双语讲解Swimmy小黑鱼

Swimmy 小黑鱼

A happy school of little fish lived in a corner of the sea somewhere.

一群快乐的小鱼住在大海里，他们很小容易被大鱼吃掉，所以他们都住在大海的一个角落里a corner of thesea。

They were all red. Only one of them was as black as a mussel shell.

这群小鱼都是红色的，除了一条小鱼是黑色的，黑得像什么呢？像贻贝壳mussel shell，mussel贻贝是一种黑色，水滴形装的贝壳。

He swam faster than his brothers and sisters. His name was swimmy.

小黑鱼游得非常快，比他的兄弟姐妹们都快，所以他的名字叫swimmy。

One bad day a tuna fish, swift, fierce and very hungry, came dartingthrough the waves.

一天，一条凶猛又饥饿的金枪鱼，忽然飞快地穿过海浪冲了过来。他有多快呢?像一支射出的飞镖一样darting throughthe waves

In one gulp嗷呜一大口，

he swallowed all the little red fish. Only Swimmy escaped.

他吃掉了所有的小红鱼，只有小黑鱼Swimmy逃脱了。

He swam away in the deep wet world. He was scared, lonely and very sad.

他逃向了深深的海底。他很害怕，很孤单，也很伤心。

But the sea was full of wonderful creatures, and as he swam from marvelto marvel Swimmy was happy again.

但是海底布满了神奇的生物，他一边游一边看着难以置信的景色，渐渐地开心起来。

他都看到了什么呢？ 

He saw a medusa made of rainbow jelly…

他看到一只水母a medusa，它看上去是用彩虹色果冻做的。

a lobster, 一只龙虾

who walked about like a water-moving machine…

它走路的样子像个水下机器人。

strange fish, pulled by an invisible thread…

还有奇怪的鱼，它们看上去被一根看不见的线困住了。

a forest of seaweeds growing from sugar-candy rocks…

海底也有森林，不过是seaweed海草组成的，它们长在像冰糖一样的石头上。

an eel whose tail was almost too far away to remember…

swimmy又看到了一条鳗鱼eel，他的尾巴长地一眼望不到头。

and sea anemones, who looked like pink palm trees swaying in the wind.

然后是海葵sea anemones，它们看起来像在风中摇摆的粉色棕榈树。

Then, hidden in the dark shade of rocks and weeds, he saw a school oflittle fish, just like his own.

这时，swimmy发现了一群跟他一样的小鱼，他们躲在岩石和海草的阴暗处。

“Let’s go and swim and play and SEE things!” he said happily.

他开心极了，我们一起出去玩一玩，看一看吧！

“We can’t,” said the little red fish. “The big fish will eat us all.”

“不行，大鱼会吃掉我们的。”一条小红鱼说。

“But you can’t just lie there,” said Swimmy. “We must THINK ofsomething.”

可是你们不能一直躲在这儿，我们得想个办法，swimmy说。

Swimmy thought and thought and thought.Then suddenly he said, “I have it!”

Swimmy想啊想，想啊想，忽然说：“有主意了！”

“ We are going to swim all together like the biggest fish in the sea!”

我们大家聚在一起游，像一条海里最大的鱼那样。

He taught them to swim close together, each in his own place,

Swimmy教大家紧紧的挨着游，每条鱼都游在自己的位置上。 

and when they had learned to swim like one giant fish, he said, “I’llbe the eye.”

等大家学会了聚在一起组成一条大鱼的形状时，Swimmy说：“我来当眼睛。”因为只有他是黑色的。他游在红色的鱼群中，远远看去他们就像一条巨大的鱼在海里游动。

And so they swam in the cool morning water and in the midday sun andchased the big fish away.

于是他们游啊游，游过了清凉的早晨，游到了温暖的中午，把所有的大鱼都吓跑了。