A Pioneer’s Life
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents Introduction.
导言表。
4 The Prairie and the Big Woods.
(原始内容存档于2019-10-12). The Prairie and the Big Woods.
5 Hard Times.
5"难时".
7 Settling in Dakota Territory.
7 达科他州。
9 Young Lady Laura.
9年轻的劳拉夫人。
11 Happiness at Rocky Ridge.
(原始内容存档于2018-10-21). 11 Happiness at Rocky Ridge.
13 The Little House Books.
13"小屋丛书".
14 Glossary.
14 词汇表。
16 Introduction Three-year-old Laura Ingalls and her older sister, Mary, followed their father across the vast, rolling prairie.
16 导言 3岁 英格尔斯和她的姐姐玛丽跟随他们的父亲穿越了广阔而滚动的草原.
Warm wind stirred Laura’s hair, and insects and birds sang in the rippling grass.
温和的风会激起劳拉的发型,昆虫和鸟儿在被撕裂的草地上唱歌.
On the walk home, the sunset stained the sky pink and gold.
在回家的路上,日落将天空染上粉红色和金色.
When Laura stepped inside their little log cabin, she stopped short.
当劳拉踏入他们的小木屋时,她停了下来.
Ma lay in bed, and the doctor was there.
妈妈躺在床上,医生也在场
“Come meet your new baby sister,” Ma said in a tired but proud voice.
“来见见您的新妹妹,”妈妈以疲倦而自豪的声音说道。
This was one of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s earliest and most powerful memories.
这是劳拉·英格尔斯·怀德最早和最有力的记忆之一.
It featured the two things that would shape her famous books: her close family and her love for wild, open spaces.
它的特点是将塑造出她出名的书籍的两件事:她亲近的家庭和对野外,开放的空间的热爱.
The Prairie and the Big Woods Laura Ingalls was born on February 7, 1867, in the woods of Pepin, Wisconsin.
普拉里和大伍兹·劳拉·英格尔斯于1867年2月7日生于威斯康星州佩平的树林.
When Laura was just two years old, Ma and Pa Ingalls packed all their belongings into a covered wagon and headed toward Independence, Kansas.
当劳拉才两岁时,马和帕·英格尔斯把他们所有的东西都打包入了被覆盖的马车,并去往堪萨斯州独立.
It was the first of many moves the Ingalls family would make during Laura’s childhood.
这是Ingalls家族在劳拉童年时期许多举动中的第一个。
They were pioneers, some of the first non-Native Americans in the American West.
他们是先驱者,一些美国西部最早的非本土美国人.
Laura formed vivid memories in their log cabin on the Kansas prairie, but the family only lived there for about a year.
劳拉在堪萨斯草原上的木屋中形成了生动的记忆,但全家只在那里生活了约一年.
They had mistakenly settled on the Osage Indian reservation, and they had to leave, so they returned to Wisconsin.
他们错误地在奥萨奇印第安人保留地上定居,不得不离开,于是回到了威斯康辛州.
Four-year-old Laura watched sadly as the Kansas prairie disappeared behind their covered wagon.
四岁的劳拉悲伤地看着堪萨斯草原消失在被覆盖的马车后.
She was too young to remember living in Wisconsin as a baby.
她年纪太小,不记得小时候住在威斯康星州
When they returned, though, Laura discovered a wonderful new world.
然而当他们回来时,劳拉发现了一个奇妙的新世界.
The big woods were dark, wild, and mysterious.
大树林是黑暗、野生和神秘的。
Laura loved being outdoors, and on long winter evenings, Pa played his fiddle for the family.
劳拉喜欢在户外出走,在漫长的冬夜中,帕为家庭出演了小提琴.
His music accompanied the happiest days of Laura’s childhood.
他的音乐伴随着劳拉童年最快乐的日子.
Hard Times Pa Ingalls longed to return to the open space of the prairies.
困难时间 帕·英格尔斯渴望回到草原的空地.
He made plans to move his young family to Minnesota.
他计划将他年轻的家庭迁往明尼苏达州.
Before they left, seven-year-old Laura came down with a bad fever.
在他们离开前,7岁的劳拉发了个好热.
The family bundled her in every blanket they owned before nestling her in the back of the covered wagon.
