美国小学英语教材5:第279课 约翰去了玩具谷(9)

They followed a path across some meadows, quite I across the valley to a little stone house under the shadow of the opposite mountain. In this house lived Father Hofer’s old friend Ampezzang.

他们沿着一条小路穿过草地，穿过山谷，来到对面大山阴影下的一座小石屋。赫尔德爸爸的老朋友安培祥就住在这所房子里。

Ampezzang and his wife and son were at work in the inner room. Herr Ampezzang sat alone at a little table on which was a lathe¹ turned swiftly by the rushing brook² outside, and by means of which Herr Ampezzang was cutting out toy wagon³ wheels at a great rate.

安培祥和他的妻子和儿子在里面的房间里工作。安培祥先生一个人坐在一张小桌旁，桌上有一架车床，车床在外面湍急的小溪旁飞快地转动着，安培祥先生正借助这张小桌子飞快地切着玩具车轮。

The wife and son were fitting little spokes⁵ into the wheels, a task that looked very easy, indeed. But when Frau Ampezzang put a wheel rim⁶ and some spokes into John’s hand and told him to try, he could not do it at all. First the rim flew across the room; then he broke the spoke⁴ that he was trying to force into place. Young Ampezzang laughed, but Frau Ampezzang, seeing how red John’s face became, looked kindly⁷ at him and said it didn’t matter, as they had plenty of the little spokes, and some of them often were broken.

妻子和儿子正在把小辐条装进轮子里，这看起来确实很容易。但是当安培祥太太把一个轮辋和一些辐条塞到约翰的手里，让他试一试时，他根本做不到。首先，轮子飞过房间;然后，他弄坏了试图强行插入的轮辐。年轻的安培祥笑了，但是安培祥太太看到约翰的脸涨得通红，就和蔼地看着他，说没关系，因为他们有很多小辐条，其中一些经常断了。

1 lathe   

n.车床，陶器，镟床

参考例句：

• Gradually she learned to operate a lathe.她慢慢地学会了开车床。
• That lathe went out of order at times.那台车床有时发生故障。

2 brook   

n.小河，溪；v.忍受，容让

参考例句：

• In our room we could hear the murmur of a distant brook.在我们房间能听到远处小溪汩汩的流水声。
• The brook trickled through the valley.小溪涓涓流过峡谷。

3 wagon   

n.四轮马车，手推车，面包车；无盖运货列车

参考例句：

• We have to fork the hay into the wagon.我们得把干草用叉子挑进马车里去。
• The muddy road bemired the wagon.马车陷入了泥泞的道路。

4 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

5 spokes   

n.（车轮的）辐条( spoke的名词复数 )；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动

参考例句：

• Her baby caught his fingers in the spokes of the pram wheel. 她宝宝的手指被婴儿车轮的辐条卡住了。 来自辞典例句
• The new edges are called the spokes of the wheel. 新的边称为轮的辐。 来自辞典例句

6 rim   

n.(圆物的)边，轮缘；边界

参考例句：

• The water was even with the rim of the basin.盆里的水与盆边平齐了。
• She looked at him over the rim of her glass.她的目光越过玻璃杯的边沿看着他。

7 kindly   

adj.和蔼的，温和的，爽快的；adv.温和地，亲切地

参考例句：

• Her neighbours spoke of her as kindly and hospitable.她的邻居都说她和蔼可亲、热情好客。
• A shadow passed over the kindly face of the old woman.一道阴影掠过老太太慈祥的面孔。