仆人舍不得杀那两个婴孩,就把他们放在篮子里,送到台伯河里去了。 The basket floated down the river where a she-wolf discovered the babies. But instead of killing them, the she-wolf nursed the twin boys like her own puppies. 篮子浮于水面,顺流而下,被一只母狼发现了。母狼并没有杀死这两个孩子...
Leonard Clark, author of “The Rivers Ran East” floated down the Ucayali on a raft some thirteen years ago. Gone today are the alligators andother wild game so plentiful in his time. But even so, traveling as we areon an old wood-burning, paddle wheel steamer, the last of its type...
THE HOME I PACED alone on the road across the field while the sunset was hiding its last gold like a miser. The daylight sank deeper and deeper into the darkness, and the widowed land, whose harvest had been reaped, lay silent. Suddenly a boy's shrill voice rose into the sky. He tra...
and floated down the river -- there's something up there that 'll help them think so -- so don't you lose no time, Jim, but just shove off for the big water as fast as ever you can."
What had become of him, no one knew, nor could any one give the slightest information, excepting the boys, who said that he had tied his sledge to another very large one, which had driven through the street, and out at the town gate. Nobody knew where it went; many tears were shed...
Unit 7 The Sea Vocabulary author: Jules Verne main characters: Nemo captain Aaronnax French biologist Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Aaronnax French biologist Nemo captain introduction • Story started in 1866, a large monster appeared on the sea, which floated and sank now and...
The sudden bursts of laughter and then one voice(Minta's) speaking alone, reminded her of men and boys crying out the Latin words of a service in some roman catholic cathedral. she waited. her husband spoke. he was repeating something, and she knew it was poetry from the rhyth...
The boys carry it home – dodging the traffic again to cross Pimlico road, and “Before I know it, we’re at the top of Garrison Avenue. And there, two lawns down, is Lester’s dog…” The dog growls, “low and nasty” and the boy with the kitten feels scared. The kitten meows...
Soon after Kay made his appearance in large thick gloves, and with his sledge at his back. He called up stairs to Gerda, “I’ve got to leave to go into the great square, where the other boys play and ride.” And away he went. ...
tube - ride or float on an inflated tube; "We tubed down the river on a hot summer day" travel - undergo transportation as in a vehicle; "We travelled North on Rte. 508" ride - ride over, along, or through; "Ride the freeways of California" chariot - ride in a chariot bicycle,...