questions.
我认为她从未真正期望莎拉会问这些问题。
She sighs and says, “Sit with me, children.”
她叹道:“孩子们,请坐。 “
“One day Anna asked me to watch you, Sarah, and didn’t come back for a long time— too long.
" 有一天Anna让我看着你, Sarah, 很久没有回来,
Your father and I were very worried.
你父亲和我都很担心
She came back with the key, scissors, and lantern.
她带着钥匙回来 剪刀和灯笼
She said they had belonged to John Porter and his wife.
她说他们属于约翰·波特和他的妻子.
Anna showed me a map, an old map, and said she could find Porter’s Mill—and she said this was where Jasper had disappeared.”
Anna给我看一幅地图, 一张旧地图, 她说她能找到波特磨坊, “
“Why?
“为什么?
What was at Porter’s Mill?”
波特磨坊有什么? “
I ask.
我问.
“I don’t know—adventure, I suppose,” Aunt Terra whispers.
" 我不知道 - 冒险,我想, " Terra姨妈耳语。
“ All I know is Anna took those things with her and disappeared herself.
“...... 我只知道安娜带着那些东西 自己消失了
Now you have found them, and I think someone is playing a mean joke.
现在你找到他们了 我想有人在开玩笑
That’s why I took them away—I don’t want you to be hurt.”
所以我把他们带走 我不想你受到伤害。 “
“When Jasper disappeared, Anna was devastated,” Aunt Terra continued.
“Jasper失踪后,Anna遭受了毁灭性的打击。”
“She was determined to find him.
“她决心找到他。
He was also my friend, so I helped however I could.”
他也是我的朋友 所以我尽力了 “
Aunt Terra stands up, wipes her eyes, and smiles at us.
Terra姨妈站起来 擦出她的眼睛 朝我们微笑
“That’s all I know—no more secrets.
“我只知道这些,
I’ll go make you girls holiday cookies in pumpkin shapes.
我去给你们做南瓜形状的饼干
You’ d like that, no?”
你喜欢吗? “
She leaves without waiting for our response.
她走的时候没等我们的答复
We listen to Aunt Terra moving around in the kitchen for a few minutes.
我们听Terra阿姨在厨房里转悠几分钟
Suddenly Sarah looks straight at me and says, “Well, that settles it.”
莎拉突然直视我,说:“这样就解决了。 “
“Settles what?”
“解决什么? “
“We have to go into the Hollow tomorrow night and find Porter’s Mill.”
“我们必须明晚去洞穴找波特磨坊。 “
Glossary coincidence (n.)
词汇巧合(n.)
a situation in which similar or related things happen at the same time by accident (p.
类似或相关情况同时发生于意外(p.
8) cruel (adj.)
8) 残忍(adj.
mean or unkind; causing suffering or pain (p.
平或不善良;造成痛苦或痛苦(p.
10) devastated (adj.)
10)被破坏(adj.
caused great emotional pain (p.
造成了巨大的情感痛苦(p.
7) disturbances (n.)
7) 扰动(n.
acts or events that bother, interrupt, or stop something (p.
妨碍、干扰或阻止某事的行为或事件(第5页)。
6) elaborate (adj.)
6) 精心(adj.)
having many parts and details; complicated (p.
具有许多部分和细节; 复杂(p.
9) geologic (adj.)
9) 地理学 (adj.
of or having to do with land, rocks, soil layers, or minerals (p.
或与土地、岩石、土壤地层或矿物有关(p.
6) hilarious (adj.)
6) 搞笑(adj.
extremely funny (p.
极有风趣(p.
10) hoax (n.)
10) 作弊 (n.
something meant to mislead or trick (p.
意在误导或欺骗的东西(p.
9) horrific (adj.)
9) 恐怖(adj.
causing intense fear; shocking (p.
引起强烈的恐惧; 令人震惊(p.
10) relocate (v.)
10) 搬迁(五.
to move from one place to another (p.
从一个地方移到另一个地方(p.
7) resolve (n.)
7) 解决(n.)
the commitment or drive to work toward a difficult goal; determination (p.
承诺或推动努力实现一个困难的目标;
10) seamstress (n.)
10)裁缝 (n.
a woman who sews as a profession (p.
缝合为职业的妇女(p.
5) To be continued.
5) 继续.