The Bird’s Nest
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
It’s Saturday, and Rima is sprawled on her stomach on the floor, watching cartoons.
里玛的胃在地上被伸展,
Behind her, she can hear her mother rummaging through the kitchen cupboards.
在她身后,她能听到她母亲从厨房橱柜里翻来翻去的声音.
“I’m bored,” Rima complains.
Rima抱怨,
“This show is boring.”
“这个节目很无聊。 “
“So change the channel!
“所以改变频道吧!
TV will help you learn English faster.”
电视会帮助你学习英语更快。 “
As soon as the words are out of her mother’s mouth, the clanging in the kitchen stops.
一旦她母亲的口中说出这些话,厨房里的叮当就停止了。
Rima braces herself for the words she knows will follow.
里玛会为她所学的言辞而坚守
“Because this is our home now,” Rima’s mother murmurs.
Rima的母亲喃喃地说,
“You know that, don’t you, habibti?”
“你知道的,不是吗,Habibti? “
Rima sighs.
里马叹曰.
“I know, Mama.
“我知道,妈妈。
I know.”
我知道,我记得 “
This time last year, when Rima was eight, home was a tent surrounded by other tents.
去年里玛八岁时的这个时候,家里是一个被其他帐篷所包围的帐篷.
The year before that, home was the side of the road, a storm-tossed boat, a stranger’s basement.
之前的一年,家是路边,被暴风雨淹没的船只,是陌生人的地下室.
a perfect view of the moon.
月球的完美视野
What Is a Refugee?
什么是难民?
A refugee is a person who is forced to leave his or her country to seek safety in another country.
难民是指被迫离开本国到另一国寻求安全的人。
The term comes from the word refuge, which means a safe place—the very thing that refugees are in search of.
这个词来自“避难所”一词,意思是安全的地方——难民正在寻找的地方。
Refugees flee their country to escape conflict and violence, natural disasters and destruction, or persecution that they face based on aspects of their identity, such as ethnicity, religion, or political beliefs.
难民逃离本国,逃避冲突和暴力、自然灾害和破坏,或因族裔、宗教或政治信仰等身份而受到迫害。
Refugees usually leave behind family, friends, homes, and communities.
难民通常留下家人、朋友、家园和社区。
They may also leave behind aspects of their culture, like language and traditions.
他们还可能抛下其文化的各个方面,如语言和传统。
In the case of Rima and her mother, they left Syria because of civil war.
就里玛和她的母亲而言,他们因内战而离开叙利亚.
Since 2011, millions of Syrian families have fled their country and become refugees all over the world.
自2011年以来,数百万叙利亚家庭逃离了祖国并成为了世界各地的难民.
Now home is here: a tiny apartment in America, with a mother who speaks in a hushed voice whenever she mentions Syria.
现在的家就在这里: 一个在美国很小的公寓, 母亲每当提到叙利亚时, 都会用阴沉的声音说话。
Rima wishes she wouldn’t tiptoe around the harsh reality as though Rima cannot understand.
Rima希望她不会在严酷的现实中转身,
War came to Aleppo long before they left, and it has only gotten worse.
战争早在他们离开之前就来到了阿勒颇,而战争却只变得更糟.
They are never going back.
他们再也不会回去了
There is nowhere to go back to.
无所可回.
AFRICA EUROPE ASIA Aleppo Syria Jordan Israel Iraq Turkey Mediterranean Sea Damascus Saudi Arabia “Rima, come here,” says her mother.
非洲-亚洲 阿勒颇 叙利亚 约旦 以色列 伊拉克 土耳其 地中海 大马士革海域 沙特阿拉伯 她的母亲说:“Rima,来到这里,”
Rima peels herself off the floor.
Rima把自己从地上剥了下来.
The kitchen counter is covered with baking sheets, a sack of sugar, pistachios.
厨房柜台上布满了烘焙床单 一袋糖 活塞
“What’s all this for?”
“这一切是为了什么? “
Rima asks.
里马问.
After a week at school learning English grammar and vocabulary, it feels good to speak Arabic.
在学校学习英语语法和词汇一周后,说出阿拉伯语感觉很好.
“For baking, silly.”
“因为烘焙,傻瓜。 “
Her mother reaches over and ruffles Rima’s hair.
