LESSON 5 CASTLE-BUILDING（CONCLUDED） 建城堡（結(jié)束篇）

1.Soon, Herbert was as much interested in castle-building as he had been a little while before.He began to sing over his work.All his trouble was gone.

2.“This is a great deal better than crying, isn’t it?” said papa.

3.“Crying for what?” asked Herbert, forgetting his grief of a few minutes before.

4.“Because pussy knocked your castle over.”

5.“Oh!” A shadow flitted across his face, but was gone in a moment, and he went on building as eagerly as ever.

6.“I told him not to cry over spilled milk,” said Joe, looking down from his place on the sofa.

7.“I wonder if you didn’t cry when your kite string broke,”retorted Herbert.

8.“Losing a kite is quite another thing,” answered Joe, a little dashed.“The kite was gone forever; but your blocks were as good as before, and you had only to build again.”

9.“I don’t see,” said papa, “that crying was of any more use in your case than in Herbert’s.Sticks and paper are easily found, and you had only to go to work and make another kite.” Joe looked down at his book, and went on reading.By this time the castle was fi nished.

10.“It is ever so much nicer than the one pussy knocked down,”said Hetty.And so thought Herbert, as he looked at it proudly from all sides.

11.“If pussy knocks that down, I’ll—”

12.“Build it up again,” said papa, fi nishing the sentence for his little boy.

13.“But, papa, pussy must not knock my castles down.I can’t have it,” spoke out Herbert, knitting his forehead.

14.“You must watch her, then.Little boys, as well as grown up people, have to be often on their guard.If you go into the street, you have to look out for the carriages, so as not to be run over, and you have to keep out of people’s way.”

15.“In the house, if you go about heedlessly, you will be very apt to run against some one.I have seen a careless child dash suddenly into a room just as a servant was leaving it with a tray of dishes in her hands.A crash followed.”

16.“It was I, wasn’t it?” said Hetty.

17.“Yes, I believe it was, and I hope it will never happen again.”

18.Papa now left the room, saying, “I don’t want any more of this crying over spilled milk, as Joe says.If your castles get knocked down, build them up again.”

【中文閱讀】

1.很快，赫伯特就像剛才一樣對新建城堡產(chǎn)生了極大興趣，并開始為自己的工作歡呼。他所有的麻煩都煙消云散了。

2.“這比哭泣好多了，對吧？”爸爸問道。

3.“為什么要哭呢？”赫伯特問道，他已經(jīng)忘記了剛才的悲傷。

4.“因為小貓撞倒了你的城堡呀?！?/p>

5.“噢！”一絲陰影掠過他的面龐，但馬上就消失了，他繼續(xù)建造他的城堡。

6.“我告訴過他，過去了就過去了，哭是沒有用的。”喬坐在沙發(fā)上，一邊說著，一邊向這邊張望。

7.“我想知道，如果你的風箏斷線了，你哭不哭呀？”赫伯特反問道。

8.“丟失風箏是另外一回事?！眴袒卮鸬溃榫w有些激動。“斷了線風箏就永遠沒了，但是你的積木還完好如初，你只要再搭建就是了?！?/p>

9.這時，爸爸說道：“依我看，無論你，還是赫伯特，在這種情況下，哭都是沒用的！棍棒和紙很容易找到，你只要重新做一個風箏就是了?！眴痰拖骂^繼續(xù)看書，不再出聲了。這時，新的城堡建完了。

10.“這比剛才貓撞倒的那個好看多了。”海蒂說。赫伯特也這么認為，因為不管從什么方向看，他都感到很自豪。

11.“如果貓再撞倒城堡，我就……”

12.“再建一座?！卑职众s忙插話說。

13.“但是，爸爸，小貓千萬不要再撞倒它了，我可受不了。”赫伯特皺著眉頭大喊道。

14.“那么，你就要好好看護它。無論小孩子，還是大人，都要時刻提高警惕。如果你在大街上行走，一定要留心馬車，防止被它撞倒，同時你還要注意別擋住別人的路?！?/p>

15.“即使在家里，如果你走路不小心，也有可能撞上別人。我就親眼看見一個粗心的孩子，猛然沖進屋里，正好撞上手里拿著一摞盤子要離開房間的仆人。盤子都掉在地上，碎了?！?/p>

16.“那不就是我嗎！”海蒂說。

17.“是的，我想是的，我希望以后再也不要發(fā)生同樣的事情了?！?/p>

18.“正像喬說的那樣，過去了就過去了，哭是沒有用的。如果你的城堡再被撞倒，那就再建一座新的?！卑职忠贿呎f著，一邊離開了房間。