家人把她捆在他们拥有的每一条毯子里 然后把她放入被覆盖的马车后面
Laura watched another home disappear behind her.
劳拉看着另一个家消失在她身后.
In Minnesota, Laura and Pa were happy to be back on the wide-open prairie.
在明尼苏达,劳拉和帕很高兴回到了广开的大草原上.
First, they moved into a house made of prairie sod, the dense grass that grew all around them.
首先,他们搬入了由草原所制成的房子,周围生长出茂密的草地.
From a distance, the house appeared to be nothing more than a gentle hill rising from the banks of a creek.
从远处看,这所房子似乎只不过是从一道小溪岸上起来的一个温和的山丘.
Later, Pa constructed a wood house and planted wheat near the town of Walnut Grove.
后来,帕在Walnut Grove镇附近建造了一座木屋并种植了小麦.
Laura and Mary went to school, where Laura loved reading, writing, and reciting.
劳拉和玛丽上过学,劳拉喜欢读书,写作和朗诵.
Ma was expecting another baby.
妈妈在等另一个孩子
After a few months of happiness, hardship struck.
过了几个月的幸福生活,艰难不堪。
Grasshoppers, arriving in swarms as big as thunderclouds, ate all the family’s wheat.
成群成群地赶来,
Having lost their crop, the family moved into Walnut Grove and took odd jobs.
失去收成后,全家搬入了Walnut Grove并找了零工.
Even little Laura cleaned and waited tables in a hotel.
连小萝拉在酒店里打扫了桌子
Then they lost their new baby brother, Freddie, to a fever.
后来他们又因为发烧而失去新宝贝弟弟弗雷迪.
Their spirits lifted a little when another baby, Grace, arrived in 1877, but times remained tough.
当另一个婴儿格蕾丝于1877年到来时,他们的精神稍稍抬起,但时代依然艰难.
Mary fell ill.
玛丽病倒了
Either the illness or a stroke damaged the nerves of her eyes.
疾病或中风会伤害她的眼睛神经
No one knows for sure what caused the damage, but Mary would be blind for the rest of her life.
没有人能确定是什么造成了伤害,但玛丽的后半生都会失明.
Pa decided it was time to look west for a new start.
爸爸决定是时候向西寻找一个新的开端了
He went ahead to Dakota Territory to work for the railroad.
他前往达科他领地为铁路工作.
The family boarded a train in Walnut Grove and rode west to join him.
一家人登上一列火车去花栗树林并骑马向西与他会合.
Laura, right, stands beside her sisters Carrie, left, and Mary around 1880.
劳拉,右,站在她的姐妹卡莉身边,左,和玛丽大约1880年.
“Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs.
“小房子里除了床铺、桌子和椅子外,其他东西都放在车里。
Pa could always make new ones.”
爸爸总能做出新的 “
Settling in Dakota Territory In Dakota Territory there was just a railroad stop, not yet a town.
在达科他领地,只有一个火车站,还没有一个镇。
The Ingalls family and a few others were the first citizens of what would become the town of De Smet, South Dakota.
Ingalls家族和少数其他人是成为南达科他州德斯梅特镇的第一批公民。
As more settlers arrived, the Ingalls family acquired a homestead a few miles outside of town.
随着更多定居者的到来,英格尔斯家族在城外几英里处获得了一个住宅地.
Pa built a cabin, a stable, and a garden.
爸爸建了个小木屋,马厩和花园.
As winter approached, the family decided to live above their store in town, where the girls would be closer to the school.
随着冬天的到来,一家人决定住在城里商店上方,在那里女孩们将更接近学校。
It was a lucky decision.
这是一个幸运的决定。
One blizzard after another hammered the new town.
一场暴风雪在另一场锤子击倒了新城镇之后.
The snow was so blinding that the girls couldn’t find their way to school.
女孩们无法找到上学的路。
Trains couldn’t deliver food, and some families nearly starved.
火车无法运送食物,
Laura and her sisters spent hours grinding raw wheat into flour by hand.
劳拉和她的姐妹们花了好几个小时用手将生麦磨成面粉.
At last the long winter broke, and the family returned to their homestead on the blooming Dakota prairie.
最终漫长的冬天破灭了,全家回到了开花的达科他草原上的家园.
Their farm, and the new town, soon thrived.
