【双语讲解】第6课：平淡且甜蜜的婚后生活

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From that moment on, Carl and Ellie were best friends. When they were nineteen, they got married. They moved into Ellie’s clubhouse and had fun fixing it up. Ellie hammered shingles onto the roof. Carl put up a new weather vane. Ellie pulled out her old adventure book, and Carl painted the house so that it looked exactly like the clubhouse in Ellie’s drawing.

从那以后，卡尔和艾莉就成了最亲密的朋友。在他们19岁那年，两人迈入了婚姻的殿堂。他们一起搬进了艾莉的俱乐部里。两人满心欢喜，快乐地对俱乐部的房子进行修修补补。艾莉修理房顶上的木板，卡尔搭建起新的风向标。艾莉拿出自己珍藏已久的探险书，卡尔为房子涂上亮丽的色彩，使其看起来就和艾莉所描绘的俱乐部一模一样。

One day, Carl leaned against the mailbox, admiring Ellie’s work as she painted their names on the side. But when he pulled back, he gasped. He’d left a handprint in the paint! Ellie smiled and put her hand in the paint, too. When she pulled it away, it looked as if their prints were holding hands.

一天，卡尔倚靠着信箱，欣喜地看到艾莉把他俩的名字涂写到信箱的一侧。但当他起身时，不由得倒吸一口凉气——他竟然不小心把自己的手印印到了信箱上！艾莉笑了笑，也把自己的手印印了上去。待她把手拿开，两人的手印连在了一起，就像手拉着手一样。

They worked on the house every day, and the days turned into weeks. Sometimes they took a break. They would sit in two comfy chairs that were placed side by side in the living room. Other times they would climb to the top of their favorite hill and have a picnic. They liked to lie in the grass, stare up at the sky, and watch the clouds transform into different shapes, like turtles and elephants.

卡尔和艾莉日复一日地对房子进行着改造、翻新工作，一干就是好几个星期。偶尔，他们也会忙里偷闲，休息一下。有时，他们会坐在客厅里并排的舒适扶手椅上。有时，他们会爬上两人最喜爱的小山坡去野餐。卡尔和艾莉喜欢躺在草坪上，望着天空，看着云朵变幻，形状万千，一会儿像海龟，一会儿像大象。

Ellie got a job at the local zoo, taking care of the animals in the South America House. Carl worked at the zoo, too. He sold balloons from a cart. Sometimes Carl had so many balloons, the cart would rise right off the ground!

艾莉在当地的动物园里找了份工作，负责照料南美洲馆的动物。卡尔也在动物园工作，不过，他是推着手推车卖气球。有时候，卡尔携带的气球太多，它们的浮力会把车子轻微抬起，脱离地面。

The weeks turned into months. Ellie and Carl looked through her adventure book and dreamed of traveling to Paradise Falls. Ellie painted a lovely picture of their house atop the tepui. They hung the picture over the fireplace.

几个月过去了。艾莉和卡尔翻看着艾莉的探险书，梦想着有一天能到天堂瀑布去旅行。艾莉画了一幅美好的画——在特普伊山的平顶上，坐落着他们的房子。他们把这幅画挂在壁炉上方。

Carl added a poster of South America. Ellie put up a hand-woven rug, a piece of pottery, and a figurine of a tropical bird. 

卡尔在画的旁边挂了一幅南美洲的海报。艾莉又挂上了一块手工编织的小毯子，摆了一件陶器和一只热带鸟的雕像。