她的母亲伸过来,
“What else?”
“还有什么呢? “
“We’re going to bake today?”
“我们今天要烤? “
Rima asks.
里马问.
“How come?”
“为什么? “
She swallows the words that want to come next: we haven’t baked together in forever.
她吞下下个词:我们没有永远一起烤。
“Yesterday, while you were at school, some ladies from the refugee center called,” Rima’s mother explains.
Rima的母亲解释道,
“Tomorrow there will be a bake sale at the community center.”
“明天社区中心将举行烤肉会。 “
“Bake sale?”
“面包销售? “
Rima asks.
里马问.
“What’s that?”
" 这是什么? “
“It’s an American tradition, I’m told.
“据我所知,这是美国的传统。
Those of us who are new here will bake our favorite sweets from Syria, and Americans from the community will come to buy them and sample sweets from our homeland for the first time.
我们这些新来的人会烤出我们最喜欢的来自叙利亚的甜品,来自社区的美国人会来购买这些甜品,并首次从我们的祖国取出甜品样品.
It’s a way to make us a little money,” she adds.
她补充说,
Rima’s mother opens the refrigerator and extracts a box of phyllo dough noodles.
Rima的母亲打开冰箱取出一盒面条。
“So, what do you say?”
“那么,你说呢? “
“Let’s try it,” Rima replies, and her mother squeezes her shoulder.
Rima回答:「让我们试试看,
Rima grabs a handful of pistachios and begins to crush them into smaller pieces.
里玛抓住了一小撮活塞活塞并开始将其压入更小的碎片.
They are making bird’s nest baklava!
他们正在制造鸟巢 Baklava!
Now Rima is delighted.
丽玛很高兴
She dives in, helping her mother prepare the nests, then arranging each one on the baking sheet.
她潜入,帮助她的母亲准备巢穴,然后在烘焙板上安排每个巢穴.
Rima begins to hum an old song from home that she loves.
里玛开始从家里哼出一首她喜欢的老歌
The next day, the courtyard of the community center is crowded and noisy.
第二天,社区中心的庭院拥挤而吵闹.
Syrian families unpack their baked goods on folding tables.
叙利亚家庭在折叠的桌子上整理出烤面包。
Everywhere Rima turns, she sees the sweets of her childhood: basbousa, with nuts on top; sticky kunafeh topped with a pistachio dust; and more ush el bulbul, known as bird’s nest baklava, topped with sugar water and chopped pistachios, like little eggs in a doughy nest.
Rima转过身来,她都会看到她童年的甜点:basbousa,上面有坚果;粘着克纳菲被活泼的灰尘所笼罩;更被称作鸟巢baklava的活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活泼活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活活
Ours look tastiest, Rima thinks.
丽玛觉得我们最美味
A long line of families wait for them, and Rima feels her stomach flip-flop.
长行出家人等来,里玛觉出她胃上翻.
What if the Americans don’t like Syrian baking?
如果美国人不喜欢叙利亚烘焙呢?
Their customers ooh and ahh, though, pointing at the trays enthusiastically.
他们的顾客热心地指着托盘
“What are these called?”
“这些叫什么来着? “
they ask in English before trying clumsily to repeat the food names in Arabic.
他们先用英语,然后用阿拉伯语重复食物名称。
Rima thinks it’s fun to teach someone else a new language for a change.
Rima认为教别人换个新语言很有趣。
“Delicious,” they say, one by one, after biting into the baklava, and Rima blushes with pride.
他们说,“可爱的,”在被咬入baklava后,一个接一个地说,里玛以自负地脸红。
Rima and her mother return the next week, and the next.
丽玛和她的母亲下个礼拜就回来了 下个礼拜就回来了
Their bird’s nest baklava are the bake sale’s star treat.
他们的鸟巢 Baklava 是烤肉销售的明星招待。
“What’s your secret ingredient?”
你的秘密成分是什么? “
another family asks.
另一个家庭问。
But there is none—just the joy Rima and her mother share in the kitchen after three years living as refugees, never settled or safe enough to bake together.
但是,除了Rima和她母亲在作为难民生活了三年之后在厨房里分享的欢乐之外,没有任何一种东西能够安顿下来或安全地一起烘烤。
One week, a boy named Andy from Rima’s school attends the bake sale with his family.
