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儿童英语读物 蓝色海湾之谜 Blue Bay Mystery Chapter 8 做饭,游泳

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CHAPTER 8
Cooking and Swimming

Lars was making the stew1 now. In the new kettle2 were the four pieces of fish, spring water, onions and salt. They all lifted the kettle over the fire. The children watched as it began to boil. Violet3 shook up some dry milk with spring water. After a while Jessie took out the skin and bones. She put in the milk.

“How are we going to eat this?” asked Mike. “It is boiling hot.”

“I’ll tell you,” said Jessie. “We’ll set our shells4 in the sand. You fill them with stew, Lars. Then we won’t have to hold them.”

“Very good,” said Lars. “I have made a fine ladle.” The ladle was the tin cup tied on a long stick. Lars ladled out the stew.

“Don’t give Mike any fish,” said Benny. “He doesn’t like fish.”

“Well, I’ll give him some just the same,” said Lars. “He may get to like it.”

“Now about Peter,” said Benny. “Do you think Peter has been here, or is he here now?”

“Peter could be a name someone taught the bird to say,” said Mr. Alden. “Then somehow the bird came to the island.”

“It would be exciting if Peter were really here,” said Henry. “And is he a boy or a man?”

“Oh, he couldn’t be a boy,” said Benny. “He couldn’t live here all alone.”

“Why not, Ben?” asked Mike.

“Well, he would be too lonesome. And how would a boy get here all alone?”

“Oh, I hope it isn’t a cannibal, like those in Robinson Crusoe” said Violet. She looked up quickly.

“Oh, no, Miss Violet!” said Lars. “Don’t you be afraid. It couldn’t be a cannibal, because there aren’t any cannibals on these islands.”

Lars gave Mr. Alden a quick look. So Mr. Alden said quickly, “That’s right, my dear. Lars knows. And just taste this stew!”

There were no spoons yet, but they used the razor5 clam6 shells.

Benny said, “My, you have to work hard to get this stew into your mouth.”

“Makes it better,” said Henry. “I am going to drink mine when it is cooler. And now what shall we do about this Peter?”

“Just keep your eyes open,” said Lars.

“I kept mine open anyway,” said Benny. “Let’s catch the myna bird.”

“We can’t catch a bird,” said Henry. “But maybe he can say other things.” He whistled7. The bird whistled.

“Now just hear that!” said Mike. He whistled. The bird whistled.

Mike got up and started for the tree. But the bird flew away at once. He was lost in the trees.

“Just one thing,” said Jessie, looking at her gentle sister. “If Peter is here now, he must speak English.”

“That’s right, Jessie,” said Mr. Alden. “A cannibal would not teach the myna bird to say things in English. And now let’s think about something else.”

“Well, I think I shall cook a breadfruit today,” said Lars. “We will open some canned meat and have a real dinner.”

“The stew is gone anyway,” said Mr. Alden. “I had five shellfuls. Thank you very much, Lars. I enjoyed it.”

Mike said, “I liked mine, too. The fish wasn’t too bad. But the stew and crackers8 were the best. Lars, do you remember you said you’d show us a place to swim?”

“I remember it well, Mr. Mike,” said Lars. “I will show you the place when we take a Walk.”

“Can you swim, Mike?” asked Benny in surprise.

“Well, I can swim a little,” said Mike. He was laughing at something. “I like to swim, and it’s so hot here.”

“It is always hot in the middle of the day,” said Lars. “We ought to rest, or else go into the woods. It is cool there.”

“I don’t want to rest,” said Jessie. “Do you, Violet? Let’s all go into the woods.”

Nobody wanted to rest. They wanted to see the island.

“Just wait a minute,” said Lars. “I will pick the breadfruit before we go.”

“Where is the breadfruit?” asked Benny.

“Right over your head,” said Lars. “I’ll try to climb the tree.”

Soon Lars came down with two large breadfruit. He climbed up again and came down with two more. He put the green fruit on the sand for them to look at.

“They look exactly like brains!” said Benny.

“Do they really, now?” said Lars laughing.

“How do you know what brains look like, Ben?” asked Mike.

“From pictures,” said Benny. “Brains go in and out in a curly9 pattern, but brains are not green.”

“I’ll bake them,” said Lars. “The fire is just right.”

“I wondered why you didn’t let the fire go out,” said Jessie. “You kept making it bigger and bigger.”

“Yes, we have to have a bed of hot coals for the breadfruit,” said Lars. “Now I’ll put banana leaves around them. Then we’ll cover them up in the fire and leave them until we get back. Then I’ll show you how to eat them.”

“Will they taste like bread?” asked Benny.

