The Outburst
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Grandma and I are similar in so many ways, it’s no wonder we are so close, like two peas in a pod.
难怪我们这么亲近,
We are crazy about karaoke, concerned about the environment, serious chess players, and passionate writers.
我们为卡拉OK疯狂,关心环境,认真的棋手和热情的作家.
Grandma writes a famous mystery series starring her five grandchildren—I’m the lead detective—while I prefer to write poetry.
奶奶写了一个著名的神秘系列 主角是她五个孙子 我是首席侦探,
Like all passionate writers, we share a love of words that led us to the habit of taping words to our bathroom mirrors—famous quotes for Grandma and favorite words for me.
我们和所有热情的作家一样,都热爱那些使我们习惯于把文字录入浴室镜子的文字——为外婆取出出名来,为我取出最爱的文字.
That’s why I never felt as horrid as the day I thought I ruined everything, like a wave crashing a breathtaking sand castle.
因此我从未感到如此恐怖,
It was moving day, and Mom, Dad, and Grandma eagerly directed movers inside our antebellum North Carolina home.
这是动人的一天, 和妈妈,爸爸,和奶奶 热心地指导移动人 在我们的Atebellum北卡罗莱纳家。
But my stomach was in a knot, and I needed air.
但我的胃有点结了 我需要空气
Boing.
砰。
boing.
砰。
boing.
砰。
It felt good to whack the basketball against the garage door—at least that hadn’t changed from Pennsylvania to North Carolina.
至少宾夕法尼亚州和北卡罗来纳州并没有改变。
I tried to whack away the cloud of anxiety that had been hovering over me since I learned of the move last month—on the last day of school, actually.
自从我上个月得知这一举动后, 我试图消除焦虑的云层,
That’s when Dad giddily broke the news about his fabulous new job about a million miles from friends and relatives.
这时,爸爸Giddily打破了他离朋友和亲戚近一百万英里的新工作的消息。
Life as I knew it was over, wrecked, finished, ruined.
生活就像我知道的 结束了,毁了,结束了,毁了。
“Please stop, niña,” Mom called from the kitchen window.
妈妈从厨房窗户打来电话,
“You’ll leave marks on the garage.”
" 你会在车库留下痕迹。 “
Boing.
砰。
boing.
砰。
boing.
砰。
I knew Dad despised his old job, but was it really that terrible, and was it necessary to leave the state to find a better one?
我知道爸爸轻视他以前的工作,但真的那么可怕吗? 是否有必要离开州去寻找更好的工作?
Did he even try to look for new employment in Pennsylvania?
他有没有试着在宾夕法尼亚寻找新的工作?
“Hey, Sammy, your mother asked you to stop the banging, por favor,” Dad called, trying his best to mimic Mom’s Spanish accent.
“嘿,Sammy,你母亲叫你停止敲门, 讨好。 ”爸爸打电话, 尽量模仿妈妈的西班牙语口音。
Boing.
砰。
boing.
砰。
boing.
砰。
But throughout the past month, I had never seen Dad so deliriously happy—humming, talking a mile a minute, and tickling Mom.
但在过去一个月里,我从未见过爸爸这么快乐 - 哼哼叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫叫的妈妈。
His bliss means my misery, and that is so unfair I could scream!
他的幸福意味着我的痛苦, 那太不公平了,我可以尖叫!
Boing.
砰。
boing.
砰。
”Hey, watch it!”
"嘿,小心点!"
bellowed a mover, rubbing his head where the ball struck.
在球被击中的地方擦出头
Grandma must have sensed my irritation, so she invited me to explore the trail behind our house, rescuing me from angry glares.
奶奶一定感觉到我的烦恼 所以她邀请我 探索我们家后面的路 救我远离愤怒的光芒
“So how’s it going, Sam?”
" 怎么样,山姆? “
“It’s going horribly, hideously, and horrifyingly awful!
“这是可怕的,可怕的,可怕的!
Look at my hair—I’m a complete frizz ball—and this place is like a giant steam room!”
看看我的发型... 这个地方就像一个巨大的蒸汽室! “
“We’ll get used to it,” said Grandma.
「我们会习惯的,
“I do love how green and lush it is, though.
“尽管如此,我确实喜欢绿色和浓郁。
Aristotle hit the nail on the head when he said, ‘In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.’
亚里士多德打中了头部的指甲,当时他说:"在自然界的一切事物中,都有一件奇事. " ; "
“Well, there’s nothing marvelous about moving here.
“嗯,搬到这里没有什么了不起的。
Do you realize I should be swimming with Kate and Jordan right now!
你知道我现在应该和凯特和乔丹一起游泳吗?
I wonder how long it will take before they forget all about me.”
不知道他们要多久才能忘记我 “
“I know it’s difficult, Sammy, but you’ll make new friends.”
“我知道这很难, “
“How?”
“如何? “
I screamed as my blood boiled.
血沸腾的时候我尖叫着
“Everyone here already has their friends.
“这里的每个人都已经有朋友。
They don’t need an outsider nosing in and screwing up their relationships.”