有个叫Andy的男孩与家人一起参加烘焙会,
“These are bird’s nest baklava.
这些是鸟巢 Baklava。
In Syria, we call them ush el bulbul,” Rima informs him when they stop by her table.
在叙利亚,我们称他们为 " ush el bulbul " , " Rima在他们到她的桌子旁时告诉他。
“ At my house in Aleppo, birds built nests just like this outside our kitchen window.”
“...... 在阿勒颇的我家 鸟儿在厨房窗户外建起这样的巢穴 “
“Can we buy some, Dad?”
“我们能买一些吗,爸爸? “
Andy asks.
安迪问。
His father reaches for his wallet.
他父亲拿钱包
“Yislamou,” says Rima automatically when Andy hands her the dollar bills.
“Yislamou,”当Andy交出美元钞票时,Rima自动说出。
“Sorry,” she adds, blushing.
她补充说,“对不起”,脸红。
“Yislamou is how we say ‘thank you’ in Syria.”
“Yislamou是我们在叙利亚说`谢谢'的方式。
“Yislamou, then,” says Andy, lifting a nest with a grin before taking a big bite.
“那么, 安迪,在大吃一顿前 笑着举起巢来
Thus begins a tradition.
由此开始了传统。
Though they don’t socialize at school—he plays during recess with the other boys, and Rima spends half the day in the English Language Learners classroom—every weekend, Andy and his family return to the bake sale.
尽管他们在学校不社交, 他在休息期间与其他男孩一起玩, Rima在英语学习者教室里过上半天,
Each time his family buys baklava, Andy asks Rima how to say a new word or phrase in Arabic: hello, goodbye, you’re welcome, how much does this cost?
每次他的家人买起巴克拉瓦 Andy问里马如何用阿拉伯语说出一个新词或短语:你好,再见,欢迎你,这需要多少钱?
Rima pronounces the words clearly and slowly in the Syrian dialect.
里马语在叙利亚方言中清晰而缓慢地发音出词.
Andy’s accent is awful, but she knows not to poke fun.
Andy的口音很糟,但她知道别玩了。
Rima doesn’t like it when the kids at school tease her about her English.
Rima不喜欢学校孩子嘲笑她英文。
One day, Rima tells Andy all about how they make the ush el bulbul: preparing the syrup, chopping the pistachios into fine pieces, and how, when she was little, she would pick pistachios straight from her grandparents’ tree.
有一天,里玛告诉 Andy 讲述了他们如何制造出 ush el bulbul: 准备糖浆, 将活塞子切成细块,
“I didn’t know pistachios grow on trees!”
「我不知道活生生的树种!
Andy exclaims.
安迪赞叹.
“Of course they do,” Rima laughs.
“当然,
“My favorite birds would nest there, too!”
“我最喜欢的鸟儿也会在那里筑巢!”
“You must miss it there,” Andy says, and suddenly Rima’s eyes fill with tears.
Andy说, “你一定怀念那里,” 突然里马的双眼满是泪水。
Ashamed, she ducks her head and thinks, Please don’t let him notice.
羞愧地,她鸭起头来想, 请不要让他注意到。
If he does notice, though, he doesn’t let on.
但若他注意到,
Instead, he just smiles—a kind smile, Rima thinks—and waves goodbye.
相反,他只是微笑——一种Rima所想的善良的微笑——并挥舞着告别.
Afterward, as they pack up, Rima’s mother says, “Habibti.
之后,Rima的母亲在收拾行李时说:“Habibti。
Who is that boy who always talks to you?
那个总是跟你说话的男孩是谁?
A friend?”
一个朋友? “
“No,” Rima mumbles.
"不","里玛喃喃".
“Just a boy from school.”
“只是一个来自学校的男孩。 “
That week during recess, Rima is reading on a bench when somebody taps her on the shoulder.
休息那个星期里玛在长凳上看书 有人拍她肩膀
She turns, shielding her eyes from the sun.
她转过身来 挡住她的眼睛
It’s Andy!
这是安迪!
“I want to show you something,” he says.
他说:“我想给你看样东西。”
“Okay,” Rima says tentatively.
“好吧,”里马暂时说。
It takes a moment for her brain to shift from reading in Arabic to speaking English.