“Some people think so,” said Lars. “You have to get used to it.”

“Let’s go,” said Henry. “We all want to swim.”

“I want to see the place where there are no sharks,” said Mike.

“So do I,” said Mr. Alden. Everyone was surprised. Benny said, “Can you swim, Grandfather?”

“I think so,” said Mr. Alden with a laugh. “I may have forgotten how, but I’d like to try.”

“This is the way,” said Lars. “It is quite a long walk, but it is very pretty.”

They climbed over rocks this time. Once they came to a beautiful, white sandy beach. “Not here,” said Lars. “There are sharks here.”

“I haven’t seen one shark yet,” said Benny. “I’ve looked and looked for them in Blue Bay10.”

“Blue Bay is full of them, just the same,” said Lars.

Violet said, “Isn’t it lucky that Lars knows where they are!”

The family walked along the beach.

“More rocks,” said Henry. “These are very big. Are you all right, Grandfather?”

“Yes, my boy,” said Mr. Alden. “But I hope we will get there soon.”

“We will,” said Lars. “Take my arm.”

Up they all went, jumping from one rock to another. Then Jessie said suddenly, “Oh, isn’t this beautiful!”

Everyone stopped to look. Here was a green bay. It was smaller than Blue Bay, and perfectly11 round. All around the edge12 were palm13 trees.

“Trees growing right in the water out there!” cried Benny. “Just in a perfect ring. How can they, Grandfather? What makes them?”

“Those trees are not growing in the water, Benny,” said Grandfather. “That is a reef14. You will find a lot of land out there, but it is a beautiful sight.”

Lars said, “This is the place to swim. The water is not very deep here. See how green it is? Sharks cannot get in here. They can’t get across the reef because there is no opening.”

They all took off their shoes and walked into the clear water.

“Clothes and all!” shouted Mike. “Isn’t this fun! I wish my mother could see me now.”

“It’s lovely,” said Jessie. “It is cool, but not too cool.” She looked up just in time to see Mike. He put his hands in front of him and swam off like a fish!

“Mike Wood!” shouted Benny. “I didn’t know you could swim like that! I didn’t know you could swim at all.” Benny watched his friend. Sometimes Mike swam under water, and sometimes on top.

“Good work, Mike!” called Mr. Alden. And off he went, hand over hand, with his face in the water.

“Look at Grandfather!” cried Henry. “He and Mike are the best swimmers here.”

But then Lars went after them, and there were three fine swimmers. Henry was just swimming on his back when he happened to look on the other side of the reef. He looked again. He stopped swimming and stood up. There was an old boat. It was pulled high up on the sand.

“Come back!” shouted Henry.

It was funny to see everyone coming back so fast Mike said, “Everybody minds everybody!”

“Look at that boat, Lars,” said Henry pointing.

They all walked through the water to the reef. They looked across at the old boat.

“It is a lifeboat,” said Lars. “But it was not there when I came here three years ago. I’m sure of that.”

The boat was full of sand. One end was very deep in the sand, way out of sight. They all stood looking at the boat, when they heard a little noise in the tree above.

“It’s a whine15!” cried Benny, looking up. “Someone is in trouble.”

The whine came again. But it was further away this time.

“It is just a little moan16, now,” said Violet. Then it stopped.

“Maybe someone doesn’t want us to look at this old boat,” said Mike.

Henry said, “Maybe someone thinks we are going to take it away. I wonder what it was or who it was?”

“That I cannot tell you,” said Lars. “But this is a good boat. It must have a name. You all stay here, and I will walk across the reef and see.” He looked at both sides of the boat, and there was its name, Explorer17 II.

“Oh, I know!” cried Lars. “This is a lifeboat. It came from the ship Explorer II. The ship hit a reef and went down.”

“I remember that!” said Mr. Alden. “I read about it in the newspapers months ago. Some of the people were picked up by another ship and taken to San Francisco.”

“I suppose some people got into this lifeboat just as we got in ours,” said Benny.

After a while they all went back to the green bay. They swam around in the cool water. Then they came up on the beach and sat in the sun until they were dry. The sun made them feel very sleepy.

“Dry in no time,” said Mike. “That’s this hot sun for you!”

“Now we’d better sit up here under the trees,” said Lars. “The sun is too hot.”

They sat down under the palm trees. Soon Mike lay down with his head on his arm. Benny did the same. The rest laughed a little, but soon they were all stretched out on the beach, too. Soon the whole family was asleep on the sand—all but one. Lars was lying down. But he watched the water and the trees and the beach. He saw nothing.

Even Lars did not know that anyone was looking at them from the tree right over their heads.


