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启蒙交流汪培珽第四阶段英文书单：The Drinking Gourd 译文分享
Chapter One：FISHING IN CHURCH
第一章节：在教堂钓鱼
Tommy Fuller put his right hand in his pocket.
There was his apple.
Then he put his left hand in his other pocket.
There was his ball of fishing line.
"Quit wiggling!" whispered his brother Sam.
汤米·富勒把右手放在口袋里。
那里是他的苹果。
然后他把左手放在另一个口袋里。
那里是他的鱼线球。
“别动了！”他哥哥萨姆小声说。
"Sit up straight!" whispered his brother Andy.
It was late afternoon.
The three boys were in church.
They had been there all day long.
Mother and Father were downstairs
with Grandmother Dudley
and the rest of the grown-ups.
“ 坐直！”他弟弟安迪低声说。
已经是下午很晚了。
三个男孩在教堂里，
他们已经在那里呆了一整天了，
母亲和父亲和达力奶奶以及其他大人都在楼下。
All the children sat upstairs in the gallery.
The girls were on one side,
The boys were on the other.
所有的孩子都坐在楼上的画廊里。
女孩在一边，男孩在另一边。
Across the way Tommy saw his sisters-
Helen, Kate, and Rachel.
Tommy took a big bite of his apple.
Then he took three more bites.
在对面，汤米看到了他的姐妹-海伦，凯特和瑞秋。
汤米咬了一大口苹果，然后又咬了三口。
Out of the window he could see a flock of geese
pecking at the grass on the village green below.
“Let us sing Hymn Two Sixty-three,”
said the minister, Reverend Morse.
透过窗户他可以看到一群鹅
在下面的村庄的绿草地上啄食。
“让我们唱赞美诗二六三，”摩尔斯牧师说。
Everyone stood up.
They sang" Oh, God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come . . ."
Tommy reached for his fishing line.
He tied one end around the apple core.
"You'll be sorry!" said Andy.
Tommy opened the church window
and threw out the apple core.
大家都站起来。
他们唱到：“哦，上帝，我们过去的帮助，
我们对未来岁月的希望……”
汤米伸手拿鱼线，他把一端绑在苹果核上，
“你会后悔的！”安迪说。
汤米打开教堂的窗户，把苹果核扔了出去。
Three geese waddled over to see what it could be.
A goose picked on the apple core.
"Come on, goose!" said Tommy.
The second goose clamped the core tightly
in her wide bill.
三只鹅摇摇晃晃地走过去，
想看看它会是什么。
一只鹅在苹果核上啄了一下，
“来吧，鹅！”汤米说。
第二只鹅用她那张宽嘴夹住了那只苹果核。
Tommy tugged on the line.
The goose rose up into the air,
“Got her! ”said Tommy softly.
The goose squawked and fluttered.
She would not let go.
All the other geese hissed and
squawked and cackled too.
They made such a racket
that the noise filled the church.
Everybody stopped singing.
Reverend Morse looked up at the gallery.
“Deacon Fuller,” said Reverend Morse,
"l'm afraid it's Thomas again."
Father stamped up into the gallery.
“Thomas Dudley Fuller, ”he said,
“turn that thing loose!”
Tommy dropped the line.
The goose fluttered to the ground.
汤米用力拉着绳子，鹅飞起来了，
“抓住她了！”汤米轻声说。
鹅吱吱叫，拍打着翅膀，她不肯松手。
其他所有的鹅都发出嘶嘶声，咯咯地叫着，
吵得整个教堂都响了起来，大家都停止唱歌了。
莫尔斯牧师抬头看了看画廊。
“迪肯·富勒，恐怕又是托马斯了。”
父亲跺脚走进了画廊。他说，
“托马斯·达德利·富勒，把那东西松开！”
汤米放下了绳子，鹅飞到地面上。
Father led Tommy out of the church.
“You march straight home, sir,”
said Father, “and go to your room.”
Then he went back into the church
and banged the door behind him.
父亲领着汤米走出教堂，“你径直回家，”
父亲说，“回到你自己的房间，”
然后他回到教堂，砰地一声关上门。
Chapter Two：THE RUN AWAYS
第二章节：逃亡之路
Tommy walked along, thinking of spankings.
