LESSON 4 CASTLE-BUILDING 建城堡

1.“O pussy!” cried Herbert, in a voice of anger and dismay, as the blockhouse he was building fell in sudden ruin.The playful cat had rubbed against his mimic castle, and tower and wall went rattling down upon the fl oor.

2.Herbert took up one of the blocks and threw it fiercely at pussy.Happily, it passed over her and did no harm.His hand was reaching for another block, when his little sister Hetty sprang toward the cat, and caught her up.

3.“No, no, no!” said she, “you shan’t hurt pussy! She didn’t mean to do it!”

4.Herbert’s passion was over quickly, and, sitting down upon the fl oor, he covered his face with his hands, and began to cry.

5.“What a baby!” said Joe, his elder brother, who was reading on the sofa.“Crying over spilled milk does no good.Build it up again.”

6.“No, I won’t,” said Herbert, and he went on crying.

7.“What’s all the trouble here?” exclaimed papa, as he opened the door and came in.

8.“Pussy just rubbed against Herbert’s castle, and it fell down,”answered Hetty.“But she didn’t mean to do it; she didn’t know it would fall, did she, papa?”

9.“Why, no! And is that all the trouble?”

10.“Herbert!” his papa called, and held out his hands.“Come.”The little boy got up from the fl oor, and came slowly, his eyes full of tears, and stood by his father.

11.“There is a better way than this, my boy,” said papa.“If you had taken that way, your heart would have been light already.I should have heard you singing over your blocks instead of crying.Shall I show you that way?”

12.Herbert nodded his head, and papa sat down on the fl oor by the pile of blocks, with his little son by his side, and began to lay the foundation for a new castle.

【中文閱讀】

1.“噢，可惡的貓！”赫伯特喊道，聲音透露著憤怒與沮喪，因?yàn)樗诖罱ǖ姆e木房子突然倒塌了。頑皮的貓撞了一下他的模型城堡，塔和圍墻都嘎嘎地倒在了地板上。

2.赫伯特拿起一塊積木狠勁地向貓扔去。幸運(yùn)的是，積木從貓的身邊飛過(guò)去，沒(méi)有傷著它。他又去拿另一塊積木，這時(shí)，小妹妹海蒂跑過(guò)來(lái)，抱起了小貓。

3.“不！不！不！”她喊道，“你不能傷害小貓！它不是故意的！”

4.赫伯特頓時(shí)怒火中燒，坐在地板上，雙手捂著小臉哭了起來(lái)。

5.“真是個(gè)小孩子！”一直坐在沙發(fā)上看書(shū)的哥哥喬開(kāi)腔了，“哭有什么用呢，再建一座新的就行了。”

6.“不，我才不呢！”赫伯特一邊哭著，一邊說(shuō)。

7.“這里發(fā)生什么事了？”爸爸推開(kāi)門(mén)走進(jìn)來(lái)問(wèn)道。

8.“貓咪剛才撞了赫伯特的城堡，城堡倒了。”海蒂回答道，“但貓咪不是故意的，它根本不知道城堡會(huì)倒掉，對(duì)吧，爸爸？”

9.“它當(dāng)然不知道了！這就是你們的麻煩事？”

10.“赫伯特，過(guò)來(lái)！”爸爸一邊喊，一邊伸出手。小赫伯特從地板上站起來(lái)，慢慢走過(guò)去，眼里含著淚花，站在爸爸身邊。

11.“我的孩子，還有一個(gè)更好的辦法來(lái)解決這個(gè)問(wèn)題。”爸爸說(shuō)道，“如果你能照做的話，現(xiàn)在心里就好受多了。我倒希望聽(tīng)到的是你為你的積木歌唱，而不是為它哭泣。讓我來(lái)教教你這種方式，好嗎？”

12.赫伯特點(diǎn)了點(diǎn)頭，爸爸坐到積木旁邊，小兒子依偎在他身邊，他們開(kāi)始為一座新城堡壘地基。