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1 stew 0GTz5     
n.炖汤,焖,烦恼;v.炖汤,焖,忧虑
参考例句:
  • The stew must be boiled up before serving.炖肉必须煮熟才能上桌。
  • There's no need to get in a stew.没有必要烦恼。
2 kettle t3Hyd     
n.(浇水用的)水壶;水壶,水锅
参考例句:
  • The kettle is boiling.水壶里的水开了。
  • She put the kettle on the gas stove.她将水壶放在煤气炉上。
3 violet 8h3wm     
adj.紫色的;n.紫罗兰
参考例句:
  • She likes to wear violet dresses.他喜欢穿紫色的衣服。
  • Violet is the color of wisdom,peace and strength.紫色是智慧的,和平的和力量的颜色。
4 shells 6cada1b5279cf64ec485c08de4d14f53     
n.(贝、卵、坚果等的)壳( shell的名词复数 );外壳;炮弹;(人的)表面性格
参考例句:
  • We collected shells on the beach. 我们在海滩拾贝壳。
  • But at last the shells cracked, one after another. 最后,蛋壳一个接着一个地裂开了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 razor GAVz7     
n.剃刀;vt.剃
参考例句:
  • I want to buy an electric razor this weekend.这个周末我想买一个电动剃须刀。
  • A sharp razor gives a close shave.剃刀锋利刮得就干净。
6 clam Fq3zk     
n.蛤,蛤肉
参考例句:
  • Yup!I also like clam soup and sea cucumbers.对呀!我还喜欢蛤仔汤和海参。
  • The barnacle and the clam are two examples of filter feeders.藤壶和蛤类是滤过觅食者的两种例子。
7 whistled 407fd1807c847f21dd28c8c1ed41445d     
v.吹口哨( whistle的过去式和过去分词 );鸣笛;呼啸着前进;空指望
参考例句:
  • Norma looked at the parcel and whistled softly through her teeth. 诺尔玛看着包裹,轻柔地哼起了口哨。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He whistled to his dog and it came running. 他吹口哨唤狗,狗跑了过来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 crackers nvvz5e     
adj.精神错乱的,癫狂的n.爆竹( cracker的名词复数 );薄脆饼干;(认为)十分愉快的事;迷人的姑娘
参考例句:
  • That noise is driving me crackers. 那噪声闹得我简直要疯了。
  • We served some crackers and cheese as an appetiser. 我们上了些饼干和奶酪作为开胃品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
9 curly wybxh     
adj.卷曲的,卷缩的
参考例句:
  • The little boy has curly hair.这小男孩长着一头卷发。
  • She is tall and dark with curly hair.她高高的个子,黑皮肤,卷头发。
10 bay rQ7yt     
n.海湾,狗吠声,月桂;vt.吠,使走投无路;vi.吠
参考例句:
  • I enjoy the view of the bay in the starlight.我喜欢星光下的海湾风景。
  • Dogs sometimes bay at the moon.狗有时会朝着月亮吠叫。
11 perfectly 8Mzxb     
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
参考例句:
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
12 edge xqoxx     
n.边(缘);刃;优势;v.侧着移动,徐徐移动
参考例句:
  • Sight along the edge to see if it's straight.顺着边目测,看看直不直。
  • She lived on the extreme edge of the forest.她住在森林的最边缘。
13 palm yKTxE     
n.手掌,棕榈,胜利;vt.与…握手,藏…于掌中
参考例句:
  • That woman had her husband in the palm of her hand.那女人牢牢地控制住她丈夫。
  • Palm trees grow all around the island.岛上到处长着棕榈树。
14 reef mUhxH     
n.礁,礁石,暗礁
参考例句:
  • The ship and its crew were lost on the reef.那条船及船员都触礁遇难了。
  • The ship was wrecked on a coral reef.这条船在珊瑚暗礁上撞毁了。
15 whine VMNzc     
v.哀号,号哭;n.哀鸣
参考例句:
  • You are getting paid to think,not to whine.支付给你工资是让你思考而不是哀怨的。
  • The bullet hit a rock and rocketed with a sharp whine.子弹打在一块岩石上,一声尖厉的呼啸,跳飞开去。
16 moan njHye     
n.呻吟声,悲叹声,抱怨声;v.呻吟,抱怨
参考例句:
  • From time to time there was a moan of pain from the sick man.病人不时发出一声声痛苦的呻吟。
  • They moan on a lot about money.他们对钱的事情抱怨不已。
17 explorer Ahjz9     
n.探险家,探测者
参考例句:
  • His father is an Arctic explorer.他父亲是一位北极探险者。
  • The explorer organized an expedition to the North Pole.那位考察者组织了一个去北极的探险队。
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