It was dark when he reached home.
Tommy could see the evening star.
He went to the barn to say hello to the horses.
Father had named them Dan'l Webster and Henry Clay.
汤米边走边想着可能会被打屁股。
当他回到家的时候，天已经黑了。
汤米可以看到夜空中的星星。
他去谷仓向马匹问好，
父亲给他们起名叫丹尼·韦伯斯特和亨利·克莱。
Tommy gave them each an apple.
“You don't have to be good in church,
do you? ”Tommy said.
The horses stamped and snorted.
Tommy saw the hay wagon piled high with hay.
He wanted to jump from the hayloft
down into all that hay in the wagon.
汤米给了他们每彼此一个苹果。
“你不一定要在教堂里表现得很好，对吧？”汤米说。
马跺了跺脚，哼了一声。
汤米看见干草车高高地堆满了干草。
他想从干草棚跳到马车上的干草里。
So up he climbed, into the loft.
"Hi, Dan'l Webster! Hi, Henry Clay!
Look at me!" he hollered.
Then he jumped into the hay wagon.
Two hens squawked.
Something in the dim loft said, "A-a-a-anh!"
It sounded like a baby crying.
"Who's there?" said Tommy.
于是他爬上干草棚。
“你好，达尼尔·韦伯斯特！
嗨，亨利·克莱！看我！”他吼道。
然后他跳上干草车，两只母鸡吱吱叫。
昏暗的干草棚里有东西说：“啊！”
听起来像婴儿在哭。“谁在那儿？”汤米问。
Dan'l Webster stamped his hoof.
Tommy climbed back into the loft
to see what had made the noise.
“Who's there? ”Tommy hollered.
“Stop right there!” said a deep voice.
“You won't take us alive!”
A black man stood up, covered with hay.
He had an axe in his hand.
大卫·韦伯斯特跺它的脚。
汤米爬回干草棚，看看是什么弄出了噪音。
“谁在那里？”汤米大叫。
“站住！”一个很深的声音说，
“你不会把我们活捉的！”
一个黑人站起来，满身干草。
他手里拿着一把斧头。
Tommy was so frightened he fell back into the hay.
"Oh, my goodness, Vinnie,"
said the man. "It's only a ittle boy."
汤米吓得倒在干草里，
“噢，天哪，维尼，他不过是个小男孩。”那人说。
The man dropped the axe he held.
"We just hiding." he said, smiling.
"We won't hurt you."
"Does Father know you're here?"said Tommy.
"What——
what are you doing in our barn?"
那人丢下了他手里的斧头，
“我们只是躲起来，我们不会伤害你的。”他笑着说，
“爸爸知道你们在这儿吗？”汤米说。
“你在我们的谷仓里干什么？”
"Is Deacon Fuller your daddy?"
Tommy nodded his head
"He hid us here," said the man.
A little boy stood up beside him.
“That's my boy Little Jeff,” said the man.
“I'm Big Jeff.”
“迪肯·富勒是你爸爸吗？”
汤米点了点头，
“是他把我们藏在这里的。”那个人说。
一个小男孩站在他旁边。
“那是我的儿子小杰夫，我是大杰夫，”那人说。
"This is my wife Vinnie.
And this is Baby Pearl.
We running away!"
"Running away?" said Tommy.
"We going to Canada," said Vinnie.
"We up from Carolina," said Jeff.
“ 这是我妻子文尼，
这是小宝贝皮尔，我们逃跑了！”
“逃跑？”汤米问。
“我们要去加拿大，”文尼说，
“我们从卡罗莱纳州出发，”杰夫说。
"We been following the drinking gourd
every step of the way."
"The drinking gourd?" said Tommy. "Whats that?"
"Shoot, boy! " said Little Jeff.
"You mean you never heard of
the drinking gourd? I'll show you?"
Little Jeff jumped down from the loft
and ran to the barn door.
Up in the wintry sky shone the stars.
Little Jeff pointed to the Big Dipper,
caught in the branches of an elm.
“That's the drinking gourd!”
"No, that's the Big Dipper," said Tommy.
"Same thing!" said Little Jeff.
"The front end of the drinking gourd
points straight up to the North Star.
