时间:2018-12-10 作者:英语课 分类:汪培珽儿童英文分级书单《神奇树屋》


英语课

  "Run, Annie!" Jack 1 screamed.



The water drew away from the beach, and a loudhissing sound came from the sea.



Suddenly fish flopped 2 on the bare sand!



Annie threw down her board and ran. She grabbedJack's hand as she ran by him. Jack grabbed Boka'shand, and Boka grabbed Kama's hand. They all rantogether, pulling each other along as they raced to thecliff.



Boka and Kama ran up the cliff path. Jack andAnnie grabbed their shoes and Jack's pack.



At the top of the cliff, everyone looked back. Jackcouldn't believe his eyes!



A wave was rising up like a dark mountain ofwater. It came surging toward the shore, growingeven taller.



"Wow," whispered Annie.



"Get back!" shouted Boka.



The four of them bolted back from the edge of therocky slope. The mountain of water crashed againstthe cliff. Water sprayed over the top of the rocks andrained down on them.



When the water rolled back over the cliff, they allhurried back to the edge to see what had happened.



The rocky cliff path was gone. The gigantic wavewas moving back out to sea, taking rocks, sand,seaweed, seashells, and the surf-boards with it.



"Scary," breathed Annie.



"Yeah," said Jack. "We just made it.""Boka! Kama!" voices yelled.



They turned around. Jack saw Boka andKama's parents racing 3 across the meadow towardthem. Other villagers followed.



The two Hawaiian kids ran into their parents' arms.



Soon Jack and Annie were surrounded by villagers.



Everyone was laughing and crying and hugging eachother.



Jack hugged Annie. He hugged Kama and Boka andtheir parents--and lots of other people he didn't evenknow.



1 jack
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
2 flopped
v.(指书、戏剧等)彻底失败( flop的过去式和过去分词 );(因疲惫而)猛然坐下;(笨拙地、不由自主地或松弛地)移动或落下;砸锅
  • Exhausted, he flopped down into a chair. 他筋疲力尽,一屁股坐到椅子上。
  • It was a surprise to us when his play flopped. 他那出戏一败涂地,出乎我们的预料。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 racing
n.竞赛,赛马;adj.竞赛用的,赛马用的
  • I was watching the racing on television last night.昨晚我在电视上看赛马。
  • The two racing drivers fenced for a chance to gain the lead.两个赛车手伺机竞相领先。
学英语单词
Agapetes mannii
allow clearance
antipedicular agent
associates in nursing
avalons
benzene-air mixture
bible regal
boreal coniferous forest
branch strip
burn-out heat flux
cairy food
canavalia gladiatas
cancellation of transport
capgaronnite
carbonate weathering crust
cell-mate
chromatite
chromium salt
cilia movement
clause train
computer bug
contact catalysis
cost of superintendence
croupon
cumberlandite
developing tray
disusance
Diurnal-penicillin
dropleton
electrical operator of window and skylight
erythrocyte
eye blink
fatuity
Ficus fulva
filamentary instability
flashing of light
fontes honorum
garcia
genus Forestiera
GM_present-perfect-continuous-i-have-been-working
hemianamorphic
hillerich
hold sb in high esteem
hypothesis testing
initial address
intentional crime
Jay's Treaty
Karang, Tg.
keep under review
kipsters
Luwo, Pulau
LYNEF
Maag gear grinder
make a curtsey
Mandimba
manometric thermometre
merchant banking
missile reference line
Mister Irrelevant
musical notes
musicman
nourishing the fetus
object data
ogee dam
overlay address
pinned his hope on
pipercide
pn-
President Hoover
proper station
putrifacted
read head
receiving order
refunders
result management
returning vein
roil
rotesar
seignorets
sequatchie
simions
solid substrates
SS-20
tailing outlet
TCCF
test quality
thermonuclear
timbales
Trueta treatment
tumidus
uncounselled
underbreak
unsnarlings
Volkmann's subluxation
warn against
waterwheel plants
Westminster School
whet slate
Yoribon
Zanstra temperature
zero geodesic
zonohedron