2级-《鲁滨逊漂流记》-第9课

前情提要 

鲁宾孙逐渐过起了自给自足的独立生活，但是一场暴风雨让山洞的顶层坍塌了下来。

故事原文 

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe L9

鲁宾孙漂流记 L9

I had a lot of food now. I cooked it over a fire(1) or dried it in the sun(2). So I always had meat during the rainy months when I could not go out with a gun. I learnt to make pots(3) to keep my food in. But I wanted very much to make a harder, stronger pot-a pot that would not break in a fire. I tried many times, but I could not do it. Then one day I was lucky. I made some new pots and put them in a very hot fire. They changed colour, but did not break. I left them there for many hours, and when they were cold again, I found that they were hard and strong. That night I was very happy. I had hot water for the first time on the island.

现在，我有了很多食物。我把它们架在火上烤或搁在太阳下晒干。因此，即使在雨季我不能带枪外出时也总有肉吃了。我学会做陶罐存放我的食物。但我非常想要做一个更坚固的罐子——一个放在火里不会破裂的罐子。我试了很多次，可我没有成功。但有一天我的运气来了。我做了几个新的罐子把它们搁在旺火里。它们变了颜色但却没有碎裂。我把它们放在那儿好几个小时，当它们再次冷却下来时，我发现它们既坚硬又牢固。那个晚上，我非常高兴。在这岛上我第一次喝到了热水。

By then, I also had my own bread. That was luck, too. One day I found a little bag. We used it on the ship, to keep the chickens' food in. There was still some of the food in the bag, and I dropped some of it onto the ground. A month later I saw something bright green there, and after six months I had a very small field of corn. I was very excited. Perhaps now I could make my own bread!

从那时起，我也有了自己的面包。这也是一件幸运的事。一天我找到一只小袋子。在船上时我们用它来存放小鸡的饲料。在那袋子里还一直放着些食物，我把它们全倒在了地上。一个月后，我看见一些亮绿的幼苗，六个月后我便有了一块非常小的庄稼地。我很激动。或许现在我可以做自己的面包了。

It was easy to say, but not so easy to do. It is a lot of work to make bread from corn(4)(5). Many people eat bread, but how many people can take corn from a field and make bread out of it without help? I had to learn and to make many new things, and it was a year before I cooked and ate my first bread.

这些事说起来容易做起来却很困难。从谷物到面包需要很多工作。很多人吃面包，但又有多少人可以无须帮助从地里收割谷物又做成面包呢？我不得不学着去做而且去做很多新的东西，在我烧出并吃到我做的第一个面包时又一年过去了。

During all this time I never stopped thinking about escape. When I travelled across to the other side of the island, I could see the other islands, and I said to myself, 'Perhaps I can get there with a boat. Perhaps I can get back to England one day.'

在这期间，我从来没有停止设法逃离小岛。当我探索小岛的另外一侧时，我能看到其他的小岛，我对自己说，“或许我用一只小船可以到达那儿。也许，有一天我便可以回到英格兰了。”

So I decided to make myself a boat. I cut down a big tree, and then began to make a long hole in it. It was hard work, but about six months later, I had a very fine canoe(6). Next, I had to get it down to the sea. How stupid I was! Why didn't I think before I began work? Of course, the canoe was too heavy. I couldn't move it! I pulled and pushed and tried everything, but it didn't move. I was very unhappy for a long time after that.

于是，我决定造自己的小船。我砍倒了一棵大树，然后开始掏成一个长条形洞。这是很苦的工作，但六个月后，我就有了一只很好的独木舟。接下去，我必须让它下水。我是多么地愚蠢啊！为什么开始工作前却没想到呢？毫无疑问，这只独木舟太重了。我移不动它！我又拉又推用尽一切方法，但它却纹丝不动。这以后很长一段日子我都不开心。

That happened in my fourth year on the island. In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe, but I did not try to escape in it. The boat was too small for a long journey, and I did not want to die at sea. The island was my home now, not my prison, and I was just happy to be alive. A year or two later, I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island. I also built myself a second house there, and so I had two homes.

造船是发生在我到岛上之后的第四个年头。在我的第六年里我又造了一只更小的船，但我没有试图用它来逃离小岛。要想长途航行，这船太小了，我可不想死在海上。现在这岛便是我的家并非我的监狱，我很高兴我还活着。一年或两年后，我在岛的另一侧又造了一只独木舟。我还在那儿建了第二座房子，所以我有了两个家。

My life was still busy from morning to night(7). There were always things to do or to make. I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals. They looked very strange, it is true, but they kept me dry in the rain.

我的生活总是从早忙到晚，总是有很多事情要做。我学会用兽皮给自己做新衣服，虽然看起来挺古怪，这是事实。但在雨季它能使我不被淋湿。

I kept food and tools at both my houses, and also wild goats. There were many goats on the island, and I made fields with high fences to keep them in. They learnt to take food from me, and soon I had goat's milk to drink every day. I also worked hard in my cornfields. And so many years went by.

我在我的两所房子里都储放了食物和工具，也都养了野山羊。在这个岛上有很多野山羊，我用高栅栏圈了块地把它们围在里面。它们学会了从我这儿找食物，于是不久，我就每天有羊奶喝了。我同时还在我的地里辛苦耕种。于是，很多年就这样过去了。

（原文中出现高光标示内容请见核心语言点）

核心语言点

1. cook sth. over a fire 把某物放在火上烤

2. dry sth. in the sun 把某物晾晒在太阳下

3. pot 罐

hotpot 火锅

4. corn 庄稼；玉米

popcorn 爆米花

5. make sth. from sth. 把……做成……

例：

make bread from corn 

把玉米做成面包

make glass from sand 

把沙子做成玻璃

6. canoe 独木舟

7. from morning to night 从早到晚