Follow the North Star, and you get to Canada.
Get to Canada, and you be free!"
“ 我们一直跟随着喝水葫芦的脚步。”
“喝水葫芦？那是什么？”托米说，
“哇，孩子！”小杰夫说。
“你是说你从来没听说过喝水葫芦？我指给你看。”
小杰夫从阁楼上跳了下来，跑到谷仓的门口。
在冬日的天空中，星星闪闪发光。
小杰夫指着北斗七星，夹在一棵榆树的树枝上。
“那就是喝水葫芦！”
“不，那是北斗七星，”汤米说。
“一样的，”小杰夫说。
“喝葫芦的前端直接指向北极星，
跟着北极星走，你就到了加拿大，
到了加拿大，你就自由了！”
“Thomas Dudley Fuller!”
said Father from the shadows.
“Didn't I tell you to wait in your room?”
“Father!” said Tommy, surprised.
“I found Jeff and Vinnie and—— ”.
“托马斯·达德利·富勒！”影子里的父亲说。
“我不是告诉过你我要在你房间里等吗？”
“父亲，”汤米惊讶地说，“我找到杰夫和维尼还有——。”
"I see who you found.
You found all my passengers, ”said Father.
"Don't ask any questions.
Help hitch up the horses.
We've got to get started."
“我知道你找到谁了，
你找到了所有的乘客，”父亲说，
“别问任何问题，
帮我把马匹栓起来，你得开始了。”
Chapter Three：ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
第三章节：地下铁道
Tommy and Father sat in the wagon.
Jeff and Vinnie and Little Jeff
and Baby Pearl were hidden in the hay.
They were driving toward the river.
"I been a slave all my life, Tommy,"
said Jeff, sitting up in the hay,
"until two weeks ago.That was the day
I decided we would run away
to Canada on the underground railroad."
“The underground railroad? ”said Tommy.
“Shoot, boy!” said Little Jeff.
“You never heard about that neither?”
汤米和父亲坐在马车上，
杰夫、维尼、小杰夫和小皮尔躲在干草里，
他们正朝河边驶去。
“我一辈子都是奴隶，汤米，”杰夫坐在干草里说道，
“直到两周前，我才决定要通过地下铁路逃到加拿大。”
“地下铁路？”汤米说，
“哇，孩子！”小杰夫说。“你也没听说过吗？”
“You see.Tommy,” said Father,
"the underground railroad isn't a real railroad
with steam enginesand tracks and cars.
It's a secret group of people
who believe slavery is wicked.
They live in homes and farms like ours,
stretching from here to Canada.
Everybody in the group hides people
like Jeff and Vinnie, helping them get away."
“你看，汤米，”父亲说，
“地下铁路不是一条有蒸汽机、
铁轨和汽车的真正铁路。
这是一群相信奴隶制是邪恶的秘密群体。
他们住在像我们这样的家庭和农场里，
从这里一直延伸到加拿大。
小组中的每个人都藏着杰夫和维尼这样的人，
帮助他们逃走。”
"And they got stations on the
underground railroad," said Little Jeff.
“Like our barn!” said Tommy.
“他们在地下铁路上有车站，”小杰夫说。
“就像我们的谷仓一样！”汤米说。
"And they got conductors," said Jeff.
"Like me!" said Father.
"And they got passengers!" said Vinnie.
“Like us!” said Little Jeff.
"They call it underground," said Father,
"because it's a secret.
Every bit of it has to be a secret! "
“You right,”said Jeff.
"We valuable property.
My old master lost $2,500 when he lost us,
if he lost a penny."
"Then I'm sure he'll send some men
to try to catch you," said Father.
"So you get back down under that hay."
"Nobody's going to catch me," said Jeff,
"as long as I got my axe."
Then Jeff and Vinnie and Little Jeff
and Baby Pearl all hid from sight.