她的大脑需要一点时间从阿拉伯语的阅读转向英语.
He points to the woods behind the school, and the two walk toward them together.
他指向学校后面的树林 两人一起走向他们
“Look,” Andy says and points again.
Andy说,
Rima gasps, “No way!”
Rima喘了口气,“不可能!”
—an American phrase that Andy has taught her in exchange for teaching him.
- 安迪教她的一个美国词 以换取教他
Nestled in some blackberry brambles is a bird’s nest.
在黑莓花丛中被放入鸟巢。
“Yes way,” he laughs.
“是的,”他笑了。
The two of them peer more closely: inside the nest sit four perfectly speckled eggs.
二者更相近: 在巢内坐着四个完美的斑点卵.
“Wow,” Rima breathes.
"哇,"里马呼吸。
“Ush el bulbul.”
“鸟巢果仁蜜饼。”
Andy nods.
安迪点头。
“They really do look just like your baklava,” he whispers.
他低声说,
“I wonder if they will all live close to home once they hatch,” Rima says, “or fly far away to somewhere new.”
Rima说,“或者飞去新的地方。 “
“Birds of a feather flock together,” Andy says.
Andy说,
Rima has never heard the saying before.
里玛以前从没听过这句话
“What does that mean?”
“这是什么意思? “
she asks.
她问。
“It means—it means when you’re friends with someone, you spend time together.”
“这意味着——这意味着当你与某人是朋友时,你们在一起度过时光。 “
Andy shoves his hands in his pockets.
安迪把双手塞入口袋
“Rima?”
“里马? “
he says.
他说。
“I know you’re sad to have left your first home behind.
“我知道你伤心地离开了你的第一个家。
but I want you to know that here in your new home, you are.
但我想让你知道 在你的新家,你是。
He pauses shyly.
他害羞地暂停。
“You are my sadiq,” he says, at last.
他终于说:“你是我的悲哀者。”
“Did I say that right?
“我这样说对吗?
Sadiq?”
萨迪克? “
Rima grins.
丽玛笑了
“Of course,” she tells him—and though his Arabic sounds as awkward as ever, she means the words with all her heart.
“当然,”她告诉他,尽管他的阿拉伯语听起来像以往一样尴尬,但她全心全意地说这些话。
“Of course you did.
“当然是你干的。
There’s no wrong way to say friend.”
说朋友没什么不对的。 “
GLOSSARY Arabic (n.)
格洛萨里阿拉伯语 (n.
the language originally of the Arab people, now widely spoken in the Middle East and Northern Africa (p.
原为阿拉伯人民的语言,现为中东和北非地区广泛使用的语言(p.
6) baklava (n.)
6）果仁蜜饼（名词）
a Middle Eastern dessert made of thin pastry dough, honey, and nuts (p.
a 中东甜点由薄薄的糕点面团,蜂蜜和坚果所制作(p.
7) dialect (n.)
7) 方言 (n.
a form of a language that is used in a specific region or by a specific group of people (p.
一种特定区域或特定人群使用的语言形式(p.
11) habibti (n.)
11）亲爱的（用于称呼女性，名词）
an Arabic word meaning my love, in the form used to address women or girls (p.
一个阿拉伯语词,意为"我的爱",形式上为针对妇女或女孩(p.
3) homeland (n.)
3) 家乡 (n.
the region or country where a person is born (p.
一个人出生的地区或国家(p.
6) phyllo (n.)
6) 三叶花(n.
a dough that is layered in very thin sheets to make pastry, often used in Mediterranean cooking (p.
被分层于非常薄的被子来做糕点,常被地中海烹饪用(p.
6) pistachios (n.)
6)活塞活塞(n.
pale green nuts (p.
苍绿色坚果(p.
6) refugee (n.)
(6) 难民(不详)
a person who flees war, famine, persecution, or natural disaster, often with no definite place to go (p.
逃避战争、饥荒、迫害或自然灾害的人,往往无处可去(p.
6) socialize (v.)
6) 社会化(五.
to talk to or interact with others in a friendly way (p.
以友好的方式与他人交谈或互动(p.
10) Syria (n.)
10) 叙利亚 (n.
a country in the Middle East that is on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea (p.
位于地中海东部边缘的中东国家(p.
4) tentatively (adv.)
4) 暂定(adv.