他们的农场和新城很快兴起.
When the railroad arrived in an area such as Helena, Montana (above, in 1869), towns could spring up seemingly overnight.
当铁路到达蒙大拿州的海伦娜等地(上作于1869年)时,城镇似乎可以在一夜之间兴起.
Settlers poured in and quickly built houses, stores, hotels, and saloons.
定居者涌入并迅速建造了房屋、商店、旅馆和酒馆。
Young Lady Laura Mary had heard about a college for blind students in Iowa, and she wanted more than anything to go there.
劳拉小姐 玛丽曾听说爱荷华州一所盲人学生大学,她更想去那里.
Laura was now old enough to teach school, and she knew the income would help Mary pay for college.
劳拉现在已经够大了,可以教书 她知道收入会有所帮助 玛丽付大学学费
She accepted a teaching job in a settlement twelve miles from De Smet.
她在离德·斯梅特12英里的定居点接受了教职.
Sixteen-year-old Laura bravely said goodbye to her family, but she dreaded being away from home for an entire semester.
16岁 劳拉勇敢地向家人告别,但她害怕离开家整整一学期.
When the first week of school ended, she got a surprise.
当学校第一周结束的时候,她得到了一个惊喜.
Almanzo Wilder, a young homesteader she knew from De Smet, pulled up to the schoolhouse in a beautiful horse-drawn sleigh.
阿尔曼佐·怀德,她从德·斯梅特认识的一位年轻的居家代言人,被拉到学校去,穿着漂亮的马拖雪橇.
He offered to bring Laura home on weekends.
他提出周末把劳拉带回家.
During their long drives across the prairie, their friendship blossomed into love.
在他们穿越草原的漫长旅程中,他们的友谊蓬勃发展为爱情.
One night, Almanzo asked Laura to marry him.
有一晚,阿尔曼佐向劳拉求婚.
She said yes.
她答应了
Laura and Manly, as she nicknamed him, moved to his homestead outside De Smet.
劳拉和曼利因取了绰号而搬到了德·斯梅特外的他家.
Soon they welcomed a daughter, Rose.
很快他们迎来了一个女儿,罗斯.
Unfortunately, the young family was hit with a string of bad luck.
不幸的是,年轻的家庭被一连串的厄运所打倒.
A hailstorm destroyed their wheat crop, and then Laura and Manly fell ill.
一场冰雹摧毁了他们的小麦收成,之后劳拉和曼利相继倒下.
Laura recovered fully, but Manly would walk with a limp for the rest of his life.
劳拉完全康复了,但曼利一生都会一瘸一拐地走.
Laura gave birth to a baby boy, but he only survived for two weeks.
劳拉生下了一个小男孩,但他只活了两个星期.
Then their house burned to the ground.
然后他们的房子被烧为平地。
Still a pioneer girl, Laura searched for a new place where they could get a fresh start.
还是个先锋女郎,劳拉找了一个新地方 他们可以重新开始
It wasn’t long before she found her home.
她发现家不久,
Laura and Almanzo Wilder in 1885, shortly after their marriage “Suffering passes, while love is eternal.”
1885年,劳拉和阿尔曼佐·怀德结婚后不久,“痛苦的通行证,而爱是永恒的。 “
Happiness at Rocky Ridge At twenty-seven, Laura set out once more in a covered wagon.
在落基岭的幸福 27岁时,劳拉再次出动了被覆盖的马车.
She and Manly bought a small farm near Mansfield, Missouri, in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains.
她和曼利在密苏里州曼斯菲尔德(英语:Mansfield, Missouri)附近的奥扎克山脉的山脚山地上购买了一座小农场.
It was rough, wooded, and rocky, but Laura instantly knew it was home.
它粗糙,木质,又多岩石,但劳拉当即知道它是家.
With hard work, Rocky Ridge grew into a beautiful, successful farm.
随着辛勤劳动,洛基岭发展成为一个美丽而成功的农场.
After so much wandering, Laura was content.
经过这么多的流浪,劳拉是满足的。
In time, Laura’s daughter, Rose, moved away to San Francisco.
及时,劳拉的女儿罗斯搬去旧金山.
There she became a well-known journalist, making a living at something Laura herself had always loved—writing.