他们有售票员，“杰夫说，
“跟我一样，”父亲说，
“他们还有乘客！”文尼说，
“跟我们一样！”小杰夫说。
“他们称它为地下，因为这是一个秘密。
它的每一点都必须是一个秘密！”父亲说，
“你说得对，”杰夫说。
“我们是有价值的财产。当我的老手丢了我们时，
他损失了2500美元，如果他丢了一分钱的话。”
父亲说：“那么我肯定他会派一些人来抓你。”
“所以你回到那堆干草下面。”
“只要我拿着斧子，就没有人能追上我们。”
然后杰夫、维尼、小杰弗里和小皮尔都躲起来了。
“Tommy,” said Father,
“don't say a word to anybody about
what happened tonight.
Jeff's a brave man.
I'd hate to see a brave man
sent back into slavery. Promise?”
“I promise, ”said Tommy.
“汤米，”父亲说，“关于今晚发生的事，
不要对任何人说一句话。
杰弗斯是个勇敢的人。
我讨厌一个勇敢的人被送回奴隶。答应我？”
“我保证，”汤米说。
“Whoa, horses,” said Father.
“This is the end of the line.
I have to find the boat now.
It's hidden here on the riverbank.”
Father walked into the darkness.
A whippoorwill called.
“哇，马，”父亲说。“这是队伍的尽头，
我现在必须找到那艘船，它藏在河岸上。”
父亲走进黑暗。
一个北美夜鹰叫着。
Chapter Four：THE SEARCHING PARTY
第四章节：搜索队
Tommy heard hoofbeats on the road.
He saw lanterns bobbing.
Four men on horseback rode up
to the wagon and stopped.
The men got down from their horses.
“Say, young fellow,” said the leader,
“I'm a U.S. marshal. These are my men.”
汤米听到了路上的马蹄声，他看见灯笼在晃动。
四个骑马驾着马车停了下来。
这些人从马匹上下来。
“啊，小伙子，”领队说，
“我是一名美国元帅，这些是我的人。”
“ We're going to search that wagon.
We're looking for runaways.”
“Runaways? ”said Tommy.
“A Negro slave,” said the marshal,
“his wife, and two children.”
“ 我们要搜查那辆马车，我们在找逃跑的人。”
“逃亡者？”汤米说。
“一个黑人奴隶，还有他的妻子和两个孩子。”元帅说。
"There's a reward for them.
You wouldn't have them hidden in that wagon,
would you, boy?"
Tommys mouth was dry.
“找到他们有奖励，
你不会让他们藏在马车里吧，孩子？”
汤姆的嘴干了。
“ You won't find anything but hay in this wagon, ”he said.
“Mebbe we better search it anyway,”
said the marshal.
“你在这辆马车里除了干草什么都找不到，”他说。
“无论如何，我们最好把它搜一遍，”元帅说。
Tommy was scared.
He thought about Little Jeff
and the others hidden in the hay.
汤米很害怕。
他想到了小杰夫和其他藏在干草里的人。
If the marshal found them,
he would send them back down South!
They would have to be slaves!
They would never be free!
如果法警找到他们，他会把他们送回南方！
他们必须成为奴隶！他们永远不会自由！
“Marshal,”said Tommy,
"I guess I better tell you all about it.
You see, I'm Tommy Fuller,
and I'm running away myself?"
“You Deacon Fuller's boy?” said the marshal.
“That's right, ”said Tommy.
“Pshaw!” said the marshal.
“This is the boy made all that fussin church
this afternoon.Fishing for geese!”
“法警，”汤米说，“我猜我最好把这件事告诉你。
你看，我是汤米·富勒，我是自己跑的？”
“你这个迪肯·富勒的孩子？”法警说。
“是的，”汤米说，
“哼！这就是今天下午教堂里的那个男孩。
钓鹅的男孩！”法警说。
All the men laughed.
“Father was boiling mad, ”said Tommy.
“He was going to give me a licking.So I ran away.”
"We're chasing the wrong wagon, boys,"
said the marshal.
所有的人都笑了。
“父亲疯了，他想揍我一顿，所以我就跑了。”汤米说，
“我们追错车了，伙计们，”警长说。
"You better go home to your pa, Tommy,
and take your licking."
"Yes, sir, " said Tommy.
"And next time you go fishing,"said the marshal,
"tell your pa I want you to catch me two ducks
and a nice fat turkey. That's an order."
“你最好回家去找你的爸爸挨揍一顿，汤米，”
“是的，先生，”汤米说。
“下次你去钓鱼，告诉你爸，
我要你帮我抓两只鸭子和一只肥火鸡，
这是命令。”警长说。
All the men laughed.