他们不需要外人指点点, “
Angry tears blurred my vision, and my heart pounded like hail on a roof.
愤怒的眼泪模糊了视力,我的心像被冰雹打到屋顶上.
“Benjamin Franklin said, ‘Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen.
" 本贾明·富兰克林说:"不要预料到麻烦,不要担心可能永远不会发生的事情.
Keep in the sunlight.’
保持阳光。 " ; "
That’s when I exploded like a firecracker.
这时我像爆竹一样爆炸。
“¡Cállate!
“卡拉特!
Shut up!”
闭嘴!
I wailed.
我呜咽了。
“Your stupid quotes aren’t helping!”
“你的蠢话没有帮助! “
The ugly words hung in the steamy air for several long moments.
丑恶的词被悬在了蒸发的空气中,持续了好几个小时.
I dreaded looking Grandma in the eye, and when I did, her eyes, appearing both concerned and stern, spoke volumes without her having to utter the words they intended to convey: Don’t ever speak to me that way again.
我害怕看到外婆的眼睛,当我看到时,她的眼睛显得既关心又严谨,会讲出许多卷子,而她不必说出他们要表达的话: 别再这样跟我说话了。
Then her mouth opened.
然后她张开嘴
“Samantha,” she spoke slowly and softly, “when Grandpa died, I was full of rage, and you know how I coped?
“Samantha,”她轻而易举地说:“当外公去世时,我充满了愤怒,你知道我是如何应付的?
I furiously wrote in my journal.
我愤怒地写在我的日记。
Perhaps you can write poems about your feelings, and maybe that will keep your family from becoming human punching bags.”
也许你可以写关于你感受的诗, 也许这可以阻止你的家人成为人类的打包. “
I watched her walk down the trail, feeling more miserable and ashamed than I ever thought possible.
我看着她走下小道 感到比想象中更悲惨更羞愧
What was the matter with me?
我这是怎么了?
Grandma’s positive outlook and love of quotes are two of her most incredible qualities—they make her uniquely Grandma.
外婆的正面观和对引文的热爱是她最不可思议的两种特质,
Back at the house, I unpacked my bedroom as quick as lightning.
回到家里,我打开我的卧室 像闪电一样快。
Luckily, everyone in the house was busy all day unpacking and arranging his or her own living space, leaving me uninterrupted time to think—and to write.
幸运的是,家里的每个人都忙着收拾行李,安排自己的生活空间,让我有时间不间断地思考,写作。
I scrawled in my journal all the crummy aspects of the move.
我在我的日记里画了 动作中最笨拙的方面
I made lists of all the people, places, and things I’d miss—my Cuban cousins, my favorite soul food restaurant, and the secret hideaway in my old backyard where I could write in my journal undisturbed.
我列出我想念的所有人、地点和事物, 我最爱的古巴堂兄弟、我最爱的灵魂食品餐厅,
I wrote a poem about my fright over not being good at making new friends.
我写了首关于我的恐惧的诗 因为我不擅长交新朋友
Once again, Grandma showed me her wisdom, and the anger and anxiety were safe inside my journal and almost entirely out of my head.
外婆再次向我展示了她的智慧,愤怒和焦虑在我日记里是安全的,而且几乎完全从我的脑海里冒出.
All I wanted to do next was make up with Grandma for my horrible behavior.
接下来我只想和外婆补偿我的可怕行为
After serious brainstorming, I decided my apology would be a celebration of her, as well as her love of quotes.
经过认真的集思广益后,我决定我的道歉将是对她以及她对引文的热爱的庆祝.
I went online using my newly hooked-up computer and a search engine to find quotes featuring grandmothers, and then I made a collage using different-colored paper, paints, stickers, and glitter.
我在网上用我新上线的电脑和搜索引擎 来寻找以祖母为主角的引文, 然后用不同颜色的纸张、油漆、贴纸和闪光相接。
Before she looked at my handmade card, Grandma whirled around her room, showing me her furniture arrangement and the bird’s nest outside her window in the longleaf pine.
在她看我手工制作的卡片之前, 外婆绕着房间转来转去,
Then she plopped on the bed and beamed as she read aloud, “’Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting,’ author unknown; ‘A Grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend,’ by G.
然后她爬上床并高声读到“祖母是许多受霜的妈妈,
W.
维.
Curtis; and ‘If nothing is going well, call your grandmother,’ an Italian proverb.”
Curtis; 以及“如果一切顺利, 打电话给你的外婆,”意大利谚语。 “
She hugged me tightly, told me “Apology accepted,” and then said she loved me more than caramel-covered flan.
她紧紧地拥抱我,告诉我“道歉被接受”,然后说她爱我的不只是焦糖所覆盖的花糖。
Then she whispered in my ear, “John Wayne said, ‘Courage is being scared to death—but saddling up anyway.’
然后她悄悄地在我的耳边说道:“约翰·韦恩说,`勇气正在被吓到要死,但反正正在划去。 " ; "
So saddle up, Sammy!”
因此,马鞍起来,萨米!”
And I did.
我这样做了。
She helped me find the strength to be brave.
她帮助我找到勇气