她在那里成为了一位出名的记者,在劳拉本人一直喜爱的写作中谋生.
Now that life on Rocky Ridge Farm was comfortable, could Laura do the same?
现在洛奇岭农场的生活很舒适 劳拉也能这样吗?
The Little House Books Laura began to pour her memories onto the page.
小屋书社劳拉开始将她的回忆倒入页面.
Sometimes she would stay up all night writing at a little desk that Manly built for her.
有时她会熬夜 在曼利为她建造的小桌子上写作
Soon, she had written an entire book about her early years under the towering trees of Wisconsin.
不久后,她又在威斯康辛州高地树下写了一本关于她早年的全书.
She called it Little House in the Big Woods.
她称之为"大森林的小房子".
Rose sent it to a publisher.
罗斯寄给出版社的.
Sixty-four-year-old Laura didn’t think much would come of it.
64岁 劳拉没想到会有什么结果。
After all, it was the 1930s.
毕竟是1930年代.
People had cars, electricity, radio—who wanted to hear about doing backbreaking chores in a dark forest?
人们有汽车,电力,无线电——谁想听到在黑暗的森林里做反面的活?
The book was an immediate hit.
这本书是一门即时的打击。
Laura brought to life the howling winter wind, the crackling fire, and the joyful skip of Pa’s fiddle.
劳拉将咆哮的冬季风,快活的火焰,以及帕的小提琴的欢快跳出来.
She captured the thrill of meeting animals in the wilderness.
她捕捉到在荒野中与动物相遇的刺激.
She called up the joy that a simple rag doll could bring to a pioneer girl who lived in a rough log cabin.
她唤起欢乐,一个简单的布娃娃可以带给一个住在粗糙的木屋里的先驱女孩.
The mailbox at Rocky Ridge overflowed with letters from young readers begging for more.
Rocky Ridge的邮箱里充斥着年轻读者要求更多信件。
Laura wrote about her time on the Kansas prairie in Little House on the Prairie and near Walnut Grove in On the Banks of Plum Creek.
劳拉写了自己在普拉里河畔小屋的堪萨斯草原上和花溪畔花栗树林附近的时间.
The frightful winter in De Smet became The Long Winter, and the town’s recovery became Little Town on the Prairie.
德·斯梅特的可畏冬季成为了"长冬",而该镇的恢复成为了普拉里河上的小城镇.
Rocky Ridge Farm was so successful that a local newspaper asked Laura to write a column offering farm advice.
洛奇岭农场非常成功,以至于当地一家报纸要求劳拉写出一栏来提供农场建议.
It was her first professional writing job.
这是她第一份专业写作工作.
“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
“人生的甜美而简单的东西毕竟是真实的。 “
Laura loved answering letters from her fans and traveling to readings and book signings.
劳拉喜欢回答粉丝的信,还喜欢去读书和书签.
Yet she was always happy to return home to Manly and Rocky Ridge Farm.
然而她总是很高兴回到曼利和洛基岭农场。
The couple both lived into their nineties.
这对夫妇都活到了90多岁
After her death in 1957, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books lived on, even becoming a TV series in 1974.
在她于1957年去世后,劳拉·英格尔斯·怀德所著的书得以活下来,甚至于1974年成为电视连续剧.
Her stories of pioneer life still delight young readers today.
她的先驱生活故事今天仍然令年轻读者愉快.
Her life has become part of American history.
她的生活已经成为了美国历史的一部分.
Glossary hardship (n.)
词汇困难(n.)
pain or loss; something that causes pain or loss (p.
疼痛或损失;造成疼痛或损失的东西(p.
7) homestead (n.)
7) 住宅地 (n.
property given by the U.
由U给予的财产。
S.
师曰.
Internet (p.
互联网 (p.
14) reciting (v.)
14) 背诵 (五.
saying something aloud from memory (p.
从记忆中大声说出来(p.
7) stroke (n.)
7)中风 (n.
a rapid loss of brain function resulting from interrupted blood flow to the brain (p.
由于脑部血液流出中断(p.
8) vivid (adj.)
8)生动地(adj.
very bright and strong (p.
非常亮而强 (p.
5) Laura Ingalls Wilder signs copies of her books sometime around 1940.
(5) 劳拉·英格尔斯 威尔德在1940年左右的某个时候会签下她的书