Then they rode away.
所有人都笑了，然后他们骑马走了。
Chapter Five：OVER THE RIVER
第五章节：再会
Father came out of the shadows.
Jeff and Vinnie sat up in the hay.
Jeff's axe was still in his hand.
"Tommy, you did just fine," said Father.
"I thought the marshal would find us
sure enough this time," said Jeff.
Tommy was too scared to speak.
父亲从阴影中走出来，
杰夫和维尼坐在干草里，杰夫的斧头还在他手里。
“汤米，你做得很好，”父亲说，
“我想法警这次一定会找到我们，”杰夫说，
汤米太害怕了而说不出话。
Little Jeff jumped into the boat.
Jeff jumped in too.
He helped Vinnie and Baby Pearl get settled.
A whippoorwill called.
小杰夫跳上船。
杰夫也跳了进来。
他帮维尼和小皮尔安顿下来。
北美夜莺叫了起来。
Father started rowing away.
Tommy heard the dip and splash of the oars in the water.
“Good-bye, Little Jeff,” Tommy whispered.
父亲开始划船。汤米听到了桨浸水溅出水花的声音
“ 再见，小杰夫，”汤米低声说。
“Good-bye,” whispered Little Jeff.
“Good-bye,” whispered Jeff and Vinnie.
“再见，”小杰夫低声说。
“再见，”杰夫和维尼低声说。
Father rowed into the darkness,
and then the boat was gone.
父亲划船进入黑暗，然后小船就不见了。
Chapter Six：THE LAWBREAKERS
第六章节：违法者
It was late when Tommy got home.
Everyone was asleep but Mother.
She gave Tommy some supper.
“Is Father all right?” said Mother.
Tommy told her what had happened.
Then she sent him up to bed.
当汤米回家的时候已经很晚了，
除了妈妈，每个人都睡着了。
她给汤米吃了晚饭。
“爸爸还好吗？”母亲问，
汤米把发生的事告诉了她，
然后她送他上床睡觉。
But Tommy stayed awake,
waiting for Father to come home.
He heard the front door slam.
Then Father came up to his room.
但是汤米没睡，等着父亲回家，
他听到前门砰的一声，然后父亲来到他的房间。
“ Tommy, ”said Father,
“I believe in obeying the law.
But you and I broke the law tonight.
The law says we were wrong
to help Jeff and Vinnie get away.”
“汤米，”父亲说，“我相信遵守法律，
但你和我今晚犯法了。
法律上说我们帮助杰夫和维尼逃脱是错误的。”
“I know Father, ”said Tommy.
“But can't you change the law?”
"I've been trying, " said Father.
"We've been trying for years and years.
Someday it will be changed."
“我知道，父亲，”汤米说，
“但是你不能改变法律吗？”
“我一直在努力，”父亲说。
“我们多年来一直在努力，
总有一天它会改变的。”
"But right now the law says
Jeff and Vinnie are another man's property-
property same as a horse or a cow,
property worth $2,500."
"But Jeff and Vinnie are people," said Tommy.
“ 但是现在法律规定杰夫和维尼是另一个人的财产，
和马或牛一样，价值2500美元，”
“但杰夫和维尼是人，”汤米说。
"Yes," said Father.
"That's why I can't obey that law.
That's why I hate it. It's wrong!"
Then he kissed his son good night
and closed the door.
“是的，这就是我不能遵守法律的原因,
这就是我讨厌它的原因，这是错误的！”父亲说。
然后他吻了他的儿子，道了晚安，然后关上了门。
Tommy lay in bed, thinking about Little Jeff and the others.
"If they just get to Canada," he whispered,
"they can be free. . . ."
Out of his window he could see the bright North Star.
And pointing up to it, in the dark night sky,
sparkled the drinking gourd.
汤米躺在床上，想着小杰夫和其他人。
“如果他们刚到加拿大，他们就可以自由了…”他低声说，
透过窗户，他可以看到明亮的北极星。
在漆黑的夜空中，那只喝着水的葫芦闪闪发光。”
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默默的把爱币数了N遍，好像又少了几百？
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